The Most Disturbing Films

This film is utterly transcendant. It takes everything and turns it upside down. The deepest depths of depravity are reached with the greatest of ease in this film. You utterly cannot believe what you are watching as it happens. As an avid fan of the artform of film I watched this movie because of its artistic and historical signifigance as probably the single most disturbing movie ever made. The assault that this movie thrusts upon its viewer is at first a feeling of disgust that grows into indescribeable outrage at what you are viewing up until the shocking and bitterly horrific end of this film. Despite the controversy that surrounded him the director Pier Paolo Pasolini is a master at his artform and due to its uniqueness this is one of his more widely recognized films. THIS FILM IS NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENDED OR PEOPLE WITH WEAK STOMACHS! It is meant to be a shocking and controversial piece of art and no matter how desensitized our society gets this will always be what it is meant to be, shocking!

Okay now after watching the first August Underground movie you know what to expect from the second one right? Wrong, this movie completely tops its predecessor utterly and completely to the point where I dont even want to waste brain cells trying to talk it up (or down). It is done on the same grainy and hard to deal with jerky camera style filming. It is hard to watch and is without a doubt one of the most disgusting, vile, disturbing, and truly scary movies ever made. All the rules that I told you about the first one apply double here. Look at it as an incredibly sick piece of fiction and you will do fine. Suspend any disbelief and you may find yourself pulling a Charlie Sheen (turning the movie into the MPAA and then the Police).
This synopsis will be a brief explanation or maybe more like a laundry list of just some of the grossness that went into this. Two girls are forced to eat puke then are brutally murdered, a man is castrated and then his castrated penis is used to rape his girlfriend who is then mercilessly slaughtered. As I was watching this I couldnt believe that this movie existed or was in any way necessary. Uh anyways let me continue with the 'synopsis'. Plus add a tad of Necrophilia and then add in some dude having sex with (ie. inserting his penis into) a gaping flesh wound that he cut into someone, and later on in the film eats he a maggot covered highly decomposed headless baby body (Yes you read that right). And on and on and on, the movie eventually ends with the most fucked up character cutting his own throat open (thank god). You as the viewer want to kill yourself for watching such a depraved piece of work but the best you can do is take a long shower and forget you ever even watched this piece of celluloid toilet paper.

The acting and the direction in this film is great: but the content, Wow!
This is a movie that has an Asian rating of category III, which basically means that it is an extremely offensive, violent, and disturbing movie. The movie in question is called ?The Untold Story? or ?Bun Man ? The Untold Story? and is completely and utterly based upon a true story and definitely lives up to its rating. The fact that it is true makes it actually creepier than most shock movies due to the fact that unlike other disturbing movies this one actually happened.
The movie begins in the town of Macau with the discovery of some dismembered, decomposing body parts that have washed up on the beach and are found by a local woman and her children. We are then shown the ?Eight Immortals? Dim Sum Restaurant and we are introduced to Wong Chi Hang, he is a gruff nerdy looking man with glasses. At the ?Eight Immortals? their specialty dish is barbeque beef rolls or hum bao. We find out that Wong doesn?t legally own the restaurant legally but that ?it was given to him? by the previous owner. A man who has since disappeared off of the face of the planet. As you watch the film you begin to realize that there is something that isn?t right about this shop owner.
The Police (who in this film are a bunch of bumbling idiots) begin to investigate and find out who the limbs found on the beach belong to. They are contacted by people and discover that they belong to someone who was related to the ?Eight Immortals? previous owner. The police then begin to investigate Wong and his restaurant and by this point we realize that Wong is not all he first appeared to be.
In a flashback scene we see what happens to the previous owner and his entire family. The sequence is one of the most violent, relentless, raw, and disturbing sequences I have ever seen. Wong and the previous owner are gambling with one another and the owner catches him cheating and confronts him. Wong hits him over the head with a bottle and grabs the owners son hold the broken bottle to his neck. He then orders the owners wife to tie up the rest of the family up and she does so hoping to save her child. Now that the rest of the family is tied up, Wong ties up the owner?s wife and then begins insulting the helpless tied up man. Then to prove how much power he has over the family he bites a piece of the woman?s face off and spits it at her tied up husband. The children begin to cry loudly and this is what sends Wong into a rage, I won?t go into specifics but Wong slaughters every member of the family in graphic detail all right in front of the camera. Then he cuts up the bodies (again in front of the camera) and uses the meat to make the Barbeque buns that the restaurant is famous for.
Back to the present, Wong is becoming increasingly paranoid with the police on his trail and decides that the employees of the restaurant are too big of a risk to have around so he murders them as well. In another hard to forget scene he rapes a female employee shoveing a handful of chopsticks into her vagina, and then kills her and makes her into food too. After this point in the film it just goes downhill into a cycle of violence and mayhem.
Finally the police arrest him and beat a confession out of him in a very original way. They put him into a jail cell with the brother of the restaurants previous owner who rapes, tortures, and generally mistreats him in every way imaginable and the film ends with a suicide.
This film had to be edited to get a category III movie rating (NC-17 is the American equivalent). Although, it has recently been released in America on DVD in all of its uncut glory. The violence in this movie (particularly against children) will hit you like a swift kick in the balls or boobs (depending upon gender).

the original "Last House on the Left" which was the first
(and many say the best) horror movie by Wes Craven. When he turned it in to the MPAA they wouldn't rate it anything less than and X rating even when he cut the movie roughly in half (at a 50 minute runtime). So in response he released it UNCUT and put an R rating on the posters anyways. The movie in question was one of the most popular grindhouse movies of the day and one of the most shocking movies ever made. It is based upon the movie "The Virgin Spring" by Ingmar Bergman (truly a cinematic master that was waaayyy ahead of his time!). What I am trying to say is this: save your money and don't go see the remake just go down to the video store and rent the original if you are looking for an EXTREME revenge picture. When it comes to horror always watch the original and except no substitutes!

WARNING: This movie is definitely not for the faint of heart or the squemish. You may laugh but I am being dead serious it contains: rape, torture, castration, etc. This is a truly twisted picture, but if you like shock cinema it is good.

Whenever I hear about a "shocking" or "unbelievable" film on the internet or on Imdb I usually take a look and see what its about, this film is an example of one such instance. The film Aftermath was a short film made by Nacho Cerda in 1994. It was the second film made by Cerda in his directorial career. The film begins deep in the bowels of a Spanish morgue. In the morgue there is an autopsy-taking place, right before our very eyes. The film is devoid of any real dialogue and focuses on the use of graphic shocking imagery to make its point. The film starts with the average goings on in a morgue. The other morticians call it a day and leave one behind to finish up his work. This is when the film gets uncomfortably vile and disturbing.
The lone mortician who is left in the morgue begins fondling some of the corpses. Then rather quickly he turns his attention to the dead body of a young female who died in a car crash. The mortician apparently overcome by some twisted desire, proceeds to strip her naked and mutilate the young girl?s corpse. He then mounts the corpse and has sex with it, all the while taking pictures of himself in the act. The man then takes the girl?s heart home with him, blends it in a blender and then feeds it to his dog and calmly sits down to watch his TV.
This film is very realistic and the effects are sickening to say the least. The idea behind the film (according to the Director) was to convey the helplessness that our bodies face after we are dead. Since its release this film has been surrounded by a great deal of hype and is apparently very hard to find. This is due to its unflinchingly realistic unapologetic depiction of death, autopsy, corpse desecration, and necrophilia. I thought the film was well made (as disgusting as it sounds everything in this film seemed believable and realistic) but due to the disgusting subject matter I couldn?t really get into it, not really my bag.

The film Angst by Director Gerald Kargl is a beautifully shot film and rightfully so. The camera work is flawless although somewhat unsettling. The cinematographer behind the camera was none other than Zbigniew Rybczynski a filmmaker who had won an Oscar two years prior for his short film, Tango. The beauty of the film aside, this is one of the most disturbing films ever put to celluloid.
The film starts with sweeping shots of a prison and then centers on the central character. As he is shaving he explains that he stabbed his own mother and killed a 70-year-old woman, which are the reasons he is in prison. Then the guards come to his door because he is being let out after 14 years.
The movie then follows ?the killer? as the character is called as he tries to live the life of a free man. It is something that he utterly fails at, because he is always analyzing who his next victim should be. The film reaches the breaking point when he forcibly enters a suburban home and waits for the family that lives there. When the family of 3 arrives at home he incapacitates the daughter who is the strongest family member and then the movie revolves around how he kills each family member in graphic detail. First he kills the mother by suffocating her, then he drowns the paraplegic son in a tub full of water, and finally he chases after the daughter stabs her with a knife multiple times and then ?has his way? with her still warm corpse. He then drives to town with the dead family in the trunk of his car and gets into an accident. The film ends with him showing the police what he has in his trunk. In 1983 the year that this film came out it received an X rating for violence even with film standards becoming more lax than they had been in previous years. After its initial showing in the theaters the film drifted into obscurity and disappeared. Then years later came the advent of the Internet and recently this masterpiece of shock cinema has finally become available again if only online for the time being.

The Grim Reaper as this movie was called in English film markets was director Joe D'Amato's first true foray into the horror genre. Previously he had made Sexploitation horror movies, which were big during the 70s. Although being his first true horror film this film will forever go down into the annals of horror history as one of the more sick and twisted works ever to be released. The plot of this movie revolves around a group of tourists that are taking their vacation on a small Greek island. Once they arrive on the island they discover that it has been totally deserted. The only person upon the island that they come across is a blind girl who doesn?t know what has happened to the rest of the townspeople but does describe a man who has interacted with her, she says that he smells of blood and is frightened of him.
As the tourists start getting picked off one by one by said man that smells like blood, they decide to take action. The survivors start looking for clues as to what is exactly happening on the island. During their search they discover a diary, which tells the tale of a man who was shipwrecked on the island with his wife and child. In order to survive the ordeal the man was forced to cannibalize his own family. He was driven mad by his actions and killed the rest of the people on the island when he found them.
By the end of the film there are only a few survivors left and they battle and defeat the crazy man. He is hit in the stomach with a pickaxe and as his guts spill out he attempts to eat them, chewing on his own intestines before he succumbs to his own demise.
When this film came out many media outlets proclaimed that it was a snuff film due to one particularly brutal scene. In the extremely notorious scene, he strangles a pregnant lady to death and then pulls the fetus from her stomach and devours it. The filmmakers proved that the effect was created using a skinned and cooked rabbit covered in fake blood but the film is still banned in many countries all over the globe to this day.

This movie has the most sharp turn of any movie I have ever seen, period. This is not just one of the most disturbing movies ever; it is also one of the best-executed shocking movie climaxes ever put to screen. When I was recommended this movie by a friend he said, ?all I can say is that it is a romantic drama that loses its way and goes horribly wrong at the end?. Now having heard of Takashi Miike before and looking over some of his VAST (around 200 movies and he is still making more) catalogue, I knew that I should expect some thing next level messed up and I still wasn?t prepared for what came next.
The plot is very usual romantic fare in the beginning of the film. It has been seven years since the death of his beloved wife and Shigeharu Aoyama is a successful corporate executive who longs to find love again. A film producer friend of his suggests that they set up a fake audition for a film to help him find the perfect match. Aoyama is immediately drawn to an Asami who is a shy, soft voiced, yet at the same time confident young woman of 24. His producer friend warns him, saying that he has a bad feeling about her. He states that all of the names that she gave as references for her audition have mysteriously disappeared. He is so enthralled by both her inner and outer beauty that he pursues her anyways.
They go on several successful dates and she finally agrees to accompany him to hotel. Once they arrive Asami tells him about the sexual abuse that she lived through as a child and shows him her scars. She asks him to love her and only her and he agrees, then they make love. The next morning he wakes up and she is gone leaving no note behind. He franticly searches the city for her using her audition resume and believing her to be his one true love. At the end of the movie it turns from a love story to a horror movie instantly, the last 15 minutes of this film are incredibly hard to sit through. This is definitely one of the most well done shocking movies I have seen.

This movie is truly sick and twisted and after watching it I felt dirty for about a week. The fact that the movie is done on a grainy very messed up camera does little to keep one from wanting to vomit from the get go with this film. As I watched this I had to tell myself a couple of times that this movie is not real. The suspension of disbelief that one usually has when watching a film goes out the damn window with this one because if it didn?t then you would truly think that you were watching a snuff film.
This film is very hard to synopsize because in essence it is just a set of disturbing vignettes of murder, torture, mayhem, and etc. connected by the fact that is all one movie and nothing else. There is a girl that the unnamed killer keeps in his basement and does some truly sick shit to including but not limited to watching her boyfriend get murdered and dismembered and eating her own shit. Oh by the way the killer in this movie is played by the director himself Fred Vogel. This is one of the few films that I have watched where I had to stifle my own vomit, oh and by the way the sequels are much worse.
Anyways back to the synopsis, the killer then beats some poor girl to death, then goes to a ?concert? and delvers some beat downs, then he tortures the girl in the basement more. Then we get to follow him on some road trips? great. On the road trip we see the killer beat an old lady to death (played by the directors own Grandma) and steal her car. And so on, add more random beatings and torture. Then we get to the finale of the ?movie? which involves two prostitutes, a hammer, murder, and some good old-fashioned sodomy.
End of movie, thankfully, just watching this movie to review it was an endurance test that many normal people just couldn?t handle (not that I am normal but I like to think that I am at least semi-normal). This movie exists because of independent horror directors that are sick of the same old Hollywood trite and want to create something truly terrifying. Applause to Fred Vogel the director, you have truly bucked and mentally ass fucked the system and horror community into submission.

Finally Director Fred Vogel decided that three of these celluloid shit stains were enough. Although he goes out with a bang, (and it isn't a good one either. Imagine the previous two ?August Underground? movies in digital clarity where you can see all of the gore effects, rape, and depravity in all their glory. That is something that I don?t want to imagine, but it is what I got with this final entry into the most gross film trilogy ever.
Now after writing the last two synopsis I have realized the futility in writing a synopsis of one of these movies. All you can do is list the ensuing carnage and hope that people take your word for it and shy away and/or are interested and watch the movie.
The list is as follows: this movie has the usual August Underground fare ie. rape, torture, dismemberment, disemboweling, murder, de-fetus-ing pregnant women, bloated corpses, and more death and humiliation than you could want from an over the top horror shit storm. I truly hope that this is the last chapter of the August Underground (he could do a prequel, spin off, other pseudo-snuff, etc.) movies because it is definitely the last one of these movies that I will ever be watching.
The scene where they murder the family at Christmas was a turning point for me and I thought ?why?? and the answer was completely obvious and apparent: it is because they can do whatever they want. The content in this movie is so extreme and depraved because of course it is all fiction and not real (thank god). No person was actually hurt in the making of this film, in fact Vogel gets friends of his to play the torture and rape victims. These films were probably really fun to make but trust me they are not really fun to watch because you can tell that almost the entire budget of the film went into special effects and man does it show. The effects in this movie are top notch and very believable. Warning: this film contains a disemboweling to end all disembowelings complete with gas bubbles, ugh. I want to barf just writing about it. Anyways I am very glad that the August Underground phenomena is finally over, and all I have to say is this may the characters rest in hell getting raped by the devil where they belong.

The thing that you must consider when watching the film The Baby of Macon is that it isn't just another disturbing film, its delivery and cinematography are masterful to say the least. The set design is also quite good, the only thing against it is the content. Like most of director Peter Greenaway's other films, The Baby of Macon includes a lot of very disturbing ideas and concepts. The story begins as a play within a play, this concept is so well executed that when watching the movie it is very hard to understand what he wanted to convey as real and what is supposed to be the play.
The story begins in the village of Macon, a town that is plagued by famine, pestilence, and barrenness. Suddenly like a light coming out of the darkness a fat, old, and ugly woman from the town miraculously gives birth to a baby boy. Immediately afterwards the womans daughter imprisons her mother and claims that she had the boy by means of immaculate conception. She exploits the previously joyus event by selling the blessings of the child to the weak and weary townsfolk. Now as a brief aside, the acting in this film is very well played both Julia Ormond and Ralph Fiennes are amazing in this film and hit most if not all of their marks.
At this point in the film the Catholic Church feels that they must intervene because someone claims to have a holy child, is making a profit, and is not cutting them in! The Bishops Son played by Ralph Fiennes is sent to prove that the young woman is indeed not a virgin and is in fact a blasphemer. The Son who is a believer in science and is a religious skeptic doubts the validity of the daughters story. She attempts to convince him that she is indeed a virgin offering him her virginity stating that if he were to enter her, his prick would be covered in blood. Before he is able to consummate this strange sexual union the supposedly holy baby commands a bull to kill him and it does. The Bishop arrives to find his son gored to death and the virgin covered in his blood. The blame for his sons death falls squarely upon the shoulders of the virgin daughter.
The Bishop takes custody of the baby of Macon and the Church begins to exploit him and the town on a far grander scale than the daughter previously had. The daughter decides that the best way to deal with this betrayal of the faithful is to quietly suffocate the baby to death. Then the church sentences the girl to death, but since she is a virgin they cannot legally kill her outright. So the Bishop instead sentences her to be raped 208 times (not a very fun scene to sit through). Then the church dismembers the babies body and sells the remains as religious relics. The film ends with plague, pestilence, and famine once again falling upon the poor people in the town of Macon. This film is good, but is a huge bummer.

Haunting and disturbing. If you watch this you won't soon forget it.

Say what you will about this film but this is a great zombie movie but the film doesn't start out that way. The film begins as a gorey haunted house story about the spirit of a murderd artist killing people in the basement of a New Orleans house but it soon then descends into a story that lacks logic but is still enjoyable. As far as Zombie movies that are trippy go this one is by far the best ever. I must admit that this is my favorite film that I have seen by Lucio Fulci as well. The gore in the death scenes of this movie were just so over the top and so much fun. The bleak ending was just the icing on the top of a very nasty and awesome cake for me. I genuinely love this movie!

Utterly depressing, Heartbreaking, Soul Crushing. These are all things that can accurately be said about this film. But despite that this film is well made and beautifully directed.

Like most of Peter Jackson's early work this film finds a way to balance completely over the top gore with extremely funny content as well. Even the gore itself can be so over the top that it is funny. It is hard to believe that this is the same guy who made almost a billion dollars on "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy. I really enjoy his early stuff like "Dead Alive", "Bad Taste", and "Meet the Feebles" just as much as I enjoyed "Lord of the Rings" and hope to enjoy "The Hobbit".

This movie was crazy in the best possible way. The intensity of the barrage of disturbing imagery was at an all time high with this classic gem. Jodorowsky's work in this film is highlighted due to the fact that unlike many of his other films this one was filmed in Italy. This film plays out like a kind of Psychadelic Giallo with intense surreal imagery mixed in for good measure. The ending to this movie is a huge surprise as well. But the part of the movie that I enjoyed the most was the relationship between Fenix and Alma. It proves that even in the darkest places redemption can be found in love.

A very gross, disturbing, and down right disgusting film, I have heard. I can't wait to see it.

This is the second and is also the darkest and most twisted film of Park's entire "vengeance trilogy". Nothing is taboo in this heavily complicated yet captivating film. As you watch it you realize that it is just so beautifully shot for such an ugly subject mattered movie. It crosses all boundaries and breaks every taboo, yet still keeps ahold of you with amazing writing and gorgeous cinematography. It grabs ahold of you and doesn't let go, it is an amazing artistic achievement.

Most of this movie is fictional despite popular belief.