Nil by Mouth : Top 10 Most Disturbing Films Ever!

Hey. So, I adore films that just make me squirm or really leave me with a sense of disturbance. You know, those awesome flicks that just mess you up in the head. I'm trying not to double up, although several directors on this list have more than one messed up film. What's your top ten? If you have more than 10 favorites, put those down too, I definitely have more than ten. I felt compelled to make out a list. In no particular order:

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Taxi Driver
Happiness
The Brood
Nil By Mouth
Salo
Eraserhead
Ichi the Killer
Night of the Living Dead(Original 1968 version! try and tell me that scene where the little girl kills her mother with the garden spade isn't freaky!)
Pink Flamingoes
The Piano Teacher
Blue Velvet
Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer
Julien Donkey Boy
Battle Royale
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
The War Zone
Begotten
American History X
Kids
Irreversible
Night and Fog
Sick


I could go on, but let me know. And by the way, I know NOLD is an old Romero flick, but try and tell me that scene where the little girl kills her mother with the garden spade isn't freaky! Good luck.
Hope to hear from you soon and hear about all these crazy sicko movies I've been missing!
-NK


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hey ma brotha keep the list going thanks.

"We are to repeat our mistakes time and time again, it is the worlds only constant." - mithras

Oldboy
Irreversible
Audition

Ghosts of the civil undead (relatively unknown but really disturbing)

Dont you guys ever get tired of ordering the same thing? .. No!

American Psycho, perhaps? I'm not surehm.

Interesting Thread, Id agree with most of the films in the list, especially The War Zone, Winstone has an amazing phsychopathic quality to his acting.

Id like to add Scum(more Winstone), La Haine & Requiem For a dream

This gentle hearts like shot birds falling.

I found The War Zone (Tim Roth's Directorial Debut) to be one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen.

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'Once were warriors' is a very disturbing film. Also 'A soft touch' from Irvin Welsh's Acid House film adaption is quite a traumatic viewing experience..

I haven't seen "Acid House" but I certainly do agree with you about "Once Were Warriors".

As for a personal list of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen, well here it is:

Irreversible
American History X
La Haine
Jacob's Ladder
Angel Heart
Midnight Express
A Clockwork Orange
Histoire de Pen
High Tension
Requiem for A Dream
Romper Stomper
Boys Don't Cry
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Thesis

'Dancer in the Dark' with Bjork directed by Lars Von Trier. The most harrowing film ever. Horrible but great.

Gummo anyone, two adolescent cat murdering mental cases, crys and whispers bergman, check out some of the Quay brother's stuff also, and the only thing disturbing thing about le Haine was that the audience bought it

Seems to be some missing films from the list, here is my additions
August Underground
August Underground Mordium
Society
Madhouse
Bay Of Blood
The Prowler
Football Factory
Scum
When A Stranger Calls
Black Christmas
Mermaid In A Manhole
Deep Red
Tenebrae
Dario rocks

Disturbing Films:

1) L.I.E.
2) GOZU
3) Ichi the killer
4) Visitor Q

A Clockwork Orange
American History X
Nil By Mouth
Apocalypse Now

"1900" (a.k.a. "Novecento") definitely has some disturbing moments in it. Donald Sutherland's character is a real monster.

Also, Cronenberg's "The Fly" is wonderfully disgusting and disturbing.

"One Chance Out Between 2 WorldsFire Walk With Me"

Bad boy Bubba (maybe it was Bubby, or something, I forget.)
Anyway, that was really disturbing but funny if you have got the sick humour.

No one has mentioned Last House on the Left. This is ine hell of a disturbing film in my opinion. I just cant get it out of my head. The scene where Krug cuts his name into the girls chest is intense.

How about Baise Moi or Once Were Warriors ?
-LaBrea

The Manson family
Axe
Scum
Killing Zoe
The Omen
I spit on your grave
Maniac
Charlie & the chocolate factory
"You didnt weigh the chain did ye Doc?"

RP Mc Murphy

Dead mans shoes
The island
"You didnt weigh the chain did ye Doc?"

RP Mc Murphy

"Irreversible", in my view, beats everything, but Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox still give me nightmares. And American History X, Henry, portrait of a serial killer.

Has anyone seen Who'll stop the rain? I'm told it's brilliant and disturbing



"I'm entitled. Simple. End of.."

Oldboy - this film had me literally gasping for breath at some moments.
Man Bites Dog
Requiem for a Dream - a majestic and deeply disturbing journey into addiction
Blue Velvet
The death of Mr Lazarescu
Taxi Driver
Crash (Cronenberg)
Kids

"How about Baise Moi or Once Were Warriors ?
-LaBrea "

Base Moi is the best excuse for a soft porn film i have ever seen.


Good though.



This gentle hearts like shot birds falling.

The dead baby on the cealing on Trainspotting*shivers*



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Gummo

**taking a bang off a whisky bottle** Weve just ran out of wine, what are we going to do about it?

Audition, American History X, Dancer In The Dark (at the end, anyway).

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Didn't read all the lists, but Clockwork Orange and Requiem for a dream are two of the most upsetting movies I have seen. I liked the latter better, and I'm glad I've seen them, But I would never willingly sit through either movie again.

:)
Alma

The civil rights documentary Eyes On The Prize was genuinely disturbing to me, and it helped that I was in 4th grade..

"Oi! Oi! Oi!"

storytelling
punishment park

both absolutely depraved

although nothing beats 'that' scene in irreversible

I completely agree about Irreversible. David Lynch's Inland Empire should be on here. It's very psychologically permeable.

My disturbing favourites are:

Idi i smotri (1985)
Funny Games (1997) and almost any other work by Michael Haneke
Repulsion (1965)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)

in addition:

Lost Highway (1997)
Sal o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Tesis (1996)
Requiem (2006)
4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (2007)
Hundstage (2001)
Trouble Every Day (2001)

I loved Nil by Mouth and The War Zone, but probably the most disturbing film I've seen is Spoorloos.

Alpha Dog, I've never heared a reaction like it in the cinema.

Onibaba (1964)
Eyes without a Face (Franju version, 1963) Perhaps not quite so disturbing now that "fantasy" has been somewhat overtaken by events.

La Pianist hands down. Isabelle Huppert's performance alone is a MUST SEE for anyone into film.
Funny Games, Seventh Continentbasically all of Michael Haneke's stuff.

No order:

Happiness
Desperate Living, Pink Flamingos (Water's stuff generally)
Ken Park
Kids
Irreversible
I Stand Alone
Julien Donkey Boy
Gummo
Elephant
Mysterious Skin

some of that really bad torture porn (Cannibal Holocaust etc)

I suppose everyone has their own interpretation on the word disturbing, for some it's subject matter that is harrowing, for others it's blood and gore or psychologically strange.

For me the already mentioned Begotten has to be way up there,
Threads (1984) is a recommend for anyone who's yet to see it
Jude (1996)is pretty harrowing and depressing
the majority of David Lynch's works
Men Behind the Sun (1988)

I genuinely find nothing disturbing about slasher flicks and gore,
all that fake blood and latex though i am impressed when it's done well,
I thought the gutting scene in Pusher 3 was done well and i'd recommend
The Pusher trilogy to fans of Nil By Mouth if you've yet to to see them.

Not majorly disturbing but another gritty Brit recommend,,
London To Brighton (2006)

Threads is pretty terrifying and remarkably convincing. It's a work of art that will always be relevant and will always be powerful.

Manhattan Murder Mystery; A jolly good romp.

Martyrs is gross

Obviously all the films mentioned are disturbing..but one film not mentioned above that I did find quite disturbing was Alfie (1966).

Forgot about Bad Lieutenant.

**taking a bang off a whisky bottle** Weve just ran out of wine, what are we going to do about it?

Man Bites Dog, the Basketball Diaries (which I personally found to be much more disturbing than Requiem for a Dream), Oldboy, American History X, Ken Park, High Tension, Natural Born Killers, etc.
not in any particular order

-Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
-He fixes the cable?
-Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

OK, here goes:

Dusan Makavejev -'Wilhelm Reich, Mysteries of the Organism' (1971)
Dusan Makavejev- Sweet Movie (1974)
James Wan - Saw (2004) *NB: Embarrassing choice I knowbut it really did freak me out
David Cronenberg - Naked Lunch (1991)
Gyrgy Plfi - Taxidermia (2006)
Frank Marshall - Arachnophobia (1990) *NB: Again another blockbuster.. but again does make me squirm, and paranoid for months after
Vincent Gallo - Buffalo 66 (1998)

Polytechnique (2009)
I Stand Alone (1998)
When the Wind Blows (1985)
Men Behind the Sun
The Fly (1986)
Parents
The Believers
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover
A Serbian Movie
The Disappearance of Alice Creed

"Fk your man, it's my name he's screamin'"-Natalie Portman

I tripped across this flick when trying to figure out what "Nil By Mouth" meant from its references in "Mary and Max". Then had to sign-in just to say what a great thread this is and your list of disturbing movies! Gotta.add.GUMMO !

nineteen eighty-four