Most disturbing film ever?

[William the White]

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Hands down a harrowing film that needs to be watched once but I wouldn't watch again.

Yep...

Interesting dichotomy here - those that find the emotional/psychological disturbing, those depictions of the physical...

I do recognise that most will have elements of both, so I'm really just referring to where the primary emphasis resides...

[hisroyalgingerness]

I think even the graphic events described in some films (that Serbian wiki thing) there's a big element of psychological. Violence and gore is ten a penny, but the truly disturbing stuff plays with the head too

[Verbal]

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Hands down a harrowing film that needs to be watched once but I wouldn't watch again.

haven't seen the film, read the book though. Actually made me cry.

[HMX]

I need to read the book, but watched the film and sobbed like a little girl.

[General Mannerheim]

The film is definitely moving, but lacks integrity with the received English accents of the German characters.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Audition is your Japanese one.

The scariest thing is her voice, with that 'kiri kiri kiri kiri' bit......

[seanworth]

Man bites dog is brilliant.

How about Happiness. The scene between the father and son when he confesses is as disturbing as it gets.

[boltonboris]

Audition is your Japanese one.

The scariest thing is her voice, with that 'kiri kiri kiri kiri' bit......

She's trying to say "Killy, killy, killy, killy"

[Raven]

Surely Mama Mia is the most disturbing

[BwfcDan]

Salo is awful, to much eating shit scenes for my liking....

[TANGODANCER]

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Hands down a harrowing film that needs to be watched once but I wouldn't watch again.

Yep...

Interesting dichotomy here - those that find the emotional/psychological disturbing, those depictions of the physical...

I do recognise that most will have elements of both, so I'm really just referring to where the primary emphasis resides...

I find reality far more disturbing than the imaginary products of people setting out to air their imaginations on "horror".

[Il Pirate]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

I think I might have had a go at dismantling the handbrake first, myself. Just saying like.

[Lofthouse Lower]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

I think I might have had a go at dismantling the handbrake first, myself. Just saying like.

There's a really good French kidnap one, about a kidnap surprisingly. Called The Vanishing or something similar and is about 25 years old. I highly recommend it but it's a bit odd.

[General Mannerheim]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

I think I might have had a go at dismantling the handbrake first, myself. Just saying like.

There's a really good French kidnap one, about a kidnap surprisingly. Called The Vanishing or something similar and is about 25 years old. I highly recommend it but it's a bit odd.

yes i know The Vanishing, (Dutch i thought?) saw it years ago, might dig it out!

[Lofthouse Lower]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

I think I might have had a go at dismantling the handbrake first, myself. Just saying like.

There's a really good French kidnap one, about a kidnap surprisingly. Called The Vanishing or something similar and is about 25 years old. I highly recommend it but it's a bit odd.

yes i know The Vanishing, (Dutch i thought?) saw it years ago, might did it out!

I knew it was something like French or Dutch. Either way they had strange beards

[ratbert]

I once watched a french 'short'. A couple wake up in a car on a lonely forest track, handcuffed to handbrake. Then they decide the only way to escape is cut their hands off to free themselves. Plain weird slo mo of 'em hacking each other.

I'm not sure if it's the same film, but similar - the couple are holding hands when their car crashes, she wakes up, he's dead and has gone to rigor mortis stage, meaning her hand is trapped in his. She then tries all extreme escape solutions and the film ends with her walking through the woods with his disembodied hand attached to hers.

Another VERY disturbing short film is this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065513/

Oh, and The Vanishing; avoid the US remake and its 'happy' ending.

[TANGODANCER]

There's a really good French kidnap one, about a kidnap surprisingly. Called The Vanishing or something similar and is about 25 years old. I highly recommend it but it's a bit odd.

One of the first French films I saw (way back) was Wages of Fear, about guys driving nitro-glycerine waggons. At the time it put the shxts up a few of us.

[William the White]

After putting some thought into this very interesting question I think the single most disturbing film I've seen is the brilliant City of God.

And the scene when the child, shaking and fearful, performs his first murder may be the most disturbing single scene.

I'd nominate this as film of the decade if anyone asked me...

[boltonboris]

After putting some thought into this very interesting question I think the single most disturbing film I've seen is the brilliant City of God.

And the scene when the child, shaking and fearful, performs his first murder may be the most disturbing single scene.

I'd nominate this as film of the decade if anyone asked me...

Is that the Brazilian prison film?