Pieface Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 8mm was a reasonably unsettling film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WasM Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 (edited) Off the top of my head... Schindler's List 127 Hours Battle Royale Taken The Wolf of Wall Street War Dogs - great movie based on true events but made bigger in true Hollywood fashion my fav, Leon the Professional Edited December 17, 2018 by WasM typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukynas Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Se7en The Sixth Sense The Others Shutter Island Twelve Monkeys Dreamcatcher Wind River The Crimson Rivers The Revenant some are less some more confronting, for me these are most memorable, next round with sci-fi horrors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Muon N' Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 An old one I found confronting......... at least back at that time Race With The Devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blybo Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willco Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Salo Last Tango in Paris Caligula Ichi The Killer Old Boy +1( original mentioned post above) On the Beach The War Game Toxic Avenger( Confrontationally funny ) Willco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffySlayer Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Deliverance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHC Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Scarface Romero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kab Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Home movies of peoples holidays......horrific!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh0571 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Ghosts of the Civil Dead. Aussie cult flick with Nick Cave from '88. Couldn't believe this was shown on TV (on SBS) one night in either '91 or '92 which was when I first saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willco Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 54 minutes ago, josh0571 said: Ghosts of the Civil Dead. Aussie cult flick with Nick Cave from '88. Couldn't believe this was shown on TV (on SBS) one night in either '91 or '92 which was when I first saw it. 20 years later another brutal and vicious Oz offering emerged --The Horseman Willco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh0571 Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 On 18/12/2018 at 9:41 AM, blybo said: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/ Very confronting. Macabre and grotesque, straight from the opening scene. Great choice and a great movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundscape Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 No Country for Old MenSicarioMemento 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batou Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 Scary movie Scary movie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSO-ROB Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 On 22/11/2018 at 2:54 PM, Sir Sanders Zingmore said: An Inconvenient Truth. All the more terrifying because it’s a doco It's a "left wing" fantasy propaganda dystopian reality of the highest order 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSO-ROB Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 IMO " The Proposition (2005)" written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave is a sensational Australiana flick. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted December 23, 2018 Volunteer Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, GSO-ROB said: It's a "left wing" fantasy propaganda dystopian reality of the highest order The politics section of SNA has been shut down. Let’s not get this thread shut down too ... Edited December 23, 2018 by Sir Sanders Zingmore 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hergest Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 On 22/12/2018 at 2:03 PM, Dave O))) said: No Country for Old Men It took me about half a dozen attempts to make it through No Country For Old Men as I found the violence really hard to stomach and until I watched the whole film thought it was all gratuitous. Since managing the whole film though I reckon I've watched it a dozen times and it's become one of my favourites. Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs made me feel the same. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundscape Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 It took me about half a dozen attempts to make it through No Country For Old Men as I found the violence really hard to stomach and until I watched the whole film thought it was all gratuitous. Since managing the whole film though I reckon I've watched it a dozen times and it's become one of my favourites. Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs made me feel the same.One of my favourites too. It blew me away the first time. Did you notice that the violent episodes become less and less graphic as the film progresses? The last one you only know what has happened because Chigur checks his boots as he leaves the house. I think the way that the Coen bros build tension is far more subtle and intense than anything Tarantino can do. They are on another level of the craft.Man Bites Dog is one that I struggled with. I couldn't get past the callousness of the lead character to enjoy the black humour aspect. The best scene in that was the final one.Cook Thief Wife Lover my god that was a piece of work. Only saw it once over 20 years ago, it still haunts me.Bad Boy Bubby is gold, I love that film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundscape Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Not sure I would call Eraserhead confronting. Weird, definitely, and claustrophobic. Surreal. I used to have unexplainable abstract monochrome nightmares as a child and when I saw Eraserhead I realised that it was the closest thing to those dreams I had, in terms of the feelings it evoked. Feeling trapped, claustrophobic and hopeless. Locked in to a pointless repetition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviltoob Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Anything by Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke or Gaspar Noe is quite confronting. I've liked movies from the former, especially Dogville. Noe's movies are **** though. There was a movie called Creep from a while back that I thought was confronting and nihilistic, pretty gruesome horror. But I remember thinking it was quite well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 If you want confronting, watch The War Zone starring Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton. Tim Roth does a very fine job as a first time director. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Zone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundfan Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Hana Bi (Fireworks) An extraordinary movie and quite brutal at times. Takeshi Kitano is brilliant. https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/hana-bi-review 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 3 hours ago, soundfan said: Hana Bi (Fireworks) An extraordinary movie and quite brutal at times. Takeshi Kitano is brilliant. https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/hana-bi-review A man of few words 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoz Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 On 23/12/2018 at 11:55 AM, GSO-ROB said: It's a "left wing" fantasy propaganda dystopian reality of the highest order .....Oh dear....a believer in fake news. I think we know who is living in a fake news 'fantasy'.' Fake news' is like a fart. Those who deny it, supply it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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