re: Top Ten Most Disturbing Movies

order visitor Q

it's disturbing and fricking crazy

i almost turned it off when the visitor was milking the mom

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order visitor Q

it's disturbing and fricking crazy

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i just read the plot on wiki......definitely the craziest movie i've ever seen or heard of

I have seen almost half of the movies on this list, and I didn't think any of them disturbed me enough to be on a top 10 list. Granted I haven't seen the top 4, but I have watched A Clockwork Orange, Hard Candy, Audition, Blue Velvet and Oldboy. Audition had a couple of gruesome scenes and the plot of Oldboy is certainly meant to disgust the audience, but I wasn't emotionally invested enough in the characters for either film.

However, I watched this film called Turtles Can Fly a few months ago, and it was very disturbing.

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There is no nudity or sexuality, very little cursing, and most of the violent acts are implied. However, the film was very hard to watch. It's about a group of Kurdish kids who live in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq, in the weeks preceding the first Gulf War. Many of the kids are missing limbs because of the high number of landmines in the area. In order to earn some money for themselves, the kids look for landmines, so they can sell them to a guy who works in the black market.

A young girl (maybe 11 or 12-years old) and her slightly older brother who has no arms move to the refugee camp, and one of the older boys has a crush on her. He doesn't understand why she is so detached from the world, and why she hates her little baby brother. The audience learns that the baby is not actually her brother, but her son. Although the rest of the kids in the movie never learn this, she was raped and impregnated by Iraqi soldiers in the aftermath of her parents' death. Several times in the film she attempts to either drown the baby or throw him off of a cliff.

If that's not enough, many of the child actors are maimed in real life, missing arms, legs, eyes, etc. Needless to say, it is very hard to watch and much more disturbing than some mindless, glorified S&M movie like Hostel.

Gummo is also disturbing because I genuinely don't believe that many of the minor supporting characters in the film are acting. They are just following Harmony's prompts and behaving like slight caricatures of themselves.

Sounds like an extremely amateur and more sexual version of Man Bites Dog.

Hard Candy should be removed from that list. A Clockwork, while I love it, is faaaar more disturbing than the Juno chick castrating a lester. I wasn't disturbed in the least bit...a lil twisted, but hardly petrified.

Well shite, I didn't mean to kill the thread.

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Sounds like an extremely amateur and more sexual version of Man Bites Dog.

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Actually, it's more akin to 8mm, with Nicholas Cage. Only much more depraved.

Good Lord...Vistor Q looks quite disturbing.

What were you doing watching that, SFP?

The ending to that movie is on YOutube...and it appears as though the movie is centered around nipple sucking and knocking people in the face with a rock.

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What were you doing watching that, SFP?

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i was in austin and my sister's roommate was like, "hey i was told to check out this movie. it's supposed to be awesome"

awesome, it wasn't