most disturbing flims

How about Requiem for a Dream, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive? Those all made me feel pretty gross. Also, Stroscek might leave you feeling like less of a person. It's supposed to be really wonderful but I guess I don't respect art and genius.

Eraserhead

What about David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"? Try that one out. I promise you won't know what hit you afterwards.

And a Spanish movie titled "Alas de Mariposa" (Butterfly Wings). It plays like an adult-oriented fairy tale

I agree with the post about "Irreversible," and if after watching that you find it disturbing enough, you should try the director's previous effort, "I Stand Alone," which has several truly unsettling and downright shocking scenes. In fact, watch that one first and then "Irreversible." The latter loosely follows the former, even though it is not a sequel.

I didn't find "Requiem for a Dream" too disturbing, though, because a film about the destructive power of drug addiction is not telling me anything terribly controversial. In that sense, I found "Trainspotting" is more disturbing, for it never lets you forget how much some people enjoy shooting up smack. A film that dares to be so vigorously and humorously horrifying in the face of a serious topic hits harder, I believe, than a straight tour of hell. "Requiem" does this, and I hope it deters people from doing drugs. But if you understand the dangers of substance abuse, the film will only confirm what you already know could happen, using lots of visual tricks that director Darren Aronofsky deals so indiscriminately that they quickly lose their hypnotic effect. His attempt of making a film that feels like an acid trip conflicts with the compassion he wants to show for his characters: as we become visually numb, the film loses its emotional core, and it is hard to see the suffering of the characters underneath the rapid-fire editing, microphotography, fast- and slow-motion shots and split screens. Aronofsky's previous effort, "Pi," is far more difficult to take: it is one of the most original (and disturbing) fictions about how one could take a look at God (or Gods) - and the madness that such a vision could bring. I think a film is disturbing not only when it portrays horrors, but when it really rattles our cultural and moral comfort zones and forces us to consider alternatives and challenge our ways of seeing the world.

Pedro Almodóvar's "Talk to Her," for instance, does this. It has a story that I find deeply problematic. #SPOILER ALERT# Can you imagine a film that comes close to putting you on the side of a rapist? When I realized that I felt completely ambivalent about Benigno, the male nurse, because the girl he cared for and looked after so much (and eventually raped) woke up from her coma was when the greatness of the film hit me: while completely aware that the man had committed a crime, plain and simple, by having sex with a woman while she was in a coma, a part of me believed that it was his devoted attention that enabled her to practically come back from the dead. It is a disturbing film because it makes one realize there are destructive ways of showing and manifesting love, immediately questioning all romantic notions we may have of the feeling. Even if we eventually condemn Benigno's actions, we might even come to understand them. "Little Children" does something similar.

Oh, and before I forget, there's another French film titled "Tyresia." If you find what you're looking for in "Irreversible" and "I Stand Alone," watch "Tyresia." It will blow your mind.

Click. Now that movie was disturbingly bad.

At Close Range. Christopher Walken, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, Keifer Sutherland, and a host of shady characters.

Hands down the most disturbing movie is
Ken Park. I am warning you now i wouldn't watch it

Bad Lieutenant would be up there at the top of my list, along with Requiem. Here are a few more:

The Piano Teacher (2001)
Dumplings (2004)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Irreversible (2002)
Oldboy (2003)


I wish Cotton was a monkey, I wish Cotton was a monkey...

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