I tried to watch that again for the first time in about 27 years. I felt like I might be put on a list, if my neighbors peeped my TV through my window.
War of the Worlds - the Stephen Spielberg one with Tom Cruise. The scene where they arrive at the ferry in the only working car anyone has seen in the last couple days, and the mob starts destroying it trying to get in and tear them out; the one guy slicing up his hands and face just to get the vehicle, all the other people climbing in when the daughter is still buckled in and can't get out... It sends me into a hyper-fight-or-flight.
There are a few scenes that stuck out to me as disturbing in that movie. One was that night, right after the tripods attacked the crowded ferry dock. The family made it out of there to a hill overlooking the bay and we get that wide shot of distant crowds of people below being herded down the hill like frightened cattle. The tripods pick away at them, some try to swim away, while the family on the hill can only hide and watch from the bushes.
The other was when they spent the night in that basement and woke up to soft rain pitter-pattering on the window. It's almost peaceful, only it wasn't rain, it was blood from the animals pureed for terraforming. That moment of realization just felt so tactile and real.
I like that it's ambiguous how much time they spent in that basement. At first you think it's only a couple days, then when you think about it you realize it may have been more like a week or more.
An obsessive, relentless stalker won't take no for an answer, eventually gets the girl but she escapes only to find herself once again in his grasps alienating her from friends, family, and most importantly, her fiance (husband? Can't remember). This absolute psychopath remodeled an entire house as his shrine to her never losing focus even after years of her escape! Obsessing daily he wrote her letters everyday for a year that her family rightfully hid from his victim.
I mean it isn't called that but it is essentially body horror and the fact that it's still you in there but not aware of how much of well you is missing and then being shown how much they chopped of sends shivers down my spine.
yea. imo paul verhoeven is one of the most underrated filmmakers. body horror + wtf does it even mean to be "human/awake/alive" philosophical problems = great cinema
Recreation of the Nazi plan to kill the Jews and other undesirables No insane laughter or villain speeches. Just a bunch of men in nice clothes sitting around a table talking about the technical problems with killing millions of people.
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Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 20d
jesus camp
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 20d
We Need To Talk About Kevin
What would you do if you found out your kid was completely evil?
Prisoners
How would you handle your entire world collapsing?
Jesus Camp
Lets brainwash our youth in the name of righteousness.
triptrapper@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d
Prisoners is one of my favorite movies of any genre.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 18d
It is excellent! And one of the many great things about it is, the stakes just keep getting higher and higher until the final scene.
krathalan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 19d
Thanks, gonna get these to watch soon.
Drusas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 20d
Kids
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 20d
I tried to watch that again for the first time in about 27 years. I felt like I might be put on a list, if my neighbors peeped my TV through my window.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 20d
War of the Worlds - the Stephen Spielberg one with Tom Cruise. The scene where they arrive at the ferry in the only working car anyone has seen in the last couple days, and the mob starts destroying it trying to get in and tear them out; the one guy slicing up his hands and face just to get the vehicle, all the other people climbing in when the daughter is still buckled in and can't get out... It sends me into a hyper-fight-or-flight.
0ops@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 20d
There are a few scenes that stuck out to me as disturbing in that movie. One was that night, right after the tripods attacked the crowded ferry dock. The family made it out of there to a hill overlooking the bay and we get that wide shot of distant crowds of people below being herded down the hill like frightened cattle. The tripods pick away at them, some try to swim away, while the family on the hill can only hide and watch from the bushes.
The other was when they spent the night in that basement and woke up to soft rain pitter-pattering on the window. It's almost peaceful, only it wasn't rain, it was blood from the animals pureed for terraforming. That moment of realization just felt so tactile and real.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d
I like that it's ambiguous how much time they spent in that basement. At first you think it's only a couple days, then when you think about it you realize it may have been more like a week or more.
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 20d
Jacob's Ladder
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 20d
The Notebook
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 20d
An obsessive, relentless stalker won't take no for an answer, eventually gets the girl but she escapes only to find herself once again in his grasps alienating her from friends, family, and most importantly, her fiance (husband? Can't remember). This absolute psychopath remodeled an entire house as his shrine to her never losing focus even after years of her escape! Obsessing daily he wrote her letters everyday for a year that her family rightfully hid from his victim.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 8 pts · 20d
RoboCop, especially in the new one when they show how much was disposed of.
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 20d
are you talking about the remake? or the deleted scenes of the original?
yea the release version of the original kind of messed me up when i saw it as a little kid in the 80s
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 20d
I mean it isn't called that but it is essentially body horror and the fact that it's still you in there but not aware of how much of well you is missing and then being shown how much they chopped of sends shivers down my spine.
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 20d
yea. imo paul verhoeven is one of the most underrated filmmakers. body horror + wtf does it even mean to be "human/awake/alive" philosophical problems = great cinema
edit: obligatory NSFW exploding dicks https://vimeo.com/86014703?fl=pl&fe=vl
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 20d
Didn't expect actual exploding dicks
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 20d
i wouldn't lie about exploding dicks
elgordino@fedia.io · 6 pts · 20d
Melania
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 20d
https://youtu.be/i9Ug_MXToEE
Full movie
'The Wansee Conference'
Recreation of the Nazi plan to kill the Jews and other undesirables No insane laughter or villain speeches. Just a bunch of men in nice clothes sitting around a table talking about the technical problems with killing millions of people.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 20d
Eraserhead
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 20d
its a horror movie
e: maybe thriller is better term, but i see it as a body horror film
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 20d
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 20d
Come and see
Dogville
dualcoreduron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d
For me it's gotta be Deer Hunter. Saw it as a kid and it still fucks me up
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
Requiem for a Dream
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 19d
City of God
Saw it once, never again.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
Cats (the Live Action Broadway edition)
xylol@leminal.space · 1 pts · 20d
The social dilemma