The Six Most Disturbing Non-Horror Films I Have Ever Seen

Baise-Moi

I will be honest with you, I really don’t even feel comfortable enough to talk about all the ways this film will ruin you. The best way I can describe this film is I Spit On Your Grave meets Thelma and Louise, as fed through the “extreme French cinema” lens. The sex in the film is real. And this sex doesn’t always happen under the best pretenses, if you get my drift, so watching the film is can feel like an exercise in self torture.  Also, the violence is brutal, and the whole movie is filmed in such a way that makes it all that much more believable.  This film you don’t even watch once if you know what’s good for you.

This film is so sick and dirty, I got tested for Hep-C after watching it.

By the way, this film, in its entirety, played on public television in Finland. So that just shows how different cultures really are from one another. Sorry I didn’t tell you much about the film. Just too nasty to even talk about for me, but if you want to know more, read here. 

Visitor Q

I know Takashi Miike is a twisted genius. And I know he often shines lights into corners most people wouldn’t want to look. And for the most part, I am fine with that. Matter of fact, I have an odd and surreal connection to his forthcoming film that I will not speak of here, but even in film, there are some subject matters in film that even the strongest or most twisted of us can’t stomach. Visitor Q had quite a few of those moments for me.

Incest. Defecation. Some things just AREN’T enjoyable to your average person. And for good reason. It would be odd to enjoy feces, would it not? Now do not mistake, most Miike films amaze me, and I don’t mind how brutal they get. But Visitor Q hit me differently, for some reason. I know this is all supposed to be satire of reality TV, and just how far some people are willing to go, but it is hard to look past some of this stuff, even as oddball as it comes across.

Google image this film with safe search off. This is another one, I DARE YOU!

Due to how extreme Visitor Q gets, some say this IS a horror film, but Takashi miike has even denounced it as being horror. The thing is, whether it is satire or send-up, it is disturbing, through and through. You may laugh in between all the vomiting you do, though, so there’s that.

Happiness

I tend to love black comedies, and rarely does a subject matter feel sacred to me. But I could not find the humor in pedophilia no matter how hard I tried. Thank God I didn’t try very hard.

Please, Pedo guy, unleash the boy and stop looking at me?

This film deals with SO MANY taboo themes, that, unless you have a solid stomach, some of the things are spoken of in this film will NEVER leave your subconscious. I have watched films where people have had their fingernails systematically removed, and that, to me, was mild compared to Happiness. I have seen films where skin is flayed from flesh like strips of steak. That, to me, is Disney compared to Happiness. And the worst part, someone like my Mom will see the name Happiness on Netflix, and she will see that Philip Seymour Hoffman is in the film, and she will watch it without knowing there is just a subtext of some scary ass subjects running wild through this film. And by God, I movie like this would kill that woman.

WARN ALL YOUR MOTHER’S! DO NOT WATCH HAPPINESS!

It even warns you on the box at how depraved it all gets.

So what is it about Happiness that makes it so disturbing? Well, there is an exchange between a pedophile Father and his son in this film, where the son asks the Father if he would ever (this part has been censored for your own protection. I will now put a picture from Adventure Time here to offset all this nightmare fuel.)

Fiona and Cake and Finn and Jake make everything all better. Phew.