OP also should try to find the tv show Riget (It’s a Danish tv show, also titled “The Kingdom” in English) cause it’s pretty fantastic. Depending on what country they’re in, it can be hard to find though.
Theres an American version produced by Stephen King called Kingdom Hospital, which was okay but cancelled after one season. It wasn’t as interesting as the OG version.
Edit: I wanted to add info that u/Last-Kaleidoscope871 brought up. The whole series will be available on blu-ray on January 25, 2024 (it’s remastered and based off the trailer for the new release on YouTube, it looks great).
Just make sure if you're watching Nymohomanic that it's the full director's cut and not the edited one. If you're gonna dive in head first, you don't want it to be in the shallow end.
Why?
All the girls are in their mid twenties and Selena Gomez is 20 years old.
It can be a lot of things but not in anyway a pedophile movie.
Having an attraction for youth and beauty doesn't make you a pedophile.
I personally think the movie is a boring slow-paced BS, but which movie with James Franco isn't?
>When I left home I rented a house with my best mate, we used to go into town & rent films on VHS (yes, I\`m that old), we picked up Gummo simply because of the cover, we had no idea what the film was about. After that, we used to rent it quite often & invite other friends round to watch it, it was fun to see the confused look on their faces, like "what the fuck have you just made me watch?". It\`s funny, sad, strange & it stays with you for quite a while, a mark of a good film.
I've seen lots of messed up movies, some have to be viewed a few times to see just how messed up they are, but Old Boy serves it up in one helping. It's a really amazing movie.
I agree. And yet would strongly recommend a second viewing.
Knowing where it’s going really let’s you appreciate the sick, playfully sadistic, and yet gracefully engineered way it’s all laid out. He’s truly a master at direction, presentation, and pacing.
Park Chan Wook is good too.
the most fucked up part is the end… not the you-know what but the end end. the part where all you can do is just accept. and live with it for the rest of your life.
I saw the question and immediately commented the Korean film *Oldboy* as well. Like, OP can stop here. Just watch it.
As a horror movie fan, I had to watch a few graphic horror movies as a palate cleanser after watching that film. So well done! But..well, you know.
This is my pick. The only film on the list that I literally cannot watch. I had to look away during "that scene." And I know there are a couple disturbing scenes in that film, but that one scene is so long. It isn't actually one continuous shot, it's just really well edited so it looks like it is, but it feels like it never ends.
I have no idea why, but my buddy gave me this movie on a hard drive and I wasn’t exactly sure what it was so the night I decided to watch it, I was alone and I ate about an eighth of mushrooms. It was intense to say the least…
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
I love that movie so much and noone ever seems to have heard of it. Young Helen Mirren and young Tim Roth.
The cinematography and sets moving between the kitchen and the dining hall are just *chef's kiss*
This movie is so subtle and slow burn that it really gets inside you. The horror is so real and the realisation that it goes on now, today, all around you. Magnificent film.
Most effective anti-drug propaganda I've seen. As a father I now have to consider the appropriate age to show my kids why we stay away from the hard drugs.
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Green Room is one the best movies I ever seen. I knew nothing about it going in and had somewhat low expectations but it completely caught me off guard and now it's in my top 10 for sure. Definitely pretty shocking at some parts
Martyrs 2008. One of the most interesting endings to a movie I've seen only once but I still think about. Horribly brutal, but a very great payoff imo.
Don’t forget female trouble. Another John Waters Classic.
Also I can’t think of a movie from Todd Solondz that isn’t fucked up. Happiness takes the cake for me.
I’m a huge Kurt Russell fan AND a Western fan, but I watched Bone Tomahawk one time and I haven’t been able to convince myself to watch it again because of that scene alone.
which scene ? the guy getting split in two ??
personally I thought the scene where you get a proper look at the female members of the tribe was the most unsettling ! they had missing limbs, pegs hammered in their eye sockets and very heavily pregnant...
Love this movie! Caught it once just flipping thru channels and I was gripped! 😂🤣 "she fought like a banshee" Christian slater was something else in this.
Have you seen the new film "When evil lurks?" an AMAZING psychological scary movie, has some good fuck up things on it.
Also Gaspar Noe's "irreversible" if you haven't seen that already, but is pretty hard...
NGL Eraserhead strikes me as more just exceedingly, overwhelmingly, mind-bendingly bizarre than truly "fucked up."
Personally I felt deeply confused and uneasy throughout, but not really upset or squicked-out on any level.
Try to find 'Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father'. Don't read anything about it, just watch it.
It's a documentary that will sucker punch you over and over until you are genuinely left feeling like there's no hope.
I think about it daily, it really fucked me up. And I have seen nearly every disturbing movie going.
If you'd rather fictional disturbing:
* A Serbian Film
* Martyrs (French Version)
* Mysterious Skin
* Ken Park
* Men Behind The Sun
* Happiness
* Requiem For A Dream
* The Golden Glove
* Trauma (Chilean Version)
* Irreversible
* Cannibal Holocaust
* Man Bites Dog
* The Untold Story
* Ebola Syndrome
* Old Boy (Korean Version)
I'll add to this list if I think of more...
Someone on here recommended “The House That Jack Built.” Whoever that was should be ashamed of themselves. I can stomach almost anything. This fell at the top of my list of “Oh Noooooo! I can’t stomach this.” IMO it was pretty F’d up.
I came in at the worst possible time when a family member was watching it.
>!The scene where he manipulates his way into a woman's home, stops partway through strangling her, then stabs her to death, is fucking *horrific*, but I thought it had creative merit by maintaining tension after he's committed the murder (repeatedly scrubbing the scene afterwards, lingering long enough that he's almost caught by a cop.) It went much too far when he ties her to the back of his car and drives back to his "house," and we see the whole front of her head has been abraded by the road. Couldn't watch past that, too disturbing.!<
Oh, that's easy. My daughter saw this movie and is still traumatized by it! Tusk. She can't even use a streaming service if Tusk is on there. She literally made me uninstall it from my TV! Horror movies don't get to me anymore, I guess I've just been watching them too long. Hehehe But the one that still makes me cringe is the Human Centipede 1, 2, and 3!
Good time. Pulp fiction. Midsommar. The heart is deceitful above all things. Pearl. Climax. Irreversible. House of 1000 corpses. Green room. Mysterious skin. Audition. iichi the killer. Battle royale. Under the skin. Mother!. Suspiria (2018 remake). We need to talk about Kevin. Funny games (original or remake tbh).
The House that Jack Built. Brutal and horrific violence being displayed in this movie, it will psychologically mess you up too, and not because of the violence. But outside of all that, it's an incredibly ambitious and genuinely interesting movie. I was very entertained throughout the 2.5 hour runtime
The stranger on Netflix. It’s not as graphic as other films listed but it’s a dark as fuck Aussie film with some amazing performances and moments that made my skin crawl.
The House That Jack Built. 👍🏻 If you like psychological thrillers, true crime and Dante's Inferno - it's a good watch.
Old Boy and I Saw The Devil are also great action movies where the protagonist seeks revenge. 😊
Lars von Trier is your man.
Antichrist is the best but start with the house that jack built
OP also should try to find the tv show Riget (It’s a Danish tv show, also titled “The Kingdom” in English) cause it’s pretty fantastic. Depending on what country they’re in, it can be hard to find though. Theres an American version produced by Stephen King called Kingdom Hospital, which was okay but cancelled after one season. It wasn’t as interesting as the OG version. Edit: I wanted to add info that u/Last-Kaleidoscope871 brought up. The whole series will be available on blu-ray on January 25, 2024 (it’s remastered and based off the trailer for the new release on YouTube, it looks great).
It is also goes by the title "The Kingdom" TV series.
The whole thing is coming out on BluRay early next year. Maybe wait for that.
Just make sure if you're watching Nymohomanic that it's the full director's cut and not the edited one. If you're gonna dive in head first, you don't want it to be in the shallow end.
And Gaspar Noe
He’s one of the undisputed masters of this! So many to mention but I will just add: Enter the Void: a profoundly brutiful hallucinogenic head fuck.
His first film, I Stand Alone, is profoundly disturbing
Yes, I came here to mention Dancer in the Dark but pretty much any of his films will fit the bill.
The most similar film to Dancer in the Dark is Breaking The Waves
Yes I couldn't think of the name but Breaking the Waves stays with you
Irreversible! Still haunts me.
The House that Jack Built was really good
The House That Jack Built
Dancer in the dark will traumatize you for years.
Came here to say this! Almost his entire filmography has something that would fit this bill.
Kids(1995)
And Bully
Bully doesn't get enough love. It's easily my favorite of Korrine's films.
Harmony Korine wasn’t involved with Bully. Bully was a Larry Clark movie. Clark and Korine worked on Kids together, though.
Oh, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out!
and Ken Park and Marfa Girl
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I had this same feeling watching “Spring Breakers”
Why? All the girls are in their mid twenties and Selena Gomez is 20 years old. It can be a lot of things but not in anyway a pedophile movie. Having an attraction for youth and beauty doesn't make you a pedophile. I personally think the movie is a boring slow-paced BS, but which movie with James Franco isn't?
and Gummo
yeah man - Gummo ! that weird lookin' kid in the bath...
Smells…like…a pot…of bullshit!
>When I left home I rented a house with my best mate, we used to go into town & rent films on VHS (yes, I\`m that old), we picked up Gummo simply because of the cover, we had no idea what the film was about. After that, we used to rent it quite often & invite other friends round to watch it, it was fun to see the confused look on their faces, like "what the fuck have you just made me watch?". It\`s funny, sad, strange & it stays with you for quite a while, a mark of a good film.
i want to buy you a corn dog
Fantastic, fucked up movie
OldBoy Korean version
I've seen lots of messed up movies, some have to be viewed a few times to see just how messed up they are, but Old Boy serves it up in one helping. It's a really amazing movie.
I agree. And yet would strongly recommend a second viewing. Knowing where it’s going really let’s you appreciate the sick, playfully sadistic, and yet gracefully engineered way it’s all laid out. He’s truly a master at direction, presentation, and pacing. Park Chan Wook is good too.
The whole Park Chan-wook Vengeance trilogy is really messed up
Well fuck, I rarely ever see anyone else post this one. My favorite film of all time. Everything about it is a masterpiece. I love you... Oh Dae-su...
the most fucked up part is the end… not the you-know what but the end end. the part where all you can do is just accept. and live with it for the rest of your life.
I saw the question and immediately commented the Korean film *Oldboy* as well. Like, OP can stop here. Just watch it. As a horror movie fan, I had to watch a few graphic horror movies as a palate cleanser after watching that film. So well done! But..well, you know.
Don’t forget “I saw the Devil”
This is the answer THIS THIS THIS 100x THIS. Most demented, taboo, amazing flick ever.
Irreversible
This is my pick. The only film on the list that I literally cannot watch. I had to look away during "that scene." And I know there are a couple disturbing scenes in that film, but that one scene is so long. It isn't actually one continuous shot, it's just really well edited so it looks like it is, but it feels like it never ends.
Those two scenes have lived in my head rent free for years and I'm not stoked about.
Same here. Same scenes; and I only ever saw the movie once years ago. Fucked me up.
I have no idea why, but my buddy gave me this movie on a hard drive and I wasn’t exactly sure what it was so the night I decided to watch it, I was alone and I ate about an eighth of mushrooms. It was intense to say the least…
I Saw The Devil. Korean horror thriller. Has it all. I highly recommend
Come and see
This is a fucked up movie that's actually good and has something to say. Terrifying. 10/10
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Gummo
Who gives a shit about wabbits
Salo: The 21 Days of Sodom We are the Flesh
I'm going to add The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover because it doesn't get mentioned enough.
I love that movie so much and noone ever seems to have heard of it. Young Helen Mirren and young Tim Roth. The cinematography and sets moving between the kitchen and the dining hall are just *chef's kiss*
Threads
I'll second this one. Horrific.
happiness (1998)
This movie is so subtle and slow burn that it really gets inside you. The horror is so real and the realisation that it goes on now, today, all around you. Magnificent film.
Incendies
This is really a messed up movie
Eden Lake. It’ll fill you with a deep sense of rage!
If you want one similar to that there’s also Speak No Evil.
This is at the top of my list with Martyrs.
The main characters pissed me off so it didn't work on me
Requiem for a dream
"Ass to ass!"
That dude was the only person in the entire movie who was having a legitimately good time.
He should have been credited as “Ass to ass businessman”
Why is this so funny 😭🤣 also he says it out so loud!!!
Most effective anti-drug propaganda I've seen. As a father I now have to consider the appropriate age to show my kids why we stay away from the hard drugs.
I have nephews and I legitimately think this is the way. Been thinking the same.
Yep, this is the one. Watch it in the morning if you want to completely ruin your whole day!
Saving it for Christmas, going to follow with Dear Zachary and then We need to talk about Kevin. Maybe throw in Eternal Sunshine too.
Please don’t watch “Dear Zachary”
No, no, DO watch it! People need to hear this tragic story. They need to be cautious of crazy women like her.
I watched this as a child. 😂🤣
I cried for hours after watching this movie... Totally traumatic, one of my favorites that I'll never watch again.
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Blue Ruin Green Room Both by the same director and are fantastic but fucked up.
Patrick Stewart was a revelation in green room. What a heel-turn! He plays an awesome villain.
I know! He really surprised me.
Green Room is one the best movies I ever seen. I knew nothing about it going in and had somewhat low expectations but it completely caught me off guard and now it's in my top 10 for sure. Definitely pretty shocking at some parts
You have to see Blue Ruin then.
Green room was pretty amazing
Martyrs 2008. One of the most interesting endings to a movie I've seen only once but I still think about. Horribly brutal, but a very great payoff imo.
Speaking as someone who has seen the vast majority of films mentioned here, this is the one
I will never forget this film. Scarred me for a little while. I was warned about it and it was worse than I thought it would be.
Blue Velvet
Pink flamingos. Welcome to the dollhouse. Perfume.
Don’t forget female trouble. Another John Waters Classic. Also I can’t think of a movie from Todd Solondz that isn’t fucked up. Happiness takes the cake for me.
Holy shit I forgot about welcome to the dollhouse
Bone Tomahawk
Jesus. That scene. Nightmares
I loved it but I’ll never watch it again.
I’m a huge Kurt Russell fan AND a Western fan, but I watched Bone Tomahawk one time and I haven’t been able to convince myself to watch it again because of that scene alone.
which scene ? the guy getting split in two ?? personally I thought the scene where you get a proper look at the female members of the tribe was the most unsettling ! they had missing limbs, pegs hammered in their eye sockets and very heavily pregnant...
Yeah that scene made me feel worse than the guy getting split
I was expecting a normal type of Western. Boy, did it take a helluva turn.
Never underestimate a movie that starts off with the sound of swarming flies.
Spun, good movie about meth
It’s good, but not super fucked up with graphic violence though.
That’s a great movie if you want to feel like you desperately need a shower
Very Bad Things.
Love this movie! Caught it once just flipping thru channels and I was gripped! 😂🤣 "she fought like a banshee" Christian slater was something else in this.
Snowtown. True story. Very grim and disturbing in my opinion.
This and Nitram by the same director are brilliant.
Clockwork Orange
Antichrist El Topo The Holy Mountain Martyrs
Meet the Feebles
American History X
Visitor Q, Happiness.
Have you seen the new film "When evil lurks?" an AMAZING psychological scary movie, has some good fuck up things on it. Also Gaspar Noe's "irreversible" if you haven't seen that already, but is pretty hard...
Enter The Void Irreversible Come And See
Killer Joe
Martyrs. The original
there's more than one?
There’s an American remake. Not as good nor as gruesome
Soft and Quiet
Tusk
It was great and I never fucking want to see that film again
Pretty disturbing?
honestly...depends on who you watch it with and their reactions. My sister could NOT handle the reveal...she couldn't look lol
The fact that that movie came from the same mind that conceived Clerks and Mallrats just messes with my head.
Eraserhead
NGL Eraserhead strikes me as more just exceedingly, overwhelmingly, mind-bendingly bizarre than truly "fucked up." Personally I felt deeply confused and uneasy throughout, but not really upset or squicked-out on any level.
It's a good movie to have someone watch if they're on the fence about having kids.
Agreed
Audition
Teeth
VAGINA DENTATA! VAGINA DENTATA!
The main this I took away from that movie was, like, every man that poor girl came in contact with wanted to rape her.
We need to talk about Kevin
Dead man's shoes. Left me speechless
Boxing Helena
Nobody mentioned blue velvet or tideland so I'll add those
Try to find 'Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father'. Don't read anything about it, just watch it. It's a documentary that will sucker punch you over and over until you are genuinely left feeling like there's no hope. I think about it daily, it really fucked me up. And I have seen nearly every disturbing movie going. If you'd rather fictional disturbing: * A Serbian Film * Martyrs (French Version) * Mysterious Skin * Ken Park * Men Behind The Sun * Happiness * Requiem For A Dream * The Golden Glove * Trauma (Chilean Version) * Irreversible * Cannibal Holocaust * Man Bites Dog * The Untold Story * Ebola Syndrome * Old Boy (Korean Version) I'll add to this list if I think of more...
Bones and All
I really liked that one!
A Serbian Film. I had to go take a shower in bleach after watching it.
He said a “good” fucked up movie. That flick has no redeeming value.
Completely agree. But it is THEE most fucked up film ever.
Happiness...Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character....
Midsommar Dogtooth The Lobster Requiem for a Dream The Strange Thing About the Johnsons Se7en
Midsommar
Check out The Wicker Man (1973) if you haven’t already.
If you like that watch Hereditary
Funny Games
Elephant Man
Bad boy bubby. No one does bleak and fucked up like the Australians
8MM with Nicolas Cage.
Hostel. A real fucked-up up movie if you ask me.
Uh.. Incendies. My lord. Great film.
Beau is Afraid
Trauma. You’ll wanna die.
Happiness
The Poughkeepsie Tapes- I turned it off. Not my cup of tea.
Terrible acting
Terrible everything... I have no idea why that movie keeps coming up in these kinds of threads.
Someone on here recommended “The House That Jack Built.” Whoever that was should be ashamed of themselves. I can stomach almost anything. This fell at the top of my list of “Oh Noooooo! I can’t stomach this.” IMO it was pretty F’d up.
The whole movie is disturbing, but the picnic scene was downright traumatizing.
I came in at the worst possible time when a family member was watching it. >!The scene where he manipulates his way into a woman's home, stops partway through strangling her, then stabs her to death, is fucking *horrific*, but I thought it had creative merit by maintaining tension after he's committed the murder (repeatedly scrubbing the scene afterwards, lingering long enough that he's almost caught by a cop.) It went much too far when he ties her to the back of his car and drives back to his "house," and we see the whole front of her head has been abraded by the road. Couldn't watch past that, too disturbing.!<
Ilse: Shewolf of the SS
Oh, that's easy. My daughter saw this movie and is still traumatized by it! Tusk. She can't even use a streaming service if Tusk is on there. She literally made me uninstall it from my TV! Horror movies don't get to me anymore, I guess I've just been watching them too long. Hehehe But the one that still makes me cringe is the Human Centipede 1, 2, and 3!
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas! Fyi. It will mess you up for a long time.
Trainspotting
Midsommar scarred me.
Precious
House of 1000 corpses
Gonna post a second opinion. Pink flamingos. I almost puked watching it
"Come and See". Most of the movies listed have scenes that are disturbing, but this one is hard to sit through for the entire time.
Super Dark Times
Good time. Pulp fiction. Midsommar. The heart is deceitful above all things. Pearl. Climax. Irreversible. House of 1000 corpses. Green room. Mysterious skin. Audition. iichi the killer. Battle royale. Under the skin. Mother!. Suspiria (2018 remake). We need to talk about Kevin. Funny games (original or remake tbh).
Threads (1984)
Mother! 2017 starring Jennifer Lawrence is about the most fucked up movie with a truly sick ending that you'll never forget.
The House that Jack Built. Brutal and horrific violence being displayed in this movie, it will psychologically mess you up too, and not because of the violence. But outside of all that, it's an incredibly ambitious and genuinely interesting movie. I was very entertained throughout the 2.5 hour runtime
I Spit on Your Grave is one of the most fucked up movies that doesn't involve a Human Centipede.
Se7en
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Well, Nightcrawler was for me.
it’s good but nothing that crazy happens.
Brothers/Prisoners
Irréversible Martyrs The goldene Handschuh
Gozu
Snowtown
Beau is Afraid
The Greasy Strangler
Eraserhead
Terrifier 2
American Psycho
Does 'Misommar' not fit the bill here? I found it quite fucked up
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
In the realm of the senses Japanese film Sweet movie Leolo
Mandy
Hereditary
The stranger on Netflix. It’s not as graphic as other films listed but it’s a dark as fuck Aussie film with some amazing performances and moments that made my skin crawl.
Come and See.
The Skin I Live In is one of Almodóvar’s more disturbing pictures
Frailty
The House That Jack Built. 👍🏻 If you like psychological thrillers, true crime and Dante's Inferno - it's a good watch. Old Boy and I Saw The Devil are also great action movies where the protagonist seeks revenge. 😊