The 2010 film Black Swan is about ballerinas, played by Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, competing for the lead role in a New York City ballet company production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. It is not only a dance movie, but a look into the psyche of a performing artist reaching for perfection in a cutthroat world. It's also been described as a horror film. Black Swan was a box office hit, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. Natalie Portman won for Best Actress. Some amazing things went on behind the scenes, too.
10. Natalie Portman is a big reason why this film was made.
Portman trained for a year in ballet and did so in the hope that this movie would be made. She even paid for the lessons out of her own pocket.
5. Portman suffered an injury during filming.
She dislocated a rib during a lift and had to give up her trailer in order to pay for the treatment she needed. It took a while to recover and they lifted her from the armpits afterward.
Read more about Black Swan at TVOM.
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after that rant: fact is that these movies will skew your perception of reality.
Interesting to see "Irreversible" on the list. That is one of the most disgusting and vile movies I have the misfortune of witnessing. It makes you want to go to confessional just thinking about what you saw. Nasty.
"Eraserhead" is a beautifully shot film but i will agree with Mytake about "Audition". Definitely my least favorite Takashi Miike movie.
This turned inot a list of snuff-type films. Do peope actualyl like that? Weird world.
No, greeneagle, it's just dumb. Why is it that people always point to unpleasant movies and music as "dangerously influential" but ignore the vast amounts of positive storylines? Almost every sitcom and cartoon has a good moral point to make about racism, crime, etc.
After decades of enthusiastic horror movie viewing, I find I have exactly the opposite reaction. I can no longer stand the sound of young women screaming. Maybe you grow out of it...
Basically, the quirky, funny, yet psychotic boy in the title has conversations with Mary who appears to him at various times, and he never quite understands her advice; hilarity and/or bloodshed ensues.
As the movie progresses, there's less hilarity and more bloodshed.
I also thought Last House on the Left was boring and just annoying.
Disappointed with that list b/c it did just turn in to a snuff-film list.
I've seen Jacob's Ladder, very creepy, and somewhat disturbing, but if you understand the story it makes a sad, weird sense.
I missed the first few minutes of Hard Candy on cable, but stayed with it to the end. Definitely disturbing, but I wouldn't include it on this list.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was disturbing, but there was another version of the Henry Lee Lucas story that was much creepier. I can't find it on IMDB.
Requiem for a Dream is a better anti-drug film than anything they ever showed me in high school.
I've never watched Happiness because I'm utterly sick of the whole suburbs are horrible and pits of despair. American Beauty sucked.
(...okay, except I sort of do. Doh.)
"litlfrog
June 13th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Guys, I just picked up a couple of trojans going to the popcrunch website. Can anyone confirm that the site is infected today?"
Any AntiVirus scanner logs you can share? Nothing registered when I went there, but also, I have AdBlock and a pretty comprehensive HOSTS file.
Most disturbing movie of all, and I've seen the ones mentioned above.
Have a bucket ready!
'The Cement Garden' would definitely be on the list. This movie is 'ick', on so many levels. Remember, this stars Charlotte Gainsbourg--the daughter of the goy who sang 'Lemon Incest'...