1:Dead Snow (2009 – Norway) [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Easily the best Nazi Zombie movie. Scores highly in gore, fun, and creature effects while all the time the filmmakers keep their tongue firmly planted in cheek without descending into eye-rolling comedy.
2:Shock Waves (1977 – USA) [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] One of the first real Nazi Zombie movies (Nazi’s as a horror and sci-fi exploitation angle had been explored while WW2 was still being fought). The movie has some fantastic visuals, great zombie makeup, Peter Cushing, and Brooke Adams in a bikini.
3:Frankenstein’s Army (2013 – Netherlands) [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] While not zombies in the traditional sense, these reanimated corpses meshed with machine parts are pretty darn gnarly. The found footage angle makes no sense and the film would have been better served without it (how is this 1940s 16mm camera 16:9 footage?). Telling the story from a Soviet perspective is a neat angle too.
4:Outpost (2008 – UK) [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] British indie horror has gone Zombie crazy over the past decade, much of it cheap D2DVD junk that appeals only to those humoured by ‘If Found Please Return to Pub‘ t-shirts. Outpost is probably the pinnacle of the phase as modern day British mercenaries discover 60 year old Nazi Zombies. Once the action goes underground into an abandoned bunker It’s pretty effective stuff.
5:Zombie Lake (1981 – Spain/France) [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] This Spanish-French effort is on the cheap side of low-budget. When you have no money, and it’s 1981, you resort to two things; human women are naked and Nazi Zombies are just people painted green. This movie then is 100% successful! One of a slew of 70s and 80s Zombie flicks where the poster art was far better than the movie. But isn’t the poster art just bloody great?
On pretty much any list regarding disturbing, twisted, horrific (you get the idea, this movie’s really messed up) movies will contain this serial offender, A Serbian Film. Quite a conspicuous title with such a horrifically disturbing story. A Serbian Film follows a retired porn star who is asked back to the industry for one final shoot, to which he agrees. Following this, we’re made to witness the most horrific acts imaginable, from paedophilia, newborn baby none, murder, etc. Does it sound vile? Yes. Is it? More than you could ever imagine. Be warned, this is not a movie for the faint of heart or even for those with a strong heart. Arguably, it’s not even a movie, but simply an insight into human depravity and a sketch from hell.
Rather an obscure movie, Anthropophagus tells the story of a group of friends who visit a remote island only to find that its inhabitants have been brutally slaughtered by a mysterious and lurking killer on the island. For the most part, the movie is a rather typical slasher movie, being possibly director Joe D’Amatos’ finest work. However, as the friends are individually singled out and picked off one by one, the infamous foetus-eating scene rears its ugly head. In this sequence, the killer attacks a pregnant woman in the island’s tomb and tears the foetus from within her, eating it in full view of the camera. What makes this so disturbing is that at the time of its release, it was widely believed that this scene was real and that those who had watched the movie had witnessed a legitimate snuff movie. Of course, this was false, but it certainly gives you an indication that this is quite a disturbing movie. In addition to this, the final 10 minutes include an intense chase scene (well, the killer, in true horror movie fashion, simply walks, but it’s intense nonetheless) which will certainly make your hairs stand on end.
Banned in over 50 countries and feared in every country, Cannibal Holocaust is the master of cannibal, found footage and disturbing horror movies. With this movie being so realistic, the director was forced to prove that the cast of Cannibal Holocaust were alive and well and that they hadn’t actually been devoured by Amazonian tribal cannibals. With real animal killings (at the request of the tribe the crew filmed with), very realistic human killings and a very uneasily disturbing atmosphere, Cannibal Holocaust remains possibly the most controversial movie ever made. Loved by many, feared by more, Cannibal Holocaust captured exactly what it is for a movie to be disturbing – realistic, despairing and vividly violent. All you need to know before watching Cannibal. Holocaust is that it’s wise to watch it on an empty stomach.
Judging by whether or not you believe that the remake comes even close to the original 1977 movie of the same name, this addition to the list may confuse you. In the 2018 remake of Suspiria, the story of Susie Bannion unfolds as she arrives in 1970s Cold War Berlin so that she can attend the prestigious Tanz Akademie ran by the mysterious Madame Blanc. A spate of disappearances occur on-site and it soon becomes obvious that the academy is host to a coven of witches. Throughout the movie, we see them pick off people, twisting their limbs and contorting their bodies in the most cringe-inducing pain possible, but what makes the 2018 remake of Suspiria truly deserve its spot on this list is the movie’s truly ghastly finale. Deviating from the source material, in the finale it is revealed that Susie is the real Helena Markos (the head witch) and she proceeds to slaughter the witch who is acting as an impostor and then slaughters every last person in the room in a truly beautiful symphony of gore with a smooth spattering of blood in every direction. This isn’t a movie with a happy ending and, if the reactions from cinemagoers who witnessed this for the first time are anything to go by, will stay with you for a long time.
What do dead foetuses in clocks, topless nuns melancholy have in common? Melancholie Der Engel would be the answer to that question. For those unfamiliar with the German language, the title of this exploit translates as ‘The Angel’s Melancholia’, with seems quite fitting considering that this movie could quite easily make even an angel feel melancholic, Describing the plot of this movie is rather difficult; online, the synopsis of the movie is, ‘Two friends meet again to share their last days in an old house where everything happened a long time ago. They gather a group of people, which results in a disastrous turn of events, during which reveals the deepest human depths.’ This doesn’t quite do this piece of abstract cinema its justice – Melancholie Der Engel is a voyage into the deepest caverns of human depravity, degeneracy and doom.
So realistic is Guinea Pig: Flower Of Flesh and Blood, that Charlie Sheen reported the movie to the FBI. The premise of the Guinea Pig franchise itself is rather simple: create the goriest movies possible. Flower Of Flesh and Blood does this perfectly. The plot of Flower Of Flesh And Blood is simple: a young woman is stalked during the night, kidnapped and taken to an unknown location where she is subjected to the most extreme torture imaginable. Before we know what’s going on, we’re witnesses to a sickening symphony of limb severings, decapitation and maggot-filled flesh. Unless your stomach is made of steel, you’ll probably not make it through this one. Then again, are you sure you truly want to watch this on a good conscience?
The found footage genre in horror became quite trendy after the release of the innovative Blair Witch Project in 1999 (despite the fact that Cannibal Holocaust contained a lot of the found footage style of filmmaking, it didn’t really make it a trend) and on the coattails of this is the disgusting August Underground trilogy, masterminded by director Fred Vogel, an old student of horror icon Tom Savini’s special effects school. There isn’t particularly a set narrative with the three August Underground movies (August Underground, August Underground’s Penance, August Underground’s Mordum) apart from the fact that people are constantly murdered by depraved outsiders for no other reason than said outsiders gain a perverse pleasure from the murder of innocent members of the public. The August Underground movies are the closest thing you’ll ever get to a snuff film without you witnessing a legitimate snuff film.
Arthouse horror director Lucifer Valentine’s career-defining trilogy the Vomit Gore trilogy is by far the most abstract entry to this list and of the disturbing themes within each movie don’t scare you, the movies’ cinematography will. Each movie refuses to follow a linear structure and is an amalgamation of demonic hallucinations and visions from the depths of darkness. The audio is purposely distorted, the camera is grainy, the visions are disturbing. All-around, the Vomit Gore trilogy is pretty odd by the offset. Comprising of the movie titles Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, ReGOREgitated Sacrifice and Slow Torture Puke Chamber, the Vomit Gore trilogy follows the story of a bulimic 19-year-old runaway prostitute who begins to have these disturbing hallucinations. Including scenes such as conjoined twins (at the head) being cut apart, a fingerless girl playing the guitar and a man repeatedly vomiting into a jug and drinking it back again in a viciously vile cycle, you needn’t even ask why the Vomit Gore trilogy is on this list. Director Lucifer Valentine coined his own horror genre (Vomit Gore) in the making of this trilogy and unsurprisingly, his strange fetishistic vision hasn’t gained any traction. Also following this trilogy is an addition to the Vomit Gore trilogy which Valentine creatively named Black Mass Of The Nazi Sex Wizard. If realistic gore, constant vomiting and disturbing sexual themes aren’t your thing, you may want to steer clear of this truly disturbing trilogy.
Asian horror movies often do seem to be a few notches above Western horrors, often with their unflinching willingness to explore depravity, insanity and abstraction, all of which often combine to make horror masterpieces, with Audition being an example of this. Starting off innocently enough, a widower decides to have women audition to be his new wife and so enlists his friend to help him with his conquest. After choosing the woman he likes, it soon begins apparent that there’s something not quite right about her. Without spoiling too much of the plot of Audition, it’s safe to say that this could quite easily be the darkest Asian horror movie of the 20th century. Just what’s being held within the burlap sacks in her apartment?
What do severed achilles tendons, secret societies, Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino have in common? They are all a part of Hostel, a movie which defined the modern slasher in a very innovative fashion. Hostel tells us the story of 3 backpacking friends, Paxton, Josh and Oli, all of whom are backpacking through Europe in the search of hedonistic pleasures. After evading having bottles thrown at them by locals after they are locked out of their hostel, they are invited into an apartment by a young man who tells them to visit a hostel in Slovakia with the promise of sex-starved beautiful women. It soon comes to light that the hostel is a fiendish front for a secret organisation which sells rich folk the opportunity to buy a backpacker in order to torture them in any way desired by the purchaser. Before long, we’re subjected to achilles tendons being severed, a bodiless head, a woman having her eye melted with a blowtorch and a whole manner of unimaginably agonising acts. Any movie which is based upon the concept of a secret society which sells torture chamber sessions to wealthy people from around the world more than deserves its slot on a disturbing movies list.
If you can make it through this list without feeling physically sick, you’re already ahead of the average horror fan. Think you can brave it through all of the movies on this list? What do you think is the most disturbing horror movie of all time?
I wanted to hate this film at first. But it is a good fan film. On rare occasions they can offer up interesting ideas and concepts. “Dylan’s New Nightmare” is an ambitious and interesting fan film in that its concept works for and against the final film, in the end. While the whole concept of a follow up to“New Nightmare” is a good one, it’s problematic in that: it basically feels like a proof of concept for a sequel, and “New Nightmare” isn’t canonical to the rest of the series. With “New Nightmare”, Wes Craven was holding up a magnifying glass, stepping back to examine the overwhelming expectations and pains of success.
It was also not on the timeline of Freddy Krueger, as the monster in the film was not Freddy Krueger.
Following in his mother Heather’s footsteps, Dylan Porter is now an adult trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood. He has a real nightmare of an audition trying out for dismissive casting agents for the new “Hatchet” movie. Before long, he realizes that his audition may not be what he imagined, as he is suddenly visited and taunted by what appears to be Freddy Krueger, back from hell and angrier than ever since 1994.
Taken as a short epilogue to “New Nightmare”, Cecil Laird’s horror short is perfectly fine as is. But there’s not a lot of argument for where it belongs in this presumed mythology. Is it a part of “Nightmare” series or the “New Nightmare” timeline? Is Dylan being taunted by the real Freddy Krueger? Did he somehow inexplicably shift through the fabric of reality? Or is Dylan being taunted by the demon that became Freddy in “The New Nightmare”? Is this Freddy just a manifestation of Dylan’s trauma? What happened after “New Nightmare” ended? Is Heather having the same experiences?
In either case, “Dylan’s New Nightmare” is a good fan film with a now grown Miko Hughes returning to the role of Porter. Hughes hasn’t missed a beat reprising this character, and he’s very good here, playing wonderfully off of Dave McRae. McRae, complimented by wonderful make up by Nora Hewitt, does a great job as Krueger. He’s vindictive, he’s angry, and he’s as bitter as ever.
You can’t really match up against Englund, but McRae thankfully doesn’t seem to try.
For what it’s worth “Dylan’s New Nightmare” is entertaining and well directed, I just never could figure out where Laird was leading toward. What is Krueger’s goal with Dylan? Is this an intended series of films like “Never Hike Alone”?
Nevertheless, I appreciated seeing this extension of “New Nightmare” as it continues to be one of the more underrated horror films of the nineties. It stumbles thematically and narrative wise, but I enjoyed the spirit behind it, and the love for the parallel mythology that Craven established subsequent “Freddy’s Dead.”
Ok. Already I’m cheating, but I mean . . . come on. This has one of the best shark scenes in cinematic history. During an early scene of the movie, a woman decides to go for a swim in the lovely Caribbean waters when a tiger shark appears. As she hides among some of the terrain on the ocean floor, she quickly finds she is not alone. A zombie has found his way into the depths. As she swims away, the zombie turns its attention to the shark. What ensues is one of the greatest shark fights on film, and it involves a real shark
This movie has a little bit of everything. Vietnam war veterans, evil strip club owners, and telepathic connections to sharks. What more do you need? Sonny is in Vietnam and is saved by a mako shark as he is being stalked by the enemy. He decides he loves sharks and is given a magic medallion by a shaman that lets him telepathically communicate with his beloved creatures. When he moves to Florida, he runs afoul of the owner of a local aquarium and a strip club owner who wants to use sharks in one of his acts. They try to convince Sonny to use his powers to help them, but instead, he declares war on those that try to hurt them. Ironically, for a movie that’s pro-shark, many of the tactics used off screen during filming were cruel, with sharks having had their teeth removed prior to filming.
This Italian-made Jaws-rip-off was a smash hit. It made $18 million and probably would have made a lot more, were it not for the fact that Universal Studios actually sued the American distributor to have it pulled from theaters. For the longest time, this was unavailable in the U.S, but now you can see the Italian release version, The Last Shark, online. While some may wonder, after seeing it, why Universal sued, part of the reason is the original score the American distributor commissioned for the film. It was very, very closely patterned on what John Williams wrote for Jaws, and isn’t available on any currently existing version of the film.
The cheesy shark film that started a phenomenon! This low-budget horror film seemed destined to follow the other such films that end up on the SyFy Channel, but this one caught on with audiences who fell in love. There ended up being six of these films made over five years. You don’t need to be in deep water for there to be a shark attack, but in this movie you don’t even need to be in the water at all. A freak weather accident causes a hurricane off the coast of Los Angeles and picks up a load of deadly great white sharks. It drops them on the unsuspecting public as the city is drenched. Finley has to fight his way to Beverly Hills to make sure his family is safe. The cultural impact of this movie immediately made it one of the best shark movies.
Another tale that proves that humans should not genetically meddle with ultimate killing machines in research facilities. Scientists in an underwater laboratory begin altering the DNA of a group of mako sharks. Now they are larger and way more intelligent than they should be. The group funding the project show up to question if it should move forward, but they all end up trapped in the base as a tropical storm rages above. The sharks get loose and begin wreaking havoc upon anyone they lay their eyes on. A fun movie that will have you pumping your fist in the air.
Made during the newer 3D craze, this film tries to make the best use of it by sticking you in a supermarket with sharks. A tsunami hits the coast of Australia, trapping a group of people in a quickly flooding grocery store. Among them is former lifeguard Josh who found a new profession after a shark attack. As they begin to wonder when the storm will let up, they realize that the flooded store has a twelve-foot-long killer shark patrolling its aisles. Now they must figure out how to survive and not become a cleanup in aisle five.
Proving that you should never go sailing with your friends. A group sets out for a fun day of sailing when the boat hits a rock. This opens up the bottom of the ship, and the group has to decide what to do. One of them recommends they try and swim to a nearby island as the overturned boat is being pulled out to sea. Then a shark fin appears in the water. As they swim, they are being hunted by a great white shark. They are being picked off one by one by the apex predator as they try to make it to land.
So not only are you being hunted by a man-eating shark, but you’re also trapped on the ocean floor? Sounds like a nightmare. This is precisely what happens to the two sisters as they go on vacation. They decide to do a cage diving excursion in shark-infested waters, but the cable holding onto the cage snaps. As they settle onto the bottom of the ocean, they see that sharks are starting to appear. Now they only have one hour of air left and can’t leave the cage as the sharks try to wait them out. Can you imagine cage diving and seeing a megalodon just show up like in The Meg 2?
This was a surprise hit in the spring of 2023. While this Josh Lucas-led shark flick didn’t get much theatrical play via new distributor The Avenue (they had a solid theatrical hit with Land of Bad), this was a huge streaming hit and a sequel is in the works. While it’s lower-key than a lot of other movies on this list, the setting on a Mexican Oil Rig is cool, and Lucas is a better actor than usual for movies like this.
A surfer hears about a secluded beach that is supposed to be the ultimate destination to catch some waves. When she heads out, she quickly finds a shark hunting in the area and attacks her. She ends up on a rock only 200 feet from shore but can’t safely make it back without becoming a shark dinner. As she sits trying to figure out what to do, she realizes that high tide is coming soon and the rock she is safe on will be underwater. A great thriller that is tense throughout.
Maybe the most terrifying thing about this movie is that it’s based on a true story! It will keep anyone out of the ocean. A young couple books a scuba diving trip in the Caribbean. They have such a great time that they are the last to surface in their group. To their dismay, they find that the rest of their group has left them behind after a botched headcount. The couple is left to float out in the ocean and see that sharks could soon be the biggest problem. This one will make your stomach clench the whole time you’re watching it. Beware.
It had to be right? This Steven Spielberg film not only changed the summer movie season forever but also terrified people of getting in the water. Sadly it also caused a worldwide problem when people began hunting sharks due to fear of this movie becoming a reality. Sheriff Brody thinks a shark may be patrolling off the coast of his small town and tries to convince the mayor to shut the beaches down. He refuses to do so because the July 4th weekend would be an economic disaster. Of course, then a giant shark shows up and kills a little boy. A team is assembled to hunt the shark down and kill it, but not before it takes out most of the crew and sinks their boat. A classic film that is worth a watch whenever possible. A classic film that is worth a watch whenever possible.
While making a sequel to Jaws was an act of pure commerce, the first one they did isn’t half bad. This time, a great white stalks a bunch of teens, and despite saving Amity just a few years before, no one believes Brody when he warns them that a shark is on the loose. This benefits from Roy Scheider reprising his role and the classy director of Jeannot Szwarc. That said, the next two Jaws movies are REALLY bad.
Subject: Big Bad Bone Daddy's Reviews And Suggested Movies 
Tue 14 May 2024, 10:05 pm
