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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hands down, Requiem for a Dream. That movie is so good but can only really be watched once.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Same with Kids. Perfect execution of a theme so awful I never want to go near it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I did watch it again during the pandemic for the first time in many many many years. Still a big NOPE film.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ASS TO ASS!

Also the scene where Jared Leto's friend is shooting up makes my skin crawl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The ending scene for the mother is what gets me every time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The french original of Martyrs. That movie really lived in my head for some days.

I think you should see it without knowing anything.

Just be sure that you can handle some fucked up shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Came here for martyrs, most of it is still burned into my brain.

I was going to watch it again, and then I was like I'm pretty sure I can remember this exactly from beginning to end still.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Grave of the fireflies

Even worse, it's based on a true story. (The author preferred the movie's ending)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s on my rewatch list since it’s been about twenty years, but I still can’t bring myself to doing so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same. It's my favorite Ghibli film, but I have to get myself in the right headspace to be broken by it again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmm ok never heard of this one. Will have to add it to the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's an incredible movie. I'm not sure how much you should know before going in, but I'll say this: Don't be fooled by the fact that it's animated - by the same studio as "My Neighbor Totoro". (The two movies played as a double feature because not showing something lighthearted after Grave of the Fireflies would have been criminal negligence.) And the other comments are right - It's not something you're likely to be able to watch again anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OP said best fucked up, not just fucked up.

I think the most disturbing scene for me was actually the ending, made me feel more sick than the baby scene.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've never seen it but fuck Human Centipede. I read it on Wikipedia and it still fucked me up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh you gotta watch it once. It is preposterous in the best way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A friend told me about it in all of its grotesque details. I was a bit scared for her after that and wondered if she was right in her mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Probably The Mist, just based on the ending. I still think about it to this day

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Happiness - Todd Solondz

It's the dark, seedy, perverted underbelly of the American dream, equal parts funny and creepy, and brilliantly cast and acted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this one. I really want to revisit this one as it’s been prob close to 20 years since my first viewing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was the first movie I thought of too! I saw it when it was released in an art house theatre. I didn’t know much about it, and apparently most of the audience didn’t either. Once the film got to that scene where the guy buys a teen boy magazine and climbs into the back of the car to…you know….a bunch of people just got up and walked out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... that's the first moment when the mask starts to slip, and you realize you're in for something entirely different than what it initially appeared to be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Road. That's the most depressing film I've ever watched.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s totally fucked up and leaves you sad and angry. Never gonna rewatch it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hobo With a Shotgun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Triangle, it's a little known film that I have on my NAS and finally saw it one day. I won't say much about it, but see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gummo, Man bites dog, Bad boy Bubby,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bubby got pizza for cat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ichi the killer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Midnight Cowboy": great performances, great writing, profound ending, never want to watch it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if I would call it best, but the most emotionally scarring and draining movie I have ever seen was Irreversible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gosh. Everyone here knows all the REALLY messed up ones. You don’t watch this one without a permanent stain imprinted on your psyche.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Irreversible

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a rough one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Grave of the Fireflies. A masterpiece that can’t be seen more than once.

Man, war is fucked up…