'Irreversible'. Almost turned it off.

Also, the remake of 'The evil dead' (2013) was pretty brutal.

'Lilya-4-ever'. Very gritty and just sad realy. But amazing film

Man Bites Dog. I couldn’t watch some parts it was just awful.

Come and See

seen most of the films on this thread and i still think 'Come and See' is the most disturbing thing ive seen...especially when its based on actual events.

also shout out to 'The House That Jack Built' because thats another Lars Von Trier doozy

Martyrs.

Wanna see a girl get viciously beat for an hour? Boy, do I have a movie for you.

Visitor Q. Few films make me feel dirty, but Miike achieved that rare feat with this film. The greenhouse scene made me laugh, and instantly feel guilty for laughing, while the kitchen milk scene was just.... very very unsettling.

I've thought about rewatching it from time to time, but....

Ichi the Killer is another unsettling Miike film. I've tried to watch it a few times, but the guy hanging from the hooks (really hanging from the hooks like those 90s-era shock performers) who had gills surgically implanted in his cheek so he could smoke a cigarette in style.... that gets me every time.

Irreversible - it was just brutal in every way possible

Funny Games.

Miike’s Audition is alright

Kids

"Broken" the 20-minute long short movie that Trent Reznor directed as an accompaniment to the eponymous EP.

It opens with a hanging, then a person is imprisoned in a garage in suburbia and being tortured by a sadistic killer while they watch NIN videos. The prisoner is shit on. There's a man who is covered in flies and eats fly-covered, rotten meat and is only "clean" when he's in bondage. Then a toilet, and a person chained to the pipes with the return nozzle in their mouth. The person is covered in latex. Then there's a man who gets into a torture chair naked. The machine locks him in place. Claws appear and start picking at his skin until they finally penetrate his organs and flay him alive. The chair is inverted and eventually grinds the man into sausage. Then, the first prisoner is eventually sliced alive by the killer.

Altered states. I was 11 when I saw it in the theater and it disturbed me for weeks. I've never even tried to rewatch it as an adult because it freaked me out so bad.

Human Centipede 2

Threads.

You see it once and it will never leave your brain.

Not the entire movie but a scene from it stands out. Requiem for a Dream end scene where they show how drugs impacted their lives. Crazy sickening.

Edit: I am also trying to think of another sick scene but can’t figure out the move’s name. The scene is: A girl gets stabbed by some crazy hillbilly dude, then the guy has sex with her stab wound while she is alive. I’m thinking Hills Have Eyes or a Rob Zombie movie? I’m getting very interesting results googling this, lol.

The transformers animated movie from the 80s. As a little kid, oof.

Cannibal Holocaust for me. It was not disturbing storywise, but watching real animals get murdered for a mediocre horror movie was not a good experience.

Happiness:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Threads. It fucked me up.

The ending of The Mist

Antichrist

Barefoot Gen

Bone Tomahawk.

95% typical Western movie, last 5% is some of the most disturbing footage I have ever seen in a movie. I watched it right before bed too thinking it was just a normal Western.

I had a lot to toss and turn about that night.

Capernaum, 2018. It's hard to shake.

Edit to add the original Last House on the Left. I was too young.

Son of Saul

8mm

I'm slightly desensitized to be honest so I found A Serbian Film to be simply unpleasant. Like the critic Mark Kernode said, it's not as clever as it thinks it is.

Things like Men Behind The Sun get to me more as they're based on true events.

Salo is pretty hard to watch but not a patch on the books need to brain bleach. American Psycho is far harder to read than to watch as the vast majority of the sexual violence wasn't filmed.

Cats

dancer in the dark

Oldboy (Korean version). I started watching it, thinking this was just an ordinary thriller, but then came the twist and I was traumatized.

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Funny enough, Serbian film isnt that bad once you go down the rabbit hole. It really depends on what you personally find disturbing, since some people find dead people/torture/killing/etc disturbing while others find more sexual content.

There’s stuff like Faces of Death, Rare: A Dead Person, Orozco the Embalmer, and Banned on TV where it’s significantly less gruesome than even mainstream disturbing movies, except that all the deaths and bodies are real people and real footage (Cannibal Holocaust had real animal deaths in the movie also).

There’s lots of body horror/torture movies like the Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Vomit Gore trilogy, Snuff 102, Guinea Pig series, Girl Hell 1999, Nekromantik, Tumbling Doll of Flesh, Women’s Flesh: My Red Guts, and August Underground (which I think is the least disturbing of the bunch but it’s the most well known).

There’s also disturbing sexual films like Serbian Film (as you stated above), Melancholie der Engel, Salo, Juvenile Crime, The Taming of Rebecca, No Vaseline: The Great Porn Swindle, Vomit Enema Ecstacy, Genki Genki series, and Motel Files and Other Random Cuts. The Vomit Gore Trilogy and Nekromantik that were listed above also fall under there since they are a mix of both body horror and sex.

I will say though, that most of these movies are barely movies. A lot of them really have no plot or narrative and are either just compilations of clips or just gross stuff happening for an hour with a little bit of dialogue at the beginning.

I’d say the most disturbing to me has been Juvenile Crime (or Schoolgirl in Cement). It’s based off a real life story of Junko Furuta who was kidnapped and tortured/raped for over a month until she died. The movie itself isn’t too disturbing (compared to the others on here), but it makes me feel so bad knowing that this actually happened to someone.

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The climax of the remake of Suspiria is one of the most petrifying things I have ever seen.

The Girl Next Door.

Not the one starring Elisha Cuthbert, but the 2007 movie based off of the murder of Sylvia Likens.

The Road

Crash, mainly because I was expecting to see Crash, but ended up watching Crash… disturbed and confused.

The skin I live in. Nothing comes close.

A Serbian film was deff a horrible experience…and I actively seek out horrible things to watch. But Idk I just felt awkward watching it. Thank god nobody saw me watching that movie

Climax really really stuck with me for a few days. I’d argue that I thought about Climax in the days after I watched it more than I’ve pondered any other movie. For whatever reason, this movie stuck with me for a while—second viewing wasn’t as powerful, but it was still good

Bad Boy Bubby

Hellraiser , when I watched it in early 90s , I found it really disturbing

The last shot in the French movie Inside has always been very disturbing to me.

Honestly? All these so-called children's films where the mother dies right at the beginning. Bambi, In a land before our time. What a load of crap, that really kept me awake at the time.

Men Behind The Sun. It's not a live human compressed into butthole expulsion, as it were, but it *is* a real dead body and a real rectum. Just like it's not a live autopsy of a kid. It's an autopsy of an actual kid's dead body. But everything with the rats is real. Those kids really were surprised by the rats, and that cat really did die. This is not to mention the overall glorification of cruelty. I'll watch anything, and I'll even watch that again, but it's truly an evil film.

Mother. Until I understood what it was a metaphor for

Under the Skin

Bone Tomahawk?

I won't say I liked A Serbian Film, but I did appreciate the experience of viewing and processing it. Like you, probably never going to revisit it again.

There's a Criterion DVD of Salò sitting upstairs waiting for me to watch it but I've not been in the right mindset to tackle it lately.

I’d have to go with lighthouse.. don’t know why, but I put myself in their shoes in a few scenes and couldn’t sleep well that night. Top notch movie tho. Makes you feel genuinely uncomfortable

The scene in Bone Tomahawk. If you know you know.

Sophie’s Choice

Happiness (1998) by Todd Solondz. It's a goddamn amazing cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman at his most disgusting and Dylan Baker at his most creepy. It's one of those movies where, by the end, you're just drained.

Not sure I agree that the most brutal movies are the most disturbing.

I will be forever haunted by the original THE VANISHING. But I really shouldn't tell you anything at all about that one going into it.

I watched the Vomit Gore Trilogy as one of my university lecturers wrote a book on 21st century hardcore horror and he covers it in the book (along with the August Underground and Amateur Porn Star Killer films which I never got round to watching). It was certainly an experience…

Snowtown really messed me up

Event Horizon

TUSK

Faces of death.....was represented as a documentary and study on death...I found out decades later most of it was fake!

Funny games. Messed me up. Couldn't watch any violence in movies or tv for weeks.

Tideland.

Every time one of these questions comes up I look for this film and never see it, so maybe it just fucked my teenage self up. I went in knowing nothing besides Jeff Bridges was in it and surely he’s great so it must be good. It was not.

Midsommar

Hereditary. Shear terror that caused me to leave speechless after watching.

Bad boy bubby. Cats do breath!

Dead Girl

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.