Most disturbing content in films

Originally posted by BackFire
Salo, Irreversible, Antichrist, A Serbian Film, Audition, 12 Years a Slave, Come and See, August Underground series, Cannibal Holocaust, Cutting Moments, Aftermath, Megan is Missing, Happiness, Several movies in the Guinea Pig series - A Flower of Flesh and blood, Devil's Experiment and Mermaid in the Manhole - Martyrs, Freaks, Men Behind the Sun, Man Bites Dog, Visitor Q and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,

Happiness is both disturbing and hilarious. The ending scene on the balcony! 😂

Cannibal Holocaust is classic. Green Inferno was a let down.

12 Years a Slave was difficult to watch, but with brilliant acting.

The fire extinguisher scene from Irreversible was great. The 10 minute rape scene was disgusting.

Henry is just magnificent. A wonderful piece of horror.

I find the fire extinguisher scene in Irreversible really unsettling. It kinda makes me feel nauseous when I watch it. But it's incredibly well done.

What was so disturbing about A Serbian Film?

I found it slow & boring that I ended up fast forwarding thru most of it & didn't find anything shocking.

The baby scene was just too funny to be taken seriously.

Disturbing....I think the whole Final Destination saga is disturbing to me.

I would also vote for Saw, the movie is pretty disturbing.

Originally posted by carthage
Films like Creep take the audience into the mind of a sociopath as he worms his way into his victims life, and movies like The Exorcist, Last Tango in Paris, Cannibal holocaust were all controversial movies for their time. But what are some films you’ve seen that you’re curious how they got released. Movies with subject matter so grotesque or troubling that you wondered, what audience it was aimed for? Was it a box office bomb or a low budget indie film?

Side note: there is a sequel to Creep on netflix now.

Originally posted by jaden101
Its so much worse now. The cartels arguably inflict the most sadistic violence. The ones of flayings are insanely disturbing. The ISIS ones have slow motion, 4k multiple angles and high production values so the gore is extremely brutal but almost feels like a movie so even though its real it feels less so than the cartel ones. There's one where they've skinned a guy's face off and his blood covered skull is screaming as they slowly cut his head off with a box cutter. He tries to shield his face but they already chopped his hands off. There's one where they peel all the skin and muscles off a guy's chest and stomach so his bowels start bulging out. He's still alive and moving when they eventually cut his rib cage open and rip his heart out.

The f**king f**k, man

Originally posted by Robtard
The f**king f**k, man

I work in a prison, and one of the first days of on-the-job training, the group of new employees sat down in the special investigations office. The staff in there showed us varying videos that have to do with some of the gangs in the prison. This particular video had to do with a cartel, as a good portion of the prison's population is Hispanic/Latino and has some ties here and there with said cartels. A co-worker of mine (who I worked with at a previous job) and I are the only two that don't watch.

Fast forward around 4 years later. I'm in the office with one of my newer coworkers, and we're discussing various terrorist groups throughout the world. He then finds a website that has - guess what - that same cartel video. I tell him that it sounds familiar, watch it, then I tell him that I avoided watching it four years earlier when I started at the joint.

It was one of the two most gruesome things I have ever seen, and I do wish I would not have seen it. The other he sprang on me too: ISIS video.

Damn, those cartel vids sound very similar to some of the torture/snuff shit on the dark net that I've read/heard about. Though in the case of the dark net, a lot of it is done just so that sick f**** can get their jollies while watching. Like the one site I have heard about from multiple sources, which supposedly basically involves women in high heels stepping on small animals (like rabbits, kittens etc.) to crush them to death, while trying to sexualise the experience. I can't even imagine what kind of warped mindset someone would need to have to find something like that appealing.

To bring this thread back to the world of fiction, shall I say a more mainstream scene: "Goodbye Horses" from Silence of the Lambs with ol' Buffalo Bill?

Also, a PG-13 level of disturbing scene: the sheep herd over the cliff from the 2015 film version of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd.