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• • PulpFiction87

    Aug 16th 2010, 10:16

    Can't believe Ichi The Killer wasn't on the list

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  • PulpFiction87

    Aug 16th 2010, 10:18

    Or Switchblade Romance and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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  • DonisFun

    Aug 16th 2010, 11:49

    Predators because I could believe how disturbed I was, as it was that bad. God I hate Adrien Brody........... you sick b*****d!!

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  • tommylennie

    Aug 16th 2010, 12:18

    Can't believe Society isn't on the list. I'd make that my number 1.

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  • stefan1979

    Aug 16th 2010, 12:47

    'I Stand Alone' should be there, and Martys and irreversible way higher on the list, like 1st and 2nd.

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  • Bex1310

    Aug 16th 2010, 12:54

    Well I'm officially disturbed! Job well done I suppose...

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  • TweetTiger

    Aug 16th 2010, 19:04

    Not a lot of horror or blood and guts, but Apt Pupil and Picnic at Hanging Rock are both plenty disturbing as well.

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  • jkoopa

    Aug 16th 2010, 19:45

    Very happy (ha) that Happiness is in the top ten, its as disturbing as it is compelling. Don't know if anyone at TotalFilm has seen a 1994 german animated film called Felidae? That wold be in the top ten for sure, amazing film

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  • Hadouken76

    Aug 17th 2010, 1:05

    Does Meet the feebles count as disturbing even though its all puppets? Oh and Elf picking gum off new york subways and Van Wilders doggie buns...not well.

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  • reefradioray

    Aug 17th 2010, 8:00

    Deadgirl(2008)

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  • paskuniag

    Aug 17th 2010, 19:19

    "I Spit On Your Grave" should be shown to every man or woman who is in prison on a rape or rape/murder conviction. Watch the sexual assault numbers go down!

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  • Serrano

    Aug 18th 2010, 0:53

    'A Serbian Film' should definitely be on this list.

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  • bonjourmiette

    Aug 18th 2010, 2:00

    Really, you guys thought that was the most disturbing scene in Man Bites Dog? Did you not make it through the rest of the film?

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  • lipstick

    Aug 18th 2010, 2:06

    Most disturbing of all: someone presumably paid to write doesn't know the difference between "it's" and "its" :) Good list, though.

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  • DilvishW

    Aug 18th 2010, 4:29

    How can Singapore Sling not be on this list? It's got incestual necrophilia, a girl giving her hermaphrodite mother a b*****b, a knife d***o, lots and lots of very realistic vomit, and one of the sickest dinner scenes ever filmed involving force feeding and regurgitation. And why is the Exorcist at the top of this list? I mean it's a good film, but the third one's better and none of them are really that disturbing. Glad to see Glass Cage, Salo, and Visitor Q on there though.

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  • debkakes

    Aug 18th 2010, 18:41

    Good list! But you missed my favorite totally discomfiting movie: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer -- of which Man Bites Dog was sort of a parody. Truly disturbing.

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  • youngnedyoung

    Aug 19th 2010, 0:36

    Just to repeat and add to what's already been said... Where's Ichi, Serbian Film, Society, Braindead, Hole in my Heart, Hard Candy, Reqiem for a Dream, I Stand Alone, Peeping Tom and Teeth? Oh, and anything with Danny Dyer...

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  • nomdejour

    Aug 20th 2010, 5:56

    PulpFiction87 has it right--Ichi the killer is as disturbing a movie as I've ever seen. It's a good list, but The Exorcist isn't as terrifying as anything else on this list, thanks to that papier-mache devil. Also missing; Cronenberg's remake of the Fly. More disturbing than Videodrome or The Brood because it's frighteningly disturbing. And Repulsion by Polanski. Jesus.

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  • nomdejour

    Aug 20th 2010, 5:58

    Also, good call by debkakes on Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. There's a story that when the film debuted in Chicago, a woman walked out because she was terrified, and she ran into the actor who plays Henry on the street. She let out a bloodcurdling scream and almost passed out. Irreversible was rubbish, btw.

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  • nomdejour

    Aug 20th 2010, 6:04

    Sorry, on The Fly I meant frighteningly realistic. Casting a real-life couple made a huge difference.

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  • NDitum

    Aug 20th 2010, 12:38

    Hello! I'm the man responsible for the list. Nobody's come up with a movie yet that I didn't consider when putting the list together, but I had to make some hard choices. Ichi The Killer seems to be the sorest omission - surely it's a comedy? Visitor Q freaked me out *waaaay* more.

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  • Punchbowl

    Aug 20th 2010, 17:56

    August Underground? That one's a f****r

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  • BooBoo1981

    Aug 20th 2010, 18:54

    Martyrs was F#@ked. Eeeewwwwwwy.

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  • solidgameboy12

    Aug 20th 2010, 19:20

    To those who bring up "A Serbian Film", I argue that it's most difficult scenes to watch are the last 15 minutes, but it did NOT deserve to be on this list. This was an interesting list, a lot of these movies I have on my Netflix Queue, if I didn't add most of them. I just hope as far as disturbing movies go, there is some kind of respectable reason besides "It's a difficult scene to watch" has something here.

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  • h4x0r3d

    Aug 22nd 2010, 10:02

    this list definitely had some messed up movies in it.. but it missed one that I bet you have never seen and never want to see: Holy Mountain ... look it up if you dare...

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  • Nickey09

    Aug 23rd 2010, 6:53

    This list a great list! Very fun to talk about and debate. Some of my personal favs are just about anything by Cronenberg, Lynch, or Waters. C'mon, let's not forget the fart guy from "Pink Flamingo". I totally agree with "Ichi", "Texas Chainsaw", and definitely "Meet the Feebles"!!! One of my recommendations is 2002's "May". I must admit, I also enjoyed the disgustingness of the recent 2005's "House of Wax". But if you want to watch something REALLY awful, rent "Teeth". ...Ugh.

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  • flk1940

    Sep 14th 2010, 2:09

    the untold story its NEVER on these lists should be everytime the have a camera that is under a table when anthony wong cuts a little boys head off right after he has killed the whole family chopstick rape scene should get this here just for that ... disapointed

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  • taxidermizt

    Oct 8th 2010, 1:00

    Interesting list NDitum. Im impressed Aftermath is on here, Balamguero is a promising director. I would include the french film Inside a.k.a. "À l'intérieur"; and japanese 'the suicide club' . Cheers Mate

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  • DanielMcA

    Oct 8th 2010, 20:39

    Yes yes yes. All very good, but where is Pollux et le chat bleu?

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  • FATALITY

    Nov 1st 2010, 4:29

    I'm not agree with the 1st place... Antichrist deserve something better than a last place. A l'interieur is really a distubing movie... but is not very good...

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  • Malina

    Nov 5th 2010, 11:41

    The War Zone Daniel & Ana Old Boy Twentynine Palms

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  • squadiee

    Jan 11th 2011, 2:43

    No Ichi the Killer? That had some really hard to watch moments...

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  • glegs

    Jan 21st 2011, 15:58

    Two major faults with this list; The Exorcist is a great movie, but I think every other movie there is more disturbing than it, except for Human Centipede which I just can't take seriously. Also Antichrist should be in like the top ten, it freaking messes with your head. And the only reason that August Undergrounds Mordum isn't number one must be that you haven't seen it, or simply don't consider it a film, more of a f****d up strange video.

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  • discobloodfeast

    Oct 20th 2011, 17:31

    Wh in the world is A Serbian Film not on this list??

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  • FBNBoisjolie

    Jan 28th 2012, 1:48

    The Exorcist is number one? Not all that disturbing.

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  • FBNBoisjolie

    Jan 28th 2012, 1:48

    The Exorcist is number one? Not all that disturbing.

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  • FBCDespair

    Feb 2nd 2012, 0:33

    Why theres no vomit gore triology listed? :(

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  • FBMJarvie

    Feb 2nd 2012, 3:22

    Sorry, Requiem for a Dream takes the cake. It just escalates into complete and total despair so vividly, carrying any viewer strong enough to make it to the end into complete and total madness along with it.

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  • FBERenton

    Feb 20th 2012, 4:02

    A SERBIAN FILM!!!!!!!!!!

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  • FBODuffy

    May 8th 2012, 19:39

    Where's Human Centipede 2?

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  • FBSGeorge60

    May 11th 2012, 14:44

    Murder Set Pieces.

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  • MakeupDiva

    May 12th 2012, 3:37

    I've only seen The Exoricist. But what I really would like to see is Martyrs, I spit on your grave and Audition, they seem really disturbing but I wouldn't mind seeing them.

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  • FBCBowie

    Jun 3rd 2012, 21:34

    Great list. Got myself some watching to do. In regards to most of the comments, the one I'd agree with most is Requiem For A Dream. Just from a totally psychological view. It leaves to drained by the end of it. I'd also say August Underground Mordum should have been added in to. That's the only film I've ever felt like I need to take a shower after watching. Salo comes very close to that too.

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  • Fozzy

    Jul 15th 2012, 15:35

    Not bad. I agree Ichi should have a place, but I thought the Human Centipede was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost died laughing when he put his medical diagrams that were essentially stick-men up on the wall. A lot of these are also getting on a bit now and they definitely lose some of their power as they age, mostly because they've been imitated.

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  • Fozzy

    Jul 15th 2012, 15:36

    Not bad. I agree Ichi should have a place, but I thought the Human Centipede was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost died laughing when he put his medical diagrams that were essentially stick-men up on the wall. A lot of these are also getting on a bit now and they definitely lose some of their power as they age, mostly because they've been imitated.

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  • jennifercobb

    Jul 17th 2012, 23:33

    Are you kidding me with number 12? That movies has a real scene where a poor cat is eaten alive by starving rats and you say that the clearly fake scene with the skin boiled off is the sickest?

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  • princepurple

    Jul 28th 2012, 14:20

    I've seen most of the movies on this list, and I really can't see how any of these are anyway more disturbing than the "Serbian Film". Come on, what can be more disturbing than watching a grown up man pulling out a baby from a woman's womb and raping it??!!

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  • jenniferrose

    Aug 2nd 2012, 19:07

    Seriously? "A Serbian film" isn't on the list? If the content of that film isn't disturbing I don't know what is, @princepurple I agree, that scene almost brought me to tears with how incomprehensibly disturbing and sick it was.

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  • adamreid

    Aug 6th 2012, 15:33

    Kill list is worth a watch. No 'Legend of the Overwomb'?? Me and my girlfriend were caught on watching that by her dad when I was younger!!! The video remote wouldn't work when I attempted to turn it off. AWKWARD!!

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  • JJJones

    Aug 12th 2012, 3:00

    And the 26th most disturbing movie ever is... Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

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  • joegondek

    Aug 25th 2012, 20:00

    worst one ive seen was a serbian film

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  • m1sfit38

    Sep 10th 2012, 2:13

    I don't know if I just do not understand Audition or what.... but I feel like it is not disturbing enough to be on nearly every list of top disturbing movies that I see... Then again neither is the Human Centipede I must say that it is just absolutely ridiculous... the most disturbing part of it is the doctor's creepy a*s

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  • BrooklynStandUp

    Sep 10th 2012, 4:26

    All of the August Undergrounds are disturbing. Very disturbing in my opinion. Below is my list: dogtooth begotten eraserhead melancholie der engel a serbian film VERY DISTURBING-COULDNT WATCH IT ALL angst tony eden lake savage kidnapped martyrs irreversible snowtown August Underground August Underground's Mordum August Underground's Penance Nekromantik Aftermath Cannibal Holocaust Antichrist Blue Velvet Man Bites Dog A Clockwork Orange The Human Centipede Flowers Of Flesh And Blood The Last House On The Left (1972) Irréversible Men Behind The Sun I Spit On Your Grave (1978) Happiness (1998) Funny Games (1997) and (2007) Visitor Q Salò, or 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) In A Glass Cage Audition Singapore Sling Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer Requiem for a Dream

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  • BrooklynStandUp

    Sep 10th 2012, 4:27

    dogtooth- begotten- eraserhead- melancholie der engel- a serbian film VERY DISTURBING-COULDNT WATCH IT ALL--- angst- tony- eden lake- savage- kidnapped- martyrs- irreversible-- snowtown- August Underground- August Underground's Mordum - August Underground's Penance- Nekromantik- Aftermath - Cannibal Holocaust - Antichrist- Blue Velvet- Man Bites Dog - A Clockwork Orange- The Human Centipede- Flowers Of Flesh And Blood - The Last House On The Left (1972)- Irréversible - Men Behind The Sun- I Spit On Your Grave (1978)- Happiness (1998)- Funny Games (1997) and (2007)- Visitor Q - Salò, or 120 Days Of Sodom (1975)- In A Glass Cage -- Audition-- Singapore Sling-- Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer-- Requiem for a Dream

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  • BrooklynStandUp

    Sep 10th 2012, 4:33

    Kazaam

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  • erictroxell

    Sep 14th 2012, 23:59

    No ICHI THE KILLER?!? All Takashi Miike films are disturbing but I found ICHI THE KILLER to be much more disturbing than AUDITION. I'm also really surprised HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER didn't make the list either. I think that ALL of Gaspar Noe's films should be included (I STAND ALONE, IRREVERSIBLE and ENTER THE VOID) and that IRREVERSIBLE should be MUCH higher on the list. I was glad to see ANTICHRIST on the list but think it should have a higher slot than #25. No REQUIEM FOR A DREAM on the list?! I'm sure many of the movies that're listed are more disturbing but few could possibly match its quality. While I can enjoy disturbing films, I have no respect for films that're disturbing but lack substance and quality ...and some of the movies on this list lack substance. They're just sick (examples include any of those"Guinea Pig" movies from Japan that are just torture movies & that pointless film, Salo). On the flip side, I tip my cap for the David Lynch entries. He's a true master of psychological horror and one of the world's best directors. It would have been nice to see LOST HIGHWAY make the list too. I'd like to recommend people check out the DIRECTOR'S CUT of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (director's cut has totally different, disturbing ending). Andre Isknanov's psychedelic movie, VISIONS OF SUFFERING is worh a view too. Overall, this is a pretty respectable list and I thank you for putting it together. There are a few movies on here that I missed and now plan to see. Also, thanks to the people who bothered to comment for making other great suggestions that aren't on the list.

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  • jamesbeckman

    Sep 19th 2012, 1:15

    I may have not seen most these movies...butThe Girl Next Door was really disturbing ...based loosely on a true story..the torture the girl went through was really cruel that really gappened in the 50's ...really disturbing movie if u never watched it ... maybe not #1 because of the really f****d up foreign and banned movies on list.....but in the middle of the list....just my opinion

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  • caspertheghost4

    Oct 2nd 2012, 23:04

    For you to say the last 15 minutes of A Serbian Film are the "hardest to watch", you've clearly only read the wikipedia entry. You have no business making a list like this. Also huge LOL to putting Exorcist at #1. You are forever banned from internet list making.

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  • SugarBaby101

    Oct 5th 2012, 3:56

    a clockwork orange is my all time favorite movie

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  • Phaedra

    Oct 22nd 2012, 3:08

    I did not see "Header" mentioned... I've seen most all of the movies mentioned, except this little gem; check it out, it's streaming on Netflix and VERY disturbing!

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  • AishaNicole

    Oct 31st 2012, 16:02

    A Serbian Film isn't number 1? REALLY......because what the hell is more disturbing than a baby coming out of a womb & then immediately raped, or a guy being mind controlled into raping his drugged up 5 year old son???? AMONG OTHER TWISTED SCENES! Thanks for the list but I'm getting better movies from the people in the comments.

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  • boatmeal

    Nov 8th 2012, 23:16

    jack ketchum's the girl next door (no not the emile hirch, elisha cuthbert one). how the hell did this one not make the list.

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  • joegotham

    Nov 13th 2012, 18:52

    I Stand Alone - Seul Contre Tous- is a very disturbing film, probably more than Irreversible.

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  • andrewwerling

    Nov 25th 2012, 2:07

    Salo was most definitely NOT pointless.

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  • jason333

    Nov 30th 2012, 23:56

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    Nov 30th 2012, 23:57

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    Nov 30th 2012, 23:57

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  • jason333

    Dec 1st 2012, 0:00

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  • iwasateenagewwf

    Dec 10th 2012, 19:48

    I'd place "Serbian film", "The Untold Story" and "Pin" at the top of this list. However, I don't find Takashi Miike's movies to be disturbing at all. They're great of course, but "Ichi the Killer" and "Visitor Q" simply left me indifferent when it comes to brutality.

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  • meandmewsic

    Dec 12th 2012, 14:20

    what about "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"........???

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  • mrunaldahiwale

    Dec 15th 2012, 20:09

    salo shouldn't be on the list,nothing's disturbing abt this movie. no brutality,no insanity at all,total gay.

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  • mrunaldahiwale

    Dec 15th 2012, 20:12

    cannibal holocaust..pretty nice movie..i wish it had been happened in an hi-tech world with good quality cams,loved it neways.

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  • caposton

    Apr 16th 2013, 20:19

    Loved the list. Kept thinking of a film and there it was. One film I think deserved to be on the list was "Father's Day". It had plenty of father rape, cannibalism, and tons of gore.

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  • carterpeterson

    May 15th 2013, 5:09

    Charming list.

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  • penguinshark

    Jun 4th 2013, 17:09

    This list is pretty lame. The exorcist as number one? It wasn't that disturbing. What about the movie Society?

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