fucked up film: capturing the friedmans (2003)

man this family is fucking weird. i don't wanna get too into the story but to make it real short it's about a dad and a son being investigated for child molestation. it's one of those films that is supposed to shock you because they look like a typical family you'd see in a quiet suburb. we should all know by now that people do weird shit in the suburbs. you don't need to be a rocket science to figure out that even one of your neighbors right now could be running a meth lab in their basement or even holding a secret cult meeting in their living room. everyone has a secret. some secrets can be harmless to others or downright hurtful. this was the latter.

FUCKED UP RATING: 7.5 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 6 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: benny's video (1992)

"Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer? I try to rape him into being reflective, and into being intellectually independent and seeing his role in the game of manipulation." - michael haneke (2009)

michael haneke is without a doubt the MASTER of fucked up films. from funny games to hidden, each film will always stay with you for days after viewing. or maybe even years.

benny's video is about a kid named benny played by arno frisch (he was also in funny games which would be like, 5 years later after this movie) who spends his days sitting in his room, watching rented out vhs tapes along with his home made films. the first homemade video that's shown in the beginning is of a pig getting killed with a slaughter gun.

one day benny sees a girl who's standing outside the video store, gazing at the television from the window. he takes her back to his house and shows her some videos. he shows her the pig slaughter video and takes out the gun that was used during it. he holds the gun against the chest and dares the girl to pull it. he then holds it against her chest and calls him a coward. he then fires the gun and she falls. in the video monitor, we can see her crawling away from benny and while she's completely out of frame, benny runs to his desk to get more bullets to shoot her a second time as she is screaming frantically. he tries telling her to stop screaming and runs back to the desk to reload and shoots her again.

the rest of the film shows benny who seems completely sane about killing this girl. he ends up showing his parents the video and his parents try to figure out what to do with benny and the girl. to me this was more fucked up than the actual killing is the fact that his parents try to cover the incident by getting benny to stay with his mom in egypt for a few days while the dad tries to get rid of the girl by cutting her up into pieces and destroying all of the evidence.

there's a twist at the end of the movie but i won't reveal that. a lot of this movie has to do with how people can be influenced by violent films or basically anything we see from the news to what we read in the newspaper. personally i somewhat agree to this but just because you watch a lot of fucked up things, doesn't mean you're going to end up killing someone. it's kinda like the argument of violent video games as well.

this is probably the most interesting movie i've seen in a long time. i really love everything michael haneke has done. if you don't feel like sleeping tonight, you should definitely watch this movie.

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 8.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: l.i.e. (2001)

l.i.e. is about a kid named howie played by paul dano who hangs around with kids that break into houses and steal stuff. howie's best friend is a boy named gary. howie is a bit sexually confused and he develops a crush on gary. one night, gary and howie break into the house of big john during his birthday party and steal his prized hand guns. john attacks howie and tears off a piece of howie's jeans. howie later discovers that gary is a hustler and he is one of john's clients. plus john is a huge pedophile. like REALLY huge. throughout the film, howie begins a nonsexual relationship with john and becomes a fatherly figure for howie. the whole film is pretty fucking sad and you feel really bad for howie and john. especially john, for me at least. i think we tend to label pedophiles as some sort of monsters as if that's politically correct. they're human beings. not that i'm saying it's ok to do that shit. anyway i really liked this. the story line fell a little flat in the end but the characters felt so real. another great movie that deals with this subject is the woodsman which is like the most honest and heart breaking movie i've seen in ages.

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: we need to talk about kevin (2011)

i'm usually not the type of person who enjoys hyped-the-fuck-out movies. i remember dragging my dad to see inception with me in theaters and i hated it so much. my dad was like, "WHY DIDN'T YOU LIKE IT?? YOU WANTED TO SEE IT!" and i was like, "well it got really good reviews and all of my friends liked so i thought i would too..". after that i realized how other people's opinions are kinda shit unless you go out and see it for yourself.

we need to talk about kevin has been getting pretty nice reviews which is great. but was it the reason why i wanted to watch it? fuck naw. the first time i watched the trailer my jaw instantly dropped. it's a story about a mother played by tilda swinton who is trying to get her life back together after her son went on a high school killing spree. she feels responsible for her son's actions but personally i felt that kevin was the spawn of satan. the events in the film are shown out of chronologically order which can be slightly confusing at points but it all makes sense towards the end which by the way is breathtaking.

this movie is definitely fucked up too. oh fo fucking sho. one scene shows kevin jacking off and his mom accidentally opens the door and he looks at her all angry and continues on. there's also a few sex scenes featuring dr. steve brule and i'm just going to leave it at that.

FUCKING UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 9 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: requiem for a dream (2000)

i feel like i've been missing out on this movie for a long time so i decided to check it out last night. i've only seen one darren aronofsky film and that was black swan. i kinda knew what to expect from hearing about the ass to ass scene and that fucking song you hear in every cliche dramatic youtube video.

anyway its about four people with addictions which is mostly heroin and then you got an old lady who is into diet pills. most of these characters annoyed the fuck out of me so i honestly didn't feel SHOCKED by their actions. for example, jared leto's character was constantly injecting heroin into the same place in his arm. if you keep doing that, it's going to get infected.

you had it coming dickhead

the only thing that kinda shocked me was the girl who has sex with her therapist to get money from him. then she meets up with a pimp and does a sex show with another girl. that was interesting..

i can't see myself watching this ever again. it makes a good psa for teenagers to not do drugs but its so over dramatic. check out the basketball diaries instead or even better, TRAINSPOTTING.

FUCKED UP RATING: 7 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 5.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: martha marcy may marlene (2011)

(don't worry yall she wasn't killing anyone in that scene above)
martha marcy may marlene is about a girl named martha who escapes a cult that is kind of manson-esque. she calls her older sister lucy from a payphone and she picks her up and takes martha to her awesome lake house with her hot british boyfriend who supports chelsea fc. martha has been away for two years so she's been under a lot of shit. she keeps having flashbacks about the cult and lucy and her boyfriend ted are always like "what the fuck is wrong with you martha?" constantly. martha never tells them about the cult and makes it seem like she was just in a bad relationship. martha is super paranoid that the cult members are out looking for her. i'm not going to ruin the story for anyone but its a decent movie. there's like two rape scenes or so. that's why i declare it a fucked up film.

a lot of people say oh this is so chilling and nerve wrecking but i didn't feel that way throughout until like the last five minutes. i guess i've just seen too many fucked up films...

FUCKED UP RATING: 6 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 6.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: dogtooth (2009)

dogtooth is about a husband and wife who keep their kids imprisoned in their house. they don't know anything about the outside world. the only way they can leave is if they lose a dogtooth. the ending leaves you thinking "really? thats's it?". its kind of depressing really. there's a couple of sex scene w/ incest involved. according to imdb, this movie is a black comedy but i didn't find myself laughing when the younger sister was going down on the older sister.

also the boy in the film looks like sonic boom. so in the first scene, i felt like i was watching sonic boom having sex. :/

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 8 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: possession (1981)

i really don't know where to start on this film. i first thought this movie was about exorcism but it wasn't. it's about a married couple who are going through some problems. first off the wife left the family for no reason. mark, the husband played by dr. alan grant, assumes that she is sleeping with someone else. which is true. he gets really mad and starts hitting her. even though he is pissed, he still has a lot of feelings for her. the movie gets even more strange when he hires a detective to find where she is staying and she ends up killing him. it's all very surreal and strange but it's great.

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 8.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: enter the void (2009)

enter the void is the third film by the fucked up director gaspar noe. i don't mean that in a bad way. he's amazing. the last movie he made was irreversible which is by far one of the most fucked up films i've ever seen and again i don't mean that in a bad way. it's one of those movies you need to see once and that's it. enter the void on the other hand, you could watch this over and over if you wanted to.

i don't feel like explaining what the movie was about but it deals with drugs and the afterlife. the film is mostly shot in first person so you feel like you're experiencing what the main character is going through. the reason why i labeled this as fucked up is because there's a lot of sex scenes, crazy drug hallucinations, and a dead fetus.

FUCKED UP RATING: 7 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 9 OUT OF 10

fucked up fillm: secretary (2002)

secretary is about a girl named lee (played by maggie gyllenhaal) who is released from a mental hospital. she cuts herself and she has a drunk dad and a overprotective mom. one day lee decides "hey, what the hell? im gonna go get a job!" she gets a job as a (HINT: MOVIE TITLE) for a demanding lawyer named mr. gray (played by james spader). for her job, she does all these lame ass tasks like typing up letters for so and so, setting up mouse traps, jumping in garbage bins, and other dumb shit. the only problem is that lee is shit at her job. mr. gray gets upset whenever he finds typos in her work. he gets so upset that one day, he tells lee to bend over on his desk and he punishes her by slapping her ass a bunch of times. she becomes sexually obsessed with mr. gray and their s&m relationship goes out of control. i loved the hell out of this film. great acting and storyline. i don't think my health teacher would approve of this.

FUCKED UP RATING: 7 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: dead man's shoes (2004)

dead man's shoes is a film about a guy who returns to his hometown with his mentally challenged brother, anthony. in the past, anthony was brutalized by a bunch of twats so richard is out to seek revenge on them. he starts off doing stupid pranks on them like spray painting their hair. throughout the film, they show flashbacks of what the guys did to anthony. it's kinda depressing. i thought the movie was going to be more violent but there are some messed up shit that happens. overall, it was an ok movie. nothing to jizz over.

FUCKED UP RATING: 6 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 6 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: black swan (2010)

y'know i'm not really into these "HYPED OUT TO THE MAX" films as much as kids these days but i quite enjoyed black swan. i remember my math teacher telling my class to not see this because its really weird and it'll scare you. well i don't think it was very scary but it had its moments. plus it was pretty weird and SEXY hence why this this labeled fucked up film.

anyway, black swan is a film about a girl named nina played by natalie portman who is this great ballerina that is a bit of a pussy. she wants to be the swan queen for this world class ballet company runned by thomas who was in all of those ocean's 11 films. y'know the french guy. there are a lot of moments in this film you're like uhhh what the fuck is going on here like when thomas tells her "I HAVE HOMEWORK FOR YOU..YOU NEED TO START TOUCHING YOURSELF" so there is a couple scenes of her wanking in bed. it's not like explicit or anything. not pornographic. it's pretty normal but there is a scene where a girl goes down on her.

i can't really say much about the plot since it would ruin it if you reallly want to see it. i only spoil films that are old but SPOILER ALERT she dies at the end WHOOPS

FUCKED UP RATING: 5.7 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: the idiots (1998)

the idiots is a danish film about a group of intelligent people living in a house pretending to be mentally challenged. they go out in public and mess with "normal" people to get a reaction out of them and take advantage of certain situations like making money off of ugly christmas decorations. there is a shit load of nudity in this film and there is even a gang bang scene that is unsimulated. as fucked up as this movie sounds, it was really good. you have to be a bit of an ass to be offended by their actions so i wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a sense of humor (ie. people who watch fox news)

FUCKED UP RATING: 9 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 8.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: naked lunch (1991)

naked lunch is about a guy who gets addicted of this substance that he uses to kill bugs. he accidentally kills his wife and gets involved in some secret government shit with giant bugs in africa. its not so much of a disturbing movie. its just weird as fuck. there is a scene where a typewriter turns into a bug and gets really horny. avant garde bullshit yeah?

FUCKED UP RATING: 6 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 6 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: crash (1996)

first off, this is not the academy award winning crash. this is david cronenberg softcore porn crash. now i'm usually not the kind of person who whines about how some movies have no plots cause i like gummo but this movie was really a waste of time unless you're really into car accidents and sex. the "plot" of this film is james (played by james spader) gets into a car accident and becomes obsessed with this underground culture of sex crazed car crashers. its fucking weird. there is this guy he meets who looks like bonehead from oasis. all he really wants to do is get into a huge crash and die. i guess the movie was trying to show the emptiness of how these idiots feel about risking their lives but is it a necessary movie to watch? not really.

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 4.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: cape fear (1991)

cape fear is about a convicted rapist, max cady (played by robert de niro) who is released from prison from a 14 year sentence. he stalks a lawyer (nick nolte) and his family who defended him in court. everything about this movie is fucking brilliant. the acting, the storyline, the music, the cinematography (if you're into that shit like me) is so good. i normally don't get scared by music but i jumped so many times in the intense scenes. one of the scenes that is so fucked up is when max hits on the lawyer's 15 year old daughter. if you love thrillers, like psychological thrills, you will definitely love this movie.

FUCKED UP RATING: 5 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7.5 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: trash humpers (2009)

harmony korine is one of my all time favorite directors but this movie was trash. it was a lot of humping of inanimate objects objects and weird moaning. i mean i guess it's a great film to watch if i was stoned but at the moment i'm completely sober and i felt like i just lost 78 minutes out of my life. there were some parts that were very entertaining and funny but most of the time it was very repetitive and exhausting. i'm not a huge fan of films that try to be artistic and shit but this was too much for me. i'd rather watch gummo or julien donkey-boy.

FUCKED UP RATING: 6 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 3 OUT OF 10

fucked up film: straw dogs (1971)

the only film that makes dustin hoffman a huge pussy and a badass motherfucker is straw dogs. straw dogs is about a mathematician named david (dustin hoffman)and his english wife amy move into a nice village to seek a new life. they hire construction workers to work on the garage and they're huge assholes to david. they ask david if he wants to go hunting for quail (i think it was quail) so he agrees to go. meanwhile, his wife amy is getting raped by one of the guys who helps on the garage then another guy comes in and rapes her too. i think the director was trying to make the greatest rape scene of all time. amy doesnt tell david about what happened. she clearly cannot get over it.

at one point of the film, some guy named henry, touches some lady, then david hits henry with his car. now henry is at david's place and everyone wants to kill henry by getting in david's house. SPOILER ALERT so the rest of the film shows david killing every local that tries to get into his house. its very intense.

overall straw dogs was pretty good. it can be boring at some points but it really builds up towards the end.

FUCKED UP RATING: 6.5 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7 OUT OF 10


there is a remake coming out in 2011. please don't see it. i looked on imdb and its coming out on september 11th. that is not cool.

fucked up film: bully (2001)

most films nowadays never leave me in shock. this one did it for me. larry clark's bully tells the story of a group of drugged up sex crazed friends planning to kill their "friend" bobby kent. marty, bobby's close friend, comes up with the idea to take revenge on what bobby did to his girlfriend lisa. bobby raped lisa and got her pregnant. to get to the point, marty and his friends hire a hitman to help out with their revenge. before the killing, they're contemplating the aftermath of it. but after their deed is done, they're terrified of their future.

even though bobby is shown as an enemy of the film, his death was not revenge. it was pure jealousy. most of the friends don't give a fuck about school and life. they just enjoy having sex, driving fast cars, and doing drugs. bobby on the other hand, he's ready for college. the friends don't have what bobby has. the misconception of this film is that its unrealistic. i don't think it is at all. i know kids who act like this. these kids are not white trash. their parents are wealthy.

overall, this film was fucking brilliant. it would be lazy for me to say its like clark's first film kids. kids was a very shocking film but bully hit me more emotionally only because it is a true story.

FUCKED UP RATING: 9 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 8 OUT OF 10

fucked up film (kinda): elephant (1989)

this isnt any of that pussy ass pseudo columbine school shooting BULLSHIT MOTHERFUCKER. THIS IS ABOUT THE IRA. THIS IS ABOUT IRELAND. GEORGE BEST PROBABLY HEARD OF THIS FROM SOME ASSHOLE AND WENT BACK TO BANGING BROADS AND PLAYING FOOTBALL AFTER DISREGARDING HIS NATIONALIST BULLSHIT.

all this is is alan clarke filming, dick in hand, like 500 random murders. i think theres like 2 seconds of dialogue the entire film and everyone is dressed like the smiths. that was the most interesting part. oh, and in one scene, some guys are playing football and then a guy pulls out a gun after making a pass and shoots one of the other guys. thats what i want to do everytime someone misses my pass in xbox. (FUCK YOU CHELSEA, I FUCKING HATE YOU ASSHOLES FOR BEATING MY BEAUTIFUL CELTIC)

this isnt really a fucked up film, it started out that way but it was so boring the death for no reason (a comment on the senseless IRA killings. NICE JOB AT BEING INDIE-ABSTRACT ALAN CLARKE, YOU ASSHOLE) shit didn't seem so disturbing anymore. alan clarke is lucky he made cool skinhead films.

<3 CELTIC FC 4 LIFE <3

FUCKED UP RATING: 1 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: .5 OUT OF 10