i'm starting a list!

[rmd]

i'm starting a list, in my head, of movies i never want to see.

on a website i read occasionally, i stumbled on a "hey, it's near halloween" discussion thread asking "what's the sickest/most disturbing films you've ever seen?"

skimming the resulting titles on the imdb, wikipedia, and product reviews on amazon to get an overview of them, i can confirm that, in fact, i don't want to see any of them. and i'm okay with that.

an incomplete portion of the list, in no particular order: antichrist, philosophy of a knife, men behind the sun (those two make a 'unit 731' double feature), a serbian film, salò, flower of flesh and blood, irréversible, audition.

Comments

[charleshaynes.livejournal.com]

I liked Antichrist and Salo. I don't know if that says more about the moveies, your taste, or me.

... me I suspect.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

All of the above. :)

I find both films intriguing, but I don't want the actual immersive experience of watching either of them.

[fich.livejournal.com]

The Grand. Not a halloween or horror movie, but worth skipping at all cost.

[totient]

I imagine if it's halloween then this idea came out of gore or horror. I'm not all that into horror but recognize that some people are and for some reason that stops me thinking of horror movies as "sick" or "disturbing".

However. There are two movies I really enjoyed but which I won't recommend. One is Clockwork Orange, and I've met lots of other people who held the same opinion. The other is L.I.E., which was disturbing enough to get rated NC-17 for it (there's hardly any violence and not even that much sex considering the topic of the film).

[charleshaynes.livejournal.com]

If you didn't like L.I.E. (I did) I un-recommend "Happiness" (which I also liked, no liked is too weak - I loved.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

The 1998 happiness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)?

[charleshaynes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed "Clockwork Orange", actually, although I haven't seen it for years.

[milktree.livejournal.com]

I saw Audition by accident, I didn't realize it was a fucked up Japanese horror film until I was about 1/2 through it and even then I didn't realize how fucked up it is until about 3/4 through.

Wow... Japanese...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Takashi Miike (the director of "Audition") has done a bunch of fucked up horror movies. He also did "Happiness of the Katakuris" (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku), which is merely comedy horror. Complete with a musical number with zombies.

[dlevy.livejournal.com]

It's not a horror film per se, but Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is one of the only movies I can remember ever shutting off because I just found it unbearably disturbing. (And it has sequels! Multiple!)