I've seen most of the movies mentioned here 🫠
IMHO, A Serbian Film and Human Centipede 2 have some of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen. Realizing that they are made for shock value kind of make them laughable though.
SALO is often mentioned in lists of fucked up movies, but it's really not much. There's some poop eating, light rape and someone's tongue is pulled/cut out. It might have been shocking back in the day.
Irreversible made me feel nauseous and had an unsettling feeling from start to end. (Made me vary about Climax, which kind of have a similar feel, but is only fucked up to a much smaller degree). That one for too long scene that just foes on forever makes it the most disturbing film I have ever watched.
Heriditary has some fucked up scenes too and truly scared me. (But Midsommar bearly made an impression on me. Bearly).
Requiem for a Dream made me feel bad about drugs.
Bone Tomahawk kind of seems like an average action/adventurish movie in a western setting until... stuff happens.
Also worth a mention are Martyrs, Ôdishon, The Woman, Inside, The Girl Next Door (not the comedy) and either versions of Funny Games.
May have forgotten some.
(I have no plans to watch any of the Terrifier movies).
Edit: Totally forgot The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things somehow. Man, that is one fucked up movie. "Play with me Daddy".
There's a movie called A Serbian Film that will make the everyday person lose their marbles. Not my friend apparently, he's like "come on in and watch this movie with me that I'll proceed to use to test my manliness". So me and my other friend walk in to him sitting in a dull pebble chair about to consume a bowl of carolina reapers as his "movie snack". She could not sit through the first segment, and I think I had trouble halfway through, but there he is, just absorbing what everyone says is the most graphic movie of all time.
Super is a movie that was fucked up largely because you don't actually expect it to commit so hard to the premise.
Amazing movie though, one of my favorites. A lot of famous people starring as well, especially for such an unknown movie.
The Girl Next Door (2007) Is a true story about an abused girl. Very disturbing
It depends on your definition but Visitor Q by Takashi Miike would probably offend most people. His other films can be rather out-there too.
Also the splatterpunk films of Yoshihiro Nishimura rank high. If you want a distilled taste, see "Z is for Zetsumetsu" in ABCs of Death. Otherwise, try Tokyo Gore Police.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man actually caused me to have palpitations, and it's rare I have such a physical reaction to a film.
And that's just Japan, you could always try something like Adam Chaplin.
However, they tend to be so over-the-top that they are entertaining. If you want to watch something that's an ordeal to get through then you could start with the August Underground films. There are others in the same vein like Tumbling Doll of Flesh or Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood. You can then grub around looking for similar films as there's always someone out there trying to be more appalling. However, it's not really my cup of tea - the worst I've seen in the cinema is probably Necromantic last Valentine's Day, which got quite a few walk-outs, although my main issue was it seemed far too loud.
Phil Tippett's Mad God. It took the man like ~30 years to make the most fucked up, fever dream of a stop motion movie. I don't know what would be worse, watching it sober or high on anything.
I like to imagine, that like Stephen King, he did some wild drugs. But instead of writing a book and moving on, he just kept getting absolutely zooted for 30 years until this movie was done. Because that is the only reason that would justify that movie's creation.
Kids. Saw it years ago. No interest in ever setting it again.
Eraserhead
The Naked Lunch is a stout contender IMHO.
Audition (1999)... I haven't watched it in 20 years but holy shit it is definitely in my collection of scary memories
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
A Serbian Film, but I don't really remember it now. Oh, and the masturbation short film in the ABCs of Death.
The Wall
Hostel probably isn't the most fucked-up movie I've watched, but it's the one that affected me most strongly. I felt physically sick during the scene where
spoiler
the children kill the bait girl.
Haven't watched a gory movie since.
Probably Mordum since it was
- Shot to look like amateur/found footage a la Blair Witch
- Had a dude get his dick cut off. Yeah it was special effects but they didn't do any cutaway or implied. Kept the camera on that dick.
You guys know something about ponies? Imagine those, but shaped as humans. That idea basically horrified me so much that I decided the entire franchise it was a part of was not worth my time.
I am of course talking about Equestria Girls.
Baby Reindeer. Not a movie, 7 episodes, but one of the more fucked up things I've seen in a while.
Once we were warriors. Great disturbing moving film
Compliance stands out to me as something I watched and vowed never to watch again.
I struggle with those kind of themes. Anything involving rape or sexual violence.
obviously not a fucked up film, but Priscilla Queen of the Desert has one scene involving gay bashing makes the film too hard to sit through for me.
I saw Baise Moi (Kiss/Rape Me) in a theatre just before it was banned. I was not expecting that
This is about the same time that Kids, Gummo, Happiness, and the Brown Bunny were all released.
Each film is fucked up for its own reasons. Though, I understand, Salo and A Serbian Film are next level fucked up.
Martyrs!
Plenty of "this is gross or terrifying or..." type answers. How about Sorry to Bother You because it's one of the most "what the fuck" turns in the later act. Seriously, I never, ever saw that coming.
For me, it's a 3 way tie between Tusk, Teeth, and Boxing Helena
‘Meet the Feebles’ is up there.
I know there are some obscure arthouse/avant garde films that I’ve forgotten that would qualify.
Must Lucio Fulci movies.
ichi the killer. couldn't make it past the first few minutes
Hard to say. Depends on what your definition is. "Possum" is up there, as is "Skinamarink". But those are both a pretty specific type of disturbing. Not necessarily scary, but disturbing depending on life experiences.
I just watched "Men" last weekend, knowing nothing going in. That was a bit of a strange one.
Sure, there's Martyrs, antichrist, requiem for a dream, Mother!, hereditary, the killing of a sacred deer, etc. but the first 2 I mentioned hit a bit harder than those others.
Side note: seeing some I haven't seen here. Got me some watching to do.
I have a much more lighthearted answer.
This post contains some spoilers, but I consider it outside the statute of limitations for such things.
There's this old movie where aliens are concerned about humanity developing a weapon that if used would Destroy the universe.
So the aliens use a really stupid plan to try and convince us to stop. And I guess this was after 8 other ideas either failed or were considered even worse.
Anyway at the end (of course) humanity wins and drives off the aliens. Wait, what was the aliens' original goal? Something about the universe? Oh well, must not be important... The End.
And that was Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Human Centipede,
that shit is banned in a few countries for a reason..This video on motherless of a guy stuffing black soldier fly magots into his pp hole. But if you're looking for something that played in the cinema, human centipede 2 is a strong contender.
"Scream and Scream Again", 1970.
Our parents dropped us off at the theater to see something else, like "The Love Bug", but it had moved on and we randomly ended up seeing this horrifying film.
We were not ready for dismemberment and dissolving bodies in vats of acid...
Not for me, but...
I arrived during the trailers, into a packed arthouse cinema, to see Happiness. Way before the credits 90% of the audience had walked.
Spoiler
It's an entertaining movie. BUT one of the characters, that they build up quite sympathetically as a bored psychologist and caring father turns out to be a pedophile praying on the school friends of his son.
Probably not the most fucked up movie I've ever seen, but Aniara is fucking bleak.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159241
Is pretty high up there for me. Guy does a photoshoot of himself fucking a corpse after performing an autopsy on it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102522
For a lot of the same reasons.
But if you want something arty, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101420 has some pretty insane imagery.
I have watched a bunch of movies of Gaspar Noéh and they are all pretty fucked up.
Caligula
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom or Antichrist, probably
There you go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Extremity
It was Parasite for me. That movie made me feel like shit for days after watching it.
Crispin Glovers What Is It?
I do not recommend it.
Visitor Q.
I first saw it years ago at a goth movie night, and I've never witnessed a more uncomfortable audience reaction. Would still recommend.
Slither (2006) fucked me up the first time I watched it. Now I can watch it and laugh. Also, Pam from "The Office" is in it as the police dispatch/receptionist... so, I guess she just got type cast.
The divide 2011
Cocaine bear, funny as hell, but disgusting at the same time, but it doesn't compare to "Ich seh, Ich seh"/goodnight mommy in English.
I've watched a ton of movies so there might be a more fucked up one but uh these come to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vengeance_Trilogy
Ken Park. Dealing with teenage stuff on a really fucked up level.
I aregee with u/Mummified Client500 is it @ or something else?
Irreversible is the most fucked movie I've ever seen. Gave me a panic attack way before I used to get them all the time or at all really.
Well made, not exploitative, good actors. But changed my world view for the worse and distorted my brain. 1 view was enough for a lifetime.
I was one way before watching it, now I'm another. Be wary.
The second “the hills have eyes” movie. I was 11 when I watched it and it scared the crap out of me.
Boxing Helena.
It was at a friend's place. It was gruesome.
Imagine falling in love with the Black Knight and cutting all the limbs off so you can keep it in a box.
Pasolini's SALO. Images from it corrupt my brain.
"Hungry Bitches."
I just answered another post just like this one.
Forbidden Zone
I saw Crimes of the Future recently and though it's not as disturbing as some others mentioned here it did keep me saying wtf quite a lot.
Michael Haneke's Cache (2005)
Sublime. It is not about the band.
The french movie Titane, the plot sounded so weird I had to watch it, and it was far crazier than I thought... Somehow not the worst I've seen but damn it made me feel uncomfortable as hell.
Irreversible
Fountain of youth or tree of life, the one with gene Hackman
Have to think about this for a second...
The Cell?
Red band trailer... (it's the bit with the horse):
Requiem For a Dream?
Fight Club?
Top Gun: Maverick.
nsfw:
spoiler
the video of a guy breaking a glass jar in his anus
