I Watched 10 Extremely Disturbing Movies
Video Overview & Insights
These movies made me sick. I'm back with another batch of 10 disturbing movies. Many of them were HEAVILY requested, and some... I branched out a bit. Let's parse through the worst of the worst, and see what's good and what's bad! To do this, I review, analyze, and rank the movies based on my assessment of quality and thematic depth.
Movie Megathread:
Recommend what movies I should watch next time right here! Like the comments that recommend the ones you want to see! I'll try to watch the most heavily requested movies
Also, keep track of the running list on my letterboxd! https://boxd.it/hbS3p
Footage/music of these movies used is entirely allowable under fair use through commentary, criticism, and transformation, as well as the brevity and relevancy of the utilized portions.
Movies:
Yep I was totally right. Your critique is exactly my tastes. Analytical and compassionate, aware of your own biases but also just genuinely like some things because it was made for you. It feels like for you, disgust and horror are not things to avoid, but the start of curiousity and questions to ask-- about yourself and the world at large.
As for disturbing things I could recommend... I have pretty mild personal tastes, admittedly. I feel empathy so deeply experiencing disturbing stuff first hand is often too much for me. I end up in the victims position so much it can be really hard on my brain.
But Unicorn Wars and Opal are two animated movies I'm curious about your thoughts on. Though Opal is a short, it's haunted me ever sense I watched it. Unicorn Wars meanwhile is pretty fascinating due to its juxtaposition of cute/beauty and war horror/body horror, far more than say, Happy Tree Friends.
What else... thoughts on Junji Itos work?
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom
Threads
If you enjoy Tetsuo i highly recommend Tokyo Gore Police it is over the top gore to the point of hilarity with some interesting special effects, especially when you get to the chair scene
Melancholie Der Engel
The Coffee Table
Not extreme horror, I just want you to watch 2LDK. Its a good movie. not too long, the acting is great. its a very simple plot. It's an easy watch for when you need a break from this genuinely traumatic stuff bc dang I know traumamaxxing fr. pls watch 2LDK. its fire
Grotesque
Snowtown
I’m not sure if you’ve covered it in your last review, but if you haven’t, you should definitely watch. Megan is missing.
Nekromantik
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Ichi The Killer
would love to see you cover titane or toyko fist.
Games:
Dead Space 2
28:00 tetsuo (from my understanding) is a critique of the industrialisation / post-industrial japanese landscape, and the dehumanisation that that's had on the people of japan
Scorn
Dead Space Remake
I have read the Sodom book many years ago... Very long and gross...highly recommend it lol😅
Music:
Vibing Over Venus - Kevin Macleod
Love this video too🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ancient Winds - Kevin Macleod
#ranking #horrormovies #disturbing #moviereviews #horror #extremehorror
I tried to watch salo I really did. But i just couldnt. And not because of the perversions, shit eating, torture, all that. I just legitimately thought it was bad.
The acting was robotic and soulless at times and overacted other times. The behavior of the victims would wildly shift between staring blankly ahead to screaming comically. I found myself laughing at it to be honest.
I went into it expecting to be uncomfortable or disgusted at least and found myself shocked that this was the movie I'd had hyped up as so unbearable. It was unbearable yes but more because it was a such a slog.
I understand the cultural and political meaning he was going for but I legit could NOT take it seriously. It struck me as goofy and I just couldnt watch it in any way except as a bunch of actors doing weird sex stuff and eating fake poop. I couldn't even get grossed out by the poop stuff because I just didnt buy it so strongly that all i saw was people eating what was propbably just chocolate.
It had some good visuals and cinematography but that was like the only thing that made me stick it out for the hour or so that i did. Yeah yeah i didnt finish it but I just didn't see the point when I'd already seen supposed depravities and found them laughable.
I usually agree with you about a lot of things and take your advice but I seriously just hated it. And clearly not for the reasons other people did. It didnt make me feel uncomfortable ENOUGH. Nothing about it felt even remotely believable.
00:00 Introduction
3:47 Number 10
Grotesque really got to me. I literally felt sick after watching it
9:59 Number 9
14:50 Number 8
You put Coffee Table over Nekromantik? Lame. Coffee Table is so boring!
24:06 Number 7
29:30 Number 6
I watched salo at like 13/14 because I started to get into disturbing movies around that time and the fact that it didn’t disturb me that much really explains how I can read all the splatterpunk I do as an adult without cringing haha. I’d honestly be interested in rewatching it now that I can understand what it was trying to say more than I could’ve in 8th grade
35:32 Number 5
41:15 Number 4
i dont get how people thought the coffe table was funny, it gave me a panic attack
50:34 Number 3
56:02 Number 2
I have some more for you: Guinea pig movies, channel 309, deliverance (not THE deliverance that’s a different movie), found, august underground, cannibal holocaust, possum, irreversible, trauma, climax
MAJOR trigger warning they asked for extreme disturbing movies these could be traumatizing
1:04:05 Number 1
do you have a list of all the reccomended horror movies including the ones youve previously watched p.s love your videos!!
More User Perspectives
Surprised you didn't have "Come and See" on this list, especially since it's about events that actually happened during WWII.
The Road is also good.
The coffee table is insane bro
@aajjajaajajajajja-k6eFetus 2008 ❤
@piranhaowner1967The Coffee Table was Great!!!! 😊❤
@piranhaowner1967The lengths people are willing to excuse their own supporting of animal cruelty whilst whining about it in media. It's a vile thing to do regardless of the intention and use case
@FI-7ZipCannibal corpse mentionned ? Hell yeah
@rxptors_7287dude i just watched Grotesque and you are absolutely right at 6:38 , the audio was just …. odd. completely breaks immersion and believability for me. overall just a very boring and kinda lame movie imo.
@666zoIDK what you've watched, but I'm going to assume stuff like Cannibal Holocaust, A Serbian Film, etc have been named. I'm going to name a few that are not as well known
The Bunny Game. This one actually made my skin crawl in a few places. I watched this on Youtube, idk if it's still up. It feels very real, and absolutely falls under the T*rtur* P***, but with how it's presented, it's still good. "A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath."
Orozco the Embalmer. Before you go into this, know that everything is real. It is a documentary about an embalmer in Colombia, in a crime ridden area. The horror is the reality
There's a few others but I honestly can't remember the names. These two tho are very disturbing for different reasons
OMG ICHI THE KILLER MENTIONED ? ITS ONE OF MY FAV MOVIES
@DaisyMammamiaWait there's a film adaptation of 120 days of Sodom??? Why??????? Who wanted this😭😭
@w0rmboydNicely done, I enjoyed the critical reviews. I'm not typically a horror fan, but it's interesting to get a high level overview of what I probably would freak out if I watched😊
@jazziet9289I'm probably the only one that didnt find Tetsuo disturbing at all, but is still one of the greatest cyberpunk movies ever made. Probably because it wasn't as gory and a lot of it was completely absurd and goofy with its fight scenes and editing, but very fun to watch
@jordanboyd5587I recommend watching Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer. There's also a third movie but it's kinda terrible.
@FamilyStewieFunniesSalo will always be why I refuse to excuse evil acts of depravity as demonic worship because we as a species have always had monsters amongst us
@swoogydoogy2654not so much disturbing but the life and death of a p*rnogang was oddly touching I highly recommend it !!
@HvmbiWatch “violent shit” exactly what it sounds like
I also have more recommendations if you want
Riveting analysis francis bacon
@trenttrippI am actually amazed that you actually took the time to understand what you were watching and had actually something to tell. All the others videos I've watched about these movies were all like "wow that was so disturbing and weird" and its like yes but I want to know more. Since I'm too sensitive to watch them, I cant see or hear these movies so i can only rely on what they said. So Im glad you actually took the time to interpret these movies and gave a reason on what you liked and didnt like about it, while also showing some glimpse of they sounded and looked like.
Your description of the Coffe Table made me curious and I decided to watch the movie, it was really good!!
Tetsuo is one of my favorite movies ever. I've always read it as a sort of an erotic metaphor for industrialization and historical materialism.
@elizamitchell7583Ichi The Killer rocks. Genuinely a fun movie
@The-Real-Yakubwatch Calvaire
@Mewzzmuzi highly recommend you watch gummo
@crowisweirdthreads is genuinely one of the best movies i have ever seen
@b3llaaa99tetsuo is one of my favorite films ever to the point where i wrote about it in undergrad LOL. it definitely holds up just as a watching experience but i think there’s an interesting reading of the film as a representation of japan’s rapid industrialization and reckoning with late-stage capitalism, particularly in the context of the film being released in 1989 (right before the lost decade). tomorowo taguchi’s character being an unnamed, nondescript salaryman who finds his body inexplicably but inevitably becoming metal, the black and white which makes it at times difficult to tell where flesh ends and machine begins, the stop-motion “running” sequences revealing one fragment of the dizzying size of a city like tokyo. to that end, i think you can also read this film from the angle of japanese masculinity in the context of a society rapidly adopting and deploying capitalist modes of being; the drill scene in particular explicitly likens industry and machinery to burgeoning, destructive male sexuality which ends up harming the women around them. i really love the queer elements of this film for that reason too; where the salaryman’s “drill” is a tool of assault and fear, his connection with tsukamoto’s “metal fetishist” character at the end of the film is explicitly a union of love. definitely a film that you can interpret and enjoy in a lot of different ways, and i would absolutely recommend exploring more of tsukamoto’s filmography and examining some of the thematic through-lines :]
@maddym4020Honesty doesn’t need a runway, you should consider dropping the “honestlies”
@TheStoodyahhhh i love the way you review these films! i cant watch SA without a description of it or i freak, but like every time i try to find an actual review of a disturbing movie a lot of the time its all "ohh the horror, the depravity. the sa is sooooo asssult! its soooo sex!" like i know all that, but what happens and why? you actually incuding the theams and analysis of the film around any crazy assult or torture made it digestable for me!
also if you like threads youll LOVEEE When the Wind Blows (1986)! its animated beautifully, it focuses on one elderly couple who follow britains guides to surviving a nuclear apocalypse during the cold war. the guides are contradictory and full of useless things, so the couple slowly subcome to radiation poisoning. its haunting and looks great! i always watch it as a double feature to Threads and i honestly think i like it more.
I wanted to thank you for your clarification and warning on which movies have sexual assault involved in it. In a huge horror fan but the one thing I can’t stand in horror films is sexual assault. So thank you!
@inupifeiIchi shows just what you can do with boiling oil
@JillBrown-s4pWhich Dead Space is this? I don't remember seeing this in the second game
@burningfruitbasket777Feel like tetsuo is almost explicitly talking about the harm that stems from humanity's obsession with technology and integrating it with everything in daily life but...
@arseneisghoulish51:24 dude why.....why.....why the poor baby boy😢
@GsyNd50:52 COME AND SEE
@GsyNdAs a guy that handles gore in movies really easy (like American Guinea pig etc.) i found Atroz really Hard to watch
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