Show me the gore!

There are some movies that make you cry. Some that lift your spirits and re-confirm your faith in humanity. But their are some movies that leave you unsettled, disgusted and completely shell shocked. Here is a list of the 10 most disturbing movies that ever hit the movie stands (If not the theater at least!)




Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Based on a 1978 novel of the same name, this complex, psychological drama depicts different form of addiction leading to the characters' imprisonment in a dream world of delusion and reckless desperation, which is then overtaken and devastated by reality. The story revolves around four characters. Mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) is going to appear on TV game show. She wants to fit into a beautiful red dress which gets her addicted to diet pills. Meanwhile, the son (Jared Leto) his girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend are fighting their addiction of drugs, very unsuccessfully. All of characters spiral out of control and fall into a pit of darkness and misery with no scope of recovering. If you are looking for a movie to cheer you up, then this isn’t definitely the one.





Casualties of war (1989)

Based on a true story, this Brian De Palma film stares Michael J. Fox as a soldier in Vietnam in a squad led by Sean Penn. While on patrol, in the wake of an ambush that has left friends dead, they kidnap and rape a Vietnamese woman--then murder her. But Fox, one of the soldiers who refused to participate in the rape, is so appalled by the killing that he reports it--and finds himself being treated as the villain. Penn is scarily tough as the vindictive soldier. Throughout the movie the gore is shown thorough the brutal actions of the actors which in turn leave you mortified at cruelties of the human mind. Not a family entertainer for sure.





Pi (1998)

Math is a universal language. Everything can be represented with numbers. If you are smart enough to understand the pattern, you can decode anything. The Torah for instance is a long string of numbers. Decode that and you can know the true name of god. Sounds a bit odd? That’s what Pi is all about. Max (Sean Gullette) is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him to get the string of numbers that can decode anything. Brilliantly written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, this dark and disturbing drama didn’t get the attention it deserves. But a must watch nevertheless.






Natural born killers (1994)

The story is about tow natural born killers, Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis) who thinks that killing is some sort of a higher cognitive activity. They do what Bonnie and Clyde did year’s ago. They enjoy senseless and meaningless murders without a motive. Everyone in the movie seems to be ready to kill one another. Directed by Oliver Stone, this satirical film highlights the sensationalized way crimes are depicted in the media and the manner some killers have been glamorized. Although it was the most controversial movie of its time, the film was criticized for its excessively graphic and violent content. Depending on how you view it, it could be an intelligent attack on your senses or a well crafted aggression that can have any impact on you. Be sure to watch this one.




Ichi the killer (2002)

Have you ever seen a movie that just left you sitting there with your eyes wide open, begging for more? Based on the popular manga by Hideo Yamamoto the story is set within the yazuka underworld. After his yazuka boss goes missing, Kakihara (Tasanobu Asano) uses his sadistic methods of interrogations to find the boss’s assumed killers. Working his way through the underworld connections-with the use of hot oil, piercing needles, and large hooks-Kakihara discovers this boss demise came at the hands of Ichi (Nao Omori), a mysterious figure that slices individuals into bloody pieces with razor sharp blades strapped to his boots. As Kakihara draws closer, Ichi turns the tables on the hunter and brings his own vengeance, served up sushi style. Directed by Takashi Miike, Ichi the Killer is one of the most violent films ever to have been made, and the intensity of the emotions aroused by its depictions of countless acts of brutality is enhanced by the exaggerated manner in which these acts are presented. Highly recommended, but be forewarned, it will take a strong stomach.


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Irreversible (2002)

The basic story of Irreversible involves three protagonists; the sultry Alex, her boyfriend Marcus and her ex, Pierre. During a night at a friend's party the relationship disintegrates - due in part to Marcus' drug-taking and womanizing and the on-going sexual tension between Alex and Pierre - which eventually results in Alex leaving the party early. Unable to cross the street, she takes the underpass and is violently raped and beaten. Still high and irrational, Marcus drags Pierre through the nocturnal Parisian streets (quizzing local gangsters and prostitutes for information regarding potential attackers), before eventually ending up at the gay S&M club. Here the story comes to a head and a scene of violent retribution plays out. Extremely disturbing French film directed by Gaspar Noé, Irreversible features a revenge plot told in reverse chronological order (similar to Memento) - punctuated by extreme violence and a brutally graphic rape scene that runs approximately nine minutes. Surely not for the faint hearted.




Eraserhead (1977)

Generally considered one of the truly groundbreaking independent films to emerge in the horror and horror/thriller genres, Eraserhead offers a vaguely linear plot, ambiguously motivated and realised characters, and despite an atmospheric dreamscape created via such familiar images from psychoanalysis as spewing liquids and worm-like organisms, an arguably incoherent set of messages about the interconnectedness of sexuality, identity, violence and loss. It is a surrealist horror film with no definite script. You have to watch it to believe its intensity and how it plays with the human mind. Eraserhead initially polarized and baffled many critics and movie-goers, but over time the film has become a cult classic.





Seven (1995)

A serial killer is on loose. That’s never a good thing but what makes this guy particularly gruesome is that he’s got a style. Each of its victims are so called perpetrators of the sol-called “Seven deadly sins”. (Gluttony, greed, pride, envy, sloth, envy and wrath). Step forward two detectives and reluctant partners David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) who are handed the job to track down the psychopath before he can complete his plan. This is one of those dark movies, where it is constantly raining and wet and where light always seems to be dim. If you are not one for blood and gore, you might want to miss this as director David Fincher doesn’t hold back when it comes to showing of the various victims in all their grisly details. Seven attempts to be a statement about humanity: no one is without sin.





A Clockwork orange (1973)

Set in the near future, the movie centers around the life of the fifteen-year-old protagonist Alex (Malcolm McDowell), who, along with his gang, roams the streets at night, committing crimes purely for enjoyment. The crimes increase in severity from assault, to robbery, to arson, to a fight with rival gang, to a break-in at the house of a handicapped man, where the gangs rape his wife. Equally violent is the state's aversion therapy Alex is forced to endure to cure him of his addiction. Adapted from Anthony Burgess's slim best-selling novel, A Clockwork Orange became infamous in 1973, not because of the extreme violence on show, but for director Stanley Kubrick's decision to withdraw the movie in the UK, because of copycat acts of violence blamed on the film. A must watch movie for those who don’t mind violence at the cost of brilliant film making.






Salo: The 120 days of Sodom (1975)

Salò is one of the handful of genuinely disturbing movies ever made. It leaves you shaken, not simply because of what it is depicting but also because of how. Four upper-class libertines gather in an elegant palazzo to inflict the extremes of sexual perversion and cruelty upon a hand-picked collection of young men and women. Meanwhile, three ageing courtesan’s enflame the proceedings further by spinning tales of monstrous depravity. A cinematic ground zero, Salò confirms the cruel meaninglessness of everything human. Based on the infamous book, The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, Salo contains its fair share of disturbing imagery and graphic violence, including rape, torture and murder. For this reason, it is still banned in some countries even to this day - good luck finding a copy! Director Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered shortly after the film's release. Be warned--Salò will test the very limits of your endurance.