Good, Disturbing Movies, A Long List of Bangers
This is list is a work in progress but I aim to create the ultimate list of disquieting nasties. (Some of this stuff isn't disturbing but just gory.) Have fun!
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- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.This isn't an 'edgy' edge lord kind of disturbing film but it's one of the greatest war movies ever made and really disturbing. You'll think about it for ages. Traumatic.
- DirectorHerman YauStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongYeung-Ming WanFui-On ShingA Chinese restaurant worker wanted for murder in Hong Kong contracts Ebola in South Africa, becomes immune to it, and unknowingly spreads the virus there, then comes back to Hong Kong and continues to infect people with it.Balls to the wall, ridiculous psycho main character, loads of darkly funny action. Just a demented, demented film.
- DirectorHo-Cheung PangStarsJosie HoChing WongHelen ToCheng Li-sheung is a young, upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through, she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors dead.Satisfying Hong Kong murder-fest. There's this pyscho chick who wants an expensive apartment but she's too broke so she decides to do a massacre in the building to drop the property price. Some very nasty kills in this one. Recommended.
- DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.One of those films people always bring up as disturbing and it's not exactly Bambi, that much is true, but it's not gonna leave you with PTSD, crying and sucking your thumb with leaves in your hair either. The director says it has some deep political meaning but I'm not so sure about that. Worth seeing because it's creatively horrible but it won't leave you needing therapy either, the way some reactions seem to imply.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBjörkCatherine DeneuveDavid MorseAn Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.I saw this when I was a lot younger and it really cut me up. It's so depressing and you feel so bad for the main character. It's like Lars von Trier was trying to make the bleakest thing he physically could on purpose. Not a fun film, but it has flashes of beauty.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsJack HedleyAlmanta SuskaHoward RossA burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.Great, nasty Fulci slasher with sleazy practical effect. Very mean-spirited.
- DirectorJens DahlStarsSara Hjort DitlevsenAnders HeinrichsenSigne Egholm OlsenA ruthless businesswoman is abducting young women as part of a gruesome bio-hacking experiment to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in an underground medical facility.Really gross and unsettled film about young women being kidnapped for experiments to bio-hack the aging process.
- DirectorRichard Bates Jr.StarsAnnaLynne McCordRoger BartAriel WinterA disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.Like some films on this list, this isn't THAT horrible but it is disturbing enough. Check it out. The end is fairly grim.
- DirectorAndrew SemansStarsRebecca HallTim RothGrace KaufmanMargaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined and successful. Everything is under control until David returns - that is - carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.Just throwing this in here for Tim Roth and his smarmy performance. I wanted to smack him.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsJonas DasslerVasiliki Georgina PseimadaChristine JensenA serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.One of the most squalid films ever made. It feels like this movie actually smells, as if the stink of it is wafting through the screen and speakers. It's based on the perverted exploits of serial murderer Fritz Honka and they don't hold back on filth, violence and grotesque nudity. Really well directed, though. It's basically an arthouse movie.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.Might as well sling this old chestnut on the fire. The whole film is a bunch of young people getting tortured, forced to eat poo and whatnot. It's more of an ordeal than a piece of entertainment but it's well shot and worth a look.
- DirectorGerald KarglStarsErwin LederRobert Hunger-BühlerSilvia RyderA troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.A serial killer goes around killing people. It's similar in tone to The Golden Glove so if you like that you'll probably like this.
- DirectorGary OldmanStarsRay WinstoneKathy BurkeCharlie Creed-MilesA rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.Gary Oldman made this. It's about domestic violence and seriously cracked family dynamics. Very tough to watch.
- DirectorSteven R. MonroeStarsSarah ButlerJeff BransonAndrew HowardA writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.Way harder to watch than the original. I struggled to get through the SA scene but once the lady started to get revenge I was all over this. She totally f*cked everyone up. Satisfying.
- DirectorPaul HyettStarsRosie DaySean PertweeKevin HowarthSold at a brothel deep in the woods to work as a caretaker, a hapless deaf girl must summon the courage to fight for her life.Film about a brothel that sells kidnapped women to military personnel. Not a fun watch at all. Don't watch it with your special lady on a romantic night in.
- DirectorAdam LeaderRichard OakesStarsNeal WardChristopher MulvinHannah Al RashidFollowing the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night terrors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.This is kind of disturbing if you don't want to watch a man consent to being eaten piece by piece. It's also quite funny and has good performances. As of writing this, it has 4.6 on iMDB, which is too low, in my opinion. Solid 6/10 territory, at least.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.I hate this film because of the scenes of animal cruelty but I may as well throw it on the list for the sake of completeness. It IS disturbing.
- DirectorMarkus SchleinzerStarsMichael FuithDavid RauchenbergerChristine KainFive months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.Understated movie about a sicko who keeps a kid in his basement for... you can probably guess. It's well made but very depressing and unsettling.
- DirectorTom SixStarsLaurence R. HarveyAshlynn YennieMaddi BlackInspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.I think the first Human Centipede is actually a solid horror film but not as disturbing as a lot of people seem to think. But this second one is actually a rough watch. It's relentlessly gory and mean-spirited in some of the worst ways. If you want to watch something that's just extreme for the sake of it, here's the entertainment product for you.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTadanobu AsanoNao ÔmoriShin'ya TsukamotoAs sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.Hardly a 'hidden gem' but I may as well chuck this one in too because it has some brilliant kills and torture in it. It's also darkly funny. The CGI looks crap by today's standards, and they should have gone fully practical with this, but Kakihara's masochism is a cool element in the film that lifts it above many other gorefests. Like a lot of Miike films, though, it's about twenty minutes too long and has pacing issues.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMatt DillonBruno GanzUma ThurmanIn five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.Lars von Trier film about a serial killer. The entire thing comes across as a bloated, self-indulgent exercise in trolling, which means that if you like this you'll like most things von Trier has done. Personally, I quite like his filmography, and how unflinching he is, but I can see how some people would get a bit bored by parts of this. The kills are horrible, though, and sometimes pretty funny.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.Another film everyone and his hamster knows about but it's worth tossing on the pile. The underpass scene is practically impossible to watch, no matter what else you've seen so kudos to Gaspar Noe for that... I guess.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.Early Peter Jackson. Everyone has seen it by now. Buckets of blood. Great time.
- DirectorDaniel GrouStarsClaude LegaultRémy GirardMartin DubreuilA doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.A doctor kidnaps the twisted pervert that killed his daughter and takes his sweet time exacting revenge in a secluded location. Well made film that makes you question your own notions of justice.
- DirectorRobert HallStarsBobbi Sue LutherKevin GageLena HeadeyA young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.Solid slasher with some great kills. Didn't think much of the sequel, though.