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Shocking Films/Cinema
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My Film Studies A2 exam in the summer is on 'Shocking Cinema' so in preparation we have to watch one film that we find shocking every week and write up about it. Just wondering if you guys had any ideas for good shocking films that I could try and get hold of?
I'm thinking...
-Hostel
-Saw (1,2 & 3)
-American Werewolf in London
-Scum
-Schindlers List
-The Ring
-Train Spotting
-Clockwork Orange
-Battle Royale
-Alien
-Aliens
I'm thinking...
-Hostel
-Saw (1,2 & 3)
-American Werewolf in London
-Scum
-Schindlers List
-The Ring
-Train Spotting
-Clockwork Orange
-Battle Royale
-Alien
-Aliens
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Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood
August Underground's Mordum
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom
These will be unlke ANYTHING you have seen. US actor Charlie Sheen actually took the Guinea Pig video to the FBI because he thought it was a genuine snuff film. It's pretty grim stuff. You have been warned...
Devil's Rejects
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Freddy Got Fingered
Sitcom (is that the name - the one with the two guys holding a family hostage?)
Weekend by Godart
Come & See
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Irrevisable
Santa Sangre
Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger
1900 has some staggering shocks
But of course really shocking cinema doesn't really exsist in the context of narrative films - really shocking work is normal done by documentary film makers. If you want to be a real smart arse then look for real documentaries (not mondo explotation films) looking at any of the following - the contras crimes in Latin America, female gential mutilation, the treatment of single parent mothers in the UK (in particular the film for the BBC that looked at the number of women who became pregnant out of wedlock who were condemned to spend their whole lives in mental homes as a result and were only finally released, unable to cope with the world, post-community care) - and in particular track down -
Shoah and Titicutt Follies. One is a grinding unending film looking at the events of the Holocaust, the second is a film from (I think) the early sixties looking at the appalling treatment of people with mental health problems, and the basically free for all gladitorial pit they were left to live in. In addition John Huston's film on the rehabilitation of second world war soldiers suffering from mental collapse - Let There Be Light for scenes that remain absolutely unbearable to watch.
To be honest it depends how much you want to push the boundaries of what is 'shocking' - stay with narrative films if you just want to be surprised at what directors have done - what documentaries to see how cinema can enlighten and shock you into realising what mankind can truly be capable of doing to mankind
shocking films?! ignore that lot then!
go straight to cannibal holocaust.
got to agree with all that.:thumb:
The Idiots (essential - trust me, I you watch no others, watch this one)
Irreversible
Autopsy
I Spit On Your Grave, and Last House On The Left (shocking in every sense of the word)
Weekend
Shivers
Un Chien Andalou (should be able to pick it up from your library - it's only 16 minutes long, so it's well worth a viewing)
Festen
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Natural Born Killers
Crash (the 1996 one)
Viridiana (though you'll probably need to read up on the historical context as to why this is shocking, because it won't be immediate to a modern audience - might be a good subject for an essay though.)
Both shockingly funny, gory, and bad.
fell asleep before then.
Granted the first wee while is a bit boring but it's worth watching to the end.
haven't actually made it that far. reasons being:
A) too boring
Im not too keen on it because of what I heard.
To be honest, I'd say it's important to discuss a range of films that are shocking for a range of reasons. Something like Eraserhead, for example, is shocking because of the way the director explores what would be a fairly standard topic. Something like The Idiots would be shocking because it explores a subject that is not mainstream, and perhaps would normally be off-limits. Something like Viridiana would be shocking because of the social and political content that clashed with that of the authorities at the time. Another film like South Park might be shocking purely because it attempts to offend and deliberately push the boundaries. And a documentary might be shocking because it gives us some facts from real life that are shocking. It's be great to try and get that whole range throughout the course.
I saw Battle Royale before it's UK release date, and yeah I agree it's a great film and the sequel really isn't anything special.
i liked the chinese film 'the eye' better.
although them damned americans are making another remake of this. with jessica alba in it.
Things like Shindlers List, Scum and Romper Stomper are shocking because you know they're real or could be real.
Horror movies are generally jank.
:yes: I agree, although some gorey films do make you cringe and shout out "fuck!" the first time you see them.
the wicker man
last house on the left
cannibal holocaust
Night of the living dead (the romero original one, the end gets me)
Schindlers list
Apocolypse now
Irreversable
Evil Dead
probably loads of others but i cant think and my dvd collection is upstairs
But not a very shocking film, just shocking how the media focused upon it - which is a different thing.
Jim V, going back to your post on documentary films, I think 'Supersize Me' is kind of shocking in a way.