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spiral
22:00 / 13.04.04
Time to revive this thread.

1. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
2. THX 1138
 
 
eddie thirteen
02:36 / 14.04.04
It's all about Audition. Kiri-kiri-kiri!
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
07:53 / 14.04.04
It's all about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Remarkably spot on, but not as masterful as the previous Gilliam effort.

Spun, which made one spun, apparently.

And Gothika. The best imperfect movie atm. Best, best, BEST.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:11 / 14.04.04
Three words, people :

Man

Bites

Dog

Ouch, my brain HURTS, my conscience doesn't like me, and I should have watched Bambi instead.

Never seen so many people leave a theatre in my LIFE (not even for Spawn), and never felt so nervous taking a piss in the toilets after a film, ever.

Who is that other person slashing in the cubicle?

Brrrrrrr.
 
 
Looby
13:08 / 14.04.04
Personally I found Apocolypse Now Redux pretty horrible. I think this had more to do with the surroundings I watched it in though. My boyfriend made me see it when we were in LA at Universal Studios. We went to the Imax cinema and the rest of the audience were mainly white male American tourists. They laughed at the rape scene with the Playboy girls and that night I had the worst nightmares.
 
 
Mike Modular
15:02 / 14.04.04
Necromantik

German, low-budget and banned. Saw a dodgy copy years ago. Had Dutch subtitles, so I can't say I knew exactly what was going on but essentially it's about necrophiliacs and, yes, there is corpse shagging (The woman substitutes a metal rod for the corpse's... well, you get the idea). Seemingly random footage of unpleasant things like rabbits being killed and skinned was intercut with the 'story'. Ends with a man killing himself and ejaculating. So, pretty fucked-up really and also utter, utter shite.
 
 
Jack_Rackem
21:18 / 14.04.04
Naked Lunch seems cliche since it gets an automatic default for this category, but there isn't much that compares to a typewriter sprout a penis and get a hard on and Peter Weller drinking mutant jizz
 
 
scratch_uk
12:12 / 15.04.04
There was a couple of short film nights called 'The Spoonfed Revolution' run in the early noughties on the South coast. The motto was 'grab your cameras and start shooting' (or seomthing like that). They inclded some very, very freaky and nihilistic shit like 'allstars' 'geoffreys numb' and something very unpleasant called an 'anti film'. You can get them on DVD for a nominal fee, search on google if your interested. I was involved with one of them, though I assure you this isnt some manipulative form of self promotion. (This is my first post by the way, so hello everyone).
 
 
Wanderer
19:34 / 15.04.04
second to all of those. Alot of Takashi Miike's other films are disturbing as well. I found Visitor Q more disturbing than audition (Its a reality show parody with drug use and incest), and dead or alive is by turns funny and disgusting (I haven't seen the second or third, so this is just the first)

Also Pi. drill to the head=bad, and the soundtrack grates on your nerves like no other toward the end. Oh yeah, and Frailty. It was marketed as a relatively mainstream horror film a few years ago. Plot goes like this: dad gets vision from god that "demons" walk the earth and enlists sons to help butcher the people the voices in his head tell him to. Thing is, by the end, you aren't sure whether the guy really did talk to god, had some sort of mind-reading ability, or is just one sick mofo that happened to end up killing other sick mofos.
 
 
7oak
21:28 / 15.04.04
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Because...

Acid, shrooms--you explain it.

Freeway.

Because...

Just another reason to love Reese Witherspoon.
 
 
HysteriX
03:51 / 16.04.04
Funny Games
Gummo & Julien Donkey Boy
Yes extremely fukt up. Also Doom Generation and Nowhere are wack. Then of course there is anime (why bother listing).And also horror i.e. Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That movie Waking Life is very strange very strange. Rivers Edge is corny and laughable, but I consider it to be out there. Semi-recent hollywood hits such as Fight Club, American Beauty, Vanilla Sky. Those 70's cartoons such as Fritz the Cat, or Wizards, or Fantastic Planet. Those nazi flicks American History X, Romper Stomper. Pink Floyds The Wall. Faces and Traces of Death (I don't know if that counts). Bowling for Columbine.I thought Dr. Strangelove was hilarious but is very scary if you think about it. But I have to go with G.G. Allen's stuff, that guy had serious ass problems.I just watched Wonderland with Val Kilmer as Jon Holmes, it is fantastic. And I keep hearing about something entitled Perversions of Christ or something to that affect.
 
 
Krug
03:40 / 17.04.04
Something that hasn't been mentioned...

Mike Leigh's Naked.

The protagonist is clever as hell and the worst kind of bastard. It's terribly bleak and the treatment of it's characters is sometimes difficult to bear (though it's not really the worst of it's kind in any way) but the film is a gem and the dialog is rewarding.

It's also easy to forget that the protagonist rapes a woman in the first scene.
 
 
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18:12 / 17.04.04
Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me, it had me pretty freaked, but i was at a pretty insane place in my life when i saw it.

Still, it was insane.

Oh, and when i was a kid it was Hellraiser, the bit where the skinless guy is crawling along the floor with blood trailing all over the place behind him. Siiiick.
 
 
kosmonaut
15:27 / 18.04.04
I'd also choose Dead Ringers. I saw it on my own at the cinema and hadn't eaten anything all day. It took a while to get out of my system.
 
 
pomegranate
20:40 / 19.04.04
i gotta put another vote in for gummo. i mean, really. the kid eating in the bathtub. the girl happily shaving her eyebrows. and that's just the *legal* stuff.
 
 
Nalyd Khezr Bey
21:35 / 19.04.04
Begotten directed by E. Elias Merhige - Not one word spoken in the entire movie. Fucked up. The only thing I think comes close to this is Eraserhead.
Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Johnny Depp. The most fucked up western I have ever seen.
Both of these movies, like Eraserhead, are in black and white. Something about that adds to the "fucked up"-ness of these movies.
 
 
Supaglue
13:38 / 21.04.04
Bad Taste?

Cuddly Pete Jackson back in the days before the well known story of homoerotic men of stunted growth and very hairy feet being hunted by a large, vagina-shaped eye.

You've gotta wonder how he pitched the BT script to his mates:

"Right, I'm going to be Derek. He's gonna lose his brains when his skull falls open after being kicked off a cliff by an alien (also played by me). He's then going to spend most of the movie putting his brains back in and lashing it all up with the belt from his trousers. Then he's going to be in the climatic scene of the film, when the house takes off (coz its really a spaceship for Crumbs intergalactic Delights) and he dives onto the baddie alien with his chainsaw out in front of him. He's going to cut right through him and come out of his ass. And he's going to say "I'm born again" and wear the aliens skin as a disguise."



Sicko.
 
 
raelianautopsy
23:39 / 21.04.04
Ralph Bakshi's Heavy Traffic. I don't always like Bakshi's works, but that one was beautifully fucked.
 
 
juan de marcos
12:52 / 25.04.04
"C'est arrivé pres de chez vous" (aka "Man Bites Dog")


No budget, no color, no redemption

Best Belgian movie ever
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
14:41 / 25.04.04
Ninth Gate fills me with some ultra creeped out moments. But I loved it. It's got such a sinister atmosphere. Damn! The Devil woman is totally frightening in places.

Lost Highway made me queasy and I hated it.
 
 
rizla mission
15:37 / 25.04.04
Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me, it had me pretty freaked, but i was at a pretty insane place in my life when i saw it.

Yeah, totally. I actually only got 'round to seeing it recently, and I've always assumed it would be.. y'know, a kind of dumb, vaguely entertaining horror flick..

But fucking hell! It really goes for the jugular.. one of those films where it really seems like the camera has been taken off it's standard 'comfort/coherence' mode, and set to 'KILL!'. As well as the postively pathological nastiness of the storyline, with the weird subconscious shit that remains a subtext in most horror movies thrust totally into the foreground, you've also got them throwing in every single jarring, discordant, knee-jerk fear inducing bit of nightmare imagery and sound imaginable and every disorientating camera trick.. it just completely destroys the boundaries of the acceptable amount of discomfort you expect a horror film to deliver, and then bludgeons you again and again with everything you really don't want to see.. no wonder it's so well known and notorious - definitely one of the only 'legendary' 70s-80s horror films which is genuinely hard to watch..
 
 
Jester
19:18 / 25.04.04
Just watched Ichi the Killer, which really does qualify as one of the most fucked up films I've ever seen. In one scene one gangster tortures another one by stringing him up to the ceiling via. a number of piercings on his back, 'tempura'ing him by pouring hot oil over his back, then pushing a variety of long needles through his face and penis. In another scene this gangster cuts another gangster's penis in half with scissors. In another scene, Ichi is masturbating watching a girl being viciously beaten up by a gangster. He then cuts the gangster in half. Saving the girl, you might think, but no. He turns to her and says 'don't worry, i'll beat you up from now on!'. Then, when she panics, he cuts her throat.

That's by the same director as Audition. He also made Dead or Alive, a film that features a junky prostitute being drowned in a paddling pool of her own shit.

That said, his are not the worst films I've ever seen. The short films of Richard Kern (erstwhile photographer) are much worse. There is one which involves a sex phone worker/prostitute drive off into the middle of no-where with a redneck, who VICIOUSLY rapes and beats up her and another girl. It's in black and white, and is basically unwatchable. It's also shot like a porn movie, which just makes it so much worse.

Another Kern short called The Sewing Circle features one girl sewing up another girl's vagina. In graphic detail.

Another one stars a very young Henry Rollins chasing and raping a girl.

Then there is Man Bites Dog, which is just horrible. A camera crew is following around a serial killer, shooting a documentary about him. There is one really awful moment, where they film him barging into an apartment, where a pregnant woman and her bloke are in bed. He rapes the woman, kills the baby, and makes her bloke watch. But the worst part is when the camera crew 'join in' and rape the dead? woman too. Ug.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
19:41 / 25.04.04
JESUS CHRIST! Keggers mentioned "The Serpent and the Rainbow" on the 1st page...how could I forget one of the two movies that completely terrifed me as a kid. I have no idea how I saw this, but that buried alive seen made me jump out of my skin, and not sleep for weeks...

The other one was "IT." I know, it may seem silly, it's a TV movie afterall, but Pennywise seriously is fucked up. When he just appears out of nowhere in the graveyard or pops his head up in the sewer drain? HOLY CRAP.
 
 
Lord Morgue
10:20 / 29.04.04
"The Dragon Lives Again"
Bruce Lee awakes in the Chinese afterlife, and must team up with Popeye, Kwai Chang Caine and the One-Armed Boxer to defeat the forces of the Godfather, the Exorcist, Emmanuelle, Yojimbo, Zatoichi, James Bond, the Man With No Name, and Dracula. And Mummies wrapped in toilet paper and guys in skeleton suits who jump around going "Booga booga!".
I'm not kidding! I've seen it, and I was almost sober!
Here, check it out-
http://www.geocities.com/many_bruces/reviews/dragonlivesagain.htm
 
 
macrophage
11:03 / 29.04.04
GG Allin film at the Festivals of Transgressions at Brighton. Shit eating punkoid grins on screen, and looks of dismay down at the spectator's end.
 
 
donmusic
15:28 / 01.05.04
Very interesting thread, gives me a broader perspective on what people consider "fucked up." Some great reccomendations on this thread, too; Being John Malkovich, The Idiots, Happiness, Brazil, Titicut Follies, Pi, Memento,Waking Life, Ninth Gate, Rosemary's Baby, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Bowling for Columbine...

I hated Funny Games. If you want a fucked up movie about violence, watch
THE KILLING FIELDS
instead, very unnerving, or
REMEMBER MY LAI,
if you can find it.

I'm suprised no one has mentioned:

THE SHINING!
...and speaking of Kubrick:
Lolita
2001
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
And go ahead and see which side you fall on (love or hate) for:
AI and Eyes Wide Shut

Peter Jackson has been given a little credit on this thread, let's give him some more:
Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles have already been rightly mentioned, but what about:

Braindead, aka Dead-Alive (be sure to get the uncut version)
Heavenly Creatures

anything by Ralph Bakshi is fucked up (except American Pop and Cool World):
Street Fight (formerly Coonskin)
Hey, Good Lookin'
Fritz the Cat (the original, not the sequels)
Heavy Traffic

now let's see:

Weekend (Jean-Luc Goddard)
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (everything Kurosawa did is great, but it's not all "fucked up")
In the Company of Men
The Bad Lieutenant (uncut version)
Requiem for a Dream (Daren Arnovsky, director of Pi)
Spanking the Monkey
Evil Dead II, Dead By Dawn (the 1st and 3rd are good, too, but II is the classic)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Re-Animator
From Beyond
everything Roman Polanski ever did
some of the old Twilight Zone episodes are still disturbing

movies by the Coen Brothers:
Raising Arizona
Barton Fink
Blood Simple
The Man Who Wasn't There
Millers Crossing
aw, hell, just see everything the Coen Brothers ever did!

Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
(both by Jeunet and Carreau)
Parents
Ringu (Japanese "the Ring")
Cure (Japanese)
Akira (Japanese anime)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (that freaky Nostrodamus movie)
Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman in the dentist chair. "Is it safe?")
Un Chien Andalou
Soft Self-Portrait aka Salvador Dali aka A Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Scanners
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Natural Born Killers
Legends of the Overfiend (anime)
Brain Damage
Pink Flamingos (old John Waters; so, SO wrong!)
Frankenhooker
Freaked
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Stalker (Russian, Andrei Tartovsky, not a serial-killer movie)
Solaris (original Russian, Tartovsky, haven't seen the new one so I can't say)
The China Syndrome
Silkwood
Class of Nuke 'Em High
The Fly (Cronenberg's remake of the old Vincent Price sci-fi)
Haxan (aka: Witchcraft Through the Ages, several edits out there of varying lengths)
Brimstone and Treacle
Time Bandits
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen
Hardware
Poepie the Clown (disturbing animated shorts)
12 Monkeys
(Some love it, some hate it, but):
The Blair Witch Project
The Wizard of Gore
Repo Man

How do I finish strong? With every movie Martin Scorsese has ever made!
(in reverse chronological order)
Gangs of New York
Kundun
Casino
The Age of Innocence
Cape Fear
Goodfellas
New York Stories
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Color of Money
After Hours
King of Comedy
Raging Bull
The Last Waltz
New York, New York
Taxi Driver
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Mean Streets
Boxcar Bertha
Who's That Knocking at my Door?
 
 
donmusic
15:38 / 01.05.04

Poepie the Clown (disturbing animated shorts)
Gimmie Shelter (documentary of the events on the Rolling Stones tour leading up to the slayings at the Altimont festival)
 
 
rizla mission
17:13 / 01.05.04
insufferably pedantic: actually there was only one 'slaying'.

I've long wanted to see 'Gimmee Shelter'. Apparently it's an absolutely fantastic docu., but it's not currently 'in print', so to speak..
 
 
donmusic
12:56 / 07.05.04
I'm just trying to help out a fellow fucked-up-movie lover and give credit where credit is due.
Is Gimmee Shelter different from Gimmie Shelter? Or is my spelling just incorrect?
However it's spelled, you will be happy to know that the intended rock documentary that inadvertently became an account of the SLAYING at the Altimont festival has been inducted into the wonderful Criterion Collection and IS AVAILABLE on DVD.
Ah, I checked my Videohound. It's Gimme Shelter, so we're both wrong, smartass.
Now let's get back to helping our fellow fucked-up-movie lover land the goods.

(My father would read the almanac, and wait for somebody to make a mistake. "Nineteen WHAT?!")
 
  

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