Years ago, I created a massive list of disturbing films on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls009209730/
As of this writing, the list has 1,706 titles on it and easily the largest such list on the internet.
However, as many of you know, I was in prison from 2015 to 2024 and, as such, I was obviously not able to keep the list updated. Could you all please fill me in on the disturbing films that have come out since then? There's a list from /r/DisturbingMovies, but it's largely useless. It was made by Redditards, so it's filled with films that don't even remotely belong on a list of disturbing movies, like Watership Down and The Dark Crystal. To be on my list, the content has to be at least at R-rated level.
(As a side note, while I was in prison, I wrote a detailed outline for my own attempt at creating the most disturbing film ever made (partially inspired by the disgusting s*x offenders who I was forced to be surrounded by) - one that would not only far exceed every other "sickest movie ever made" in terms of on-screen depravity, but would also tell an emotionally devastating story filled with truly heartbreaking pathos. The fact that even the deeply jaded and desensitized prison staff were shocked and disturbed by it (and repeatedly spoke to me about it) told me that I did exactly what I set out to do.)
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Average drama poster
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When your mind is officially too twisted for prison psychologists, you become rDrama royalty.
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The Lawnmower Man(1992) and C.H.U.D.(1984) are quite spine-tingling bone-chilling slow burn horror movies.
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!nonchuds promoting a movie literally named "CHUD"
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!soyteens
spider gang for life
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www.wpd.com.org is over there friendo
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!edgelords edgemisia
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yeah.
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There was this japanese horror film I saw years ago where these women were experimented on with something that made pain feel pleasurable so they would like cut off pieces of their body and stuff. One chick deep fried her hand and ate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Blood
Pretty kino if you like gore
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That was on the list from day one. The self-mutilation scenes are easily the most cringe-inducing in cinema history, even for battle-hardened horror buffs. And it's actually a shockingly good film.
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For me, it's the classic exploitation splatter flicks which never pretended to have any redeeming value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sucking_Freaks
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Blood Sucking Freaks is actually the first film that I point to when I point to a film that has absolutely no redeeming value of any sort.
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Sorry I didn't actually look at the list, but I see it now at 58 lol
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Dude women dying lmao
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If you had actually seen the film that we're talking about, you would know that it's actually intelligent slow-burn medical horror, not misogynistic exploitation trash.
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I only watch misogynistic exploitation trash, sorry.
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My family home videos
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Imho that list is already too long. A lot of it is basically porn, e.g. most of the japanese r*pe shit or the various collections "most shocking videos of the world".
Most Haneke films could fit. Someone else already mentioned Cronenberg jr.
Ulrich Seidl's films can be pretty unsettling, but they're also pretty funny.
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!kino
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Mad God might be up your alley. It's a stop motion film with lots of weird creatures and visuals
Also not a recent film but have you seen Demonlover? It starts off tame but builds up to quite a disturbing end.
Brandon Cronenberg's films are other good recent options. I've not seen Infinity Pool but Possessor is really good
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Infinity pool is pretty kino
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Mad God is so fricking kino for the first 20 minutes, and then everything that's live action is dogshit, and then it kind of gets okay at the end.
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Idk if it's on there but The Evil Within which came out in 2017, made by a meth addict which died before the movie released, it's about a boy with down syndrome who talks with himself in a mirror and falls further and further down into insanity, it's a great watch
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339736/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%252
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You made this list when you were 15?
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I think I was 17 when I posted this list on IMDb. I first posted the list on a forum when I was about 12, though.
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How come you don't have Spoorloos ("The Vanishing" in the subtitled English release)?
It's the most disturbing fiction movie I have ever seen despite having no gore and very few violent scenes, and it's not even close. Legit never want to watch that shit again. Usually disturbing movies don't do much to me, but this one had me feeling a bit fricked up for days afterward.
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The way Watership Down focused on the omnipresent violence and death in the world definitely makes it a disturbing movie, so frick you.
It was much more than just "fighting bunnies".
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Thanks, reddit.
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A movie like that would never get a theatrical release these days. Cope.
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Dude bunnies lmao
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For what?
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terrorism
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Chopping people's heads off and fricking their eye sockets.
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a serbian film
dont actually watch it or read even a synopsis
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I've watched it. It's been on there since day one.
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Pet- man becomes obsessed with a woman and kidnaps her and locks her in a cage under the animal shelter he works at, but not is all as it seems.
Cat Sick Blues- man goes nuts and believes killing nine people will bring his beloved cat back to life, becomes a serial killer.
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Wendigoon made a much better list but i can throw in my own recommendations
As above so below
The house that jack built
Martyrs (these deal with purgatory)
Airbud
Faces of death
V/H/S 2
Cabinet of dr caligari
Literally anything with Vincent Price
Loose change
Star wars the last jedi
Driving miss daisy
Theres a few others
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Link?
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Star wars last jedi is the most racist film ive seen.
Joh boyega goes to prison twice, attempts suicide, betrays his comrades and leads the enemies to victory. I mean he didnt develop a crack addiction but i assume that happened in the third movie
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Airbud is unironically an existential dread movie, the implications that sentient dogs exist and the ramifications keep me up at night.
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Japanese film Grotesque, german film Angst and indie animated Where the Dead Go to Die
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All three are already on there. Of those three, Angst is the only one that's actually a decent movie. Where the Dead Go to Die gets points only for being quite unlike anything else ever made. To paraphrase the great critic Beavis: "it sucks, but it sucks in a new way that we haven't seen before, so I guess that makes it kinda cool."
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Bone Tomahawk is about a tribe of cannibal Native Americans and has some pretty gnarly scenes
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A serbian film. (they love sucking me off and begging me for attention so I did some research on what it means to be a serbian and I came across this. )
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He's very throughout with his list. I wanted to say Irreversible since it's a pretty obscure movie but it's already there
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That was on there from day one. Truthfully, I personally did not find it to be disturbing, though. I mean, it is easily the most depraved film ever made, but the overall tone of it just didn't feel disturbing to me. It was a surprisingly decent film, however, made with a significant degree of artistic quality. In stark contrast, the #2 "sickest movie ever made" - August Underground's Mordum (2003) - is just a plotless, amateurish concatenation of ridiculously over-the-top hardcore depravity that possesses absolutely no redeeming value of any sort.
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its disgusting when these people claim they are Russia's best allies and I have to see this shit.
I do not hate serbs though, but they certainly have their ups and downs.
Glory to Russia!
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Guinea Pig
Guinea Pig 2
Battle Royale
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All of the Guinea Pig and Battle Royale films were on there from day one... unless you're talking about new remakes. I did hear about the new American Guinea Pig films, which I'm definitely going to add to the list.
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Battle Royale is peak jap cringe kino.
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the original hunger games
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Under the Skin (2013)
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Cuties
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Hereditary.
The Wailing.
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Snapshots:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls009209730/:
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a list from /r/DisturbingMovies:
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You're missing Ari Aster movies. They're still normie-digestible but they're as disturbing as something like Saw or Eraserhead. Hereditary is considered his most disturbing full length movie, and There's Something about the Johnsons his most disturbing short film.
Seconding the rec for Under the Skin. I've not seen this movie or any Ari Aster ones but people who like arthouse horror rec these a lot.
Maybe not disturbing enough but I really enjoyed Jordan Peele's Nope. It's mostly an adventure movie but there's one particular scene of a crowd death that left many viewers shaken and nauseous.
Another "disturbing" movie I've personally seen is The Favorite. Not hardcore enough for the list but way more brutal than the subject matter would suggest. There are lots of genuine funny moments interspersed with horror moments like an ex prostitute being burned with lye.
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The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is on there.
Which The Favorite are you talking about? There are several films with that title.
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I spelled it the american way which is wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Favourite
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That's on there. There's more than one page to the list.
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Oh, thank goodness.
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Shyness MACHINE GIRL
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Serbian Film is a nice bone chilling, slow burn, skinamarink-like, A24-esque films. One could say it took a lot of inspiration from PG-13 80s horror movies like Goonies and Gremlins. I would reccomend kicking back and making it a movie for the whole friend group, possibly even the foid for if she likes a good creepy crawly flick!
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Protip: if you show your foid A Serbian Film and she still wants to be with you, she's a keeper.
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