profbobo

Visitor Q, Requiem For A Dream, or Irreversible, I think. Salo wasn't that disturbing to me, just gross (albeit an intersesting film).

Frank S

For me it has to be Savior which is a very powerful and disturbing film about the utter hatred between the serbs and muslims in Bosnia! Dennis Quaid gives his best acting performance of his career in this film and I would highly recommend this little know film to anyone. One particular scene by a river (near the end of the film) is extremely disturbing!

collven

I have Broken Movie somewhere on VHS. I completely forgot about that one. Closest thing I've ever seen to a snuff film. Only watched it once.

Norm de Plume

On DVD I presume? Great news. Will it be sold elsewhere, or only at Buck's website?

Cutting Moments easily wipes the floor with anything mentioned so far, but there are a few not yet cited that compare.

Dan G

Although it isn't on DVD, the most disturbing movie I've ever seen was "Spanking The Monkey."

DVDHO

Anything on HBO with the word American UnderCover on it,docs about drugs,prison life,prostitute life etc.some disturbing stuff especially the one about the Hitman they called The IceMan,they did a doc on this cat and he killed over 100 people and he talks about in fine detail.

Movies dont shock or desturb me but if its real it can.

talemyn

kenbuzz

Caligula -- When I first saw it in college, all of the rough stuff freaked me out, particularly the "lawn mower". But now, having just watched it 20 years later, it's much more tame and really quite boring.

But I'm still disturbed by Eraserhead

MGBGT

Practically any film (This goes for westerns, especially) that features violence against women is disturbing for me. When Unforgiven opens with the woman getting her face slashed, I can't deal with it from there.
There was an old Candice Bergen movie on the other night where she got raped 3 times total in the first 30 mins or so (It was called The Hunting Party--Oddly enough like Unforgiven, it also stars Gene Hackman).

I don't even like Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) or Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise), but I hated seeing them get brutalized, too.

The Possession of Joel Delaney gets a vote from me as one of the most disturbing films of all time.

I haven't even seen this new Ashton Kutcher film and it sounds extremely disturbing already.

Strafe

It's hard for films to disturb me. I have a very strong separation between fiction and reality 'instinct'. I could watch Salo while eating chocolate pudding - It just doesnt affect me. The kinds of things that do disturb me are those that have a strong connection to reality - like the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. That movie made me want to be a better American. I supposed if I had been raped - Irreversible would affect me, or if I was a junkie - Requiem might affect me, but as it is, I have no personal connection thus no supension of disbelief.

randy1320

Good Burger. C'mon, somebody had to mention it!

kenbuzz

:: shudder :: Man, I wish you hadn't mentioned that. Now I'm really gonna be disturbed.

MGBGT

Also, any abuse against children is bad in films, notably Bastard Out of Carolina being the biggest offender.
I avoided seeing this for the longest time, and when I finally did, my worst fears about it were pretty much dead-on.
Doesn't take THAT much horrific detail to convince me that this is not how you treat a child.

baracine

To me, no question, Oliver Stone's JFK because it is a complete fabrication from start to finish. It glorifies a man (Jim Garrison) who was a corrupt small-town bully, tyrant, wife-beater, pedophile and gay-basher and gives vent to his insane megalomania, persecution complex and conspiracy theories. It also further victimizes an innocent man - who had mercifully passed away when the film was made - against whom Garrison had been unable to substantiate a single ounce of the innuendo, malicious lies and false accusations he charged him with and who was found innocent - twice!* - by a jury of his peers. Now that's disturbing!!! For the real story, read American Grotesque by James Kirkwood, a true account of the Clay Shaw trial in New Orleans.(* Not shown in the film)

A Beautiful Mind comes close because it is also a complete lie about a man whose mental condition was probably aggravated by the McCarthy era's persecution of gays, even though his homosexuality is never mentioned in the film. For a true account, read the book by Sylvia Nasar.

MISS PEACH

Nonsense. Edgy, yes. If you got depressed watching Eraserhead you perhaps aren't ready for it. Boy what an elitist remark I just made ha ha.

Try being drunk or stoned while you watch it. It's out there.

PEACH

MISS PEACH

I totally agree with you. Talk about gratuitously tearing apart someone's humanity with almost pathological indifference. I had forgot about that one.

PEACH

bill_n_opus

Anything with child-abuse and rape is fairly disturbing to me ... but I have to say that Fear Factor can be very disturbing to me.

I know, FF isn't a movie ... i'm just referring to how disturbing the inevitable second "stunt" is. They've gotten worse and worse.
Eating all that gross crap like worms in sausage casings, fly-infested rotten squid, stamping on worms like a grape press and collecting the results in a cup and drinking it down ... jeez.

Movies are movies. Reality and knowing that someone is doing it right on the screen, no props or effects or computers, is another thing. Not to mention that I have a hard time swallowing vitamins makes it even worse.

tdilia

"Squel like a pig", when I first saw Deliverance I could not get that seen out of my head for weeks.

Also I would have to say Kids.