15 Most Disturbing And Scary Movies Ever
15. Martyrs (2008)
The movie is a jolting torture horror piece with a huge 90-degree turn somewhere around the halfway mark of the story.
We follow a young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child. This leads her and her friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
It starts out as basic we-have-all-seen-this-countless-times-before movie, but then it quickly descends into a quasi-religious and unpleasantly realistic nastiness like you won’t believe.
Perhaps the most disturbing scene of the movies is when our surviving heroine Anna is beaten and skinned alive. She survives the procedure, entering a state that is described as being “euphoric” and likened to achieving transcendence.
Todd Brown said the film was “without a doubt the single most divisive film to screen in the Cannes Marche Du Film this year”, while Ryan Rotten claims that the film “is the new yard stick against which all forms of extreme genre films should be measured against”.
