I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.
When I was a 13-year-old girl who didn’t know she was queer I watched The House Bunny at my friend’s sleepover birthday party and ran out of the room crying because it confirmed all my fears about young adulthood.
Detachment. It’s a story about a substitute school teacher. It’s fucking glum. Good movie but ugh.
Using Adrian Brody as a segue, the Pianist, and Schindler’s List. WWII stuff gets under the skin, especially as of late.
For an entirely different direction - Velocipastor. It’s funny and absurd, but golly B movies make me cringe. I think there were a few parts that made me cringe myself inside out.
The Perfect Storm (2000)
True story and just so much anxiety.
the dreamers(2003)
blue velvet, been a while though(1986)
Gummo(1997) for sure
Great answers
This is the thread that deserves Todd Solondz’s films.
Start with Happiness (1998).
great call. hand to up there, todd solondz was on my mind, same with Larry Clark. I’m just trying not to take over the whole thread
these are perfect answers, i love blue velvet. for the sake of contributing i’d say The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Thanks, I’ve added it to my watchlist.
settle in for a miserable time :)
Blue Velvet is one
KIDS is another
Absolutely
One of the most disturbing things about Blue Velvet is that Dennis Hopper got the part by telling David Lynch he had to play Frank Booth because he was Frank Booth.
Ain’t you ever seen that one movie KIDS?
Requiem for a Dream
Happinesshappiness is unreal. fantastic film.
I added Gummo and Kids in another post.
Schizopolis is really good and weird but doesn’t leave you as hollowed out as those others.
It’s been a while but I remember Visioneers giving me a similar feeling of bleakness.
A Serbian Film. It’s messed up.
The smartest guys in the room, Doc about the demise of Enron. Illustrates the deadend street of capitalism.
Lmao ignored all instructions
1 hour photo.
the scene where Robin Williams has broken into their house and is shitting on their toilet was just too fucked up for me and I turned it off. never finished it.
Bro what
at the time I worked at a similarly blue vested retail space and there was a gentleman who worked in the photo department who looked and acted like the MC from the movie, unironically. he had been that way before the movie even came out, so it was just his personality.
the movie was just…too real for me and I couldn’t ever finish it.
Some of the Black Mirror episodes give that existential dread. The one where a conciousness is imprisoned in a teddybear comes to mind.
Melancholia fucked me up for a minute. I hadn’t seen any of his other movies and I still dont intend to.
for bleak films von trier depression trilogy is worth a go. i love Antichrist but found Melancholia and Nymphomania kind of boring
Yeah pass thanks ive got enough depression on my own
I’ll look into it
I thought Johnny Got His Gun was disturbing when I watched it in school. May have been because I was a kid though.
Dogville, and most of everything else by Lars von Trier (as others have mentioned).
There is no on screen violent or sexual acts but it still got a NC-17 rating. It’s the darkest of dark comedies, if you’re after disturbing for the sake of disturbing, I don’t think you’ll be to top this.
I couldn’t finish it. It was fucking awful
Hard Candy (2005) - although it edges towards horror…
The Big Short (2015) - although it edges towards horror…
Lmao fantastic answers
Hard Candy is commonly featured on horror lists. If we get a bit technical it’s more of a suspense thriller, but then the more technical we get about genres the less they actually make sense as separate categories and the entire phylogeny falls apart.
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
Both movies were good. Both movies were absolutely a one time watch and never again.
The first time I ever watched Trainspotting (like a decade or so ago) I had taken 2 tabs of acid and looked up online “movies that will change your life” or something along those lines.
One of the first ones listed was this one called Trainspotting and I had no idea what it was about I was expecting some drama about a special needs little boy who likes to look at trains or something.
Ohhh boy. That one scene was horrifying I got up and almost turned the TV off but I’m glad I didn’t. I love that movie so much.
lo, that one scene on acid must be something.
Requiem for a Dream. You’re absolutely correct, a one-time-only must-watch. I always enjoyed re-watching films with friends, but this one is a no go. One thousand years ago, I added the DVD release to my collection on release. Where I grew up, our movie theater only carried ultra-mainstream titles, so when films like Requiem released to theaters, it was either a 2+ hour trek to the nearest metropolitan area or just wait for it to release on DVD. I could be misremembering, but I believe the DVD case was one of those awful cardboard cases with the plastic clip. Anyway, it was mixed in with the rest of the DVD collection I proudly displayed in my living room (we all did this). At least until I had to refuse requested viewing by different guests not once, but twice. Fortunately, somewhere around that same time, I pumped the brakes on tangible media, and started gathering digital rips. Packed all that valueless stuff up, and shoved it up in the attic.
I bought Requiem in a DVD 2-pack, with the second movie being American History X.
That was not a fun weekend.
