Movies that make you feel dirty
 

You know what I'm talking about. The movies you watch, they might be good or they may just suck ass, but for one reason or another they make you feel very dirty after you watch them. I'll list off a few that come to mind for me to get the ball rolling...

Bad Lieutenant
Cannibal Holocaust
Requiem for a Dream
Storytelling
Crash
Last House on the Left


Now... I don't hate any of those films. They are all pretty decent pieces of art, BUT they still made me feel very dirty on the inside after I got done with them. In fact, after Cannibal Holocaust, my wife, my buddy, and I decided to pop in Finding Nemo just to try to even ourselves out a bit....

Anyways, what are some other movies that have had this effect on people?

I Spit on your Grave and Irreversible.

instantly come to mind...

I still haven't been able to track down I Spit on your Grave yet but I already have Irreversible queued up at about #3 on Netflix right now.

last house on the left had me feeling far dirtier than I Spit..

Oh well, shit... I aint worried then.


But, if you can't tell from my list, I don't really like rape scenes. I suppose I could throw 'Kids' on that list too.

Back in the late 90s, I saw a TV movie called Child of Rage.

Not sure if anyone else has seen it or heard of it, but it concerned a family who adopt 2 children, a boy and a girl, and the girl is subject to fits of fury and rage and sadism, generally behaving like a homicidal maniac. They try to cure her through a shrink who tells em that the girl had grown up abused and molested by her real father. The shrink and the family then put her through therapy or something...so the story continues.

After I had finished seeing that one, I felt like a pile of dogshit. I remember not being able to sleep that night.

Lilya 4-Ever. I felt that the world was truly a horrible place after seeing this film.

nothing has really made me feel dirty before a while ago. Last House On The Left just didnt do it for me. However, Irreversible made me feel filthy.

Men behind the sun. Only watched it once & it was on Ebay the very next day.

Naked Lunch for sure....all the bug stuff made me queasy.
Requiem for a Dream was mentioned, and that movie made me have the same feeling, especially during the last ten minutes of the movie...
Troll 2. No explanation needed.
Saving Private Ryan gave me a hard time for the rest of the day after the first time I saw it.....so did Schindler's List and We Were Soldiers. War movies usually have some kind of effect.
American History X.
Akira.
I like most of them, but the feeling they put out is uncomfortable for sure.