What is the most disturbing thing you're ever read/watched? (Fictional)
Reply #30 - July 25, 2013, 09:43 PM
^ So happy to see someone who loves the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre! It's by no means a perfect film, but Tobe Hooper did one hell of a job crafting an atmosphere of pure horror and visceral terror. Definitely some of the most lurid, macabre, and gruesome imagery I have seen in a film, which is why it's one of my top horror movie picks.
Another favorite (disturbing) film of mine is the 1983 Videodrome, which is honestly so bizarre it's somewhat pointless to try and describe what it's about. On the surface, it's a film about snuff films, but in reality it's a 90-minute journey into the depths of sex, depravity, violence, sadomasochism, Western culture, fantasy versus reality, and indulgent excess. Most scenes in the movie made me cringe, and were in some way horrifying or disturbing or grotesque but always fascinating. Definitely give this film a watch.
And if we're on the topic of disturbing, the 2002 Japanese horror film Suicide Club is also on the list. I didn't really like this film, and it's not that great, but it gets highly disturbing at times (especially near the end), and I do have to give the filmmakers credit for its unique style (even if it never coalesces into anything worthwhile). The film's opening scene features a group of 50 schoolgirls who line up along the platform at a train station, chatting jovially with one another, then fall dead silent as the train approaches and leap in unison onto the tracks. Afterward, a spate of mass suicides breaks out all over Tokyo, and things get a lot more weird and disturbing than people simply committing suicide en masse.
I've heard about A Serbian Film but have yet to see it myself. It's on my list of things to watch.