30 MOST Disturbing or Scary Movie List
Watch with care/caution of your own well being. There are some movies even I won't watch. Several are on this list.
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- 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.Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom reinvented in 1970's Fascist Italy. Movie involves children 18 in sexual situations. Be warned.
- 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.I actually haven't seen this movie because I know it will scar me for life. Sometimes you have to pick your battles on how far you want to push yourself. This movie beyond my boundaries.
- 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.The movie has several plot points none of which I want to give away aside from the fact is is unflinching in it's violence and torture.
- 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.Everything that happens in this movie is REAL.
The actors and director vouch for this fact.
That sentence bares a very heavy weight after seeing this movie. - DirectorMeir ZarchiStarsCamille KeatonEron TaborRichard PaceAn aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.The epitome of the 70's Rape-Revenge genre.
Do not watch if you are sensitive/triggered by violent/degrading rape scenes and psychological torture. - DirectorTinto BrassStarsHelmut BergerIngrid ThulinTeresa Ann SavoyKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power-hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.A brothel filled with Hitler Youth girls turned hooker spies....what could go wrong??
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.A Yugoslavian art house avant-garde film from 1974-I don't want say more and give anything away. If you like weird 70's films just give this one a watch.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunChoi Min-sikJeon Gook-hwanA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.A surprisingly disturbing film. The less you know the better. A recommended watch if you enjoy South Korean psychological thriller/horror films.
- DirectorEli RothStarsLorenza IzzoAriel LevyAaron BurnsA group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.Amazonian Cannibals....what's not to love?!?
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.Daddy/girl BDSM roleplay at it's edgiest and most unassuming. Also interesting/intruiging if you have an SS/Uniform Fetish.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsChoi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jeongAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.This film is not what it seems to be. Make sure to watch all the way til the end.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsJane AdamsJon LovitzPhilip Seymour HoffmanThe lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.Portraying America at it's worst.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsSandra PeabodyLucy GranthamDavid HessTwo teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.Make sure to watch this film on not the later remake. There's a significant difference between the two and I highly value the edge and quality of the acting and intensity in this film.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..This film is highly triggering if you have issues with seeing drug use like I do. This was a one time watch for me. Though it admittedly is beautifully filmed/photographed and is highly praised by film majors for it's originality.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsDustin HoffmanSusan GeorgePeter VaughanA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsMalcolm McDowellPeter O'TooleHelen MirrenA dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.A gratuitous Italian-American movie made by Penthouse in 1979 involving hardcore sex scenes amongst the incredulous activities surrounding the insane rule of Caligula. Probably the most graphic and only major motion picture of it's kind.
- DirectorMichael LinnStarsTonantzin CarmeloCarla-RaeMichael SpearsA Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.Feel this movie needs no introduction. It is a classic and a legend of the boundary pushing genre.
- DirectorMarcel SarmientoGadi HarelStarsShiloh FernandezNoah SeganCandice KingTwo high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.Zombie fetish anyone?
- DirectorLucky McKeeStarsAngela BettisJeremy SistoAnna FarisA socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.Adds a whole new level to dollification...
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.Make sure to watch the original not the American remake!!
- DirectorChad FerrinStarsNoah SeganAndrea BunkerEzra BuzzingtonReturning to the medical school where they were test subjects decades ago, a pair of outrageously twisted serial killers use shockingly brutal sex acts to start killing off a group of drugged-out med students.An Indie Horror Film you don't wanna miss!!! Not for the sexually squeemish!!
- DirectorAnthony DiBlasiStarsJuliana HarkavyJoshua MikelHank StoneA rookie cop is tasked with taking the last shift at a police station before it is permanently closed, but it turns into a living nightmare.
- DirectorMary LambertStarsDale MidkiffDenise CrosbyFred GwynneAfter tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.I have also not seen this film or A Serbian Film. Both films deal with controversial issues that I'm not even willing to cross.
But I know that both films are also on many people's *ucked Up Movie Lists so I thought they deserved an honorable mention.
And a watch with caution sign as well. - DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.I feel this movie is underrated in the disturbing movie genre but after going back and re-watching the film I have to admit the physical as well as psychological torture that occurs in this movie still makes me squirm!!