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Similar disturbing films?

posted 16 years ago by mechakingghidorah69
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I just bought and watched Fight for Your Life this past summer. I have been a fan of grindhouse/drive-in/exploitation films for some time now and wanted to see this long forgotten classic. I also own Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, but I am looking for similar movies in this vein if anyone can help. I enjoy being shocked, and this film had it's shocking moments, most notably the baby and kid scenes. However, what really appealed to me was the intense performance by William Sanderson, which I found more frightening than David Hess and co. in Last House. If anyone can provide reccomendations, I would appreciate it, but please don't include spoilers or tell me why they're disturbing, because I enjoy experiencing them firsthand. When I watched Fight for Your Life (and Last House) for the first time, I watched no trailers, read no reviews, and generally did my best to go into the films with no expectations other than their reputations as being sick films. Oh, and no cannibal films, because I already own all of those. Thanks...

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[–] jrfsy 15 years ago

Similar films, and as disturbing as this?

The Rugrats Movie?

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[–] peter1-8 15 years ago

(Chances are you've heard of some of these; they're each pretty well-known among grindhouse/exploitation/video nasty fans: )

Caligola
Dead and Buried
The Devil's Rejects
Ebola Syndrome
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
High Tension
Hostel I and II
House of 1000 Corpses
Ichi the Killer
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
Irreversible
Men Behind the Sun
Pink Flamingos
Salo (A.K.A 120 Days of Sodom)
SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Suicide Club

They're all pretty disturbing...

[–] ptb-8 15 years ago

try your family photo album. Then grow up.

[–] jmsocool 15 years ago

Maybe someone can help me. In the early 80's I saw a movie (can't remember the title, or anyone who was in it), that may have been made in the 70's. Basic idea is that a group of thugs invade a home with a gathering of some middle class folks. I know, it could be any number of movies, but some scenes stand out in my memory. I hope I'm not combining scenes from two different movies. In one scene two or more topless women are hanging (by their arms) from a chandeliar. In another scene, the main bad guy (I don't think it was David Hess, but it's the kind of role he did back in the day) forces one of the male victims to his knees, then unzips the pants of one of his cohorts, implying that the the victim is going to be forced to perform oral sex on him. I also seem to remember a scene where a child comes out of a room at the top of the stairs, and one of the thugs opens up on the kid with a machine gun.

I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me the name of this movie. It's been sticking in my memory for years. I realize taht if I ever find the movie, it'll probably turn out to be junk.

Thanks.

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[–] xactinthat 15 years ago

If I'm not utterly mistaken, then this is House on the Edge of the Park.

Motel...Motel...Motel...broken neon arabesque...

[–] buffyfreakster 15 years ago

You might be thinking of "house on the edge of the park" I don't remeber any kids getting shot at and what not but the other stuff sounds like that movie.

[–] mortuorum_masticatione 14 years ago

This is the film you are looking for:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071840/

[–] coffeegirl18 13 years ago

Interesting factS...

Bob Flanagan was in the Nine Inch Nails 'Happiness in Slavery' video. It's pretty gross I'd add a content advisory on it...That documentary on him was at HotDocs in Toronto this past year. The reason the guy was into S&M was due to his often severe pain due to having cystic fibrosis.

Hit up Wikipedia if interested...Weak stomachs avoid video on him.

[–] TheMan18 (12489) 3 years ago

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) is the documentary I believe you're talking about.

[–] smcarter1966 14 years ago

A film that starts out fine and then stops at the corner of Creepy and Disturbing and stays there is Poor Pretty Eddie.

Also "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is basicly 2 hours of degradation, humiliation, torture, and execution. Based on the beloved family novel by the Marquis de Sade.

The trailer for Salo is available for viewing at trailersfromhell.com. I'm not listing a clickable link due to the fact that the trailer is a red band trailer and an absolutely NSFW trailer, so much so that it may be considered a violation of one of IMDb's T&C rules. You'll have to do a search on the site, which is a small price to pay for so much entertainment.

And remember, Salo is available from your friends at The Criterion Collection.

Yes, really....

I'm looking for this woman, last name of Otch, first name is Bee.
Have you seen her?

[–] CokedUpWerewolf 14 years ago

They Call her One Eye
Cannibal Holocaust

You know what else I thought was alright? Even though I don't want to put a modern thriller up here, especially with Nick Cage as the lead ....... I have to say that "8 MM" was a nice surprise for me.

[–] longlivethenewflesh 14 years ago

I couldn't really say that 'Fight For Your Life' is disturbing. I can see how people could be offended by the racial language, but offensive and disturbing really aren't the same thing.

Incidentally, given the perception that this is a racist film, it's worth noting that just about everyone who ends up dead is white. The violence is fairly strong in a couple of scenes, the rape scene is mainly off-camera and the bad guys get their come-uppance at the end... so all-in-all not the roughest of grindhouse flicks (though the murder of the kid is pretty nasty).

I have seen all of the films suggested above and I'd have to say that for me, Irreversible takes the biscuit as far as lasting impact goes. A very good film with a couple of scenes that are genuinely difficult to watch.

A few others which are troubling for different reasons:

In A Glass Cage
Giallo A Venezia
Trouble Every Day
In My Skin
Red To Kill
Lilya 4-ever
Beyond The Darkness (Buio Omega)
Martyrs
Aftermath (short)

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[–] ElectricWarlock 11 years ago

This kind of reminded me of the movie Funny Games (original and remake) in that both movies an innocent family is terrorized in their homes by a group of psychos.

I've been waiting for you, Ben.

[–] XtroTerrestial 11 years ago

Straw Dogs (1971)

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