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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Near Seoul
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: Most harrowing movie |
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Not going to do a poll, as I don't have any others in mind.
But the end of 'Requiem for a Dream' where after being utterly degraded in the s*x show, the character goes home and curls up on the sofa, her humilliation forgotten about becasue she has her bag of smack...
That really shook me, and I used to be so unshakeable....
Probably one of the toughest going movies I've ever seen due to the extent to which the characters completely lose every shred of dignity... |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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The book is better.
Incidentally,who did the soundtrack? |
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swetepete

Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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"Ichi the Killer" was pretty hard to watch. So was "the Pianist" and Polanski's "MacBeth." All worth watching, but man, they left me feeling a bit jangled and messed...
Never read the book for "Requiem for a Dream." Don't wanna. Hubert Selby books bum me out. "Last Exit to Brooklyn" was a pretty brutal movie, but the book...holy smokes. In the end of the movie, after Tralala gets gang-raped in an old dead car by like thirty guys, a little kid comes along and weeps over her and covers her body with a coat. In the book, a couple little kids come along and stub cigarettes out on her.
That's just too much. I feel gross just thinking about it.
Selby, by the way, did a cameo as the anesthetist (or janitor or whatever he was) who laughs and moralizes over the gangrened hero of "Requiem," when he's getting his arm amputated. I think he died right after they made that movie, actually. |
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rothkowitz
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Selby has a short cameo in "Last Exit to Brooklyn" also as the taxi driver that hits the transvestite.
A docu was made about Selby.I haven't seen it.http://www.cubbymovie.com/
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Son Deureo!
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Two movies come to mind. Reflecting Skin is a really disturbing movie about the truly warped lives of people in a small town in the rural US. The children who blow up frogs with a straw and fight over possession of a dead baby are some of the milder moments, and the adults' behavior is far more reprehensible.
The local talent here, however, gives it a good run for its money with Bad Guy/나쁜 남자, a disturbing flick about an innocent college girl who is forced into working off a debt in the red-light districts. |
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Satori

Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Saw 3, oh my god, I actually walked out of it, first time I've ever done that, and I usually really really really like suspense thrillers... |
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skinhead

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Odishon
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cangel

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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Ok, ok, so it's B-cinema but Escape from New York was a fun flick.
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Corky

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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: |
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LOL |
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Hater Depot
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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cangel wrote: |
Ok, ok, so it's B-cinema but Escape from New York was a fun flick.
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Uh, I'm not sure you understand this thread... |
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swetepete

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My new most harrowing movie; "Jesus Camp." Up for an Oscar, apparently. Holy smokes! See that Haggard dude before his Fall? That's some harrowing stuff indeed.
And that Mullet Boy...wow. |
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cosmicgirlie

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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:31 am Post subject: |
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For me it would have to be Bully. I had to turn it off because I felt like I was watching kiddie porn. It was disturbing. The other one was Clean Shaven. The sound throughout the movie drove me insane, but probably not as much as the subject matter. I had to turn it off half way through also. |
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Panic Button
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PBEnglish
Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: Re: Most harrowing movie |
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venus wrote: |
Not going to do a poll, as I don't have any others in mind.
But the end of 'Requiem for a Dream' where after being utterly degraded in the s*x show, the character goes home and curls up on the sofa, her humilliation forgotten about becasue she has her bag of smack...
That really shook me, and I used to be so unshakeable....
Probably one of the toughest going movies I've ever seen due to the extent to which the characters completely lose every shred of dignity... |
In my opinion, the most harrowing films I've seen are (different genres here, and I am the first to admit that not all of these movies are *GOOD* but just movies that for one reason or another stayed with me far after I saw them):
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Cannibal Holocaust
21 Grams
Schindler's List (probably the only movie that to this day will bring me to tears)
The Grey Zone
Salo (or the 120 days of Sodom)
Evil Dead
Trainspotting
Clockwork Orange
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the 1974 original)
Like I said earlier...Not all of these movies are *GOOD* movies, but to me, in their own way, they are all harrowing flicks. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Near Seoul
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, I'm gonna check that out later...
But tell me, is it actually a harrowing movie, or are you joking, like it's just SO BAD that it's harrowing to watch...
Is it worth watching...?
cheers
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