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I'm not one for horror movies. I think a lot of people would chalk that up to me being some kind of scaredy-cat, but I like to think it's empathy.
Anyways. I love anything about zombies, but I read a few pages from a comic the other day called "Crossed" by Garth Ennis (who I generally like) which is about a contagion that I guess makes people pure evil.
It was shocking. Not in the "Think of the children! Ban Left 4 Dead 2 from Australia!" way shocking, but like in the - "Oh god...I forget that people are even capable of such atrocities. That things can be so gut-wrenchingly horrid."
I'm sure people have seen things not nearly so bad in real life that had the same effect, but to think someone could conjure something in a comic that has the impact to make you sick...
What's the most disturbing fictional thing you've ever seen?
paul jones
03-22-2010, 03:52 PM
I'm not one for horror movies. I think a lot of people would chalk that up to me being some kind of scaredy-cat, but I like to think it's empathy.
Anyways. I love anything about zombies, but I read a few pages from a comic the other day called "Crossed" by Garth Ennis (who I generally like) which is about a contagion that I guess makes people pure evil.
It was shocking. Not in the "Think of the children! Ban Left 4 Dead 2 from Australia!" way shocking, but like in the - "Oh god...I forget that people are even capable of such atrocities. That things can be so gut-wrenchingly horrid."
I'm sure people have seen things not nearly so bad in real life that had the same effect, but to think someone could conjure something in a comic that has the impact to make you sick...
What's the most disturbing fictional thing you've ever seen?
I'll check that out ^ thanks!
most disturbing fictional thing for me would be Harry Potter because it's crap
Dorothy Wood
03-22-2010, 04:08 PM
the part in Cabin Fever where a couple is kinda making out and the guy starts fingering the girl, and pulls his hand out covered in blood, then discovers he'd been fingering an open festering wound. BLEH! I still get grossed out just thinking about it.
also, pretty much all of Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby
geez louise is that movie F'd up.
some quotes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175536/quotes
ToucanSpam
03-22-2010, 04:38 PM
Wolf Creek was pretty intense, but it only gets an honorable mention from me.
The scariest thing I've ever seen is Nos Feratu (German silent film). The music is creepy and Max Shrek plays a seriously creepy "Dracula."
MC Moot
03-22-2010, 05:09 PM
”Baise Moi”… (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249380/)
Ghouls_Night
03-22-2010, 05:16 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/
b i o n i c
03-22-2010, 05:21 PM
”Baise Moi”… (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249380/)
hot!
The World According To Clarkson
I didn't read it but the title disturbed me enough.
MC Moot
03-22-2010, 05:55 PM
hot!
no...not at all...neither was this… (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0367027/)(n)
checkyourprez
03-22-2010, 06:23 PM
the part in Cabin Fever where a couple is kinda making out and the guy starts fingering the girl, and pulls his hand out covered in blood, then discovers he'd been fingering an open festering wound. BLEH! I still get grossed out just thinking about it.
also, pretty much all of Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby
geez louise is that movie F'd up.
some quotes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175536/quotes
cabin fever is so hilarious.
and trust me ive pulled my finger out of some holes that were much worse!!:p
Crossed is awesome. And now David Lapham is writing volume 2 (y)
First thing to come to mind is High Tension.
The Notorious LOL
03-22-2010, 11:53 PM
Ichi The Killer
Audition
Eraserhead
gbsuey
03-23-2010, 03:45 AM
yup, Eraserhead, bits of that were scorched into my head at a young age!
Tetsuo, or something like that, kind of a self mutilation japanese thing....if someone else hadn't seen it that night too i don't think i'd have believed it was actually shown on t.v....that it was a properly f***ed up dream!
I hate the whole Saw-make horror as twisted and nasty as possible thing-i just think people are capable of being nasty enough without making shit like that mainstream. Not that a huge percentage of people would be inspired by them to go off and do messed up shit to other people, but some twats are gonna be getting ideas. And yeah i know there's been films that are nasty for years, but these are done in a more reality style.
Caribou
03-23-2010, 05:49 AM
Anyways. I love anything about zombies, but I read a few pages from a comic the other day called "Crossed" by Garth Ennis (who I generally like) which is about a contagion that I guess makes people pure evil.
Ooh, thanks for the tip. (y)
A friend gave me his Preacher comics to read, because he's been going on about them for years, and it really is amazing. Have you read them?
Loads of violence, a psychopathic priest, a drunken Irish vampire and some of the nastiest shit I've seen in comic books for a long while...
Oh, and it's also really funny.
Guy Incognito
03-23-2010, 07:33 AM
this probably isnt that disturbing to most of you but Man Bites Dog left an impression on me. i think it was it because it was supposed to be a comedy of sorts but it was just weird.
Ooh, thanks for the tip. (y)
A friend gave me his Preacher comics to read, because he's been going on about them for years, and it really is amazing. Have you read them?
Loads of violence, a psychopathic priest, a drunken Irish vampire and some of the nastiest shit I've seen in comic books for a long while...
Oh, and it's also really funny.
I loved Priest. I really did.
Let me just warn you, there's one or two panels in Crossed (which I just happened to stumble across) which are meant to just turn your stomach and make you empathize with the fear everyone has for "the crossed." I was reading interviews about the series and a couple interviewers mentioned the same scene that haunts you. Ugh.
MC Moot
03-23-2010, 02:18 PM
”Spoorloos”… (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/)
Audio.
03-23-2010, 02:30 PM
the adventures of pluto nash
Laserface
03-23-2010, 02:54 PM
pink flamingos
ScarySquirrel
03-23-2010, 06:30 PM
I really seem to have a strong tolerance for things. But, I'm one of those weirdos who is more disturbed by cruelty to animals than people... at least on some level.
In The Butterfly Effect I remember being really horrified by the scene where the kid had the dog in a bag, was beating it or something, and was going to light in on fire. That bugged me. A lot.
Ty Webb
03-23-2010, 09:54 PM
I found Cabin Fever funny. Old Boy was pretty fucked up I guess. I Spit on Your Grave was probably the most fucked up movie I've still seen. Horrible. As far as literature, I read Palahniuk's "Haunted" and it just made me feel creeped out and weird for a few days after reading it. Also the Bible.
MC Moot
03-24-2010, 02:26 PM
Rape scenes in:
Straw Dogs
The Accused
Casualties of War
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Gummo was pretty fucked. The one and most certainly only time I watched that shit, I remember being very sad and depressed afterwards.
Caribou
03-24-2010, 08:55 PM
Do short stories count? If so:
Chuck Palahniuk - Guts (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
Do short stories count? If so:
Chuck Palahniuk - Guts (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
OH NO. Tell me that's not the one I read once with the pool...I'm not clicking that link again just incase.
If it is. :eek:
Caribou
03-24-2010, 11:17 PM
Yeah, it's the one with the pool. :D
:eek: was also my first reaction. And a loss of appetite, which rarely happens in my case.
silence7
03-25-2010, 05:28 AM
Cannibal Holocaust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-86OlXf723E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust
This is a pretty depraved movie, which was actually confiscated in Italy because there were rumors that it was actually a snuff film and actors had actually died during filming. Not true BTW.
Ken Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyVhD2lQEg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_park
Gummo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Hg8bIFu-A
Audition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhsrsWcEspc
El Topo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtGUx4kXIEY
The Holy Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rLZmik6wAk
Caligula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW3E8vs-MUI
Salo (I bought the Criterion collection version, but I haven't brought myself to watch it yet, I need a comfortable afternoon, and a 12 pack I think)
Mean Creek ( Not super disturbing, but creepy in the sense that it could really be true )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbyAyhLnY4
abcdefz
03-25-2010, 01:19 PM
He's known for other stuff, but for me, one of the most disturbing things I've ever read was a passage in Bret Easton elis' less than zero. So
e folks watching a snuff movie. I'd never heard of such a thing and nearly puked.
Ty Webb
03-26-2010, 12:38 AM
Do short stories count? If so:
Chuck Palahniuk - Guts (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
ooohh that was a good one. people were actually fainting during readings of it, but it could have been staged i guess.
ToucanSpam
03-26-2010, 01:44 AM
Do short stories count? If so:
Chuck Palahniuk - Guts (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
This is fucking disgusting. How can anyone derive entertainment from this? This is the worst thing I've ever read.
silence7
03-26-2010, 05:41 AM
This is the worst thing I've ever read.
Bah... It wasn't even half as bad as "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs (http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267108/)" That shit was sick.... :p
Caribou
03-26-2010, 11:57 AM
This is fucking disgusting. How can anyone derive entertainment from this? This is the worst thing I've ever read.
Don't be a wimp paddy.
Are you the type that cries at horrorfilms? ;)
Helvete
03-26-2010, 12:15 PM
I can't remember the last thing I saw that disturbed me, fiction or otherwise. I'm sure there has been something, but nothing mentioned in this thread really bothered me.
hpdrifter
03-29-2010, 11:49 AM
He's known for other stuff, but for me, one of the most disturbing things I've ever read was a passage in Bret Easton elis' less than zero. Some folks watching a snuff movie. I'd never heard of such a thing and nearly puked.
Yeah, Less than Zero was the first and last Bret Easton Ellis I read. The movie is not even remotely related. I can't imagine any film touching the depth of malaise/despair/torpor of these people. They feel nothing, they literally are nothing. It's like their souls never formed.
It gave me the willies.
Edit: Also, the most disturbing thing I've ever read was a passage in The Road. I couldn't fathom such a thing, I said it at the time and I'll say it again. It wasn't even horrifying, it numbed me like a blow to the head. You know that feeling when you bang your head or fall down and smack it unexpectedly? You don't feel pain so much until later, mostly you just feel the pressure of the shock wave and then... nothing.
ToucanSpam
03-29-2010, 12:33 PM
Don't be a wimp paddy.
Are you the type that cries at horrorfilms? ;)
Come on, that was pretty fucking sick. Don't try to make me out to be some sort of weak-willed person, that story had a human being's entrails ripped out and described in vivid detail. That's gross, plain and simple.
I don't cry at horror films at all. I like a good scare but I hardly think because I find gory fiction written for shock value to be too much.
Seriously, disemboweling is gross.
Dusty Brain
03-29-2010, 12:36 PM
the fire extinguisher head smash in irreversible was worthy of a rewind.
hpdrifter
03-29-2010, 01:21 PM
disgusting
Dusty Brain
03-29-2010, 01:53 PM
if you need a reminder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIITT0WU9Gg
abcdefz
03-29-2010, 02:53 PM
Edit: Also, the most disturbing thing I've ever read was a passage in The Road. I couldn't fathom such a thing, I said it at the time and I'll say it again. It wasn't even horrifying, it numbed me like a blow to the head. You know that feeling when you bang your head or fall down and smack it unexpectedly? You don't feel pain so much until later, mostly you just feel the pressure of the shock wave and then... nothing.
McCarthy's Blood Meridian is like one long nightmare. Outside of certain passages of the Bible, I've never read anything quite like it.
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