What Is The Most Disturbing Film?

Hostel was crap, I've seen porn movies with better acting. Saw II was much gorier too. It's just sad to see movies that are so hyped up for being so scary, people passing out and all that jazz but honestly this was just crap. But you guys wanna see a really disturbing movie.

Go out and rent the movie Three Extremes on tuesday it's 3 short films done by the masters of gore in Japan "Dumplings", "Cut", and "The Box" are the three shorts, and "The Box" is done by Takeeshi Miike. Though that ones not that creepy, Dumplings is just disgusting.

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Three Extremes was done by three different directors, from DIFFERENT countries Asia, and i wouldn't say ANY were masters of gore.

Takashi Miike (Japan)- Box, has a talent for disturbing which is almost his trademark but can also make refined and touching films like The Bird People of China and immensely thought provoking films such as Izo. Yes, he does use gore but i'd say this was the focus in Ichi the Killer only, which sadly is the one film most people associate Miike with.

Chan Wook Park- Cut, while only making 4 other films, none of them can be classed as gore- JSA, a political thriller with strong character building, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance has moments of gore, but only an idiot would take that away as the main point. Oldboy has moments of violence, none are particularly explicit, likewise with Lady Vengeance.

Fruit Chan (China)- Dumplings, is the least well known, so as far as i know is hardly a master of anything and Christopher Doyle does the cinematography on Dumplings, and it arguable he is as responsible for as much of his films as the director- and if you think Doyle is a master of gore, you havn't met Wong Kar Wai. Chan's only work i've seen is the Three Extremes version of Dumplings, not even the full cut.

It's just sad to see people generalise Asian cinema into one category and neglect directors talent prefering to pigeon hole them into unfair generic groups.

I've probably posted my choices already but Visitor Q (Takashi Miike) is damned sick (not gory). Tetsuo is pretty twisted. My third is Irreversible which i recommend watching once, and once only.

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Elephant's post just annoyed me.

Yah, I hear you. I got pissed off when, in a film class of all places, I heard someone say, "oh man, you have got to see The Grudge, it's from the director of The Ring". Bliss it is, I guess.

Park has made 7 other flicks, though, the first 3 are pretty much unavailable.

I get that too, we were asked what our favourite film was every said Lord of the Rings or Pirattes of the Carribean and i said Oldboy and the lecturer had never heard of it.

Also, someone mentioned Dumpling and i was impressed until they said how it had the actress from "Room of Swords" (House of Flying Daggers). I didn't want say anything, let them bathe in thier ignorance.

It made me not leave my room for a full weekend: Requiem for a Dream... insanity!!!

Last night i watched "Boys Don't Cry".. all the part from the discovery of Brandon's sex is very rough and disturbing, and the murder scene is just too much to handle.

I love what that film does to me. Totally destroys my psyche for the day. That, my friends, is why I like cinema. Films that disarm.

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I must add "Crash" by David Cronenberg.

I found it at the same time sexually arousal and sexually unsettling, quite his masterpiece amongst the flick i have seen.

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I agree with that choice, the rape scene is really horrible.

Well first off, Let me just say the remark about the whole "masters of gore." Yeah I just took the quote thats on the dvd case so dont came at me for that come after the damn reviewer. It's not like I dont know asian films either, I've seen alot that weren't just gore and crap and there were really good. (Much like 2046 or 3-Iron). It's not like I came out a stereotyped all asains as gore lovin' folk it's just compared to american's they excell at it way much more than we do cause they think of a plot that will get under your skin rather than just come out and throw some blood ont he screen. And sorry for not knowing they were from DIFFERENT countries. I don't watch movie to rip em apart piece by piece and do research on them, I watch them to be entertained and to be taken away from everyday life for maybe a couple hours, so I appologize if i'm not up to par with the location of asian directors..

Yeah, ok, i saw the case after posting and thought you may have got it from there.


Congratulations... i've also seen many Asian films that weren't gore and 'crap' and were really good but, are you trying to say that because a film may have gore and crap in, it means it isn't good?


No but i thought that you calling them Masters of Gore were your own words and as such had neglected their other films.



For someone who's seen lots of Asian films, don't you think they somewhat recycle ideas in horror movies and not think of a plot? I don't think plot has much to do with it, it's the restrain of shots and emphasis on atmosphere, and like you said don't just throw blood at the screen. I must say though, you're pigeon holing genre film on both sides.

Don't take this as an attack, more a springboard for debate.


Well, if you're going to make a statement, it is often best to know about what you're claiming. Something like that is not textual analysis or research, like you claim and it may also increase the entertainment they provide if you did know that.


Just a general point, do you think you could clean up on your spelling and grammar, it's a pain to try and guess what you're trying to say.

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Not at all, Alot of movies that are quite gorey turn out to be really good, for example; I recently bought the box set of the Battle Royale movies with only hearing from word of mouth and I really enjoyed the first one a hell of a lot. The second one though was lacking but just the thought of what was going on in that movie and how some of the friends chose to stay together much for a much more emotion hitting plot which levels up with the amount of gore in the movie.


No not really, I have yet to see one that I feel as being a recycled idea. I did see one a couple months back though that did seem to be playing along the lines of a different storyline but it wasn't exact. I think it was "One Missed Call," but I do agree with you on the emphasis on atmosphere in this cause they do seem to think of what they are going to shoot before actually going out and shooting it, for example the short in Three Extremes "box" there isn't a whole lot of different places in that one, so It kinda gives it a feel of living in a box which I thought was pretty smart.

By recycle ideas, i mean the narrative arch of most J Horror are similar, while concepts may vary, i think a lot follow the same formula.

I was totally unimpressed with Battle Royale 2 as well.

The first Battle Royale made you hope the second one was just as good but after watching it, I was just so dissapointed with it. Mind you I hadn't seen the 155 minute director's cut.

I didn't actually see the whole movie, but in the flick "Dead Man", with Johny Depp, there is a scene where a guy steps on a dead guys bald head and, in graphic detail, splits the head open. I dig gore in movies, but for some reason the way this scene was portrayed, it really threw me off. Anyone remember this?

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my most disturbing films...

1.Hostel- this movie was so violent, and gory...the only thing that I liked was the very end. even the humor was disgusting. (yes there was some humor)

2. Night Of The Living Dead-its a clasic. however when I was like 9 or 10 it scared the hell outa me.

3.Torque-okay I'm soo sorry but the main reason this movie disturbed me was because of how it attempted to seem like a real situation, and how badly it failed.

hey if I think of anymore I'll tell you. but as of now that is all.

~keiko~