Disturbing films

Dagzd1973 said:
Mate of mine watches a lot of old Japanese horror films. Can't remember the name of the genre but there's a series of films called the 'Guinea Pig Collection'.

Guinea Pig (film series) - Wikipedia

Every film is the same: Woman gets kidnapped, raped, and mutilated.. not always in that order. :eek: I've only seen clips when I used to burn him DVD's, but it's pretty bloody graphic by the looks of it. Not my cup of tea like.

If he wasn't such a nice fella I'd definitely be worried about him.
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I've seen one of them on VHS years ago: Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood. There was no rape but just a man in full samurai battle regalia filmed chasing a Japanese girl through the park. It then cuts to a room with a operating table in it. The rest of the film is just him dissecting the woman/taking limbs off etc with surgical equipment and the like.

It looks a little bit realistic but not entirely. They were part of the so-called video nasties released in the 80's. There are trailers including the one I mentioned on Youtube. The one I watched was famously seen by Charlie Sheen who thought it was real and contacted the authorities.

The FBI confiscated Sheen’s tape and proceeded to investigate all involved, including Charles Balun, an early distributor of the film. Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects. Propitiously, the Japanese took this time to release ”Guinea Pig Two: The Making of Guinea Pig One,” revealing the technical sleight of hand in all its bone-cracking glory. After viewing this film, the FBI backed off and dropped the investigation.
 


Switch said:
I'm tempted to give this Snowtown a watch tonight. Reading the odd review and it doesn't sound like one of those needlessley depraved films.

The only film I ever regret watching is Cannibal Holocaust and that was only because of the vile animal torture.
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An ex boyfriend had loads of f***ing horrible old gore films, I was subjected to that and others :confused:.
 
raindog said:
Exibit A seems to have not been mentioned ? Anyway picked this up the other day on a market stall kind of thought it would be tame and wasn't sure at the start but as it progressed it had me getting more and more intrigued and tense.... to cut a long story short it is probably the most shocking film ive ever seen.

Here's a review from INDb I can totally relate to

This movie came as a suggestion on this very website while I was reading the page of another movie (you know, the usual "users who watched this movie also liked..."), and I'm really glad I yielded to the curiosity of reading what it was all about. I liked some "found footage" films in the past, but I'm not crazy about the genre, still I was triggered by the scarce plot given here, and I just decided to watch it. Now I'm just through it, and I'm still in shock.

The first scene is a police label marking the footage we are about to see as found on a murder scene, so there is little to spoil about the plot. The impending doom of those we are about to meet is made clear from the beginning, only leaving in doubt about who is/are the victim/s and who is/are the murderer/s.

Then it all begins...

This film could be split in three parts, all of which last about half an hour. It takes some patience to get through the first one, as most of what we see is some obnoxious family games and shallow chit-chat, which serves the purpose of building the context and getting to know the characters. So, we soon come to learn that we're dealing with a somewhat clumsy, but warm and caring father, seemingly a good house man all in all, but with the hint of a shadow looming over him (which will be developed later in the film), a tender, over-sensitive daughter kind of confused with herself, a mother who appears to be steadfast in her familiar role, but a little too stiff and bitchy, and an obnoxious son who is in his teens, but mostly behaves like a second grader or so to the rest of his family and in his leisure time. That is, a believable portrait of every day reality in your neighborhood: a perfect surface with its natural, human flaws. Oh, woe is me, will it not last...

In the second part, the secret shadow looming over the father begins to disclose, and we start witnessing his descent into weirdness first, and madness consequently. The dis-functionalities of the family, up to that moment quite dull and ordinary, quickly swirl down into a pit of ever growing frenzy, leading to the final showdown, which unravels in the third part.

I won't spoil anything about what goes on, but I'll just let you all know that this is not a horror movie, this is a dramatically realistic depiction of a well too known REAL horror.

The performances of the four main actors are stunning, the bond that grows between you and the characters is solid, real, you can feel it, touch it. As the story started developing, I found myself despising the boy, pitying the father, caring for the daughter, getting angry at the mother, and then having all these feelings just messed up and turned inside out as the events unraveled. But nonetheless, there was not a single moment when I was not feeling something for all of them. And I think this is one of the greatest achievements a movie can reach.

So, be prepared: you will be introduced to four people that you will get emotionally in touch with, only to be overwhelmed by the shocking doom that they will face.

On a final note: I stood astonished in front of my TV while the whole of the end credits silently rolled out and left an empty, black screen which lasted almost one minute, with no sound whatsoever. I just couldn't move away or stop the play. This is the level of the emotional grip this film has cast onto me.

You have been warned.

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Its a canny good film tbh have you seen House Swap?
 
The Sinful Dwarf said:
The films are not the same and do not all feature kidnap, rape and mutilation (I can't recall any rape). Flowers of Flesh and Blood is I think the one that gained notoriety as it was mistaken for a snuff film.
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I'll take your word for it. I never watched any of them. Just seemed like senseless gore to me with a fascination on cutting up/sexually abusing women.

When he first asked me to burn him DVD's of them I told him to fuck off. Thought I'd end up on some watch-list or some shit.
Cypher said:
I've seen one of them on VHS years ago: Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood. There was no rape but just a man in full samurai battle regalia filmed chasing a Japanese girl through the park. It then cuts to a room with a operating table in it. The rest of the film is just him dissecting the woman/taking limbs off etc with surgical equipment and the like.

It looks a little bit realistic but not entirely. They were part of the so-called video nasties released in the 80's. There are trailers including the one I mentioned on Youtube. The one I watched was famously seen by Charlie Sheen who thought it was real and contacted the authorities.

The FBI confiscated Sheen’s tape and proceeded to investigate all involved, including Charles Balun, an early distributor of the film. Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects. Propitiously, the Japanese took this time to release ”Guinea Pig Two: The Making of Guinea Pig One,” revealing the technical sleight of hand in all its bone-cracking glory. After viewing this film, the FBI backed off and dropped the investigation.
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I'd heard that story, didn't realise it was one of them films though .:lol:
 
Dagzd1973 said:
I'll take your word for it. I never watched any of them. Just seemed like senseless gore to me with a fascination on cutting up/sexually abusing women.

When he first asked me to burn him DVD's of them I told him to fuck off. Thought I'd end up on some watch-list or some shit.

I'd heard that story, didn't realise it was one of them films though .:lol:
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That's exactly what it was. There is no sexual abuse of any kind though. It's like a really low-budget 'Hostel' film and equally as boring. Just shock value for it's very sake. As for Sheen it was the exact one I mention. It's not even that realistic so he must have been intoxicated (for a change). There are full videos of it on Youtube with internet geeks laughing at it as commentary.

To add to this overall list I would say 'Faces of Death' although I've never seen the full series. Again just needlessly tasteless rubbish.
 
Cypher said:
That's exactly what it was. There is no sexual abuse of any kind though. It's like a really low-budget 'Hostel' film and equally as boring. Just shock value for it's very sake. As for Sheen it was the exact one I mention. It's not even that realistic so he must have been intoxicated (for a change). There are full videos of it on Youtube with internet geeks laughing at it as commentary.

To add to this overall list I would say 'Faces of Death' although I've never seen the full series. Again just needlessly tasteless rubbish.
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Ahh right. I assumed there was seeing as the women are usually naked and tied up (judging from the couple of 5 second clips I watched while checking the quality, before going "NOPE, fuck that") . I thought it was torture porn or some shit.

Unless I'm thinking of Toetag films, another bunch of weird gore films he got me to burn for him.
 
Dagzd1973 said:
Ahh right. I assumed there was seeing as the women are usually naked and tied up (judging from the couple of 5 second clips I watched while checking the quality, before going "NOPE, fuck that") . I thought it was torture porn or some shit.

Unless I'm thinking of Toetag films, another bunch of weird gore films he got me to burn for him.
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The phrase torture porn was coined around the time of the Hostel series of films and is misleading in that it doesn't involve any sex or sexual activity at all (as like the Hostel films themselves). It just refers to violence or gore that is needlessly gratuitous. It has now been applied to horror films dating back decades as well.

An internet definition gives it as: a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. ... During the late 20th and early-21st centuries, the use of graphic violence in cinema has been labeled "torture porn" or "gorno" (a portmanteau of "gore" and "porno").
 
I watched ‘The Road’ last night - thank you to those who mentioned it on this thread.

There are certainly some disturbing themes and I did check on my son a few times during the film.

It was bleak and I especially liked the cinematography, but it became slightly slow paced near the end, although I appreciate that this was to convey a long journey.

My rating would be a solid 7/10. Good acting, easy to empathise with the father, highlight was the small glimpse of Charlize Theron’s stockinged thigh.

Apparently the book is very good? Authored by Cormac who also wrote ‘No country for old men’.
 
ODIN said:
Ichi the killer. Now that is one fucked up film. Thought insidious films canny. The nun film looks canny distubing like
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I refuse to watch the trailer for The Nun, when it appeared in The Conjuring 2 it freaked me right out.......yes I'm a soft twat haha
 
niceonemarra said:
Totally agree but did you know there are loads of animal deaths in very popular mainstream films, iirc in The Pirates of the Carribean hundreds of fish, turtles crabs and many other sea life were killed when they were doing explosions in the sea, also iirc in The Life of PI the tiger nearly drowned, if you google it there are loads.
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Loads of horses died making Ben Hur.
 
ODIN said:
Ichi the killer. Now that is one fucked up film. Thought insidious films canny. The nun film looks canny distubing like
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‘OldBoy’ the Korean version, not the American remake
Along the same lines, brilliant plot and pretty horrific scenes
 
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Stevie Freestein II said:
I watched ‘The Road’ last night - thank you to those who mentioned it on this thread.

There are certainly some disturbing themes and I did check on my son a few times during the film.

It was bleak and I especially liked the cinematography, but it became slightly slow paced near the end, although I appreciate that this was to convey a long journey.

My rating would be a solid 7/10. Good acting, easy to empathise with the father, highlight was the small glimpse of Charlize Theron’s stockinged thigh.

Apparently the book is very good? Authored by Cormac who also wrote ‘No country for old men’.
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I loved the book. The film was decent but i imagined so many scenes to be different.

Purrfect South said:
This one, and Don't Look Now.
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Released as a double bill on the day I was born. unfortunately it meant cutting both films so the double bill didn't last too long, and they never recovered the original wicker man unedited masters.
 
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GK said:
I loved the book. The film was decent but i imagined so many scenes to be different.


Released as a double bill on the day I was born. unfortunately it meant cutting both films so the double bill didn't last too long, and they never recovered the original wicker man unedited masters.
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I wasn't aware of that, as I'm no film buff. I did go to see both though, but remember them being separate occasions.
 

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