Weird disturbing movies

Martyrs

The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover

Dead Ringers - David Cronenberg movie about twin gynecologists who design special medical tools for operating on malformed female body parts.

I think that hits all your specifications.

Still Silence of the Lambs for me. Totally disturbing and great at the same time

Dead of Night, with Michael Redgrave

Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn

Polanski's The Vampire Slayers

Mark of the Devil, circa 1970

The original Night of the Living Dead

The Nanny

The Bad Seed

Zardoz

Very weird movie with a huge floating stone head and Sean Connery wearing a red jockstrap and pony tail throughout the movie. Don't really remember much about the movie, but as I had never done drugs, I wondered if that was what being on drugs felt like.

Agree R3. As soon as I saw the title of the post that was the movie I thought of.

Eraserhead really sunk in deep when I saw it in college. I lost sleep over it.

Oh, and another vote for Dead Ringers. Deeply disturbing. That's the movie Irons should have won an Oscar for.

Almost anything from Pedro Almodovar

Thanks R6. Sean Connery looks disturbing enough here.

Hart Bochner in "Apartment Zero." It was suppose to be a thriller, but turned out to have elements of horror to it. The fact that the plot took place in South America was also quite puzzling.

Todd Browning's 1932 film FREAKS

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

i waited through the whole movie for him to be eaten by something so i could find out the answer to the title, and it never even happened.

Polanski's The Tenant

Carnival of Souls

Trouble In Mind was a total mind-fuck.

Secret Ceremony with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow.

Just a few:

Verhoeven's The 4th Man Salo, or The 120 days of Salom Cannibal Holocaust and Breillat's Fat Girl (an ending that I never saw coming, although it makes sense if you think about it).

The one where G played the old man with no makeup. I asked them to nominate her so I could beat her - SOMEONE had to show her that she really had to stop that sort of thing. Makeup artists need to work.

The Baby (1973)

Rosemary's Baby

Manhattan

I was triggered by Revenge of the Nerds

Blue Velvet

Relax, it's just sex. Anybody see it?

R1 I actually felt sick after watching that movie. Whoever thought of that ending is a truly fucked up human being.

A SERBIAN FILM.

BITCHES.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Santa Sangre, traumatized me for weeks.

Pretty Woman

The Sound of Music

Pollyanna

Mary Poppins

Dawson's 50 Load Weekend

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

White of the Eye

The Sentinel (1977)

Drown...gay film from Australia...loved it, one of the best gay-themed movies I've seen. But--disturbing and, at times, unsettling and difficult to watch.

GONE GIRL. Entertaining and coyly Hitchcockian---until the bloody, senseless, and unnerving mid-orgasm throat-slashing had me hiding behind my hands and razing images of Doogie Howser, M.D. from my brain cells.

THE BABY WITH ANAJETTE COMER AND RUTH ROMAN SICK SICK SICK SICKER SICKEST ENDING OF ANY FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN THE BEST LOOK IT UP ON YOU TUBE VIDEOS FREE.

The Initiation of Sarah. WTF happens to Morgan Fairchild at the end?!

Sex and the City 2.

Perdita Durango - Javier Bardem as a blood lusty Santeria priest. The most hilarious schlock!

Irreversible - Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Very disturbing movie!

The Swimmer - Burt Lancaster plays a delusional suburbanite who wants to swim home via his neighbor's swimming pools. A haunting adaption of John Cheever's short story of the same name.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Jim Carrey undergoes a procedure to erase his mind so he can forget his girlfriend (Kate Winslet)

The Manchurian Candidate. The original, not the remake.

Another vote for "The Baby "

Gummo

Cold Creek

Australian film about 2 backpacker murders. True story. Haunting as I was in Australia when the killer was on the loose - authorities couldn't catch him. The film is extremely disturbing.

I recommend it - but I don't at the same time.

The Lovely Bones

R43 Do you mean Wolf Creek?

And, sweet Jesus, most of you have never seen an actual "weird disturbing movie" in your life. The Lovely Bones? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Gone Girl?

The "True Believers"! Oh Lordy - if this doesn't give you the creeps...

Lars Von Trier's The Antichrist

David Bowie's recent music videos. Blackstar is a 20 minute film, does that count?

Todd Solondz's Happiness

The Audition

Goodnight Mommy

Private Parts

The baby

The Devils ' rejects

The wicker man

Possession

Tourist Trap

Ken Russell's The Devils

A Zed and Two Naughts

The One And Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Donnie Darko

Naked Lunch

Mulholland Drive

The Loved One

El Topo

Brazil

Being John Malkovich

Cannibal Holocaust

A Serbian Film

The Human Centipede (1 & 2)

The Men Behind the Sun (This really happened to its exceptionally sickening)

August Underground Mortum

*If you find movies like 'Gone Girl', 'Eternal Sunshine....', disturbing -dont EVER watch any of these. You'll never sleep again : (

SKYSCRAPERS, starring Anna Nicole Smith.

Cannibal (2006)

It's available in multi parts on YT. WARNING: You will not sleep well afterward. Part 1:

A movie called Victim, in which a mad scientist captures his daughter's rapist and...

Ugh.

R58 No part 3 ?

Also, a British film called Mum & Dad, which has the honor of being one of the few horror films I couldn't finish. There is shit in that movie that I desperately wish I could unsee. Who thinks of crap like that?

Mommie Dearest

[quote]Verhoeven's The 4th Man

Great film!

Don't Look Now. Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Venice, creepiness.

Seconds. The amazing un-Hollywood art/horror film Rock Hudson starred in. The last words in the film are "Hand me the cranium drill."

And a gay foreign about a french farmer who finds a downed nazi pilot and takes him back to his cottage and nurses him to health as a lover. But the guy is psychotic. Can't remember the title. Does anyone?

Love Happy - the last and worst film to star The Marx Brothers. It's a strange story about Harpo and a troupe of struggling show folk up against a band of exotic jewel thieves. Chico is shoehorned in (as always, he needed the money) and at the studio's insistence, Groucho was grafted onto the film by making him the narrator. A sad ending to a great team's career.

Groucho always insisted that A Night in Casablanca, was really their final film, as it was the last to feature them as a team. Even Harpo, who created the story for Love Happy, disowned the results. Although it's the only movie Harpo ever made where he is the lead character, he makes no mention of it at all in his long autobiography.

Black & whote - foreign film of gay sadomasochism. Disturbing

The original, Missing, which is ditch film i think- i couldnt stop thinking about it for years

Cronenberg's Dead Ringers was mentioned upthread a few times. Completely agree, and would also add his film Crash to this list.

Fun thread, I'll add some more tomorrow. Off to bed.

Sextette with Mae. Dear God.

Can't Stop The Music. (Or, as it was known by the crew: Can't Stop The Fggts)

R67 Gay S&M sounds like regular gay fare.

I've only seen a clip of Eraser Head and it freaked me out.

Parents-A boy suspects his parents are cannibals

Baby of Macon

Nekromantic

Serbian Film Human Caterpiller 2 (unedited version)

the part in VHS 2 where the Indonesian(?) cult brings forth a demon is pretty wacked.

Some of short films comprising "The ABCs of Death" is extreme, weird and disturbing.

Baby Of Bacon? I'd turn zombie for that.

Threads (1984) British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse. More powerful than many movie theater releases and deeply disturbing.

R45 Wolf Creek

Thank you. R43

[R69] Yes, Sextette. Dear God, indeed. Disturbing is the only word to use.

Poltergeist if nobody said it yet.

R79 Is that a joke ?

Requeim for a Dream.

So glad I missed out on the modern heroin scene.

The toilet scene in Trainspotting.

A Serbian Film - though I should warn you, among the many sick and violent moments in the movie is a scene where a newborn baby gets raped to death.

Cannibal - the 2005 film based on a true story of a guy who put an ad online looking for someone to eat, and multiple people responded. He went through with it and killed and ate someone. The movie is excruciatingly gross - especially the last 20 minutes or so. I had to shut it off twice, before I finally finished watching it.

Last House On Dead End Street - Infamous for being filmed on a $2,000 budget, which the director used most of it to buy meth. Not a great movie but very weird.

I Stand Alone / Irreversible / Enter The Void - Three Gaspar Noe films worth seeing, if you like disturbing movies. Gorgeous cinematography, if you can handle the violence.

The 1999 Japanese movie "Audition".

R84 That sounds bizarre

The most unsettling aspect of Audition (and its genius) is that for well more than half its running time, it plays like a sweet romantic comedy. But when it changes gear in the end...holy shit.

I only ever seen Battle Royale and that was shocking at the time for a Jap film.

Suspiria

"Poison" by Todd Haynes

Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem.

The WIZ

9 songs

Hotel New Hampshire. Disturbing to say the least.

R93 Also, The World According to Garp

Irreversible

I thought Lars Von Trier must be fucked up about women but he's nothing compared to Gasper Noe.

Are these films censored ?

Straight Jacket!

No, R97, any level of brutality is fine. It's sex that must be censored.

Anything by Von Trier and especially if it stars that horsey woman he seems to be so enamored with.

A lot of Japanese thrillers - not even necessarily horror films - fit the bill. There are some truly diabolical filmmakers over there.

In the Realm of the Senses

David Lynch's "Inland Empire". The dread just builds and builds, and then . . .

Anymore?

"Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock

Thanks, R103. I loved Inland Empire. Maybe I was just in the right mood when I saw it, but I just sunk into it like a warm bath of crazy. And it was weirdly moving. Laura Dern should have gotten an Oscar nomination for it.

Flowers In the Attic for its time was a disturbing movie.

Splice ( with Adrien Brody ) . There was a review which summed up the intermingled pedophilia, incest, bestiality, rape, and etc. WEIRD ! just weird !

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Oh, that's bizarre, R108. I just watched that one myself. Thanks, TCM.

This thread should provide many nightmares.

Love

R106 Agreed, Dern was wonderful in it. It feels like some sort of schizophrenic fever dream where you don't know what day it is when you've emerged from it.

Another to add to the list is Polanski's film "Repulsion" with the lovely Catherine Deneuve.

Snowtown. Just keeps getting more and more horrible and of course, based on a true story.

Lost Highway

Black Swan

Otesanek/Little Otik by Jan Svankmayer. It's about a woman who can't have kids, so her husband makes a baby out of a tree stump for her and it comes to life and starts eating people. It's pretty good, actually.

Happiness... that shit was fucked up.

Dead Girl ... Horror schlock fest but also fucked up generally

The Midge Boy ... the hiding under the bridge scene and the wedding dress sçene are two opposite feelings provoked by the same two actors in similar situations

Basket Case

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

Cannibal Holocaust

More mainstream, but still disturbing:

The Hills Have Eyes

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Last House on the Left

A.I. by Steven Spielberg.......Blood on Satan's Claw........Hardware........The Shuttered Room w/Carol Lynley.............In the Heat of Passion II, Unfaithful

The Tenant - Roman Polanski moves into the apartment of a woman who died and slowly has a complete psychotic break as he begins to dress like and believe he is the dead woman and that all of his neighbors are plotting to kill him. Adapted from a novel. Isabelle Adjani plays against type as a sort of frumpy loser.

The Devils

Multiple Maniacs

Mysterious Skin owns this thread.

Ok ... What's the title ..couple get married English film guy is some hulky lumberjack looking guy who works on boats . Accident. He's paralyzed . Tells distraught wife to go out and have affairs . She becomes town slut. What is the name ?

Another title I forget . Two yuppie type couples having Christmas dinner in cabin in the snow. Kids turn into maniacal killers inexplicably and adults are killed one by one.

The Baby of course. Whatever happened to Baby Jane? (Remember when Joan Crawford serves her sister the parrot with sliced tomatoes?)

Some movie with Casey Affleck and Matt Damon- They get lost on a hike , get very thirsty and go psycho --a must see

Maybe it was called The Gerry?

R123 = Adrian Pasdar

The first movie you described is Breaking The Waves R123 it's yet another Lars Von Trier mind fuck where women must suffer for the pleasure of men.

The Vanishing (1988), not the 1993 American remake with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock and Nancy Travis.

[quote]Another title I forget . Two yuppie type couples having Christmas dinner in cabin in the snow. Kids turn into maniacal killers inexplicably and adults are killed one by one.

The Children

Isn't The Children the movie where kids on a school bus get exposed to a radioactive cloud that turns then into zombies that can burn people by touching them?

R128 Both are correct ... The Children (2008) and The Children (1980)

The Illustrated Man- Rod Steiger goes crazy because his entire body is tattooed.

Most of David Lynch's moviws- Inland Empire Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Rabbits. I'm still thinking about Mulholland Drive's themes years later, and believe Inand Empire is a sub-movie of Mulholland Drive. Dennis Hopper's role in Blue Velvet is possibly he most frightening character I've ever seen.

[quote] Some movie with Casey Affleck and Matt Damon- They get lost on a hike , get very thirsty and go psycho --a must see

That's Gus van Sant's Gerry. There's something weirdly compelling about that.

Here's another one . . .

Crawlspace, an early 1970s movie about an elderly couple (played by Teresa Wright and Arthur Kennedy) who find a 20-something guy living under their house.

I think R67 means The Vanishing (Dutch, original)

"The Other" (1972) with Uta Hagen. I still think about the ending to this day.

For 133: "Holland, where's the baby?"

Last I heard, the baby was on ambien.

R131 I think many would wish there is a 20 yo under their house

Wasn't there a similar movie with a deranged busey living in the attic?

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The LOTR trilogy because of its female fans

R130 I'm curious about your theory about inland Empire and MD. I started a thread re MD last year sometime. Maybe you can bump it and post there.

What was the film with the Danish director of THE VANISHING about the affluent couple going to there vacation hous and encountering a couple of sociopaths. Also remade with Naomi Watts I believe. And the sexy Michael Pitt. . edit: it's not the director of the vanishing. Micheal H_____ -- im blanking. I think the title had HAPPY in it. ]

Moodyson's LILYA 4Ever is a very sad sad film. [by the way, his TOGETHER is a terrific terrific movie -- one of my favorites. But it's not weird or disturbing]

HAPPINESS I don't think fits this category as I just find it an incredibly funny comedy -- probaby a masterpeice

FUNNY GAMES bY Haneke . Came to me right after I posted . The American remake was also directed by Haneke kinda weird

Haenke didn't direct THE VANISHING, though.

Yes. See the edit above although my wording was confusing. I was wrong.

Spoorloos. Return to Oz. I purposefully avoid the grislier stuff because I have too active an imagination and know I'll be scarred for life by it. I don't care if that makes me seem like an immature pansy. There is no rule saying I have to let this stuff into my life just because I'm a grown-up.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Truly horrific!

The Night Of The Hunter

I think we can add Night of the Living Dead here. The basement scene was pretty shocking.

Also THE HONEYMOON KILLERS

Parents. Despite some comedy touches it's quite a little horror movie.

I watched the German film, "Ich sehe, ich sehe"/"Goodnight Mommy" the other night.

Good god that was disturbing. Definitely worth a watch though.

Satan's Brew

Anthony Perkins in Crimes of Passion

Inland Empire - yes this hurt my soul

Martyrs - impossible to finish but gives a nice wish fulfillment to any Dolan-haters.

R149 may I ask where you watched that? Wanna see

I downloaded it from a torrent site. If you search under the german name, it's not too hard to find.

Thanks r152. Looks Iike it is on Amazon prime

5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Here's the trailer for "Ich sehe, ich sehe"/"Goodnight Mommy".

"First Born" with Elizabeth Shue as a mother with post pardum depression. The end is NUTZ!

Von Trier's "Nymphomaniac." Highly twisted and watchable. And the ending, good god almighty.

Wolf Creek, the Hostel movies, human centipede series.

R155 et al. Watched it ptpretty good but the plot was very similar to another movie mentioned on this thread. Don't want to say which one bc it would a spoiler

The Divide (2011)

Grim, violent, depressing. You'll need to watch a Disney movie or something to cleanse your mind after seeing it.

Betty Blue

Child of God, that movie James Franco did a couple years ago. It's on Netflix if you feel like being disgusted for an hour and 44 minutes.

Some of you are such pussies. The Loved One? ETERNAL SUNSHINE? Really?

Goodnight Mommy is good but not that tragically disturbing. I saw it at Stanley Fest last year, good fun.

Gaspar Noe doesn't revolt or shock me because he feels like he's trying hard.

A Serbian Film is fucking disgusting and unnecessary. I couldn't imagine being such an untalented miserable loser that I needed to get attention by writing the most depraved situations imaginable. Such nonsense.

It's very amusing to me to see VHS, ABCs of Death, and Deadgirl mentioned because my friend's fiancé made those and he's such an easygoing norm seeming dork who accidentally stumbled into horror filmmaking. Like, I can't explain how out of place this guy seems in that world. So to see people shocked by whatever he's making is funny.

This whack job movie.

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Something To Hide with Peter Finch (aka Shattered) saw it once late at night and I've never forgotten it. Parents for the set design and Perez Prado alone Strangers that one where Liv Tyler and her husband were menaced in their home

El Topo

Satyricon

We all know Stephen King is a pretty fucked-up writer, by his own admission. While campy at times, and not nearly as jolting as the book (what film is?) 'Salem's Lot' has it's moments. For eye candy, David Soul was at the peak of his blond/tanned virility and a young Lance Kerwin is cute. The window scratching scene is memorable. King's genius is you identify the 'everyman' characters; these could be my friends, this is my neighborhood, my town.

Bambi - Not so much weird as incredibly D I S T U R B I N G.

Seconding r160's choice of The Divide. I caught it late one night on Starz - a group of people hide in the basement of their NYC apartment building during a nuclear apocalypse (who's doing the nuking is ambiguous - terrorists, aliens?) and in short order go Lord of the Flies on each other. Rosanna Arquette's character was particularly haunting to me - it took guts to do that role; her character is ridiculed and humiliated very specifically about her age and her body by the male characters who are abusing her.

Another film that comes to mind is called The War Zone. It was the directing debut of the actor Tim Roth, and it is masterfully done - but the subject matter and its handling (a teenage boy becomes aware that his father has been molesting his sister for years, and when a new sibling is born, he must act to finally end his father's abuse) is so oppressive and disturbing, even as the performances and writing are brilliant. You can't unsee it, once you've watched it.

Eraserhead, Lost Highway

Another nod to "The Honeymoon Killers." Tony LoBianco at his sexiest.

Also to "Secret Ceremony" with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow.

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Tourist Trap has to be one of the most bizarre movies ever made.

Nosferatu, Pink Flamingos, Last Tango in Paris, My Dinner with Andre, The Story of O, that snuff film about Jesus that Mel Gibson made, Haneke's The White Ribbon, A Clockwork Orange, Flowers of Flesh and Blood, The Exorcist, In Cold Blood, The Night of the Hunter, the Masterpiece Theatre series Caligula

Psycho still creeps me out

Anything by Matthew Barney

Spanking the Monkey...Ewww.

Popular mainstream films that I find disturbing though others wouldn't think of them in those terms.

The Secret World of Henry Orient-two young girls become obsessed with a classical pianist(in 1964!) who then stalk him attempting to catch him humping married women all while giggling and laughing.

A number of shots from below looking up the girls skirts. So bizarre.

One of those schizoid 60s smutty 'family' films. The Impossible Years is another one.

Going My Way- Just knowing that the saintly paternal wise Bing Crosby was going home and with the coldness of a serial killer was beating his sons to the point where they all became alcoholics with multiple marriages, no steady jobs, two suicides and two early deaths is stomach churning.

The Mirror Is Two Faced- Barbra's Salome. I'm ready for my close-up Mr DeMille! No Babs just No!

Gaspar Noe's movie Love was disturbing in that it managed to make sex not only unsexy but also somehow gross and depressing.

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I can appreciate the humor in it now, but when I first saw MEET THE FEEBLES quite by accident as a young teen I was quite disturbed. I have rewatched it several times since as I've gotten older and now enjoy its seedy strangeness, seeing it more as a beast fable about how the Entertainment business (and the business of War) fucks people up forever.

I also think it's Peter Jackson's best film, but don't tell the Ponies.

*cough* *cough*

The Keep was disturbing. Although I never saw it, The Human Centipede.

The Wicker Man.

The original, not the awful remake.

One of the best endings ever. Great film. Haunting.

Game over man, kids, bully, querelle, common threads, beetlejuice, roots, little children, wonderland, party monster (doc ) , gattaca, fear, the informers, american psycho, penitentiary 2, this is the end, the english patient, star maps, looking for mr. goodbar, freeway, inside 9/11, lolita (both), tanya's island, the dreamers, pretty baby, and anything by almodovar.

The Brood. OMG.

Bad Lieutenant. Pretentious disturbing bullshit

Some of the choices are not nearly as disturbing as others. Another vote for Michael Haneke’s original 1997 Funny Games, and his White Ribbon. Both beautifully directed and really disturbing.

Korean film The Housemaid will shock you, and Japanese film Audition will sicken you.

The Piano Teacher

Reading this thread makes me realize that I really don’t care for disturbing movies. The only ones I’ve seen more than once are Blue Velvet and A Clockwork Orange. The others I tried to block out.

Has anyone seen The Greasy Strangler, that movie was beyond weird.

Saw

Wind River

Brazil ..depressing Henry the portrait of a serial killer...disgusting.

Are you illiterate, R195, or just lazy and stupid?

And dull.

And a twat.

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death

Australian films:

Wolf's Creek

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Lake Mungo

Can we please have some more recommendations for weird/creepy movies that aren't gory, violent, sexually fucked-up or just outright gross? Has anyone seen The Killing of a Sacred Deer?

White Girl

Zoo - Peter Greenway Two twins lose their partners and become obsessed with animal decay and a handicap lady.

Crash - David Cronenberg People with a sexual fetish on car crash scenes.

Idioternne - Lars von Trier Group of people pretend to be mentally handicapped to take advantage of others and disrupt the bourgeoisie. Includes explicit sex orgy. Not gory at all and disturbing in a whole different way.

Salon the 120 days of Sodom by Passolini - fascists force teens to act out all the chapters of the Marquee of Sade - includes coprophagia (aka eating shit).

A Serbian Movie - hung porn star is offered a last job that turns out to be a field day of depravity - includes fucking a baby ( really) and dead corpses.

Funny games - original Hanneke film not the American remake. Sick fucks torture a family for fun in long takes where you feel their pain and suffering.

Boxing Helena - A surgeon gets obsessed with his neighbor after an accident. Rare case of a fucked up fare directed by a woman - David Lynch's daughter. Madonna was meant to star in it but gave up apparently due to the content and got on a legal battle with them. The end of this film is WTF and it was the first movie I watched on cable by accident at 12 that truly fucked me up.

I realized writing and reading this thread that most movies specially euro or Asian fare in this list are very misogynistic. Even gay directors like Greenway won't scape that. Won't include Gaspar Noe for the reasons mentioned.

Most disturbing aspects of life are related to gore murder or sex so why the hang up?

Verhoeven's The 4th Man

Yes, yes, yes. Brilliant film.

[quote]Most disturbing aspects of life are related to gore murder or sex so why the hang up?

Because they're unimaginative, cheap ways to illicit a response from the audience?

We Were One Man (Nous étions un seul homme) 1979.

It's incredible that so original a gay film like this could be made in 1979, (or Taxi Zum Klo), and so banal and unchallenging a film like Brokeback Mountain could win awards 20 years later.

The Seventh Continent- a family commits suicide, based on a true life story

The Lobster-In a dystopian society, single people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choice

Dogtooth.

You guys mentioned that director's Lobster and Killing of A Sacred Deer, but you left out his best, most relevant and disturbing film.

LAME POSTERS HAVE MIS-IDENTIFIED THE FOLLOWING FILMS AS "WEIRD" AND "DISTURBING":

Pretty Woman

Gone Girl

Lovely Bones

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Manchurian Candidate

Suspiria

Rope

Poison

Mark of the Devil

Pedro Almodovar anything

Cheap Lars Von Trier anything

Being John Malkovich

Poltergeist

The Wiz

Splice

Flowers in the Attic

Any Exorcist movie

Spanking the Monkey

A.I.

Mysterious Skin

Gerry

Satyricon

Querelle

Roots

Gattaca

The English Patient

Star Maps

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Freeway

Lolita

Dreamers

The Brood

Meet the Feebles

Beetlejuice

IF ANY OF THESE FILMS DISTURB YOU, YOU NEED TO GROW SOME FUCKING NUTS.

r65 are you talking about For A Lost Soldier?

Please F/F the bigots @ r69 and r87.

If you want to gay bash, you came to the wrong forum.

AGAIN.

The Gang's All Here

The finale Polka Dot Ballet is one of the most bizarre things you'll see in your life and wish you hadn't. Gay men don't even laugh at this they go into toxic shot.

Old religious people actually say What the Fuck?

r199 wants "weird and disturbing" movies without any gore, violence, fucked-up sexuality or grossness.

You know, the CLEAN dirt.

It's like asking for water without any hydrogen or oxygen elements, which makes r199 the most disturbing weirdo here.

P.S. The Killing of a Sacred Deer does not fit your criteria.

I would have to say the most fucked film I have ever seen is a 2016 Polish film called Plac zabaw (English title Playground).

Very much like a Michael Haneke film about a bunch a ordinary kids on the last day of school that about 55 minutes takes the darkest and sickest turn of events I have ever witness in a film. Seriously fucked, offensive and downright exploitive.

Few people have seen Matthew McConaughey in KILLER JOE, but you won't forget what they do.

In Darkness is a truly sickening Holocaust movie.

Apocalypse Now fits the bill.

2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut make Stanley Kubrick another master of disturbing.

Add Palindromes to Todd Solondz's Happiness.

Ken Park

Last House On Dead End Street

Their's a German movie where a group of non mentally disabled people live in commune and pretend in public to be mentally disabled, it's very disturbing explicit sexual conduct, scenes of abuse etc. I remember watching it in my teens when I was going through a art-house/ foreign movie phase, it was even more disturbing than another foreign film where nazi soldiers going to orphanages to rape the teens.

R199 how about the French b/w gay-interest film LES AMITIÉS PARTICULIÈRES?

Weird, or at least atypical because it is unapologetically a teen love story with young gay heroes shot in the late 1950s (although it was released in 1964); and disturbing because of the ages of the two leading lovers (the younger is around 12 years old while his beloved is around 16) and the desperately sad ending (implicit & 'clean', but tragic nonetheless). Even though it is chaste, LES AMITIÉS seems like a film that would never get made today (cue the CMBYN jokes).

Return to OZ, BLACKFISH, stranger by the lake, cruising, body without soul.

Day of the Locust. That ending. Ugh. I still have traumatic flashbacks.

Call Me By Your Name

Does L.I.E. count? It's more surreal than disturbing, I think.

Kids is pretty disturbing.

Here ya go. When I lived downtown NY during the VHS era, this was always in at Tower Video. I think people were afraid to rent it because even the box was disturbing.

Makes "Eraserhead" seem like "Ernest Saves Christmas" says Critic's Choice Time Magazine.

Begotten VHS cover

Farewell Uncle Tom (Addio Zio Tom) appears to be a serious docudrama on the horrors of slavery, but essentially it's an excuse to film crowds of naked men, women and children in degrading circumstances. It was filmed in Haiti with the cooperation of the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier.

Sleepers, mac and me, the devil in miss jones

Husbands and Wives

Gummo from 1997

Videodrome

'Repulsion' w/ Catherine Deneuve, directed by Polanski

I found Sweetie a bit disturbing but I'd have to rewatch to be sure.

Dans ma peau (2004). story of a woman who starts self mutilating and eating her own flash.

Under the skin (2013)

Kill List (2011)

Dogtooth (2009)

Hounds of Love (2016)

Phenomena (Dario Argento 1985)

I don't remember the title but I saw this movie about a deaf girl who is quite promiscuous and befriends an ex con with mental problems and she's raped by several men and i think killed,and he goes on a killing spree to find each one of them. There's a scene where he takes hostage the entire family of one of the rapists and deicides if he should kill them all or at least spare the kids.If someone remembers the title....it's prob 5-6 years old movie.

Caligula - got a lot of hype when it came out and it got a lot of press. I was one who went to see it out of curiosity. As a product of a Catholic school upbinging, and being just out my teens, it was a lot to take in and I remember being weirded out by most of it.

I didn't see Caligula until years later, on video. I couldn't understand how they got heavyweights like Peter O' Toole and John Gielgud to be in what was in effect, a schlocky porno movie produced by Bob Guccione.

Written by Gore Vidal. It was an experimental, permissive, and arthouse film era. The prospect of making an art film with hardcore sex must have been intriguing.

Because' r237, O'Toole etc thought they were filming a legitimate movie. The hardcore sex was edited in later.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Gay iincest movie "From beginning to Ed"

I haven't seen this but I think it falls under weird.

Song of Norway

R211 is the creator of A Serbian Film. I've really gotten under your skin for some reason, haven't I?

The Acid House... don't remember all of it, but in the first story in the film "The Granton Star Cause" the character turns into a fly and watches his mother fucking his father with a strap on.

The Hills Have Eyes.

Now people are just listing weird movies.

Lolita by Kubrick The Haunting with Julie Harris A Woman Under the Influence with Gena Rowlands

r220 the film is Danish and is already mentioned here. It's called Idioterne/the idiots by Lars von Trier.

R217 os palindromes the one about the Jesus freaks killing abortists?

[quote]I didn't see Caligula until years later, on video. I couldn't understand how they got heavyweights like Peter O' Toole and John Gielgud to be in what was in effect, a schlocky porno movie produced by Bob Guccione.

Bob Guccione of Penthouse fame was the producer. He snuck onto the sets after the production wrapped for the day to shoot the hardcore. The "heavyweights" were paid for their work and had no say or control. They did eventually release an R rated versions in theaters. Maclom McDowell and Helen Mirren do a commentary on the DVD and think the inserts were just silly.

Hotel New Hampshire; just disturbing.

The Gift

Liquid Sky (1983) which has recently been restored and is finally out on Blu Ray.

"For a Lost Soldier" Not really weird, but quite disturbing, basically a recruitment film for NAMBLA. A sweet and romantic film about an affair between a 12 year old Dutch boy and a Canadian soldier that helps liberate his village at the end of WW2. I remember watching it and being moved and disgusted at the same time.

In the past, Sundance and IFC aired a lot of the films mentioned, now they're showing repeats of "The Andy Griffith" show. WTF? They were the best go-to channels for weird indie films.

Butterfly Kiss, what a creepy film, it starred Amanda Plummer as a lesbian serial killer on the loose in Northern England. What a disturbing film. She's normally so creepy, she makes any film weird. The music was by Bjork and PJ Harvey.

Wish I could remember the name of a weird US film about a veterinarian who experiments on animals creating creepy hybrids. What a fucking creepy movie. The vet is so warped he even uses his GFs dog to create a hybrid.

A film called ZOO, about the guy who died after being fucked by the horse. It's weird because of the general tone, not because it's explicit.

Gaspar Noe's Into the Void, it's like a never ending acid trip and waaaay too long.

An excellent disturbing film was The Skin I Live In with Antonio Banderas. "In honor of his late wife who died in a flaming car accident, scientist, Dr. Robert Ledgard, is trying to synthesize the perfect skin which can withstand burns, cuts or any other kind of damage. As he gets closer to perfecting this skin on his flawless patient, the scientific community starts growing skeptical and his past is revealed that shows how his patient is closely linked to tragic events he would like to forget." This film is definitely work seeing.

LOL at the poster who said "anything Almodovar". must be a 88 yo baptist frau posting from Missouri.

My two cents. I find everyone has their own threshold of what is bad/terrible. I try to stay away from poorly made movies, so I movies I gravitate towards have a more polished feel. That said, here is my list.

Martyrs Tenderness of the Wolves Singapore Sling Audition Antichrist Baby of Macon

Heneke is a great one for disturbing -- Benny's Video, The Piano Teacher, The Seventh Continent.

I actually love For A Lost Solider -- if you read the book, it is not as sweet as the movie is. There is biting involved! It is a great movie though.

The Vanishing

I find these comic book/hero movies very disturbing. I had no idea so many people were into simple minded garbage.

Most of Peter Greenaway's films are disturbing, that's his schtick. He must surely have figured out a long time ago, he'd never become a wealthy director. His films are visually sumptuous, with great performers and performances, yet they are always super bizarre and always a mind fuck. In the end, most have been somewhat unsatisfying.

Mientras duermas (Sleep tight), 2011. I saw the film years ago and am still creeped out.

I'll try not to repeat films I've seen mentioned already. Here are a few I think have slipped under the radar over time.

CORD - with Vincent Gallo and Meg Tilly (a schlocky, bad film, with a made-for-cable-tv vibe… but weird and mean, stuck in my head).

CAUDECUC, VAMPIR - The cinematographer on a 1970 Jess Franco Vampire film with Herbert Lom shot his own silent footage on set with what looks like a Pixlevision camera, then added sparse sound effects and tried to make his own movie out of it. This film gave me a headache.

THE WONDERFUL LAND OF OZ (1969, dir: Barry Mahon) - Painfully low budget adaption of L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Land of Oz made to show in a kid's theater at an amusement park is the stuff of nightmares. Director (who made porn films for a living) and cast went on to do other equally creepy children's films.

WHITE GIRLS - Surprised no one's mentioned this yet. I always thought this film was disturbing.

The Saddest Music in the World by Guy Maddin.

Changling.. with Angelina Jolie. The disturbing scenes of the boys being kidnapped and murdered.

A Perfect World

Equinox, which many insist was the basis for The Evil Dead. This film was more annoying than disturbing.

It was super low budget, starred Frank Bonner form WKRP In Cincinnati fame. Ed Begley Jr. is listed as an assistant cameraman! It's basically the same storyline as The Evil Dead, instead of being in a remote cabin, people are on a picnic. "Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor." There's even that damn spinning book in this film, just like The Evil Dead.

The Witch (2016) will fuck you up. One of the best movies of the genre.

Wolf Creek

two words: NEWBORN PORN

A movie on Netflix where sex trafficked women are kept in a dingy house in some shit hole country, and men come in to have sex with them. the whole movie is dark/gray, and the rape scenes are so hard to watch. One of the girls might be deaf. Cant recall the name but felt so disturbed at who would even make it and that it was on a streaming service.

The Seasoning House (2012)? R270 I saw it years ago and yes very disturbing.

Salo I found disgusting yet boring. A Serbian Film was sick but watchable. Martyrs left me thinking for days so I think that is the most "disturbing" movie I have seen to date.

The Ring (2002)... very creepy and dark.

Salo without knowing the Italian Socio-political background at the time could be seen as boring or senseless. It's a revolutionary movie considering the circumstances and the impact it had and the fact that Pasolini ended up being murdered for political reasons just like the rest of thinkers and polititians in those years (the gay lover story is utter bullshit). It's much more than just a shocking movie a la Serbian Film,which is just shock value for the sake of being shocking.

^Serbian Movie was a political allegory too. it dealt with former Yugoslavia's civil war.

R275 The Gremlings had a political and social undertones too but you know....it's the Gremlings. A Serbian movie felt like a poor excuse for everything, whatever allegory is completely lost to "let's do everything we can to have people talk about us" whereby Pasolini is one of the most respected and controversial figures in Italian culture.

Do you mean Gremlins?!

[quote]THE WONDERFUL LAND OF OZ (1969, dir: Barry Mahon) - Painfully low budget adaption of L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Land of Oz made to show in a kid's theater at an amusement park is the stuff of nightmares. Director (who made porn films for a living) and cast went on to do other equally creepy children's films.

What could possibly be creepy about this epic? Seriously, this played kiddie matinees across the whole country in first run theaters.

R5, I agree about Dead of Night with Michael Redgrave. Creeps me out just thinking about it. It's old, British and not at all gory, Just horror-suggestive in the most brilliant way.

Some weirdo Hammer film with Pamela Franklin and her friend get abducted while cycling though the English countryside.I think the friend disappears and winds up dead. Hammer films were either laughable or extremely disturbing.

You’re all going to mock me but as a very young child (around 5 or 6 years old, I guess) I saw Dreamworks’ ANTZ, starting at the scene where an ant army butchers an army of termites. It is absolutely grotesque and I still get a sick rising-bile feeling in my throat whenever I so much as imagine it.

Even now, having seen it since, I wonder how anyone greenlit this film for children. It has gore, horror, violent combat, creepy innuendo...it’s awful. And Woody Allen should never have featured in a kids’ film. The Uncanny Valley factor of that boxy early CGI does not help matters at all.

Small Soldiers was similarly frightening & bizarre, but at least that was clever and had a point to make without resorting to gore.

Tusk. 281 posts and nobody mentioned Tusk.

Chuck and Buck.

Mr. B Natural!

Several people have mentioned Audition but so far no one has brought up Gozu.

The Mexican movie Here Comes the Devil is a perfect match for this thread.

[quote] The Mirror Is Two Faced

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Then there's this film with this woman. What was it called? I'm sure you remember it, it was with the woman. You know, that famous one.

Oh, and then there's the other movie the title of which I also forget. You know... it's about that thing that happens. Oh, you know the one!

Yes, that's it R271. Shudder. Thanks for coming up with the name.

[quote]Some weirdo Hammer film with Pamela Franklin and her friend get abducted while cycling though the English countryside.I think the friend disappears and winds up dead. Hammer films were either laughable or extremely disturbing.

“And Soon the Darkness”

And it was the French countryside

Great Double Features:

I Spit on Your Grave/I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave. --female revenge fun!

A Serbian Film/The Human Centipede - nothing else needs to be said.

For A Lost Soldier/In a Glass Cage. --pdo Alert!

The Devil's Experiment/Flower of Flesh and Blood --Japanese faux snuff that Charlie Sheen saw at a party and thought it was real so he turned it over to the FBI - what a wet blanket

Never heard of Tusk before so I just did a Google search. Holy fuck.

[quote]A movie on Netflix where sex trafficked women are kept in a dingy house in some shit hole country, and men come in to have sex with them. the whole movie is dark/gray, and the rape scenes are so hard to watch. One of the girls might be deaf. Cant recall the name but felt so disturbed at who would even make it and that it was on a streaming service.

The Seasoning House. It's disturbing, but apparently has some basis in fact. The men who use the brothel are military, and from the names (Goran, Ivan, Viktor) and the time period, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be happening during the Bosnian war/Balkans conflict. The most horrific part to me was the girl whose pelvis was broken by her john. Ugh.

Some people mentioned For A Lost Soldier...that is a film I wish I could unsee. The boy, who was supposed to be about 12 - which is bad enough - did not look a day over 10. He was truly a child, and it's hard to accept the degree of sentimentality with which the story is told when it's about a pedophile. All the people screeching about the consensual relationship between the couple in Call Me By Your name should be forced to watch this and see what a pedo movie REALLY looks like.

r281, NUT the fuck UP.

How are you going to survive this world if you can't survive ANTZ?

Seeing Barbara Hershey's prosthetic tits being squeezed by an invisible demon in The Entity scarred me as a five year old.

What is the point of all these films?

I've never seen the entire film but there was a movie released a couple of years ago about a Mexican woman who finds a creepy tentacle porn alien she has sex with it and then lures other people to it where they have sex with it and I guess they become addicted to it or something.

R296 there u go.

I always think about how desperate any actor had to be to participate in the human centipede movies. They are the grossest thing I’ve ever seen.

Skoonheid. Deeply triggering and offensive.

I just looked up the synopsis of SKOONHEID and I have to say; it sounds like a Westernised, urbanised, patriarchal & homosexual version of Mishima’s novel THIRST FOR LOVE. So, a boring adaptation.

What about watching it first r300. Or is that no longer a thing??

R235 Are you thinking of Red White and Blue? Although the girl wasn't deaf, IIRC.

R55 So glad you mentioned two of the most shocking to me; Zoo and the Skin I LiVe In, the latter is criminally underrated.

I'll add to the list: Beyond the Black Rainbow. Must have a LONG attention span for it though. Certainly not a masterpiece, but given it was the filmmaker's debut film, it still is great and ultimately a film you may never forget if you're into spirituality/new age stuff.

The ring, the exorcist, the silence of the lamb, taxi driver, and the one where De niro bites off a woman's cheek, for me.

R302 yes thanks! for some reason I will never remember this title and you're right she's not deaf.

wow Beyond the Black Rainbow!! Completely forgot about this one. The Ost was phenomenal.

speaking of BTBR I just remembered another very destabilizing sci-fi movie from some years ago: Upstream Color.

Asia Argento’s THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS (2004).

There are some disturbing turns in the plot, with crossdressing a child the least of it.

R306 Lmao @ the whole JT LeRoy scam.

In a Glass Cage -- artsy and edgy. I actually love the movie, however creepy it may be.

SpiceWorld the movie.

Spirited Away was seriously the weirdest Disney cartoon in my life.

Tie me up Tie me down-1990 Where a violently kidnapped woman falls in love with the kidnapper and they get married or something. Pedro Almodovar

Disgusting movie populated by retards. Annoying because Antonio Banderas was NOT gorgeous enough for the plot.

Ladybug, Ladybug.....interesting cast

The War Zone, mentioned up thread, Tim Roth's directing debut, will also be remembered for the the nude scene showing the very pregnant, in real life, Tilda Swinton, with her huge hanging breasts.

The main storyline, the father, played by Ray Winstone, has been fucking his teen daughter for many years. He usually takes her from the back and also anally, so he won't have to look at her. He keeps telling her what they're doing is completely normal. What a fucking creepy movie. The young woman hired to play the daughter wasn't much of an actress, she seemed to be hired for her huge boobs. Ray Winstone is gross, it made the sex scenes more repulsive.

Colin Farrell is listed as being in this film, but I don't remember him in it.

[quote]Ladybug, Ladybug.....interesting cast

I started watching it on TMC a few years ago because of the cast and if you aren't upset by the end of this movie, there's something wrong with you. Brilliant movie from the director of "Last Summer" & "Diary Of A Mad Housewife".

That's why I watched it the first time as well, r314. So stark and gloomy.

R295- I’m wondering the same thing.

Any of the Gregg Araki movies from the 90's, but especially Doom Generation and Nowhere.

R292- I looked up The Lost Soldier on Amazon. Just the images on Google we’re ten times worse than CMBYN. That kid is really little. The funny thing was, when I looked up the reviews on Amazon, there is one guy there who tracks every negative review by accusing the reviewer of “not understanding love” or some such shit. I bet he’s the hidden CEO of NAMBLA.

I meant just the images on Google were ten times worse than CMBYN.

This one is a must see. I don't it was posted here?

R320 looks like what would happen if David Cronenberg and Brian DePalma had a baby.

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Tetsuo looked like a film out of the 60s or 70s, hard to believe it was made in 1989. Not to mention, it looks extremely low budget, more comical than scary. I prefer the more current Japanese horror films, such as "The Ring" and The Eye".

that 90s movie where that teen guy has sex with his mom.

Jacob's Ladder

Luna

Shanghai Surprise Truly horrifying.

R323 well the style was a precise decision from the director, it's a cyber punk horror movie. Super Low budget and is kind of a cult movie. It's supposed to be weird in a comical way,it's a satirical take on Japanese culture of office employees and economic struggles and alienation.

[quote]that 90s movie where that teen guy has sex with his mom.

Spanking The Monkey.

"Twister" starring Dylan McDermott, Suzy Amis, Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover and William Burroughs.

Takes place in Lawrence, Kansas. A family who is so bizarre and twisted they must be seen to be believed. Oddly compelling though. I have seen it three times.

If you remember when Crispin Glover pulled the kick stunt on Letterman in the late 90s, he was dressed as and in character of the guy he played in Twister named Howdy.

Raped by a bear

The Human Centipede. JFC there's a sick fuck who came up with this shit.

I have the feeling the upcoming thriller "Greta" with Isabelle Huppert is going to fit into this "disturbing" category.

R5 I love Polanskis Fearless Vampire Slayers and feel that more people should see it. It's an absolutely gorgeously shot film.