"As much as you try to make a political statement, at the end of the day, some people are going to look at your political statement and just see someone having sex with a baby" I am always saying this
When I heard her say that, I just immediately felt respect times one thousand. No one gives a shit about the political message…when there is fucking newborn rape.
@@cookiesontoast9981 Hellraiser has a lot of body horror but it doesn't keep me up at night, same deal with the Alien movies they're good and have creative scary creatures but not even close to the most disturbing movies
I like Fight Club but I feel like a lit of people missed the point. They see Tyler Durden as someone to emulate rather than a solution that is not really better than the problem.
Did you know that Fred: The Movie has a Gummo reference in it? At one point, Fred is having breakfast in the tub and he has a strip of bacon taped to the wall. This was confirmed intentional by someone who worked on the set.
Lucas Cruikshank is a weird, weird dude, and those early Fred videos are really dark in retrospect, so his being a Harmony Korine fan would actually make perfect sense to me.
@@ConvincingPeople Ya know what? you’re right, their were videos where Fred would talk about his mother being alcoholic or something like that and not knowing his dad
The actress who plays Fred's mother, Siobhan Fallon, is also a Lars Von Trier regular (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, and I think she was in House That Jack Built). He likes casting her in his films because she is a great underrated character actress. Also was Edgar's wife in Men In Black and briefly a SNL cast member.
Too bad she’s very stingy about her work being available online. But the Clockwork Orange soundtrack is fantastic and has some of my favorite renditions of classical pieces. She also did music for The Shining, mostly the opening helicopter shots scene, but there is a whole other totally discarded soundtrack for the movie that has some songs by her that are worth checking out
I mean, the joke is, he's already been cancelled repeatedly. Which has kind of done nothing? But still. People know Lars von Trier is a dude with Issues, to be way too nice about it.
I love Felidae. It's about a cat being a detective, basically, it's a lot like Se7en except everyone is a cat. Personally would consider it good but not disturbing. The Joaquin Phoenix film is Earthlings, it's a "go vegan, look at all the bad shit that happens to animals" film.
I think Felidae is one of those movies that people accidentally saw as kids when they were definitely not ready to see a bunch of disemboweled cats, so it lives on in people's memories as awful and disturbing when an adult watch is just really good.
@@iwillworkharder Yeah it's a great film but is absolutely for adults. Can see it would be disturbing for children. If we're talking animated films that are disturbing and good, I'd vote Plague Dogs or When The Wind Blows over Felidae any day.
Hey, that one scene in Earthlings where they show were fur coats come from (avoiding spoilers) still bothers me to this day. I've seen plenty of "pro vegan" videos but that particular scene is still one of the most gruesome to me. It even trumps a lot of human gore/shock videos.
I lived in the town "Gummo" was based on, Xenia, Ohio. There was a restaurant that was closed for having cat meat in the walk in freezer, but it was in Dayton, not Xenia, and the owners of the restaurant claimed the cat meat was for their own consumption and not used in the restaurant. Didn't matter ultimately because the board of health said it could not be kept in the same cooler as the meat used in the restaurant for customers to prevent contamination.
I also wanna say the central premise of Good Night Mommy is preeeeetty good. I mean, mom comes home after reconstructive surgery with a head wrapped in gauze and shit and her kids start to suspect that it may not actually be their mom? That’s great, you have to admit that’s great, even if you didn’t like the execution or ending.
Lilja 4-ever is such a bleak film. Every time you think "This is it, this is rock bottom, nothing can beat that", it just punches you (and Lilja) in the gut. Very successful in sucking all the joy and hope out of your life. Watch it, if you want to ruin your entire week.
Don't think I've ever seen a film that depicts a subject matter in such a raw and blatant way and I absolutely love the film but dear lord does it leave you drained and hollow by the end
Alternate Title: May Demonstrates Her Love and Mastery of the Running Gag. I've only seen a few of the movies discussed, but May's commentary is very entertaining!
for real! it's on my "media that radicalized me as a child" list. in fact i was the same age as the character of hayley when i watched it for the first time. there are just so many great lines she delivers that have stuck in my brain ever since! "just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman, does not mean she's ready to do what a woman does." also i'm using she/her in this case to refer to hayley, not elliot page!
@@anishinaabae yes I have personally used variations of that line ever since, it meant a lot to me when I was that age and continues to. Along with being just really good, it's ridiculously healing for kids who have been through grooming situations.
I legit don't know how I feel about Hard Candy to this day. I think Elliot Page's performance is exceptional, and it's solidly directed and unsettling, but I'm also not 100% sure what I think about the message or, more pertinently here, how the film delivers that message, partly because I know it's trying to say something but I can't say for sure what it *is.* It feels like feminist Mamet in some respects.
Since you were speculating about Harmony Korine as a person, the only really upsetting thing I've heard about him or his work is that James Ransone (Tate in Ken Park) has spoken in depth about how he felt like he was taken advantage of and exploited on the set of that movie, I guess he was super young and dealing with a serious drug problem at the time and felt like he never properly consented to a lot of the really explicit sexual scenes in that movie and that he was pressured into doing a lot of things he was uncomfortable with. So that's pretty upsetting.
@November Passion yeah in that case Korine probably wasn’t involved in this particular situation and can’t really be held at fault. Thanks for adding clarification.
American Psycho (novel) was probably the most disturbing thing I had read when I was in high school, i only just saw the movie now at 28. Christian Bale played the character right for how toned down it is compared to the book.
This is what I’ve been saying! (Hi I’m commenting on this 2 years later) I recently read American Psycho, and I literally had to keep putting it down for its content. The movie is very tame and honestly comedic but the book is awful. Well written but a very disturbing read.
That gif of Katya Zamo's face being eaten by worms caught me by surprise at it was hilarious. Don't think I'll ever have the stomach to watch most of these movies but loved the video, and congrats on the new album!
"Hard Candy" has beginner-level shock content, but is still a good film to watch, not disturbing but good imo. "Felidae" is really hard to find outside of RUclips rips of the film. It has its share of weird, crazy moments; but it mainly unnerves people due to things like love of animals. It can get straight-up trippy at times. I need to rewatch it to see if I think it's good.
I hope you're doing alright, May. You don't talk about your trauma a whole lot so I'm taking this opportunity to send you an internet hug. Not in a weird parasocial way but like a normal way.
I'm surprised to see it on there, but you're not missing much with In the Tall Grass. Stephen king-based movie with an interesting set-up that immediately starts to suck ass with the execution. The first 20 or so minutes have a nice build up but then they did a close-up cut on a dead crow with stock reverb crow sfx over it and I instantly got taken out of it and never recovered. It gets weird but not disturbing, just in a "what the fuck am I genuinely supposed to be looking at/are we really doing this now?" kind of way. My take: In the Tall Grass, not good or disturbing.
The House that Jack Built feels like a pretty blatant callout post of LVT himself. It really does feel like an apology for his previous rhetoric by portraying a serial killer who thinks of himself as an auteur filmmaker. Also a child dies & PETA was like "we love this" ???????????
Hereditary is ABSOLUTELY kinda trans and I will forever stand by that statement, glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that…. And before anyone gets upset at me I am also trans so 👀
I’m trans too and haven’t seen it since coming out but how is it trans other than the demon being uncomfortable in a female body and setting up an elaborate plot to “transition” into a new male body, or is that just it and I never should have asked lol?
@@andreja9425 I reccomend Mae's video, "HEREDITARY HOT TAKE" she explains it much better than I could! Watching the movie I had that weird itchy feeling like it was just a liiiiittle trans but not in a way I could pinpoint or flesh out in my brain, and Mae does a really good job of elaborating on that feeling
to be fair, they weirdly un-canceled him out of nowhere and then he made The House That Jack Built. which, in retrospect, should've gotten him locked up. we live in a society where Lars Von Trier makes stuff :(
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm666 lol, why should he been locked up over a MOVIE? Also, that movie was tame as hell (and mostly just BORING). I don't get why people hype it us as disturbing.
@@markalexander3659 it's ironic, ofc you can't get locked up over a movie. I meant it because it's a boring, fakedeep, edgelord-y film that uses self awareness as an excuse to depict awful violence. although, I kind of would like to know he's not allowed to work anymore just bc he's a bigot and his stuff is bad, but again, that's not a thing.
I didn't realize Altered States was considered disturbing. It's definitely one I consider fun, thought provoking and weird. But not disturbing. Not even really scary, to be honest. And I'm not trying to be edgy! I was super disturbed by other films on this list.
When I was first in college one night I was on 🍄 and I met a guy and he immediately was like "Let's go watch A Clockwork Orange in my dorm room" and I said "yeah okay I loved the book, haven't seen the movie". All of that sounds like the intro to a horrifying night, just 100% red flags but nah, it was great, he's still one of my best friends 10 years later.
I have loved horror since I was a bitty tiny child and Requiem For A Dream gave me nightmares tbqh. I watched it high af in college and it scarred me for life
My one for that is Under The Skin, not for any of the alien stuff or anything but the horrifyingly realistic bit on the beach. The bit on the beach is why I can never watch it again.
I always thought it was more heartbreaking to be honest. Although for me, it's because of Ellen Burstyn's character. My youngest brother watched it for a college class, and apparently Burstyn's character just got to him and told me that she reminded him of our own mother whom, for over a decade now, has been desperately trying to lose weight and has not gone about it in the healthiest of ways, and is willing to slowly kill herself to fit an arbitrary image of "health" and "beauty" that society has decided we should all strive for. I watched it for myself and I immediately understood what he was talking about, and I couldn't finish the movie. My brother even told this to our mother and she laughed it off, saying that he was "overreacting" and "taking it too seriously". It doesn't help that she most likely has BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), she wasn't diagnosed with it because she refuses to open up about anything like that to her psychiatrist and doctor-- as she puts it "her life is so tragic, it would only make others more depressed to listen to me" my mother is also extremely vain and self-centered (and has abused me emotionally my entire life growing up), so she has a tendency to exaggerate things to make it sound worse than it is, and has held firm in her belief that no one suffers like her or has had a life as bad as hers (and the only time she'll acknowledge that some people have it worse, is usually to silence me and gaslight me into feeling guilt for opening up about my own depression which she claims is "all in my head"-- as in made up). It's impossible trying to reason with her, or even educate her, because she becomes defensive and will emotionally attack and lash out at people who tell her something she doesn't want to hear. Her doctors are no better, as they are the old school Boomers who-- like my mother, believe that the worst thing a person can be is fat, so they encourage her starving herself, overexerting her body that is riddled with chronic pain with exercise and not giving it enough, if any, time to heal and recuperate telling her that "she's just not trying hard enough" when she bemoans that she can't lose 10 - 15 pounds in four days and will spiral into a deep depression when she sees that she has gained half a pound to a whole pound when she weighs herself every day, and will gladly prescribe any medicines to her, not because she is suffering from an ailment that the medicine is meant to help alleviate, but because "weight loss" is touted as one of the side effects so you can put two and two together and figure that one out.
@@cannibalisticrequiem dear god, I am so sorry. That sounds really difficult and trying (to say the least, I’m sure). I REALLY hope you AND ur mom can get to a better place with your health and everything. I’ve been very very lucky, my mom is incredible but my dad is a toxic bi-polar a-hole and I know how difficult dealing with an unhealthy parent can be. Especially when they’re only too comfortable gaslighting you or making you feel inadequate. I can totally see how burstyn’s performance could cut a little too deeply for your brother. That performance is harrowing. I always thought Marian was the most tragic but now I’m not so sure. Either way, I really hope you are and can be ok and happy and healthy. You deserve that.
Damn I loved hard candy, I got so excited when I saw it. My dad calls it "mandatory education" because he's showed it to all his kids when we hit our early teens, because the beginning is a perfect example of what to watch out for and the rest is just pure catharsis. I've been begging my boyfriend to watch it with me for ages and this will renew my vigour
Spoilers if u haven't seen it please watch it I do think it holds up today! I always liked how elliot's character feels like a very real person somehow even though we, by design, learn pretty much nothing about them except that they don't like p3dos. And the camera stays where it should be, in the only scene where elliot is "sexualized" it's 100% not the point of the scene and feels intentionally uncomfortable and gross. And I just like the idea of comeuppance for creeps coming in the form of a terrifying, manipulative child they tried to prey on. The red riding hood role reversal imagery is also really cool. 10/10 probably a weird movie for me to hyperfixate on but hey we all cope somehow
I can't express how wonderful it is to see someone dunking on Antichrist. and Von Trier in general. Outside of a select few films, the guy is an absolute hack in my opinion.
Lost my shit at Earthlings (one with Joaquin Phoenix) being on the list hahaha, for those wondering it's a documentary of the treatment of animals in the meat/dairy/egg/fur industry.
And I was thinking it was DOMINION. Did'nt know Joaquin Phoenix was also involved in EARTHLINGS. Thanks for commenting on this. It is really important to talk more about those Movies.
Ari Asters " The Johnsons " made me want to shower in Mr. Clean and put bleach in ny eyes. Also, anything by Todd Haines .especially his film "Happiness ". I can't get the disturbance out of my mind..
Born in 1998 so technically Gen z or I’m in that weird gray area between generations, I can’t tell anymore, but for what it’s worth I adore Donnie Darko.
I watched Dancer In the Dark after you talked about it in a video (I think it was the disturbing movies iceberg) and I went in knowing as little as possible and I was literally sobbing, it's fantastic but oh man was I upset. Also muddled up my types of CBT for a sec watching this which was amusing. Also hyped for the new album, I love your music! Great video, feels like I have a friend to chill with xD looking forward to part 2.
the girl with the satanic face paint chose katya zamolochikova as an example for drag queens, how unpredictable 😂 your sense of humor is top tier, always excited to see a new video
Your list has had me on a nearly year long journey of chipping away at your top picks and man, consider my limits tested xO I'm now returning for the ones lower on your list so wish me luck 😅
"Benny's Video" and "The Seventh Continent" are two of the best horror films I've ever seen. I highly suggest May watch them. Also, Michael Haneke should remake "Heathers" and I will fight people on that.
Always so happy to see Queen May! She's so quotable in the first three minutes and clearly understands her base better than most horror tubers. I was going to applaud the choice to run from most cis guy Fight Club layfans, but then I was mercilessly eviscerated by the comment about the Clockwork Orange poster and subsequent admission of having owned said poster. 🙃 May is consistently the best and long may she reign
yoooo my buddy is the abducted homeless guy in CAPTURE KILL RELEASE, I've been meaning to watch it (he was the speaking and singing voice of Audrey II in our local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors)
I randomly watched Antiviral after stumbling upon it on Netflix. After I finished watching it I was like “oh my god, we just accidentally watched a disturbing movie.” I thought it was good and I really enjoy the main actor in most of his roles. The concept was quite of disturbing but the actual content wasn’t super disturbing unless you have a phobia of needles or blood :)
Last comment I swear but this really is so well edited and quippy, esp for a tier list, you didn't have to go that hard but you did and we love you for it
First time I've seen anyone mention Capture Kill Release. It's not disturbing unless you're really bothered by the (fake) killing of cats but I really liked it. Well acted and some great dark comedy.
What I took away from Antichrist was a really, and I swear I'm not being hyperbolic, profound commentary on gender roles. From the very start of the movie there are multiple hints in the house, the background shots, the way the two interact, that position Dafoe as ignorant & sexist. That's most evident by him thinking he can "cure" Gainsbourg's horrible depression/PTSD on like 3 years of college psychology. He drives Gainsbourg to absurd levels of self-misogyny as Dafoe continues this Machiavellian pursuit of dominance over nature and human nature. I think Trier didn't have a concrete idea of what the film structure and the Eden symbolism meant but IMO he's putting parallel the hubris of Enlightenment thought and patriarchal hegemony as forces that tear apart the humanity from a person. That's why at the end he's rewarded for his successful psychological experiment with a mob of beautiful, angelic, *faceless* women Trier is about as subtle as an oncoming train to a cow in the tracks, and I think the response from the sincerity of Breaking the Waves drove his likely pre-existing hang ups with sex and gender into this career-long battle with misogyny. His middle-school edgelord antics aren't helping him any (Anti-Christ is famous for having a credited "misogyny expert on staff"). But all that coalesced in this movie that critiques patriarchy from the perspective of a depressed, perverse, lonely man, meant for other men just like him
this take is absolutely fascinating. But, I think it's not really a critique as much as it is Lars proyecting into it all as he made it right after a breakup, so you can really see his feelings towards women in this one. if a female director had made the film, then It could be thought of as a critique of patriarcal gender roles. and even then, the movie is extremely white, both explicitly and Ideologically. it's just a very *icky* movie. it makes me *ick*
As for Goodnight mommy, I think a lot of people misunderstand the point. From my interpretation, the "twist" is supposed to be obvious, not a twist. It's more about the tragedy of the story rather than the shock value
‘Benny’s Video’ is a great film, but please be very careful, the opening of the film has some upsetting and completely real animal violence. Also, ‘Inside’ is on Criterion channel now lol Also, thank you for appreciating ‘Kuso’, the opening and post-credit scene are permanently implanted in my soul in the best way
My partner and I watched Knock Knock together and despite being sober (because I was pregnant at the time) we spent almost the entire thing laughing our asses off and occasionally gasping in utter disbelief 😂😂😂
I experienced two huge losses and saw Hereditary not long after. I actually found it incredibly therapeutic in a way? I think in a big way because it was just validating to see how numbing and also incredibly painful grief can be
"If I go to a boy's home and see a fight club poster I'll genuinely run away screaming" is, contextually, the funniest shit I have ever heard. Also here are some movies you should check out: Man bites dog Wake in fright Raw The Grande Bouffe and Blow Out Ravenous. None of these movies are gory or even that disturbing, but they are pretty good. Raw and Wake in fright is only disturbing if you are Belgian or Australian respectively but if you are one of those things, they are pretty fucking disturbing.
The first man I met in college as a closeted lesbian had a fight club poster in his bedroom and I decided in that moment I could not lie to myself anymore
"Antichrist" is a movie about sexism, aside from depression. It clearly states it is about the christian image of women. Then the movie exaggerates this concept and ridicules/criticises it. It is quite common for Lars von Trier movies - just take "Manderlay".
Big Harmony Korine enjoyer here but I lowkey agree about Kids, the ending is quite disturbing but in a way that just feels frustratingly unresolved because there's no closure or followup. Meanwhile Gummo and Julien are just classics
"As much as you try to make a political statement, at the end of the day, some people are going to look at your political statement and just see someone having sex with a baby"
I am always saying this
When I heard her say that, I just immediately felt respect times one thousand. No one gives a shit about the political message…when there is fucking newborn rape.
🇬🇷Screwed from the moment you are born🇷🇺 Why nobody understands that🙄🙄
american psycho and slaughter vomit dolls being on the same tier list is sure making me feel some emotions
Hellraiser is probably the main one here that's not disturbing at all, just an awesome film.
@@cookiesontoast9981 Hellraiser has a lot of body horror but it doesn't keep me up at night, same deal with the Alien movies they're good and have creative scary creatures but not even close to the most disturbing movies
Red flag movie posters 🚩: Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver
Green flag movie posters : Salò 😍🥰👰
Salò, or the feel-good romantic comedy of Sodom.
Salò and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Salò and the Not Bummer Summer
If you see the poster and you both start humming Coil's "Ostia" then you are legally married. I don't make the rules.
I like Fight Club but I feel like a lit of people missed the point. They see Tyler Durden as someone to emulate rather than a solution that is not really better than the problem.
Did you know that Fred: The Movie has a Gummo reference in it? At one point, Fred is having breakfast in the tub and he has a strip of bacon taped to the wall. This was confirmed intentional by someone who worked on the set.
Lucas Cruikshank is a weird, weird dude, and those early Fred videos are really dark in retrospect, so his being a Harmony Korine fan would actually make perfect sense to me.
@@ConvincingPeople Ya know what? you’re right, their were videos where Fred would talk about his mother being alcoholic or something like that and not knowing his dad
The actress who plays Fred's mother, Siobhan Fallon, is also a Lars Von Trier regular (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, and I think she was in House That Jack Built). He likes casting her in his films because she is a great underrated character actress. Also was Edgar's wife in Men In Black and briefly a SNL cast member.
@@ColeHomeVideo HOLY SHIT I think I recognize her now
Wendy Carlos did the music for A Clockwork Orange. She's pretty much the first out trans woman in electronic music, and really worth looking up
She is an innovator in microtonal music too not just sound synthesis
@@tob64 she's done sooo much for music
YOOOO that’s so cool!!!
She's awesome but I hate that she sued Momus.
Too bad she’s very stingy about her work being available online. But the Clockwork Orange soundtrack is fantastic and has some of my favorite renditions of classical pieces. She also did music for The Shining, mostly the opening helicopter shots scene, but there is a whole other totally discarded soundtrack for the movie that has some songs by her that are worth checking out
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"Lars Van Trier has been cancelled"
Much too late to be honest.
I mean, the joke is, he's already been cancelled repeatedly. Which has kind of done nothing? But still. People know Lars von Trier is a dude with Issues, to be way too nice about it.
I love Felidae. It's about a cat being a detective, basically, it's a lot like Se7en except everyone is a cat. Personally would consider it good but not disturbing. The Joaquin Phoenix film is Earthlings, it's a "go vegan, look at all the bad shit that happens to animals" film.
I think Felidae is one of those movies that people accidentally saw as kids when they were definitely not ready to see a bunch of disemboweled cats, so it lives on in people's memories as awful and disturbing when an adult watch is just really good.
@@iwillworkharder Yeah it's a great film but is absolutely for adults. Can see it would be disturbing for children.
If we're talking animated films that are disturbing and good, I'd vote Plague Dogs or When The Wind Blows over Felidae any day.
Hey, that one scene in Earthlings where they show were fur coats come from (avoiding spoilers) still bothers me to this day. I've seen plenty of "pro vegan" videos but that particular scene is still one of the most gruesome to me. It even trumps a lot of human gore/shock videos.
@@OneMoreRedNightmare Especially because it's legal.
@@IsThatEtchas When the Wind Blows is a fuckin punch in the gut and it's fantastically animated.
I lived in the town "Gummo" was based on, Xenia, Ohio. There was a restaurant that was closed for having cat meat in the walk in freezer, but it was in Dayton, not Xenia, and the owners of the restaurant claimed the cat meat was for their own consumption and not used in the restaurant. Didn't matter ultimately because the board of health said it could not be kept in the same cooler as the meat used in the restaurant for customers to prevent contamination.
Springfield just keeps on winning, baby, undefeated in southeast Ohio woo!
everything I have learned about ohio has been against my will
@@natalie_the_ratalie get ohio’d on
Donny darko was less scary/disturbing and more deeply sad and melancholic
it reminds me of mysterious skin, like i would just stare into space and/or cry after it
Agreed
More trashy, mixing up serious scientific theories with bullsh**.
I have not seen Donny Darko yet
loved the shitpost-like editing style. gave it all a layed back feeling
I laughed so much with her "this is the face of true evil" this was amazing -chefs kiss-
I also wanna say the central premise of Good Night Mommy is preeeeetty good. I mean, mom comes home after reconstructive surgery with a head wrapped in gauze and shit and her kids start to suspect that it may not actually be their mom? That’s great, you have to admit that’s great, even if you didn’t like the execution or ending.
Altered States is like if the "I was high on acid and threw my poop at people, now my friends won't talk to me" meme but if it were a horror movie.
It also got ripped off for the final shots of A-ha's "Take on me" music video!
GO BACK I WANT TO BE MONKE: The Movie
As a Gen Z’er: do in fact like Donnie Darko
kids these days will never know about thing easily retrievable from the internet.
Lilja 4-ever is such a bleak film.
Every time you think "This is it, this is rock bottom, nothing can beat that", it just punches you (and Lilja) in the gut. Very successful in sucking all the joy and hope out of your life. Watch it, if you want to ruin your entire week.
Agreed I can't recommend it enough!
Don't think I've ever seen a film that depicts a subject matter in such a raw and blatant way and I absolutely love the film but dear lord does it leave you drained and hollow by the end
Alternate Title: May Demonstrates Her Love and Mastery of the Running Gag. I've only seen a few of the movies discussed, but May's commentary is very entertaining!
Hard Candy 100% holds up, even in a post-MeToo era. It may even be better than it was when it first released. It is just... so fucking good.
It's a movie that's hard for me to recommend to most IRLs and hard to rewatch, but still such a good piece
I agree. There are parts of that movie I can't forget.
for real! it's on my "media that radicalized me as a child" list. in fact i was the same age as the character of hayley when i watched it for the first time. there are just so many great lines she delivers that have stuck in my brain ever since! "just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman, does not mean she's ready to do what a woman does."
also i'm using she/her in this case to refer to hayley, not elliot page!
@@anishinaabae yes I have personally used variations of that line ever since, it meant a lot to me when I was that age and continues to. Along with being just really good, it's ridiculously healing for kids who have been through grooming situations.
I legit don't know how I feel about Hard Candy to this day. I think Elliot Page's performance is exceptional, and it's solidly directed and unsettling, but I'm also not 100% sure what I think about the message or, more pertinently here, how the film delivers that message, partly because I know it's trying to say something but I can't say for sure what it *is.* It feels like feminist Mamet in some respects.
Since you were speculating about Harmony Korine as a person, the only really upsetting thing I've heard about him or his work is that James Ransone (Tate in Ken Park) has spoken in depth about how he felt like he was taken advantage of and exploited on the set of that movie, I guess he was super young and dealing with a serious drug problem at the time and felt like he never properly consented to a lot of the really explicit sexual scenes in that movie and that he was pressured into doing a lot of things he was uncomfortable with. So that's pretty upsetting.
I know Korine wrote the screenplay for that movie and didn't direct it so it's hard to know exactly how much responsibility he has for that
He alledgedly went through a famous actress's purse in David Letterman's green room.
@@horrorhabit8421 yeah i think that was the height of his problem, when he tried to rob Meryl Streep
@@MealDealSupreme Meryl Streep, thank you. I was blanking on her name.
@November Passion yeah in that case Korine probably wasn’t involved in this particular situation and can’t really be held at fault. Thanks for adding clarification.
This is straight up the best tier list video. She even did some hilarious editing as oppose to literally any other tier list vid
Just discovered your channel and I’m obsessed, finally a female horror youtuber who isn’t an edgy anti sjw
Hwhat are the names to avoid?
@@kostajovanovic3711 most.
@@floorfan7987 this sentence is hard to read.
Drop the names
Whenever May posts I feel like a kid whose been lost in target for 8 hours and I finally find my mom lol
American Psycho (novel) was probably the most disturbing thing I had read when I was in high school, i only just saw the movie now at 28. Christian Bale played the character right for how toned down it is compared to the book.
I love the movie but I had to put the book down. It just was incredibly graphic and mean spirited
This is what I’ve been saying! (Hi I’m commenting on this 2 years later) I recently read American Psycho, and I literally had to keep putting it down for its content. The movie is very tame and honestly comedic but the book is awful. Well written but a very disturbing read.
I feel like this list would benefit from a "disturbing but just okay" tier
Also Benny's Video is a classic you should see it
That gif of Katya Zamo's face being eaten by worms caught me by surprise at it was hilarious. Don't think I'll ever have the stomach to watch most of these movies but loved the video, and congrats on the new album!
God my sense of humor is truly broken, every single overly compressed explosion noise with the still image made me GUFFAW
14:58 "May was into CBT the whole time..." I literally died 😂
we can only hope that she's into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
@@JamScamly Both. It's always both.
"Hard Candy" has beginner-level shock content, but is still a good film to watch, not disturbing but good imo. "Felidae" is really hard to find outside of RUclips rips of the film. It has its share of weird, crazy moments; but it mainly unnerves people due to things like love of animals. It can get straight-up trippy at times. I need to rewatch it to see if I think it's good.
May: "And we're going to put them in this handy dandy little--"
Me: "Notebook???"
May: "Tier list."
Me: "...oh."
I actually liked the I Spit on Your Grave remake (and it's sequel) WAY more than the original. The revenge is just so much more satisfying.
I hope you're doing alright, May. You don't talk about your trauma a whole lot so I'm taking this opportunity to send you an internet hug. Not in a weird parasocial way but like a normal way.
I kind of want to be friends with her and I suspect I am not alone in this.
I'm surprised to see it on there, but you're not missing much with In the Tall Grass. Stephen king-based movie with an interesting set-up that immediately starts to suck ass with the execution. The first 20 or so minutes have a nice build up but then they did a close-up cut on a dead crow with stock reverb crow sfx over it and I instantly got taken out of it and never recovered. It gets weird but not disturbing, just in a "what the fuck am I genuinely supposed to be looking at/are we really doing this now?" kind of way.
My take: In the Tall Grass, not good or disturbing.
seconded. loved the setup, but it felt very style over substance as it went on to me
it's alright
The House that Jack Built feels like a pretty blatant callout post of LVT himself. It really does feel like an apology for his previous rhetoric by portraying a serial killer who thinks of himself as an auteur filmmaker. Also a child dies & PETA was like "we love this" ???????????
Hereditary is ABSOLUTELY kinda trans and I will forever stand by that statement, glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that…. And before anyone gets upset at me I am also trans so 👀
Also trans and also YES VERY AGREE
I’m trans too and haven’t seen it since coming out but how is it trans other than the demon being uncomfortable in a female body and setting up an elaborate plot to “transition” into a new male body, or is that just it and I never should have asked lol?
@@andreja9425 I reccomend Mae's video, "HEREDITARY HOT TAKE" she explains it much better than I could! Watching the movie I had that weird itchy feeling like it was just a liiiiittle trans but not in a way I could pinpoint or flesh out in my brain, and Mae does a really good job of elaborating on that feeling
"Lars Van Trier has been cancelled" - I think that already happened back when he said he sympathised with Hitler lol.
to be fair, they weirdly un-canceled him out of nowhere and then he made The House That Jack Built. which, in retrospect, should've gotten him locked up. we live in a society where Lars Von Trier makes stuff :(
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm666 lol, why should he been locked up over a MOVIE? Also, that movie was tame as hell (and mostly just BORING). I don't get why people hype it us as disturbing.
@@markalexander3659 i thought it was fun
@@markalexander3659 it's ironic, ofc you can't get locked up over a movie. I meant it because it's a boring, fakedeep, edgelord-y film that uses self awareness as an excuse to depict awful violence. although, I kind of would like to know he's not allowed to work anymore just bc he's a bigot and his stuff is bad, but again, that's not a thing.
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm666 Ahhhhhh. Then I agree haha
So we now know Fight Club posters are the best ward against May intruding in the dead of night. Not that most of us wouldn't want that
I didn't realize Altered States was considered disturbing. It's definitely one I consider fun, thought provoking and weird. But not disturbing. Not even really scary, to be honest. And I'm not trying to be edgy! I was super disturbed by other films on this list.
When I was first in college one night I was on 🍄 and I met a guy and he immediately was like "Let's go watch A Clockwork Orange in my dorm room" and I said "yeah okay I loved the book, haven't seen the movie". All of that sounds like the intro to a horrifying night, just 100% red flags but nah, it was great, he's still one of my best friends 10 years later.
OMG SHE POSTS!! ^-^ AND ITS A BONES DAY!! AMAZING!!
When I hear “disturbing movies” I immediately think of something like Requiem for a dream. I need a bleach-bath after something like that.
I have loved horror since I was a bitty tiny child and Requiem For A Dream gave me nightmares tbqh. I watched it high af in college and it scarred me for life
My one for that is Under The Skin, not for any of the alien stuff or anything but the horrifyingly realistic bit on the beach. The bit on the beach is why I can never watch it again.
I always thought it was more heartbreaking to be honest. Although for me, it's because of Ellen Burstyn's character. My youngest brother watched it for a college class, and apparently Burstyn's character just got to him and told me that she reminded him of our own mother whom, for over a decade now, has been desperately trying to lose weight and has not gone about it in the healthiest of ways, and is willing to slowly kill herself to fit an arbitrary image of "health" and "beauty" that society has decided we should all strive for. I watched it for myself and I immediately understood what he was talking about, and I couldn't finish the movie. My brother even told this to our mother and she laughed it off, saying that he was "overreacting" and "taking it too seriously". It doesn't help that she most likely has BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), she wasn't diagnosed with it because she refuses to open up about anything like that to her psychiatrist and doctor-- as she puts it "her life is so tragic, it would only make others more depressed to listen to me" my mother is also extremely vain and self-centered (and has abused me emotionally my entire life growing up), so she has a tendency to exaggerate things to make it sound worse than it is, and has held firm in her belief that no one suffers like her or has had a life as bad as hers (and the only time she'll acknowledge that some people have it worse, is usually to silence me and gaslight me into feeling guilt for opening up about my own depression which she claims is "all in my head"-- as in made up). It's impossible trying to reason with her, or even educate her, because she becomes defensive and will emotionally attack and lash out at people who tell her something she doesn't want to hear. Her doctors are no better, as they are the old school Boomers who-- like my mother, believe that the worst thing a person can be is fat, so they encourage her starving herself, overexerting her body that is riddled with chronic pain with exercise and not giving it enough, if any, time to heal and recuperate telling her that "she's just not trying hard enough" when she bemoans that she can't lose 10 - 15 pounds in four days and will spiral into a deep depression when she sees that she has gained half a pound to a whole pound when she weighs herself every day, and will gladly prescribe any medicines to her, not because she is suffering from an ailment that the medicine is meant to help alleviate, but because "weight loss" is touted as one of the side effects so you can put two and two together and figure that one out.
@@yourpalfred high af is definitely no way to be watching RFAD lol. It’s one of those rare movies that’s definitely not enhanced by drugs.
@@cannibalisticrequiem dear god, I am so sorry. That sounds really difficult and trying (to say the least, I’m sure). I REALLY hope you AND ur mom can get to a better place with your health and everything. I’ve been very very lucky, my mom is incredible but my dad is a toxic bi-polar a-hole and I know how difficult dealing with an unhealthy parent can be. Especially when they’re only too comfortable gaslighting you or making you feel inadequate. I can totally see how burstyn’s performance could cut a little too deeply for your brother. That performance is harrowing. I always thought Marian was the most tragic but now I’m not so sure. Either way, I really hope you are and can be ok and happy and healthy. You deserve that.
May goes off the rails in this one (and loves necrophilia)
Damn I loved hard candy, I got so excited when I saw it. My dad calls it "mandatory education" because he's showed it to all his kids when we hit our early teens, because the beginning is a perfect example of what to watch out for and the rest is just pure catharsis. I've been begging my boyfriend to watch it with me for ages and this will renew my vigour
Spoilers if u haven't seen it please watch it
I do think it holds up today! I always liked how elliot's character feels like a very real person somehow even though we, by design, learn pretty much nothing about them except that they don't like p3dos. And the camera stays where it should be, in the only scene where elliot is "sexualized" it's 100% not the point of the scene and feels intentionally uncomfortable and gross. And I just like the idea of comeuppance for creeps coming in the form of a terrifying, manipulative child they tried to prey on. The red riding hood role reversal imagery is also really cool. 10/10 probably a weird movie for me to hyperfixate on but hey we all cope somehow
I can't express how wonderful it is to see someone dunking on Antichrist. and Von Trier in general. Outside of a select few films, the guy is an absolute hack in my opinion.
I actually live in Slovakia and... Let's just say Hostel is confusing a sea horse for a land horse
All psychopathic catgirls must watch Felidae. It's a rule.
Lost my shit at Earthlings (one with Joaquin Phoenix) being on the list hahaha, for those wondering it's a documentary of the treatment of animals in the meat/dairy/egg/fur industry.
And I was thinking it was DOMINION. Did'nt know Joaquin Phoenix was also involved in EARTHLINGS. Thanks for commenting on this. It is really important to talk more about those Movies.
The chaotic energy is everything
Every freezeframe with text gag GOT me, I laughed more with every repeat of the same joke godDAMN IT!
Ari Asters " The Johnsons " made me want to shower in Mr. Clean and put bleach in ny eyes. Also, anything by Todd Haines .especially his film "Happiness ". I can't get the disturbance out of my mind..
You dragging Melancholie der Engel brought me so much joy.
Born in 1998 so technically Gen z or I’m in that weird gray area between generations, I can’t tell anymore, but for what it’s worth I adore Donnie Darko.
The fucking editing in this video still makes me go insane
I watched Dancer In the Dark after you talked about it in a video (I think it was the disturbing movies iceberg) and I went in knowing as little as possible and I was literally sobbing, it's fantastic but oh man was I upset. Also muddled up my types of CBT for a sec watching this which was amusing. Also hyped for the new album, I love your music! Great video, feels like I have a friend to chill with xD looking forward to part 2.
This is a giant shitpost and I love it so much
the girl with the satanic face paint chose katya zamolochikova as an example for drag queens, how unpredictable 😂 your sense of humor is top tier, always excited to see a new video
Thank god you are alive! I've missed the hell out of you
when she put AO Mordorm on the good and disturbing tier i instinctively cheered. i feel that’s genuinely the only good fake snuff movie.
Grave of fireflies is for children if you wanna traumatise them and give them existental crisis
the editing in this is amazing, I love it
Your list has had me on a nearly year long journey of chipping away at your top picks and man, consider my limits tested xO
I'm now returning for the ones lower on your list so wish me luck 😅
I would classify Lilja 4-ever as one of those "seeing it once is definitely enough" films, alongside Grave of the Fireflies.
i would think 6ix9ine was so smart for turning gummo into a song if he didn't have sex with minors and regularly use the n word
Please never fix the terrible chroma key it's an absolute aesthetic.
Felidae is one of my favorite movies. It's a pretty fun cat murder mystery and as a warrior cats fan I can't not love it
"Benny's Video" and "The Seventh Continent" are two of the best horror films I've ever seen. I highly suggest May watch them.
Also, Michael Haneke should remake "Heathers" and I will fight people on that.
I'm so happy to have discovered your channel. Excellent work to you, and thank you for gifting us with you!
Always so happy to see Queen May!
She's so quotable in the first three minutes and clearly understands her base better than most horror tubers.
I was going to applaud the choice to run from most cis guy Fight Club layfans, but then
I was mercilessly eviscerated by the comment about the Clockwork Orange poster and subsequent admission of having owned said poster. 🙃
May is consistently the best and long may she reign
May you're videos never fail to entertain. You're absolutely my favorite youtuber
Vid is demonetized so you know it's gonna be great.
yoooo my buddy is the abducted homeless guy in CAPTURE KILL RELEASE, I've been meaning to watch it (he was the speaking and singing voice of Audrey II in our local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors)
You should, it's very good. Not disturbing but good.
RE: Aftermath - when I die I'm legit having my body donated to the necrophiliacs....but only HOT necrophiliacs.
Like the one in The Neon Demon.
@@colinr0380 she was hot ngl
I get soooo excited when I get a notification you have an upload!! Thank you!!
I randomly watched Antiviral after stumbling upon it on Netflix. After I finished watching it I was like “oh my god, we just accidentally watched a disturbing movie.” I thought it was good and I really enjoy the main actor in most of his roles. The concept was quite of disturbing but the actual content wasn’t super disturbing unless you have a phobia of needles or blood :)
Last comment I swear but this really is so well edited and quippy, esp for a tier list, you didn't have to go that hard but you did and we love you for it
A clockwork orange is like #2 or #3 in my all time favorite movies so far. I love it because of the things it's saying.
as a gen z person i would like to say i have never been more confused by a movies popularity than donnie darko
First time I've seen anyone mention Capture Kill Release. It's not disturbing unless you're really bothered by the (fake) killing of cats but I really liked it. Well acted and some great dark comedy.
WOOOOOOO!!! this was great, so excited for part 2!!!!
What I took away from Antichrist was a really, and I swear I'm not being hyperbolic, profound commentary on gender roles. From the very start of the movie there are multiple hints in the house, the background shots, the way the two interact, that position Dafoe as ignorant & sexist. That's most evident by him thinking he can "cure" Gainsbourg's horrible depression/PTSD on like 3 years of college psychology. He drives Gainsbourg to absurd levels of self-misogyny as Dafoe continues this Machiavellian pursuit of dominance over nature and human nature. I think Trier didn't have a concrete idea of what the film structure and the Eden symbolism meant but IMO he's putting parallel the hubris of Enlightenment thought and patriarchal hegemony as forces that tear apart the humanity from a person. That's why at the end he's rewarded for his successful psychological experiment with a mob of beautiful, angelic, *faceless* women
Trier is about as subtle as an oncoming train to a cow in the tracks, and I think the response from the sincerity of Breaking the Waves drove his likely pre-existing hang ups with sex and gender into this career-long battle with misogyny. His middle-school edgelord antics aren't helping him any (Anti-Christ is famous for having a credited "misogyny expert on staff"). But all that coalesced in this movie that critiques patriarchy from the perspective of a depressed, perverse, lonely man, meant for other men just like him
this take is absolutely fascinating. But, I think it's not really a critique as much as it is Lars proyecting into it all as he made it right after a breakup, so you can really see his feelings towards women in this one. if a female director had made the film, then It could be thought of as a critique of patriarcal gender roles. and even then, the movie is extremely white, both explicitly and Ideologically. it's just a very *icky* movie. it makes me *ick*
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm666 reading "this movie is very white" made a lot of reasons why i hate it click mentally
Antichrist is disgusting and misongynist
Your local Gen z: I have a tattoo of the rabbit that movie slaps 💀
Someone at work's girlfriend told me to stop lending them movies after they watched Gummo. I think it has a much bigger audience these days.
Dancer in the dark took something innocent from me and crushed it in front of my eyes and i will never get it back, so i showed all my friends.
i do actually like donnie darko however i'm an old gen z
As for Goodnight mommy, I think a lot of people misunderstand the point. From my interpretation, the "twist" is supposed to be obvious, not a twist. It's more about the tragedy of the story rather than the shock value
‘Benny’s Video’ is a great film, but please be very careful, the opening of the film has some upsetting and completely real animal violence. Also, ‘Inside’ is on Criterion channel now lol
Also, thank you for appreciating ‘Kuso’, the opening and post-credit scene are permanently implanted in my soul in the best way
My partner and I watched Knock Knock together and despite being sober (because I was pregnant at the time) we spent almost the entire thing laughing our asses off and occasionally gasping in utter disbelief 😂😂😂
This is great! Very helpful in finding new stuff. Also agreed with where you rated pretty much all the ones I have seen
You and I. Oh we have a wee bit in common when it comes to the cinema! Really enjoy your content, May! You’re a joy to watch and to listen to!!!
I experienced two huge losses and saw Hereditary not long after. I actually found it incredibly therapeutic in a way? I think in a big way because it was just validating to see how numbing and also incredibly painful grief can be
the editing in this video is fucking histerical. May I love you.
"If I go to a boy's home and see a fight club poster I'll genuinely run away screaming" is, contextually, the funniest shit I have ever heard.
Also here are some movies you should check out:
Man bites dog
Wake in fright
Raw
The Grande Bouffe and Blow Out
Ravenous.
None of these movies are gory or even that disturbing, but they are pretty good. Raw and Wake in fright is only disturbing if you are Belgian or Australian respectively but if you are one of those things, they are pretty fucking disturbing.
Congrats on hitting 100k by the way! Thanks for another video.
Your channel is the best. Have seen some of these. But many I have not. Thanks for giving me some fun homework 😀
Just got I Saw the Devil on dvd. What a great fucking film
I don’t hate a lot of filmmakers but I gotta be honest, not a fan of Gaspar Noe 😁
AH YES MORE WORM MEAL FOR THE WORM KIDS
I have no knowledge of horror movies but u can genuinely make everything so funny to watch may
The editing in this is so top notch holy shit. Happy Halloween may! Love ya 🎃💚
I've watched less than 30 seconds of this video and you're already one of my favorite people
The first man I met in college as a closeted lesbian had a fight club poster in his bedroom and I decided in that moment I could not lie to myself anymore
"Antichrist" is a movie about sexism, aside from depression. It clearly states it is about the christian image of women. Then the movie exaggerates this concept and ridicules/criticises it. It is quite common for Lars von Trier movies - just take "Manderlay".
Those cheap molded plastic fangs really are terrible.
Big Harmony Korine enjoyer here but I lowkey agree about Kids, the ending is quite disturbing but in a way that just feels frustratingly unresolved because there's no closure or followup. Meanwhile Gummo and Julien are just classics
This is first video I've seen of yours and holy shit this was way funnier than I expected it to be lol. Such good takes too.