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[Uthimienure]

A good film can be upsetting. If stirring strong emotions is the goal of the movie, then it's a good film even if it makes you sad.

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Many of my favorite films make me upset.

[JoshuaFH]

SuperEyepatchwolf just put out a video for his top most horrifying, disturbing movies. I haven't seen any of them, just his descriptions of them are pretty unsettling.

[methylatedspirit]

I think I lost my Bluetooth in-ear headphones. Shit. That thing pumped out the best sound I've heard thus far and I fucking lost it, like I'm some kind of idiot. I know I could just buy it again, but goddamn it if I'm not gonna sulk for a bit. I have a backup, but it's not as good.

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: Actual spoiler for Supernatural, though if you got tired of the show years ago like me, feel free to look at the first 4:36 and no further: (click to show/hide)

Destiel is canon apparently?

So uh, guess I have to figure out where the Hell I left oft.  It was sometime after the nazis and the leviathans and god yeeting off with his sister - also a spoiler I guess but RIP the one person that last watched mid that season.

Oh I think I do remember the last thing, maybe?

Spoiler: Actual spoiler for season 100 or whatever (click to show/hide)

God chastising the brothers then shooting them with mind bullets or something in a playground

Fuck, I don't know, I was so checked out and it was literally over a year or two ago.

So yeah I guess I get to watch Supernatural again
yay for queer baiting
this show started off good, I swear! 

[Reelya]

SuperEyepatchwolf just put out a video for his top most horrifying, disturbing movies. I haven't seen any of them, just his descriptions of them are pretty unsettling.

I clicked on the video but avoided watching any of it, because I'd prefer to get the titles of the movies, watch them and then view the bit where he's breaking it down afterwards. If it's a disturbing movie then telling me why it's disturbing is just going to spoil the whole thing.

[JoshuaFH]

SuperEyepatchwolf just put out a video for his top most horrifying, disturbing movies. I haven't seen any of them, just his descriptions of them are pretty unsettling.

I clicked on the video but avoided watching any of it, because I'd prefer to get the titles of the movies, watch them and then view the bit where he's breaking it down afterwards. If it's a disturbing movie then telling me why it's disturbing is just going to spoil the whole thing.

I just realized there wasn't a list in the video description, the list of movies are:

The Baby (1973)
Parents (1989)
Un Chien Andalou (1929) (aka "The Andalusian Dog")
La Casa Lobo (2018) (aka "The Wolf House")
The Adventures of Mark Twain (Only a short segment of it 40 minutes in.)
Watership Down (1978)
Plague Dogs (1982)
Threads (1981)
Relic (2020)
Possession (1981)
Funny Games (1997)
Occult (2009)
Last Summer (1969)

[Engineer Gaming]

funny, I dont see The Thing (1982) on that list
(yehaw)

[JoshuaFH]

SuperEyePatchWolf likes to shine the spotlight on more obscure things that people may not have already seen, and The Thing is one of the most famous movies of all time.

[Reelya]

Also, I think something like The Thing where it's just groteseque but the plot's a fairly comprehensible monster movie at heart, just gory as fuck can be less disturbing than some movie, for example a psychological movie about a killer baby, where you're not sure if the baby is evil or the mother is going insane. I'm just winging it based on the title "The Baby" here, not spoiling the movie. I have no idea what it's about. If I was writing a movie with that title, that's the plot I'd go with.

Maybe it's because a shape-shifting alien that kills people stuck in a remote Antarctic base really doesn't strike that close to home. That definitely didn't give me any sort of feeling of lingering dread after watching it, I didn't have any sort of visceral fear of my coffee cup sprouting spider legs and a face and trying to kill me.

Whereas

Spoiler: plot points for The Ring and The Shining (click to show/hide)

The Ring for example is deeply disturbing and can leave you with a feeling of dread because the idea of a horor crawling out of your TV screen is a lot more relatable since you're clearly watching a screen while you do it. Or in The Shining, the idea of someone going insane and killing their family, that's more disturbing due to being something that could in fact happen, and the haunted house type aspect is merely a plot device and not really central to the concept. So there's definitely a juxtaposition involved in really creepy movies, the uncanny.

[McTraveller]

Why is Watership Down on that list?

I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.

[JoshuaFH]

Why is Watership Down on that list?

I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.

The video is specifically for 'disturbing' horror movies. Watership Down was only mentioned by name with a few clips, it wasn't actually the focus of one of the longer segments that comprised the video, but I've never seen it and it looks pretty f'd up to me, so I included it in that last.

[delphonso]

Maybe it's because a shape-shifting alien that kills people stuck in a remote Antarctic base really doesn't strike that close to home.

No, but "people not being what they seem" is what the movie is about - playing on that paranoia and fear that all of us have. It's a heavy-handed analogy, but I think there is something unsettling at the core of The Thing beyond body-horror.

[Grim Portent]

for example a psychological movie about a killer baby, where you're not sure if the baby is evil or the mother is going insane. I'm just winging it based on the title "The Baby" here, not spoiling the movie. I have no idea what it's about. If I was writing a movie with that title, that's the plot I'd go with.

Spoiler: The Baby Spoilers (click to show/hide)

So having looked it up, the titular baby is a 21 year old man with severe developmental issues resulting from severe abuse from his mother and sisters. The movie revolves around a social worker whose husband recently suffered a major car crash, and gets assigned to the family of baby. She starts trying to rehabilitate him, opposed by the family who rely on baby's disability allowance. They eventually try to kill her, she takes baby away as she escapes, then goads them into coming for her by sending them images of baby doing 'adult' things like standing up on his own. She kills them with the help of her mother-in-law, then buries their bodies.

Stinger then reveals that with the family dead she has no further interest in rehabilitating baby, instead wanting him as a playmate for her husband who suffered brain trauma from his car accident and now has a child's mind and now taking on the role of keeping baby developmentally stunted.


The description reminds me of a few other 'cult classic' movies based around being disturbing and gross rather than more conventional horror. It was apparently criticised for being exploitative and plodding, though often genuinely disturbing and having a surprising twist ending.

[hector13]

Why is Watership Down on that list?

I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.

I remember it being on CITV - kids after school TV basically - for a few months. I was a bit older by then, mid-teens maybe, watching it because it’s cartoon rabbits. I watched a couple of episodes of what was presumably a series and fucked it off because I just spent 7 hours doing something depressing, why the fuck would I want to spend another half hour choosing to watch something else depressing.

I still wonder wtf was going through the minds of the execs who thought that was a good idea.

Also The Thing being disturbing, it’s more the psychological thing of not being able to escape and also having people you’ve know and trust being monsters that will absorb you at the next available opportunity, and will defend itself through violently lethal means if you harm even the smallest aspect of it being the terrifying part.

It’s got a great story to it, great actors in it, and the ending was excellent.

The video game and sucked ass though.

Edit: Watership Down series.

Apparently it was less dark than the movie.

[Reelya]

Why is Watership Down on that list?

I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.

Watership Down is horrifying precisely because most people who watched it were about 8 years old at the time.

In comparison, no parent would think "Hellraiser, this looks like a nice movie my young children can watch while I do the laundry"