The title says it all. I want to know what the most disturbing movie you have seen. Im sure there will be some smart ass choices in this thread, if it gets off the ground but hopefully there are some legit ones.
As for my choice, it is really quiet simple. My choice is Cannibal Holocaust. Not to many people that I know have seen this movie or have any intention on seeing this movie. When I first heard about it I couldnt believe what I was hearing. It sounded like a lot of big talk and I thought the movie wouldnt pan out the way I thought it would. Boy oh boy was I wrong. Truly the most disturbing movies I have ever seen and not for the human on human violence.
The reason this movie is so disturbing to me was the use of animal violence. There were six species of animals that were legitamitly killed on screen. A snake, spider, pig, monkey, muskrat and turtle were all killed. The monkey death had to be shot twice meaning that there were two monkeys killed and ive heard the same about the turtle death. I didnt mind the snake and spider deaths so much since they dont make sounds or bleed profussly. However, the other three deaths were very eye opening and in some cases eye closing. I was in disbelief in the way the pig was killed. The actors kicked and tortured it until finally one of them shot it. It was extremely hard to listen to the pig make sounds of obviously being in pain. The monkey was another were sad death. They cut the monkeys head off, which is very graphic. But the most graphic death came in the form of the turtle execution. The actors grabbed a turtle from the water and proceeded to cut it open in front of the camera and remove its organs. There have only been two times that a scene in a movie has actually made me want to throw up and this was one of those scenes. A truly graphic moment.
The human scenes were also quiet disturbing in there own right. One woman is blugoned to death with a handful of mud with sharp sticks in it. Now that may not sound so bad but take into account that she was being blugeoned in her vagina area. It was difficult to watch but not the worst. Another girl is raped by the film makers and then impaled on a pole. This scene was quiet disturbing afterwards when I read that the director was rumored to have actually killed her on screen for that scene. I later read that they just had her sit on a bike seat and hold a pole in her mouth but then again they couldnt contact her to see if she was alive because she was a native that they used for filming. Another man was bit on the leg and had his leg amputated which ive seen before but was still very graphic considering this movie came out in 1980 or around there. The film makers are all killed in the end with the girl being raped on screen and another one of them being castrated. The camera caught all of this. But the hardest scene to watch was when the film makers rounded an entire village into a hut and lit it on fire. They didnt allow anyone to leave and it seemed like they were all burned to death. The screams were just horrifying. I hope it was just really good film magic and will believe that till the day I die.
The director, Ruggero Deodato, was put on trial when the film was released. The crime brought against him was for making a snuff film in which he killed his actors to make the film. This wasnt the case, but he had the actors sign contracts that said they wouldnt be seen in film for up to a year after the film was released. He had to bring them out of hiding just to save his own ass from going to jail. As I mentioned before he also was alledged of murdering a native girl which he could not prove besides some pictures of her hanging out with the cast during filming. The animal cruelty also brought about a lot of criticism and got the film banned in many countries. It is also regarded as the one of the most controversial films ever.
This movie hit a nerve with me and made me really question reality from really good movie magic. I did quiet a bit of research into this film before I actually brought myself around to watching it. I in know way thought it would be as graphic as it was, especially for its time, and it certainly didnt dissapoint me in shock value. A truly disturbing film and probably the most disturbing I have ever seen.
This is a great idea for a thread, and it also provided me with a new movie in my list of my life, and an experience I will not forget.
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''acquired'' Cannibal Holocaust after I read your first post. Me and my fiance watched this together, and we both got alot more from it, than just the gore.
The gore itself, is of course, one of the biggest aspects of the film that is blunt and most mentioned. For controversy purposes, and it is shocking, but not the main point.
The story itself is where you get lost in the ideals. The way the film makers (Characters), Are portrayed, and how they use the most deplorable ways to gather good ''Footage'', the rape of the native woman, the killing many of the native people, and the fact that the people who financed the crew to make the movie, Only cared to be disturbed when they witnessed the deaths of the ''White'' film creators, which showed the racism that was evident in them.
I believe that the animal cruelty, which I do NOT agree with, was a necessary but ugly need to have the watchers question what indeed was real or fake.
Most of the animals were consumed, it was proven, only one of the deaths were not clean and quick. It is NOT right AT ALL, I am speaking that it was a ugly usage of realism to gain the attention and imagery that he wanted to get across.
It is in my opinion the most disturbing, but honestly, but most of the disturbing images of the ''Last road'' footage, and the ideals of documentaries gone wrong, as well as the fact of Racism that is shown towards the ''Uncivilized'', but not by the Real life director but the character film crew.
It is a disturbing piece of genius, that is never going to gain the notoriety for the right reasons. It was a little to real for people, and as well as the story was, and how I believe it should be viewed for more than the controversy, but with a open mind, and a viewing of how messed up humanity can be some times, and not in regards to the foreign natives, but how civilized are we, really.
