Really GROSS movies:

[nomorenomore08]

"Audition"
"Cannibal Holocaust"
"Pink Flamingos"
"Anatomy of Hell" (makes the list just for sheer idiocy)
"The Fly" (Cronenberg version, of course)
"Men Behind the Sun"

[Forkboy]

1. People should steer clear of Men Behind The Sun.

Even I had a tough time with that one. Cannibal Holocaust is gruesome and ugly...and it looks like a Disney movie in comparison.

I'll add to the list....

Street Trash
City of the Living Dead (aka The Gates of Hell)
The New York Ripper
The Guinea Pig Series
Subconscious Cruelty
The August Underground

[hippywife]

5. If something is so gross

it gives you the willies, I'm certainly staying away from it. :scared:

[Forkboy]

8. LOL...what are you saying?

:)

It's about a Japanese special unit called Unit 731, which conducted tests that would make Mengele squirm.

From Wiki... The film is extremely controversial for its use of what Mou claims to be actual autopsy footage of a young boy and also for a scene in which two live cats appear to be thrown into a room to be eaten alive by hundreds of frenzied rats (the rats are later set ablaze).

I'm pretty open to blood and guts in movies, and exploitation/grindhouse flicks are usually fun despite their edge. This movie was just downright unpleasant.

[hippywife]

10. I'm saying that you seem to have

a much greater tolerance for this kinda stuff. ;)

[Forkboy]

11. I blame my father for taking me to horror movies as a kid.

I used to beg him to take me to horror movies and then I'd hide my face through the whole thing. :)

[hippywife]

12. LOL.

I remember taking my little brother to see Alien, after I had already seen it. He was about 10. When the alien ripped through the guy's stomach at the beginning, my brother jumped into my lap and asked if we could go home. I told him we could if he really wanted to. He said no, and got back into his own seat. I'm surprised he didn't hate me after that. LOL

I stopped having any tolerance for scary movies when I got my first apartment without roommates. ;)

[Forkboy]

15. I no longer find movies scary.

As I've gotten older and seen what we're capable of doing in real life I realized that pretty much nothing put on film can match the true life horror we inflict on others as human beings (learning about the Holocaust in detail at 16 changed everything for me). A daily glance at the news is far more terrifying than any movie I'll see.

I think a lot of horror is reflective of society. To me it's no coincidence that horror movies reflect current stories and themes. Movies like Hostel and other so called "torture-porn" seems a direct result of the issue of torture being front and center after Abu Ghraib, just as nuclear war themed movies were big in the early 80's when Raygun was joking about the bombs being on their way, and through the height of the Cold War (Godzilla being a great example of a movie made in response to real life nuclear horror...he's literally a metaphor for the bomb).

And for the record, Alien was the last movie that did scare me. I think I was 12 when I saw it, and it had me peering through my fingers the whole time. :)

[hippywife]

17. You and I think identically then.

Everything you wrote is exactly how I feel about it.

The really sad thing is, I feel like much of the world is becoming desensitized to the pain that's inflicted every single day, through violent movies and video games. It's like they have to be more and more violent and horrific to even register for some people. Very sad.

:hug:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. I can't watch violent stuff.

It messes with my head, it depresses me, and it gives me nightmares.

I don't know why people enjoy that stuff, because it's so negative.

When I was two and three and four, my sister took me to the saturday matinee, and I saw stuff that scared the crap out of me then, like The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Blob, which now would not bother me, as a grownup. I was way too young to see those.

Remember when Grace Slick sang, "Feed Your Head"? I think you need to feed it positive stuff, or at least neutral stuff. I don't mean "don't watch anything but Disney movies". I've watched R rated and X rated movies that I thought were interesting. I have no problem with nudity or consensual sex.

I couldn't watch Alien and I was probably 25 at the time. Can't watch blood, guts n gore unless it's something like Schindler's List.

I can't work up any sympathy for the people in The Godfather movies, for example, because they are immoral and they know it, but justify it for the money and power. :wtf:

I couldn't watch Million Dollar Baby because I cannot have any sympathy for someone who beats people up for a living, and could possibly kill someone. And before you come back and say "But they consent to be beaten up if they are boxers!", well, consent makes no difference in the injuries. All in the name of "Sport". :wtf:

I accidentally saw The Dark Knight in the theater, when the movie I wanted to see was canceled because nobody showed up (this is in a little town) and I was just horrified. Nothing but explosions, people being threatened with knives, killed in bank robberies, etc. Nothing positive at all that I could see except for the dignity of Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman as supporting characters. Just a bunch of controlling men. Women are disposable and don't matter, since Vicky Vale is dispatched quickly. No emotional development other than fear and intimidation. Technically excellent, but no story or characters that I would give a shit about, ever.

And the kids in the audience, after the movie, I asked them what they thought. They liked it. I said it was a complete waste of time and they looked at me like I was a crazy person.

Why people enjoy these movies, I really don't know.

I refuse to watch that crap. As has been already said, they are a symptom of the sickness in our society. I guess people need more and more shocking thrills to feel anything at all. Sort of like the guys in Fight Club beating each other up so they would feel something. That movie did have some good points in it abut cost/benefit ratios of human life versus maintenance in plane crashes, and the emptiness of consumerism (You are not your IKEA furniture) and the nihilism they resorted to.

:hide:

[Lance_Boyle]

32. Wasn't SAW - the granddaddy of US torture-porn - long before Abu Ghraib?

Japanese torture-porn has been around much longer. I don't think it is fair to credit (?) recent real-life torture atrocities for the emergence of cinema torture-porn.

[ZombieHorde]

39. The Saw movies are pretty tame, their reputation is not deserved.

70's-80's Italian horror movies may some of the most gruesome.

Men Behind the Sun (aka Man Behind the Sun) has some fucked scenes and is a Chinese movie.

[nomorenomore08]

43. Speaking of Italian horror, you ever see "Beyond the Darkness" ("Buio Omega")?

Come to think of it, that one probably should've been on my list...

[ZombieHorde]

44. I own it, I am a big horror fan. nt

[Forkboy]

16. this must be dupe day on DU!

x(

[Forkboy]

9. dupe

[nomorenomore08]

19. Agreed. There's nothing at all pleasurable about that one.

And I can't believe I forgot about those Fulci movies. All the ones from that period of his career are trashy and gross, to be sure, but "New York Ripper" was a whole 'nother level of cruelty. Almost too much even for me.

[Silent3]

34. That's really the only movie that has deeply disturbed me.

I find myself wondering if I wish that I'd never seen it.

[ZombieHorde]

38. Ooooh, I have never seen Subconscious Cruelty, I may have to order it.

I own all the other movies on your list.

[alphafemale]

2. Audition was really bad because by the time what happens to the guy...happens

You really care about him. This isn't like in a slasher movie, where the person has been on-screen for 2 minutes, and might as well be a plastic mannequin.

[flying rabbit]

3. Gummo

[Forkboy]

7. I love that movie, and all of harmony Korine's stuff.

The guy is out there. Julian Donkey Boy is far stranger than Gummo is, though Mister Lonely is almost normal (for him anyways).

[mitchum]

30. My 70 year old middle class suburban dad caught Gummo on IFC and thought it was great

he has good taste. As do you.
All of Korine's work is first rate.

[Forkboy]

36. Waiting to see Trash Humpers.

Coming out on DVD Sept. 21st.

I can totally see why some people hate his stuff, but I find it oddly compelling (I don't know what that says about me). I thought Mister Lonely was hands down the best movie I saw in 2008 (it even came out on my birthday). I'll never see Larry from the 3 Stooges the same way again. I watched it three times in the first two days I had it. :)

[ZombieHorde]

45. I just watched a trailer for Trash Humpers on youtube,

it looks awesome.

Here is the trailer I watched...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYSRXT3CiU

[Forkboy]

48. Korine is one odd mofo.

Not just his movies, but he himself. :)

[dawg]

4. I thought Hostel was pretty rough.

But I may not be as hardcore as some of you.

[nomorenomore08]

18. I won't disagree, though the unrated "Hostel 2" was undeniably worse.

The ending, especially, surprised me with its sheer "Yeah, they went there" factor.

[a kennedy]

27. Oh yeah, Hostel 2 was the worst......

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Archae]

6. Jesus Camp

If that one doesn't scare and sicken you, nothing will.

[Lindsey]

20. Agee without question. n/t

[Archae]

26. The worst part is "Jesus Camp" is real.

All the other creepy, nauseating movies are made-up.

[Initech]

42. That movie is truly horriffic.

[mcctatas]

13. The Human Centipede!

yes, I am a woman obsessed :P

[Rhythm]

51. Ya just had to, didn't you?

[Faygo Kid]

14. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Still recovering from seeing the end of that one in the late '70s.

[Danger Mouse]

21. John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

:puke:

[jobycom]

25. Yeah, but that was artistic gross-ery.

[pokerfan]

22. Hostel and Hostel II

http://www.screenit.com/movies/2006/hostel.html
http://www.screenit.com/movies/2007/hostel_part_2.html

[UTUSN]

23. Ha-HAH!1 Nice cat!1 That said, the only GROSS thing is scenes of barfing in a toilet

with the idiot actors hugging the toilet. And why do directors/writers/whoever think this scene is SO appealing that they STICK IT IN to thousands of idiot movies?!11 Eh?!1

[jonnyblitz]

24. At least in "Pink Flamingos" .....((SPOILER))

Divine doesn't eat the poodle shit until the end of the movie so you can watch the whole thing and pull it before that part UNLESS other parts of the movie gross you out as well. I haven't watched it in awhile so I forget.

[HughBeaumont]

28. Traces/Faces of Death (various)

Horror movies are just that - movies.

Seeing death and dismemberment for real puts things in ghastly perspective.

[alphafemale]

35. Damn your right. I somewhat remember that.

that was from the days when there were still "video" stores.

The only thing I remember though was the elephant with like 100 bamboo sticks stuck into before it finally died.

What an agonizing slow death that must have been. :cry:

[JackDragna]

29. Dead Alive.

Peter Jackson before he was pushing around hobbits.

[Richard Steele]

37. Worse (much better)yet: the first film he ever made, "Bad Taste".

Insanely slow-paced, blasphemously funny,
and just about the best BAD movie I've ever fucking seen.

"What happened? Did you have to drink some CHUCK?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Taste

Jackson and his friends shot 90% of the film
for NO MONEY, in their spare time, over the course of 3 years.
Once it was almost finished, he showed it around and got
a few investors to throw some $$$ his way- that's why
submachineguns and 'alien' costumes suddenly show up
in the last 15 minutes of the film.

'Bad Taste' and 'Dead Alive' were so fucking AWESOME, I actually feel bad
for him when I see that he's been reduced to doing something
as banal & mainstream as LOTR.

[Lance_Boyle]

31. Human Centipede?

Have not yet managed to find it playing locally, but a friend saw it over the weekend and was thoroughly disgusted. I'll have to check it out.

[mtnester]

52. Google it, there are some horrific trailers out there for it

oh, and it is on Facebook as well

[Hawaii Hiker]

53. Actually, I thought the Hostel movies were more grusome than Human Centipede

though the premise is extremely disturbing...But after watching Human Centipede, i found the movie more sad than scary or violent...The ending nearly made me cry...

[ZombieHorde]

40. I would like to submit...

Salo
Anal Sanctuary (aka Requiem)
Ichi the Killer
Mark of the Devil
Organ
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story
Bloodsucking Freaks
Necromantic 2
She Wolf of the SS
Zombie Holocaust
Meatball Machine

Maybe The Stink of Flesh.

Visitor Q has a scene which can definitely be described as gross.

The first sex scene in Mystery of the Necromonicon was hard for me to watch, but I don't know if I would call it gross.

[JanMichael]

41. "Kingpin" is one of my favorites but there are a couple of gross scenes.

It was more of a subtle gross than some of the other movies in this thread.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. Why do you people watch this stuff? Does it NOT bother you?

I do not understand. Please read my post above.

You couldn't drag me to those things because I would have nightmares and get depressed. Very much so.


:wtf:

[Forkboy]

47. Real life bothers me more than people pretending.

Abu Ghraib if offensive to me. The amount of homeless people we have in this country (and world) is offensive to me. A company like BP causing a disaster beacuse they were too cheap to take proper precautions is offensive to me.

A movie with people pretending to do bad things while eating sandwiches between takes isn't.

It's fine if people don't like it, and it's fine if people do.

[ZombieHorde]

56. I watch these movies because they are awesome and beautiful.

Does it NOT bother you?

Only the best ones bother me. I applaud any make believe movie which can make me squirm.

The real life stories I read on DU bum me out more than any fantasy evisceration movie.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. Real life bothers me too.

I don't go looking for it.

I used to read true crime books. Stuff like BLOOD AND MONEY and FATAL VISION. True crime books are much better & more convoluted than fiction. As you're saying, real life bums you out more than movies.

Stuff you couldn't make up is reality.

[Bucky]

49. The Lee Marvin vs Ernest Borgnine fight scene in "Emperor of the North Pole" is extra gruesome

Ball peen hammers to the shin -- Aoutch!!

[Forkboy]

50. Great movie!

[DBoon]

54. just wait until the movie version of "Goatse.cx" arrives (nt)

[Fire Walk With Me]

55. George Bush: Faith in the White House.