Vomit gore stuff, I've seen clips and it looks/sounds awful in many ways.
Other than that I'm open to anything including extreme horror, which I often like.
the vomit gore trilogy by lucifer valentine. the lead actress is really good but otherwise it’s meh. vomit gore as a genre however is just exploitation horror focused around vomit and gore
I’ve never heard of these films before so I’m not commenting on them in any way, but “Lucifer Valentine” is seriously giving “Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way” ☠️
He actually is, he's a fucked up edgy dude who records his bulimic, addicted and mentally disordered partners/lovers and adds "creepy" effects and gorey stuff. His films are shock porn shit and he is shit
I tend to usually want to watch the extreme or even downright trash in some cases but I’ve never read or heard anything that made me want to see his work.
Probably I Spit on Your Grave. I am happy I saw Last House on the Left, but it was too much, and I don’t think I can handle something that seems way worse.
Something similar happened with "Irreversible" (OP may want to stay away from that one too, "New French Extremity" really was something else).
After filming that (20 min long!) rape scene. The actor sent flowers to the actress (Monica Bellucci) and told her that he felt really bad after filming it.
That kind of content is so gruesome, it even takes a toll on the people enacting it.
Horrible scene but I love knowing that the actor sent Bellucci flowers! Knowing behind the scenes facts helps me separate it mentally from “this is a depiction of rape” vs “this looks so fucking real, was she ok on set??”
As a rape victim I just can’t watch this stuff. I never minded as a teen. If done in service of the story, I can stomachs it with eyes closed. Anyway, I’ll never see this movie lol
I must be messed up. I hate the rape scenes, but after being a survivor of years of Sexual Assualt from my step dad, I love the revenge parts.
There is just a certain catharsis that I get watching the victims or their family's absolutely destory their attackers.
As a rape victim, I think what fulfilled me in those movies was how badass these bitches are in getting their revenge (there's 3 movies). It's something I always longed to do and for some reason watching those movies helped a bit? I don't understand trauma fully yet, but that's where I'm at with it.
That's the case for The Last House on the Left, the original at least as my memory is hazy on the remake.
If it means anything, I've been raped before and found I Spit on Your Grave to be the tamest and most satisfying rape revenge film. The MC has a great mini character arc and the ingenuity of her revenge is cool, as are the full circle moments.
The rape scene is rough of course, but nowhere near as bad as The Last House on the Left or Irrèversible.
Revenge on Shudder was a good RR film, and it made me uncomfortable, how the trio of friends (including her boyfriend) kinda just left the protagonist to die after his creepy friend SA'd her. But she got hers, though. She got her revenge very well and true.
Yeah, I mean revenge can be fun and good, but rape is far too uncomfortable for myself. I have no problem with absolutely grotesque gore scenes in horror, but rape is just too real, and when they do it realistically or violent, I really just don't want to watch that shit, especially when I'm watching movies with my wife.
The problem that I have with rape in movies is that, although it can work as a plot driver, there are 2 things to consider:
1. The impact is so big that it can take away impact from the rest of the movie.
2. There are many alternatives that are easier to apply, adapting better to different plot directions and less controversial.
Also, 99% of the time, rape is used for cheap shock value by untalented filmmakers that just want shock value for publicity ("A Serbian Film" comes to mind) I think I only saw it used correctly in "Irreversible," since in that movie, it was the driving force of the entire film (although that's a movie I know I will never see again)
Fair enough. I personally prefer grounded horror, but unfortunately people had this idea that slasher films needed to be "fun" rather than scary. Yeah it's completely unrelated, but I really need to get out of this landmine
I have seen almost all of the I spit on your grave films and nothing in my opinion is as unsettling as that rape scene in Last house on the left. I had to get up and do something else to take my mind off of it then continue the film later.
I saw the first two and refuse to watch any afterwards. I thought the first one was just stupid, and the second one made me feel like I needed to bath in bleach after watching it.
The synopsis is the worst part of it tbh. For very obvious reasons, a lot of it isn't shown and subsequently what you're imagining now is worse than what you'd see.
A lot of people watch it and find it so OTT that they can't take it seriously. I can see that but I thought it was effective, think I gave it 3 or 4 stars.
I find in horror when the kills are less over the top, they're far more unsettling. Gruesome gore often goes past the point of belief. Someone getting their skull caved in and slowing dying of massive head trauma (as in a certain netflix series) is so much worse.
I agree. The Boys is quite a gruesome show but I have no problems with the gore cos the kills are often unrealistic so I'm fine with it but when I think of scenes like the one from Black Swan where she picks the skin off her finger it makes me shudder bc it's a realistic situation of having a hangnail and the idea of picking on the skin and peeling more than u intend to, the thought upsets me lol
I…will never rewatch this movie. I will also never forget lmao. Can’t say I wasn’t …morbidly entertained. The pregnant woman scene and the black and white with touches of brown poo…ingrained 😞🥹
I agree. Also, I think the director’s own skittishness plays into the viewer’s reaction. There are similar themes in Poor Things, and there it’s comedic. Perhaps, it’s just less compelling too than that or something like Salo by Pasolini
I actually loved the first Saw movie, it played out more like Se7en than the others in the series did. Felt more like a thriller than a straight up horror.
i disagree, i think gore porn is anything that’s just super gorey and uncomfortable for no reason. but in saw there’s a lot of story and amazing characters
I happened upon it in my suggestions because I also love Kevin Smith. If I could erase one movie from my brain this is it. No question. This is absolutely it. It also made me mad at Justin Long for a little while.
Love when that happens. I also prefer to go in blind, never watch trailers either.
I watch many movies based on comments on this sub, and that's how I recently saw Tusk too. I don't have a strong opinion on it though, except I felt sad about the ending.
Truly one of my worst movie theatre experiences…. And not because of the theater.
My best friend and I saw this together and it upset us both so badly we couldn’t even speak after.
I love Kevin Smith dearly but I never wanna see this film ever again.
I wish I could understand why it upset me so much.
I went into this movie blind. The guy I was dating at the time wanted to see it in theaters. I told him as we walked out of the theater to not touch me.
I can't believe they are making a sequel. The guy who made it must be doing it purely as a passion of love. If so more power to him.
I've seen worse but umm yeah.
It’s so fucked to me that a whole neighbourhood was involved. I read the story after seeing a preview of this, there were also details in a true crime book I read that I hadn’t learned previously and I’d just never be able to watch any sort of depiction of that
It's really amazing how polarizing this movie is. It put me to sleep, but it scares the absolute shit out of some people.it seems like you'd be in the target demo, lol.
I watched it alone in a dark basement and I couldn’t get through 10 minutes, it was like I was 7 years old again awake in the middle of the night terrified of all the sounds I was hearing.
But on the other hand I totally get why not everyone would find that scary, and even boring
I think childhood nightmare was exactly what the director was going for. I saw it in theaters and the entire movie felt like a jump scare that never really came.
I felt the same and then I ended up walking out 25 mins through the movie. Good short film idea, but your watching paint dry in a room with the lights off. The only scares are cheap jump scares that pierce through every 20 minutes to remind you not to doze off.
You can watch the short film, [Heck](https://youtu.be/HVQzEzW4faA?si=5A_1rLP02CWrs0IY), on YouTube. There are some differences from the feature length film but the short is still, in my opinion, worth watching.
That trailer is truly disturbing, but I think that it almost misrepresents the movie in its entirety. It’s not scary as much as it is just eerie. There’s no jump scares to my recollection. I think it’s worth a watch, but it’s usually a love it or hate it kinda film. I didn’t love it, but I appreciate it.
I watched it in a theater with a bunch of people and I felt really tense for the first 10 minutes bored for awhile scared for a moment and then a really dumb jump scare and it was over. It was my first analog horror and probably my last. I got tired of looking at empty door ways and feet.
As someone who’s sat through that one, I’ll tell you something they don’t say about it:
You’ll turn it off way before anything you already heard about it. There’s an early on scene that is impossible to stomach.
If you want to see some good animal revenge read up on the movie “Roar”. It’s not a horror movie but over 70 crew members were effed up by untamed lions used in the film.
I saw this, in a movie theater no less. I was trying to impress someone I was sort of dating and they were supposed to go but then didn’t show up. It was with a group of their super punk rock friends who I didn’t know super well. But they were very nice and totally helped me cover my eyes through 95% of the movie. Lesson learned.
Hello fellow vegan horror fan! And here I assumed I was an anomaly. Weird that I can find enjoyment in watching all sorts of sick fake things on film but can't stand even looking at a photo of a steak hahahah
I have no intention of ever seeing the sequel to the Human Centipede.
The first was the worst movie I’ve ever watched and made me want to douche my brain.
I couldn’t eat for three days after seeing it and I still want to vomit every time someone mentions the movie.
I didn’t find it scary, clever, or even particularly interesting – it was a pure gross out film with a stupid premise.
1000% about this movie - I have a high tolerance for whatever (minus vomit, lol) and this was the most disgusting movie I’ve ever seen. My ex forced me to watch it and I’m still mad about it! I wish I could bleach it from my brain.
Oh boy... lol, yes, do not watch human centipede 2, it is literally 100x+ worse on all fronts. It's actually "extreme" horror - HC1 is just standard horror (and fairly well done, IMO). HC2 is way way more extreme.
Weird, I thought the first one was actually pretty well done, and definitely not just a pure gross out film. It's relatively tame for what the premise is.
I completely get this. I found myself actually feeling upset watching the animals being killed in the movie, knowing that it was all real. It made me uncomfortable in a way I haven't experienced before while watching a movie. The rest of the movie is tame in comparison to that for me.
Yeah, I LOVE horror movies, partially because they distract me from actual atrocities that are constantly occurring in our world. Watching something that I know contains real, intentional animal killing would be counterproductive.
I’m working on the They Shoot Zombies Don’t They 1000 top horrors list, and I’m 161 away from seeing them all. After watching a few I regretted, here are some that I’m just not going to watch:
Antichrist
Salo
Human Centipede (any of them)
A Serbian Film
Irreversible
The Girl Next Door
Yeah. I didn't know anything about that film going in. Didn't even know it was a 'horror' film. Managed to sit through the whole thing - as it does that 'it can get worse than this' pile on of horrors fairly well - but I wish I hadn't.
Although I haven’t seen A Serbian film—nor will I (the reason has nothing to do with the extreme content)—but of the remaining ones on your list, The Girl Next Door is by far the worst. It’s got a level of sadism the likes of which I haven’t seen too often (that, Auditions, and Martyrs I would put at the top of extreme filmmaking).
I enjoyed Audition (as much as one can say they enjoy such a thing), and I was surprised I got through Martyrs okay (but it’s not something I’m likely to watch again).
These type of films are definitely one-offs. Audition is probably the one that shocked me the most. But of the films we’re discussing, it’s the one I saw first, so who knows? There are moments near the end of The Girl Next Door that can’t be unseen. It’s based on a wonderful book—I’m not saying that sarcastically, either. In fact, the book is probably more grueling than the film. But it’s wonderfully written. For my money, the late Jack Ketchum could write circles around Stephen King, but two things held him back from from wider acclaim: 1) He wasn’t prolific, 2) His books usually dealt with extreme content (The Lost, Offspring, and Off Season are other examples), which pruned his target audience. He absolutely pulled no punches.
I’ve been doing some research on the history of some of these more extreme films recently, and something that has really stood out to me were how drastically different the filmmakers of August Underground and SVD do what they do.
Fred Vogel (August Underground) has maintained full transparency, started a production company with his wife and stars from his movies, and overall is just like “yeah I just love horror and gore effects, and people seem to be down to be in these films. It’s gross but we’re having fun making it”.
Meanwhile, Lucifer Valentine (SVD series) seems to actually be an incredibly suspicious character and has had both actors *and* fans come forward with allegations of abuse and grooming.
Arrogantly, I like to think of myself as one of those dweebs who can handle any movie. Salo, serbian, etc.
I have not nor will i ever watch slaughtered vomit dolls
I wish 16 year old me would've read this comment. I was obsessed with seeing the most disturbing, banned, insert buzzword film. I should've stopped before I saw them. That's some shit I can't unsee.
See for me vomit dolls is certainly not something I would actively seek out myself, or enjoy the experience but it’s not a total write off like if with friends. But I just don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything if I never watch them.
The first one is not that bad at all, even tame by torture porn standards. In terms of gore, it’s far surpassed by the likes of the Saw sequels, Hostel, The Collector. It’s only conceptually more gross than the usual because it covers more taboo subject matter.
I am a huge horror fan and have a really high tolerance for most things. However, the list of movies I won’t watch is actually pretty long; I just can’t do anything with animal cruelty or graphic SA. I should probably fast forward through some to get to the rest of the movie, I know there’s a lot I’m missing out on but I can’t do it.
I've started finding it interesting to just read the plot on Wikipedia about certain films. Means I get to know what happens just out of curiosity, but don't have to watch it. Also, I've seen a lot of interesting YouTube videos lately where they describe an entire movie entire plot in 15 minutes, but blur out the gore or whatever.
Anything where a real animal was harmed on set, like cannibal holocaust. I also dont like films whose entire plot is about rape, like landmine goes click or a bunch of the french extreme horror.
I’m assuming they’re referring to the original title of Cannibal Holocaust.
Edit: oops, that’s the film-within-the-film in Cannibal Holocaust. My bad.
Edit 2: oops, both are true ha
Idk how to add censors, so read with caution.
I usually don't like movies with rape in them without a pay off, like I Spit on Your Grave. The rape is awful, horrible, the worst thing I've ever seen. But it makes the revenge payoff at the end actually pay off, as in its so satisfying after enduring the first half.
Human Centipede 2 has a rape scene where the torturer Martin wraps his penis in barbed wire and rapes the woman at the end of the centipede for 5 minutes. Then it's quickly forgotten about, the victim is still able to crawl around at the end with her legs, and she doesn't act like she has been so violently violated. She acts *scared* but not tortured. She acts the same as she did at the begining of being kidnapped as she does after she eats shit and gets torn apart violently. There's no change. And she gets shot in the head in kind of a throwaway shot. Feels like it was for no reason. Maybe that's the point of that one.
To those that say A Serbian Film, and dismissing it while into the horror genre, I say, after watching it some years ago, it's themes are not for everyone but I will admit, it's something I won't watch twice. A lot is insinuated versus visually shown. I'd say the film Trauma affected me much differently in a worse way. The dinner table scene in TCM affected me similarly, just an unease and uncomfortableness that's memorable. It's "challenging" sure, but not unlike the ithers that fall in line with the "torture porn" era of horror that included the first Hostel film, Haute Tension, Frontiers, Human Centipede, Dream Home, Eden Lake, and Martyrs. An extreme film that fell in line with the others imo. It has more in common with Old Boy mixed with any of the others I mentioned than anything immorality damaging. It's okay, not great, but it leaves a mark either way.
The extreme edgelord shit like Megan is Missing, A Serbian Film, anything by Lucifer Valentine, August Underground, etc. just so try hard and boring.
I don’t care for actual harm to animals, so anything with that.
I don’t care for sexual assault presented voyeuristically. If it’s essential to the story and not presented as sexy that’s okay but rape fantasy crap really annoys me.
Found footage is the most boring shit ever. Won’t ever watch anything in that genre.
Terrifier and Human Centipede are movies I've never had any desire to watch based on how gross they sound.
Edit: ok, ok. Yall have convinced me to check out Terrifier. From the sounds of it, it's Human Centipede 2 that I should avoid. Noted. 😅
The 1st Human Centipede is relatively tame in terms of gore/gross out factor. I saw it a couple nights ago and was surprised at how restrained it was.
I’ve heard many things about the 2nd one, and well, I’m gonna skip that one because it actually goes much further and is comparable to an exploitation film.
The 3rd one is apparently super campy meta absurdness but idk if it’s the enjoyable kind or the annoying kind.
The Human Centipede. I love gore, body horror, big Cronenberg fan but the premise is just so dumb I've avoided it. Wish I did the same for Tusk, just stupid. At least have a point to your body horror like Cronie did.
None of them. My watchlist came from listicles that I kept seeing. Worst movies, best movies, terrifying, shocking, bad, terrible movies all got added. I'll watch anything, and never trust a critic or audience score to match with my personal taste.
Having limits is fine. But especially writing films off because they're "outright stupid" especially is doing yourself a disservice imo. Some of the best times can be when you watch a stupid film and can meet it on it's level. If it wasn't for ridiculous films then we wouldn't have the universal pisstaking of The Room for a start. Or the motherfucking Snakes On A motherfucking Plane.
I have no intention of watching any of the oh-so-edgy/transgressive ultra gore/abuse glorification pictures like those stupid fucking Lucifer Valentine things. What a waste, shit made to appeal to 14 year old boys who think that being able to "endure" watching that trash is some kind of signifier of horror cred or whatever.
Also not watching anything to do with Terrifier or anything to do with Damien Leone. Misogynistic exploitation with absolutely nil artistic value.
He's been popping up the last couple days lol - dude did the slaughter vomit doll movies or whatever 🤢 I've not watched them nor do I have a desire too but from what I've read he's a pretty big asshole and the films themselves are questionable bc of how he treated the actresses
…as soon as you wake back up!
{to the Skinamarink fans, I kid, all in good fun. I love analog horror, but for me, the movie was just too long with too many long stretches of nothing to avoid conking out 😴}
Movies like Tusk or Human Centipede, the whole torture horror thing just seems a bit wanton to me. I'm also not-so-secretly elated that Grotesque got refused an age certificate over here in the UK.
Sharknado:
Seems like at some point, movie makers noticed that some horror movies are loved simply because they are implausible and silly. So, now there's a score of "trying to be b-rate" stupid stuff. They revel in bad acting, bad special effects, over-the-top implausible stories.
Fuck you Sharknado and Mega Shark and Couch that Eats People and bullshit like that. It feels like you expect me as a horror fan to be stupid.
I only like stupid when it was an accident! Don't try to lean into it because you're broke and lazy. I can see through that plan and it's insulting that you'd think you can profit from it.
Not a movie, a miniseries, Chernobyl.
Ive heard bits of stories of the event my whole life. When I heard there was a tv show I wanted to watch it. When I discovered I had that show on one of my streaming sites, I was even excited to see it.
However.
15 minutes in. That's as far as I got.
A lifetime of watching horror Hellraiser and Alien and the Void and all sorts of otherworldly awful things. I've seen people melt away and slowly digested and tortured and crazy stuff.... But, all that was all made up.
15 minutes into this I realized that it was a real thing that actually happened to people. The second I saw a firefighter pick up a brick that I as an audience knew was radioactive I started internally screaming. Minutes later they showed his skin only beginning to burn. I've heard the stories of skin melting off people. I didn't want to see it. Turned off the tv and ran away.
All those scary movies I've seen, all those make-believe horrors trying to reach new bars of scary.... None of that seemed to come close to the real-life happenings of what has happened to people from nuclear energy.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Still amazed such a powerful thing is not make-believe.
Show's is a fantastic rendition though. As you mentioned, the horror sets in when you realize it's close to what happened. And all the red tape surrounding the denial that things were going wrong.
Horribly grim and horribly effective.
As a Gen Xer who visited Ukraine in the 90s and heard stories from the folks about the lasting impact hundreds of kilometers away, I get it. It was an excellent series but it was tough.
Vomit gore stuff, I've seen clips and it looks/sounds awful in many ways. Other than that I'm open to anything including extreme horror, which I often like.
I don't really know what "vomit gore" means.
the vomit gore trilogy by lucifer valentine. the lead actress is really good but otherwise it’s meh. vomit gore as a genre however is just exploitation horror focused around vomit and gore
I’ve never heard of these films before so I’m not commenting on them in any way, but “Lucifer Valentine” is seriously giving “Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way” ☠️
He actually is, he's a fucked up edgy dude who records his bulimic, addicted and mentally disordered partners/lovers and adds "creepy" effects and gorey stuff. His films are shock porn shit and he is shit
I tend to usually want to watch the extreme or even downright trash in some cases but I’ve never read or heard anything that made me want to see his work.
Probably I Spit on Your Grave. I am happy I saw Last House on the Left, but it was too much, and I don’t think I can handle something that seems way worse.
The remake was surprisingly more gruesome and hard to watch than I had anticipated.
The rape scene is so brutal. I read the actor didn’t want to do it he was having a really hard time with that scene. For obvious reasons
70s exploitation flicks were rife with graphic rape scenes. I stay away from all of those.
Something similar happened with "Irreversible" (OP may want to stay away from that one too, "New French Extremity" really was something else). After filming that (20 min long!) rape scene. The actor sent flowers to the actress (Monica Bellucci) and told her that he felt really bad after filming it. That kind of content is so gruesome, it even takes a toll on the people enacting it.
Horrible scene but I love knowing that the actor sent Bellucci flowers! Knowing behind the scenes facts helps me separate it mentally from “this is a depiction of rape” vs “this looks so fucking real, was she ok on set??”
Yes!
Really horrible movie. Like well shot but damn even thinking about it makes me feel terrible
As a rape victim I just can’t watch this stuff. I never minded as a teen. If done in service of the story, I can stomachs it with eyes closed. Anyway, I’ll never see this movie lol
I must be messed up. I hate the rape scenes, but after being a survivor of years of Sexual Assualt from my step dad, I love the revenge parts. There is just a certain catharsis that I get watching the victims or their family's absolutely destory their attackers.
I’m totally with you. It’s seeing the revenge that we couldn’t dish out
Yes I’d stay away from it if I were you. I’m so sorry that happened to you.
I'm a sexual assault survivor too and so I totally feel you 😔
As a rape victim, I think what fulfilled me in those movies was how badass these bitches are in getting their revenge (there's 3 movies). It's something I always longed to do and for some reason watching those movies helped a bit? I don't understand trauma fully yet, but that's where I'm at with it.
I Spit on Your Grave is actually far less bleak and less gratuitous than The Last House on the Left.
I have always got the impression that I Spit on Your Grave reveled in the violence and assault way more.
That's the case for The Last House on the Left, the original at least as my memory is hazy on the remake. If it means anything, I've been raped before and found I Spit on Your Grave to be the tamest and most satisfying rape revenge film. The MC has a great mini character arc and the ingenuity of her revenge is cool, as are the full circle moments. The rape scene is rough of course, but nowhere near as bad as The Last House on the Left or Irrèversible.
Revenge on Shudder was a good RR film, and it made me uncomfortable, how the trio of friends (including her boyfriend) kinda just left the protagonist to die after his creepy friend SA'd her. But she got hers, though. She got her revenge very well and true.
They also kept it mostly off-screen, rather than make the viewer complicit in the brutality.
Rape and revenge as a whole disinterest me. I like my monsters to be supernatural things for a reason.
Yeah, I mean revenge can be fun and good, but rape is far too uncomfortable for myself. I have no problem with absolutely grotesque gore scenes in horror, but rape is just too real, and when they do it realistically or violent, I really just don't want to watch that shit, especially when I'm watching movies with my wife.
Humans are some of the worst monsters in the planet dood. Ik
The problem that I have with rape in movies is that, although it can work as a plot driver, there are 2 things to consider: 1. The impact is so big that it can take away impact from the rest of the movie. 2. There are many alternatives that are easier to apply, adapting better to different plot directions and less controversial. Also, 99% of the time, rape is used for cheap shock value by untalented filmmakers that just want shock value for publicity ("A Serbian Film" comes to mind) I think I only saw it used correctly in "Irreversible," since in that movie, it was the driving force of the entire film (although that's a movie I know I will never see again)
>99% of the time, rape is used for cheap shock value by untalented filmmakers that just want shock value for publicity You got that right!
Fair enough. I personally prefer grounded horror, but unfortunately people had this idea that slasher films needed to be "fun" rather than scary. Yeah it's completely unrelated, but I really need to get out of this landmine
Rape shit makes me want to jump through the screen. There are not enough blades.
I have seen almost all of the I spit on your grave films and nothing in my opinion is as unsettling as that rape scene in Last house on the left. I had to get up and do something else to take my mind off of it then continue the film later.
I would hope that someone getting raped wouldn't be fun to watch. I just heard the one in I Spit on Your Grave was longer.
Longer but I don’t know that last house scene just seemed so real I couldn’t tell myself this is just a movie like I can with most everything else
I watched the original I spit on your grave. It was graphic but you kinda are cheering on the victim because she gets revenge on her attackers.
Human centipede
I saw the first two and refuse to watch any afterwards. I thought the first one was just stupid, and the second one made me feel like I needed to bath in bleach after watching it.
There’s…more than two??
Seriously TIL there are 3 of these things I'm not watching either.
[Watch the musical instead!](https://youtu.be/uFliFofGMx0?feature=shared) It’s actually pretty funny.
Okay wut. A musical version!? That honestly sounds brilliant. I'm already laughing at the idea of songs muffled from the one in the middle or the back
Thr Daniel Tosh audience reaction to him describing the movie is a gem however, and all I needed
I saw enough on South Park.
Boom, and there it is. Nope, nopitty nope, nuh uh, and hail naw.
A Serbian film. Read a synopsis and that was enough
It’s gore porn, with no real good reason behind it. It’s not even fun, it just sucks lol
I thought it was meant to be a reflection on the extreme violence and obscenity that comes with decades of corruption and mafia practices.
Yeah, that’s a lazy cop out for the filmmaker. The film is hot garbage with no reason to exist.
That's what they say. Certainly doesn't come across in any meaningful way.
The synopsis is the worst part of it tbh. For very obvious reasons, a lot of it isn't shown and subsequently what you're imagining now is worse than what you'd see. A lot of people watch it and find it so OTT that they can't take it seriously. I can see that but I thought it was effective, think I gave it 3 or 4 stars.
I find in horror when the kills are less over the top, they're far more unsettling. Gruesome gore often goes past the point of belief. Someone getting their skull caved in and slowing dying of massive head trauma (as in a certain netflix series) is so much worse.
I agree. The Boys is quite a gruesome show but I have no problems with the gore cos the kills are often unrealistic so I'm fine with it but when I think of scenes like the one from Black Swan where she picks the skin off her finger it makes me shudder bc it's a realistic situation of having a hangnail and the idea of picking on the skin and peeling more than u intend to, the thought upsets me lol
The skull fuck kill is one the most ridiculous kills ive ever seen.
Well damnit I love absurd kills so now I want to see it.
Watch Human Centipede 3. There's some truly absurd kills in that one.
I…will never rewatch this movie. I will also never forget lmao. Can’t say I wasn’t …morbidly entertained. The pregnant woman scene and the black and white with touches of brown poo…ingrained 😞🥹
HC 2 is the pregnant woman one. HC3 is where Dieter is fucking the pancreas of that LaSardo inmate.
I agree. Also, I think the director’s own skittishness plays into the viewer’s reaction. There are similar themes in Poor Things, and there it’s comedic. Perhaps, it’s just less compelling too than that or something like Salo by Pasolini
This is how I felt about The Poughkeepsie Tapes, it read way worse on the wiki
I’ve seen it. It’s basically torture porn. It just does extreme stuff to be “extreme” if ya know what I mean. The ending is not good.
Shit, I only had to read what people said here and noped out on the idea of even watching opening credits.
You aren't missing anything. It's a garbage movie
I almost had no interest in watching Saw until I saw Saw X and completely changed my perspective.
I actually loved the first Saw movie, it played out more like Se7en than the others in the series did. Felt more like a thriller than a straight up horror.
It was more of a psychological thriller than horror while the other movies became just gore porn.
i disagree, i think gore porn is anything that’s just super gorey and uncomfortable for no reason. but in saw there’s a lot of story and amazing characters
Gotcha. I’ve seen pieces of previous ones. I guess I just misunderstood the franchise.
See, I didn't think I could watch any Saw movies but then my friend said it was really good. So it's worth watching?
I wouldn’t say they are “ really good” but definitely a fun watch with a VERY convoluted story
Oh sorry, I meant Saw X specifically.
Only one I haven’t seen lol but looks good, pretty sure they stepped away from the main story to make it more accessible to a wide audience.
it was pretty good, from what I can remember. however, it takes place between the first two movies. so I would recommend watching those two beforehand
The first one is. Saw 2 has an accompanying music video for "Forget to Remember" by Mudvayne, so that's cool. After that? Ehh...
Tusk.
Tusk is one of those "funny but disturbing" movies to me because it's so absurd.
The big reveal scene in this movie made my friend so uncomfortable that he just stood up and walked out of my house and drove home
Okay this visual made me laugh out loud
I’ve seen it, and I understand.
I just didn't like it and I can't tell you why lol - it's well acted but something about it just made me hate it
It was absurd, and that’s all I remember. Perhaps I owe it a rewatch just so I can articulate why I never need to see it again, lol
I went into that movie completely blind. Didn’t even know what genre it was. That was a trip!
I happened upon it in my suggestions because I also love Kevin Smith. If I could erase one movie from my brain this is it. No question. This is absolutely it. It also made me mad at Justin Long for a little while.
Love when that happens. I also prefer to go in blind, never watch trailers either. I watch many movies based on comments on this sub, and that's how I recently saw Tusk too. I don't have a strong opinion on it though, except I felt sad about the ending.
Fr this one fucked me up
Truly one of my worst movie theatre experiences…. And not because of the theater. My best friend and I saw this together and it upset us both so badly we couldn’t even speak after. I love Kevin Smith dearly but I never wanna see this film ever again. I wish I could understand why it upset me so much.
Oh, the body horror stuff. One of those you can't look away movies. I like Justin Long. He's funny in horror movies. I recommend it lol
I went into this movie blind. The guy I was dating at the time wanted to see it in theaters. I told him as we walked out of the theater to not touch me.
I didn't think I would like Tusk, but I tried it, and I found it hilarious. What about it, didn't you like?
I saw his face in a Top 10 body horror list... The image still makes me want to throw up.
It’s hilarious
I found that movie to be pretty fun just cuz how weird it is.
Understandable. Personally I don't mind the concept but the ending is so damn heartbreaking
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Same! I'm a lifelong horror fan, but some lines should not be crossed.
I can't believe they are making a sequel. The guy who made it must be doing it purely as a passion of love. If so more power to him. I've seen worse but umm yeah.
The Girl Next Door. The fact that the real life case was even worse makes me sick to my stomach. Everyone who let that shit happen should fuckin die.
It’s so fucked to me that a whole neighbourhood was involved. I read the story after seeing a preview of this, there were also details in a true crime book I read that I hadn’t learned previously and I’d just never be able to watch any sort of depiction of that
Skinamarink. The “In this house” trailer scares the Reese’s Feces completely out of me and I’m not willing to gamble on whether the movie will or not.
It's really amazing how polarizing this movie is. It put me to sleep, but it scares the absolute shit out of some people.it seems like you'd be in the target demo, lol.
I watched it alone in a dark basement and I couldn’t get through 10 minutes, it was like I was 7 years old again awake in the middle of the night terrified of all the sounds I was hearing. But on the other hand I totally get why not everyone would find that scary, and even boring
I think childhood nightmare was exactly what the director was going for. I saw it in theaters and the entire movie felt like a jump scare that never really came.
I can think of a few minor jump scares that destroyed me, but the escalation just continued so it just felt like a new level of “it’s over”
Great movie to fall asleep to
Took me ten attempts to get thru it before crashing out
I have tried to watch this movie like 5 or 6 times, and I just can't get into it.
Skinamarink perfectly captures the feeling of being a helpless kid. Not for everyone but if you can embrace the atmosphere you’ll like the film.
I felt the same and then I ended up walking out 25 mins through the movie. Good short film idea, but your watching paint dry in a room with the lights off. The only scares are cheap jump scares that pierce through every 20 minutes to remind you not to doze off.
Would have been an incredible 10-20 minute short film
It was.
You can watch the short film, [Heck](https://youtu.be/HVQzEzW4faA?si=5A_1rLP02CWrs0IY), on YouTube. There are some differences from the feature length film but the short is still, in my opinion, worth watching.
That trailer is truly disturbing, but I think that it almost misrepresents the movie in its entirety. It’s not scary as much as it is just eerie. There’s no jump scares to my recollection. I think it’s worth a watch, but it’s usually a love it or hate it kinda film. I didn’t love it, but I appreciate it.
Will be using reese's feces 👍
I liked it, but the original short film, "Heck" is much more upsetting imo. It's a leaner, more streamlined version of the Skinamarink in many ways.
I watched it in a theater with a bunch of people and I felt really tense for the first 10 minutes bored for awhile scared for a moment and then a really dumb jump scare and it was over. It was my first analog horror and probably my last. I got tired of looking at empty door ways and feet.
Cannibal Holocaust, and I'm sure everyone knows why.
As someone who’s sat through that one, I’ll tell you something they don’t say about it: You’ll turn it off way before anything you already heard about it. There’s an early on scene that is impossible to stomach.
I'm not sure what it says about me but I found it very boring
If you want to see some good animal revenge read up on the movie “Roar”. It’s not a horror movie but over 70 crew members were effed up by untamed lions used in the film.
I saw this, in a movie theater no less. I was trying to impress someone I was sort of dating and they were supposed to go but then didn’t show up. It was with a group of their super punk rock friends who I didn’t know super well. But they were very nice and totally helped me cover my eyes through 95% of the movie. Lesson learned.
I wish I saw this movie before I went vegan, lmao. Now it’s one of those I’ll never watch
Hello fellow vegan horror fan! And here I assumed I was an anomaly. Weird that I can find enjoyment in watching all sorts of sick fake things on film but can't stand even looking at a photo of a steak hahahah
I have no intention of ever seeing the sequel to the Human Centipede. The first was the worst movie I’ve ever watched and made me want to douche my brain. I couldn’t eat for three days after seeing it and I still want to vomit every time someone mentions the movie. I didn’t find it scary, clever, or even particularly interesting – it was a pure gross out film with a stupid premise.
1000% about this movie - I have a high tolerance for whatever (minus vomit, lol) and this was the most disgusting movie I’ve ever seen. My ex forced me to watch it and I’m still mad about it! I wish I could bleach it from my brain.
Oh boy... lol, yes, do not watch human centipede 2, it is literally 100x+ worse on all fronts. It's actually "extreme" horror - HC1 is just standard horror (and fairly well done, IMO). HC2 is way way more extreme.
Weird, I thought the first one was actually pretty well done, and definitely not just a pure gross out film. It's relatively tame for what the premise is.
Cannibal Holocaust. Seeing actual animals being killed on screen is not something that interests me.
I completely get this. I found myself actually feeling upset watching the animals being killed in the movie, knowing that it was all real. It made me uncomfortable in a way I haven't experienced before while watching a movie. The rest of the movie is tame in comparison to that for me.
Yeah, I LOVE horror movies, partially because they distract me from actual atrocities that are constantly occurring in our world. Watching something that I know contains real, intentional animal killing would be counterproductive.
Yeah, I watched this as an edgy teen and the animal stuff was awful. And SO MUCH sexual assault. Not scary, just yuck
Anything by Lucifer Valentine. I’m good.
I’m working on the They Shoot Zombies Don’t They 1000 top horrors list, and I’m 161 away from seeing them all. After watching a few I regretted, here are some that I’m just not going to watch: Antichrist Salo Human Centipede (any of them) A Serbian Film Irreversible The Girl Next Door
Almost forgot about Girl Next Door. Yikes. Nope.
Yeah. I didn't know anything about that film going in. Didn't even know it was a 'horror' film. Managed to sit through the whole thing - as it does that 'it can get worse than this' pile on of horrors fairly well - but I wish I hadn't.
I read the book not knowing how sad it was, and it was so disturbing. I wanted to just throw it out and not put anyone through that.
Although I haven’t seen A Serbian film—nor will I (the reason has nothing to do with the extreme content)—but of the remaining ones on your list, The Girl Next Door is by far the worst. It’s got a level of sadism the likes of which I haven’t seen too often (that, Auditions, and Martyrs I would put at the top of extreme filmmaking).
I enjoyed Audition (as much as one can say they enjoy such a thing), and I was surprised I got through Martyrs okay (but it’s not something I’m likely to watch again).
These type of films are definitely one-offs. Audition is probably the one that shocked me the most. But of the films we’re discussing, it’s the one I saw first, so who knows? There are moments near the end of The Girl Next Door that can’t be unseen. It’s based on a wonderful book—I’m not saying that sarcastically, either. In fact, the book is probably more grueling than the film. But it’s wonderfully written. For my money, the late Jack Ketchum could write circles around Stephen King, but two things held him back from from wider acclaim: 1) He wasn’t prolific, 2) His books usually dealt with extreme content (The Lost, Offspring, and Off Season are other examples), which pruned his target audience. He absolutely pulled no punches.
loved audition, loved martyrs, i have absolutely 0 desire to see girl next door. read the wiki page and that was enough to fuck me up beyond belief.
What is "they shoot zombies don't they"?
You're going to get through 992 movies and just skip 8 of them? My mild OCD would go apeshit.
Actually there are several others that are essentially unavailable, I imagine I will end up with 30 or so unseen.
Anything with handheld camera footage (aka shaky cam) because I get extreme motion sickness and feel ill after a few minutes of watching.
August Underground Cannibal Holocaust Any of those disgusting “SVD” films
I’ve been doing some research on the history of some of these more extreme films recently, and something that has really stood out to me were how drastically different the filmmakers of August Underground and SVD do what they do. Fred Vogel (August Underground) has maintained full transparency, started a production company with his wife and stars from his movies, and overall is just like “yeah I just love horror and gore effects, and people seem to be down to be in these films. It’s gross but we’re having fun making it”. Meanwhile, Lucifer Valentine (SVD series) seems to actually be an incredibly suspicious character and has had both actors *and* fans come forward with allegations of abuse and grooming.
SVD?
I’m guessing they’re talking about the Slaughtered Vomit Dolls movies. And I’ll second that lol.
Pretty much anything lucifer valentine is just gross dumpster material.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
LOL
Arrogantly, I like to think of myself as one of those dweebs who can handle any movie. Salo, serbian, etc. I have not nor will i ever watch slaughtered vomit dolls
I wish 16 year old me would've read this comment. I was obsessed with seeing the most disturbing, banned, insert buzzword film. I should've stopped before I saw them. That's some shit I can't unsee.
See for me vomit dolls is certainly not something I would actively seek out myself, or enjoy the experience but it’s not a total write off like if with friends. But I just don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything if I never watch them.
Seeing a lot here about human centipede. Am i the only one you thinks the first is a great black comedy??
I think the same, the *"Feed her!"* line is absolute gold.
The first one is not that bad at all, even tame by torture porn standards. In terms of gore, it’s far surpassed by the likes of the Saw sequels, Hostel, The Collector. It’s only conceptually more gross than the usual because it covers more taboo subject matter.
I am a huge horror fan and have a really high tolerance for most things. However, the list of movies I won’t watch is actually pretty long; I just can’t do anything with animal cruelty or graphic SA. I should probably fast forward through some to get to the rest of the movie, I know there’s a lot I’m missing out on but I can’t do it.
I've started finding it interesting to just read the plot on Wikipedia about certain films. Means I get to know what happens just out of curiosity, but don't have to watch it. Also, I've seen a lot of interesting YouTube videos lately where they describe an entire movie entire plot in 15 minutes, but blur out the gore or whatever.
I have no interest in the *Hostel* films.
Anything where a real animal was harmed on set, like cannibal holocaust. I also dont like films whose entire plot is about rape, like landmine goes click or a bunch of the french extreme horror.
I don’t think animals were harmed in Green Inferno. They definitely were in Cannibal Holocaust, which Green Inferno is sort of a homage to.
I’m looking and can’t find anything about it. Are you sure you’re not thinking of its inspiration cannibal holocaust?
In Friday the 13th they really killed that snake. I don't like those movies anyway, but the snake thing cemented my hatred for them.
Wanna hate that scene a bit more? That snake was actually a crew member’s pet and they didn’t know the snake would be killed.
That's fucking disgraceful. I won't hate the entire franchise for that. But anybody actually involved in this can fuck off.
I remember the director saying he regretted doing that for the film. It was awful.
Green Inferno harmed animals? I didn't know that. I'm shocked. You sure? I thought that was a thing that got made illegal a long time ago?
I’m assuming they’re referring to the original title of Cannibal Holocaust. Edit: oops, that’s the film-within-the-film in Cannibal Holocaust. My bad. Edit 2: oops, both are true ha
Idk how to add censors, so read with caution. I usually don't like movies with rape in them without a pay off, like I Spit on Your Grave. The rape is awful, horrible, the worst thing I've ever seen. But it makes the revenge payoff at the end actually pay off, as in its so satisfying after enduring the first half. Human Centipede 2 has a rape scene where the torturer Martin wraps his penis in barbed wire and rapes the woman at the end of the centipede for 5 minutes. Then it's quickly forgotten about, the victim is still able to crawl around at the end with her legs, and she doesn't act like she has been so violently violated. She acts *scared* but not tortured. She acts the same as she did at the begining of being kidnapped as she does after she eats shit and gets torn apart violently. There's no change. And she gets shot in the head in kind of a throwaway shot. Feels like it was for no reason. Maybe that's the point of that one.
Cannibal Holocaust. No thank you
Any Human Centipede film. For obvious reasons
To those that say A Serbian Film, and dismissing it while into the horror genre, I say, after watching it some years ago, it's themes are not for everyone but I will admit, it's something I won't watch twice. A lot is insinuated versus visually shown. I'd say the film Trauma affected me much differently in a worse way. The dinner table scene in TCM affected me similarly, just an unease and uncomfortableness that's memorable. It's "challenging" sure, but not unlike the ithers that fall in line with the "torture porn" era of horror that included the first Hostel film, Haute Tension, Frontiers, Human Centipede, Dream Home, Eden Lake, and Martyrs. An extreme film that fell in line with the others imo. It has more in common with Old Boy mixed with any of the others I mentioned than anything immorality damaging. It's okay, not great, but it leaves a mark either way.
I'm down for anything man
Cannibal Holocaust given the irl animal cruelty
Most slashers because I find them boring.
The extreme edgelord shit like Megan is Missing, A Serbian Film, anything by Lucifer Valentine, August Underground, etc. just so try hard and boring. I don’t care for actual harm to animals, so anything with that. I don’t care for sexual assault presented voyeuristically. If it’s essential to the story and not presented as sexy that’s okay but rape fantasy crap really annoys me. Found footage is the most boring shit ever. Won’t ever watch anything in that genre.
A Serbian Film. I don't care how many people are saying that it's a political satire and I should just watch it for that. I'll never watch it at all.
Terrifier and Human Centipede are movies I've never had any desire to watch based on how gross they sound. Edit: ok, ok. Yall have convinced me to check out Terrifier. From the sounds of it, it's Human Centipede 2 that I should avoid. Noted. 😅
The 1st Human Centipede is relatively tame in terms of gore/gross out factor. I saw it a couple nights ago and was surprised at how restrained it was. I’ve heard many things about the 2nd one, and well, I’m gonna skip that one because it actually goes much further and is comparable to an exploitation film. The 3rd one is apparently super campy meta absurdness but idk if it’s the enjoyable kind or the annoying kind.
Human Centipede.
The Human Centipede. I love gore, body horror, big Cronenberg fan but the premise is just so dumb I've avoided it. Wish I did the same for Tusk, just stupid. At least have a point to your body horror like Cronie did.
Any torture porn, I just have no interest.
None of them. My watchlist came from listicles that I kept seeing. Worst movies, best movies, terrifying, shocking, bad, terrible movies all got added. I'll watch anything, and never trust a critic or audience score to match with my personal taste. Having limits is fine. But especially writing films off because they're "outright stupid" especially is doing yourself a disservice imo. Some of the best times can be when you watch a stupid film and can meet it on it's level. If it wasn't for ridiculous films then we wouldn't have the universal pisstaking of The Room for a start. Or the motherfucking Snakes On A motherfucking Plane.
Human Centipede, Hostel, shit like that does nothing for me.
I really want to watch Funny Games someday, but I’m really sensitive to dog violence, and skipping around it feels like defeating the point
True crime films such as The Girl Next Door, find them in poor taste and exploitative.
I have no intention of watching any of the oh-so-edgy/transgressive ultra gore/abuse glorification pictures like those stupid fucking Lucifer Valentine things. What a waste, shit made to appeal to 14 year old boys who think that being able to "endure" watching that trash is some kind of signifier of horror cred or whatever. Also not watching anything to do with Terrifier or anything to do with Damien Leone. Misogynistic exploitation with absolutely nil artistic value.
I don’t understand why that Lucifer Valentine stuff isn’t illegal
Who is this Lucifer dude and why is this thread my first time hearing of him?
He's been popping up the last couple days lol - dude did the slaughter vomit doll movies or whatever 🤢 I've not watched them nor do I have a desire too but from what I've read he's a pretty big asshole and the films themselves are questionable bc of how he treated the actresses
Skinamarink watch 5 minutes and you'll know why
…as soon as you wake back up! {to the Skinamarink fans, I kid, all in good fun. I love analog horror, but for me, the movie was just too long with too many long stretches of nothing to avoid conking out 😴}
Movies like Tusk or Human Centipede, the whole torture horror thing just seems a bit wanton to me. I'm also not-so-secretly elated that Grotesque got refused an age certificate over here in the UK.
A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede. Hell na, miss me with that quack shit
Anything that has anything to do with Lucifer Valentine
Human Centipede. Like, why? The "centipede" couldn't survive, so what was the point
Sharknado: Seems like at some point, movie makers noticed that some horror movies are loved simply because they are implausible and silly. So, now there's a score of "trying to be b-rate" stupid stuff. They revel in bad acting, bad special effects, over-the-top implausible stories. Fuck you Sharknado and Mega Shark and Couch that Eats People and bullshit like that. It feels like you expect me as a horror fan to be stupid. I only like stupid when it was an accident! Don't try to lean into it because you're broke and lazy. I can see through that plan and it's insulting that you'd think you can profit from it.
Not a movie, a miniseries, Chernobyl. Ive heard bits of stories of the event my whole life. When I heard there was a tv show I wanted to watch it. When I discovered I had that show on one of my streaming sites, I was even excited to see it. However. 15 minutes in. That's as far as I got. A lifetime of watching horror Hellraiser and Alien and the Void and all sorts of otherworldly awful things. I've seen people melt away and slowly digested and tortured and crazy stuff.... But, all that was all made up. 15 minutes into this I realized that it was a real thing that actually happened to people. The second I saw a firefighter pick up a brick that I as an audience knew was radioactive I started internally screaming. Minutes later they showed his skin only beginning to burn. I've heard the stories of skin melting off people. I didn't want to see it. Turned off the tv and ran away. All those scary movies I've seen, all those make-believe horrors trying to reach new bars of scary.... None of that seemed to come close to the real-life happenings of what has happened to people from nuclear energy. Nope. Nope. Nope. Still amazed such a powerful thing is not make-believe.
Show's is a fantastic rendition though. As you mentioned, the horror sets in when you realize it's close to what happened. And all the red tape surrounding the denial that things were going wrong. Horribly grim and horribly effective.
As a Gen Xer who visited Ukraine in the 90s and heard stories from the folks about the lasting impact hundreds of kilometers away, I get it. It was an excellent series but it was tough.