Movies that disturb you :(

[Shadowy Lady]

I just saw Orphan as I saw it was recommended on this thread. I must say I found it pretty lame :/ I mean there was the lil twist at the end but there were waaaay too many plot holes in the movie to allow me to enjoy it.

It seems like directors have forgotten that if you don't have a good story, you have nothing...no matter how great the special effects are or how much money you spent.

On the other hand, if anyone is interested, the Spanish movie called Orphanage scared the #$%^@ out of me! Great story, many twists and superb acting. I would say Orphanage was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

 

[kdemers1221]

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Originally Posted by Merula That Poughkeepsie was just trippy! I should watch it tonight in the dark and see how it freaks me out. I'm trying to think of movies I've found disturbing, but I can't think of one at the moment. I know there's a movie that I've been avoiding due to its reviews, it's called Irreversible. It literally goes backwards so the beginning of the film is a guy getting his face smashed in, in a bathhouse. According to a few people, the background music has a specific vibration or tone that is known to cause people nausea, so people were literally getting up and leaving the movie theater. It also has a 15 minute rape scene.

I watched Irreversible last night after seeing your post and it was pretty good. I did not like the way they filmed it the first good part of the movie the camera kept flipping and turning and moving around it made it really hard to watch because I couldn't focus on what was being shown. It is really graphic... the guys face is smashed to a pulp... like literally. The rape scene was also def. 15 minutes and not easy to watch at all... especially if you're sensitive to that kind of thing. There is a huge twist at the end (or beginning since it's backwards) that makes the movie quite interesting because if it had been shown in the right direction I don't think it would have been as effective. Overall... I'm glad I saw it... I psyched myself thinking it would be worse than it was but besides the 2 scenes its not gory at all. Let me know if you do end up watching it and tell me what you think.

 

[breezybabe89]

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Originally Posted by Shadowy Lady I just saw Orphan as I saw it was recommended on this thread. I must say I found it pretty lame :/ I mean there was the lil twist at the end but there were waaaay too many plot holes in the movie to allow me to enjoy it. It seems like directors have forgotten that if you don't have a good story, you have nothing...no matter how great the special effects are or how much money you spent. On the other hand, if anyone is interested, the Spanish movie called Orphanage scared the #$%^@ out of me! Great story, many twists and superb acting. I would say Orphanage was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

I agree! I also enjoyed that movie, the acting was really good. It's a good thing it didn't scare me because I ended up having to watch it alone since my dh hates having to read subtitles.

 

[Ruby_Woo]

Paranormal Activity, was omg. Insane, and very disturbing. I literally wanted to cry and scream. Go see it!

 

[DOLLface]

I just thought I'd let everyone know that the demand for Paranormal Activity reached one million, so it was announced that the release would be expanded. Keep an eye out for it in the next few weeks because I'm pretty sure it's getting a full release.

I'll update when I have specifics.

 

[RedRibbon]

Mr RR was watching the trailer for that Paranormal film yesterday (there's a girl sitting next to her bed in it, if that's the same one) and he said it would freak me out so it's best I don't watch it. That's true enough because when I watch stuff like the Candyman (even now) I find it hard to sleep.

Last night the Amityville Horror film was on tv, it was the remake with Ryan Reynolds (who by the way, has a gorgeous body, I never realised it until seeing that film) and I thought it would be lame. It wasn't as scary as the original but the amount of gore/horrible images was pretty good considering how crap horror films have been lately.

 

[DOLLface]

Today it's been confirmed that Paranormal Activity will have an expanded release starting Friday, October 16th, so keep an eye out for it in your area.

It is not opening everywhere tomorrow (like in my area it isn't opening until the 23rd), but it can probably be expected in the next week or so.

 

[KimmyAnn_678]

Wow, Cannibal Holocaust was Disturbing with a capital D. There was very graphic violence, animal slaughter, nudity and rape, but for some reason it didn't seem unnecessary. Maybe because it's an older film so that quality wasn't what we see today, and it was documentary style.

Suspiria was a neat film, arty and beautiful, but not that disturbing IMO.

And I'm sad Paramormal Activity isn't opening at our theater yet

 

[BEA2LS]

i saw paranormal activity last weekend.. it was good, my friends were terrified so i guess most people would be. the way it was filmed was making me kinda sick to my stomach because the screen kept shaking

(the blair witch did that to me, too).
i am just hard to scare i guess but it really was freaky.

 

[LMD84]

me and hubby watched a film called dumplings on sunday night. it has subtitles but don't let that put you off because as gross as it was i thought it was very good with a very clear message behind it. you may be put off eating dumplings for a while afterwards though!

 

[BEA2LS]

is anyone going to see encounter of the fourth kind? i might see the midnight movie of that tonight.

 

[val-x]

The 2009 or 2008 version of The Last House On The Left scared, in my mind I was going wtf?!?

 

[LMD84]

me and hubby watched paranormal activity last week. it was the scariest film i have ever watched... even nick agrees and he never gets scared! it was so scarey that we woke up at 3am after watching it, scared poopless and couldn't sleep so turned on all the lights and watched the simpsons until we fell asleep again!

 

[kdemers1221]

i saw paranormal activity and it was good and freaky but i didn't lose any sleep over it. i guess i'm just hard to scare but i slept fine after watching it. haha

 

[BEA2LS]

^^ same here, though i wish i did get scared sometimes

 

[kdemers1221]

its funny because i'll read all the reviews and things for movies that are supposed to be really scary and i'll psych myself out. then i'll go and see the movie and be like "i can't believe i thought that was going to be scary" haha. but yeah i wish i could get scared too but what scares me more is things that are real... like haunted houses and things at halloween not so much movies or shows.

 

[BEA2LS]

^^ ghost stuff freaks me out but not so movies still, i am more afraid of vacant dark places than anything (i used to go in a lot of abandoned houses as a teenager!)

 

[RedRibbon]

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Originally Posted by LMD84 me and hubby watched paranormal activity last week. it was the scariest film i have ever watched... even nick agrees and he never gets scared! it was so scarey that we woke up at 3am after watching it, scared poopless and couldn't sleep so turned on all the lights and watched the simpsons until we fell asleep again!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that is too cute

I want to go see it but me and the Mr need to have time off together so we can go see it.

 

[Kragey]

I've been forced to rewatch this in one of my classes, so I figured I'd mention it here: Sometimes in April. That scene where the French convoys pull away, leaving so many people behind, and you just see a bunch of Rwandan extremists with machetes and hammers coming out of the forest and walk down the street...that scene kills me. Hell, the whole movie kills me!

But you know what kills me more? The fact that somebody recently told me that the "most traumatic event of 1994 was Kurt Cobaine's death." When I asked, "Well, what about the Rwandan Genocide?" his response was, "What's that?"

Really? REALLY? I don't expect people to know every ethnic conflict that ever happened, but I can't believe people think the death of a singer (however influencial) is more important than the lives of THOUSANDS who die in these kinds of conflicts EVERY DAY. I would've punched him if he'd said Michael Jackson's death trumps the Iraq War or the Darfur crisis in terms of importance; any American who doesn't have their head up their arse has to have heard of those events.

 

[BitBitBabiGirl]

I just watched Martyrs and i have to say: Do. Not. Watch. This.

Seriously, it made me feel so... horrible. And disgusted. It is a good movie, just not worth it, if you ask me.