Disturbing films?

Pestilence said:
I've seen a ton more disturbing stuff, but would need to get my collection out and start digging - which I can't be bothered to do right now. Hope these suggestions leads to some new territory for you.
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I once was very curious to watch a film called 'Urotsukidoji'. Despite what anyone tries to saym its basically Japanese cartoon snuff with monsters - which I heard was artful film which had a deep and amazing plot. What I find amazing is that anyone could try to defend such replusive garbage. It was without a doubt one of the worst films I have ever seen. It was just masterbation material for very, very sad men.

If you are one of those types, fine. Just don't try to pretend a film is something which its not i.e. anything of artistic merit. All these films are just exploitation, nothing more. If you get any form of enjoyment out of them, then I can only include you are a very weird and far from normal person.
 
Nitefly said:
If you are one of those types, fine. Just don't try to pretend a film is something which its not i.e. anything of artistic merit.
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None of us did.

Nitefly said:
All these films are just exploitation, nothing more.
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I don't think any extreme horror fan would disagree with you. Exploitation is fun.

Nitefly said:
If you get any form of enjoyment out of them, then I can only include you are a very weird and far from normal person.
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If I had one pound for every time I heard that I'd have about... £7.
 
Hostel... I watched this at a friends house the other night and I can safely say that I've never been as disturbed by a film in all of my life.. There was something about it that just didn't sit right with me. I can actually feel my mind perceiving things in a different way now which is quite worrying.

In short, it's sick.
 
naffa said:
Hostel... I watched this at a friends house the other night and I can safely say that I've never been as disturbed by a film in all of my life.. There was something about it that just didn't sit right with me. I can actually feel my mind perceiving things in a different way now which is quite worrying.

In short, it's sick.
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Hostel is actually very tame compared to some of the sick films mentioned in here. Yay for prolonged scenes of rape and murder, and slaughter of real animals \o/
 
Nitefly said:
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I once was very curious to watch a film called 'Urotsukidoji'. Despite what anyone tries to saym its basically Japanese cartoon snuff with monsters - which I heard was artful film which had a deep and amazing plot. What I find amazing is that anyone could try to defend such replusive garbage. It was without a doubt one of the worst films I have ever seen. It was just masterbation material for very, very sad men.

If you are one of those types, fine. Just don't try to pretend a film is something which its not i.e. anything of artistic merit. All these films are just exploitation, nothing more. If you get any form of enjoyment out of them, then I can only include you are a very weird and far from normal person.
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I don't think it's particularly fair to claim that the entire horror/exploitation genre holds no artistic merit. Many horror films excel in terms of visuals, sound design, thematics and more - that's what makes the best of them so effective and disturbing.

Sure, there are a lot of flicks out there that truly offer nothing than the eliciting of disgust and displeasure in the viewer - but to write off an entire genre due to these just smacks of ignorance.

"Urotsukidoji" is a member of the "hentai" genre - usually typified by demonic tentacle rape of young women in graphic detail. This is a Japanese subculture, the infatuation with which I'm not sure we'll ever really understand. Not my bag at all, though.

Personally, I will love the horror genre until the day I die. I enjoy being challenged by cinema and I also enjoy being entertained. I love everything from the most terrifying ghost story to the splatterfest coating the screen in red. As a genre, it simply offers me the greatest range of emotions than any other cinema.

I also can't understand anyone who can sit through cliché "Boy meets Girl, Boy gets Girl, Boy loses Girl - Boy gets Girl back" romantic comedies. They're predictable and they make me cringe. I also can't stand pop music or dance music - but I don't think everyone who likes these is an abnormal person. Not everyone enjoys the same kind of stimulus - visual, emotional, or otherwise - and to call others weird or abnormal due to being different to yourself is simply close-minded.
 
Secret_Window said:
What the hell is this film: it that came out 2-3 years ago and features somebody driving somewhere, their their vehicle breaks down (so they are stranded) and they go and find some people who are living in the woods (maybe a small village) and they are like total lunatics (sort of like deliverance hillbillies) who are like having sex with animals etc and torturing them.
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As some other replies have said, it sounds like "Calvaire" released in the UK as "The Ordeal". Watched it the other night. Some of the hillbilly types do have sex with an animal as our hero looks on in the distance. His van originally breaks down and he gets help from a guy moaning the loss of his dog. He's soon taken for a prisoner by a local innkeeper who mistakes the guy for his missing wife.

However. There's no torture involved - a rough haircut, being made to dress in a frock and a near rape scene is as graphic as it gets. So, maybe your movie isn't Calvaire after all? :)
 
Pestilence said:
I don't think it's particularly fair to claim that the entire horror/exploitation genre holds no artistic merit. Many horror films excel in terms of visuals, sound design, thematics and more - that's what makes the best of them so effective and disturbing.
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I will agree with you totally, I think my point wasn't made clear enough.
Sure, there are a lot of flicks out there that truly offer nothing than the eliciting of disgust and displeasure in the viewer - but to write off an entire genre due to these just smacks of ignorance.
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Ah, there we go. Its the "flicks out there that truly offer nothing than the eliciting of disgust and displeasure in the viewer" which I am talking about. Some people feel the need to defend them for offering 'more' than that, which I think is a bit desperate. I didn't mean to write off the entire genre as such. I enjoy a good horror film.

I also can't understand anyone who can sit through cliché "Boy meets Girl, Boy gets Girl, Boy loses Girl - Boy gets Girl back" romantic comedies. They're predictable and they make me cringe. I also can't stand pop music or dance music - but I don't think everyone who likes these is an abnormal person. Not everyone enjoys the same kind of stimulus - visual, emotional, or otherwise - and to call others weird or abnormal due to being different to yourself is simply close-minded.
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I don't think its close minded to say that people who enjoy the Guinea Pig films, or the 'Urotsukidoji' films are extremely odd. With music, people might listen to death metal because they like the adrenaline it gives them. You can't really defend watching a young girl being tortured to pieces in the
same way.

To say "I like watching people being killed because it gives me adrenaline" would be a very odd mentality to have.

To say "I like horror because the situations which people find themselves in are frightening and too frighten me. It gives me adrenaline" wouldn't be.
 
Nitefly said:
To say "I like watching people being killed because it gives me adrenaline" would be a very odd mentality to have.
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I need to watch things die from a good safe distance/
Vicariously I live while the whole world dies/
You all need it too, don't lie.

Tool
 
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