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Twisted fucked up movies

The kind of movies I personally most like are those with twisted characters and script. For example: Gone Girl, The handmaiden, Parasite, The favorite, Elle, etc.

You guys can recommend me more movies of this type?

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by Anonymousreply 207December 8, 2020 5:17 AM

The Grifters

by Anonymousreply 1November 9, 2020 3:24 PM

Op, here...

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by Anonymousreply 2November 9, 2020 3:25 PM

August: Osage County

by Anonymousreply 3November 9, 2020 3:26 PM

Anything by Michael Haneke, but especially “The White Ribbon”

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (another Lanthimos)

“Swimming Pool” with Charlotte Rampling

by Anonymousreply 4November 9, 2020 3:47 PM

Morvern Callar

by Anonymousreply 5November 9, 2020 3:49 PM

Anything based on a Jim Thompson novel (the aforementioned The Grifters is a classic, but also fun are This World, Then The Fireworks, After Dark, My Sweet, and Coup de Torchon). I'd also add the William Friedkin/Tracy Letts' Killer Joe, with Matthew McConnaughey naked and unhinged.

by Anonymousreply 6November 9, 2020 3:53 PM

Altman's "3 Women" (1977)

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by Anonymousreply 7November 9, 2020 4:56 PM

The Last Seduction starring Linda Fiorentino. It takes a terrific actress to make you cheer on a totally amoral character, who does more and more terrible things to get her way.

by Anonymousreply 8November 9, 2020 5:10 PM

A Serbian film

by Anonymousreply 9November 9, 2020 5:12 PM

Working Girl.

About a woman's ruthless rise to an undeserved corporate position as she destroys anyone who stands in her way/

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by Anonymousreply 10November 9, 2020 5:12 PM

Here you go, OP.

The Honeymoon Killers.

Enjoy!

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by Anonymousreply 11November 9, 2020 5:13 PM

Ooooo, someone posted a copy on Halloween that has no subtitles.

Excellent!

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by Anonymousreply 12November 9, 2020 5:15 PM

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker. It's not very well known, but I think a copy used to be on YouTube. It's about a woman who goes insane when her nephew decides to distance himself from her and have a life of his own and there's some really creepy incest vibes and about 400 twists and turns throughout. Susan Tyrrell plays the aunt and she gives a performance that makes Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest appear understated. Also had Jimmy McNichol, Julia Duffy, and Bill Paxton.

by Anonymousreply 13November 9, 2020 5:21 PM

Melancholia

by Anonymousreply 14November 9, 2020 5:35 PM

DOGTOOTH owns this thread.

IGBY GOES DOWN.

WHITE RIBBON.

FUNNY GAMES

BRIGHTBURN

MISERY

by Anonymousreply 15November 9, 2020 5:36 PM

EYES WIDE SHUT

by Anonymousreply 16November 9, 2020 5:37 PM

The Naked Kiss.

by Anonymousreply 17November 9, 2020 5:37 PM

Midsommar for the win

by Anonymousreply 18November 9, 2020 5:41 PM

AMOR ES PERROS

by Anonymousreply 19November 9, 2020 5:42 PM

LOGAN'S RUN

SOYLENT GREEN

by Anonymousreply 20November 9, 2020 5:43 PM

SHAME starring the Fassendong.

by Anonymousreply 21November 9, 2020 5:44 PM

GET OUT

by Anonymousreply 22November 9, 2020 5:44 PM

TIE ME UP, TIE ME DOWN

by Anonymousreply 23November 9, 2020 5:44 PM

IF.

It has an iconic final scene of Malcom McDowell and his cohorts machine gunning parents down. Bonus marks for gay content.

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by Anonymousreply 24November 9, 2020 5:59 PM

Shallow Grave with Ewan McGregor. It's been 20+ years since I saw it, but definitely one of the most fucked up and twisted movies I've ever seen.

by Anonymousreply 25November 9, 2020 6:05 PM

Audition (Japanese movie)

Seven Psychopaths

In Bruges

by Anonymousreply 26November 9, 2020 6:07 PM

Bone Tomahawk, for the cave scene if nothing else.

by Anonymousreply 27November 9, 2020 6:12 PM

Something I heard about with a Nobbs in it. (Shudder.)

It sounded like something that needed to have all of its copies burned.

by Anonymousreply 28November 9, 2020 6:16 PM

FUNNY GAMES by Michael Heneke. Either English or German version

by Anonymousreply 29November 9, 2020 6:21 PM

Nocturnal Animals.

by Anonymousreply 30November 9, 2020 6:23 PM

Snowtown

Hereditary

Come to Daddy

Look Away

The Perfection

Climax

The Beguiled

Elle

The Visit

by Anonymousreply 31November 9, 2020 6:46 PM

Ebola Syndrome

Yes of course it’s an Asian film

by Anonymousreply 32November 9, 2020 6:58 PM

Crash

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

by Anonymousreply 33November 9, 2020 7:35 PM

Pulp Fiction

by Anonymousreply 34November 9, 2020 7:38 PM

Taxi Driver

by Anonymousreply 35November 9, 2020 7:38 PM

Natural Born Killers

Alice's Restaurant

Easy Rider

by Anonymousreply 36November 9, 2020 7:44 PM

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

IRREVERSIBLE

KIDS / Larry Clark anything

by Anonymousreply 37November 9, 2020 9:11 PM

R2, that post runs from 2016-2019. Some things can be updated.

That said, Requiem for a Dream, no contest.

by Anonymousreply 38November 9, 2020 9:15 PM

Viridiana. It's hard to imagine they managed to get a movie like that made in Francoist Spain.

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by Anonymousreply 39November 9, 2020 9:19 PM

Ichi The Killer

by Anonymousreply 40November 9, 2020 9:22 PM

Martyrs might be the most fucked up movie ever.

by Anonymousreply 41November 9, 2020 9:23 PM

"Kalifornia" with a young trying-to-be-ugly psycho Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis as a white trash couple.

by Anonymousreply 42November 9, 2020 9:44 PM

We Need to Talk About Kevin. That kid was creepy as hell.

by Anonymousreply 43November 9, 2020 9:48 PM

Eraserhead

by Anonymousreply 44November 9, 2020 9:59 PM

"Something Wild"

"In Bruges" is a masterpiece.

by Anonymousreply 45November 9, 2020 10:09 PM

Eyes Without a Face (French, 1960) owns this thread

by Anonymousreply 46November 9, 2020 10:12 PM

Santa Sangre... I mean wtf was that

Recently saw Possessor and that was pretty this tree d as well

by Anonymousreply 47November 10, 2020 12:14 AM

Salo

The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover

The Vanishing (Dutch version)

by Anonymousreply 48November 10, 2020 12:48 AM

I came to submit Shallow Graves but r25 beat me to it

Very Bad Things

by Anonymousreply 49November 10, 2020 12:53 AM

Exquisite Cadaver. Starring Capucine of all people. Body parts in the mail.

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by Anonymousreply 50November 10, 2020 1:22 AM

Orphan

High Tension (Haute Tension)

The Men Behind The Sun owns this thread.

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by Anonymousreply 51November 10, 2020 1:55 AM

Scary Games. I didn't see the original and was not ready for the ending.

by Anonymousreply 52November 10, 2020 2:04 AM

Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017. Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

The Human Centipede (2009. Dir. Tom Six)

Snowpiercer (2013. Dir. Bong Joon Ho)

The Neon Demon (2016. Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

Aftershock (2012. Dir. Nicolás López)

by Anonymousreply 53November 10, 2020 2:14 AM

Martyrs and Inside are both two super fucked up French horror movies that you can't look away from.

by Anonymousreply 54November 10, 2020 2:33 AM

Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore, seriously.

by Anonymousreply 55November 10, 2020 2:43 AM

R51 “ The Men Behind The Sun owns this thread.”

Just watched the movie. OMFG! What the fuck did I just see? A sick sick horrible cruel violent film. I’m feeling sick now. WTF

by Anonymousreply 56November 10, 2020 3:48 AM

Let The Right One In

by Anonymousreply 57November 10, 2020 4:04 AM

Anything by Gaspar Noe or Lars Von Trier would probably fit.

by Anonymousreply 58November 10, 2020 4:27 AM

Spanking the Monkey. I hate the actor after watching it.

by Anonymousreply 59November 10, 2020 4:47 AM

Happiness

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by Anonymousreply 60November 10, 2020 4:54 AM

Most of these are films I really like. Shit, I'm twisted.

by Anonymousreply 61November 10, 2020 6:40 AM

I wanted to post Happiness last night, but was locked out, so r60 beat me to it.

Everyone in that movie except the kid son is deeply fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 62November 10, 2020 7:38 AM

David Lynch films.

"A long, deep sound."

"BABY WANTS TO FUCK!"

by Anonymousreply 63November 10, 2020 7:44 AM

Phantom thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Me and you and everyone we know (Miranda July, 2005)

Breaking the waves (Lars Von Trier, 1996)

by Anonymousreply 64November 10, 2020 7:44 AM

'I've made 30 stag films and I've never faked an orgasm!'

Before movie legend Jennifer Jones made her final screen appearance in the disaster flick Towering Inferno, she made this disaster.

Rock star/cult leader Bogart Peter Styvenson corrupts a fat heiress and her stag actress mother and homosexual father.

Like that bad night Tijuana, you hope the ordeal will fade from memory once the vomiting stops. Cruel and malicious, you can't stop watching as our jaw keeps dropping. Originally titled Angel, Angel Down We Go - the name was changed to capitalize on the still unfolding Manson Murders. Classy! One of my favorite "bad" films of all time.

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by Anonymousreply 65November 10, 2020 8:07 AM

Only Lovers Left Alive Don't Deliver us From Evil Mishima

by Anonymousreply 66November 10, 2020 9:30 AM

Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled

by Anonymousreply 67November 10, 2020 9:38 AM

MELANCHOLIA

SHAME

VIVARIUM

BERLIN SYNDROME

Anything with Tilda Swinton in it.

by Anonymousreply 68November 10, 2020 11:30 AM

The Devil's Rejects

Cannibal Holocaust

I Spit on Your Grave

The Strangers

by Anonymousreply 69November 10, 2020 12:36 PM

"Hello, Dolly!" Barbra was too young!

by Anonymousreply 70November 10, 2020 12:46 PM

Silent Scream (1979)

by Anonymousreply 71November 10, 2020 12:50 PM

"Dawson's 25 Load Weekend"

by Anonymousreply 72November 10, 2020 12:50 PM

Oldboy (the original)

by Anonymousreply 73November 10, 2020 1:11 PM

Betty Blue

by Anonymousreply 74November 10, 2020 1:15 PM

Escape Room - 2019

by Anonymousreply 75November 10, 2020 1:22 PM

Mrs. Doubtfire - Divorce propaganda aimed at perfectly nice couples going through a slight rough patch, telling wives to "break up your family, you'll end up with James Bond! Everything will be fine!" - Telling husbands to "give up on your marriage and your manhood, wear a dress, everything will be fine!"

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by Anonymousreply 76November 10, 2020 1:32 PM

Reflections In A Golden Eye. A must see.

by Anonymousreply 77November 10, 2020 1:36 PM

Mientras Duermes (Spain, 2011)

TBS (Holland, 2008)

by Anonymousreply 78November 10, 2020 1:51 PM

Two Danish films that are both an absolute must-see. Beautiful and twisted. I felt numb for days after seeing them.

The guilty (Den skyldige, 2018) - being remade in Hollywood with Jake Gyllenhaal

Queen of hearts (Dronningen, 2019)

by Anonymousreply 79November 10, 2020 2:07 PM

In a Glass Cage.

Battle Royale.

Pink Flamingos.

Last House on the Left (original of course)

I also give a hearty second to some of the ones already mentioned, including A Serbian Film, the Noe movies, Haute Tension and Inside. The last two were scored by François Eudes - an unsung genius who died a few years ago of cancer. Listen to the soundtracks - they are so hypnotic but kind of nauseating at the same time. A radical departure from typical histrionic horror movie violins. Those movies would not be as impactful without the dark, chill throb of those synthesizers. The first couple of minutes of the score to Inside always gives me goosebumps (link)

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by Anonymousreply 80November 10, 2020 2:07 PM

Any Japanese horror films

by Anonymousreply 81November 10, 2020 2:11 PM

Blood Simple

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by Anonymousreply 82November 10, 2020 2:15 PM

Angel of mine

Bokeh

by Anonymousreply 83November 10, 2020 2:16 PM

Ravenous

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by Anonymousreply 84November 10, 2020 2:20 PM

Our very own Boys in the Band.

by Anonymousreply 85November 10, 2020 2:41 PM

VIRIDIANA was made in France.

by Anonymousreply 86November 10, 2020 2:44 PM

House of Games

Oleanna

House of Sand and Fog

White Oleander

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by Anonymousreply 87November 10, 2020 4:43 PM

Hush—-about an author with a cat. It’s pretty brutal.

by Anonymousreply 88November 10, 2020 7:52 PM

Lantana (2001) w/Anthony LaPaglia

by Anonymousreply 89November 10, 2020 8:54 PM

Series 7: The Contenders. A Christine Vachon joint.

I used to tell people it was a Canadian reality show, and they would believe me. Stars Brooke Smith, the Girl in the Well from Silence of the Lambs, and it is terrific.

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by Anonymousreply 90November 10, 2020 8:57 PM

Hereditary

by Anonymousreply 91November 10, 2020 9:15 PM

Blood Simple looks magnificently horribe.

by Anonymousreply 92November 10, 2020 10:19 PM

Blood Simple is unlike many of the Coen's films. No dance numbers. few laughs

by Anonymousreply 93November 10, 2020 10:20 PM

Uzumaki, Suicide Club, Audition

by Anonymousreply 94November 11, 2020 12:54 AM

Be My Cat: A Film For Anne

by Anonymousreply 95November 11, 2020 12:58 AM

R89, you are so right! That movie was seriously fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 96November 11, 2020 2:00 PM

Blood simple is so good. Still vividly remember a scene with a guy being buried alive.

by Anonymousreply 97November 11, 2020 5:43 PM

“The Devils” by Ken Russell.

by Anonymousreply 98November 11, 2020 5:47 PM

Mulholland Drive

by Anonymousreply 99November 11, 2020 5:48 PM

"The Killing Ground" s brutal Australian film

by Anonymousreply 100November 11, 2020 6:01 PM

Crash (not the shit that won the Oscar).

by Anonymousreply 101November 11, 2020 6:03 PM

I just don’t get how brutalizing people and/or animals is entertaining. Apparently a lot of people do enjoy depraved cinema and it’s quite popular.

by Anonymousreply 102November 11, 2020 6:05 PM

"Angels and Insects" should own this thread. Fantastic cast, too, with Patsy Kensit first among equals, and amazing production values.

by Anonymousreply 103November 11, 2020 6:13 PM

[quote]Blood simple is so good. Still vividly remember a scene with a guy being buried alive.

R97 I don't remember that but I do remember M. Emmet Walsh getting his hand stabbed (ala Luca Brasi in the Godfather) except it was on windowsill.

by Anonymousreply 104November 11, 2020 6:14 PM

A Serbian Film (Српски филм) is quite the comedy.

by Anonymousreply 105November 11, 2020 6:14 PM

R102 I agree with you. Fucked up movies don't need to show anyone or anything brutalized. They can just fuck with your head...ala Mulholland Drive.

by Anonymousreply 106November 11, 2020 6:16 PM

What about fucked up TV episodes? The Jar from Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

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by Anonymousreply 107November 11, 2020 6:31 PM

Fractured (2019), the one with Sam Worthington.

by Anonymousreply 108November 11, 2020 7:08 PM

Wild at Heart

by Anonymousreply 109November 11, 2020 7:49 PM

The Machinist.

by Anonymousreply 110November 11, 2020 8:48 PM

There's an Orson Welles film called The Other Side of the Wind that is supposed to be...interesting.

by Anonymousreply 111November 11, 2020 11:39 PM

It's not R111

by Anonymousreply 112November 11, 2020 11:47 PM

Someone said that it bordered on porn is that true at all?

by Anonymousreply 113November 11, 2020 11:58 PM

The Music Lovers

Un Chien Andalou

Tango

by Anonymousreply 114November 12, 2020 12:23 AM

The Platform.

Really freaky, OP -- you'll love it, if you don't puke.

by Anonymousreply 115November 12, 2020 1:53 AM

Before Paul Verhoeven gave us SHOWGIRLS, we got THE 4TH MAN

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by Anonymousreply 116November 12, 2020 2:57 AM

The Russian Bride

by Anonymousreply 117November 12, 2020 7:48 AM

Peter Jackson's Bad Taste

by Anonymousreply 118November 12, 2020 10:36 AM

Brimstone (2016)

by Anonymousreply 119November 12, 2020 1:23 PM

Helter Skelter and Under The Skin

by Anonymousreply 120November 12, 2020 8:14 PM

Goodnight Mommy. Boring as well as fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 121November 12, 2020 10:32 PM

It's been ages since I've seen any, but many Fassbinder movies must fit this bill.

by Anonymousreply 122November 12, 2020 11:00 PM

Rid of Me.

This was one of the most awkward and uncomfortable movies I've ever seen. There is a tense scene where the main character encounters in a grocery store the woman who stole her husband . It involves period blood.

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by Anonymousreply 123November 12, 2020 11:01 PM

Young Adam - Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton

by Anonymousreply 124November 13, 2020 10:00 AM

R123 Rid of Me. I'm streaming today...thanks.

by Anonymousreply 125November 13, 2020 10:07 AM

Streaming from where?

by Anonymousreply 126November 13, 2020 6:23 PM

It's not a movie, but I just started watching and reading The Handmaid's Tale, and if you haven't seen it...it's really, really fucked up. The book offers a lot more insight into the protagonist's state of mind and the writing is so gorgeous, and that cushions the blow a lot. Watching the story play out is brutal.

The novels Blindness by Jose Saramago and The Road by Cormac McCarthy are two of my favorite books, and I've opted not to see either as a movie because I figured they'll be way too punishing as dramatized visually instead of in the mind's eye. But I imagine the movies are pretty fucked up to watch.

by Anonymousreply 127November 13, 2020 6:29 PM

R126 Amazon

by Anonymousreply 128November 13, 2020 6:31 PM

[quote]Peter Jackson's Bad Taste

Peter Jackson actually made quite a few disturbing and interesting films before he sold his soul to the CGI gods.

by Anonymousreply 129November 13, 2020 6:33 PM

Mulholland Drive, Melancholia and Eyes Wide Shut are three of my favorite movies, and they are twisted in their own ways. I don't rewatch a lot of movies, and I've seen all of these countless times.

I'm not really sure exactly how you characterize "twisted," but movies that give me the creeps include The Talented Mr. Ripley (which I love) and Se7en (which I'll probably never rewatch). I only saw Chinatown a few years ago, and it's a great twisted classic for a reason. Ditto Sunset Boulevard. Some of these older movies are really shockingly fucked up.

I googled "most twisted movies" to see what would come up that I've seen and for some reason Arrival comes up as a result. I don't think of the movie as twisted--unless they mean the narrative is convoluted--but if you haven't seen it, I highly, highly recommend it. It's an absolutely brilliant movie that completely evaded my radar when it came out.

Aronofsky comes to mind for "twisted" and "fucked up." I liked Pi but it hasn't aged that well. Requiem for a Dream falls into both categories, but I'll probably never watch it again. I thought Black Swan was a terrible, dumb movie, personally, but a lot of people loved it.

Likewise, people raved about Midsommar, and it is indeed twisted and fucked up, but I didn't think it was a very good movie in the end. It is pretty to look at much of the time, though. I didn't think it was as scary as it was supposed to have been, and the grossest moments felt forced for the sake of being gross and didn't really make sense to me plotwise, so meh, if you want a twisted movie, Midsommar fills the bill, but if you want a good movie, I'd suggest skipping it.

by Anonymousreply 130November 13, 2020 6:39 PM

"Leave Her to Heaven." Gene Tierney as a homicidal psychopath intent on destroying everyone around her, even after she dies!

by Anonymousreply 131November 13, 2020 6:41 PM

Burlesque because it involves Cher and Christina Aguilera stripping and hinges on 'air rights.'

by Anonymousreply 132November 13, 2020 6:48 PM

The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover.

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by Anonymousreply 133November 13, 2020 6:48 PM

R130 I agree with most of your choices. I'm glad I saw Requiem but I never want to watch it again. Deer Hunter is the same for me, once is enough. Older, twisted movies -- Detour comes to mind, Born to Kill, Gun Crazy.

Thanks for the post.

by Anonymousreply 134November 13, 2020 7:52 PM

A tale of Two sisters. Old boy.

by Anonymousreply 135November 14, 2020 7:54 AM

On Amazon, a French film, A Perfect Nanny ( English title - it’s not what you think . This is based on a true story occurring in 2012.

Not for the faint of heart.. It hurts my heart.

by Anonymousreply 136November 14, 2020 8:31 AM

Speaking of nannies, the TV show Servant is truly disturbing and fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 137November 14, 2020 8:39 AM

Yes, it's already been mentioned twice, but I just want to throw in my two cents worth on "Funny Games" (2007), because it's one of the most creepy movies I've ever watched. I wouldn't watch it again.

The movie briefly paints its beginning with an idyllic, calming brush to falsely set the tone, but then quickly devolves into a malevolent unreality for its hapless victims who's peaceful lives have just been shattered by the intrusion of two initially innocent-looking psychopaths into their world.

In addition to that premise, there's a plot twist in the latter half of the movie that takes an abrupt left turn which completely fucks with the viewer, and, it happens right at the moment when a more formulaic plot would begin to introduce some hope of resolution. This film turns the predictable tropes of a crime thriller on its head, and you are resigned to feeling absolutely hopeless.

Right up until the end, Funny Games messes with everything you would expect to happen.

by Anonymousreply 138November 19, 2020 6:23 PM

[quote] VIRIDIANA was made in France.

Huh? It was a Spanish-Mexican co-production filmed in Spain in its entirety.

by Anonymousreply 139November 19, 2020 6:28 PM

Maps of the Stars

Dead Ringers

Under The Silver Lake

by Anonymousreply 140November 19, 2020 6:41 PM

Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1995?), all the more disturbing because it was a true story. Stars a then-unknown Kate Winslet.

Cracks (Jordan Scott) — Eva Green’s best acting role and most disturbing coming of age film I’ve ever seen, but one of my favorites.

Kids (Larry Clark) was horrifying to watch when I was a teenager and I never looked at teenage boys the same way again.

by Anonymousreply 141November 19, 2020 6:49 PM

"Inheritance" (2020). Definitely creepy and twisted. Simon Pegg deserves an Oscar for this performance.

by Anonymousreply 142November 20, 2020 8:21 AM

We live in Godless times.

by Anonymousreply 143November 20, 2020 8:36 AM

It's not quite as out there as many listed here, but still, "Notes on a Scandal" is deliciously twisted and fucked up. Judi Dench preying on a daft Cate Blanchett is really entertaining.

by Anonymousreply 144November 20, 2020 9:40 AM

I remember Tale of Tales (2015) being quite fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 145November 20, 2020 9:54 AM

The Wizard of Oz is pretty fucked up if you choose to view it that way!

by Anonymousreply 146November 20, 2020 10:01 AM

Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford

by Anonymousreply 147November 20, 2020 12:51 PM

I'm watching The Animal Kingdom on TCM (from 1932) Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy. Nocturnal Animals closely follows the plot.

by Anonymousreply 148November 20, 2020 12:59 PM

The opening credits of Nocturnal Animals was a horror show..

by Anonymousreply 149November 21, 2020 3:04 PM

R133, OMG. I saw that movie in a theatre. I was the only one there, and it was fucked up! It got an X-rating at the time. (This was before NC-17.)

by Anonymousreply 150November 21, 2020 3:11 PM

Dead Ringers - yes, great suggestion

The Woman

Womb

Insomnia - The plot is pretty straightforward, but it's the kind of film that made me feel like my soul needed a shower.

by Anonymousreply 151November 21, 2020 3:19 PM

Return to Oz, fun but also kind of fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 152November 22, 2020 4:32 AM

Splice

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by Anonymousreply 153November 22, 2020 4:53 AM

El Topo

Gaspar Noe's Into the Void, starring the truly terrible 'actress' Paz de la Huerta.

by Anonymousreply 154November 22, 2020 4:54 AM

Labyrinth. A Gnome King falls in love with a 15 or 16 year old girl and then snatches her brother away to lure her to his kingdom so they can...? And plays tricks on her so she won’t make the time limit and her brother will be transformed into a gnome. She makes it to his castle and he gives her one last chance to choose to be with him forever as his lover. And she’s just a young teen who is socially awkward and role-plays fairly tales in parks rather than having friends her own age.

Love this move but it’s an f’ed up plot in this day and age. Sorta like a Grimm’s fairy tale.

by Anonymousreply 155November 22, 2020 6:29 AM

BLOODY MAMA with Shelly Winters and a Young, creepy Robert De Nero.

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by Anonymousreply 156November 22, 2020 6:38 AM

To the Devil, a Daughter (1976) starring Nastassja Kinski.

by Anonymousreply 157November 22, 2020 7:27 AM

So messed up!

— Ann Gentry is a social worker wracked with guilt about a severe car accident with serious repercussions for her husband. She is assigned to a new case: the eccentric and mysterious Wadsworth family. She quickly reveals that she has a special interest in the family's youngest member, a seemingly mentally impaired adult man in his 20s who does not have a name and is called only "Baby".

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by Anonymousreply 158November 22, 2020 7:48 AM

Evilspeak (1981). A cheap horror cult flick.

Motel Hell (1980) Another cheapo horror cult flick.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) B-movie cult flick.

by Anonymousreply 159November 22, 2020 7:49 AM

The Iron Lady - fancy trying to humanise that monster Margaret Thatcher.

by Anonymousreply 160November 22, 2020 8:09 AM

Like being kicked in the gut repeatedly for 2 hours. Love it.

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by Anonymousreply 161November 22, 2020 8:15 AM

Tatie Danielle, a French film about a bitter old woman determined to make everyone around her suffer. Great fun.

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by Anonymousreply 162November 22, 2020 9:32 AM

Has anyone ever seen Boxing Helena? I wanted to because it gets good reviews, but was a afraid it would be too FdU.

by Anonymousreply 163November 22, 2020 12:25 PM

Lanthimos's DOGTOOTH (2009).

Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION (1998).

Schrader's THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (1990).

by Anonymousreply 164November 22, 2020 1:22 PM

R163 I saw it years ago. Yes, it's fucked up. I remember reading at the time that Madonna wanted to play the woman! That would have put it over the top for sure.

R164 The Comfort of Strangers is one of my favorite: Rupert Evert, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren and the Venice backdrop.

by Anonymousreply 165November 22, 2020 1:42 PM

r13 .The first time I saw Funny Games I watched it knowing nothing about the film. It, at the time was nothing I was prepared for. American movies, especially remakes of a foreign film just don't do that....

The first shots were aerial views of the car driving to the summer home.I recognized it as Southhampton NY immediately

by Anonymousreply 166November 22, 2020 3:49 PM

R163 saw it once, years ago. It was quite scarring.

by Anonymousreply 167November 22, 2020 5:11 PM

Has anyone seen The Secrets We Keep? Twisted and fucked up. Great acting from the three leads. The plot reminded me of The Good Liar, which is also quite twisted.

by Anonymousreply 168November 22, 2020 5:26 PM

Orphan

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by Anonymousreply 169November 22, 2020 6:08 PM

Birth

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by Anonymousreply 170November 22, 2020 6:11 PM

Testuo: The Iron Man

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by Anonymousreply 171November 22, 2020 6:12 PM

In the Realm of the Senses:

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by Anonymousreply 172November 22, 2020 6:14 PM

"Hard Candy" fucked up my head but good.

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by Anonymousreply 173November 22, 2020 6:15 PM

How to Get Ahead in Advertising:

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by Anonymousreply 174November 22, 2020 6:17 PM

Orphan is a great one. How that got produced by a major Hollywood studio in this day and age is a miracle. I was pleasantly surprised by how fucked up that movie was.

by Anonymousreply 175November 22, 2020 6:39 PM

(R175)It’s one of the few things that Robert Downey Jr.’s dyke wife has produced outside of his movies.

by Anonymousreply 176November 22, 2020 11:00 PM

Tourist Trap but mostly for the disturbing visuals but warning if you have a fear of mannequins.

by Anonymousreply 177November 22, 2020 11:07 PM

1970's EQUINOX: "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."

Starred WKRP's Frank Bonner, he's listed as Frank Boers Jr..

Many claim the plot for this film was used for THE EVIL DEAD, the films are very similar. There's even the same spinning book!

by Anonymousreply 178November 23, 2020 1:47 AM

The Last Broadcast, another film extremely similar to another more popular film, The Blair Witch Project.

This film was made in 1998. "A film crew ventures into the forest in search of the mythical 'Jersey Devil'."

by Anonymousreply 179November 23, 2020 1:53 AM

U-turn. I find Billy Bob oddly attractive in that movie.

by Anonymousreply 180December 4, 2020 4:54 AM

Don’t know if it was mentioned but the “Suspiria” remake is pretty disturbing. The original, too, but the remake was something else.

by Anonymousreply 181December 4, 2020 5:08 AM

Ken Russell's 'Devils of Loudun' (1971) I still get the creeps just thinking about it.

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by Anonymousreply 182December 4, 2020 5:16 AM

Another vote for three women.

by Anonymousreply 183December 4, 2020 5:19 AM

Audition. Mulholland drive. Eyes wide shut?

by Anonymousreply 184December 4, 2020 7:15 AM

Antichrist

by Anonymousreply 185December 4, 2020 7:17 AM

Yentl. Scary, over-the-top schlockfest about a devious, lying FTM who cons a sheltered, naive girl into marrying "him" while "he" lusts over the girl's jilted fiance. And some tedious nonsense about going to America to study the Torah or some such.

Twisted and disturbing.

by Anonymousreply 186December 4, 2020 8:36 AM

R182 You don’t even know what it’s called

by Anonymousreply 187December 4, 2020 8:39 AM

Mame

by Anonymousreply 188December 4, 2020 8:43 AM

"The Skin I Live In" Spanish, Antonio Banderas.

"The Page Turner", in French

by Anonymousreply 189December 4, 2020 8:53 AM

Oldboy! (Actually a lot of the stuff Park Chan-wook directed are fucked up.)

Also: Bedevilled, I Saw the Devil, and Pieta. They're all Korean. They can definitely make the best, most twisted films. They're on a par with the Japanese. Some fucked up films from Japan are Audition, Cold Fish, and Suicide Club.

I've also seen some good European films that are pretty grotesque. A Serbian Film and Cannibal Holocaust stand out to me. And one that I would always find on movie lists but haven' watched yet: Irreversible.

by Anonymousreply 190December 4, 2020 10:30 AM

Seconding R181. Guadagnino's version of Suspiria is "something else."

Ohh and Ari Aster's horror films are also great!

by Anonymousreply 191December 4, 2020 10:32 AM

R189! Thanks for reminding me of The Skin I Live In. I love Elena Anaya. She's an out lesbian IRL, and she is incredible in that movie. And the ending...

by Anonymousreply 192December 4, 2020 12:47 PM

Another vote for the French film A Perfect Nanny, based on the 2012 Manhattan Nanny case. I was surprised by how boring the film was though. It should have been more of a character study or psychological thriller but it just sort of droned on.

by Anonymousreply 193December 5, 2020 4:41 AM

The lodge with Elvis's granddaughter was fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 194December 5, 2020 4:42 AM

The Skin I Live In was amazing. Twisted yes, but it wasn't gory, certainly not torture porn.

by Anonymousreply 195December 5, 2020 4:48 AM

Them, the 2006 French film about a couple living in a remote country house who are being harassed by mysterious assailants. The ending sure is a twist.

The film was supposedly based on real events.

by Anonymousreply 196December 5, 2020 4:57 AM

Porky's Revenge. Loved the hot young menz. But didn't like the movie having unnecessary heifers, and the boys facing danger. But they triumphed in the end.

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by Anonymousreply 197December 5, 2020 11:06 PM

I just finished Hereditary. The acting was superb; however, I wish I’d never seen it. I know this is going to stay with me for a few days for sure. And that young girl...Christ.

by Anonymousreply 198December 7, 2020 4:41 AM

[quote]Them, the 2006 French film about a couple living in a remote country house..... The film was supposedly based on real events.

I really doubt that. Just the filmmakers drumming up publicity. No one has been able to find real life events that are similar to the film.

by Anonymousreply 199December 7, 2020 4:45 AM

Sister My Sister - two maids, murder and incest

Flowers in The Attic! Made my spouse watch it and we were both really disturbed. Another incest theme. But damn was that grandmother scary and mean with the whip and the arsenic.

by Anonymousreply 200December 7, 2020 4:59 AM

Begotten. Jesus tittyfucking Christ....

by Anonymousreply 201December 7, 2020 5:12 AM

I think we’re alone now, the Tiffany documentary - disturbing

by Anonymousreply 202December 7, 2020 5:23 AM

Caché by Michael Hanneke, The Piano Teacher also from him, A Serbian Film. Anything by Gaspar Noé, specially Irreversible.

I've seen it all but I still don't understand what's the purpose of so much misanthropy in art from these people.

by Anonymousreply 203December 7, 2020 5:29 AM

"No One Lives" with DL favorite Luke Evans.

by Anonymousreply 204December 7, 2020 5:29 AM

R201 LOL yeah begotten is gross.

by Anonymousreply 205December 7, 2020 10:02 AM

I thought ‘I think We’re Alone Now’ was hilarious. The most disturbing thing I’ve seen maybe is a short film by Stan Brakhage on his Criterion release called ‘The Act of Seeing with One’s own Eyes’. It’s just autopsy footage with no sound for like 30mins or whatever. Yikes.

by Anonymousreply 206December 7, 2020 10:04 AM

R206 those two stalkers were crazy. how about julien donkey boy or gummo....harmony korine wrote some weird stuff

by Anonymousreply 207December 8, 2020 5:17 AM
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