I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.
Badlands
On The Beach
Fail-Safe
I remember when they filmed that movie near me.
Spy Kids disturbed me as a kid because of the idea of people being turned into fooglies. The film doesn’t even show them being changed back, I guess we’re supposed to assume it. Why couldn’t they have a scene at the end where the rescued agents videochat with the cortezes and thank them? The movie also has kind of a creepy atmosphere. I revisited it a bunch of times and kept being disturbed. Then I watched it again at age 30, fully prepared to be triggered by certain scenes but weirdly, I wasn’t. It’s just a normal movie to me now, and a pretty good one for what it is
All quiet on the western front
It’s a movie about a German soldier during WWI, really trying to convey the horrors of war.
I read the book when I was 11. I still have dreams about being in the gas attack.
Pasolini’s Salo/120 Days of Sodom - Nobody ever regrets watching it.
Bad Boy Bubby - One of many grim Aussie films of that era. A classic.
The Warzone - Tim Roth’s directorial feature. Incestuous rape introducing Colin Farrell in his feature debut.
Drowning By Numbers/ A Zed and Two Noughts - Peter Greenaway shoots his films like renaissance paintings. Do you like lots and lots of snails on naked bodies? No? Tough. The Michael Nyman scores are terrific though.
You can pretty much take your pic with any of Lars Von Triers films. Breaking the Waves, Antichrist, Dogville etc.
Festen - which is Danish but NOT a Lars Von Trier film is probably the best Dogme 95 films of all. Including that fucking MAGAT Harmony Korine. Don’t know if this is that haunting but a good film anyway.
Come and See - Yes yes come and see! and in the vein of horrible WW2 films…
Salon Kitty - Tinto Brass before he went full porno.
Baise Moi - FUCK ME! No really that’s what its called.
Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Not a documentary but based on fact.
Reckon that should be enough. Happy viewing! LOL.
Not a movie but an episode of Fringe I watched last night (s2e11, “Unearthed”), that started with a teenage girl being taken off life support at the hospital. It hit a little too close to home, and the presentation was so effective, watching it was very traumatic. I mean Fringe can be horror-ish but it’s generally more in the sci-fi realm.
Kids, Requiem for a Dream
Grave of the Fireflies. You don’t see any fighting and most people the protagonists meet are good, AND YET it’s so depressing. Seeing how bad the horrors of war are, even in the best case scenario, was eye-opening for me.
Even worse when you realize it’s based on an semi-autobiography that was written by the older brother. After the story was published, the author admitted that he was much more selfish than the older brother in the story. Basically, the older brother in the story was who the author wished he had been. He admitted that the older brother in the story was extremely selfless and always tried to make sure his sister ate first. But in reality, he frequently ate while his little sister went hungry. And he believes that was a large contributor to her death. He originally published the story as an apology to his dead sister.
That movie gave me PTSD
AI: Artificial intelligence
Messed me up a little because I watched it so young. I was old enough to understand the themes and moral dilemmas, but some scenes were just so heartbreaking. What matters? What’s real? What does it mean to be alive or to be human?
Testament.
The slow death of living in a post-nuclear world. Terrifying in its hopelessness. You don’t actually see the destruction from the nuclear detonation, only people slowly dying. I know there are other films like Day After or Threads, but in those they depict the epicenters of the bombs destruction, not the slow death outside of the worst hit area. I found it crushing in a way that the other movies didn’t match.
Imagine watching all three when you’re just nine years old.
And you’ll have my childhood.
Yeah, I saw those in middle school. Definitely scarring.
Seeing Robin Williams play a creep in 1 Hour Photo was unsettling. Especially the scene where he is imagining being part of the family whose home he has broken into and is just casually doing stuff in.
Also Grave of the Fireflies for being the greatest movie I never want to see again for reasons that will only be clear ig you also watch it.
There is no on screen violent or sexual acts but it still got a NC-17 rating. It’s the darkest of dark comedies, if you’re after disturbing for the sake of disturbing, you won’t be able to top this.
I couldn’t finish it. It was fucking awful
Kids (1995)
Similar to Requiem, a one-time-only must-watch.
Dancer in the dark. Sad story of a woman who does everything to be happy ans still cant.
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
Both movies were good. Both movies were absolutely a one time watch and never again.
Changling is another, the A. Jolie kidnapping flick
Requiem for a Dream. You’re absolutely correct, a one-time-only must-watch. I always enjoyed re-watching films with friends, but this one is a no go. One thousand years ago, I added the DVD release to my collection on release. Where I grew up, our movie theater only carried ultra-mainstream titles, so when films like Requiem released to theaters, it was either a 2+ hour trek to the nearest metropolitan area or just wait for it to release on DVD. I could be misremembering, but I believe the DVD case was one of those awful cardboard cases with the plastic clip. Anyway, it was mixed in with the rest of the DVD collection I proudly displayed in my living room (we all did this). At least until I had to refuse requested viewing by different guests not once, but twice. Fortunately, somewhere around that same time, I pumped the brakes on tangible media, and started gathering digital rips. Packed all that valueless stuff up, and shoved it up in the attic.
I bought Requiem in a DVD 2-pack, with the second movie being American History X.
That was not a fun weekend.
The first time I ever watched Trainspotting (like a decade or so ago) I had taken 2 tabs of acid and looked up online “movies that will change your life” or something along those lines.
One of the first ones listed was this one called Trainspotting and I had no idea what it was about I was expecting some drama about a special needs little boy who likes to look at trains or something.
Ohhh boy. That one scene was horrifying. But man I love that movie so much.
lo, that one scene on acid must be something.
