I'm gonna say: Requiem for a Dream
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Bruh i watched that movie just because the soundtrack was everywhere and i wanted to know what is origin was. Well done but one of the most disturbing and sad movies ill never watch again.
While I agree, it’s honestly not one of aronofsky’s most fucked up movies imo.
I don't know all of his stuff, though Mother! was pretty stressful to watch.
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Grave of the Fireflies
It is the greatest movie that I will never, ever, watch again.
I'm usually not a particularly emotional guy but damn that movie messed me up for a while.
It was originally screened with My Neighbor Totoro…..
Btw I agree. It’s an absolutely devastatingly beautiful movie.
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Event Horizon
Yea there's something to this movie, even though it's kinda b-grade sci-fi horror. The idea and its presentation has something can get under your skin ... including "that scene" (if you know you know).
I watched it as fairly young kid, at home alone, with most lights off (never being really bothered by horror), and no horror movie has troubled me more than that as I fell asleep thinking about if "that place" actually exists.
The movie has an interesting story about how so much was cut or couldn't even be filmed and the editing ended up all over the place, the movie ist barely coherent at times. But the feeling I got just thinking about that place was captivating nonetheless, great movie. Captures the vastness and loneliness of space well imo
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This may be a basic film-bro™ answer, but Oldboy is a good baseline for "kinda fucked up" but also "really really good". It's even better on the second viewing. I even recommend watching Spike Lee's misguided remake, because it makes you seriously appreciate the artistry behind what Park Chan-Wook was doing.
"Requiem for a Dream." It's a great movie to watch once. I loved it, never have any interest in watching it again, and saw the book and thought, "Oh I liked that movie I'll grab the book." I started reading, and the first scene (as in the movie) is the junkie is at his mom's place trying to steal her TV to sell to buy drugs, and she's begging him not to because she wants him to get help, and he finds she's chained the TV up so he can't steal it as he's done before, and he gets really mad at her because she's chained the TV up so he can't steal it.
I thought, "Oh, right," and put the book down immediately. I have no interest in picking it up and reading the rest of it.
I can relate. Will never watch that great movie again.
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Kids
Very good, but very fucked up. Hit close to home in the lifestyle I lived as a teenager, just luck that things didn't end up like they did in the movie.
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Natural Born Killers. Though it really depends on threshold. Pulp Fiction is a better film imo, and some people would consider it "fucked up". But I don't really.
Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies of all time, I can rewatch it at any moment
Overall it's not really fucked up, it's not THAT crazy of a story, there are just some fucked up parts.
I worked at a movie theater in high school in the 90’s, all the older employees were huge movie nerds. I asked them what the greatest movie of all time was. Got diff answers but pulp fiction and fight club were two common answers. Watched both of them and they still hold up for me to this day.
IMO Tarantino will never top Pulp Fiction. As good as his other movies are, they just don’t even come close to the magic of Pulp Fiction. And maybe that’s my nostalgia speaking but I’ll bet if I sat down I could make an objective argument if I tried. His other movies sort of drag in places but PF keeps the viewer locked in with seamless, brilliant editing. By the time it gets to the gold watch monologue you’re just riveted. The last time I watched it and it got to that scene I was like oh right, this is easily a top 5 movie for me still.
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Hardcore Henry.
It's an easy answer. It's a very pulpy, violent, action film shot entirely in a real time first person vantage. A guy gets experimented on, escapes from the mad scientist, then goes on a 90 min video game quest to save his kidnapped wife. It's all explosions and train fights. It's the kind of thing you worry that people will respect you less for having enjoyed, but it's honestly an outstanding use of cinema and very fun.
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Midsommar…fucked up but a nearly perfect horror flic
What do you mean, this is how us Swedes celebrate the summer solstice each year 🤔
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A russian War Film called "Come and See" Three hours of watching a young boy being mentally wrecked by the atrocities of War. Gruesom, fucked up but incredible Film
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A short stay in Switzerland. It's about an old lady who had a terminal illness and goes to Switzerland to end her life. It's incredibly depressing, there is a scene where she tries to suffocate herself with a plastic bag that I couldn't even watch
I don't watch a crazy amount of movies but I loved The Platform (2019). It's a horror movie and and a revolting, elegant metaphor for class inequality.
Another movie that essentially tells the same story in a different setting is Snowpiercer. Both movies are great imo.
Basket Case (1982)
This movie is about twin brothers who try to find success in new york but one of the brothers is a murderous blob of flesh who lives in a basket.
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Enter the Void. That movie stayed with me for months.
Anything by Gasper Noe fits this thread. I've seen enough of his work to never watch that fucker again.
Grave of the Fireflies if you want to be depressed.
Nightcrawler if you want to be creeped out.
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Fight Club
Sorry, but that movie is fucked up. Awesome, but fucked up.
Honestly, the most fucked up part of the movie is all the young men watching who think Tyler is a hero and a role model.
Great movie. A little fucked up. Wanting to be Tyler Durden is more fucked up than the movie.
It's up there with Starship Troopers for "movies you didn't realize were meant to be negative commentary when you were a teenager".
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The ending to The Mist will follow me to my grave. Absolutely fucked up
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Off the top of my head:
- Nocturnal Animals
- Mother!
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
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The Mist. It started off ok, but the ending was just brutal, and I'm here for it.
Jacob's Ladder
What a ride.
Deadgirl
Also I forgot the title... Vagina Dentata? Not good, more like silly.
Teeth sounds like the vagina dentata one - totally agree it’s not good but very silly!
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I see all your movies and I give you Oranus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQeTojVZlI
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Speak No Evil (2022)
For the best fucked up movie as in THE MOST fucked up, for me it's Gummo.
The Skin I Live in 2011 (Antonio Banderas)
The brief synopsis below gives nothing away about how this film is so messed up.
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Sorry to Bother You 2018
I defy anyone to guess where that movie is heading.
I have never watched the full movie, but I think Eraserhead needs a mention.
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