The golden stream of cinema sometimes takes it’s viewers through some forbidden tunnels that may scar their thoughts permanently. Today we have found 5 such tunnels for you that you would wish you never entered. 5 Films that are disturbing enough to bully Trainspotting to the yard and steal it’s lunch money. Prepare to get yourselves scarred.
Dogtooth (2009)
Director – Yorgos Lanthimos
Runtime – 97 Minutes
Cast – Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia
Streaming Platform – Amazon Prime
Talk about Dad Issues here, The film has usurped degrees in it. A dad locks away his children in their perpetual state of childhood. Manipulating them with various tales that challenge their psychological balance and trying to keep them distracted by using sex as a tool. The daughter however plans an escape, tempted by the idea of outside world which someone is allowed to step into when the have developed their first “dogtooth”. This has got to raise some brows for sure. Strap on for a wild ride.
Eraserhead (1977)
Director – David Lynch
Runtime – 89 Mins
Cast – Jack Nance, Judith Roberts, Charlotte Stewart
Streaming Platform – Mubi
You may undermine this as a black and white movie but only till you start watching it. This brilliant piece from the avant-garde period is sure to give you some chills with it’s strangely disturbing visuals. The story follows Henry in his industrial shack who in an affair got the girl pregnant. To the horror, the child turns out to be an abomination and the mere sight of him is despicable. Henry’s troubles are further worsened by a rather unstructured and ugly lady who lives in his radiator and crushes human sperms that lay before her.
A Serbian Film (2010)
Director – Srdjan Spasojevic
Runtime – 110 Mins.
Cast – Srdan Todorvic, Jelena Gavrilovic
Streaming Platform – Rental
The film that has gained it’s fame by scarring it’s viewers for life. The total disgrace to the word ‘beauty’. A Serbian Film is the story of an ex porn star who in order to earn his bread decides to go back to his old business again. But the time has now changed and with this excuse he is thrown victim to experiences like pedophilia and necrophilia. Being an eye witness to such an emotionally barring experience has left audiences feeling sick.
The Human Centipede (2009)
Director – Tom Six
Runtime – 92 Mins.
Cast – Dieter Laser, Ashlynn Yennie
Streaming Platform – Deemed Unfit for Indian Audiences*
The alley gets pitch black here. A film that is deemed unfit for a country to watch and surely a film that lives up to it’s ban. Involving two ‘tramp’ girls stuck on a lonely road with a broke down car. Finally they take shelter in a villa belonging to a Japanese man where they meet a strange surgeon whose ultimate ambition is to create a human centipede connected through the gastric organs of the human body. Yes, it’s as gore as it sounds.
Begotten (1989)
Director- E. Elias Merhige
Streaming Platform – YouTube
DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM IF YOU ARE FAINT HEARTED! The film Begotten is the most disturbing film ever made. Not much can be explained about the experimental black and white film. The first scene involves a godlike figure disemboweling himself with a straight razor and the rest of the haunting series of images just makes it worse and worse up to the mark of ‘Unbearable to Watch’. If you really want to test your control on your guts, I’d recommend watching this film.
