Deodato had to prove the snuff wasn’t real and produce the still living actors to prove otherwise. That’s how realistic the deaths in Cannibal Holocaust appeared to the Italian courts. Ten days after the premiere, the film’s director, Ruggero Deodato, was arrested and charged with murder. Martyrs is very well done and has many bloody parts to remember. When I first saw Martyrs I was genuinely jaw-dropped at the final scene in which our surviving heroine is beaten and skinned alive in order to provide witness to the afterlife for the film’s secret society. Once the best friend, Anna (Morjana Alaoui), becomes involved the movie morphs into something much more sadistic. Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs starts out like a standard revenge film, with one girl Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) seeking to turn the tables on captors from whom she escaped many years before. I’m sure there is something in The Poughkeepsie Tapes that will be embedded into your brain for a long time. The killer puts his victims through so much psychological abuse that it makes you feel uncomfortable as you watch it. That walk on all fours with the mask is something that will forever stay with me.
From the hardcore S&M treatment of Cheryl Dempsey, to the killers brazen mocking towards his captive’s families, to the gruesome killing of the mother who stupidly got into the back of a fake police car. The Poughkeepsie Tapes is psychologically terrifying and has so many genuinely disturbing scenes it’s actually hard to pick one. Unfortunately it’s very hard to find and it never did get a US distribution. If disturbing movies are your thing, like mine, you need to watch the Dowdle brothers The Poughkeepsie Tapes. “The Librarian” on the Kill List gets not only a hammer to the knee cap but also his hands and fingers, and finally, his skull in a brutally realistic scene. Ex-soldier and killer for hire Jay (Neil Maskell) agrees to take on a job with his partner in crime Gal (Michael Smiley), but things soon head out of control. It has been one of the rare movies to have me slightly flinching. Many may wonder why this film is here if you have seen it, but for me, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List was awesome for a number of reasons and one of the finest British thrillers in years. Oh and she also performs a female circumcision on herself. Starring Willem Dafoe whose poor testicles are crushed by his distressed wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who then proceeds to pleasure her unconscious husband until he produces blood. If you can withstand the first hour of pretty much nothing happening, the last forty-five minutes of Antichrist certainly makes for some disturbing cinema. Lars von Trier’s deep and deliberately provocative Antichrist will have men and women flinching at the dysfunctional grieving couple who retreat to the woods to grieve over to loss of their son. The saving grace was that Jennifer got her revenge, and gruesomely well. It’s hard to watch alone, let alone with friends or a boyfriend/girlfriend. If that wasn’t bad enough the whole gang decides to have a go. Starring Sarah Butler as writer Miss Jennifer Hills, I Spit on Your Grave features a drawn out brutalization scene, which starts off with a mentally ill member of the gang raping Miss Hills and nearly choking her as he climaxes. Monroe’s remake of the 1979 cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave. Love Real Life Ghost Hunting Shows? CLICK HERE FOR MORE!Īnother movie with a hard to watch assault, Steven R. Anyways read on below for some of the most disturbing scenes in cinema and let me know your thoughts in the comments box provided! (Ps- There is a few I’ve missed out that are always on disturbing movie lists but they did absolutely nothing for me in terms of shock value). So please if you have any that’s not on the list below for my messed up brain, tell me some more disturbing cinema scenes. I can’t actually show you most of the scenes but read on below for some of my favorite (is that the right word to use), okay, top? Damn. I can watch the most bloody and gory scene while eating spaghetti bolognese and not flinch. There’s an abundance of movies that many find sick, strange and disturbing… and while, yes, there is quite a few movies that have made me question humanity and the state of my own psyche, I am yet to find something I can’t watch. Movies that make you go “WTF!” I make my friends watch them so I have someone to talk to about them. What can I say? I love disturbing movies.