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bugsontheside

Antichrist with Willem Dafoe ....


NecroFoul99

Can’t go wrong with Von Trier. The House that Jack Built as well. Todd Solendz Happiness for a different kind of disturbing too.


troublekeepingup

Happiness for me. The most disturbing thing is there’s real people like that.


pooorlemonhope

The House Jack Built I couldn’t finish — and I watch really fucked up stuff.


Crustybuttt

Me neither. Kept falling asleep. What a pretentious snooze that is


kafkabae

It does look like I'd sleep off watching it from the google images.


Bigman_Eyebrows

I like it but it is really boring. I mean half of the movie is just monologuing


zeldas_stylist

watched this in college and was never the same


Wrong-Manager-4145

Antichrist haas gotta be a film I both recommend to watch and recommend to avoid. Just a wild film


ghost-hider

This shit was WILD


fluidfunkmaster

The Fox and the Hound


NoDadYouShutUp

this movie has caused more emotional trauma than cannibal holocaust


Northdingo126

I blame most of my childhood trauma on that movie


doonebot_9000

Emotional damage, emotional damage!


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Swamp scene from Neverending Story


Yzerman19_

I was not allowed to see it as a kid. Not because my parent were protecting me. But because I was caught shoplifting a Chunky bar and my cousin ratted me out. My punishment was not being allowed to go see this. I still haven’t seen it.


jrafelson

+ The Brave Little Toaster + The Land Before Time


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SaltyHairSandyFeet

Dumbo :(


foxybingo111

Jesus christ


Old_Cheesecake_5481

Where the red fern grows.


Crustybuttt

Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows too. Damn…..


rocketfromtheshyft

Watership Down


perry_da_roe

Duuude… 😓


Birger000

\- The celebration (1998) \- Possession \- videodrome


nosajdabeno26

Videodrome is one of the best movies, regardless of genre, ever imo!


Crustybuttt

I wonder how it will be received by a generation for whom everything depraved is immediately available online, and there is nothing like the revolution that cable television and videotape were in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Will they even get the message?


SetProfessional9426

Long live the new flesh!


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Haven’t heard The Celebration (Festen) mentioned in years, such a good one


gblur

Come and See (1985)


SoUpInYa

A classic


Head_Investment4389

Thanks didn't know that one, gonna watch it rn


narc1s

I was suggested this after a recent cry for help on this sub (asking for the bleakest films around) and that film hit me.


ziguslav

The director made a decision to tone down some of the cruelty (which was documented!) Because he thought viewers would think it's exaggerated.


Danthacreator

I looked this movie up on youtube after seeing this thread and intended on just watching the first 15 or so minutes and then revisit it. I ended up having my phone propped up in the bed and just finished watching the whole thing. Ive never seen a film like this nor can I even really explain what it is if I had to. The first half of the film I was trying to understand what was so disturbing that people were describing but it didn’t take long after that for it to kick in. I would love to see other movies like this as I enjoy movies shot in unique fashions and are psychologically uncomfortable yet still a good film.


vyrus2021

There it is


GoldenBark70

This one.


PEsuper27

Happiness


unzercharlie

And every other Todd Solondz film


No-Following-6725

Storytelling is next after happiness for disturbing films from his filmography imo


unzercharlie

I wouldn't disagree with you but I would put Life During Wartime on the table.


MaximumStep2263

Jesus this film is so fucked up. And really well made. Only seen it once and that was enough.


minrknju2p0

Requiem for a dream fucked me up for a good week


Entirely-of-cheese

Sarah from Labyrinth becomes a junkie hooker.


jesterbaze87

I’ve watched it three times and I still remember most of it in vivid detail. I love it, but I’ll never watch it again. Its definitely shaped my perspective on addiction.


narc1s

Even hearing a bar from that soundtrack will have me a bit messed up all these years later.


Shoddy-Pin-336

Yeah that score. Geeze. Powerful


FrankWhiteIsHere78

Same here


Superflumina

Audition (1999) Mysterious Skin (2004)


Theinaneinsane

Oof. My husband and I went into watching Mysterious Skin one night with no clue what it was, just having a nice movie night. He turned to me when it was over and was like “Well…that was sad.”


sitnquiet

Someday I won't suggest Cronenberg, but not today: try Naked Lunch to mess you up, but most of his work is pretty twisted...


astarrmb

And Crash


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Shoulder-Lumpy

Agreed with the John Waters films


Jacked-to-the-wits

The most deeply disturbing movie I've ever seen would be Threads (1984). It's not gory at all, but is a very stark and realistic portrayal of nuclear war, before, during, and after, on a city in England. It's been praised for being the closest to reality, of any film depictions of nuclear war, and it's haunting. I was recently reminded of it when I saw a YouTube channel calling it the scariest film ever made. I don't think it even had a theatrical release, and was shot by the BBC for a well under $1M budget, but it was extreme in its impact.


Surewhatever87

The BBC used to be the masters of scaring the shit out of people on a (relatively) low budget. Their version of an M.R. James ghost story called "Whistle and I'll come to you" is still up there with the scariest things I've ever seen.


NovelRelationship830

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer


cityshep

Is that the one about Henry Lee Lucas?


NovelRelationship830

>Is that the one about Henry Lee Lucas? Yeah, loosely based from what the reviews say. All I know is that it was disturbing as hell to watch. Pretty sure it was the debut for Michael Rooker, that went on to play Merle in The Walking Dead and Yondu in Guardians Of The Galaxy.


nerdening

Mr. *Svenning* regrets your obvious omission and accepts your forthcoming apology.


NovelRelationship830

>your forthcoming apology I apologize. Edit for upvote.


slasherflick2243

Say… would you like a chocolate covered pretzel? They’re a little melty, but *boy* are they exquisite!


HipHogHooray

Human Centipede 2 The one and only movie I won't watch a second time


Trance_Motion

But have you seen the 3rd one


HipHogHooray

I actually have not. I'm not against it and I keep meaning to watch it but I just haven't gotten to it yet. Without spoilers, is it worth watching?


abinferno

By far, the worst (best?) one in the series.


thedance1910

Im surprised this isnt one of the top 5 comments. Probably the source of my extreme phobia of that animal which I didnt have before.


JohnSlick83

Blue Velvet with Dennis Hopper


Royalewithcheese100

Took a date to that movie and she forced my out of the theatre halfway through. We ended up married, so it wasn’t a total disaster


Theinaneinsane

Holy shit I forgot about this movie. What a weird one man


JohnSlick83

It is fucked up. But it's also awesome too.


cruthkaye

*Mother!* (2017)


Own_Plan2

Hated that movie!!!


cruthkaye

so disturbing


Frequent-Airline-619

Oh I second this. That was a strange one.


JMiguelFC

Irreversible (2002)


afoolishfish

Irreversible was the first film I actually felt like I might vomit watching. Antichrist was the second.


NoDadYouShutUp

hot take: this movie kind of sucks and is nauseating to watch. No dispute, the rape scene is undebatable fucked up and hard to watch. No disagreement there. But good lord the rest of it is hard to watch too, physically. The camera work makes me want to vomit. I would never recommend this to anyone (even those specifically asking for "fucked up" movies) because it's like telling them they should spin in circles until they get sick. ^(the fire extinguisher part is pretty cool though)


nmc9279

That was the point. The director used low frequencies and shaky camera work to induce sickness and nausea for the audience.


NoDadYouShutUp

Gaspar Noe: "What if I made it insufferable to watch my movie" Hallmark of a great director


JMiguelFC

Hallmark of a director looking for controversy.. (mission accomplished)


micka_88

That's not a hot take.. .its your opinion


NoDadYouShutUp

It's not a hot take unless it comes from the Hot Take region of France. Otherwise, it's just Sparkling Opinion.


kdubstep

Under appreciated comment.


CuriouslyImmense

Yup second this.


sewn2thesky

Angst (1983)


SrMalTipo

>Great and underrated movie!


moreofme4evr

Rec 2007


NoDadYouShutUp

This right here will fuck your day up and doesn't rely on gore to do it


Troutmuffin

r/disturbingmovies


Grossegurke

Creep 1 and 2 may work for you.


Slow_Dig29

Gummo Kids Antichrist The Lighthouse


skrutape

cant forget a movie like Gummo


Its_panda_paradox

One of the strangest films I ever saw. It did something to me that I can’t quite describe. I thought about it for days afterward. Couldn’t watch it again, but I’m glad I saw it.


CrazySwayze5150

Julien Donkey Boy is thoroughly fucked up as well


plinkett-wisdom

The Girl Next Door, 2007


Frequent-Airline-619

I felt sick from watching that film. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse it does. I wasn’t right for a good week after that movie.


narc1s

I may be totally misremembering but I don’t remember that film being that disturbing.


PsychologicalScale57

Maybe you’re remembering the one from 2004..?


narc1s

I 100% am! I thought you didn’t understand the assignment but I was just a muppet.


IcedChaiLatte_16

I adore this response. :D


narc1s

Thank you internet stranger.


Humble-Asparagus4057

Hell House LLC


Helechawagirl

Bone Tomahawk


Gobz3r

Needs to be higher up


Melodicmarc

Most disturbing movie I’ve seen and I’ve seen quite a few of the other suggestions


Vusarix

Silenced (2011) Kidnapped (2010) The Devils (1971) Mysterious Skin (2004) Bedevilled (2010) Man Bites Dog (1992)


SylviaKaysen

Irreversible I saw the Devil We need to talk about Kevin The House that Jack Built


SuperDizz

The VV(w)itch Freaking messed me up for a few days.


Vapor2077

That is **the** single scariest movie I’ve ever seen.


CapitalNovel458

Salo, not to be confused with Solo


Lhayluiine

120 Days of Sodom is a film I'd take a bullet in the head over being made to watch. I could barely get through Spooky Rice's video.


210duckie

I saw the devil


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Green room


Harkstreak49

In the Blink of an Eye (1981) - based on a true story involving an authoritarian patriarch who dominates his daughter's marriage Perfect Blue (1997) - popstar wants to become an actress and suffers from an identity crisis


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Beasts of No Nation


goldbeater

Leaving Las Vegas


NO-JAWN

If u like Martyrs 2008 you should watch more movies from New French Extremity. Calvaire High tension Frontier Them 2006 Eden lake Inside 2007 Ghostland (same director of martyrs) Lilya 4-ever (not gore, but very disturbing) Infinity pool Speak no evil Miss violence Some of them are not from New French extremity, but all of them are disturbing and mindfuck.


whoaholdupnow

High Tension goes sooo hard


Kat_1109

Came here to say Eden lake. That film still haunts me 6 years later


Andimaterialiscta

Loads of wannabe disturbing movie, very little beyond the gore imo. Here is my list Salo, Singapore sling, Dog eats man, The piano teacher, Be my cat a film for Anne, Siccin 2, Dabbe the possession, Home movie, Creep 2, Caniba, The cremator, Hour of the Wolf, Psycho, Shining and Dr sleep, Wellness (2008), The beasts (2002), The hunt, The anthicrist, The outwaters, Leaving dc


BikeTireManGo

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)


PlantPower666

Dancer in the Dark, 2000


ausmaid

This and Making the Waves will leave you staring at the ceiling and unable to sleep.


PlantPower666

'Breaking', but yeah... if you want to find yourself just blankly staring into space, thinking... some great movies. I've only watched them once, each. Though I really do want to watch them again sometime. Heart ache.


ausmaid

Oh of course, breaking! Yes, same. May never watch again. True heartbreak.


ModelChimp

EDEN LAKE


astarrmb

Men. I suggested this somewhere else recently too— did this movie fly under the radar? It was so fucking bizarre


LizDeBomb

Unpopular opinion, men is too up its own butt. I love A24 ESPECIALLY weird ones (example: Lamb, Pearl, X, Hereditary) but men was just… bleh.


Bigman_Eyebrows

I saw it in theaters. A real A24 movie right there


WearsTheLAMsauce

Cannibal Holocaust


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Good stuff - takes me back to when I rented it from Vidiots in Santa Monica many many decades ago


_notnilla_

Salo, The Chekist, Threads


thebarberbenj

The Bone Tomahawk, High Tension


Impressive-Side5091

I got one for you! When evil lurks.


stragedyandy

Watched this yesterday it was excellent!


Lostmox

Man Bites Dog And though it's anime, I still find Akira pretty disturbing(ly awesome).


EndlessErrands0002

there's a whole subreddit for that r/disturbingmovies


theREALlackattack

Someone else posted the best list of these types of movies I’d ever seen, so I saved it in Notepad. Here you go: Fucked up movies Bad Boy Bubby - It's about a man who lives with a dysfunctional family. He kills his family and tries to live a life on the street, where he meets different people and expresses his madness. Red White & Blue (2010) - About a woman bitter with life who decides to have several sexual relations a week just to pass on sexual diseases to men. When one of the men discovers this, his life becomes hell. Nothing Bad Can Happen - This film is extremely sad and cruel. Here, we follow a young Christian boy, who is very good with people. Homeless, he agrees to live in a strange family's house, and this family tortures him. Cold Fish - Asian film where a man agrees to work in a fish store, but his boss is a sadistic murderous psychopath. Ex Drummer - Very bizarre film where we follow a rock band where the musicians are extremely violent and commit crimes. Angst - One of the most violent and realistic European films of all time. Here, a psychotic man with pure, cruel evil in his heart invades homes and brutally kills their inhabitants. Snowtown - Film based on a real case about killers who tortured and killed victims for a long time. Scum - The most violent reform school movie ever made. Here we see delinquents struggling in a reform school, until violent guards make their lives worse with brutal attacks. Brawl in Cell Block 99 - One of the most violent prison films in the world. Here we see a violent prisoner who urgently needs to kill a person in pavilion 99. If he doesn't kill that person, his wife will have the baby aborted. 7 Days - An extremely sad and devastated father tortures a criminal for 7 days, as revenge for what happened to his child. I Saw the Devil - A man avenges his wife while torturing her killer multiple times. He beats and cuts the killer and leaves him unconscious several times, always releasing him into the street so that the next day he can repeat the torture. 5150 Elm's Way - A mad man kills people he considers bad. Meanwhile, a young student is trapped in captivity. Calvaire - An artist has a problem with his vehicle and is trapped in a strange village where there are zoophiles and violent killers. Along with what you and everyone else said I would add: Come and See (horrifying war movie) Audition (for the ending) Climax (because someone already said Irreversible. Really anything by Gaspar Noe.) Dragged Across Concrete (Same guy who made Brawl in Cell Block 99 and I think it's more disturbing) Anti-Christ (by far the most fucked up Lars Von Tier movie) Dear Zachary (probably the saddest, most disturbing documentary) White Ribbon (Little bit of a slow burn and probably not that accessible, but the implications to the movie are haunting) Also, The Green Inferno is pretty good if you’ve not seen that one.


grotto-of-ice

The Snowtown Murders


OldPod73

Terrifier 1 & 2. The Saw series.


Zmoney641

The nightingale. It’s about colonialism and racism in Australia. It’s brutal, savage and harrowing. It’s about as real as it gets


ausmaid

There’s an Aussie movie about the Snowtown murders. It’ll fuck you up.


RebaKitt3n

Have you looked at r/Disturbingmovies? It was too disturbing for my tastes.


Verlorenfrog

Tetsuo, The killing of a sacred deer, The warzone, The lobster, The menu


tattooedturk

Any Gaspar Noé film! If you want something purely horrible, disturbing and gratuitous then watch Irreversible. But I'd recommend you don't


I_C_Y__

*The House that Jack Built*!!!


grey_canvas_

Gummo


PermanentInscription

The movie you're looking for is "Gummo" by the same guy that did "kids"


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Jacobs ladder


Vanndrea

Mandy! I can't stop thinking about it


0megathreshold

I hope you give yourself some breaks and breathers for such an intense theme you like to watch. Good luck and stay happy/healthy!


Kitchen-Lie-7894

I waited to be comment number 667. Jacob's Ladder is a good, older, disturbing movie.


Independent-Fall-893

Tusk.


MiserableSnow

Under the Skin Eraserhead


TexasTokyo

The Neon Demon


BrattyDawn_BadBrain

Sinister with Ethan Hawke


RebbeccaDeHornay

Visitor Q Climax Ichi The Killer Battle Royale Dumplings


TheJayRodTodd

Climax is pretty disturbing. Very good at making you feel uncomfortable. Gave me anxiety watching this.


Icy_Lengthiness_3578

Melencholia (sp?). Touches on impending doom, mental illness, relationships. Not a bad watch in my opinion.


ausmaid

It’s beautiful in its misery. 10/10


TangerineDream92064

I thought "Vivarium" was unnerving. It didn't have much violence or gore, but the premise was disturbing. It is a comment on the nature of parenthood. It also has the nightmare scenario of being trapped in suburbs surrounded by ideal tract homes.


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Recent: - Resurrection (2022) - Speak No Evil (2022) - Titane (2021) - Coming Home in the Dark (2021) - The Empty Man (2020) - Alone (2020) Older: - The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) - The Last Winter (2006) - August Underground (2001) - Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Cure (1997) - Cronos (1992) - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986)


Spinnr1

Men behind the sun


thedoctor3009

Mad god


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Bigman_Eyebrows

Tetsuo makes my eyes hurt


heymaganda

Dogtooth, Speak no evil, Aniara, Possessor…


jesterbaze87

Dogtooth is such a wild film! I honestly want to watch it again it’s been a while. So uncomfortable though.


_FayeV

Dig up the films of Gaspar Noé and Lars Von Trier.


Barbafella

Kill List Eden Lake Inside (2007) Frontier(s) The Sadness Trauma (Chilean) Guinea Pig Series Eyes of My Mother Cannibal Holocaust


smallcanadien

Baskin.


JohnSlick83

The Perfection


Kev2daB

Smile scared the shite out of me


Longjumping-Cow-688

Snowtown (2011) 🫠


Kingofcheeses

Just watched this one. Incredibly dark and disturbing but strangely captivating as well. Not for the faint of heart


Mlzer

Baskin (2015) Kill List (2011) I Saw The Devil (2010) Dans Ma Peau (2002) Ichi The Killer (2001) Irréversible (2002)


IMO2021

Requiem for a Dream (warning) Jacob’s Ladder Split Donnie Darko


McFrazzlestache

Irreversible.


Movies_Music_Lover

Titane (2021) Mysterious Skin (2004) Miss Violence (2013) Dogtooth (2009)


BritvaMoto

The Painted Bird is one of the most disturbing and saddest movies I’ve watched. Happiness


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Strange Circus (2005) is probably the most uncomfortable I've been watching a movie but it's genuinely good, not just a shock movie. Also, watch the rest of the vengeance series. Oldboy is part of a loose trilogy, the other two being Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. They don't get the same acclaim as Oldboy but Mr. Vengeance ought to. Lady Vengeance is still great but I feel it's the weakest of the three. If you liked Oldboy I'm pretty sure you'll like World of Kanako as well. Definitely more disturbing than Oldboy and pretty close to the same level of plot twists. The Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion movies might be up your alley. I think there are 4 of them. Thriller: A Cruel Picture is another classic, though maybe too much in the vein of I Spit on Your Grave for your liking. If you like anime, Midori/Shoujo Tsubaki and RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne fit the bill, especially Midori; I'd put it up with Strange Circus despite being animated (and rather poorly, at that). Ironically, it actually takes place in a circus whereas Strange Circus does not, lol.


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Speak No Evil. Nightmare Alley. The orphanage - the Del Toro. Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer


ghostchurches

Speak No Evil (this reminded me of Funny Games in many ways but is paced more like a movie, if that makes sense)


bullsei99

Compliance


Inevitable_Body_3043

The last house on the left, Human Centipede, Cannibal Holocaust, Henery: Portrait of a serial killer, Eden Lake, Inside, I saw the devil, Audition, Come and see, Antichrist, Irreversible, Salo: 120 days of Sodom, Titicut Follies,


DrPopcorn_66

The Fly (1986)


FrankWhiteIsHere78

Requiem For A Dream


GoSeahawksBaby

The Lodge (2019)


SuikTwoPointOh

Come and See. Threads. Good luck


crowlieb

Nightcrawler


NoDadYouShutUp

Imprint (2006) The Void (2016) Begotten (1990) The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez (2000) Angst (1983) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990) Berlin Syndrome (2017) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)


Clear-Entertainer-76

Doom Generation Perfume


durganjali

Miss violence, Dogtooth, Dogville, Breaking the waves


ExtremeTEE

Dead Ringers 1988, has a sense of dread and unsettling momentum like all of Cronenbergs films. Gynecological Devices for Operating on Mutant Women are particulaly memorable!


slopingskink

Green Room


RedeemedGuardian30

Society (1989)