The Talented Mr. Ripley
Saw
Bad Education (La Mala Educación)

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

One of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.

here are a few films that have sometimes kept we awake at night and some have left me totaly mesmerised -
1.Mulholland drive - found it hard to tell if was genius or madness or somewhere in between
2.Cube 2 Hypercube - any film dealing with time can be confusing but this takes the biscuit
3.Twelve Monkeys - just the scene in the mental institute

Well, elaborately constructed movies like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snitch. In the sense that, I had to watch them a couple of times to follow the plot.

Too, Reqiuem for a Dream and Kids screwed with my emotions, and made me contemplate issues (as well as Happiness and all Solodnz films for that matter.)

And in a strictly baffling way, Eraserhead, another Lynch movie AND numerous Cronenbergs.

I'd like to welcome myself back, been gone for a while, nice seeing so many new faces -er...distinguished names...

Communion (w/ Christopher Walken)

Does a good job of suggesting some kind of giant space-time psychedelic spiritual conspiracy involving aliens...based on a "true" book for what that's worth. Anyway, it proposes that people really have no idea what the hell is going on in the universe, which is probably true but scary to face. Anyway, it messed with my thinking a bit

1. Jacob's Ladder
2. Total Recall
3. Dead Ringers
4. Blaire Witch Project
5. Groundhog Day

A few movies that messed with me:

Peeping Tom
Session 9
Ichi The Killer
M
Breaking the Waves
Decalogue (esp. 1 & 5)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Curse of Frankenstein (1st horror movie I saw at 8, eeeeeeeeeee!!! I'm still scared)
Oh, and Donnie Darko (I love that movie)

A clockwork orange
Crash (the one where mad car drivers risks their lives in racing challenges and make sex all the time. Doesn't seem a great movie if you consider my description, but it is really twisted.)
Happiness
Seul contre tous
Spawn (seems i'm the only one on earth who loved that movie...)
and more...and this is the only kind of movies I like...always "disgusting" movies that hurts and show the darkest side of the world....

Yeah but Lord of the rings are great movies too!

The Butterfly Effect
The Mothman Prophecies
Twelve Monkeys
American Psycho (mainly because it was simply disturbing)
Donnie Darko (Very Messed Up)

By the way, i thought these were all superb movies - just a little twisted.

Believe it or not, "Sliding Doors". It's trippy to think how different your life could've turned out because of a minor change, like missing a train or(in my case)leaving the house a little bit later when heading to the babysitter's. Maybe my parents would have missed that drunk driver & he could have just hit a tree.

With no "pun" intended, i had forgotten about MOMENTO until something jogged my memory.

A very good, but rather confusing tale i thought.

Zooming to the top of the list: "The Descent" Those flippin' 'cave-dwellers' were the ugliest, nastiest, creepiest movie monsters I'd ever seen! I actually had trouble sleeping that night!

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Originally posted by Nathan25:
I haven't figured out how to quote someone else yet, but I wanted to thank you, PRG for putting the movie "Ghost in the Shell" on your list. I just watched it tonight. I thought it was a pretty incredible movie. It had a lot of Biblical ideas in it, which are always thought provoking.

If you or anyone know of some other movies in that same vain please let me know.

Thanks

You guys are talking about the same anime film from 1995 (adaptation of the manga comic), correct? I have always wanted to rent this movie...just making sure it's the same movie you guys are referring to.

When I was a young kid, I saw a movie called "It's Alive"(1978). It was about a newborn baby that had fangs and claws and homicidal tendencies. I'm sure that, if I watched the movie now, it would be laughably bad but when I was seven, I lost alot of sleep because of that movie.

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:
Whoever said these - you must be pretty open minded to have sat all the way through them. I found them very disturbing -

Faces of Death
Cannibal Holocaust
Eraserhead

I did end up sitting through all of these.

Faces of Death - It depends on which one (I,II,III, etc...), but most scenes were debunkable. The worst scenes involved animals and slaughter houses. That's kind of a cheap shot, if you ask me.

Cannibal Holocaust - Classic revenge movie. Kind of.

Eraserhead - I found the "In heaven..." musical number pretty distressing. I was really uncomfortable watching dance her awkward little dance and looking at her fat cheeks.

As for the movies that really really gave me pause...

1. The Day After - I was 8 when this came out. Way too young to see people getting vaporized left and right. I was scarred by the image of people's skeletons showing through their opaque white bodies when the missiles hit. It was the first time I saw the classic mushroom cloud and seeing the smoke trails of the ICBMs shooting out of everyday landscape... It was all too much. AND we were knee deep in the Cold War. Fck! It took me years to get over.

2. Irreversible - The head bashing scene. Jeezus... It took me months before I could watch any type of violence after that. It looked sooo real. His skull would cave in just a little with each blow of the fire extinguisher. His lower jaw will moving when his face was a pancake. Fck again! Oh, and terrible, horrific, 8 minute long rape scene didn't help either.

Anyway, I'm better now.

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Originally posted by 12oz.Mouse:
As for the movies that really really gave me pause...

1. The Day After - I was 8 when this came out. Way too young to see people getting vaporized left and right. I was scarred by the image of people's skeletons showing through their opaque white bodies when the missiles hit. It was the first time I saw the classic mushroom cloud and seeing the smoke trails of the ICBMs shooting out of everyday landscape... It was all too much. AND we were knee deep in the Cold War. Fck! It took me years to get over.

2. Irreversible - The head bashing scene. Jeezus... It took me months before I could watch any type of violence after that. It looked sooo real. His skull would cave in just a little with each blow of the fire extinguisher. His lower jaw will moving when his face was a pancake. Fck again! Oh, and terrible, horrific, 8 minute long rape scene didn't help either.

Those sound horrific, I don't think I will ever in my right mind choose to watch those. Thanks

So movies that messed with my mind:

The Butterfly Effect - all the twisted possiblities

A Clockwork Orange - what an effing journey

The Science of Sleep - I loved this film, I thought about for days.

Recently I rented "Flatliners" and viewed it again. For some reason this second viewing left me feeling as though I now had a pesty splinter in my mind. I knew it was the issues of "sin and redemption; estrangement and reconciliation" that pained me but I could not remove them for several days. This movie spoke to the human condition on several levels. Kevin Bacon's "ghost of the past" has the ability to scare most anyone.

I can't believe nobody mentioned Oldboy! For me, that movie is the ultimate mindscrew. The ending scenes practically broke me down.

definitely Requiem For A Dream
the granddaddy of all disturbing movies