SoulAlive said:

‘The Exorcist’(1973)——Not only is this the scariest movie of all time,but it is really provocative and disturbing on so many levels.The whole religion/devil aspect of it freaked a lot of people out in the 70s and some of the scenes are too much to handle.I always have to “prepare myself” to watch it

I saw it first during my freshman year of college in the student rec room. I lived in student apartment housing, but thank God I had enough sense not to watch it in my place, because my room mate was out of town , and I was messed up that entire weekend afterwards. I think I had everybody on our floor running in and out of our apartment for those two days

Since The Excorcist already got a shout out, I can think of others...

Netflix documntaries are doing a bang-up job of painting the television landscape with disturbing content right now.

Recently I checked out these two and right now they're at a tie for me.

kpowers said:

Lord of the Flies and when Piggy gets killed. Just the whole mood of how society breaks down.

We read LOTF in Political Science class to illustrate that exact point. That was so messed up.

onlyforaminute said:

Speaking as someone who doesn't enjoy horror movies and has avoided most over the past 30 years. Antichrist by Lars Von Trier. I think I'm still 😠. disturbed but enjoyed... A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess disturbed in a different way, still enjoyed... Hunger by Steve McQueen More later... [Edited 7/12/21 19:42pm]

Von Trier is such a provocative film maker. I have to be in a "mood" to watch his films and it always takes me time to recover after viewing. I've only seen a few of his films.

Dogville was the tamest of the three for me, but even with these being known as some of Trier's less controversial films, I've always felt I got enough of his stomp you in the heart-stab you in the psychological gut style of film making to discern that his other movies might be too much for me, so I had to just leave a lot of the others alone.

Ottensen said:

onlyforaminute said:

Speaking as someone who doesn't enjoy horror movies and has avoided most over the past 30 years. Antichrist by Lars Von Trier. I think I'm still 😠. disturbed but enjoyed... A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess disturbed in a different way, still enjoyed... Hunger by Steve McQueen More later... [Edited 7/12/21 19:42pm]

Von Trier is such a provocative film maker. I have to be in a "mood" to watch his films and it always takes me time to recover after viewing. I've only seen a few of his films.

Dogville was the tamest of the three for me, but even with these being known as some of Trier's less controversial films, I've always felt I got enough of his stomp you in the heart-stab you in the psychological gut style of film making to discern that his other movies might be too much for me, so I had to just leave a lot of the others alone.

If I ever make it to hamburg we're hittin the cinema

Gonna post this one again. Watching this movie will make you want to take a shower






Or a bath


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Ottensen said:

i felt scared emerging from the theater after se7en, the blair witch project and the x-files movie

the most subtly long-term disturbing for me was youth without youth

herb4 said:

Gonna post this one again. Watching this movie will make you want to take a shower






Or a bath


https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/gummo-bathtub-scene.jpg

But you can't wash it out of your mind...

The Favourite. It disturbed me that anyone thought it was Oscar worthy.

Genesia said:

The Favourite. It disturbed me that anyone thought it was Oscar worthy.

Maybe for acting?

But the ending really F'd me up!

CynicKill said:

Genesia said:

The Favourite. It disturbed me that anyone thought it was Oscar worthy.

Maybe for acting?

But the ending really F'd me up!

The acting was not that good.

The ending? You mean that "first year of film school" send-up with the rabbits?

Seriously. My friend and I stood outside the theater afterward, had a smoke and just looked at each other while repeating, "What the hell kind of mess was that?"