Most messed up/Disturbing Movie You Ever Saw?

[WolfSpirit]

I didn't mind that film, although I watched it as an adult and not as a kid. If I had watched that in childhood, I might have thought differently.
To be honest, and since we're talking about Don Bluth works, I found An American Tail to be more disturbing (and depressing).

Saw NIMH, Or bits of it, three times, at three different ages. First two scared the hell out of me, third, I couldn't figure out what had been so scary. Go figure. Then again, I always was the kid who was easily scared by things everyone else had gotten over being scared of. And didn't react to other things that did upset other kids. (Then again, they likely didn't have families who constantly drilled it into them how "defective" they were, and that they never should've existed to begin with.)

 

[Gift2humanity]

Betty Blue

 

[Trophonius]

The movie Raw (French: Grave) (2017) was pretty disturbing. It's about an 18-year-old vegeterian girl that discovers she has in fact, a predilection for eating human meat.

 

[TheGrimmRetails]

Audrey Rose scares the hell out of me just thinking about it. I watched it when I was ten and it was legitimately the only movie that ever properly terrified me.

Basic summary: It's about a girl who dies in the fire of a car crash. Several times you see her POV and here her screaming as the flames rise higher. She is reincarnated and her father is trying to contact the family of the daughter whom he believes now has Audrey Rose's spirit.

And several times throughout the movie this new girl "relives" the final moments of her past life.

 

[tkcartoonist]

I have yet to see the really controversial stuff that I know about (stuff like Salo, A Serbian Film, Caligula and the like), but I have seen Braindead (aka Dead Alive in the states). It's one of Peter Jackson's earliest movies and is one of the goriest flicks I've ever seen. Of course I have it on DVD.

Another one I've seen that's messed up is a 1977 Japanese movie called House. It's not gory, but it is beyond bizarre. It uses a lot of these weird video effects throughout, and the best way to describe it is an acid trip on film.

I've also seen some of Ralph Bakshi's early '70s output, and that stuff is pretty weird too. I still have no idea what was going on in Heavy Traffic.

 

[Luca]

A “documentary” about merpeople that was passed off as authentic. There was one part that made me scream, throw the remote at the tv and run out of the room. And I was 19.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Any made by Derek Savage ends up being messed up somehow, usually from mixed and/or misguided messages. Gun Self-Defense for Ladies! And For Men Too has a lot of misinformation and weird things the people in it say such as one woman calling a shotgun her “husband” and that a gun is better than having a baby. Derek also basically says that you need to get to know the gun and says it in a way that sounds like he wants you to take it out on a dinner date. And all of the Cool Cat movies fall into the so bad it good category and has some pretty bad acting from well known actors in one scene. Erik Estrada is obviously drunk as he sort of slurs his words. Cool Cat Vs Corona Virus is absolutely a mess and it’s hilarious as 90% of the movie is just some guy in a dog mascot costume saying he wants to “pollute the kids with the Corona Virus” by coughing on them and then doing this rap where he claims that the virus is a big scam. Derek Savage keeps making all these poorly produced movies and sells them to people for a profit and it’s all like a train wreck that then has a plane crashing into it followed by the International Space Station and you can’t help but stare in amazement at the disaster happening right in front of you!

 

[NB79]

Its different when you are a kid and sensitive, i remember robocop, the scene where the criminals shot the guy it did hurt my sensitivity a lot, it left me shocked also the other scenes where the robot experiments suicide in the other movie i think etc because they find themselves they are not human anymore.
I don't know how a movie that is supposed to be for young people i mean its 'robocop' right? had so much violence and horrible stuff.

 

[Raggamuffin]

3 very messed up and ultra-violent French films:

• Martyrs
• High Tension / Switchblade Romance
• Frontiers

Here's some others that left me feeling unsettled:

• Eden Lake
• Blair Witch Project (1st one only)
• Eraserhead
• Rec

Then of course, we have a lot of extreme Japanese examples:

• Ichi The Killer
• Battle Royale
• Grotesque
• Tokyo Gore Police

I think that about does it. I don't watch any of this kind of stuff any more. In college and university I went through many years of watching such films. In fact, our first semester in Film Studies in college was spent on extreme cinema.

I believe that A Serbian Film is supposedly one of the most depraved films ever made. I'd heard people tell me the premise and I outright refused to watch it.

These days I find I stick to comedies almost exclusively. Mostly TV series etc. I have a collection of 30+ shows which I tend to re-watch. I'd rather laugh than feel emotionally overwhelmed from what I watch. Truth be told I feel a lot more sensitive to gore and extremes of human emotions these days. So I'd rather not spend my free time triggering negative emotions.

Ed

 

[Roxiee]

The Watts murder on Netflix, a husband killed his wife and two daughters because he was having an affair

 

[Xerces Blue]

Battle Royal(one and two)
Se7en - serial killer going enacting the seven deadly sins - lust got to me.
Haven't seen all of Ichi the Killer but what I have seen was messed up.
Made in Abyss - The manga is even worse/better.
Really liked "The Game"

 

[Xerces Blue]

There's a black and white French film about a group that bets of Russian Roulette with poor people playing.
I can't remember the name.
The main character is doing it to get money for his sister's medicine.

Watched Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now 2 days before going to Basic Combat Training.
Full Metal Jacket actually helped I think.

 

[Magna]

I don't know about the most disturbing movie ever, but as a child I was intensely disturbed after seeing parts of The Exorcist. I grew up Catholic and after seeing the young girl in the movie, an innocent girl, being possessed by demons, I concluded that there was no reason then that I, an innocent young, boy couldn't become possessed by demons just like that girl. I was terrified that it would happen and had many reoccurring nightmares because of it.

Blue Velvet is pretty messed up.

 

[Xerces Blue]

@Magna I get it.
When I was 5 years old I snuck out of bed when my dad was watching Alien and Aliens.
It was great, I had repeating nightmares for months.
And again every time I watched them again until I was 18.
I miss those nightmares.

 

[Judge]

"Caligula" (1979)

Seemed little more than a porn movie masquerading as a film about ancient Rome. But then it should have been a dead give-away with Penthouse magazine's Bob Guccione as the producer and screenwriter.

Even had some top-notch actors...Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole and John Gielgud. Bizarre.

 

[tkcartoonist]

"Caligula" (1979)

Seemed little more than a porn movie masquerading as a film about ancient Rome. But then it should have been a dead give-away with Penthouse magazine's Bob Guccione as the producer and screenwriter.

Even had some top-notch actors...Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole and John Gielgud. Bizarre.

The production history behind Caligula is a glorious mess worthy of a movie of its own. Gore Vidal had his name attached to it at one point, for example.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Private Lessons is one of the most messed up mainstream movies of all time. It aged pretty badly but that is the least of this movie’s problem. The plot is extremely messed up and would never be used at all in today’s society. So what makes Private Lessons so messed up? It’s about a 15 year old boy who is actually groomed on screen by his housekeeper and he enjoys it and she says that she wants to marry him and they try to have sex on screen. All I can say is “Ewwwwwwwwww!” I know this was released in the early 80s but even back then I would think this type of thing would be seen as being disgusting. And it was a box office success which is even more disturbing. Reverse the genders and people would be outraged.

 

[Slim Jim]

Nothing comes to mind. Movies don't phase me. Real life is much more brutal.

 

[Forest Cat]

Cats, the remake of the musical Cats. I made it through 3/4 of it but then I had to turn it off. I'll have nightmares about that for years to come.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

The movie Music that Sia made is extremely messed up and it’s no wonder so many people on the spectrum and their families are furious at its existence. I’ll give Maddie Ziegler a pass here as she had to do as she was told and even had a crying meltdown on set out of concern that how she supposed to act would be insulting to all those on the spectrum and it’s not her fault for this disaster as she was only following directions. Everyone else had a choice though. I hate how the movie tries to make the caretaker the real “victim” and as if there are no organizations that have specially trained employees that can help take care of severely autistic kids out there. And you know it’s really bad when even Autism Speaks themselves harshly criticizes the movie and refuses to acknowledge it as a work of art.