So, I just watched Taxi Driver for the first time...

[RustlessPotato]

Euh, Hard Candy was rather difficult for me to watch. No actual real violence is shown on screen, but it was really rather disturbing.

Also Buried, that Truely was an emotional rollercoaster.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Does the entire Evangelion series, including EoE, count? While it didn't sicken me, some things still disturbed me a bit.

Oh, EoE certainly counts for me. The series less so, but it did have it's moments.

Yeah it was more of a psychological thing for me in the series but in EoE it was "HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?!?!" kind of disturbed.

It was the rampant pedophilia that did it for me. Made it very uncomfortable to watch. It made me constantly questions whether or not I really should be watching this. Same goes for Elfin Lied.

Rampant paedophilia? Where the hell was this in Evangelion?

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see your other post.

Does the entire Evangelion series, including EoE, count? While it didn't sicken me, some things still disturbed me a bit.

Oh, EoE certainly counts for me. The series less so, but it did have it's moments.

Yeah it was more of a psychological thing for me in the series but in EoE it was "HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?!?!" kind of disturbed.

It was the rampant pedophilia that did it for me. Made it very uncomfortable to watch. It made me constantly questions whether or not I really should be watching this. Same goes for Elfin Lied.

Elaborate on the pedophilia .

Where? In Elfin Lied or End of Evangelion?

EoE.

Just curious that's all.

Well...

Spoiler

There was Shinji's father groping Rei.
There was Shinji masturbating over Asuka's unconscious body.
There was Rei/Eve/whatever sitting on top of world-mind Shinji in a fairly explicitly sexual manner.
And there was Misato seemingly promising to have sex with Shinji if he came back alive from the end fight.

That's it.

Spoiler

Gendo wasn't groping Rei, he was putting Adam's embryo into her.
Shinji masturbating over Asuka is not paedophilia. They're both of the same age.
And the part in Instrumentality where Rei is on top of Shinji? No, that isn't paedophilia either since they're both the same age.
And Misato only said that to Shinji to try and give him a morale boost, she knew she was going to die, which we saw straight afterwards with her falling onto the fall and bleeding all over it.

 

[Spartan212]

Taxi Driver is probably the most heavy thing posted in here till now. It's a lot more brutal and damning than any half arsed gore fest could ever be.

My choice is probably American Psycho. If you think I'm choosing this movie because of all the violence you're wrong, and I suggest you watch it again, because you probably missed the point.

Brilliant movie. The book is ever more disturbing. I loved what the movie said, but it's unfortunate that a lot of people only see it as a gore-fest. Christian Bale was perfect in it

 

[lumenadducere]

The only piece of media that drained me in that particular way was "Requiem for a Dream". Anyone who's seen the film knows exactly what I'm talking about when I say that the film utterly rapes the audience emotionally. The ending of the film is so relentlessly depressing that it almost feels unrealistic. But that's the problem; the sort of drug-related self destruction portrayed in RFaD isn't fake. It happens all the time. Hell, it's probably happening right now to someone out there.
I was an emotional wreck for days after I saw it, and I didn't speak for hours. I've only seen the movie one time, and I'm NEVER going to watch that fucking thing again.
It just might be the best movie ever made, but fuck it. I don't need to repeat the experience again.

Oh, yeah. The term I use for "Requiem for a Dream" is soul-crushing depression. It's rare for a movie to affect me (which makes me curious about so many of the ones mentioned here, although the sane part of my mind is trying to dissuade me from seeing any of 'em), so I was really shocked to find that Requiem for a Dream left me sad and emotionally drained for the rest of the day. It's a movie that should be watched - once. Any more than that and you're probably harming yourself.

 

[Hollyday]

This happens to me a lot - not because I'm a prude or anything, but I really get involved in the story so when it gets intense for the main character I get swept along.

I think the most disturbed I've been by something in a film was whilst watching 'Blood Diamond'. Not a particularly remarkable film, but there's one scene where a group of child soldiers is being forced to take drugs by their kidnappers and it's absolutely harrowing. For the whole rest of the film, day, week I couldn't get the image of this one boy out of my head. I don't think I can ever watch that film again.

 

[Flamezdudes]

The only piece of media that drained me in that particular way was "Requiem for a Dream". Anyone who's seen the film knows exactly what I'm talking about when I say that the film utterly rapes the audience emotionally. The ending of the film is so relentlessly depressing that it almost feels unrealistic. But that's the problem; the sort of drug-related self destruction portrayed in RFaD isn't fake. It happens all the time. Hell, it's probably happening right now to someone out there.
I was an emotional wreck for days after I saw it, and I didn't speak for hours. I've only seen the movie one time, and I'm NEVER going to watch that fucking thing again.
It just might be the best movie ever made, but fuck it. I don't need to repeat the experience again.

Oh god yes, Requiem for a Dream. This was definitely a depressing movie.

The first and only time i've watched it was when a friend of mine was staying round one night and we were looking for a film to watch. We found Requiem for a Dream in my brother's film collection and put it on, just to see.

My god, we were both in shock by the end of it and completely exhausted by it. We immediately got some food and put on some comedy. Good film though.

 

[Nouw]

Does the entire Evangelion series, including EoE, count? While it didn't sicken me, some things still disturbed me a bit.

Oh, EoE certainly counts for me. The series less so, but it did have it's moments.

Yeah it was more of a psychological thing for me in the series but in EoE it was "HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?!?!" kind of disturbed.

It was the rampant pedophilia that did it for me. Made it very uncomfortable to watch. It made me constantly questions whether or not I really should be watching this. Same goes for Elfin Lied.

Elaborate on the pedophilia .

Where? In Elfin Lied or End of Evangelion?

EoE.

Just curious that's all.

Well...

Spoiler

There was Shinji's father groping Rei.
There was Shinji masturbating over Asuka's unconscious body.
There was Rei/Eve/whatever sitting on top of world-mind Shinji in a fairly explicitly sexual manner.
And there was Misato seemingly promising to have sex with Shinji if he came back alive from the end fight.

That's it.

Spoiler: Spoilers

To be fair Rei is Gendo's wife's clone. Her name escapes me now. Also, I wouldn't necessarily call the second pedophilia. People of that age can relate too, I know I did. Not the masturbating over an unconscious girl part >.>.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Spoiler

Gendo wasn't groping Rei, he was putting Adam's embryo into her.
Shinji masturbating over Asuka is not paedophilia. They're both of the same age.
And the part in Instrumentality where Rei is on top of Shinji? No, that isn't paedophilia either since they're both the same age.
And Misato only said that to Shinji to try and give him a morale boost, she knew she was going to die, which we saw straight afterwards with her falling onto the fall and bleeding all over it.

Spoiler

It might not really be that he is actually groping her, but it still looks like it.
Well, it is explicitly sexual imagery featuring underage children. What else should I call it?
And again, she still says that, which still makes me uncomfortable. It is still something explicitly sexual directed to a minor.

 

[BaronUberstein]

...I honestly can't think of anything that has ever truly made me sick to my stomach. Probably helps that I grew up on stuff like Clockwork Orange and Pulp Fiction. "Biggest" reaction I've had to a film is either "well that's just unpleasant" or anger at stupidity.

Taxi Driver was just boring to me. The guy was so fucked up that I stopped caring about him, at all. I didn't understand his motivations.

Maybe that's it, I'm either too cynical and/or stupid to be disturbed, lol.

 

[BaronUberstein]

Taxi Driver is probably the most heavy thing posted in here till now. It's a lot more brutal and damning than any half arsed gore fest could ever be.

My choice is probably American Psycho. If you think I'm choosing this movie because of all the violence you're wrong, and I suggest you watch it again, because you probably missed the point.

Brilliant movie. The book is ever more disturbing. I loved what the movie said, but it's unfortunate that a lot of people only see it as a gore-fest. Christian Bale was perfect in it

Oh I loved that movie, it was funny as fuck. I saw the whole thing as a comedy. <__<

 

[WanderingFool]

Does the entire Evangelion series, including EoE, count? While it didn't sicken me, some things still disturbed me a bit.

I watched a few episodes... I went from "Oh, big robots..." to "THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?"

And that didnt even include the last episode...

 

[Alcamonic]

I felt, as you said, emotionally drained and exhausted, after watching Black Swan at the cinema.
The whole "oh fuck!" moment at the end all too well reflected my life, made me feel very uneasy afterwards.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

I've seen Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, NGE, Elfen Lied, American Psycho, and so forth...

But "The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things" is by far the hardest sit I've ever had... It starts with emotional abuse of a child and goes downhill from there.

 

[WaysideMaze]

OT: A Serbian Film made me feel really uncomfortable, (bitching soundtrack, though,)

I know a guy who said he found the film 'hilarious.' Though to be fair he's odd, and probably attention seeking.
I had the same reaction to it as I did to 'The Human Centipede.' It was fucking boring.

O/T I've not seen anything for a long time that's actually disturbed me, gorefests just do nothing for me and I've not seen any thought provoking films, that have disturbed me, for a while. Nothing comes to mind at least. On the other hand, I've still not got around to seeing Taxi Driver, so I guess with another week stuck off work I've got something to add to my list.

 

[DrBonBon]

The only thing that comes to my mind is Threads. Seriously, that thing is the most scariest and disturbing thing I've seen. Realistic depiction of nuclear war? Ouch...

Oh...and Elem Klimov's Come and See (Idi i Smotri). A film about the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Spoiler

Gendo wasn't groping Rei, he was putting Adam's embryo into her.
Shinji masturbating over Asuka is not paedophilia. They're both of the same age.
And the part in Instrumentality where Rei is on top of Shinji? No, that isn't paedophilia either since they're both the same age.
And Misato only said that to Shinji to try and give him a morale boost, she knew she was going to die, which we saw straight afterwards with her falling onto the fall and bleeding all over it.

Spoiler

It might not really be that he is actually groping her, but it still looks like it.
Well, it is explicitly sexual imagery featuring underage children. What else should I call it?
And again, she still says that, which still makes me uncomfortable. It is still something explicitly sexual directed to a minor.

Spoiler

If you want to be technical, it's not paedophilia with the Shinji and Asuka thing, it's actually Ephebophilia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia .
It's not even porn anyway, so you can't say it's paedophilia anyway.
What Misato says to Shinji may make you uncomfortable, but it's still not paedophilia as they actually don't do anything apart from a kiss, which is just used for a morale boost.

 

[Torrasque]

Taxi Driver is probably the most heavy thing posted in here till now. It's a lot more brutal and damning than any half arsed gore fest could ever be.

My choice is probably American Psycho. If you think I'm choosing this movie because of all the violence you're wrong, and I suggest you watch it again, because you probably missed the point.

American Psycho would be high on my list. When I watched it, I got to the end and then my brain did this sort of back flip where it tries to re-understand the entire movie after the twist reveals itself at the end. The implications of that twist still barely take hold after the second time watching the movie, and even still, disturb me.

#1 on my list would be Schindler's List with The Pianist narrowly behind. No, its not because it involves jews, it is because it involves the casual slaughter and mistreatment of a lot of people, and they contain so much raw emotion. I don't watch a lot of disturbing movies/series. I seem to watch a lot of stuff that is either 7 kinds of hilarious, or the kind of stuff that makes me think a whole lot more for several weeks; and I already think way too much for my taste =|

Ghost in the Shell (especially Innocence and the original movie) changed how I view life and humanity, which is kind of a big deal. It isn't the "emotionally numb or incredibly uneasy afterwards" that you are looking for, but there was a period of a few days where I didn't think of myself as alive. That was an interesting period...

Edit: I don't see the big deal with Evangelion. I've seen the entire series (even the extra episodes) and had to watch it again to get the "subtle plot moments that you missed the first time around", and I still got a resounding "meh". It might be because I expected it to be a mech anime and it was so incredibly far from being a mech anime, or the fact that there are a dozen different motivations and sub plots going at a time, that all end abruptly... Either way, Evangelion isn't a "WOW. WHAT A CRAZY ANIME THAT WAS".

 

[rob_simple]

OT: A Serbian Film made me feel really uncomfortable, (bitching soundtrack, though,)

I know a guy who said he found the film 'hilarious.' Though to be fair he's odd, and probably attention seeking.
I had the same reaction to it as I did to 'The Human Centipede.' It was fucking boring.

Yeah it bursts my hump when people pretend to find horrid shit funny so people think they're edgy or whatever. I actually thought A Serbian Film was quite good despite the more gruesome moments but I refuse to watch Human Centipede because it just sounds like gore for gores sake like Texas Chainsaw was.

 

[Trucken]

Let's see now, there was one part of Running Scared that was really rattling, especially since the movie for the most part is a pretty generic action-flick.

Spoiler

A kid who's on the run (might be around 8-10 years old) ends up in a family's apartment. The two kids seem fairly normal, but the parents just seem... weird. The kid manage to call an adult and give her the adress without the others knowing, but when she gets there he's nowhere to be found. The parents demands that she leave immediately.
"Our kids are trying to sleep!"
"They can't be your kids! There are no pictures of them in the entire apartment!"

She soon finds the kid, tied up in a closet with a plastic bag on his head. She manages to make him breathe again while threatening the 'parents' with a gun. That's when she notices the other stuff in the closet. Costumes for kids. Bodybags for kids. Tapes with different names on them, with different star-ratings on them. Also notices that the floor in the giant playroom is covered in plastic.

That had me kinda rattled for a couple of days.