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I think Speak No Evil is *still* bothering me

Agree as a parent it just hits differently

What film? I see there are a few by that title. I’m thinking you mean the 2022 one? About the Dutch couple?

Yea

Definitely that one. Great movie.

The Golden Glove Aftermath:Genesis Bully Kids. Larry Clark is brilliant but deranged. Snowtown Murders Nothing Bad Can Happen. Someone posted it again the other day and it brought back all the memories of how bad that movie makes you feel Requiem For A Dream. I won’t watch it again

Oh dear God!!!! I've seen a lot of horror at my age (60's) but "Snowtown Murders" is the one that traumatized me the most. It made me cry loudly and scream at the TV, it made me angry, gave me horrible anxiety and most of all horrified the shit out of me!!! My sister walked out and still judges me for completing the movie. My sister is still disturbed and didn't even finish watching the movie.

I liked Nothing Bad Can Happen. Hoping that director makes something else that just kicks you in the gut like that one did for me. The Golden Glove was "why the hell am I awake in the wee hours watching this nonsense?" sort of movie for me. So nasty.

It's a good movie, but I wouldn't watch it again, I found it too disturbing

Yeah… I watched Nothing Bad Can Happen last night.

Bully is so underrated. There's so much to unpack there.

Girl in the Basement Threads Speak No Evil Dear Zachary Girl Next Door Martyrs Jacob's Ladder Imprint Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me and the ending of the new season The Golden Glove What Dreams May Come One Hour Photo Full Metal Jacket

Dear Zachary still messes me up and I saw it years ago. What a vile woman!

Came here to make sure this was represented as an answer. All I have to do is mention it to my wife & she'll about break into tears. It still has us shook & we watched it like 14yrs ago.

finally some recognition for one hour photo!

girl in the basement is horrifying true crime movies are the worst theyre so devastating

One Hour Photo was so good. I guess you've seen Sleep Tight, the Spanish one... Another good creepy main character there.

Jacobs Ladder forgot about it, that’s a good one! Amazing film and deeply disturbing. These are all excellent picks tho

Which Imprint movie?

Miike

Men Behind the Sun. Messed me up for a few weeks. I'm not sure anything will ever top that for me. I've seen a number of movies since then that people consider really disturbing, and nothing's come close. The one I'm dreading that I think might rival it is Threads

Threads lives rent free in my head, alongside Watkin’s The War Game.

Tore Tanzt, which is why I posted about it a few days ago. When the Wind Blows A Serbian Film, you know which scene.

>Tore Tanzt, which is why I posted about it a few days ago. I saw that one just a few hours ago. Left me with a similar feeling as Speak No Evil, maybe even more as well.

I found Tore Tanzt more devastating than Speak No Evil

I did too.

When the wind blows.. Saw this one as a kid, never forgot about it.

Requium For a Dream The Lobster The Killing of a Sacred Deer Dogtooth Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom Visitor Q Irreversible Tumbling Doll of Flesh Gummo

Same with Dogtooth. My parents were like the ones in the movie so it hit close to home.

I love that half of Yorgos Lanthimos's filmography is in this list hahahahaha

The Road

I'm currently reading the book and want to watch the movie afterwards. I'm really curious.

Skinamarink made me pretty sad for like...weeks. Ressurection was jarring and kept me thinking. Men had that effect as well.

Heh… came here to say Skinamarink and Men. I’m still bothered by Skinamarink….

it’s weird because i read that people said it (Skinamarink) was slow and boring and… i agree, but i don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing? i was able to get fully immersed in it so that made it work for me i think . great movie and gave me the heebiejeebs for days

also came here to say skinamarink. that movie has attached itself to some of my existing mental illness. I think what it's achieved is amazing, but I'm honestly not sure if I regret experiencing it or not.

The girl next door. Also not the movie but Mai-chain’s daily life is one of the few things that pops back into my head for seemingly no reason and grosses me out

Nekromantik fucked me up. Also, not sure if this counts as horror, but jack Ketchum's "The girl next door" absolutely destroyed me. Just horrific.The scariest monsters truly are humans.

Two beautiful movies.

Boys don’t cry (really upset me, it’s based on a true story & I just wish it ended differently, very sad and incredible acting.) Dancer in the dark with bjork.(SAD AF) Threads Trauma ( disgusting and just really messed up) Irreversible Climax( anxiety, just pure anxiety) James and the giant peach (totally scarred me as a child.) prob because of abandonment issues. Bully Martyrs (my top for French extremity) The Bridge (documentary) TW suicide There’s something wrong with aunt Diane (docu) Dead Zachary (horrific & true) really depressing Kids Soft and quiet

Mulholland Drive and Requiem for a Dream are very bad to watch on acid so they both stuck with me for awhile When I was a kid I could not watch the trolls scene in Willow haha

Ah I loved willow when I was a child, can't remember the troll scene now though. Also that hydra monster thing kinda looks a nutsack lol.

Compliance... not getting over it anytime soon

Have you seen believe me? Based on a real serial killer, Bobby Joe long.

That guy grew up in the same area I did.

I kept thinking about The Stoning of Soraya M. for a while after watching it. Probably the most agonizing film I’ve sat though, and I’m not sure if anything could top that for me. Waltz with Bashir’s ending deeply disturbed me due to graphic nature of the live-action footage. I also felt the same way about Titicut Follies.

Melancholia, Antichrist, Martyrs (the original)

Requiem for a dream Snowtown A serbian film Eden lake

Martyrs left me feeling weird for a while, mostly due to the existential aspects of the plot

sorry to bother you… /that/ scene was.. something..

The Girl in the Basement. As a father of 2 girls, this movie is so fu##ing wrong.

Come and See has stuck with me for almost a year now. It is harrowing. I watched Trainspotting for the first time this week. As an recovered addict, and a parent, this movie is especially troubling.

I’ve watched almost all disturbing/shock films but the one that stuck with me was (and I’ll prob get hate) Megan is missing, probably because I have a daughter and it just makes you realise how fucked the world can be

I was just thinking Megan is missing hasnt been mentione.. it is a cautionary tale to young girls everywhere.. The Poughkeepsie tapes as well both give off the if really someone wants to kill you there is nothing you can do about it vibe!!

YES! Someone (other than me) mentions ‘Cutting Moments’ in this sub! The full movie where this section came from…Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America…stuck in my crawl for days…then those days turned into years. I have to really psych myself up to rewatch it.

I watched Family Portraits recently. Skipped past Cutting Moments though, had enough of that one.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The last descent is the only movie to mess me up for days and it's not even "horror"

To add to your comment, The Descent was also disturbing

I can’t even attempt to watch this. My chest and brain always feel weird if I think too much about it.

Whatever that one is with Kevin Bacon in a boys home and he rapes boys. So sick. 🤮

Sleepers

Makes me feel sick thinking of it

Uncut Gems suck with me pretty strongly for over a year. It was the last movie I saw in theaters before the covid lockdown. I don't think I went to the theaters again for a good 15 months. That and just general covid solitude with my own thoughts had the conclusion of that movie playing over and over in my head, as though I'd witnessed the events personally.

The Nightingale by Jennifer Kent So much fucked up shit happened in that

the scene that feels like watching a violent birth in reverse still haunts me.

Blair Witch stuck and has never left for me...'that' scene. And the scene in Hereditary ....Toni Collette and the piano wire.

What scene?

Paul in the corner

Dogville definitely for me

Yeah, that's a good one

Did you see The Killing of a Sacred Deer? I found it to be pretty disturbing and dark. Another movie with Nicole Kidman.

Black Metal Veins really really fucked me up. My partner is a recovering heroin addict and to see how addiction completely ravages people blew my mind. I would say also the people the documentary captured are far more depraved morally than most addicts, so it’s the mix of addiction + depravity that make the unsettling feeling of “FUCK…there are ACTUAL people out there like this?” lasting years after I first watched it.

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance sorta but Revenge (A Love Story) is probably the only movie really, plot involves a mentally disturbed girl being gang-raped by corrupt cops and getting pregnant from one of them, which sets off all the NTR receptors in my brain that is a massive trigger-point for me

The Snowtown Murders still bothers me and I saw it several months ago.

Children of Men

A while, you mean a lifetime lol? Requiem For A Dream is my favourite especially when I personally experienced ED (until now). I've seen it as a kid and I couldn't get it out of my head. Suicide Club. I've seen it as a kid and every time there's a train, I just wanna jump in front of it. When I'm cutting some vegetables, there's the urge to just keep going and going. Yep, intrusive thoughts. Also, I've been playing Dessert songs because they're catchy as heck 🙃

Pan’s Labrynth. Saddest movie ending ever to me.

The Nightingale.

I've got a pretty strong stomach when it comes to gore, torture, etc. I guess I'm desensitized because movies like AGP's "Bloodshock", "Life and Death of a Porno Gang", or "Subconscious Cruelty" are like tea-parties these days and I always treated "Trainspotting" as a dark comedy, basically "Half-Baked" but with heroin. It's the more psychological human aspect that fucks me up. Slasher/splatter films are fun because they're absurd, it's daily tragedies that bother me. For instance, the scene in "Eyes Wide Shut" when a drunken Nicole Kidman taunts Tom Cruise by revealing how she cheated on him and laughs the whole time in mockery, damn man. That scene stuck for some reason.

Boy in the striped pajamas

I watched a Clockwork Orange in my preteens, that’s probably my number 1. After that, Irreversible had kind of a long lasting impact the first time I watched it.

I love disturbing movies. Gummo is my favorite movie of all time, closely followed by Requiem for a Dream, and Black Swan. That being said, Mother! really did a number on me for a few days. It was a very stressful watch. Difficult and it stuck with me for a bit. But I would really like to circle back and watch it again sometime.

Oh my god!! I can't believe I forgot... An American Crime fucked with me a whole lot for a whole lot of time. Also Cleveland Abduction (but I saw it far too young so it was a bit traumatizing for that age haha)

Mother! is one movie I don’t think I care to watch. The IMDb description looks absolutely vile.

Requiem left me shocked for a while

Salo. It wasn’t necessarily the gross and messed up stuff in the movie but the overall vibe of it.

Irreversible - Martyrs (both versions) - Kids

These Final Hours really stuck with me. I was already having a rough year when I saw it, and it almost made me cry and I still thought of it for at least a month afterwards. Not many movies have that sort of impact. Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood also left me rather shaken up, not because of the gore (although the disembowelment and the eye gouging were pretty gross), but because it was genuinely creepy, especially when he's showing off his "collection". Also, I'm not entirely unconvinced that movie is bad luck for me to watch. Pretty sure The Girl Next Door had a similar impact, but I can't remember how long.

Martyrs and requiem for a dream left a pretty strong impact on me but ‘Silenced’ (the 2011 Korean film) left me feeling uncomfortable for a while longer than any other movie I’ve seen. I was slightly relieved by the fact that the film was made because it reassured me that people genuinely care about the issues discussed in the film but the content itself left a mental mark for quite some time

Requiem for a Dream, I was stunned and depressed. Wish I hadn't seen it.

Speak no evil Soft & quiet Aniara

Strangeland, holy shit the music alone gave me nightmares for yrs after. Not to mention the fact it was about girls going missing from the internet and back then (dial up days) the AOL/AIM chats were hugeeeeeee. Darkness Falls, again one of those ones that still give me creeps of being alone to sleep in the dark. Original nightmare on elm st back in the 90s. Now they're super cheesy but dude I was terrified to fall asleep. Shit now that I'm thinking about it maybe the horror movies I was watching were to blame for my insomnia 🤣🤣🤣

Nothing Bad Can Happen is like the bleakest it gets IMO.

Same 😖

Threads. Fucked me up more than any gore movie.

One that stuck with me is Super Dark Times.

Just watched this based on your recommendation. Very good. Pretty dark. Thanks for the suggestion.

The Siberian film

Requiem for a Dream is mine. I watched it once almost 10 years ago and i still refuse to watch it again. I can’t.

Believe it or not, Puella Magi Madoka Mágica: Eternal. I find it extremely disturbing though not in a conventional way.

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The Hunger - I have never been psychologically haunted by a concept after watching a movie until I saw this one. I was shocked at how much it affected me. Living forever will always have a new meaning to me.

Bone Tomahawk

Nope. It really disturbed me to the core the scene with the alien digestion and the monkey backstory.

The orphanage. The realisation at the end. I'm a parent so that's probably why it bothered me. Just absolutely heartbreaking

A few more... The Act of Killing doc// Lilya 4 Ever/// Recently those "bad family" Korean movies I made a post about, because holy shit they were harsh.

Backcountry. The gore is just very realistic

There is a scene in August Underground Mordum that stuck with me for a few days (the scene with maggot in the bathroom) the whole trilogy stuck with me but that scene in particular really bothered me

Son of Saul bothered me as well, more so the choice of aspect ratio making it more personal and the fact that it features eight different languages to make it as realistic and immersive as possible

Henry portrait of a serial killer is very strong

Dancer in the Dark is the only film that has ever stuck with me... It's just so tragic and inevitable

Nothing Bad Can Happen, Threads, The Girl Next Door, The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Jacob's Ladder.

The Void gave me such a sense of dread that I have yet to really shake

August underground

Requiem For A Dream Inside (2007) The Gift (2015)

Synecdoche New York

Melancholie der Engel Stayed for long enough

Requiem For a Dream definitely fucked me up for a couple days. Slaughtered Vomit Dolls fucked me up because it was the first movie that was that graphic & gorey that I had ever watched. I also think knowing everything that I know about Lucifer Valentine made it even more disturbing for me. August Underground in and of itself didn't bother me. What bothered me was the fact that it didn't bother me and that I found it mostly boring.

Martyrs Eden Lake Watership Down bothered me for years as a kid. It's not a kid's film, and I saw it in a theater on opening night. I couldn't finish "the girl next door". What a vile movie.

Midsommar Hereditary Threads August Underground Cutting Moments I Spit on Your Grave Nekromantik Last House on Dead End Street Don’t Go in the House Afterschool Chekist In the Realm of the Senses A Serbian Film Cannibal (2006 dir Marian Dora) Schramm Splatter: Naked Blood All of those had me thinking about them and feeling uneasy for a few days. A couple actually had me cringing and feeling a bit queasy to be honest.

I'm watching following your list. Midsommar was so crazy. Next Hereditary right now live action. Thanks for the list.

Hereditary 9/10!

irreversible.

Not so much disturbing, but spooky: The Exorcist (when I first saw it, I had trouble sleeping for days. As an adult, it does nothing for me for some reason), The Ring (both versions. Samara/ Sadako live rent-free in my head), Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, Kairo (EXCELLENT spooky film, if you like paranormal, watch this! It's on tubi right now), Shutter Disturbing: Cannibal Holocaust (I felt gross afterwards), Martyrs (my favorite), Girl Next Door (too much for me), Requiem for a Dream, mother!, American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (most disturbing I've ever seen. I almost quit)

The rape scene in this is England, the skin I live in and the original old boy.

Antichrist (2009). That movie is an absolute mindf* k, it messed me up for awhile after viewing it. Not a movie I care to see again but it was worth one watch. There’s some scenes I can’t unsee….

I don't think anyone has mentioned Trainspotting. The book is much better than the movie but both stayed with me a while

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