I saw a thread that asked what the most violent horror movie ever made was. The submissions were laughable at best except for one poster who said Henry. Very good answer but still wrong.
If you can find it, although it's really hard to find, look up the movie from 1984 called "Confessions of a serial killer." It's based on Henry Lee lucas but far more graphically disturbing then any others about him including Henry.
The movie shows actual women being held down and raped while getting their throat sliced open as he is ejaculating. Yes it shows this. The movie is hands down the most graphically disturbing movie ever made. In fact, there will never be one that can touch it because of how soft the film business has gotten about that type of stuff. Even slasher films are dumbing it down now. There's so many new rules to film making that will be absolutely impossible for any movie to be this ****ing disturbing. Don't believe me watch it. It makes last house on the left look like a ****ing disney movie
The difference is Henry is a legitimately good film, especially for one of its nature. The one you mention sounds like a big gimmick.
Not surprising that so far all the movies mentioned in this thread have been crap, particularly Philosophy of a Knife. Just a wannabe Men Behind the Sun without the quality or substance.
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They should make American Psycho without changing any scene from the book, that would definitely win as it is considered the most graphic thing ever put to form. The movie was G-rated in comparison and even it had to be cut to achieve an "R" rating. The best part is that they are both dark comedies. So they are funny to boot.
I agree, Henry wasn't a bad film. I'm not saying Philosophy of a Knife was a good movie but since this thread is about "The Most Violent Movies Of All Time" i'm pretty sure it takes the lead over Henry. As does August Mordum Underground.
And yeah, Philosophy, like Behind the Sun, is all about Unit 731.
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Henry is a decent film but so-called Horror fans or as I call them...."elitist fanboys" hold it as it was one the most disturbing horror films ever. Nope, you don't need a PhD to know that there had been more far disturbing killers portrayed in films before.
Such as Peter Lorre in M. The first killing of the girl victim is disturbing enough that leaves the audience with a feeling of helpless...and the beauty of it is that YOU DON'T need to see the body to be disturbed....that's what make Fritz Lang so friggin SWEET PICKLE WIN here...
Now, you wanna know who friggin tops Henry in the horror area? (at least IMO) Friggin Scorpio from Dirty Harry. That Motha not only is he sick! but knows how to friggin curve the system in his favor. That is something deeply disturbing...so yeah, Dirty Harry is not only a friggin detective movie...but a tremendous social commentary for all of us. And that's what makes a suscessful killer in a movie...the fact that these guys exists and they can hurt you or someone you love. That's horror, my friend.
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So it's a kind of Salo/Oldboy film. Nothing unique, he has just made it far more graphic in everyway. Heard about the film some time ago, not one I'll be rushing to see.
I saw A Serbian Film a few weeks ago and was actually very impressed with it.
It's way way better than one would probably expect - it's well acted and well directed, with high production values. There are some very heinous scenes but the movie takes its time getting to them, it's actually more interested in the story and characters for the most part - the first 50 minutes or so are purely plot. By the time the now infamous scenes occur the movie has built up the characters well enough so that you're actually somewhat invested in them, and you care when things happen to them.
It's an odd beast in that the hype the movie has been receiving makes one thing it's a big stupid gore fest with little else, when in reality the movie is legit - with a point and a message.
I thought it was one of the better horror films I've seen in the last few years.
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Last edited by BackFire on Sep 6th, 2010 at 07:21 PM
You should. I wouldn't say the subject matter was chosen deliberately to gain notoriety but it does pick the absolute worst things in society to focus it's attention on. Personally I still think the child abuse scene in The War Zone was more disturbing and that some of the scenes in A Serbian Film are actually comedic in the extreme nature of them that it becomes ridiculous (the supposed necrophilia scene for example)
Good movie. I'm more cynical that BackFire is regarding the plot and characterisation though.
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Last edited by jaden101 on Sep 7th, 2010 at 12:26 AM
Well, considering that I was expecting something with almost no brains or plot about it at all, I was surprised, is what I was getting at. It's not a masterpiece of story telling, but compared to almost every other movie that's billed as the "most disturbing movie of all time" it had a lot more plot and character building. It also made an effort to put out a distinctively dark and sinister tone, which is something most of the 'extreme' movies are too lazy to even attempt.
I do agree that some of the scenes were too overboard to be taken all that seriously, though. But there were also a couple that were genuinely very unsettling.
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