As Fucked up movie, i can easily say The Outwaters 2022. That movie really messed me up.
Impressive for a budget production but overall this film was a miss for me. My friend I saw it with loved it though so would probably still recommend to genre fans.
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I would say, martyrs is not in the notable list, but I feel this is one of the worst.
For my partner and I, it’d surely have to be Baskin. I’m actually surprised to see a thread like this without it.
They’re Inside comes to mind next, but for more story reasons than just the freaky goings on.
I’ve watched Baskin and I dunno, it’s fucked up for sure… But I feel like I’ve watched way much worse (as in fucked up) movies.
Depends on your horror tastes, of course. We have no interest in Martyrs or A Serbian Film type stuff even if Baskin was pretty redeemable on general weirdness, and we all know there’s plenty worse than any of those out there.
Maybe most people who watch Baskin tend to venture even further out, but it seems like a notable watershed point to me.
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.
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 Insidious (2010) even though it’s not anything special. Really depends on the time and place and mood you watch it.
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?
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.
It’s gotta be. And no spoilers, but that ending was… scarring and unexpected.
Intense for sure.
Irreversible.
Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence
That movie is very insane indeed! I thought it was very confusing.
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.
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.
The attic scene towards the end of Hereditary lived rent free in my head for a while, so I’d say that film.
I Spit On Your Grave. I don’t know who that movie is made for.
Easily 2010’s A Serbian Film.
Came here to say this one. Anyone who hasn’t seen it… don’t. Just don’t. You’ll regret it.
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.
The Sadness was a lot for me.
Yeah I get that. I watched I think halfway trough and just stopped watching. I have this one thing with violence in movies: it gotta be a reason for it. That movie don’t give a single reason why they are just killing everyone… I appreciate tye movie but for me it’s neh, nothing worth watching. I love gory movies but that was over the top nonsense.
I ended up watching a YouTube review to get the ending.
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!
