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Top 10 Most Disturbing Films Ever!

posted 19 years ago by nickkarner
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Hey. So, I adore films that just make me squirm or really leave me with a sense of disturbance. You know, those awesome flicks that just mess you up in the head. I'm trying not to double up, although several directors on this list have more than one messed up film. What's your top ten? If you have more than 10 favorites, put those down too, I definitely have more than ten. I felt compelled to make out a list. In no particular order:

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Taxi Driver
Happiness
The Brood
Nil By Mouth
Salo
Eraserhead
Ichi the Killer
Night of the Living Dead(Original 1968 version! try and tell me that scene where the little girl kills her mother with the garden spade isn't freaky!)
Pink Flamingoes
The Piano Teacher
Blue Velvet
Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer
Julien Donkey Boy
Battle Royale
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
The War Zone
Begotten
American History X
Kids
Irreversible
Night and Fog
Sick

I could go on, but let me know. And by the way, I know NOLD is an old Romero flick, but try and tell me that scene where the little girl kills her mother with the garden spade isn't freaky! Good luck.
Hope to hear from you soon and hear about all these crazy sicko movies I've been missing!
-NK

informer

[–] elmsyrup 12 years ago

Come And See, and In My Skin.

[–] wlonkausky1 10 years ago

cant believe that no one mentioned "serbian film" one of the most brutal movies ever or even "the human centipede II" the uncut version, it is nothing but brutal, brutal killings, brutal rape with barbed wire and how can people mention "salo" that movie is so borring

[–] Degree7 9 years ago

There was a film commissioned by the BBC in the 1980s called Threads, about the aftermath of a nuclear war in Britain... to this day, I still have images from that film seared into my brain. Watch at your own risk.

~ I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

[–] mikebourkefan 9 years ago

good list

Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

[–] franzkabuki 9 years ago

Don't know about disturbing as it were, but it's possibly the most ugly, filthy, miserably drab film I've seen both in terms of physical conditions as well as the nature/circumstance of its characters. Mike Leigh's Naked offers healthy competition though.

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