Scary is not disturbing, just as disturbing is not scary. The true value of a movie is how it effects you or the society, at that. Movies such as Se7en and Saw have impacted the influence of disturbing torture flicks in America, though said films have been showing up YEARS before in Japan, which most of these movies will come from. This is the list of the 5 most disturbing movies of the last decade.
5. The Devil’s Rejects – Rob Zombie’s sequel (to House of 1000 Corpses) is sick and twisted and shows what a mind and a relatively good plot can do to horror. It is a must-see for any lover of smart horror (smhorror (pronounced Smore-her). Yes! I invented a genre!).
4. Gaau Ji (Dumplings) – The 2004 Japanese horror flick really opened the door for the next three films to be more and more disturbing. It is sick, yet interesting.
3. Tokyo Gore Police – I have no comment on this one, it is just disturbing and doesn’t really have a plot line.
2. AntiChrist – Lars von Trier’s disturbing thriller is not set up well, in the means of just what the f$#k it is about. Von Trier’s film is simply a festival showing what you are now allowed to do in cinema for an R-rated movie (much genitalia and blood from that area is shown, just to inform you).
1. Hostel Pt. 2 – Again, scary is not disturbing and disturbing is not scary… though the movie has the best (worst, rather) of both worlds. The film is very graphic, and is the only movie that made me cringe in my seat just EXPECTING something to happen (which it did, and if you saw the movie, you know which part (s) I’m talking about).
Tokyo Gore Police was a comedy! It actually disturbed you?? Have you seen any other from that genre like Machine Girl or Samurai Princess??
I agree on Antichrist, which I found much more disturbing and unsettling than actually scary.
Tokyo Gore Police was disturbing to me because it was night at a friend of mine’s house, he was missing somewhere, and an involvement (read my other review Stonage: the 5 WORST movies to see while high, to find out what it was that I had in involvement)with something. So it was a bit more creepy to me than it would have been in plainsight.
Haha if you had a website where you just reviewed movies while being high, I would read it every single day!
I definitely agree with this list, though I think that Hard Candy, Irreversible, and Oldboy definitely are contenders!! :) (Although I am probably more disturbed at the fact that Steven Spielberg is doing an Oldboy remake starring Will Smith…) Great list!! :)
Yes, that new Oldboy will suck. And Pintofbutter, I’m going to do a weekly Stonage review every week from now on, and I’ll tell you if you should see it while high or not, and I will be while writing it! That’s brilliant! But anywho, yeah, hennessy, I think that Funny Games would also certainly be put on here because it was a very “violent youth”-esque film. But look forward to a Stonage review by next monday.