The most disturbing films of all time

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What is the most disturbing film(s) you have ever watched?

For me it has to be Threads - Made by the BBC: Which was about what would happen during/after a nuclear war (set in Britain).

I have to say i watched a similar film made in America but it didn't even come close to Threads.

I think if there is a Hell, this film comes pretty close to depicting what it would be like.

What about everyone else?
 
I think Deliverance has always ranked as the #1 most disturbing film ever. It was the original "Don't get caught in recknecksville" film.

edit: To watch it these days isn't nearly as bad as it was in 1972. Surely Schindler's List is worse now. But it all depends on your point of view.
 
I think we had this question not so long ago, but I'll be the first to say the last ten minutes or Requiem For A Dream is very possibly the most harrowing I've seen in a long time.
 
Threads. Saw it on BBC Four a while back. Horribly depressing. Shame I didn't record it. The dated look of the film made it even more depressing for some reason.
 
For me it has to be Lynch's Blue Velvet (though most of his stuff would happily sit in this category)

Big Chris said:
I think we had this question not so long ago, but I'll be the first to say the last ten minutes or Requiem For A Dream is very possibly the most harrowing I've seen in a long time.
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Requiem is a good call
 
i thought Ichi the Killer was pretty nasty in places. but RfaD was just :eek:

is it just me or do you start a lot of "the most *something* *something's* of all time" threads?
 
Not the most disturbing film but for me definitley one of the most disturbing bits of a film = American History X ......."Bite the Curb!"
 
Sleepers was pretty harrowing.


In its context, A Clockwork Orange was very disturbing, though less hard hitting now obviously. Schindler's List is up there too.
 
Yep Sleepers was pretty bad, there was a film that came out recently. Bout some kid who thought he had been abducted by aliens but infacted he had just been sexually abused several times by some guy when he was 7. Some of the scenes in that film made me want to puke.

Ichi the Killer was nasty in places, some of the torture scenes were pretty gruesome.

There was also another Japanese film which i can't remember the name off. Anyway at the end, a small japanese woman gives birth to a full grown man. That is something i never want to see again.

Clockwork Orange - The start of that almost made me walk out of the cinema, glad i didn't though.
 
For sheer cring'ness i'd have to say that Saw/Saw 2 had some pretty horrendous scenes.

Most disturbing recently has to be Wolfe Creek, not a pleasant film at all.
 
Gummo, if you thought it was made up then you'd probably be able to laugh it off easily enough, but there are only 6 actual actors in it (all portraying real people), the rest are people acting as they do every day of their lives. Quite disturbing to see how some people live.
 
lol i dont like dentists in general cause there complete pricks, but the dentist the film is well nasty.

although i wouldn't call it disturbing, infact i dont find any film disturbing what so ever, i dunno how i could find any film disturbing cause there films, unless of course there was a real threat of it happening. Al have to watch this threads film u all go on about.
 
Two suggestions from me:

Ichi the Killer

Just for the sheer weight of violence involved.


Scum

I watched this again the other day and was as shocked by it then as I was the first time I saw it. Male rape of a minor, brutal violence and suicide, enough to disturb anyone I recon. And it was filmed in 1979!
 
Scum is indeed a legendary film, have to admit I tend to fast forward 'that' scene though, horrendous isn't the word.
 
For me it would be kubricks "Eyes Wide Shut" which had me thinking about it for weeks.

One Flew over the Coocoo's Nest was pretty full on too.
 
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