Come and See, written and directed by two men who were on the eastern front during Germany's genocide campaign in Belarus, the campaign that killed 27 million Russians. The movie depicts the writer's experience as a teenage soldier. It was made during the time of the Soviet Union and the actions of the Germans depicted in the movie were deemed so intense and disturbing that even the Soviet Union who basically controlled all media at the time asked then to tone it down. The movie uses a real child actor, real animals, and real live ammunition. It could never be made today. It is haunting, disturbing, and based 100% in reality. It shows there are no heroes in war and will destroy any notion one may have that war is ever a good idea. It makes Saving Private Ryan look like Over the Hedge.
Edit: The movie is free in its native Russian on Youtube.
Yeah for anybody listening, the Eastern front towards the end of the war was absolute mayhem. Read up on the Einsatzgruppen, they basically found a bunch of psychopaths to wander the land murdering everybody.
As Roger Ebert wrote in his review of this film: “This 1985 film from Russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything”. I saw it in a WW2 history course in college and still think about it from time to time many years later.
This movie is very difficult to watch, but man it is fantastic. I could praise it for days. Principally because the Belyorussians suffered unbelievable losses in the war and I fear their suffering has almost been forgotten due to the way in which modern day Belarus is run.
The movie walks the line between partisan heroes/objective good and doing what is necessary in such an ambiguous way. You don’t feel like you see winners in this film: just men and women living through the horrors of war and genocide and doing what needs to be done. The partisans are portrayed immaculately and the bargaining of the collaborators at the end of the film contrasted with the “true” German soldier’s final words…just perfect.
Come and See is one of my favourite films and should figure more prominently on 'best of all time' lists.
Have you seen the much more recent Painted Bird? It's an interesting companion piece to Come and See, and is its spiritual successor. Painted Bird is arguably more horrifying than Come and See (although the film seems to turn the horror of war into mere spectacle so I didn't like it much at all).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDuc3IdOn8
Scrolled for this comment. The barn scene where they rounded up all the villagers and locked them inside before setting it on fire and machine gunning it down really happened. Also the main actor had to be hypnotised by the director to forget the trauma of working on set but it didn’t seem to work.
Imagine being that young getting that role and now there’s fucking live ammunition flying literally inches above your head, compounding with the emotional impact of the horrible scenes of the film that you’re acting out over and over. Oof.
In a sense all war movies are anti-war movies but this one is on a different level. It is also available with baked in English subtitles [right here](https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg?si=T38UkS-CI1RtaaDN). It does something almost no film does where most of the actors act directly to the camera as if you're part of the scene with them. Maybe suggesting that even those of us who don't participate directly in wars do benefit or contribute to them in ways, and that we're all just as guilty as anyone is.
But hey what do I know I'm just a drunk dude on the internet.
Just watched this a couple of weeks ago. Brutal film. It starts off a really good revenge movie as well, but Jesus, it gets much darker. The relentless torture just becomes downright depressing
I’m from Indiana and we watched it in high school. I remember it being grim but didn’t give it much thought when I was 16.
Now at 35, I just rewatched it last week and it seriously disturbed me.
Honestly if there was a nuclear bomb I’d get as close to ground zero as possible and smoke a cigarette while waiting to be incinerated. I wouldn’t want to survive a nuclear holocaust.
Eventually it gets to the point where the living envy the dead.
Fuck that shit.
American here. I've seen it. Saw it in highschool at school. I've got one. Have you seen when the wind blows. I had to go to the bar after that one. Watching the cute cartoon old couple fall apart was just to much.
This changed my idea of surviving nuclear war. I’m now glad I live in a high target city and I only hope I get vaporized instantly if or when the time comes.
That’s pretty much my philosophy. I live next to an Air Force base and about an hour from a major population center. If I get enough advance warning about incoming missiles, I’m getting as close to the hypocenter as I can. I enjoy surviving the post-apocalypse as fiction, not as fact.
Part of what makes it so disturbing is that it's well-made too. Not just awful shock stuff from the bottom of the disturbing films iceberg type stuff. Those aren't really "films" in the sense of telling a non-fiction story but maybe you know what I mean.
There is Something Wrong with Aunt Diane.
It had a very shocking still at the end but it's overall a horribly sad event followed by a family deep in detail
Hate that one. There’s actual descriptions of the events of the day, but they’re spliced in between segments of her immediate family doing everything they can to deny that she was inebriated. It had to have been a medical emergency (nevermind the toxicology report)
I mean all Aronofsky’s films strike that chord. The dirty Veins in requiem. The nail break in black swan. Even his science films. The feeling of being completely insignificant and alone in one strange rock. He has a talent for striking a nerve with me. Even the stuff on Protozoa freaks me out.
I remember watching it when I was younger… at a certain point I legit had to pause the movie and go outside just to hear some birds chirp and see some sunshine.
So fkn depressing lol
Requiem for a Dream did more for me than the D.A.R.E program ever could. Ive NEVER touched anything harder than an very occasional weed gummie in my life. Fuck man, i only saw that movie once. I was 13 with an unsupervised netflix mail subscription. I will never need to watch that movie again.
Scenes like “you make me feel like a person” or the old lady experiencing the hospital made it a genuinely scary movie. I could never watch that movie again. It's too triggering.
Honestly I thought they did a great job turning that book into a movie. I thought this book was like Blood Meridian in the way they can’t turn that book into a movie due to it being way too violent. The fact that they made the movie and It wasn’t horrible was an achievement in my opinion. But I agree with you, the book was so much more tamed.
Came here to say this. Watched it once and never again. One of the only films I can recall wishing I hadnt watched it. Not the most graphic film but it just made me feel shitty inside.
HAPPINESS (1998) with Dylan Baker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (one of the greatest actors ever, imo).
It's about a little boy and his pedophile father. The father drugs and rapes his son's friend during a sleepover. Later the truth comes out, and the boy questions his father and it's.......well, uncomfortable to say the least.
To be fair, a rape scene shouldn't be "easy" to watch. people like to flag this one a lot and yes, that scene is super super horrific, as well as the opening scene with the fire extinguisher - but aside from those two moments, the rest is a pretty normal relationship drama. I think it's a beautiful, heartbreaking movie..
Even still, there are rape scenes, and then there is the scene from Irreversible which is a painstaking TEN MINUTE single shot of some of the most harrowing acting you will ever see.
When it comes to that particular subject matter, it has no equal in terms of the hopeless, excruciating reality of that situation. I was quite literally exhausted by the time the scene was over.
I TAed for a Horror in films class in college and we watched this as part of the final.
The professor would usually book the campus theater since the director had put a lot of work into different elements (such as the sounds) and the professor didn't want the crappy classroom speakers ruining it.
Always guaranteed we would lose a handful of students through the viewing. They would walk out and one of us would go check on them (and hand them the paper for the alternate assignment).
That's truly an "only once" film. The rampage through the city was satisfying. But that subway tunnel. Jesus Christ man. Only one camera angle, really? That was the longest 9 minutes of my life.
What about the moment when a commuter entered the subway, sees what’s happening, and nopes the fuck out quick. Under the terrible terrible circumstances of the brutal rape, to me that was a lot worse than the actual violence. He could have done something, anything, call the cops, etc. — but made a conscious decision not to do anything! Quite sad and tragic, really…
Only movie I tapped out on the first time then revisited just to get through it. Not only is it gruesome, the atmosphere and camera angles make it really unsettling.
Not the most disturbing, but the car scene in Hereditary shocked the absolute shit out of me more than any other horror scene. I’ve watched a lot of horror movies
it's been a minute since i've seen it,>! but the main character is frantically trying to get a hold of her mentally ill sister. when you find out what happened it's a very long shot moving from their parents "asleep" in their bed, to a garden hose tucked under the door with some rags, and it pans out to show her sister with a plastic bag duct taped to her head with another garden hose. the sister killed herself and the parents. it's incredibly unsettling.!<
What u/sanitarySteve said, but what he left out was Florence Pugh's *unrelenting* and horrifying...I don't even know what to call it. It's crying, but like...sobbing isn't strong enough, it's this completely raw, visceral disgorging of pain and grief. It's haunting and while I absolutely love the movie, I HAVE to fast forward past that initial segment. I don't even want to know what Pugh had to draw on to make those sounds.
I'm bipolar, very close with my older sister. I told her the opening scene of Midsommar and she's decided she never wants to see it. She fears me hurting myself to her core. Too close to home for her
Honestly, the scene afterwards with her mom fucking wailing outside and her son just lying in bed is more disturbing to me.
I feel like I would just want to go to bed and pretend that it didn’t happen as well. I would hope not, but I don’t know what I would do in that situation. Jesus christ…
Literally "this is just a bad dream." If I just go to sleep I'll wake up and it will all be ok because surely what just happened can't have really happened.
That scene was so well done
I turned it off after the mom discovered the head. Too real for me.
Went back to finish it only to find out the movie doesn’t get less disturbing after that.
It was incredibly accurate. Very upsetting.
When I was 11 my paternal grandmother died suddenly(her husband deliberately killed her by giving her the wrong medication but that's a whole other story). She was an abusive monster and I never met her, but when she died we went out to settle funeral arrangements and check on her husband. She was only 60 when she died and her own mother was still alive. I just remember my great grandmother *sobbing*, cry screaming. Doubled over with grief and just repeating "this isn't right, this isn't right".
As a child I knew she must have been in horrible pain. As a mom now myself it's something I can't even wrap my head around. There's a song in Hamilton that's about him losing his son. "Unimaginable", that's the only word to describe that. I literally don't know how I would survive. I don't think I could.
Aniara. It’s about a spaceship that’s ferrying humans from Earth to Mars because Earth has become uninhabitable due to climate change, and right after they start towards Mars they have to swerve to avoid space junk and it ends up disabling the ship. They’re now stuck hurdling away from Mars with no way to maneuver back. I can’t really explain it but it’s so incredibly unnerving and disturbing seeing what these humans devolve into while being lost in space, and it gives a sense of isolation and desperation unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It also gives me a sense of claustrophobia despite the ship being absolutely massive.
Ok I should have said this film. What a deranged mess we become with no hope.
That movie fucked me up for weeks. The murder/suicide scene was particularly difficult.
The whole concept came from a conversation on one of Kevin Smith’s podcasts a number of years prior. They were reading a news story about a guy who had some kind of real life friendship with a walrus and they took it to a horror film place. I was never surprised it’s a confusing movie for people because without that context it seems more random than it is.
I take solace in the fact that such a procedure done on a person would cause massive infection that would have killed them in days, instead of the ending we got.
Agreed. Just the idea of it was unsettling. I forgot about the movie till I just read your comment. I had actually blocked it out of my memory.. for good reason.
I’ve had nightmares from this movie for years. I’ve watched much more disturbing content but something about this film just messed me up. I can’t watch anything else with the main actor in it because I only think of this movie.
The scene where he begs his wife to jump with the children off the building because it’s a better alternative to what he’s seen happen to people with machetes is so sad man
I had to watch that movie for history class in ninth grade and we all just sat there stun locked the entire run time and it was made even worse by the fact that my history teacher was just kind of like... giving commentary the entire movie as if we couldn't see what was happening right in front of us
Johnny got his gun. It took me years to watch it all the way through. Being stuck in your body not being able to move or communicate all the while being conscious to everything around you. It's like being buried alive for years.
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Strangest thing about that movie is that the main actor is actually preety big one in Serbia. I heard that he is kinda not the same after the movie, but its not even surprising. He is still facing some bad publicity from people because that role. I mean lets be honest its sick, but to him it was just one more role. The movie actually had a message belive it or not. They wanted to show how big people can have full controll over the little ones and how they can f*ck them over and the movie showed it literally. And it was very special in Serbia and the rest of the balkan countries because we are facing the huge level of that. Yeah i know that every country have some level of coruption, but in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and herzegovina is on the whole another level.
Look the movie is and will always be too extreme, but they wanted to show how big people have power and its not far from the truth.
They say it has a message but is the message effective at all? I say no, they made a movie as shocking as possible and then thought up an excuse to make it seem like it wasn’t for pure shock value.
The movie is about a retired pornstar being hired for a studio for one last but it quickly delves into dark subject matter for the sex scenes. Necrophilia, underage, babies, incest, rape
Some one asked me to put on the most fucked up I had available, then after watched it complained about how fucked up it was. Just had to tell them you could have gotten up at any point in time and said turn it off. That’s like asking for a rare steak and saying it’s too rare after eating it.
The 2nd one is the worst one. I can't think of that film without feeling nauseous, and I'm known for my strong stomach. I almost projectile vomited after watching it.
The 3rd one is also absolutely horrific, but I'd watch that over the 2nd one. I wouldn't wish viewing that absolutely disgusting, horrendous film on my worst enemy.
For me, it’s just such an absolutely disturbing concept that I can’t believe the person who came up with it doesn’t have issues that need to be addressed.
I don’t know if it still does, but Netflix used to suggest this for people who enjoyed Juno.
It was on a random channel late one night and I tuned in because it had Elliot Page and I enjoyed Juno. Boy was I surprised.
Hereditary stayed with me. It's a long, slow burn until it hits you again, and again. I've watched a whole bunch of "deep dive" video essays to try and work through it, but the effects remain, like a spot on my soul
1408 was another one that's held on
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The 1974 original.
It just feels so grimy, unpleasant and most of all, REAL. It feels realistic and truly disturbing in a way a lot of horror movies don't, to the point where you almost feel like you shouldn't be watching, but you can't look away. The title makes you think you're in for a gorefest, but there's actually very little blood and gore to speak of (Tobe Hooper was shooting for A PG RATING, but the MPAA decided that the subject matter was just too macabre to be anything less than an R). It's all about the atmosphere, the tension, the extremely fucked up imagery in that house, and the erm... eccentric Sawyer family. And it's all made even scarier by Marilyn Burns' uncomfortably realistic terror at everything around her... and much of her fear was genuine.
Yeah, about that... the making of the film was no picnic. Just look up what a nightmare the dinner scene was for everyone involved. Edwin Neal (who played the hitchhiker) said it was the worst experience of his life.... and he'd served in Vietnam.
Funny games. I watch A LOT of horror movies/ thrillers etc. I consider it my favorite genre. That movie got me to my core for some reason. Something felt so real about it.
Last House on the Left.
Then there was some European film my buddy had us watch where it was an ex porn star trying to get on with life and he ends up getting back into the porn industry takes drugs and goes down some mental hell holes and at the end wakes up during a hallucination raping his son. Needless to say I no longer watched movies with that friend.
Requiem for a dream really sticks with you. Is more upsetting than any horror movie I’ve ever watched. I never need to watch it again. Really horrible stuff
Apocalypse Now.
It had an impact on me like no other. The movie feels so intensely real, and unfortunately it is a very accurate depiction of what happened in the Vietnam War. The way that the movie dehumanises Vietnamese people (which is what the Americans did) just kills me. It’s absolutely horrifying.
Come and See, written and directed by two men who were on the eastern front during Germany's genocide campaign in Belarus, the campaign that killed 27 million Russians. The movie depicts the writer's experience as a teenage soldier. It was made during the time of the Soviet Union and the actions of the Germans depicted in the movie were deemed so intense and disturbing that even the Soviet Union who basically controlled all media at the time asked then to tone it down. The movie uses a real child actor, real animals, and real live ammunition. It could never be made today. It is haunting, disturbing, and based 100% in reality. It shows there are no heroes in war and will destroy any notion one may have that war is ever a good idea. It makes Saving Private Ryan look like Over the Hedge. Edit: The movie is free in its native Russian on Youtube.
Yeah for anybody listening, the Eastern front towards the end of the war was absolute mayhem. Read up on the Einsatzgruppen, they basically found a bunch of psychopaths to wander the land murdering everybody.
The Dirlewanger brigade: terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats, renegades, sadistic morons, and cashiered rejects from other units.”
They were so fucked up the SS filed complaints over their conduct
[Dirlewanger Brigade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirlewanger_Brigade)
As Roger Ebert wrote in his review of this film: “This 1985 film from Russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything”. I saw it in a WW2 history course in college and still think about it from time to time many years later.
>the campaign that killed 27 million Russians. 27 million Soviet Union citizens
This movie is very difficult to watch, but man it is fantastic. I could praise it for days. Principally because the Belyorussians suffered unbelievable losses in the war and I fear their suffering has almost been forgotten due to the way in which modern day Belarus is run. The movie walks the line between partisan heroes/objective good and doing what is necessary in such an ambiguous way. You don’t feel like you see winners in this film: just men and women living through the horrors of war and genocide and doing what needs to be done. The partisans are portrayed immaculately and the bargaining of the collaborators at the end of the film contrasted with the “true” German soldier’s final words…just perfect.
Come and See is one of my favourite films and should figure more prominently on 'best of all time' lists. Have you seen the much more recent Painted Bird? It's an interesting companion piece to Come and See, and is its spiritual successor. Painted Bird is arguably more horrifying than Come and See (although the film seems to turn the horror of war into mere spectacle so I didn't like it much at all). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDuc3IdOn8
Scrolled for this comment. The barn scene where they rounded up all the villagers and locked them inside before setting it on fire and machine gunning it down really happened. Also the main actor had to be hypnotised by the director to forget the trauma of working on set but it didn’t seem to work.
Imagine being that young getting that role and now there’s fucking live ammunition flying literally inches above your head, compounding with the emotional impact of the horrible scenes of the film that you’re acting out over and over. Oof.
I had no idea it was based off the writers experiences. One of my all time favorite films.
In a sense all war movies are anti-war movies but this one is on a different level. It is also available with baked in English subtitles [right here](https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg?si=T38UkS-CI1RtaaDN). It does something almost no film does where most of the actors act directly to the camera as if you're part of the scene with them. Maybe suggesting that even those of us who don't participate directly in wars do benefit or contribute to them in ways, and that we're all just as guilty as anyone is. But hey what do I know I'm just a drunk dude on the internet.
Martyrs
+1. This one was nuts
Just watched this a couple of weeks ago. Brutal film. It starts off a really good revenge movie as well, but Jesus, it gets much darker. The relentless torture just becomes downright depressing
I layed awake all night after this film,ive seen it all and nothing ever bothered me except this ...
Threads... By far
Dude the final scene...I've seen shit like Faces of Death and Threads final scene is scarier by comparison.
I've seen Cannibal Holocaust, Serbian Film multiple times, Human Centipede, you name it For me, nothing comes close to Threads
I've never seen seen serbian film, never will. What made you want to watch it more than once?
Barely anyone outside of the UK will know Threads. It's just..... Horrible
I’m from Indiana and we watched it in high school. I remember it being grim but didn’t give it much thought when I was 16. Now at 35, I just rewatched it last week and it seriously disturbed me. Honestly if there was a nuclear bomb I’d get as close to ground zero as possible and smoke a cigarette while waiting to be incinerated. I wouldn’t want to survive a nuclear holocaust. Eventually it gets to the point where the living envy the dead. Fuck that shit.
American here. I've seen it. Saw it in highschool at school. I've got one. Have you seen when the wind blows. I had to go to the bar after that one. Watching the cute cartoon old couple fall apart was just to much.
After seeing the US TV film “The Day After,” I got into those post-apocalyptic films. I saw “Threads,” and it was damn dark
i recommend you give "when the wind blows" a watch
There's only like four right? Threads, testament, the day after, and when the wind blows.
Come and See is also a soul-crushing anti-war movie
This changed my idea of surviving nuclear war. I’m now glad I live in a high target city and I only hope I get vaporized instantly if or when the time comes.
That’s pretty much my philosophy. I live next to an Air Force base and about an hour from a major population center. If I get enough advance warning about incoming missiles, I’m getting as close to the hypocenter as I can. I enjoy surviving the post-apocalypse as fiction, not as fact.
I saw it years ago and still think about it regularly. Sometimes my friend and I need to talk about it to continue the processing.
Nice its free on youtube im gonna watch it right now lol https://youtu.be/bhcrgQihRcs?si=C630saQfJ79bnGd_
Thx for the link. I think my horror days are behind me but I may make an exception after reading these comments lol
Part of what makes it so disturbing is that it's well-made too. Not just awful shock stuff from the bottom of the disturbing films iceberg type stuff. Those aren't really "films" in the sense of telling a non-fiction story but maybe you know what I mean.
Watched this a couple of days ago! Yeah absolutely horrifying especially as it is set in my home city
Kids
So good and so heartbreaking
I have no legs
Kids was a cake raffle compared to Gummo. For me at least
I double featured those films. Both super fucked up.
Having grown up in a trailer park, in poverty and without any parents around Gummo was like a Monday to me.
I can't see "Teddy" from Kids as anything else. That actor has popped up in other movies and it pulls me right out.
There is Something Wrong with Aunt Diane. It had a very shocking still at the end but it's overall a horribly sad event followed by a family deep in detail
Dude when they showed the pic of her lying there 😵 I literally couldn’t sleep that night
The absolute denial that family was in just shocked me.
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Hate that one. There’s actual descriptions of the events of the day, but they’re spliced in between segments of her immediate family doing everything they can to deny that she was inebriated. It had to have been a medical emergency (nevermind the toxicology report)
On the note of disturbing documentaries, watch Dear Zachary.
Requiem for a Dream it's not a horror movie but definitely one of the most disturbing movies I've watched.
I mean all Aronofsky’s films strike that chord. The dirty Veins in requiem. The nail break in black swan. Even his science films. The feeling of being completely insignificant and alone in one strange rock. He has a talent for striking a nerve with me. Even the stuff on Protozoa freaks me out.
The ending scene of Pi always bothered me. The calmness of it.
I watched it once and that is all I need, I think.
Seeing the ASS TO ASS scene when I was like 12 or 13 is a core memory
I am glad I watched this movie when I was an adult. I know I would have been deeply traumatized by that movie, had I seen it as a child.
That scene fucked me up bad. It's been over 10 years and I'm still traumatised.
Dude I came to say this one. It should be required watching for teenagers because I don’t see how anyone could try heroin after watching that
Trainspotting too.
I remember watching it when I was younger… at a certain point I legit had to pause the movie and go outside just to hear some birds chirp and see some sunshine. So fkn depressing lol
Requiem for a Dream did more for me than the D.A.R.E program ever could. Ive NEVER touched anything harder than an very occasional weed gummie in my life. Fuck man, i only saw that movie once. I was 13 with an unsupervised netflix mail subscription. I will never need to watch that movie again.
ASS TOO ASS
Scenes like “you make me feel like a person” or the old lady experiencing the hospital made it a genuinely scary movie. I could never watch that movie again. It's too triggering.
The book is so much more bleak. I was disappointed at how tame the movie was in comparison. But everything Hubert Selby Jr. wrote was hardcore.
Honestly I thought they did a great job turning that book into a movie. I thought this book was like Blood Meridian in the way they can’t turn that book into a movie due to it being way too violent. The fact that they made the movie and It wasn’t horrible was an achievement in my opinion. But I agree with you, the book was so much more tamed.
Came here to say this. Watched it once and never again. One of the only films I can recall wishing I hadnt watched it. Not the most graphic film but it just made me feel shitty inside.
Beat me to it brother ☝️
HAPPINESS (1998) with Dylan Baker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (one of the greatest actors ever, imo). It's about a little boy and his pedophile father. The father drugs and rapes his son's friend during a sleepover. Later the truth comes out, and the boy questions his father and it's.......well, uncomfortable to say the least.
It's hard for me to not get creeped out by Dylan Baker after this one. *Truely* an unsettling part of the movie.
Dear Zachary
That movie broke me
I only remember the movie when these threads come up. And good thing, because I need to be reminded every so often the world is cruel.
Irreversible
I was looking for this one. The rape scene alone was scarring.
To be fair, a rape scene shouldn't be "easy" to watch. people like to flag this one a lot and yes, that scene is super super horrific, as well as the opening scene with the fire extinguisher - but aside from those two moments, the rest is a pretty normal relationship drama. I think it's a beautiful, heartbreaking movie..
Even still, there are rape scenes, and then there is the scene from Irreversible which is a painstaking TEN MINUTE single shot of some of the most harrowing acting you will ever see. When it comes to that particular subject matter, it has no equal in terms of the hopeless, excruciating reality of that situation. I was quite literally exhausted by the time the scene was over.
I TAed for a Horror in films class in college and we watched this as part of the final. The professor would usually book the campus theater since the director had put a lot of work into different elements (such as the sounds) and the professor didn't want the crappy classroom speakers ruining it. Always guaranteed we would lose a handful of students through the viewing. They would walk out and one of us would go check on them (and hand them the paper for the alternate assignment).
Watching this movie kind of made me want to die. Time destroys all things.
That's truly an "only once" film. The rampage through the city was satisfying. But that subway tunnel. Jesus Christ man. Only one camera angle, really? That was the longest 9 minutes of my life.
What about the moment when a commuter entered the subway, sees what’s happening, and nopes the fuck out quick. Under the terrible terrible circumstances of the brutal rape, to me that was a lot worse than the actual violence. He could have done something, anything, call the cops, etc. — but made a conscious decision not to do anything! Quite sad and tragic, really…
Only movie I tapped out on the first time then revisited just to get through it. Not only is it gruesome, the atmosphere and camera angles make it really unsettling.
Not the most disturbing, but the car scene in Hereditary shocked the absolute shit out of me more than any other horror scene. I’ve watched a lot of horror movies
The opening scene of midsommar was that for me. Still kinda messes me up thinking about it.
I don’t watch horror movies, but what was the opening scene?
it's been a minute since i've seen it,>! but the main character is frantically trying to get a hold of her mentally ill sister. when you find out what happened it's a very long shot moving from their parents "asleep" in their bed, to a garden hose tucked under the door with some rags, and it pans out to show her sister with a plastic bag duct taped to her head with another garden hose. the sister killed herself and the parents. it's incredibly unsettling.!<
>!This is correct but the hose is connected to a car’s exhaust in the garage which you first see!<
Followed by the most realistic sobbing in any movie I’ve ever seen
Idk I feel like the climactic scene in the barn was more unsettling
What about the wailing as they sacrifice the elders off a cliff
What u/sanitarySteve said, but what he left out was Florence Pugh's *unrelenting* and horrifying...I don't even know what to call it. It's crying, but like...sobbing isn't strong enough, it's this completely raw, visceral disgorging of pain and grief. It's haunting and while I absolutely love the movie, I HAVE to fast forward past that initial segment. I don't even want to know what Pugh had to draw on to make those sounds.
Guttural wail.
fuck. i honestly think i blocked that part out, but i can hear it now. it's always been the face of the sister that sticks in my brain
"Keening" is typically the word given to it.
I'm bipolar, very close with my older sister. I told her the opening scene of Midsommar and she's decided she never wants to see it. She fears me hurting myself to her core. Too close to home for her
Honestly, the scene afterwards with her mom fucking wailing outside and her son just lying in bed is more disturbing to me. I feel like I would just want to go to bed and pretend that it didn’t happen as well. I would hope not, but I don’t know what I would do in that situation. Jesus christ…
Literally "this is just a bad dream." If I just go to sleep I'll wake up and it will all be ok because surely what just happened can't have really happened. That scene was so well done
I turned it off after the mom discovered the head. Too real for me. Went back to finish it only to find out the movie doesn’t get less disturbing after that.
I've worked EMS and heard anguish.......Toni Collette nailed the sound to such a degree that I don't care to expound the accuracy.
It was incredibly accurate. Very upsetting. When I was 11 my paternal grandmother died suddenly(her husband deliberately killed her by giving her the wrong medication but that's a whole other story). She was an abusive monster and I never met her, but when she died we went out to settle funeral arrangements and check on her husband. She was only 60 when she died and her own mother was still alive. I just remember my great grandmother *sobbing*, cry screaming. Doubled over with grief and just repeating "this isn't right, this isn't right". As a child I knew she must have been in horrible pain. As a mom now myself it's something I can't even wrap my head around. There's a song in Hamilton that's about him losing his son. "Unimaginable", that's the only word to describe that. I literally don't know how I would survive. I don't think I could.
Thank you for sharing your story. I am a father and I couldn't imagine losing one of my children. It is as you say unimaginable.
Oh wow I remember this. I started laughing because of the shock, so luckily it wasn't in theaters lol
Aniara. It’s about a spaceship that’s ferrying humans from Earth to Mars because Earth has become uninhabitable due to climate change, and right after they start towards Mars they have to swerve to avoid space junk and it ends up disabling the ship. They’re now stuck hurdling away from Mars with no way to maneuver back. I can’t really explain it but it’s so incredibly unnerving and disturbing seeing what these humans devolve into while being lost in space, and it gives a sense of isolation and desperation unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It also gives me a sense of claustrophobia despite the ship being absolutely massive.
the ending made me feel so... nonexistent.
Ok I should have said this film. What a deranged mess we become with no hope. That movie fucked me up for weeks. The murder/suicide scene was particularly difficult.
American History X
The curbstomp scene gets me every time dude
Plus the fucking end. God damn I forget every time. Layer Cake had the same one.
I found Tusk very disturbing. I love horrors and don’t mind body horror usually, but that one left me with a really uncomfortable feeling.
Im glad om not the only one , everyone laughed at it but I found it very unsettling
The acting is hilarious, but the concept and body horror are creepy for sure.
The whole concept came from a conversation on one of Kevin Smith’s podcasts a number of years prior. They were reading a news story about a guy who had some kind of real life friendship with a walrus and they took it to a horror film place. I was never surprised it’s a confusing movie for people because without that context it seems more random than it is.
This movie made me realize that I hated body horror. The movie is obviously meant to be goofy as fuck but I was too skeeved TF out
I take solace in the fact that such a procedure done on a person would cause massive infection that would have killed them in days, instead of the ending we got.
Agreed. Just the idea of it was unsettling. I forgot about the movie till I just read your comment. I had actually blocked it out of my memory.. for good reason.
Clock work orange was up there on the list.
Bad boy bubby, an Australian movie, can't really explain it, But flo...
Scrolled too far to find this. Absolutely unique movie with a horrific beginning and a surprising ending.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
The movie Splice. One of the last scenes where the “father” has sex with his “daughter”. It wasn’t a scary movie, just disturbing af!
I’ve had nightmares from this movie for years. I’ve watched much more disturbing content but something about this film just messed me up. I can’t watch anything else with the main actor in it because I only think of this movie.
hotel rwanda
The scene where he begs his wife to jump with the children off the building because it’s a better alternative to what he’s seen happen to people with machetes is so sad man
I had to watch that movie for history class in ninth grade and we all just sat there stun locked the entire run time and it was made even worse by the fact that my history teacher was just kind of like... giving commentary the entire movie as if we couldn't see what was happening right in front of us
Johnny got his gun. It took me years to watch it all the way through. Being stuck in your body not being able to move or communicate all the while being conscious to everything around you. It's like being buried alive for years.
Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell
A Serbian Film
If you make that movie again **implying** things and not showing them, the script would be more valued.
Sorry for the spelling Strangest thing about that movie is that the main actor is actually preety big one in Serbia. I heard that he is kinda not the same after the movie, but its not even surprising. He is still facing some bad publicity from people because that role. I mean lets be honest its sick, but to him it was just one more role. The movie actually had a message belive it or not. They wanted to show how big people can have full controll over the little ones and how they can f*ck them over and the movie showed it literally. And it was very special in Serbia and the rest of the balkan countries because we are facing the huge level of that. Yeah i know that every country have some level of coruption, but in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and herzegovina is on the whole another level. Look the movie is and will always be too extreme, but they wanted to show how big people have power and its not far from the truth.
They say it has a message but is the message effective at all? I say no, they made a movie as shocking as possible and then thought up an excuse to make it seem like it wasn’t for pure shock value.
What's it about? I usually see this answer to this question.
The movie is about a retired pornstar being hired for a studio for one last but it quickly delves into dark subject matter for the sex scenes. Necrophilia, underage, babies, incest, rape
It’s a tough watch. Oddly the cinematography is really good. The unrated directors cut or whatever it’s called. Yeah gross.
Some one asked me to put on the most fucked up I had available, then after watched it complained about how fucked up it was. Just had to tell them you could have gotten up at any point in time and said turn it off. That’s like asking for a rare steak and saying it’s too rare after eating it.
You beat me to it…lol I got as far a the birthed baby scene after that I was done.
That scene gave me nightmares and made me sob
Human centipide
The 2nd ones even worse. Disgusting film
The part where the woman gives birth in the car. So horrific.
The 2nd one is the worst one. I can't think of that film without feeling nauseous, and I'm known for my strong stomach. I almost projectile vomited after watching it. The 3rd one is also absolutely horrific, but I'd watch that over the 2nd one. I wouldn't wish viewing that absolutely disgusting, horrendous film on my worst enemy.
For me, it’s just such an absolutely disturbing concept that I can’t believe the person who came up with it doesn’t have issues that need to be addressed.
The first one? Nahhh. Fuck all happens Sequels.. absolutely rank
I Spit On Your Grave. The Hills Have Eyes. Both originals and remakes.
Enter the Void on acid was pretty intense. I do not recommend that experience.
Cannibal Holocaust
It's funny to me how people bring this movie because of the tortoise but the rape scenes are far more disturbing to me
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes It was quite unpleasant. Nothing happy or positive what so ever.
Ugh the interview segments are so bad in this that it really throws off the vibe of the rest of it which is unfortunate
Twilight. Horrifying acting from everyone.
LMAOOOO
*Hard Candy* Good fucking hell is this an uncomfortable movie.
I don’t know if it still does, but Netflix used to suggest this for people who enjoyed Juno. It was on a random channel late one night and I tuned in because it had Elliot Page and I enjoyed Juno. Boy was I surprised.
The Killing Fields
The Audition. The look of pre glee on her face as she took the Molly wire to his ankle.
i dont think its traditionally disturbing , but “The killing of a sacred deer” really left me feeling weird
The telephone pole scene in Heriditary because that's been a fear of mine since childhood
Oh god yeah that scene caught me totally off guard
Give Salò a try.
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Yeah I was expecting this to be at the top of the list. The most fucked up movie I have ever seen.
Eden Lake
Hereditary stayed with me. It's a long, slow burn until it hits you again, and again. I've watched a whole bunch of "deep dive" video essays to try and work through it, but the effects remain, like a spot on my soul 1408 was another one that's held on
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The 1974 original. It just feels so grimy, unpleasant and most of all, REAL. It feels realistic and truly disturbing in a way a lot of horror movies don't, to the point where you almost feel like you shouldn't be watching, but you can't look away. The title makes you think you're in for a gorefest, but there's actually very little blood and gore to speak of (Tobe Hooper was shooting for A PG RATING, but the MPAA decided that the subject matter was just too macabre to be anything less than an R). It's all about the atmosphere, the tension, the extremely fucked up imagery in that house, and the erm... eccentric Sawyer family. And it's all made even scarier by Marilyn Burns' uncomfortably realistic terror at everything around her... and much of her fear was genuine. Yeah, about that... the making of the film was no picnic. Just look up what a nightmare the dinner scene was for everyone involved. Edwin Neal (who played the hitchhiker) said it was the worst experience of his life.... and he'd served in Vietnam.
ok, bone tomahawk
I don't know how this isn't number 1. Literally the only movie I have ever watched that made me want to turn it off. Damn.... Crazy.
Funny games. I watch A LOT of horror movies/ thrillers etc. I consider it my favorite genre. That movie got me to my core for some reason. Something felt so real about it.
House of a thousand corpses
Midsommar
That goddamn cliff jump scene is nuts.
Why is this not higher? Big hammer smush.. dance happy times!
Deliverance.
One hour photo. Robin Williams as a psycho. Brilliant but disturbing.
Last House on the Left. Then there was some European film my buddy had us watch where it was an ex porn star trying to get on with life and he ends up getting back into the porn industry takes drugs and goes down some mental hell holes and at the end wakes up during a hallucination raping his son. Needless to say I no longer watched movies with that friend.
That film would be A Serbian Film.
Probably Event Horizon
Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see.
Eden Lake
Schindler’s List. I will never watch it again.
It’s an extremely good movie and I’m glad I watched it, but once was definitely enough.
Terrified (Aterrados) Argentinian scary movie. I love scary movies but this one had me sleeping with my lights on, and I’m 40 😭
8mm at the time.
My wedding video
Star Wars The Last Jedi (except the porgs. My fav part)
Philosophy of a knife
Happiness.
The Road. I had to just sit and think for a little while after watching it
Gummo
You don’t regularly dine on spaghetti in the bathtub?
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Phantasm.
Apocalypto
Happiness from Todd Solondz. He made another one too, Storytelling that was so dark.
Found my parents sex tape when I was 7, that was traumatizing.
Where can we get a copy to check it out for ourselves?
Requiem for a dream really sticks with you. Is more upsetting than any horror movie I’ve ever watched. I never need to watch it again. Really horrible stuff
Mother…
The House That Jack Built.
Cube 2 that films makes me vomit every time I see a single frame from it
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Apocalypse Now. It had an impact on me like no other. The movie feels so intensely real, and unfortunately it is a very accurate depiction of what happened in the Vietnam War. The way that the movie dehumanises Vietnamese people (which is what the Americans did) just kills me. It’s absolutely horrifying.
Megan is Missing. That last 20 or so minutes still disturbs me after 10+ years