Most horrific film ever?

[Les Biehn]

I was telling someone the other day that the most horrific film I've ever seen was Irreversible. Just the most heinous thing ever committed to film that purported to be something intellectual.

Also thought Audition was bad but at the same time enjoyed it and actually seemed to have some substance to it.

In peoples opinion what is the most harrowing film they have seen? (now expect people to say really crap films and how it was a harrowing experience to sit through them ). Or do people feel films like this have no worth.

 

[REDLAND]

The Entity


FACT !!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Ring (Japanese Version)

or perhaps

Cujo.....quite disturbing!

 

[Hiney]

Albion 2
Palace 3

Horror show

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I was telling someone the other day that the most horrific film I've ever seen was Irreversible. Just the most heinous thing ever committed to film that purported to be something intellectual.

Irreversible's f***ing brilliant. The scene at the beginning where the guy who's just been anally fisting people gets battered to a pulp is very intense. Good, shocking stuff

 

[Chesney Christ 1]

I was telling someone the other day that the most horrific film I've ever seen was Irreversible. Just the most heinous thing ever committed to film that purported to be something intellectual.

Also thought Audition was bad but at the same time enjoyed it and actually seemed to have some substance to it.

In peoples opinion what is the most harrowing film they have seen? (now expect people to say really crap films and how it was a harrowing experience to sit through them ). Or do people feel films like this have no worth.

I've heard about them but never seen them. Irreversible graphically shows rape doesn't it? And isn't Audition about some woman who marries a guy with the express intention of torturing him?

I'm quite squeamish when it comes to that sort of thing and the most violent film I've ever seen is probably Oldboy.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

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I've heard about them but never seen them. Irreversible graphically shows rape doesn't it?

The rape scene is horrible, yup, and very long. Probably too long.

But the rape scene in Baise Moi is even more graphic

 

[Lammy]

Probably a bit tame by the above standards but;

American History X (for the bite the curb bit)
Passion of the Christ (ouch!)

 

[Les Biehn]

Re: Re: Most horrific film ever?

Irreversible's f***ing brilliant. The scene at the beginning where the guy who's just been anally fisting people gets battered to a pulp is very intense. Good, shocking stuff

Shocking, yes. But did it have any intellectual, artistic value? I don't think so. Noe was attempting to make a comment on masculine nature, I believe, but instead just made a horrible film with no redeeming qualities.

Well you did get to see Monica Belluci's knorks at the end but my brain was so soiled by then I couldn't even enjoy them.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

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Saying that, the rape scene in Baise Moi, is equally graphic

But it's an excellent film, nonetheless.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Scum is pretty f***ing nasty in places, especially the rape scene in the greenhouse.

 

[Albion Dan]

Have got both Irreversible and Audition on DVD but still not got round to watching either, just never seem to be in the right frame of mind.

Also aquired Ichi the Killer the other day which is meant to be a bit on the grim side.

Has anyone seen that Italian film Salo about some Nazis who kidknap soem italians and make them do some seriously ill stuff? Generally though to be the worst of them all but not seen that either.

Requim for a Dream is a pretty nasty affair which I have seen, very uncomfortable viewing.

 

[Les Biehn]

American History X (for the bite the curb bit)

Definately know what you mean about the curbing. The only time I have ever had to look away in the cinema.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

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Shocking, yes. But did it have any intellectual, artistic value? I don't think so. Noe was attempting to make a comment on masculine nature, I believe, but instead just made a horrible film with no redeeming qualities.

Well you did get to see Monica Belluci's knorks at the end but my brain was so soiled by then I couldn't even enjoy them.

I thought it was excellent, seeing how a perfectly sane (on the surface) person could degenerate into an animal thanks to fate was very powerful. Definitely a brain-soiling film, but it certainly made me think.

 

[algie]

Schindler's List

 

[Les Biehn]

Both the potting shed scene in Scum and the end of Requiem for a Dream did mess me up a bit (especially as I was munked of my tits on doobies when I watched Scum ). 'Ass to ass' still make me feel a bit quesy now.

Also if anyone has seen The War Zone that is pretty hardcore. Excellent film but a dad buggering his daughter while the son spies on them was never going to be easy viewing.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Anything with the talentless, greasy weasel that is John Leguizamo.

 

[Les Biehn]

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I thought it was excellent, seeing how a perfectly sane (on the surface) person could degenerate into an animal thanks to fate was very powerful. Definitely a brain-soiling film, but it certainly made me think.

I agree but I felt it could have been told without the sensationalism. If you like that check out Noe's film before Irreversible, Seul contre tous. It is the story of the character from the very beginning of Irreversible, a butcher who loses his job and eventually ends up raping his retarded teenage daughter.

 

[Grendel]

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Shocking, yes. But did it have any intellectual, artistic value? I don't think so. Noe was attempting to make a comment on masculine nature, I believe, but instead just made a horrible film with no redeeming qualities.

It's shocking purely for the sake of being shocking. I didn't think the film as a whole had anything about it worth watching, it was just sick and brutal. If you went to a porn shop and bought a video showing some of the scenes in this film, people would think you were a disgusting pervert. But because it's a film that masquerades as art-house, it's fine.

 

[Les Biehn]

Anything with the talentless, greasy weasel that is John Leguizamo.

And we have a winner.