Sickest horror movies ever made

[TALL DUDE]

Originally Posted by Mansonsblood

I watched Nekromantik 1 and 2 on video many years ago and whilst distasteful didn't find them that horrific. Although obviously we're all different and one man's meat is another man's poison (metaphorically speaking).
Likewise the scenes of animal cruelty mostly found in cannibal films are an uncomfortable watch but I can sit through them without having nightmares.

I did used to have an uncut tape of Men behind the sun though and found that horrific in the extreme, partucularly the real childs autopsy. It was one of those tapes I bought because of its challenging reputation and once I'd watched it couldn't wait to get rid of it.

I suppose one of the most challenging films in my collection these days is Irreversible. I think everyone who has been round to my gaff to watch it has been left in a state of 'shell shock'. Some people have even asked me to switch it off!

While irreversible is without doubt shocking stuff,the camerawork always gives me a bloody headache.

[Mansonsblood]

Agreed TD! I think it was shot that way on purpose the noise and spinning camera in the nightclub make some people feel sick!

[TALL DUDE]

Hey, i was lucky that i watched it without being pissed up.I'd have been running to the toilet in its first 15 minutes.

[Daemonia]

Sickest horror movies...hmmmm...my list would run something like this:

Nekromantik 1 & 2
Cannibal Holocaust
Man Behind the Sun
Naked Blood
Salo
Cannibal Ferox
Red Room
Aftermath

There's others, but can't think of them right now. There's also the distasteful Mondo genre, but they're not really films in the traditional sense, more like faux documentaries.

[Halloween_22]

Men Behind the Sun is definatley up there for me aswell. As is Iskanov's Philosophy of a knife which is based on the same events carried out in Unit 731, both very disturbing films, the latter is probably even more sickening than MBTS when it comes to the experiment scenes (although it's a bit of an endurance test at over 4 hours ).

[vipco]

I dont really see the Cannibal genre as 'sickening', although I understand why some people would .
I find films with a snuff theme sicking, as it shows how some humans get enjoyment outta the pain and suffering of fellow human beings, plus the people who'll happy provide it for them for no other reason but personal gain.
I know its not a sickening film, but 8mm takes me into a world I dont wanna be in but takes me safely out again , a bit to quickly to be harrowing imo.
Had the director keep the viewer in the wold of smut peddlers and extreme porn for the whole film I think it would have been one of the most horrowing films ever made. As we know that world we're being brought into is part of our world .
The snuff footage in that film, although not extremely violent, is really disturbing. The lost look in the girls eyes then the tear really got to me.

[Angel]

Originally Posted by Peter Neal

Is Uwe Boll's controversial "Seed" getting a UK release and if so, in what shape? I'm asking this not so much in connection with the 7 mins of cuts to violence, which had to be made to the German release, but considering the footage of live animal cruelty supplied to Boll by PETA. Those scenes survived the German censors, but I have no clue how the BBFC would respond to such material getting integrated into a horror movie.

Seed will be released here in November, Peter.

I see no reason why the BBFC should cut it. The animals act requires them to intervene when animals have been mistreated for the purpose of making a film. That's not the case here.

[TALL DUDE]

Originally Posted by vipco

I dont really see the Cannibal genre as 'sickening', although I understand why some people would .
I find films with a snuff theme sicking, as it shows how some humans get enjoyment outta the pain and suffering of fellow human beings, plus the people who'll happy provide it for them for no other reason but personal gain.
I know its not a sickening film, but 8mm takes me into a world I dont wanna be in but takes me safely out again , a bit to quickly to be harrowing imo.
Had the director keep the viewer in the wold of smut peddlers and extreme porn for the whole film I think it would have been one of the most horrowing films ever made. As we know that world we're being brought into is part of our world .
The snuff footage in that film, although not extremely violent, is really disturbing. The lost look in the girls eyes then the tear really got to me.

I have a rather embarrasing story to tell of my cinema experience of 8mm.
Like yourself i found this a very taut and well made flick,and when i went to see it on its theatrical run,with my then wife, i was totally engrossed in it.
The scene where cage has a gun to one of the snuff peddelers head,and the guy keeps ranting on about making a movie with cage's wife and kid,i blurted out,rather loudly,"just ****ing shoot him!" It was a friday night and the cinema was busy. My ex was horrified and told me to shut up in no uncertain terms. I can laugh about it now though.

[vipco]

It is a movie that sucks you in.
Thats pricless TD, I bet everyone was looking at you. LOL

Hal, a good book to start with is Killing For Culiure- From Mondo to Snuff. Excellent read if your interested in Snuff.

[TALL DUDE]

Originally Posted by vipco

It is a movie that sucks you in.
Thats pricless TD, I bet everyone was looking at you. LOL

Hal, a good book to start with is Killing For Culiure- From Mondo to Snuff. Excellent read if your interested in Snuff.

I had that book,bought in fopp in glasgow for a fiver. Great read,sure i sold it on though.

Yeah,you could hear murmurs of discontent,although i was expecting someone to shout "shut the **** up." Great film though,but the so called sequel is utter shite!