What is absolutely the most twisted, terrifying, genuinely unsettling movie you've ever seen?

[Doctor Nyse]

I'm in the market for some new films to view

Doesn't have to be gory or perverse

Something like Eraserhead meeting the stylization of Samara from The Ring

Edit:

Some good recommendations in here -- thanks a lot

Any ideas for films that are more artful than plotful (for lack of a better term)? How about strange, strange short films or very old silent films?

 

[CatKillaZ]

Snakes on a Plane

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Gigli

 

[MrChad]

Some of the scenes in Event Horizon were pretty disturbing.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Battle Royale

 

[DangerAardvark]

Visitor Q.
Directed by Takashi Miike. Really, REALLY fucked up... but strangely funny.

 

[Doctor Nyse]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Some of the scenes in Event Horizon were pretty disturbing.

Ah, agreed..

 

[Deadtrees]

Oldboy.

Seriously, give it a try.

 

[vi edit]

I Spit On Your Grave
Caligula

 

[meltdown75]

This is a tough question...

I've never watched Saw II or III, or Hostel.

At the time I would have to say Exorcist really disturbed me.

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Visitor Q.
Directed by Takashi Miike. Really, REALLY fucked up... but strangely funny.

ever watch audition, or fudoh? also by the same director. both VERY unsettling but like you said, strangely funny!

 

[nonameo]

The Cell

edit: some anime tops it.

 

[clamum]

Event Horizon
The Cell
Threads

 

[Mucho]

Pink Flamingos (1972)

 

[lozina]

Funny Games
some German film that's quite disturbing

 

[blackdogdeek]

the exorcist

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
This is a tough question...

I've never watched Saw II or III, or Hostel.

At the time I would have to say Exorcist really disturbed me.

theres really no need to. I think I was actually laughing most of the way through saw II and III.

The only part that scared my in Saw II was when the camera changed and the black dude walked into the room.

 

[Doctor Nyse]

Some good recommendations in here -- thanks a lot

Any ideas for films that are more artful than plotful (for lack of a better term)? How about strange strange short films or very old silent films?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Event Horizon; at least, when I first saw it. The scene with the eyes messed me up.

 

[nakedfrog]

Vulgar

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Event Horizon; at least, when I first saw it. The scene with the eyes messed me up.

yep, it didn't help that I first saw this in an almost empty theatre with the volume turned way way up

I almost ripped the armrests off the chair a couple times

 

[ric1287]

the woodsman

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Event Horizon; at least, when I first saw it. The scene with the eyes messed me up.

Oh these eyes?

 

[jfall]

Requiem for a Dream

 

[TheShiz]

these are all pretty twisted

ratcatcher
Stroszek
gummo
Bad Boy Bubby