A List Of The Most Disturbing Films
This is the ultimate list of disturbing films for cinema extremists and horror movie fanatics, I have rated the following films by their shock factor and a combination of their overall quality and my personal taste.
Keep in mind this list is still in progress as i will attempt to watch more and more disturbing films, the entries with no text indicates the films I have yet to see, but i will grow a pair and do so ASAP. So any recommendations are welcome and appreciated.
Keep in mind this list is still in progress as i will attempt to watch more and more disturbing films, the entries with no text indicates the films I have yet to see, but i will grow a pair and do so ASAP. So any recommendations are welcome and appreciated.
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- DirectorJeremy KastenUwe BollRuggero DeodatoStarsChristine AhanotuDídac AlcarazU. BernardDeep within the underbelly of Paris, there is a club which is the home of a secret, wicked society. At first it resembles an ordinary fetish or Goth nightclub, but within the cavernous building are many hidden rooms, one of which is known as "The Room of Souls," a private gathering place of the world's richest and most evil people. Their host is the elegant yet frightening Madame Sabatier. For their amusement each member takes a turn and spins a true tale of depravity: A good wife learns that her husband goes out at night to abduct and murder young women; a botched suicide attempt leads to a drug-induced dream; a girl is believed to be possessed by a demon, and her overly religious parents enlist the help of a corrupt reverend who has his own sinister plans. We are invited inside the deranged mind of a respected surgeon as he takes us on a guided tour of life, death, and everything in between; a young street prostitute crosses paths with a charismatic flesh trader and is forced to take an unspeakable journey of sex, violence, and murder; a nun is abducted off the streets of Rome and held captive for over a year, turning her into a feral, murderous creature to be unleashed on society; a chance encounter on a fateful bus ride for an unsuspecting girl who dreams of riches and fame is her undoing; a man picks up a woman in a nightclub and soon finds himself at the mercy of a cult of women who believe consumption of their sacrifice will bring them to their highest form of female dominance; an unflinching look into darkest Africa where human life is traded for fortune and the most unspeakable atrocities are committed.Im praying for you Unearthed!
- DirectorTom SixStarsJessica MorrisDarcy DeMossDeborah TwissHanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. women, get aroused by the misery of others. Hanna meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she cares for.Release the onania club!
- DirectorMarian DoraStarsMarietta FioriJohnatan Maria von GrossJörg WischnauskiA Sunday walk through the late summer landscape leads not only to a small lake, but also to the abyss of human existence. Dominance and oppression, superiority and humiliation serve for an alleged "incarnation".Shock Factor - 10/10 (high impact sexual violence, sexualised nudity, scenes of animal cruelty, blood and gore)
Overall film - 75% - DirectorLucifer ValentineStarsSister S.ChaliceHeather CageIn this demonic labyrinth we experience the satanic ritual which spawns endless incarnations of Angela Aberdeen, as she is doomed to live out her haunted existence of the eternal "lost girl". One dark, cold christmas night, we enter angela's kingdom of hell, and witness her tortured mutations as we descend deeper into her satanic netherworld of the black mass of the nazi sex wizard.Shock Factor - 10/-10 (high impact blood and gore, sexualised nudity, scenes of degradation and self-mutilation)
Overall film - 60%
Did not expect it but as a standalone piece, the very controversial and despicable Lucifer Valentine has made an incredibly distasteful and dangerous work of art - DirectorLucifer ValentineStarsA. BelleThe Black Angels of HellHoneyA girl with disturbing hallucinations continues her downward spiral into hell. Not for the faint of heart.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, High impact sexual activity, blood and gore)
Overall Film - 30% - DirectorLucifer ValentineStarsShari CarusoAmeara LaveyHope LikensThe final in the trilogy. A bulimic prostitute talks about her deranged childhood while being sexually tortured.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual activity, high impact blood and gore, high impact child abuse and themes, high impact sexual violence, scenes of degradation)
Overall film - 35% - DirectorLex OrtegaStarsDavid AboussafyAbigail BonillaRicardo BritoWhile examining a traffic accident where a woman was badly hurt, the unorthodox police commander finds proof of even more gruesome facts and decides to deal out vengeful justice.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore, sexual violence, scenes of mutilation and themes)
Overall film - 60% - DirectorFred VogelStarsKyle DealmanCasey EganeyDan FriedmanTwo serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome from behind a video camera.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, scenes of torture and degradation, blood and gore and themes)
Overall film - 20%
Close to Snuff as one can get without digging up the obscure deeper down the iceberg. - DirectorPascal LaugierStarsMorjana AlaouiMylène JampanoïCatherine BéginA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.Shock factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, High impact scenes of torture and themes)
Overall film - 90%
Martyrs most likely represents the peak of new french extremity, it's the most psychologically tormenting and emotionally punishing films ever put to screen. - DirectorMarian DoraStarsMarian DoraMartina AdoraKatja BienertA man unknowingly leads a double life.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual themes, high impact sexual activity, high impact sexual violence)
Overall film - 55% - DirectorMarian DoraStarsUlli LommelThomas GoerschCarina PalmerA formidable descend to human decay.Shock Factor -10/10 (High impact themes, high impact sexual activity)
Overall film - 75%
While it is very disturbing, its more upseting - DirectorTom SixStarsLaurence R. HarveyAshlynn YennieMaddi BlackInspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.Shock Factor- 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, scenes of torture, graphic violence and themes)
Overall Film- 75% - DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.Shock factor- 10/10 (High impact sexual violence/high impact violence, blood and gore, high impact themes)
Overall film- 85%
Many would regard this to be the most disturbing film ever made, this rings truth in those who havn't actually seen it. For those who have its up there but there are worse - DirectorJames Cullen BressackStarsJody BartonNicholas Adam ClarkGregory DePetroA Jewish family, that just arrived in a new neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a bunch of crystal-meth-crazed Neo-Nazi lunatics.Shock Factor - 9/10 (high impact sexual violence, strong violence, sustained threat and themes)
Overall film - 55% - DirectorJames Florian QuinnStarsMan Without a FaceKmsuraDead FleshDeath is imminent and meaning absent in this visual exercise of pointless nihilism. A visual experiment of anger and psychosis, captured on all kinds of manipulated film. Pain and anguish prevail in this masterclass of visually aesthetic edgelord cinema.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact horror themes, High impact sexual themes, High impact sexual activity, themes of pedophilia)
Overall Film - 55% - DirectorScott Philip GoergensStarsBrooke BerryJamee NicholsonJoe MeduzaFrancis uses pain to hold back his inner demons, but when this no longer works, his obsessions for pain and sex lead him into new territory.Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual activity, scenes of self-mutilation)
Overall film - 45% - DirectorGregory WilsonStarsWilliam AthertonBlythe AuffarthBlanche BakerFollows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, high impact themes, scenes of torture)
Overall Film - 80% - DirectorKarim HussainStarsSophie LauzièreAnne-Marie BelleyBrea AsherAn anthology of horror, consisting of four segments all themed around gory subjects.Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual activity, strong violence, blood and gore and themes)
Overall film - 65% - DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.Shock Factor - 9/10 (High Impact violence, strong scenes of torture and degradation, sexual activity themes)
Overall Film - 90%
Pioneering! - DirectorLucio A. RojasStarsCatalina MartinMacarena CarrereDominga BofillFour friends, partying in a house in the middle of nowhere are brutally attacked by a man and his son, forcing the remaining women to take vengeance upon them.Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, high level violence, blood and gore)
Overall film - 50% - DirectorGregg ArakiStarsBrady CorbetJoseph Gordon-LevittElisabeth ShueTwo pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.Shock factor - 10/10 (High impact themes of pedophilia)
Overall film - 85%
This one really got to me - DirectorAndrey IskanovStarsTetsuro SakagamiTomoya OkamotoYukari FujimotoA graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.Shock Factor - 10/10 (high impact sexual activity, high impact violence, blood and gore, scenes of degradation and torture)
Overall film - 40% - DirectorAdam RehmeierStarsRodleen GetsicJeff F. RenfroDrettie PageA prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.Shock Factor 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, scenes of degradation, blood and gore)
Overall film - 20%
Torture for the sake of torture - DirectorLucifer ValentineStarsAmeara LaveyPig LizzyMaja LeeThe gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore/High impact sexual violence/sexual activity)
Overall Film - 20% - DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.Shock factor - 9/10 (Scenes of animal cruelty/high impact blood and gore/high impact sexual violence and themes)
Overall film - 85%