We all would agree that Requiem for a Dream, Natural Born Killers and A Clockwork Orange are completely frightening. However, we have all seen them. The PMF list hopefully encompasses movies that you've never seen but should have. So check, check, check it out!!
Erasurehead, a 1977 cult classic by director David Lynch, follows Henry Spencer on vacation. Henry comes to find that his estranged girlfriend has given birth to a deformed baby. He decides to marry her but she quickly leaves Henry with the baby. Bizarre events unfold upon his ex's departure, including a romp with the woman across the hall from his apartment, a woman dancing in his radiator and his own head being used to make pencil erasers. Talk about some really crazy shit. This film is so good that in 2004 the United States Library of Congress recognized it as a culturally significant film and have preserved it in the National Film Registry.
This French film is set in reverse order, like Memento. The synopsis goes something like this: a butcher reveals that he was arrested for having sex with his daughter, a homosexual S&M nightclub breaks out in commotion, anti-gay shouting ensues outside of the nightclub by straight bigots, a man looking for Tapeworm in the same club, finds him, breaks his arm and rapes him, a man's skull is crushed with a fire extinguisher, etc. Doesn't it sound crazy? Time destroys everything is the theme of the movie and is quite apparent in every scene. This film is a must see and was deemed the most disturbing film of 2002 by an international audience.
Chan-Wook Park is brilliant. Another Chan-Wook must-see is Lady of Vengeance. The story line goes a little something like this: a man is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years in a cell with no explanation. He is eventually released, equipped with money, a cellphone and nice clothes. Upon release, he finds that his kidnapper still has plans for him that are worse than his already served 15 year imprisonment. After his release he must find the deep seeded secrets from his past that brought him to his imprisonment. You will not believe the ending to this crazy film! 
Mysterious Skin fucked up my mind for days, maybe weeks! The scary thing about this film is that it is set in Hutchinson, Kansas, a town that I hold relatives in and have frequented many times in my life. The story surrounds two main characters. Neil and Brian, whom are both molested by their pedophile baseball coach when they are only eight years old. Neil's deranged and slutty mother pays him no mind while Brian lives in a disillusioned world, claiming that he has been abducted by aliens. While Neil grows up to be a homo husler, Brian looks for someone to disclose his most intimate secrets. The need for exploration and unlocking the future leads them both to NYC where devastation meets happiness.
If you have ever seen Kids, you know that Harmony Korine is a fucking amazing director. Kids got me so scared of HIV, that I've been dodging the penis ever since!! That movie literally scarred me for life! Gummo is set in a small Midwestern town in Ohio (wtf is up with the most disturbing movies being set in small American towns?). The residents of this town have been hit by a tornado and since have been completely inundated out of their minds. To pass the time they kill cats, sniff glue, have homoerotic sex, pawn their downs syndrome sister as a prostitute, and find lumps on each others tits. Don't watch this shit alone!
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