[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Seriously Disturbing Films... (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 11/25/2005 9:14:55 PM EDT
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For those who think the world only recently went to hell in a handbasket you may want to check out these films... 1. Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Just weird crap from Salvador Dali. A chaotic collection of images that include a razor slicing a woman's eye; ants circling a hole in a man's hand; assorted detached body parts and futile murders. Just bizarre. 2. Polly Tix in Washington (1932) - Shirley Temple (in her second film role at age 4) as Polly Tix - a high-priced call girl/prostitute. I'm not kidding. 3. Love Life of a Gorilla (1937) - Psuedo documentaty about native women and gorillas with a beastiality theme. Actually Cambodian native women and men in gorilla suits. I have no idea why this film was made. 4. Olympia 2 (1938) - In addition to being the second Leni Reifenstahl documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics this one has a opening sequence with nude dancers and athletes preforming choreographed movements. Unfortunately it also includes nude males going for a swim and taking turns giving each other a rub down in a sauna. Homos everywhere jacked off to this film before being sent to camps. 5. Of Human Bondage (1934) - Bettie Davis in a role as a sex object. Even more disturbing than Nazi gay porn. Seriously, even at 26 she already looked like Phyllis Diller. |
(Is the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title, although its much newer.)
I live for rare movies. Especially pre code movies. I have a collection of precode films larger than most peoples entire movie library. Un Chien Andalou, Of Human Bondage and Olympia are currently available on DVD. |
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But isn't Columbine the reason liberals hold up for gun bans? Also the Hayes Code hasn't existed since 1968 and we don't have films like Polly Tix so obviously "the code" was not necessary. And furthermore lots of films were destroyed by it. Original copies of Baby Face and King Kong no longer exist because of the edits forced on those films in 1934. |
Besides, HCI and the Brady Bunch didn't start on Columbine morning.
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EXACTLY. And the code was a BAN and certain types of films just like the NFA is a ban on certain types of guns. The Hayes Code was NOT the solution. The MPAA (which we have now) is a much better solution.
Correct, it was after another shooting. The Reagan attempt.
Again, the Hayes Code isn't the solution. I don't see HOW existing laws against child nudity permitted that film. |
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One of the most disturbing films I ever saw was Rapture with Mimi Rogers. There is a scene where after being born again, she believes the end of the word is coming and waits in the desert with her young daughter for the end of days. When judgment day doesn't come she has her daughter kneel and pray to jesus while she holds a revolver to the back of her. She pulls the trigger and sends her to her maker so that she isn't disappointed. That really creeped me out. |
Wow, this is pretty interesting. I'd never heard of that movie so I looked it up on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/ Where it gets interesting is the Trivia: "The first 30 minutes of the film has a background noise with a frequency of 28Hz (low frequency, almost inaudible), similar to the noise produced by an earthquake. In humans, it causes nausea, sickness and vertigo. It was the main cause of people walking out of the theaters during the first part of the film in places like Cannes and San Sebastian. In fact, it was added with the purpose of getting this reaction." 
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"Luke, use the force". As a young and impressionable 14 year old you probably don't need michael moore or a bunch of gun nuts telling you what your opinion should be. Stand up for yourself and your own opinions, if you liked Michael Moore's movies and believe them to be of reasonable believability, then stick to your guns, research research, and don't let wing nuts tell you what's wrong and what's right. As for disturbing films, the already mentioned "8mm" with nicholas cage was seriously disturbing. I rented it to make for "family night" when it just came out, because you know, everyone loves nicolas cage movies right? I previewed it and was depressed for days afterward. And that salvador dali movie where the woman's eyes get sliced open? They used a hard boiled egg and some jam, so that helped me forget that image at night, haha Blair witch project was disturbing too... I couldn't believe such a peice of crap movie had gotten so many rave reviews, I wanted to hurl from the camera shaking, and i've never gotten motion sickness even though I've been boating since I was young. |
Yep, that is when the theater cleared. The film seemed like it would never recover from the tailspin. When it eventually did, the story was pretty a good tale of revenge. |
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That's true, but it didn't change the people. Just because the GOV forces a law doesn't chance the people. The real moraly change happened after WWII and was the lead up to "Under God" being added to the Pledge. |
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I havent read through allof this, but for me one film which I thought was somewhat distrubing was Requiem for a Dream Another film which was a bit distrubing and was PRE CODE, is an animated film we watched in a Cinema TV class im taking as an elective the class is "Animation hisotry" now... StyerAUG, have you seen this pre code beauty? IF so, well Im impressed, aparently according to my Prof, its a BITCH to find recorded etc or re dubbed. its called "the adventures of the Ever Ready Hard on" I would just be interested on your take of this animated gem....it was well, distrubing considering all the things that guy stuck his rod into.... I gotta say, the horse was a bit much for me, hence why it makes my distrubed list. Pi, yea, a bit out there, but I thought the story line was excellent! |
The idea that a moral "good old days" existed is a myth. It was the same people who drank bootleg alchohol and lost their virtue in rumble seats that went on the be the "greatest generation." And it was your "moral" generation of the 1950s who would become outlaw bikers and hippies. At the time parents were convinced that between Elvis and "refeer" the 1950s generation was completely lost as evidenced by depictions in The Wild One and Blackboard Jungle. Now we look back at those times as "Happy Days." The addition of "under God" was as much a product of hysterical MyCarthyism as anything else and just another example of governmental forced attempts at morality. People always have been good and bad, people always will be good and bad. |