Top Disturbing Movies

1. American History X

In 1998, Edward Norton, fresh off his Oscar nomination for Primal Fear, was set to lead a small, indie project about the neo-Nazi skinhead movement. On the surface, it was a gritty drama about a white supremacist.
The public didn't know they were about to get bluntness in hatred and the brutal realities of redemption.

This movie was about sickness.
It had a series of gut punches, but there was one scene that no one who has seen it can ever forget: a man's face being held against a curb.
This act of cold brutality forces the audience to confront a different kind of monster; the one that lives next door.

The horror was the casual violence that comes from believing another human being is worthless.

The film was immediately slapped with an NC-17 rating, and the director's credit was removed, but the audience saw a piece of art, so the movie thrived and went from a controversial outcast to a cult classic.

But its themes are relevant, which forced us to believe the ideology of the man on the screen still exists.

2. Schindler's List

No one anticipated the sacred territory that Steven Spielberg entered when he was preparing a black-and-white film about the Holocaust in 1993. Our expectations had been raised by the man who had given us aliens and dinosaurs, but no one was ready to see such a brutal historical account.

There was one scene in the middle of the movie, amidst all the gray and the monochromatic cruelty, a little girl in a red coat appears. That’s the moment the movie stops being a movie and starts being a document.

The entire cinematic experience was shattered by the reality of what was shown on the screen, which compels you to witness a childhood being stolen.

In addition to forcing the world to confront the reality of the Holocaust, Spielberg's film earned him an Oscar and a debate, but after seeing a terrifying version of reality, the audience was forever changed.

3. OldBoy

All that was known about Oldboy in 2003 was that it was a slick South Korean revenge thriller.

It told the story of a man who was mysteriously imprisoned for fifteen years and then abruptly released, and it was part of a new wave of films that were very different from Hollywood.

Nobody expected the retaliation that would revolutionize the genre and silence viewers.
The horrific consequences of a simple act of violence were the subject of this film.

The crucial scene in this violent movie isn't the famous hammer fight.
It was the final, terrible revelation when the audience learned the true nature of the retaliation and the truth about the villain's plan.
The psychological horror of the film left viewers physically nauseous.

Critics praised the movie right away, and it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. It also became popular instantly, the standard for all subsequent revenge films, and single-handedly built South Korean cinema's reputation on the international scene.

However, Oldboy makes you think twice about what you just saw.

It serves as a warning about the cyclical nature of violence and the unsettling extent one will go in the name of poetic justice.
More disturbing than any monster was the fact that psychological retaliation was the most agonizing.