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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 16:56:56 GMT
Anyone have any films they saw and immediately thought; 'That was a miserable experience.' Not anything like 'The Human Centipede' or 'Saw,' or any of that garbage. I'm talking about really Rough and Dirty pieces of Cinema. Anything from making you feel dirty, distressed, or leaving you with an empty feeling. It can also classify as a Film that was REALLY hard to get through. Here are some of my picks...   
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Post by Sharbs on May 24, 2017 17:05:53 GMT
Come and See
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Post by Kings_Requiem on May 24, 2017 17:15:38 GMT
Kids
The Holy Mountain
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
American Honey
El Topo
Biutiful
The Tribe
Nymphomaniac
My Own Private Idaho
Margaret
Kes
Hunger
The Devils
Blindness
Antichrist
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 17:44:43 GMT
Sleepers (1996)  |
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Post by ganzehrlich on May 24, 2017 22:39:47 GMT
Most recently, The Piano Teacher and Enter the Void. Great films, tho.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 23:05:45 GMT
The Devils.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 23:14:08 GMT
I think this is my favorite genre.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Midnight Cowboy
Elephant
Inland Empire
Come and See
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Eraserhead
Angst
The Devils
Funny Games
Man Bites Dog
Snowtown
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Kids
The Panic in Needle Park (I just saw this today)
I Stand Alone
Shame (2011)
The Eyes of My Mother
Nightcrawler
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Zero Day
Tetsuo, the Iron Man
Visitor Q
A Short Film About Killing
Benny's Video
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 23:17:09 GMT
Interesting. I've never found any of Jodorowsky's films to be particularly distressing or hard to get through. Thoughts on them? |
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Post by jakesully on May 24, 2017 23:21:22 GMT
Requiem for a Dream immediately comes to mind.
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Post by taranofprydain on May 24, 2017 23:26:22 GMT
The rape/murder scene in Frenzy (1972) was unbearably wrenching.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 24, 2017 23:33:54 GMT
Irreversible  |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 24, 2017 23:51:42 GMT
Schindler's List is an especially hard film for me to rewatch.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on May 25, 2017 0:50:24 GMT
Interesting. I've never found any of Jodorowsky's films to be particularly distressing or hard to get through. Thoughts on them? I've only seen each film once, so it's possible that I was missing some kind of underlying message in them, but I was turned off from basically the word go... The excessive violence, (which normally isn't something that bothers me, but here it did) the aimless story, (which I'm assuming now is Jodorowsky's thing) and the mistreatment of women are all things that just weren't jiving with me and made both films hard to sit through. Also the fact that there wasn't really much for me as an audience member to latch onto...whether that was another character or some sort of connection to the material - those things just weren't there for me, so I found it difficult to care much at all about anything that was going on. I can appreciate Jodorowsky doing something that seemed 100% completely his own vision and exactly what he wanted to put on screen...I can't fault someone for putting their art out there for the world to see whether I end up liking it or not. |
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Post by cheesecake on May 25, 2017 3:07:17 GMT
That was so bleak I actually felt exhausted when it was over. |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 25, 2017 7:53:15 GMT
I'll probably add more, but god damn if Martyrs doesn't take you through the wringer. Also, the last two minutes of The Mist are a real kick in the balls.
Edited after giving it some thought.
The Deer Hunter
Nil by Mouth
Grave of the Fireflies
The Devils
Dancer in the Dark
Amour
I also have to mention Moneyball as it was an ordeal to sit through the tedium.
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Post by Deceit on May 28, 2017 1:32:39 GMT
-Come and See
-Irreversible
-Grave of the Fireflies
-Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
-Martyrs (2008)
-Kids
-Funny Games (1997)
-The Animatrix (Second Renaissance part 1&2)
-Angst
-A Short Film about Killing
-Elephant
-Man Bites Dog
All of these films I felt disturbed by.
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Post by clunkybob on May 28, 2017 22:46:22 GMT
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Post by notacrook on May 28, 2017 23:04:20 GMT
There's quite a few, but the ones that immediately spring to mind are:
Dogville
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Requiem for a Dream
Funny Games (US)
There are still a lot of supposedly 'traumatic' films to see, some of which are quite high on my watchlist.
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Post by wendy on May 29, 2017 18:04:05 GMT
Threads (1984) haunted me for weeks. I've seen a lot of bleak movies but that one is unrelentingly dreary.
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Post by Sharbs on May 30, 2017 14:21:13 GMT
Watched Take Shelter last night and I was squirming and antzy the entire time
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 17:34:22 GMT
Most films that my film critic college professor put me through in class. I had to watch both of Shane Carruth's movies and wanted to gouge my fucking eyes out. Not only were they pretentious and boring as fuck but also bleak and dreary and made me resent the guy (or guys since I now hate both Carruth AND my professor). The kicker had to be when he made us watch a homemade First Blood remake that some guy made in his bedroom all by himself. I'll give the guy props for commitment but my professor's sincere love for that movie and constant trashing of literally every fucking piece of mainstream media is what cemented my hatred for him.
Maybe my descriptions don't fit what you were asking for but I was always pretty miserable after watching those movies.
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Post by cinemagirl16 on May 31, 2017 16:29:40 GMT
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