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What are some of the most disturbing movies you have seen?

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A lot of the movies mentioned here are horror or psychological type. They’re not real folks! I never understood nor got the attraction.

For that very reason, something that did happen, and for many who had grandfathers or family there, easily the scariest movie: Saving Private Ryan. When you have D-Day veterans walking out of the theatres because it was too close, too accurate…….The first 25 minutes are something I shall never forget. Heaven knows what it must have REALLY been like, especially at Omaha Beach.

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Irreversible

A Serbian Film

Two Girls, One Cup.

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Rosemary’s Baby and other satanic films.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Psycho and films with things in the basement.

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Reservoir Dogs - torture scene very creepy.

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I guess some folks enjoy simulations of torture …

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Two girls one cup.

classy.

"Bone Tomahawk" was a very strange film with maybe the most disturbing scene I've ever witnessed

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Se7en's next to last scene was the most disturbing in a movie with many disturbing scenes.

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"A Clockwork Orange" Demented stuff.

"Good Luck Chuck" I still can't believe someone green lit that garbage.

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"Little Big Man." The scenes of massacre were too much for me, had to walk out. I avoid horror flicks because I can't stomach them. While much of Little Big Man was very good, and no one would call it a horror flick, the massacre scene was not what I expected, and too much, IMO. I do not deny it as historical record.

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Howard the Duck

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Reservoir Dogs - torture scene very creepy.

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The Silence of the Lambs, PG12 1991, Anthony Hopkins was Awesome in that cast.

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Watership Down.

Human Centipede.

Human Centipede 2.

Animal Farm.

Two girls one cup.

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TCM series, Hostel series, Carnivore, Midnight meat train, Audition and quite some more that would exceed the space here…

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Oh yeah, Martyrs… that one messes with our mind… “when you’re not you anymore…”, “when you accept and embrace pain…” again, it’s not just the gore, it’s the psychological part of it… extremely disturbing sh…

I mean if these type of movies are your bag, the New French Extremity category is where you should go.

Inside is another excellent(!) movie and imho, it’s a superior movie when compared to Martyrs and other French movies from that category.

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On a separate note, Miike's Audition (1999), especially it's finale, was very hard to stomach (3 quarters of the viewers left while I was squirming in my seat...)

The tone of this movie make it all the more jarring - it starts off almost like a boring drama with romantic inklings then goes a very, very disturbed rabbit hole. The change in tone and pace almost gives viewers whiplash. It's one of my favorite movies of Miike's.

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Oh boy, as an avid horror movie fan, the list could go on but off the top of my head:

Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood 

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Salo

Martyrs

Human Centipede

A Serbian Film

Dans Ma Peau (In My Skin)

Cannibal Holocaust

I Spit On Your Grave

I mean if these type of movies are your bag, the New French Extremity category is where you should go.

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Anything with Streisand. Torture, pure torture.

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I made the “mistake” of watching movies like Schindler’s List and The Green Mile when I was still a kid…; the electric chair gave me nightmares…; later I watched movies like Salò and A Serbian Film but that was a different kind of disturbing…; a lot more disturbing was some Japanese snuff movies, not the Guinea Pig series, but other ones that I refuse to mention here…; recently I’ve watched the Korean one… I Saw The Devil and that one is a recommendation of mine… great, amazing movie… it’s not just the gory parts… to see a man lose everything and become completely “empty” is truly disturbing and sad.

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oh!! FORGOT!

The Crying Game and Deliverance

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Ika Wrestler.

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Oh man, that one is hands down probably the MOST disturbing movie EVER made.

A distant second would be Martyrs

Requiem For A Dream

That one is also REALLY disturbing.

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Irréversible

Midsommer

A Serbian Film

Requiem For A Dream

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