Comment on this post with your favorite disturbing horror movie and I'll pick 1 winner to win a disturbing horror Christmas package! Here's mine:
This is one of my favorites. I bought it in college because I heard it was one of the most disturbing movies ever made, and I wanted to watch it. I didn't expect it to have any actual cinematic value. But I was surprised by Camille Keaton's performance in that it's actually very good and harrowing. The rape scene is indeed disturbing, and there's one scene with a phone call that never fails to make me jump and give me chills even after all these years. Someone once asked me why I would want to watch a movie that graphically and brutally depicts rape, and my response was that rape is both graphic and brutal, so if a movie is going to show those things, I want it to be realistic and true to life. "Descent" (not "The Descent" with the cave monsters which while it is a great movie is not about rape) is another one that depicts both male and female rape and is so disturbing in the end that it almost did me in. Brutal stuff, but cinematically honest.
