Wolf Creek, especially the "head on a stick" scene.

Great call Hawkeye. You just explained how I felt after watching. The sex scene with Jennifer Connelly is particularly disturbing. Marlon Wayans did show some acting chops though.

Along the same vein, I would add Leaving Las Vegas. That movie gave me a hangover watching it. Dark and completely unredeeming. Saw it once, will never watch it again.

I would add Blue Velvet to the list of disturbing David Lynch movies. Dennis Hopper epitomizes creepy.

One more: River's Edge

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For the anti drug shit they have in schools, they should just show kids this movie. It would make me not want to ever do hard drugs in my life.

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Crash - the James Spader one. The most fucking disgusting movie I have ever seen. Didn't go back to the movies until 2004.

Schindler's list The Auschwitz scene was too freacking out there for me.
The Band of Brothers episode when they found the concentration camp.

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AntiChrist

Is that the one with Willem Dafoe?

yup

BArneys Great Adventure.

I read somewhere that Serbian Movie will turn your stomache but I'm not about to watch it.

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That's the Cronenberg film, right? I thought Dead Ringers was pretty disturbing as well.

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i gotta add this because it's still rough to think about. took a few tries to get through all of it.

"Elephant" - Alan Clarke (1989)

No, this is NOT the godawful Gus Van Sant movie (although he borrowed the title, and shockingly misinterpreted what Clarke used that title for in his film).

Clarke's "Elephant" is so simple and that's what makes it most disturbing. All it is...is 35 minutes of random murders. No dialog (except for one scene, and it's very short), no characters. no motives. It's simply people being murdered. The camera focuses on the victim for a long time afterwards, as well.

Now, the reason Clarke made it was to show his anger about the Troubles in NI (and it takes place there). He titled it "elephant" after a remark made that the troubles are "like the elephant in the room" no one wants to deal with but they know it's there.

A contemporary of his said he was watching it and said "i just kept saying, stop...please, no more, stop." that's exactly what clarke's point is with this film. it's very, very hard to watch. it's not stylized and it's not photographed to make anyone look good. it just looks like documented murders. very real, and very painful...but damn effective.

also, danny boyle is connected with the film...one of his earliest produced films.

Well judging by the 500 million jokes about it since it's been made,the following has to be the most disturbing to all men:

DELIVERANCE

For some reason,the image that sticks in my mind,is when they pull Ronny Cox out of the water, NOT Ned Beatty in his underwear.

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I found the movie "Kids" to be pretty disturbing the first time I saw it. Been a long time since I
have seen it though.

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Boxing Helena was definitely messed-up. I saw it when I was 14 or so and was freaked out. Not by the gore but the savage nature of it. If memory serves correctly, she would wake-up from a homemade surgery and be like "Oh, my legs are gone now." There wasn't this screaming, freaking out. It was more matter of the fact. On top of it, the whole dream sequence was stupid.

American History X was messed-up. I can't watch it again after all the overt racism and the curb scene. Seeing a Ethan Suplee (who just came off from doing Boy Meets World), screaming the N-word was definitely not my cup of tea.

Schindler's List is definitely disturbing. And the more I read into the subject, I realize that Schindler's List barely scratches the surface on the savagery of the Nazi Regime. If anyone ever has a lot of time, read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Schera. You can skip to the part which covers the Holocaust. It is so chilling, scary, sad, and depressing that it will stay with you forever.

just take a stroll through the holocaust museum in DC. you can't possibly leave there without being moved. there's a section where you can watch footage of some of the experiments done on jewish people from the nazi doctors. it's incredibly hard to watch. in fact, it's on a heightened area so kids can't physically watch it. they'd have to be carried by someone.

i don't think of "american history x" as a disturbing movie--it's a pretty powerful movie. it has disturbing scenes...but a lot of movies have that.

My girlfriend and I went to the Holocaust Museum in Skokie. It was a dreary winter day to begin with and anyone who is familiar with the building knows how foreboding the entrance side is. When we got to the metal detectors in the lobby my girlfriend suddenly refused to go in. She got very emotional and said she just couldn't handle it. I still have never been inside the place.

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As far as disturbing scenes, T-Bone's Kids post (thats a goooood one) reminded me of the first time I saw Lean on Me.

I was like 9. Seeing that teacher get his head slammed into the ground repeatedly was eye opening.


Also the curb scene in American History X

i haven't been to that...nothing says tourist attraction like holocaust museum though. i did eat at a pretty good pizza place in skokie once after going to the skokie theatre.

don't know how it is in skokie but in DC at least, when you walk in you're given a card that has a name and bio of a jewish person who perished in the holocaust. so as you walk through, you compare what you see with what's happened to the person...i guess to give you a more intimate "experience".

there's a big pile of shoes from people who were incinerated i believe...that was incredibly powerful.

The shoes were so powerful. When wife and I went, there was a huge school group in our midst. They were talking And totally not getting it. Im trying to have a moment and Rory, or whatever his name is, is hanging with his buddies goofing around. Why they bother having these class trips for 12y/o I will never understand. At least wait until they are in HS.