A film that really shocked you?

Question

What i mean is. is there a movie that might of went over the top in storyline, Crossed barriers, questioned certain Taboos.
example the film crash about people who get turned on by car crashes. Do you ask yourself what goes through a directors mind when doing a film like that. Are they good or Bad

Answer 1

One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Broke taboos about 'Mental Institutions'. I was in shock coming out of the cinema. Only time that has ever happened.

Ken Kesey wrote the novel in an attempt to expose abuses by the legal system of commitment to psychiatric hospitals. It did that all right. Maybe it went over the top I don't know. Who knows what really goes on in there?

Answer 2

I think the movies that make me ask that question the most (what goes through a directors mind when doing a film like that. Are they good or Bad) has got the be the movies "Faces of Death". If you have not seen them they are suppose to be real life death scenes or real life sacrifices and people being shot an mutilated or eaten by alligators, all caught on film. But some man thought it would be great to put them in a movie (actually there is more than one, I think there are 4 of them). Really disturbing

Answer 3

8mm. When I saw it I cried all the way home. It was so disgusting. I can't watch any of the new movies like Saw or anything similar.

I have never met anyone involved in the production of films like that, so I can't say for sure about what they are like, but I do really question what goes through their head. I can't stand to think about the movie for the 1-2 hours it lasts, and yet they have to put all that effort into (1) screenwriting (2) editing (3) finding sponsorship (4) casting (5) costumes (6) special effects. I just don't know how they do it. I've heard quotes from actors saying how much certain roles take out of them. Imagine what happens to the screenwriter?

I understand that these things happen, and I can completely relate to doctors, or police officers, because they at least are trying to make the world better, but I can't understand how someone with any kind of creatvity would want to show anything other than beauty. I would die for that kind of talent, and I feel that they are wasting it!

I've heard people say that some of the films were created to "make you think". And I say that would be fine if I couldn't think without someone elses help, or if I needed to actually feel the horror of death to understand it. Those directors/producers scare me and I hope to never meet one.

Answer 4

Okay, I only saw one other person with this movie. But, there is another movie by the same director. First, it is Visitor Q.
I mean, the first 5 minutes will leave your jaw dropping. Then, the father being hit in the head with a brick and then had a tape of him getting a finger, or something, up is butt by teenage boys (he was a reporter) and his wife doing heroin and being whipped by her own teenage son. Sick movie.
The next one (my favorite from Takeshi Miike) was "Ichi the Killer".
Whatever you do, if you have not seen these two movies, rent them. This will let you know that Japanese horror is much better then a lot of the American ones (also "The Devil's Backbone" by Guillermo Del Torro (?). Really, these two movies are really shocking and can make you question what you just watch.

Answer 5

By today's standards, Tod Browning's 1932 movie "Freaks" wouldn't be all that shocking because we're so used to hearing about, shall we say, biological oddities such as conjoined twins, microcephalics and so forth. I can see where the movie would have caused quite a stir when it was first released, though.

When I watch the movie, I have to remind myself that many of the actors in its cast are actual sideshow performers. Johnny Eck, for example, was born without legs, and every time I see him walk on his hands I have to remind myself that I'm not seeing some CGI effect--CGI technology wasn't even invented yet.

Of the more modern movies that I've seen, the most shocking one I can think of is the original Omen movie, particularly the decapitation scene toward the end.

Answer 6

Man Bites Dog, it's such an odd film and I hate the bit where he screams at the old lady because he notices she is taking heart medication so he scares her into having a heart attack. Also Natural Born Killers was shite, how can the gunniest, bloodiest, murderist film about in the 90's be a good argument for why cinema is to gory and murder friendly as thats why oliver Stone said he made it? Huh that makes no sense.

Answer 7

A Clockwork Orange

It really disturbed me. I nearly left the cinema as there were certain scenes that made me feel physically sick. I can't deny it's a great film and Kubrick must have done a superb job for it to have the desired effect of creating a great unease in me. That's what good art does, provokes a reaction. I dwelled upon for it for a long time after seeing it.

Another Kubrick film that remains the scariest film I have ever seen and one that certainly shocked and terrified me the first time I saw it in my mid teens is The Shining. No matter how many times I view it, it still send chills down my spine (especially the bathroom scene!) The hotel decor in that film truly adds to the growing sickly unease and sense of overwhelming claustrophobia.

Answer 8

Visitor Q.
In the first 5 mins the main character has sex with his teenage prostitute daughter.
By the end of the film you marvel at how high his morels were at the start! It's crazy and about as shocking as a film can be.
Takeshi Miike is certainly a unique director and this film is certainly like NOTHING I have ever seen before.

Answer 9

Salo

Funny Games

Man Bites Dog

Clockwork Orange

Blue Velvet

Happiness

The Idiots

Answer 10

Thriller: A Cruel Picture
This film covers drugs and rape and vengence and was said to have inspired Kill BIll. The truely disrurbing part in the film is the rumoured use of a real dead body to film a scene of someone having their eye cut out!

Answer 11

The Granton Star Cause, which was part of the multi-story movie The Acid House based on the Irvine Welsh novel, I just hope people dont think all Scottish folk are like that LOL...........Ps, just thought of another one, The Crying Game. Me & my mates watched it when it first came out and had not sussed at all that SHE was really a HE, it left a couple of embarrased males in the room who had made some comments about Her/Him earlier.