Nausea Cinema

Name some movies that you find really unsettling not because they are especially gory or violent, or because of the horrible things that happen to the characters, but rather because the elements of the film contrast in a really dissonant, upsetting way.

Four I can think of, in order:

1. Meet the Feebles
2. The Garbage Pail Kids
3. Radio Flyer
4. The Devil's Advocate

When I was a kid, the way the lighter sequences in E.T. contrasted with E.T.'s suddenly dropping dead in a medical tent gave me a similar feeling.

[Edited on Jun 05, 2006 by Jeff_Fries]

dammit, had the name a second ago. Its from Japan or China, and this lady has this dude in a sack and makes him eat his puke. And she cuts of the limbs of her boss i think with this wire?

well, someone will know the name

Actually, wait. My entire list was all about the gore. I gotta rethink this one...

[Edited on Jun 05, 2006 by Vauxhall]

"Very Bad Things" made a friend of mine throw up at a red light on the way home from seeing it.

Audition? It's pretty gory.

Yup that's Audition, famed for swtiching genres from arthouse to gore-fest halfway through, undercutting all expectations. One of the few films I actually couldn't sit through.

thanks Jeff_Fries and Flinty.

Man that movie is fucked up!



[Edited on Jun 05, 2006 by stlouisemt]

Pulp Fiction, almost passed out in the cinema when John Travlota put the needle in Uma Thurmans chest

Both of these films can really screw you up. Trust me.

Henry: portrait of a serial killer. I'm pretty much de-censortised to most graphic film's but this was too much. I couldn't hack it

[Edited on Jun 05, 2006 by icarus_johnson]

every time someone asks me what i think of it, i always say that it was a very good movie that i never, EVER want to see again.

Huh. That was totally on my top five before I edited it.

1. Requiem For A Dream
2. Ciao! Manhattan
3. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
4. Old Boy
5. Hardware

i just rented garbage pail kids for the first time. my concern is not the kids gross out features, but the fact that the half assed puppetteering left them bobbing and dancing with vacant unfocused eyes. jokes about gross little kids playing doctor are a little unsettling.

im going to do a half vote for gremlins. what is it, a horror movie or a cutesy movie? while its never truly unsettling, it does lull you for a while as to whether these things are funny or dangerous. as a kid it disturbed me, particularly the futterman's plow sequence.

resevoir dogs probably belongs on the list... that ear scene sounds like the definition of what youre talking about.

refresh my memory, whats wrong with radio flyer? the realistic portrayal of the abusive dad?

There's nothing realistic about it. It's a failed attempt to make a Spielbergesque story about two kids escaping the physical abuse of their stepfather.

[Edited on Jun 05, 2006 by Jeff_Fries]

Irreversible doesn't quite fit your criteria, but the opening scene of the film, as well as the rape scene give me the heeby jeebies. Very uncomfortable.

Adaptation. I can't put my finger on it- maybe pity for Charlie, or perhaps it's the super creep factor of Chris Cooper's character, but that one makes me feel awkward and depressed every time.

Ha! "You won't be scared, you'll be SCARRED."

I'm getting these trippy flashbacks of Cannibal Holocaust and Save The Green Planet...

Additionally, I thought Spanking the Monkey was pretty disturbing.

[I can't type.]

[Edited on Jun 06, 2006 by Vampirate]

...and it was also the only reason I saw Moon 44! I thin kit was the only other film that company made...and I just had to know.

in more ways than one