Dark, disturbing but great films

[Evil Edna]

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This I just watched this over weekend. It's the US remake of it.

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This one I watch on film4 a while ago which was very twisted.

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[Stat Brother]

It's certainly not my kind of film, but last night I really enjoyed 30 Days of Night.

 

[Falkor]

The Orphanage weird film

 

[Peteinblack]

Antichrist

Chapter Three: Despair (Gynocide): He finds his wife's thesis studies- pictures of witch-hunts and a scrap-book filled with articles and notes on misogynist topics. Her writing becomes more frantic and illegible as the pages go on. It is revealed that, while writing her thesis, she came to believe that all women are inherently evil. He is repulsed by this and reproaches her for buying into the gynocidal beliefs she had originally set out to criticize. She asks him to hit her during sex. At first he resists, but when she flees into the woods and begins masturbating underneath a large tree he chases after her and half-heartedly complies. While they make love numerous hands are seen emerging from the roots of the tree. (This image was subsequently adapted into the principal promotional art for the film.) He goes on to study Nick's autopsy report which states the bones in both of the child's feet were oddly deformed. The doctors at the time did not assign any importance to this fact as it was unrelated to the child's death. Finding numerous photographs of Nick in which his boots are on the wrong feet, he becomes increasingly agitated. This bizarre revelation has sinister undertones regarding his wife, who had been alone with the boy at the time the pictures were taken. At this moment she attacks him and accuses him of planning to leave her. She disrobes, mounts him, and then unexpectedly crushes his testicles with a block of wood. While he is unconscious from the pain, she goes on to masturbate him until he orgasms, ejaculating blood. Then, to prevent him from leaving, she drills a hole through his leg and bolts a heavy grind-stone through the wound. She tosses the wrench she used under the cabin where he cannot find it. He wakes up, finds himself alone, and drags himself outside. He hears her screaming for him, so he drags himself into a fox-hole to hide. As she searches for him he finds a crow buried alive in the fox-hole. The crow starts cawing loudly and repetitively, which lets her find his hiding spot. He beats the crow over and over, but it will not die. She finds him and tries to pull him out. She is unsuccessful and goes on to retrieve a shovel to inflict more pain while he lies in the fox hole, now partially buried alive.

Freaked me....

Didn't she also pick up a big pair of scissors and, er, cut off her clit (with the camera showing everything) - one of the most gruesome, stomach-churning scenes I've ever had the misfortune to witness.

For what it's worth, my recommendations would be

The Wicker Man Probably my favourite film ever.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (not a horror film, but certainly dark, sinister, menacing and macabre - stomach-churning scene at the end; her gangster husband has killed her lover, so she (Helen Mirren) gets the cook to roast her lover's body, and then forces her husband, at gun point, to eat it - 'Start with his cock; it's a delicacy I believe, and at least you know where it's been'!).

Salem's Lot (early Stephen King vampire horror) - brilliant/creepy scene with a vampire floating outside a bedroom wndow and tapping on the glass, trying to lure the boy outside.

Rosemary's Baby - at one point, she has a nightmare in which she is being raped by the Devil himself, and then wakes up covered in fresh claw marks and scratches (she wasn't dreaming it - she's just been impregnated by the Devil, and her 'respectable' neighbours are all heavily into witchcraft and devil-worship).

Eyes Wide Shut - the music and the masks in the orgy scene are so sinister; a real sense of brooding menace.

 

[sydney]

Dead Man's Shoes. A great British revenge movie set in a small midlands town. Shane Meadows best film. Great acting from Paddy Considine and the lad who plays his brother (his name escapes me).

yeh...that one ,snowtown ,pans labyrinth , the kubrick one about the robot kid and the one with all the little blue blue fuckers in it....

 

[sydney]

Didn't she also pick up a big pair of scissors and, er, cut off her clit (with the camera showing everything) - one of the most gruesome, stomach-churning scenes I've ever had the misfortune to witness.

For what it's worth, my recommendations would be

The Wicker Man Probably my favourite film ever.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (not a horror film, but certainly dark, sinister, menacing and macabre - stomach-churning scene at the end; her gangster husband has killed her lover, so she (Helen Mirren) gets the cook to roast her lover's body, and then forces her husband, at gun point, to eat it - 'Start with his cock; it's a delicacy I believe, and at least you know where it's been'!).

Salem's Lot (early Stephen King vampire horror) - brilliant/creepy scene with a vampire floating outside a bedroom wndow and tapping on the glass, trying to lure the boy outside.

Rosemary's Baby - at one point, she has a nightmare in which she is being raped by the Devil himself, and then wakes up covered in fresh claw marks (she wasn't dreaming it - she's just been impregnated by the Devil, and her 'respectable' neighbours are all heavily into witchcraft and devil-worship).

Eyes Wide Shut - the music and the masks in the orgy scene are so sinister; a real sense of brooding menace.

wicker man ...denzil washington......top film ...book of eli not far behind for one of his.

 

[Bigtomfu]

It's certainly not my kind of film, but last night I really enjoyed 30 Days of Night.

The sequel isn't up to much but I thought that it was a pretty original take on an otherwise well trodden path.

 

[Peteinblack]

wicker man ...denzil washington......top film ...book of eli not far behind for one of his.

Ah, I should have made clear, I was referring to the original (1973) version of The Wicker Man, set in the Scottish Western Isles, and starring Christopher, Lee, Britt Ekland and Edward Woodward

 

[sydney]

Ah, I should have made clear, I was referring to the original (1973) version of The Wicker Man, set in the Scottish Western Isles, and starring Christopher, Lee, Britt Ekland and Edward Woodward

Not seen it mate......will look out for it......breaker morant is worth a look as well .

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Ah, I should have made clear, I was referring to the original (1973) version of The Wicker Man, set in the Scottish Western Isles, and starring Christopher, Lee, Britt Ekland and Edward Woodward

Such an odd film! Good, just very odd

 

[Easy 10]

I watched Stake Land the other night, in which these zombie-vampire type things run around eating everyone in a post-apocolyptic world. A BABY gets killed and chewed on in the opening scene.

Nice.

 

[HovaGirl]

Take Shelter last year and Don't Look Now i'd have in a list of cinematic unsettlers.

Don't Look Now was a scary but brilliant film.

 

[HovaGirl]

Sophie's Choice


If you've had kids, this is a shatteringly emotional film to watch. I won't add any spoilers if you haven't seen it, but it is gut wrenching, and perhaps one of Meryl Streeps finest performances. In fact this is cutting me up again just thinking about it...

Agree.

 

[HovaGirl]

Rosemary's Baby freaked me out as a teenager. Dunno if it's dated well though. I haven't seen it since.

Same here.

 

[Bean]

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This I just watched this over weekend. It's the US remake of it.

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This film is horrible.

 

[wadhurstseagull]

I believe Brazil ticks all the right boxes.

 

[HovaGirl]

Nine and a Half Weeks
The Night Porter
Straw Dogs
Rosemary's Baby
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
The Wicker Man (1973)
Seven

 

[Stat Brother]

The sequel isn't up to much but I thought that it was a pretty original take on an otherwise well trodden path.

I don't like horror/gore and certainly not the trend for torture.

With my novice credentials in mind, I thought 30 Days was well judged and nicely paced.
It ramped up well when it needed to, without playing the 'horror' card too soon, or taking it too far when it does.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

This film is horrible.

Horrible as in "shit film" or Horrible as in "great film, but brutal"

From watching the trailer without sound (I'm at work) It looks good.

 

[jakarta]

A lot of the films mentioned seem to be heavy on graphic gore, mutilation and agonising death.

What is truely dark and disturbing about Conspiracy is that well dressed, sombre, intelligent men have a civilised (if somewhat dull at times) discussion about the best way to murder people on an industrial scale. Which would have and did of course result in all of these the previously mentioned things happening to the victims.

That and the fact that it actually happened within living memory rather trumps things like Saw in my opinion.