The French version of Martyrs, haunts me forever
I read a review a while ago (a mixed article comparing different movies) and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see the movie, like ever.
It’s definitely a hard watch… But if you like gore horror then it’s amazing at that, but then again not worth watching if you’re not into it or you think it can be to extreme for you.
Sometime is kinda hard to separate certain movies between Horror gore and “Torture P#rn”. Titles like “Human Centipede” are in my opinion just plain Torture P#rn, with nothing to offer except inhuman torture scenes. Martyrs seems kinda like that too.
That’s fair! The horror genre is hard to put a finger at times.
The attic scene towards the end of Hereditary lived rent free in my head for a while, so I’d say that film.
Easily 2010’s A Serbian Film.
Indeed. I wish I didn’t see it.
I’d love to un-watch this one. I get the message they were going for, but it taught me I do have limits on needless cruelty and how dark satire can get before I need to vomit. This might have been the one that broke me, horror-wise.
Came here to say this one. Anyone who hasn’t seen it… don’t. Just don’t. You’ll regret it.
Only horror movie that ever made me just straight up nope out 10 minutes in is “The Poughkeepsie Tapes” I watch horror for spooks and thrills and the occasional existential dread. That shit was just too real and too close to home. Its not a horror movie you will enjoy watching. It is one that will make you feel genuinely discomforted and sick in the stomach.
Yeah I had to detox after this one. I recognised a couple of the actors, so that helped remind me it was fake, but otherwise it was too close to real serial killer cases for my taste.
Lake Mungo is still my go-to mockumentary horror. I prefer the slow build & spookiness.
Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence
That movie is very insane indeed! I thought it was very confusing.
Tried to watch it but somehow it made me too uncomfortable lol. Nothing had even happened yet!
Ichi the Killer by Takashi MIIKE, really gore and graphic, I had to avert my eyes several times.
I must say while being one of most fucked up movies I’ve seen it’s also one of my favorites.
A person of culture I see! Glad you agree with my assessment
Indeed. Have you seen Audition as well? It’s not on the same level but I think it’s great for being gore fest lol. Also it’s a slow burner and I love those types of thriller / horror movies (Audition is definitely a thriller and not horror). Maybe also Greatful dead btw.
No I haven’t, thank you for the recommendation, I’ll check it out!
Good. Directed by Miike as well 😄
I’ve seen Audition, but not the other. Was Audition that gorey? I guess at the climax, but maybe I’m remembering wrong.
The ending is extremely gory. And there is some very interesting scenes in it. I loved it.
Yeah, it was a good movie. After thinking about the ending, I remember more of it now. Quite gory haha. The other is on my list.
If no one has turned you onto the work of Park Chan-wook you would probably really enjoy him
Ah the director of Oldboy. Haven’t seen any of his other films, might have to give them a try!
I haven’t kept up with his career in a hot minute but the Vengeance trilogy, which includes Oldboy, is really good
Bone Tomahawk
Yeah it definitely has some fucked up moments. I actually watched it today, but did not finish it.
I fell asleep watching that movie with buddies and woke up to the screaming dude being split in half. Not sure I want to watch it in its entirety…
If I remember that is the worst scene haha. Reminds me of Terrifier 😅
I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by fucked up. I watched Dead Alive (NR)/Braindead with a friend and he threw up more than once. I heard from other people they too threw up watching it. But it is a movie that I would consider a borderline comedy.
Some of the horror porn movies like hostel are more fucked up in what happens in them.
I think movies like Misery that show what a plain human is capable of doing to another human is more fucked up than a movie about the supernatural.
Irreversible.
Maybe kinda vanilla but I could not watch past the beginning of The Hills Have Eyes. I generally like horror but have a weak stomach for gore, and sexual assault as a shock device completely turns me off of a movie.
There was also a movie I was watching with a friend but I don’t recall the name, maybe someone knows it. It wasn’t in English, and IIRC it was about a boy who got mad that his mother kept insisting that his brother had died. The whole second half of the movie devolved into pure torture porn and we eventually just had to turn it off.
Goodnight mommy?
It’s gotta be. And no spoilers, but that ending was… scarring and unexpected.
Intense for sure.
That’s the one! Good to know, I will make sure to not watch it :)
It’s a pretty good movie but yes very hard to watch at times. There is now a remake of it at Amazon Prime with Naomi Watts in the leading role. I think that movie is really good as well and not that hard to watch in comparison.
Antichrist was pretty wild. Did not expect it to be so graphic
That movie really disapointed. I actually liked it untill the end where the woman went bat shit crazy…
hey, no spoilers, man!
The Endless (2017) (by Justin Benson who made Resolution) really creeped me out, but it might be a personal phobia. Sort of existentialist and philosophical fear of things that are so alien they drive you mad.
The horror movie that scared me most was Sinister 2012 (edit: oops not Insidious) even though it’s not anything special. Really depends on the time and place and mood you watch it.
PS: Apparently I’m not alone in finding Sinister very scary: “A 2020 study by Broadband Choices named Sinister the scariest film ever made, based on an analysis of viewer heart rates.” (from wiki)
The most fucked up scene is the murder of the guy in the gay club at the beginning of Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible The camera work and the shot of the head turning to mush meant it was the only time I’ve ever had to pause a scene and take a breath. A Serbian Film and Salo are awful but none of these are horror movies despite being horrific. Martyrs is great as is Red, White and Blue. I’d personally go with Slaughtered Vomit Dolls or Philosophy of a Knife for straight up fucked up.
On a separate note, JF Gonzalez’ book ‘Survivor’ was one of the most horrific books I ever read, with a few really heinous passages.
A Serbian Films is definitely a movie I wish I never watched. It’s just one of the worst film in terms of content around, It should be banned everywhere…
Banned because it’s so horrifying? I’ve always heard it brought up when mentioning over-the-horrific, but I can’t imagine it’s really as bad as all that. I’ve seen videos discussing it. So I’ve heard a few of the “high” (low) points, but none of them really sound…as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
Ehm… Movies that includes necrophilia and pedophilia is not something that should be allowed… That’s why I’m saying it should be banned… I’m not going to go into details. If you’re interested in learning more about it I’ll leave it at that.
Taken individually, the set pieces in Serbian Film don’t sound that awful (apart from what you mentioned), but as a whole in one sitting, it builds and slowly crushes you. The climax of the movie is simply too much. “Bleak” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Some of the darkest ones I’ve seen (most disturbing) aside from the torture porn genre of modern times come out of the 70’s. The OG chainsaw massacre, or Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer come to mind. They didn’t have a lot of censorship for some things back then. They got away with some pretty twisted shit on-screen.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre actually doesn’t show you much compared to the impression it leaves.
Yeah it wasn’t the gore or special effects that left a mark it was the psychological elements.
I Spit On Your Grave. I don’t know who that movie is made for.
