Most Disturbing Films

A day in the life of a serial killer. Disturbing because it was so matter-of-fact. No hockey masks or chain saws or deformed features. Just a guy who killed people. Based of the life of Henry Lee Lucas, who claimed to have killed hundreds, then recanted. A very well-done film.

This thing drove me nuts! Rutger Haueras a crazy hitchhiker who torments C. Thomas Howell by killing people and then setting Howell up to get the blame.

Impressive film, but not entertaining. Violent and misogynistic. The consequences when good intentions backfire. Absolutely worth seeing...once.

Lame-ish flick that scared the living **** out of me. It brought back my childhood fear of the dark that I thought was long gone.

An amazing film by Ingmar Bergman about whether revenge is ever justified, and whether God can forgive that revenge. A young girl is murdered on the way to church, and the killers show up at her parents' home looking for refuge. The snence after the murder when the girl's body is laying in the woods will stay with me forever. Wes Craven remade this in much more violent fashion as Last House on the Left.

A must-see. A film about what can happen when a man allows his ego to get in the way of justice. If you're not mad as hell after you see this, you have no conscience.

Bizarro film about a man who slowly becomes a machine. More of a music video than a film. Particularly memorable is the rape by machine.

A twisted film about rich society members feeding off the poor...literally.

Intense, creepy-ass movie. Confirms every fear you ever had of backwoods Southern hicks.

Based on a Scandanavian children's story, but more Roald Dahl than Dr. Seuss. Kinda comedic, but in a twisted way. A strange story about a log of wood that the infertile "parents" treat as a real child. It eventually comes alive and eats all the neighbors, getting larger with each meal. The mother treating this hunk of wood like a real child, including breastfeeding it, is as creepy as it is bizarre. A darker but similar film to Little Shop of Horrors.

A very good but anger-provoking film. Shows the disastrous consequences of mob rule on decision making.

I know John Waters meant this all in fun, but it is without a doubt one of the most disgusting films I've ever sat through. I'm glad I saw it, because now I never have to worry about seeing it again. Notorious for the dog-doo eating scene that ends it. But don't worry about that -- you may not make it that far. If you're a fan of this, stay away from me.

A surprisingly disturbing film, based on the Grimms fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. I was expecting a kiddie scary movie, but I was wrong. A wealthy widow, played by Shelley Winters in all her hammy glory, takes selected children from the local orphanage into her home for a Christmas party. Christopher (Mark Lester of Oliver! fame) and Katie (Chloe Franks) were excluded because of bad behavior but sneak to the party anyway. Winters, grief-stricken and a little wacky and irrational from losing her daughter in an accident years before, kidnaps the children to replace her dead daughter. Katie is happy because she is being treated well, but Christopher, after reading the story Hansel and Gretel, decides that Winters is a witch who is trying to eat them, and sets out to stop her. If you know the story of H&G, you know the rest. But there is a difference. In the original story, it's made very clear to the children that the witch plans on eating them. In this film, Winters actually treats the kids very well, in effect adopting them, even if it is adoption by kidnapping. All the evidence that she is fatting them up for her next meal is all circumstantial, built up in these kid's evil imaginations. The smiles they gave each other after they burned Winters to death has stuck in my head for three days. Am I overreacting, or does anybody else think that these kids are budding serial killers?

Creepy movie. A teen girl is murdered by her boyfriend. He tells all his weirdo friends about it, and instead of turning him in, some stupid code of honor keeps them silent. Supposedly based on a true story. Features Dennis Hopper with a blow-up doll girlfriend, and Ione Skey and Keanu Reeves as the voices of reason.