I just got done watching Requiem For A Dream : Uncut, despite the fact that I've owned it for way over a month. I must say, this is one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen, but I loved it...in some sick sort of way.

It was a very powerful film...yet....very disturbing at the same time.

So I was wondering, if the trend of being disturbing yet powerful holds true, what do you guys think the most disturbing films of all time are? I'd love to check some of them out.

My votes would have to go to:

Requiem For A Dream : Uncut
The Cell
Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut

Anyone else have any that they'd like to post?

Salo!

Stuart Little. OH DEAR GOD NO!

Shawn

Requiem For A Dream without a second thought

Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer

Any Movie Frank Zappa made

Eraserhead

Cannonball Run II

Se7en

Kids

Requiem for a dream
Jacob's Ladder

and for mt girlfriend
American Psycho

bloodsucking freaks
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
I Spit on your Grave

I have never been more disturbed by a movie than I was when I watched John Waters' "Pink Flamingos." I have never felt the need to fast forward through a movie scene before that film.

Pink Flamingos eh? What scene might be in it that disturbs people? Is it perhaps sloppin down "mud" pies like in Salo?

Of course disturbing is in the eyes of the beholder. But some titles that rattle my cage include:

Cries and Whispers
The Tennant
The Night Porter
echo, Eraserhead

Salo. Period. As a fan of disturbing/disturbed cinema, I have to say it takes the cake.

Also:

Clean, Shaven
Blue Velvet
Pixote (extremely depressing)
Happiness
Straw Dogs
Out Of The Blue
Boys Don't Cry
Midnight Express
A Clockwork Orange
Crash

I haven't seen Requiem For A Dream, mainly because I hear it's shot in a flashy, MTV style. That style can ruin movies for me - Fight Club, for instance.

hmmm... i didn't find Requiem of a Dream disturbing at all, maybe i'm disturbed?

Anytime i watch True Romance i have to fast forward the part where patricia arquette and the dude from the sopranos fights and he beats the crap out of her and throws her thru a glass shower door etc. That disturbs me.

I must chime in with Begotten, for its form as well as content! It goes beyond ugly to beautiful...

Man Bites Dog. I couldn't finish watching it.

Yikes! Beware The Begotten! I love strange cinema, but The Begotten looked like a bunch of people trying as hard as possible to be strange and not really pulling it off.

I'd vote for...


Seven

The Hitcher


(I know The Hitcher is old, but it really got to me a the time... I wanted to kill Rutger Hauer myself by the end of that movie...)

I must agree with the True Romance scene with James Gondolfini throwing Arquette threw the shower and stuff.

That was hardcore

CUTTING MOMENTS

The only film to come close is Salo.

Ah, we must not forget Seul Contre Tous a.k.a. I Stand Alone.

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy and huggy.

Well, I feel sorry for you pal, because your missing out on a really good film. Excellent, actually. The way Reqieum for A Dream was shot has nothing to do with its story and preformances, because they come at you strongly nonetheless. It's the same way with Fight Club, whether you had a problem with how it was shot, don't take it away from the film itself.

Anyways, your missing out on a real treat (reqieum for a dream) if you don't give this movie a viewing.

The way a film is shot has a lot to do with one's enjoyment of it. And usually I find that if directors think they are clever-clever and want to razzle-dazzle me with fancy high-speed cuts, they either a) don't have much to say, or b) are not really sure how to communicate their message. This isn't some absolute rule I have - I liked Natural Born Killers because the message and the medium were well blended. It's just that most of the time when directors fancy it up they spend too much time worrying about style and not enough about substance - Trainspotting, Go, Matrix, Fight Club, blah blah blah. Yeah it's exhilirating but it's as filling as a snowcone.

I will end up watching Requiem For A Dream at some point - I hope it lives up to its reputation!

When I was 16 years old, I went to see "Halloween" on opening night. I think the way the movie was filmed(I am not saying the director did a bad job, he did a GREAT job - he really scared me) and the subject matter was very disturbing. I still remember how the movie let the audience only see through the eyes of the mask.

The week after seeing "Halloween", I went to see "The eyes of Laura Mars". I have never been to another movie like those again.

I would much rather go and see a Comedy or a Sci-Fi movie. I do not like any kind of psycho movie.

Movies like "Halloween" and "Eyes of Laura Mars" cannot be helping those who are all ready a little over the edge.

i am surprised no one said this before me, but, texas chainsaw massacre was the only movie that really got under my skin, i mean ive seen all types of movies from lucio fulici to henry: portait of a serial killer, but the only time i got nightmares from a movie was when that image of the chick hanging from the meat hookfollowed me into bed.

Jan Svankmajer's "Alice" movie is a disturbing version of Alice in Wonderland.

Any animations by "The Brothers Quay" are freaky; the most famous one being "The Street of Crocodiles". They are stop-motion animations that use bones, insects, china dolls, pieces of raw meat, grunge, machinery and stark lighting.