I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.

  • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
    28·
    9 days ago

    Requiem for a Dream is likely to come up. maybe Leon as well. Poor Things might be too close to horror to count, The Girl Next Door definitely is. Watership Down is another common one, Plague Dogs is similar and potentially more uncomfortable. for other animations you could count Perfect Blue and Grave of the Fireflies

    Gummo is mentioned elsewhere, the only other Korine film i’ve seen is Kids (1995) and it’s fucking grim

      • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        never occurred to me tbh but i just looked it up and it’s scored by the guy from Pop Will Eat Itself, got a rabbithole to follow now. thanks for mentioning this

          • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            yeah it is. i’m going to give it another watch, i think i disliked it before because it seemed at the same time staged and also too intrusive into peoples real lives? but probably that was the point, that they were playing up to it, still it’s all a bit gooble gobble one of us. i’ll have another look, would be interested in the rest of your top ten if you want to post it

            • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
              3·
              8 days ago

              It’s entirely fictional, but has some real humanity in there which shows through very strongly in some scenes. So not really intrusive, they are all actors.

              I couldn’t give an accurate top 10, but here’s a rough list of 9 others I’ve watched many times and love:

              Old boy

              Sunshine

              Rec (Spanish original)

              The matrix

              Cloverfield

              Cube

              As above so below

              Watchmen

              Alice (1988, russian)

              • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
                1·
                7 days ago

                i’m honestly surprised to hear that but glad i had the wrong impression, i’ll get around soon to a rewatch. thanks for the list too, have enjoyed several of those and will be trying Sunshine and Alice

          • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            oh right got you. you have any others? i like this kind of stuff

            • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 days ago

              Most I can think of have been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, like Trainspotting, Blue Velvet, Old Boy. If you know about Requiem, you probably know about π by the same director, but I’ll mention it just in case. Ooh here’s a good one I should have put in the main thread, too late now lol: Die Welle (The Wave). It’s a German drama that takes place in a high school, that’s all I’ll say about it, but it’s really good.

              • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
                1·
                4 days ago

                cheers, the only other of his i saw was Black Swan so Pi and Die Welle both going on the backlog