Hey friends! If you want to do this tier ranking yourself here is the template: tiermaker.com/create/disturbing-horror-films-tier-ranking-1139987 00:00 Welcome to the Disturbing Horror Tier List 00:28 How I picked the films 01:37 The Tiers Explained 03:44 The ranking begins Can't wait to see the comments, keep in mind this is all in good fun and to spark discussion. Also, just a correction Ichi the Killer is categorised as a Horror Action on Wiki but not IMdB
how can I read/know the titles? Sometimes i can't get it, maybe because I'm not English speaking and the titles are sometimes different in my language? I squint my eyes, I activated the subtitles but a couple of movies I really can't u__u
I never liked Barbarian. It had a promising start But went completely downhill from the 3rd act and what the hell was that scene with both of them falling, main character first fell and the creepy one few seconds after But main character ended up landing on top of the creepy one lol.
It was one of those movies where it hooked you in at the start with its mystery, but when you realize what's going on, you're left disappointed. I didn't even finish watching it after the third character got introduced. Couldn't take it seriously anymore.
Tusk disturbed me in ways I was not prepared for and I’m not sorry! Nothing about Justin Long “screaming” after discovering what’s been done to him was funny to me lol. I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable during the walrus scenes. To me, the idea of waking up and finding someone turned you into something completely unnatural is the scariest thing ever!!
Honestly for me nothing from this list come even close to Tusk, i know its supposed to be parody but nothing shock me so much as wallrus reveal scene.Peak bodyhorror.
And it's such a grim, depressing ending. I avoided watching this movie for so long, but talked myself into it because I thought I was being silly to avoid what was sure to be a campy movie. So I watched it, and regretted it. Should have listened to my instincts.
the disturbing but camp category is sending me with only human centipede and tusk in it. 😭I love the video as always though Emma. Thank you for doing what you do. 💖
@@andreashelton Camp or campy refers to an exagerated, extra or over the top (not necessarily in a bad way) way of acting, speaking or being. While it is oftenly associated and used by the lgbt community in their media it is not strickly and doesn't originate from them. Almost anything can be camp, a person, a movie, a video clip, a story, music etc. To give you an idea of camp media, people or performance you would have the movie Cabaret, Madonna, the Rocky horror picture show, la cage aux folles, a nightmare on elm street, Mommie dearest, Cruel intentions, Jawbreaker, Kill Bill, Friday the 13th, Pet shop boys (band), Elvira, the Addams family, drag queens, Take That (band), Lady Gaga, The Leprechaun, Killer clowns from outer space, Gremlins 1 and 2, The evil dead trilogy, etc... I hope you get the gist cos the list is long.
This is, by far, my favorite tier list I’ve seen on any channel. I also agree with at least a majority of all the rankings. Nicely done! Sincerely. A disturbing movie fanatic
i honestly thought the camp but disturbing tier was created specifically for the terrifier films so i was a bit surprised to see neither of them in that tier. 2 especially feels out of place in that top row but thats just my personal read on it. Fun vid overall! Enjoyed hearing your reasoning and found a lot of films i might want to check out
I watched the remake of I Spit On Your Grave when I was in middle school. I was always into horror, and my step dad read me an article about how the lead actress was traumatized by making the movie, and he thought that was so cool. I cried while watching it and never looked at my step dad the same again. YUCK.
This is one of those remakes that doesn't really understand the original...which is not to say that you should track down the original and watch it. The '78 I Spit On Your Grave is a film that needs to be approached with caution, but I do think it's legitimately good movie representing a legitimate attempt by young male horror fans to make a hard-edged, unquestionably feminist indictment of the "boys will be boys" mentality. The remake is sadomasochistic in the most literal sense of the term: It wants to hurt you, and it wants you to enjoy watching others in pain. It's not interested in the central subject matter.
My older brother made me watch the remake with him when I was around 14, after Rob Zombie's Halloween remake.. I think he was just trying to shock me but god damn it traumatized me. He had no idea what was going on in my life since we were living with different parents (it wasn't good) and why he should not have shown me those films (ever..but especially) at such a young age.
@@exquisitecorpse4917 I am generally of the mind that the original is worth seeing for what it is, but it's in my list of "movies that are good but don't need to be rewatched". It definitely didn't need a remake, and I wonder who thought that a remake was a good idea, or that any such remake would be handled adroitly. I've also thought about why I consider the original to be good, and I've settled on it being "good" in the sense of "purposeful".
@@exquisitecorpse4917 for what is worth, I find the remake way more satisfying on the second half. feels way more cathartic. the first half on both versions is really hard to stomach though. same thing with last house on the left.
I frickin love this list and of the ones I’ve seen (and I’ve seen most of these) I would rank them similarly. With the exception of Midsommar & Hereditary, none of these films would be among my favourites, but man do I remember them. They leave marks. Thank you for mentioning Resurrection, it’s so brilliant. Thank you for this incredible list. Not only am I not unsubscribing, I’m doubling down on my Patreon membership level. Thank you for this gift to the horror community.
i want to see a video where you take all the movies you have rated high for scare score, overall, and originality. broken out by category! think that would be so fun to see a look back
I wouldn't unsubscribe if I was subscribed before. Quite the contrary: this was the first video I watched from your channel and immediately subscribed. Loved this list!
I adore your videos and channel! The second Human Centipede is something else. The black and white does something extra to my brain and that was definitely a one time watch for me.
The second one is what a lot of people thought the first one would be. So making it the "real version", where the first is just a movie, is clearly a fourth wall break to the audience. The third one was probably for the ones who missed the intentional humor in the third . . by making the third one an extremely fucked up farce.
I think the black and white was done in post production due to the colour version being banned in a lot of countries. I saw the colour version and it was really disgusting, but I can imagine the black and white would make it more eerie and almost more disturbing? I'd like to compare but also have no interest in putting myself through that again haha
Great job putting these disturbing lists together, Emma. Sorry it took me so long to actually watch the video, but I had to find the time to just watch and enjoy it. I had many thoughts about some of your choices, but most of them were in agreement. I did make the observation that when it comes to films I would own and/or recommend compared to films I wouldn't watch again or recommend, the lists would be flipped around. I agree that "Sinister" is just horror, though my own experience in seeing it for the first time had external traumatic elements. All three films from the 1970's (The Exorcist, The Last House On The Left, and I Spit On Your Grave) were all disturbing when I first saw them decades ago, but not so much now, especially when compared to more recent films. "Martyrs" is truly traumatizing, and I have you to thank for the original recommendation years ago. 😉
''Come and See'' is one of the most sickening horror stories. It is based on the events when the Nazis went into Belarus and slaughtered over 600 villages. The people who made the movie were actually survivors from one of those villages. Love the channel btw:)
I love how our own experiences inform what we find scary vs traumatizing vs disturbing. Hereditary is way more disturbing and traumatic for me (the toxic family dynamics hit my worst triggers) than my husband. The Exorcist traumatized me horribly because I was eight or nine when I watched it. I grew up in central Kansas, so I have some serious religious trauma. My mom's second husband was a religious nut, so he used it to point out why the occult would lead to possession. Legitimately could not sleep for a month and had nightmares.
My mom (who loves horror movies) watched The Exorcist as a kid and it scared her also, she never re-watches it and even hates looking at pictures of it
The exorcist haunted me as a child 😭. My dad let me watch it when I was like 7! I couldn’t sleep alone til I was 16! 🤦🏻♀️ I still have possession nightmares at 34. And I love horror movies now and know how illogical the possession fear is but it’s like a deep unconscious fear lol
Emily Rose was the first horror movie I watched in theaters at the tender age of 13. It's hands down one of my favorite movies ever but it TERRIFIED me. It still holds up -- the cinematography and the things Emily sees? SO good.
This is so crazy, I just had a nightmare about Eden Lake. That ending really stayed with me. I would love more disturbing tier lists!! Maybe a tier of most disturbing true crime films? Definitely Girl Next Door or American Crime or anything about Sylvia Likens. Edit: Im so sorry Emma I wrote this before finishing the video and did not know Girl Next Door would be on here!!
Not me answering to you every time a movie gets ranked hahaa I literally found myself having a conversation with you lol Love this longer video! I hope there will be more down the line!
It’s so cool to see Martyrs getting the recognition it deserves. I remember seeing it when it came out, I was 15 and thought I had seen it all lol. That was the first horror film that truly got me. And the first film I ever saw where I just sat and stared at the end credits as they rolled by wondering perhaps I f****d up and traumatized myself for life. It’s a clear favorite for sure.
I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended videos! Great tier list, and I'm glad someone else feels that Midsommar is cathartic. Looking forward to checking out more of your videos :)
i agree with almost all of your placements (and you are SO RIGHT in saying that "human centipede" 1 & 3 and "tusk" are funny! i always think of them as horror/comedy or at least horror/dark comedy). i think the only placements i would've done differently would be to put "the sadness" and "human centipede 2" in A and "speak no evil" in F. so for me this was a very satisfying list, and i think your reasoning behind your placements made a lot of sense consistently :>
The only disturbing movie that I never finished is Salo. There was something about I just couldn’t stomach, and I sat through A Serbian Film. Eden Lake just made me so freaking angry cause I’ve been around people like the horrible ones in that movie. It was too real.
@@freddiemossberg7204 1000 percent agree 100 percent i did watch the whole thing but it took multiple watches with breaks in between and i will never watch it ever again
Thoroughly enjoyed the video and its length, yes, thank you! And "Martyrs" is gonna stay with me forever. And it's worth it. Truly unforgettable, heartbreaking and unpredictable in a way (an in another way completely predictable which doesn't make it any worse).
I heard about Megan is Missing in my sophomore year in high school and watched it by myself at night under the impression that it was a documentary, not a movie 💀
Thank you for putting the time to rank all those films, it was fun! I saw deadgirl at a movie festival (not horror weirdly) and I walked out early though I'm not easily disturbed usually... And I only recently saw Tusk, I completely agree with where you put it, it's delightfully camp !
I watched Megan Is Missing for the first time last night and never again will I watch that movie. The most disturbing part that has stuck with me from that film is a toss up between the photos, the SA scene and the barrel scene. I can’t ever go back to that ever again.
Midsommar is one of the most intensely disturbing movies I’ve ever watched just on a personal level. The intensity of the pain of losing someone close to you. And the lack of any direction or motivation coupled with the extreme effects of the substances used. I feel like I am reliving a moment in my life watching that movie.
I saw Midsommar in theatres and everyone was laughing at the weird sex scene between the blyfriend and that girl where there were a bunch of naked women standing around them. I like the movie, but that one scene was both funny and disturbing
I was hoping that there would have been some sort of ties between the place the daughter took the trip to, and what caused her family to do what they did at the beginning of the film... anyone else felt the same way i did? i do hope there is some kinda of sequel...
I remember in my youth how much Texas Chainsaw, Last House on the Left and Evil Dead just terrified me. Now in my 60’s it seems nothing scares me being a massive horror fan and watching for years. I wish could get that kind of scared again
This is your first video I've seen. Thank you so much for the list! I've got over a dozen tabs open now on one of my movie sites. Liked, subscribed, commenting for the algorithm
Emma wades into the brown bloody mud once again. This is where your courage shines through... Or is it obsession? One reason I will never watch the Human Centipede films, though I have no problems with Martyrs or other truly traumatizing films, is because you have actors forced to be strapped to each other mouth to ass. I know there is some kind of cloth material there. But these are real actors actually being humiliated, so even though I could watch it I can't morally get away with it because it crosses the line between fiction and reality and treats the actors, literally, like shit; same with A Serbian Film. Now having said that, I think Salo should have been here as A Truly Traumatizing. (This film has an extremely dark, but genuine message.) I consider it a total horror film. The sub-genre is Cabal Horror (which I will soon do a video on). Cabal Horror essentially is the larger group version of psycho killers, but often with political overtones and no genuine supernatural elements. Examples: Kill List, Conspiracy Theory (mockumentary), the Menu, etc. I think The Woman is actually a fascinating film with a real message. And Polly Macintosh does an incredible job of acting. Lucky McKee (May) is underrated. The film is asking about what has happened to humanity that often the 'normal people' (by 21st Century standards) are more evil than the brutally savage woman living in a state of total degradation. This is based on several cases like Oksana the Russian dog girl, and Genie the feral girl who was locked in an empty room until she was 12, as well as other feral children and people. I was so impressed by this film that I wrote three essays called The Feral Life about the dream of returning to nature and wildness. The one most specifically dealing with this film is called The Feral Life #3: The Reality of the Feral Child. (Google it.) You wanted someone to defend The Woman here it is. Thanks again for dealing with this grime Emma.
Yeah, putting The Woman and Last House on the Left in the "vile/evil/shock value" category seemed wrong to me. Yes, those films are intentionally shocking (as is almost every horror movie to some extent), but they clearly have a message that's served by the shocking story elements.
My friend (who never watches horror films at all) said she watched Mother in theatre and said it was really interesting. I gave it a try and it literally stuck with me 😂 I couldn't!
Interesting ranking. The only ones I didn’t agree with were the Terrifier movies. The first one felt much more exploitative (especially THAT scene and how it feels extremely misogynistic). The second one had more of a plot with the good and evil thing. The protagonist was also pretty likeable. Because of DHT’s performance as Art being so silly (still expertly done) I’d put both in camp, with the first being more disturbing. The bedroom scene in the second is obviously vile, but for some reason didn’t phase me nearly as much as the upside down kill in the first
The American film 'Piercing' is from a novel by the same author as 'Audition', & has a similar reversal of roles. Disturbing? Certainly disconcerting. And yes, I would like you to do a similar video on disturbing non-horror dramas.
Iirc Ichi the killer was a manga and it’s so cool to see a manga adaptation make a list like this. As a fan of horror and anime/manga it’s really hard finding good horror from that medium that hits everything I want from it. Also hereditary legitimately keeps me up at night. I always find myself making that tongue click when I’m in that sweet spot of being just about to fall asleep but can totally be abruptly forced to stay up for another couple of hours.
Great list! I love so many of these movies, with Terrifier 2 being my favorite movie of all time (as evidenced by my pfp lol). I was a little shocked to see it go in S tier. I would’ve put it in B personally as I felt like it went really over top to an almost comical level with the gore (punctuated by David’s incredible humor as Art during some scenes). Definitely didn’t disturb me as much as something like Martyrs or I Spit on Your Grave, but that could also be my own desensitization coming in. I’m a big gorehound and like super over the top gore in particular. In something like Martyrs, it was more the oppressively nihilistic tone, couple with the more grounded violence that really disturbed me. That felt like a lot of word vomit, but anyway, this list was a great watch and you have earned yourself a sub :) Edit: I also think you’re 100% right about the missed humor in the 1st and 3rd Human Centipede movies.
Emma this is outstanding. Hearing your mind pour out about the efficacy of disturbing horror is insightful and fascinating. So bummed I didn’t participate. I wonder where you would have put my pic of “Little Deaths.” I shudder everyone I think about it. And so cool I’m just gonna go ahead and avoid that S tier forever. Ok thanks!
That was a good watch Emma ! Thanks for the in depth tier listing. Time has certainly mellowed the impact of The Exorcist as it is really scary but not exploitative & it's really well Directed by William Friedkin & the two priests are fascinating characters.
Great list. Martyrs and Human Centipede 2 are the most disturbing movies I have seen from this list. I really like Cannibal Holocaust I think it conveys a real message about trusting journalism. Thanks for all your hard work Emma
I liked cannibal too. It was similar to Network. Like if it bleeds let it lead. The rape scene is intense. I can see the Blair Witch being influenced by it. Just saw August Underground. Couple guys I wouldn't hang out with but I kind of get it.
Just found your channel from this vid - agree with almost all and was so happy to find someone who also found Human Centipede 1 and Tusk camp! My friends thought I was crazy for giggling in them lol. Love from a fellow Aussie ❤
A Serbian Film was made against censorship. The whole point of the movie is to be shocking only for the sake of being shocking. According to your criteria, it should be in the S tier. Just because it has a message about censorship doesn't change the fact that it was only made to be shocking.
I also found Midsommar more cathartic than disturbing. I joke that I'd be a prime target for cult recruitment. I understand what A Serbian Film was trying to do, but I wish I could scrub my brain clean of it. The scenes involving minors disturb me to my core especially knowing those acts are committed all around the world in reality. I hate I Spit on Your Grave. At no point did it feel good watching her get revenge. The gratuitous SA scene all the way down to the revenge scenes just upset me. The thing about Hereditary that stays with me isn't the incident, but the immediate reactions to the incident fromToni Collette's and Alex Wolff's characters. Collette's screams still echo in my mind. Thank you for all the reco's and rankings. I call myself a horror movie buff, but there are so many I still haven't seen. Excited to check some of these out now.
I remember Martyrs constantly getting recommended to me by one guy in a movie forum I used to frequent back in the day. He described it as a religious experience and wouldn't describe it past that. And he was absolutely right. This is the one movie, horror or otherwise, that kept me awake at night for months after one viewing. It genuinely changed my perception of death or an afterlife. Even if the main message of the movie is criticizing you for contemplating it.
Don't know what I was on about last time. Subjective opinion is a beautiful thing and these videos are so fun. Please keep it up with the disturbing movie talk or i'm always here for a tier list haha.
I think the Jacopetti and Prosperi aspect of Cannibal Holocaust and how they were putting a spotlight on the terrible things they were doing is commendable. Do they go too far in CH? Yes, but there is merit
There's one movie I'm missing on here. 'Chained' by Jennifer Lynch. It's up there with 'The Girl Next Door'. A completely disturbing masterpiece that made me incredibly sad.
Thanks for the list. I picked quite a lot of suggestions. May I suggest to list the films in the description? There are several whose title you don't say and that are impossible to get from the thumbnail. Thanks again!
I'm gonna be real with you, I would have put Terrifier 1 higher on the list. I feel like "that scene" stuck with me so bad that I won't even ask my wife to watch it with me, despite it being one of my favorite "horror for the sake of horror" films. It's just incredibly mean spirited, and if you look at all of the other "incidents" in the movie, they're all honestly quite brutal as well, despite having a weird sort of dark camp to them. Terrifier 2... well... I felt like it read like it was "trying" a lot harder to be shocking. The first had this self aware B movie quality to it that made you feel like it was kind of feeding into the sort of weird dark perversions that make those schlocky horror movies sell, where the sequel just felt way too performative, if that makes sense. There was no real shock there, it was sort of just like "ooh wow, here's Art and we know he's going to try to one-up the first film because of what this is", when the first one was just like "oh holy sh*t, stop" when that scene hits. I think putting 2 where you did makes sense, because it's sort of just shock for the sake of shock, but I think 1 was a little worse than you might have given it credit for, and that's as a dude with every movie on this list marked as watched, and a couple thousand others. It gave me the ick so damn bad compared to the others you've got on the E tier. 'Course that's just one opinion. Great list!
Ditto! Even just reading your comment made me think about and feel the 'phantom pain' in my ankle!😆 * tries to walk towards the door and stumbles over *
Nice work on that list, surprised not to see Creep making it and wonder where you would put in as it was probably the film that traumatised me the most
Yes! I think I agreed with pretty much all of them! ‘Climax’ is one of my favourite movies and that often gets brought up in lists of most disturbing horror which I don’t really get. I don’t really see it as a horror movie and I also don’t really find it that disturbing, just trippy, and maybe I’m weird but I kind of see it as having somewhat of a happy ending, despite a few deaths and traumatic injuries! 😂
I appreciated Climax for what the director was doing, but I didn't find it disturbing, if there was one descriptive I would use, I did find it _exhausting_
I love Mother! I like how it’s somewhat of a summarization of the entire Bible but from Mother Earth’s perspective. The one movie I really wish made the list (one of my favorite movies of all time) is The House That Jack Built. If you haven’t seen it I highly suggest that you watch it.
I’m with u. I believe all hallows eve is the best of the terrifier franchise (I’ve yet to see hallows eve 2) and the tv scene at the end particularly actually scared me
Congratulations for putting this really good and complete list together! A few additions from my part could be Trauma (2017 really f.. up), Nekromantik (1988), Switchblade romance/High Tension (2003 - actually one of my favorites), Funny Games (1997 the original of course) and I saw the Devil (2010).
Great video, Emma! This truly highlights how traumatizing, disturbing content is subjective in so many ways - what might be sensitive to one person may not be to another, yet there are universal truths on what is wrong, disturbing just by being human. I agree with Midsommar - the parts that stick with me are actually more about the emotional resonances and how great a movie it is, less about the “disturbing” scenes. “My sleepovers are really fun” 😂
This is probably the truest comment here. I put A Serbian Film in the B tier, because it's so outrageously over the top but they play it so straight that it becomes laughable.
I love how you describe your reasoning for these - you absolutely justify all your choices, and honestly I agreed with most of them. I loved Excision so I smiled when that came up.
I love Excision too. I feel like not a lot of people talk about it. I watched it when I was in high school and maybe this is weird but I really related to the main character (not all the blood but the vivid imaginary world and not fitting in) such a good movie and wow that ending. I rewatched it last year and was just as shook as the first time I watched it.
I love this exercise, well done. You being a fan if the Human Centipede, I would be very curious to know your point of view on The Onania Club... the infamous Tom Six movie that "never found distribution" because it is so extreme. He actually made a documentary about it? Such a weird and mysterious story and wondering if we will ever see it.
I wonder if The Onania Club really exists. It might be an elaborate troll and Tom Six just made a trailer. It seems to me that if he wanted people to be able to see it,he would make it available to watch on a website or sell DVDs. Has anyone actually seen it?
@@davidsheriff9274 I didn't think of that, it's possible. One thing is for sure, saying nobody wants to distribute it because it's too offensive is ridiculous. He probably just didn't get the money he wanted for it.
Hiya Emma, great work as usual! I do want to advice 5 other movies to put in there. Shadow 2009 which is on youtube for free, Vile 2011 Bedevilled 2010 (korean), Dream Home 2010 (chinese) and Mum & Dad 2008 . I don't think i ever heard you talking about these and it almost would make this a complete list IMO Keep up doing what u doing🥰
A Serbian Film man, that is probably the only film I’ve ever seen that I would absolutely never watch again! Not for anything or anyone 🤢 Love this kinda video, it’s interesting to see what you think of films like Eden Lake or Martyrs which I honestly find a pretty fun watch lol
Another great video. Doesn't even matter to me that your opinions aren't even the same as mine because you explain your reasoning very well. It's like watching a friend you personally know!
Semantics nerd here 😀 If I had to drill it down, I would define ‘disturbing’ as something that exploits my naïveté and permanently threatens my peace of mind and notions of safety in the real world. Horror can induce shock, disgust, and revulsion-but no matter how graphic or depraved, if that’s the crux it can be disposable in the long term. Interestingly, many films that I deem truly disturbing’ contain few-to no scenes of violence or torture (destruction of innocence is a common theme). You should be a film professor!
True that.🤔 With horror movies, you get danger, yet.... you're not in danger, if that makes sense, which is why I love horror movies.😊 I can't stomach body horror, but I do LOVE a good horror movie.😊 The Insidious movies and the Halloween movies are but two of my favorites.😊What are yours?🤔😊
Excellent video - let's me know what films to avoid. I have seen some, but only one made me angry and that was, 'Eden Lake.' I was so invested in the woman's struggle to survive, and I found her becoming an admirable and sympathetic character. The last scene totally destroyed it for me. I have a vivid imagination and could imagine what would happen to her. Unfortunately, I can't forget that scene and will never watch the movie again. Well made films have, I think, the ability to disturb us much more because of their quality than some bargain basement slasher with a ridiculous plot and cardboard characters. Anyway, a fun and interesting forty minutes. Your tier videos are wonderful.
I watched Found per your recommendation a long time ago, and wow it really stuck with me. It still finds ways to creep into my mind sometimes. So glad to see it in the tier list! Thank you for all of your disturbing recommendations
I saw the Exorcist when I was 7 years old. It was my first horror film, and I've spent the last 50 years on a quest for the most disturbing films I can stand. :) It's comforting to know I'm not the only girl who lives to be disturbed! 😁
Thank you for doing a tier list of a different kind! The Exorsist stayed with me, but I saw it when I was young. Also some of the scenes in Sinister flash before my eyes from time to time 😂 Thank you for a fun video!
Love the video. Agree with a lot of your rankings (though I haven't seen most of the movies in your S tier, they're just not what I tend to look for in my horror watching). Biggest places where we diverge are Inside (I would say I was Truly Traumatized by this film, just because I found the bleakness of it unrelenting), and the Terrifier movies. I think I'd put T1 as disturbing but campy, and put T2 where you had the first one. The scene with the girl in the house is mean spirited and vile, but the introduction of Sienna and her story provide a balance I think the first film was missing, making it clearer that Art is the villain and not someone the movie is glorifying in the way it seemed like the first one and the shorts all did, and if you turned that one scene into a more conventional kill it'd be in that Hostel range of the more brutal end of "Just a Horror Movie." Great content, though...liked & subscribed, and (far more importantly) followed on Letterboxd.
I feel like saying a serbian film has an actual message is an excuse to talk about slop. Anyone can just say "i made this movie to fight censorship" about any movie and a ton of edgelords will be on board automatically. Its literally the epitome of shock value trash
Not saying this to imply this video is bad or Emma's opinion is wrong or whatever. A serbian film just gets the benefit of the doubt because of how purely controversial it was. Its just an edgy dumpster fire meant to shock you.
Everyone is allowed an opinion. Even wrong opinions. Calling people who like something without knowing their reasons for liking said thing, AND doing this from the comfortable position of behind a screen and keyboard is as edge lord as it gets.
Great Video, very smart tier list too. Been traveling the iceberg up and down and Hereditary kinda stayed more with me than any other modern creepy movie.. PS:I was one of the screamers during its positioning
Great video! I really like your rankings. I would love to know what you think of 'Starry Eyes', 'Teeth', 'American Mary', and 'Undocumented' You may have talked about these in another video and I missed it
@@katiejane333 I've got Starry Eyes on DVD, I am thinking of giving it another watch 😅 it's so creepy! I'm pretty sure it's the body horror that definitely gets me in it.
@@larajayne4934 It’s really eerie and so well done with such a low budget. Check out American Mary too if you like body horror. Let me know what you think!
Great video. Would be interested to see you do similar for disturbing movies that aren’t really horror but are horrific. Man Bites Dog, Happiness, Swallow, Tetsuo, Antichrist, Funny Games & that kinda thing
A trick that filmmakers who are not very good sometimes do is that they film a shocking film that is very brutal and disgusting, then they say that it is some kind of social criticism or a comment for/against some kind of social issue. The creators of A Serbian Film is one example, Pier Paolo Pasolini is another well known director who did the same.
Yeah I had a lot of comments and messages about it, I then tweeted to let people know I am aware since I kept getting questions. And he sent a horrible tweet as a reply. It was a messssss
Great video! This was different from other tier lists. I imagine it was hard to place them because it’s not your standard ranking based on preference or quality. I have watched the majority of these films and agree with your placements and rationale. In reference of the cheesy music in Last. Fun fact, The Road Leads to Nowhere song is also in the original Cabin Fever! I would also add The Eyes of My Mother to this list. I thought that movie was pretty disturbing. Fun video!!
your Midsommar rating was spot on to me! I feel like I need to revisit Speak No Evil because it didn't stick with me at all and I hardly remember it 😅 The Woman is an absolutely harrowing watch... i found it to be sort of new french extremity adjacent but of course not as smart (american... after all). I loved this idea for a video!~ Stay safe and stay spooky, Emma!
I was surprised Irreversible didn't make the cut ! Would've loved to see where it would've landed. I'd put Hereditary, Midsommar and mother! in the "Extremely Disturbing But Camp" tier 😭 For Midsommar i found the relational aspects extremely disturbing - especially the main group.. especially the main relationship. For mother! it was the overall unnervingness as you put it - and the callousness of some scenes but mostly the unnervingness - and the over the top nature of the film's progression and the alleged allegories/metaphors kinda makes it camp to me. I think Sinister could be promoted to D-tier bc of the lawnmower scene but otherwise it makes sense in F-tier.
I loved "The Sadness." Story time... I have a gorehound friend who just eats up the gory movies like Saw and Ichii. He isn't a very.... deep guy, though. We watched The Sadness (on HIS recommendation) and he was just hooting and hollering afterwards. I was silent, and contemplative. I had to explain why I thought the title was amazing and how deep that is for such a visceral film. Afterwards he just sat there with a "I had no clue! WOW! That didn't even occur to me" look, lol. I'll always remember that (he is VERY intelligent, just not very observant).
A Serbian Film falls in disturbing but camp for me. Yeah it's horrific but it's so over the top it that it winds up becoming a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Similar to the Sadness
Hey friends! If you want to do this tier ranking yourself here is the template: tiermaker.com/create/disturbing-horror-films-tier-ranking-1139987
00:00 Welcome to the Disturbing Horror Tier List
00:28 How I picked the films
01:37 The Tiers Explained
03:44 The ranking begins
Can't wait to see the comments, keep in mind this is all in good fun and to spark discussion.
Also, just a correction Ichi the Killer is categorised as a Horror Action on Wiki but not IMdB
Thanks for the template!
Have your seen skinamarink? Creepy and sort of disturbing.
how can I read/know the titles? Sometimes i can't get it, maybe because I'm not English speaking and the titles are sometimes different in my language? I squint my eyes, I activated the subtitles but a couple of movies I really can't u__u
I don't see Goodbye Unlce Tom, it's a A Tier
Which ressurection movie was that? I can't find it online
Barbarian is too goofy to be even slightly disturbing for me
I never liked Barbarian. It had a promising start But went completely downhill from the 3rd act and what the hell was that scene with both of them falling, main character first fell and the creepy one few seconds after But main character ended up landing on top of the creepy one lol.
@@amy_yoshikawa yea that was horrible lol
Barbarian was a fun watch
It was one of those movies where it hooked you in at the start with its mystery, but when you realize what's going on, you're left disappointed.
I didn't even finish watching it after the third character got introduced. Couldn't take it seriously anymore.
Barbarian is just a worse Castle Freak.
Emma just casually dropping a new catch phrase: "That's just horror, baby". Love it! Also, nice to see some love for the movie Tusk! :)
That movie sucks
@@ForgottensnapdragonNope! that’d be your taste!
I see a thumbnail with Martyrs, I click.
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Damn right ❤❤❤😂😂
@@spookyastronautswhat year is the ressurection movie?
Yeah, pretty much, @spookyastronauts you pretty much know how to get a click outta me, for future reference
I've seen Martyrs and I am never seeing it again
Tusk disturbed me in ways I was not prepared for and I’m not sorry! Nothing about Justin Long “screaming” after discovering what’s been done to him was funny to me lol. I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable during the walrus scenes. To me, the idea of waking up and finding someone turned you into something completely unnatural is the scariest thing ever!!
Me too. I couldn't finish it, I was completely freaked out.
Honestly for me nothing from this list come even close to Tusk, i know its supposed to be parody but nothing shock me so much as wallrus reveal scene.Peak bodyhorror.
Yeah! The utter loss of autonomy for such a ridiculous reason made me feel all gross. 😰
I agree. I can't watch movies like this
And it's such a grim, depressing ending. I avoided watching this movie for so long, but talked myself into it because I thought I was being silly to avoid what was sure to be a campy movie. So I watched it, and regretted it. Should have listened to my instincts.
the disturbing but camp category is sending me with only human centipede and tusk in it. 😭I love the video as always though Emma. Thank you for doing what you do. 💖
I don't even know what camp is
@@andreashelton Camp or campy refers to an exagerated, extra or over the top (not necessarily in a bad way) way of acting, speaking or being. While it is oftenly associated and used by the lgbt community in their media it is not strickly and doesn't originate from them. Almost anything can be camp, a person, a movie, a video clip, a story, music etc. To give you an idea of camp media, people or performance you would have the movie Cabaret, Madonna, the Rocky horror picture show, la cage aux folles, a nightmare on elm street, Mommie dearest, Cruel intentions, Jawbreaker, Kill Bill, Friday the 13th, Pet shop boys (band), Elvira, the Addams family, drag queens, Take That (band), Lady Gaga, The Leprechaun, Killer clowns from outer space, Gremlins 1 and 2, The evil dead trilogy, etc... I hope you get the gist cos the list is long.
“iS sEnDiNg Me”
@@07foxmulderWhat does this mean?
When you said Human Centipede is an "acquired taste" I nearly choked on my lunch ! LOL
Yes I hate that movie
Haha cuz poop
Was it cuttlefish and asparagus?
Or someones ass?
@@Joemama55122yes South Park reference
This is, by far, my favorite tier list I’ve seen on any channel. I also agree with at least a majority of all the rankings. Nicely done!
Sincerely. A disturbing movie fanatic
Thank you!
It's nice to see that others exist! I was starting to think I was alone and that there might actually be something wrong in my head. 😳
i honestly thought the camp but disturbing tier was created specifically for the terrifier films so i was a bit surprised to see neither of them in that tier. 2 especially feels out of place in that top row but thats just my personal read on it. Fun vid overall! Enjoyed hearing your reasoning and found a lot of films i might want to check out
I watched the remake of I Spit On Your Grave when I was in middle school.
I was always into horror, and my step dad read me an article about how the lead actress was traumatized by making the movie, and he thought that was so cool. I cried while watching it and never looked at my step dad the same again. YUCK.
Damn I’m so sorry❤️
This is one of those remakes that doesn't really understand the original...which is not to say that you should track down the original and watch it. The '78 I Spit On Your Grave is a film that needs to be approached with caution, but I do think it's legitimately good movie representing a legitimate attempt by young male horror fans to make a hard-edged, unquestionably feminist indictment of the "boys will be boys" mentality.
The remake is sadomasochistic in the most literal sense of the term: It wants to hurt you, and it wants you to enjoy watching others in pain. It's not interested in the central subject matter.
My older brother made me watch the remake with him when I was around 14, after Rob Zombie's Halloween remake.. I think he was just trying to shock me but god damn it traumatized me. He had no idea what was going on in my life since we were living with different parents (it wasn't good) and why he should not have shown me those films (ever..but especially) at such a young age.
@@exquisitecorpse4917 I am generally of the mind that the original is worth seeing for what it is, but it's in my list of "movies that are good but don't need to be rewatched". It definitely didn't need a remake, and I wonder who thought that a remake was a good idea, or that any such remake would be handled adroitly.
I've also thought about why I consider the original to be good, and I've settled on it being "good" in the sense of "purposeful".
@@exquisitecorpse4917 for what is worth, I find the remake way more satisfying on the second half. feels way more cathartic. the first half on both versions is really hard to stomach though. same thing with last house on the left.
I frickin love this list and of the ones I’ve seen (and I’ve seen most of these) I would rank them similarly. With the exception of Midsommar & Hereditary, none of these films would be among my favourites, but man do I remember them. They leave marks. Thank you for mentioning Resurrection, it’s so brilliant. Thank you for this incredible list. Not only am I not unsubscribing, I’m doubling down on my Patreon membership level. Thank you for this gift to the horror community.
Cannibal Holocaust is in my top ten.
i want to see a video where you take all the movies you have rated high for scare score, overall, and originality. broken out by category! think that would be so fun to see a look back
Thank you for including "Found". It's VERY high on my Disturbing List, and I never hear anyone else even mention it!
I wouldn't unsubscribe if I was subscribed before. Quite the contrary: this was the first video I watched from your channel and immediately subscribed. Loved this list!
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Same at the time writing. Dunno why it shows on my YT right after watching Terrifier 3 on screen.
I adore your videos and channel! The second Human Centipede is something else. The black and white does something extra to my brain and that was definitely a one time watch for me.
The second one is what a lot of people thought the first one would be. So making it the "real version", where the first is just a movie, is clearly a fourth wall break to the audience. The third one was probably for the ones who missed the intentional humor in the third . . by making the third one an extremely fucked up farce.
The second one was gross but first was worse very disturbed very disgusting.
I think the black and white was done in post production due to the colour version being banned in a lot of countries. I saw the colour version and it was really disgusting, but I can imagine the black and white would make it more eerie and almost more disturbing? I'd like to compare but also have no interest in putting myself through that again haha
Great job putting these disturbing lists together, Emma. Sorry it took me so long to actually watch the video, but I had to find the time to just watch and enjoy it. I had many thoughts about some of your choices, but most of them were in agreement. I did make the observation that when it comes to films I would own and/or recommend compared to films I wouldn't watch again or recommend, the lists would be flipped around.
I agree that "Sinister" is just horror, though my own experience in seeing it for the first time had external traumatic elements. All three films from the 1970's (The Exorcist, The Last House On The Left, and I Spit On Your Grave) were all disturbing when I first saw them decades ago, but not so much now, especially when compared to more recent films. "Martyrs" is truly traumatizing, and I have you to thank for the original recommendation years ago. 😉
''Come and See'' is one of the most sickening horror stories. It is based on the events when the Nazis went into Belarus and slaughtered over 600 villages. The people who made the movie were actually survivors from one of those villages. Love the channel btw:)
They also used live ammunition on set. The ending is just devastating.
I love how our own experiences inform what we find scary vs traumatizing vs disturbing.
Hereditary is way more disturbing and traumatic for me (the toxic family dynamics hit my worst triggers) than my husband.
The Exorcist traumatized me horribly because I was eight or nine when I watched it. I grew up in central Kansas, so I have some serious religious trauma. My mom's second husband was a religious nut, so he used it to point out why the occult would lead to possession.
Legitimately could not sleep for a month and had nightmares.
My mom (who loves horror movies) watched The Exorcist as a kid and it scared her also, she never re-watches it and even hates looking at pictures of it
The exorcist haunted me as a child 😭. My dad let me watch it when I was like 7! I couldn’t sleep alone til I was 16! 🤦🏻♀️ I still have possession nightmares at 34. And I love horror movies now and know how illogical the possession fear is but it’s like a deep unconscious fear lol
Hereditary also deeply disturbed me. But I’m glad I watched it. Most horrifying movie I’ve seen since the exorcist. Emily rose did me in too 😭
Emily Rose was the first horror movie I watched in theaters at the tender age of 13. It's hands down one of my favorite movies ever but it TERRIFIED me.
It still holds up -- the cinematography and the things Emily sees? SO good.
@@sweetstacks3631agreed!
This is so crazy, I just had a nightmare about Eden Lake. That ending really stayed with me.
I would love more disturbing tier lists!! Maybe a tier of most disturbing true crime films? Definitely Girl Next Door or American Crime or anything about Sylvia Likens.
Edit: Im so sorry Emma I wrote this before finishing the video and did not know Girl Next Door would be on here!!
Maybe I am thinking of a different film but aren't the scary people in Eden Lake just a bunch of little young teenage kids?
@@neo7759 Yeah, there's a good twist ending but otherwise the film isn't especially notable imo
Yes, imagine what they did to her in the bathroom.
Human centipede is my guilty pleasure. The fact that Tom Six pitched this and made 3 is absolutely hilarious 😂
Not me answering to you every time a movie gets ranked hahaa I literally found myself having a conversation with you lol
Love this longer video! I hope there will be more down the line!
Yay! That’s what I wanted!
It’s so cool to see Martyrs getting the recognition it deserves. I remember seeing it when it came out, I was 15 and thought I had seen it all lol. That was the first horror film that truly got me. And the first film I ever saw where I just sat and stared at the end credits as they rolled by wondering perhaps I f****d up and traumatized myself for life. It’s a clear favorite for sure.
This was such a thoughtful and interesting watch. Keep up the great work 👏👏👏
I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended videos! Great tier list, and I'm glad someone else feels that Midsommar is cathartic. Looking forward to checking out more of your videos :)
i agree with almost all of your placements (and you are SO RIGHT in saying that "human centipede" 1 & 3 and "tusk" are funny! i always think of them as horror/comedy or at least horror/dark comedy).
i think the only placements i would've done differently would be to put "the sadness" and "human centipede 2" in A and "speak no evil" in F.
so for me this was a very satisfying list, and i think your reasoning behind your placements made a lot of sense consistently :>
The only disturbing movie that I never finished is Salo. There was something about I just couldn’t stomach, and I sat through A Serbian Film. Eden Lake just made me so freaking angry cause I’ve been around people like the horrible ones in that movie. It was too real.
salo is insane its the worst horror movie ever made disgusting but real a truly terrifying movie that i will never watch again
I think it was the utter vile depravity that made me turn it off. I can stomach alot but that was too real.
@@freddiemossberg7204 1000 percent agree 100 percent i did watch the whole thing but it took multiple watches with breaks in between and i will never watch it ever again
Salo is not horror per se' and is art. Passolini was murdered for his handling of fascism.
The only movie that truly disturbed me that I did Finish is The last 20 something minutes of "Megan is Missing".
Thoroughly enjoyed the video and its length, yes, thank you! And "Martyrs" is gonna stay with me forever. And it's worth it. Truly unforgettable, heartbreaking and unpredictable in a way (an in another way completely predictable which doesn't make it any worse).
Thank you! It took a long time to edit and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Martyrs is really disturbing but also one of the best horror movies I’ve ever seen
Nothing will ever top Martyrs for me. Sticks with you
I heard about Megan is Missing in my sophomore year in high school and watched it by myself at night under the impression that it was a documentary, not a movie 💀
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Thank you for putting the time to rank all those films, it was fun!
I saw deadgirl at a movie festival (not horror weirdly) and I walked out early though I'm not easily disturbed usually... And I only recently saw Tusk, I completely agree with where you put it, it's delightfully camp !
I watched Megan Is Missing for the first time last night and never again will I watch that movie. The most disturbing part that has stuck with me from that film is a toss up between the photos, the SA scene and the barrel scene. I can’t ever go back to that ever again.
Midsommar is one of the most intensely disturbing movies I’ve ever watched just on a personal level. The intensity of the pain of losing someone close to you. And the lack of any direction or motivation coupled with the extreme effects of the substances used. I feel like I am reliving a moment in my life watching that movie.
I saw Midsommar in theatres and everyone was laughing at the weird sex scene between the blyfriend and that girl where there were a bunch of naked women standing around them. I like the movie, but that one scene was both funny and disturbing
I was hoping that there would have been some sort of ties between the place the daughter took the trip to, and what caused her family to do what they did at the beginning of the film... anyone else felt the same way i did? i do hope there is some kinda of sequel...
I remember in my youth how much Texas Chainsaw, Last House on the Left and Evil Dead just terrified me. Now in my 60’s it seems nothing scares me being a massive horror fan and watching for years. I wish could get that kind of scared again
Such a fun video. Great seeing a lot of my favorite films up there, and a couple for me to check out!
This is your first video I've seen. Thank you so much for the list! I've got over a dozen tabs open now on one of my movie sites.
Liked, subscribed, commenting for the algorithm
Emma wades into the brown bloody mud once again. This is where your courage shines through... Or is it obsession?
One reason I will never watch the Human Centipede films, though I have no problems with Martyrs or other truly traumatizing films, is because you have actors forced to be strapped to each other mouth to ass. I know there is some kind of cloth material there. But these are real actors actually being humiliated, so even though I could watch it I can't morally get away with it because it crosses the line between fiction and reality and treats the actors, literally, like shit; same with A Serbian Film.
Now having said that, I think Salo should have been here as A Truly Traumatizing. (This film has an extremely dark, but genuine message.) I consider it a total horror film. The sub-genre is Cabal Horror (which I will soon do a video on). Cabal Horror essentially is the larger group version of psycho killers, but often with political overtones and no genuine supernatural elements. Examples: Kill List, Conspiracy Theory (mockumentary), the Menu, etc.
I think The Woman is actually a fascinating film with a real message. And Polly Macintosh does an incredible job of acting. Lucky McKee (May) is underrated. The film is asking about what has happened to humanity that often the 'normal people' (by 21st Century standards) are more evil than the brutally savage woman living in a state of total degradation. This is based on several cases like Oksana the Russian dog girl, and Genie the feral girl who was locked in an empty room until she was 12, as well as other feral children and people. I was so impressed by this film that I wrote three essays called The Feral Life about the dream of returning to nature and wildness. The one most specifically dealing with this film is called The Feral Life #3: The Reality of the Feral Child. (Google it.) You wanted someone to defend The Woman here it is.
Thanks again for dealing with this grime Emma.
Yeah, putting The Woman and Last House on the Left in the "vile/evil/shock value" category seemed wrong to me. Yes, those films are intentionally shocking (as is almost every horror movie to some extent), but they clearly have a message that's served by the shocking story elements.
was so fun to hear your reasoning! and we agree on a lot: sometimes "that's just horror" lol -- hope y'all are having a great trip! 🌴
mother has always stuck with me. the anxiety i got from it
This and then I watched it and my tv like shut its self off after wards and it freaked me out so bad mother sticks with me
My friend (who never watches horror films at all) said she watched Mother in theatre and said it was really interesting. I gave it a try and it literally stuck with me 😂 I couldn't!
Mother put me to sleep, ai was so bored. 😅
The end of the movie ruined it for me
Interesting ranking. The only ones I didn’t agree with were the Terrifier movies. The first one felt much more exploitative (especially THAT scene and how it feels extremely misogynistic). The second one had more of a plot with the good and evil thing. The protagonist was also pretty likeable. Because of DHT’s performance as Art being so silly (still expertly done) I’d put both in camp, with the first being more disturbing. The bedroom scene in the second is obviously vile, but for some reason didn’t phase me nearly as much as the upside down kill in the first
The American film 'Piercing' is from a novel by the same author as 'Audition', & has a similar reversal of roles. Disturbing? Certainly disconcerting. And yes, I would like you to do a similar video on disturbing non-horror dramas.
I was wondering, do you have a video of a collection of disturbing TV shows? I could've missed it. Really enjoy watching your content!!:)
Really good video, loved the way you actually discussed your opinions on each film
Thank you! I have another one coming out in a few hours!
Iirc Ichi the killer was a manga and it’s so cool to see a manga adaptation make a list like this. As a fan of horror and anime/manga it’s really hard finding good horror from that medium that hits everything I want from it. Also hereditary legitimately keeps me up at night. I always find myself making that tongue click when I’m in that sweet spot of being just about to fall asleep but can totally be abruptly forced to stay up for another couple of hours.
Great list! I love so many of these movies, with Terrifier 2 being my favorite movie of all time (as evidenced by my pfp lol). I was a little shocked to see it go in S tier. I would’ve put it in B personally as I felt like it went really over top to an almost comical level with the gore (punctuated by David’s incredible humor as Art during some scenes). Definitely didn’t disturb me as much as something like Martyrs or I Spit on Your Grave, but that could also be my own desensitization coming in. I’m a big gorehound and like super over the top gore in particular. In something like Martyrs, it was more the oppressively nihilistic tone, couple with the more grounded violence that really disturbed me.
That felt like a lot of word vomit, but anyway, this list was a great watch and you have earned yourself a sub :)
Edit: I also think you’re 100% right about the missed humor in the 1st and 3rd Human Centipede movies.
Emma this is outstanding. Hearing your mind pour out about the efficacy of disturbing horror is insightful and fascinating. So bummed I didn’t participate. I wonder where you would have put my pic of “Little Deaths.” I shudder everyone I think about it.
And so cool I’m just gonna go ahead and avoid that S tier forever. Ok thanks!
That was a good watch Emma ! Thanks for the in depth tier listing. Time has certainly mellowed the impact of The Exorcist as it is really scary but not exploitative & it's really well Directed by William Friedkin & the two priests are fascinating characters.
just want to say this little person loves and appreciates you more than you can know.
Great list. Martyrs and Human Centipede 2 are the most disturbing movies I have seen from this list. I really like Cannibal Holocaust I think it conveys a real message about trusting journalism. Thanks for all your hard work Emma
I liked cannibal too. It was similar to Network. Like if it bleeds let it lead. The rape scene is intense. I can see the Blair Witch being influenced by it. Just saw August Underground. Couple guys I wouldn't hang out with but I kind of get it.
@@edwardduarte7393can you tell me where can I watch August underground series for free?
Just found your channel from this vid - agree with almost all and was so happy to find someone who also found Human Centipede 1 and Tusk camp! My friends thought I was crazy for giggling in them lol. Love from a fellow Aussie ❤
A Serbian Film was made against censorship. The whole point of the movie is to be shocking only for the sake of being shocking. According to your criteria, it should be in the S tier. Just because it has a message about censorship doesn't change the fact that it was only made to be shocking.
I also found Midsommar more cathartic than disturbing. I joke that I'd be a prime target for cult recruitment.
I understand what A Serbian Film was trying to do, but I wish I could scrub my brain clean of it. The scenes involving minors disturb me to my core especially knowing those acts are committed all around the world in reality.
I hate I Spit on Your Grave. At no point did it feel good watching her get revenge. The gratuitous SA scene all the way down to the revenge scenes just upset me.
The thing about Hereditary that stays with me isn't the incident, but the immediate reactions to the incident fromToni Collette's and Alex Wolff's characters. Collette's screams still echo in my mind.
Thank you for all the reco's and rankings. I call myself a horror movie buff, but there are so many I still haven't seen. Excited to check some of these out now.
I remember Martyrs constantly getting recommended to me by one guy in a movie forum I used to frequent back in the day. He described it as a religious experience and wouldn't describe it past that. And he was absolutely right. This is the one movie, horror or otherwise, that kept me awake at night for months after one viewing. It genuinely changed my perception of death or an afterlife. Even if the main message of the movie is criticizing you for contemplating it.
Don't know what I was on about last time. Subjective opinion is a beautiful thing and these videos are so fun. Please keep it up with the disturbing movie talk or i'm always here for a tier list haha.
I think the Jacopetti and Prosperi aspect of Cannibal Holocaust and how they were putting a spotlight on the terrible things they were doing is commendable. Do they go too far in CH? Yes, but there is merit
There's one movie I'm missing on here. 'Chained' by Jennifer Lynch. It's up there with 'The Girl Next Door'. A completely disturbing masterpiece that made me incredibly sad.
I like trying to find new disturbing horror films and tier lists. This will be awesome!
Thanks for the list. I picked quite a lot of suggestions. May I suggest to list the films in the description? There are several whose title you don't say and that are impossible to get from the thumbnail. Thanks again!
Yes. I would love a second part to this tier list !!
I'm gonna be real with you, I would have put Terrifier 1 higher on the list. I feel like "that scene" stuck with me so bad that I won't even ask my wife to watch it with me, despite it being one of my favorite "horror for the sake of horror" films. It's just incredibly mean spirited, and if you look at all of the other "incidents" in the movie, they're all honestly quite brutal as well, despite having a weird sort of dark camp to them.
Terrifier 2... well... I felt like it read like it was "trying" a lot harder to be shocking. The first had this self aware B movie quality to it that made you feel like it was kind of feeding into the sort of weird dark perversions that make those schlocky horror movies sell, where the sequel just felt way too performative, if that makes sense. There was no real shock there, it was sort of just like "ooh wow, here's Art and we know he's going to try to one-up the first film because of what this is", when the first one was just like "oh holy sh*t, stop" when that scene hits. I think putting 2 where you did makes sense, because it's sort of just shock for the sake of shock, but I think 1 was a little worse than you might have given it credit for, and that's as a dude with every movie on this list marked as watched, and a couple thousand others. It gave me the ick so damn bad compared to the others you've got on the E tier.
'Course that's just one opinion. Great list!
I have serious disagreements with a lot of these but I still enjoy this. Keep 'em coming!
Great list. I will say that the achilles scene in Hostel has stuck with me to this day. I can't shake it!
Same. I basically don’t really care about the movie otherwise, but when someone mentions it…that’s the exact scene I think of!
Ditto! Even just reading your comment made me think about and feel the 'phantom pain' in my ankle!😆
* tries to walk towards the door and stumbles over *
For me it was the same scene but in house of wax. And now I have an Achilles disorder in both legs…
The Achilles scene in Pet Sematary does it for me.😊 Ugh.😱 That's one scene that's really difficult to watch, even now.😱😰
@@ChibiProwl Yeah, you're not wrong! And the scalpel across the mouth for that 1-2 combo! 😭
Nice work on that list, surprised not to see Creep making it and wonder where you would put in as it was probably the film that traumatised me the most
Yes! I think I agreed with pretty much all of them! ‘Climax’ is one of my favourite movies and that often gets brought up in lists of most disturbing horror which I don’t really get. I don’t really see it as a horror movie and I also don’t really find it that disturbing, just trippy, and maybe I’m weird but I kind of see it as having somewhat of a happy ending, despite a few deaths and traumatic injuries! 😂
I appreciated Climax for what the director was doing, but I didn't find it disturbing, if there was one descriptive I would use, I did find it _exhausting_
I love Mother! I like how it’s somewhat of a summarization of the entire Bible but from Mother Earth’s perspective. The one movie I really wish made the list (one of my favorite movies of all time) is The House That Jack Built. If you haven’t seen it I highly suggest that you watch it.
yall crazy, art in all hallows eve is so underrated. the tv scene alone is peak horror and scarier than anything hes done in terrifier movies 😭
I’m with u. I believe all hallows eve is the best of the terrifier franchise (I’ve yet to see hallows eve 2) and the tv scene at the end particularly actually scared me
Congratulations for putting this really good and complete list together! A few additions from my part could be Trauma (2017 really f.. up), Nekromantik (1988), Switchblade romance/High Tension (2003 - actually one of my favorites), Funny Games (1997 the original of course) and I saw the Devil (2010).
Great video, Emma! This truly highlights how traumatizing, disturbing content is subjective in so many ways - what might be sensitive to one person may not be to another, yet there are universal truths on what is wrong, disturbing just by being human.
I agree with Midsommar - the parts that stick with me are actually more about the emotional resonances and how great a movie it is, less about the “disturbing” scenes.
“My sleepovers are really fun” 😂
This is probably the truest comment here. I put A Serbian Film in the B tier, because it's so outrageously over the top but they play it so straight that it becomes laughable.
I love how you describe your reasoning for these - you absolutely justify all your choices, and honestly I agreed with most of them. I loved Excision so I smiled when that came up.
I love Excision too. I feel like not a lot of people talk about it. I watched it when I was in high school and maybe this is weird but I really related to the main character (not all the blood but the vivid imaginary world and not fitting in) such a good movie and wow that ending. I rewatched it last year and was just as shook as the first time I watched it.
Excision is such a great film! I feel its not talked about enough
I love this exercise, well done. You being a fan if the Human Centipede, I would be very curious to know your point of view on The Onania Club... the infamous Tom Six movie that "never found distribution" because it is so extreme. He actually made a documentary about it? Such a weird and mysterious story and wondering if we will ever see it.
I wonder if The Onania Club really exists. It might be an elaborate troll and Tom Six just made a trailer. It seems to me that if he wanted people to be able to see it,he would make it available to watch on a website or sell DVDs. Has anyone actually seen it?
@@davidsheriff9274 I didn't think of that, it's possible. One thing is for sure, saying nobody wants to distribute it because it's too offensive is ridiculous. He probably just didn't get the money he wanted for it.
Hiya Emma, great work as usual! I do want to advice 5 other movies to put in there. Shadow 2009 which is on youtube for free, Vile 2011 Bedevilled 2010 (korean), Dream Home 2010 (chinese) and Mum & Dad 2008 . I don't think i ever heard you talking about these and it almost would make this a complete list IMO Keep up doing what u doing🥰
Hey yes I’ve spoken about all of these in videos! I have a lot of disturbing videos though!
@@spookyastronauts my mistake you have so much content i must have skipped it...good reason to dig thru them again...with pleasure i might add. 😁
A Serbian Film man, that is probably the only film I’ve ever seen that I would absolutely never watch again! Not for anything or anyone 🤢
Love this kinda video, it’s interesting to see what you think of films like Eden Lake or Martyrs which I honestly find a pretty fun watch lol
I feel that way about Salo too, Serbian film was not a fun time
Another great video. Doesn't even matter to me that your opinions aren't even the same as mine because you explain your reasoning very well. It's like watching a friend you personally know!
Semantics nerd here 😀 If I had to drill it down, I would define ‘disturbing’ as something that exploits my naïveté and permanently threatens my peace of mind and notions of safety in the real world. Horror can induce shock, disgust, and revulsion-but no matter how graphic or depraved, if that’s the crux it can be disposable in the long term. Interestingly, many films that I deem truly disturbing’ contain few-to no scenes of violence or torture (destruction of innocence is a common theme). You should be a film professor!
True that.🤔 With horror movies, you get danger, yet.... you're not in danger, if that makes sense, which is why I love horror movies.😊 I can't stomach body horror, but I do LOVE a good horror movie.😊 The Insidious movies and the Halloween movies are but two of my favorites.😊What are yours?🤔😊
I agree, there’s a difference between horror and disturbing.
I think “Threads” is easily the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen.
Excellent video - let's me know what films to avoid. I have seen some, but only one made me angry and that was, 'Eden Lake.' I was so invested in the woman's struggle to survive, and I found her becoming an admirable and sympathetic character. The last scene totally destroyed it for me. I have a vivid imagination and could imagine what would happen to her. Unfortunately, I can't forget that scene and will never watch the movie again. Well made films have, I think, the ability to disturb us much more because of their quality than some bargain basement slasher with a ridiculous plot and cardboard characters. Anyway, a fun and interesting forty minutes. Your tier videos are wonderful.
I watched Found per your recommendation a long time ago, and wow it really stuck with me. It still finds ways to creep into my mind sometimes. So glad to see it in the tier list! Thank you for all of your disturbing recommendations
I saw the Exorcist when I was 7 years old. It was my first horror film, and I've spent the last 50 years on a quest for the most disturbing films I can stand. :) It's comforting to know I'm not the only girl who lives to be disturbed! 😁
Thank you for doing a tier list of a different kind! The Exorsist stayed with me, but I saw it when I was young. Also some of the scenes in Sinister flash before my eyes from time to time 😂 Thank you for a fun video!
It’s such a hard film to rank since it’s so epic! ❤️
Love the video. Agree with a lot of your rankings (though I haven't seen most of the movies in your S tier, they're just not what I tend to look for in my horror watching).
Biggest places where we diverge are Inside (I would say I was Truly Traumatized by this film, just because I found the bleakness of it unrelenting), and the Terrifier movies. I think I'd put T1 as disturbing but campy, and put T2 where you had the first one. The scene with the girl in the house is mean spirited and vile, but the introduction of Sienna and her story provide a balance I think the first film was missing, making it clearer that Art is the villain and not someone the movie is glorifying in the way it seemed like the first one and the shorts all did, and if you turned that one scene into a more conventional kill it'd be in that Hostel range of the more brutal end of "Just a Horror Movie."
Great content, though...liked & subscribed, and (far more importantly) followed on Letterboxd.
I feel like saying a serbian film has an actual message is an excuse to talk about slop. Anyone can just say "i made this movie to fight censorship" about any movie and a ton of edgelords will be on board automatically. Its literally the epitome of shock value trash
Not saying this to imply this video is bad or Emma's opinion is wrong or whatever.
A serbian film just gets the benefit of the doubt because of how purely controversial it was. Its just an edgy dumpster fire meant to shock you.
I actually enjoyed the movie tbh I don’t know what to tell you haha
Everyone is allowed an opinion. Even wrong opinions.
Calling people who like something without knowing their reasons for liking said thing, AND doing this from the comfortable position of behind a screen and keyboard is as edge lord as it gets.
Great Video, very smart tier list too. Been traveling the iceberg up and down and Hereditary kinda stayed more with me than any other modern creepy movie..
PS:I was one of the screamers during its positioning
39:33 did we watch the right movie
Another great video Emma😊 love tier ranking videos!
just found your channel and i love it!
Thank you welcome!
Great video! I really like your rankings. I would love to know what you think of 'Starry Eyes', 'Teeth', 'American Mary', and 'Undocumented' You may have talked about these in another video and I missed it
Oh god Starry Eyes 😱😱
@@larajayne4934 That’s a really crazy one
@@katiejane333 I've got Starry Eyes on DVD, I am thinking of giving it another watch 😅 it's so creepy! I'm pretty sure it's the body horror that definitely gets me in it.
@@larajayne4934 It’s really eerie and so well done with such a low budget. Check out American Mary too if you like body horror. Let me know what you think!
Great video. Would be interested to see you do similar for disturbing movies that aren’t really horror but are horrific. Man Bites Dog, Happiness, Swallow, Tetsuo, Antichrist, Funny Games & that kinda thing
A tier list is really smart for your channel. Watch as over time the viewership pile on.
I’ve done them before :)
A trick that filmmakers who are not very good sometimes do is that they film a shocking film that is very brutal and disgusting, then they say that it is some kind of social criticism or a comment for/against some kind of social issue. The creators of A Serbian Film is one example, Pier Paolo Pasolini is another well known director who did the same.
You have the erm dubious honor of being in a piers Morgan video! Briefly but i still did the leo pointing meme 😂
Yeah I had a lot of comments and messages about it, I then tweeted to let people know I am aware since I kept getting questions. And he sent a horrible tweet as a reply. It was a messssss
@@spookyastronauts Oh what an absolute arse he is!! If it helps I had to force myself to watch him 🤣 never again!
Great video! This was different from other tier lists. I imagine it was hard to place them because it’s not your standard ranking based on preference or quality. I have watched the majority of these films and agree with your placements and rationale.
In reference of the cheesy music in Last. Fun fact, The Road Leads to Nowhere song is also in the original Cabin Fever!
I would also add The Eyes of My Mother to this list. I thought that movie was pretty disturbing.
Fun video!!
Sorry bro, David Hess wrote the music, not Weasel
@@exittiming2789 I wonder where I got that from? Thanks.
My friend and I cut off Terrifier during 'that' scene with the woman. That's one horror series I don't think I care to go back to.
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your Midsommar rating was spot on to me! I feel like I need to revisit Speak No Evil because it didn't stick with me at all and I hardly remember it 😅
The Woman is an absolutely harrowing watch... i found it to be sort of new french extremity adjacent but of course not as smart (american... after all). I loved this idea for a video!~ Stay safe and stay spooky, Emma!
Where is Salo, Or 120 Days of Sodom ? How do you leave it out of your list ? You also left out August Underground and The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
Salo is 🤢🤮💩
Really love that disturbing horror is one of your favorite types, your lists are always top notch in my book thanks for another great here .
I was surprised Irreversible didn't make the cut ! Would've loved to see where it would've landed.
I'd put Hereditary, Midsommar and mother! in the "Extremely Disturbing But Camp" tier 😭
For Midsommar i found the relational aspects extremely disturbing - especially the main group.. especially the main relationship. For mother! it was the overall unnervingness as you put it - and the callousness of some scenes but mostly the unnervingness - and the over the top nature of the film's progression and the alleged allegories/metaphors kinda makes it camp to me.
I think Sinister could be promoted to D-tier bc of the lawnmower scene but otherwise it makes sense in F-tier.
I appreciate your video! I’ve added a bunch of these to my streaming list thanks to you 😊
More tier lists please 😊.
I loved "The Sadness." Story time... I have a gorehound friend who just eats up the gory movies like Saw and Ichii. He isn't a very.... deep guy, though. We watched The Sadness (on HIS recommendation) and he was just hooting and hollering afterwards. I was silent, and contemplative. I had to explain why I thought the title was amazing and how deep that is for such a visceral film. Afterwards he just sat there with a "I had no clue! WOW! That didn't even occur to me" look, lol. I'll always remember that (he is VERY intelligent, just not very observant).
I'm surprized Salo didn't make your list.
I think Salo doesn't really qualify as "horror" in her sense of the word, though it IS disturbing. Perhaps in another list
It could classify as a horror based off it's overall synopsis.
I don't think "camp" is quite the word I'd use to describe Tusk or the Centipede films! 😂
Great list!
A Serbian Film falls in disturbing but camp for me. Yeah it's horrific but it's so over the top it that it winds up becoming a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Similar to the Sadness
I watched it last night ... its been a long time since a movie left me feeling truly disturbed