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Post by rogerthat on Jul 11, 2019 23:38:50 GMT
I stole this thread idea from a thread in Film General as I think it has particular meaning in horror.
For me it is Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer which was such a dark disturbing film to watch when I did in a theater I almost left a few times.
I still rank it highly mainly for Michael Rooker's performance and the film's unapologetic dark direction.
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Post by theshape25 on Jul 12, 2019 8:18:29 GMT
I stole this thread idea from a thread in Film General as I think it has particular meaning in horror. For me it is Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer which was such a dark disturbing film to watch when I did in a theater I almost left a few times. I still rank it highly mainly for Michael Rooker's performance and the film's unapologetic dark direction. This one got me too. I actually did stop watching it when he was dismembering Otis I decided to revisit it again a year or so later and I found that the movie was almost over anyways!
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Post by gspdude on Jul 12, 2019 13:22:28 GMT
2 that come to mind are Silence of the Lambs, and Todd Browning's Freaks. I recognized both as well done and both stuck in my mind, but I've never been tempted to give either a second watch.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 12, 2019 13:36:19 GMT
Henry is a very good example of this. I really appreciate that movie, I think it's really well made (save for one effect toward the end which is a real mood killer), but it's a really unsettling watch. The first time I saw it it put me in a funk for a while. It made me feel bad. Not scared, and I'm not sure 'disturbed' is even the right word. Just somewhat depressed and unsettled. That's certainly a sign of a job effectively done given this story.... I was slightly reminded, slightly, of this with the more recent film The Boy from 2015 (not the 2016 one). It's almost a cheat that a child is used as that disturbing figure, but it still works. It's not as powerful as Henry, but it gets the job done too.
There's also a much less beloved film called Home Movie, that really unsettled me. Some people seem to think that's a poor found footage addition, but I thought that movie, also dealing with disturbed children and fledgeling parents trying to do their best, to be fairly believable and unsettling.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples (outside of the obvious ones like A Clockwork Orange, or Irreversible, or Cannibal Holocaust or something that anyone would cite), but it's somewhat rare that a movie affects me like that and it affects my mood for more than a short period after it ends.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 12, 2019 13:44:52 GMT
Oh oh....
The Skin I Live In
That movie will fuck you up, with next to zero on screen violence it's still one of the most psychologically disturbing and challenging movies I've ever seen. It's fucking weird and fascinating.
Also, an interesting exercise is to watch both that and a previous film called Victim that deals with a very similar story (based on the same book or something?), but is a far inferior shitty exploitation failure of the material while the Almodovar film reaches artistic heights.
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Post by nostromo on Jul 12, 2019 13:45:10 GMT
'Nothing Bad can Happen' (2013) is probably the movie that I really wanted to turn my head away from, but couldn't because it was also really good.
See also:
The War Zone (1999) Irreversible The House that Jack Built Angst Audition Antichrist
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 12, 2019 14:08:53 GMT
The House that Jack Built Is it that effective? I find Lars Von Trier, sometimes, too ridiculous to be taken as seriously disturbing. Like Antichrist, for instance, is beautifully directed and includes some very intense imagery, but it also has a fox that speaks the words 'Chaos reigns' into the camera and feature a closeup of Willem Dafoe's dick ejaculating blood. This basically reaches the levels of self parody, and prevents me from ever taking it seriously. From what I'd read The House that Jack Built is somewhat intentionally over the top silly and very self referential for Von Trier and the common criticisms against him.
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Post by nostromo on Jul 12, 2019 14:23:50 GMT
The House that Jack Built Is it that effective? I find Lars Von Trier, sometimes, too ridiculous to be taken as seriously disturbing. Like Antichrist, for instance, is beautifully directed and includes some very intense imagery, but it also has a fox that speaks the words 'Chaos reigns' into the camera and feature a closeup of Willem Dafoe's dick ejaculating blood. This basically reaches the levels of self parody, and prevents me from ever taking it seriously. From what I'd read The House that Jack Built is somewhat intentionally over the top silly and very self referential for Von Trier and the common criticisms against him. There are scenes in both of those films that bothered / disturbed me a huge amount. And I enjoyed both movies, so yes is the answer to your question. But it is all subjective. I also don't see how not taking a film seriously excludes it from being mentioned as an answer to the OP's post.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 12, 2019 14:47:26 GMT
There are scenes in both of those films that bothered / disturbed me a huge amount. And I enjoyed both movies, so yes is the answer to your question. But it is all subjective. I also don't see how not taking a film seriously excludes it from being mentioned as an answer to the OP's post. It's all subjective, obviously. There are movies that I can see are objectively disturbing, but that don't deeply affect me in a visceral way, and there are movies that I do find disturbing that I come away from just loving and appreciating on quality rather than having been disrupted by. But not being able to take it seriously does prevent me from finding it disturbing. Antichrist has a lot going for it, but I ended up laughing at it at times. And comedy and satire can be as disturbing as anything, but Von Trier sometimes gets me, as I said, laughing AT him, when I think he's going for sincerity. He gets so ridiculous that it's stupid and not affecting in the way, I think, he means it. I found something like Dogville or Melancholia far more unsettling because it dealt with that stuff on a more human level. Melancholia was a pretty direct depiction of depression ultimately made literal, which, even with the effects at the end kind of going over the top and ruining things again, was pretty good way for him to inflict his own depression on the viewer, I thought. Anyway, I don't challenge you including that film as an answer, it's just that Antichrist's silliness prevented it from having that effect on me. I haven't seen The House that Jack Built yet though, so I was just wondering how it measured up, because I'd heard some varied responses.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 12, 2019 16:36:32 GMT
The only one I can think of for me is Hostel. Very disturbing scenes of torture and violence, but I still like it a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2019 17:38:44 GMT
Not really horror... but "Brazil" (1985) haunted me for a few scenes.
Sadly, it now seems very prophetic, and coming true.
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Post by simest on Jul 12, 2019 21:40:18 GMT
PEEPING TOM (themes of child abuse, pre-occupation with fear, death and deformity)
THE INNOCENTS (not the ghosts but sexual repression, possible loss of sanity, a very creepy kiss between a male child and adult woman, plus a moment of borderline necrophilia at the climax).
REPULSION (sexual repression, isolation and loss of sanity realized in the starkest manner depicted on screen........not to mention a hair raising final suggestion of incestuous child abuse in the closing moment).
TARGETS (1968) (A gun culture film still making its point today. Inexplicable, random, violence descending on society without warning or reason or seemingly any solution).
THE TENANT (paranoia, loss of sanity, identity and alienation).
ERASERHEAD (Not sure where to start! Just some of the most darkly troubling fantasies that burrow into your mind)
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (shows that genuine monsters do walk amongst us - in plain sight - beneath a disarmingly unremarkable facade)
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jul 14, 2019 20:42:15 GMT
Rosemary's Baby (theme's of psychological abuse) Carrie ( bullying and religious mania)
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 14, 2019 20:43:32 GMT
Cannibal Holocost The Human Centipede 2
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Post by James on Jul 14, 2019 22:51:09 GMT
Mother! Hostel
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 14, 2019 22:52:54 GMT
THE DEVILS
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 15, 2019 1:50:13 GMT
Suicide Club (2001) [NSFW: Disturbing images]
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 16, 2019 0:09:05 GMT
The Fly (Cronenberg). What a disgusting fucking movie...but a great fucking one.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jul 16, 2019 0:25:35 GMT
Snowtown Midori
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Post by forca84 on Jul 16, 2019 2:40:54 GMT
"An American Crime" and "The Girl next door". Both based on the Sylvia Likens case.
"The Afflicted". Based on Theresa Knorr. The ending is made up. But much of the movie is true.
"Snowtown"... Very well made and disturbing. Don't get how someone could find it boring. Grim yes. But boring? The performances are stellar.
"Alice sweet Alice"... More than just a slasher. Heavy symbolism of religion and maternal relationships.
I'm also a huge true crime fan... They usually get to me since they happened. But they are addictive.
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