Name an Evil film

[thepainterdoug]

I came across the movie Seven today which I hadn't seen in years.
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey

I thought this is an evil film

what do you think?
any others ?

[rgray222]

No Country for Old Men - seemed to be a particularly evil film for no apparent reason.

[Raskolnikov]

The Shining comes to mind.

[norman]

(almost) Any children's cartoon

[Isserley]

Posted by norman (here)
(almost) Any children's cartoon

(almost) any hollywood movie or big production studio movie, especially horror & thriller genres can be considered obviousely evil.

but all other genres have some form of agenda woven into themselves and can be considered evil as well, even comedies today serve indoctrination and making folks more stupid. Comedies used to serve as a critique for society and stupidity.

There is also a category lgbtq+ on netflix, which says a lot about the content we are exposed to today

To name one movie to AVOID AT ALL COSTS is French movie The Martyrs (2008). It went far beyond anything I ever wanted to see in a film and left me traumatized, with images that have been stuck in my head for over a decade.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Disagree with The Shining. If you read the book, you'd discover alcoholism is at its centre. That's the fulcrum around which Jack Torrence spirals into a dark and evil place, whilst in a haunted place -- the hotel. It's not evil per se, and neither is the film, which many view as Stanley Kubrick's master work. A brilliant but at the same time flawed master work, in my opinion. The villain is played by the genius Jack Nicholson, but he somewhat overplays the part. The film came along not long after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which had Nicholson in the lead, and he plays his role in The Shining in a similar way -- or you can't help but see it in a similar way. You believe from the first frame he's already unstable, possibly already insane, before they even move into the hotel.

The book is quite different, as was the TV movie that came years later, spearheaded by Stephen King (author of The Shining) who hated Kubrick's original. In the end of The Shining, the hotel swallows Jack Torrence whole, but his family safely escapes, thanks mainly to Danny, the kid with a special psychic gift -- the 'Shining'. All in all, I don't see The Shining as an evil film or book.

If you want true evil in a film, then Saw qualifies. Mainly the sequels rather than the first film, which was a cleverly crafted whodunnit. The various sequels however are horrible, becoming ever more twisted and cruel. Hostel and A Serbian Film are others in this genre that have quite awful reputations for depravity. I haven't seen either one (by choice).

Two films I have seen which I might say are evil are, firstly, The Exorcist. The film and story are all about evil, so evil is a given, but what they made Linda Blair say and do in that film (a minor at the time) were just plain wrong for a child. The other is Cannibal Holocaust. I saw this video nasty on ropey Betamax some time in the late eighties. I was so appalled after watching it that I unravelled the cassette and threw it in the bin. I couldn't believe what I had seen wasn't real. A truly grotesque film that bothers me to think about to this day. The original Omen from 1976 with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick is another film that oozed evil and troubled me deeply. I've read, though I don't know if it's true, that multiple people died in mysterious circumstances in the making of that film. I don't think I'd be surprised.

[DNA]

Natural born killers...
The movie glorifies serial killing murderers.
Something about the photography, pace and music.
I'm sure there was a spike in violent crime after it's release

[madrotter]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini.....

I saw it in the cinema when it came out, I was 14 at the time, way, way too young for that movie, a class mate's mom was working behind the counter that's how I got in, full house but by the time the movie ended there was only me and one other person still there.... Pasolini was murdered shortly after the movie came out, many think it was because of this movie.... Its... terrible, beyond anything I've seen since but at the same time it's incredibly beautiful at the same time.... Not sure about it's status now but it was banned in many, many countries....

[thepainterdoug]

Mark Star Mariner/ you seem to be well versed in these films as I am. I saw them all. My younger sister who was 13 at the time saw the opening of the Exorcist at the Zigfield IN NYC . I tell you, she was never the same. Very powerful and disturbing film on many levels ,,especially for a young person

Many a great contribution to this.

[Sunny]

Lamb (2021). IMHO it's a Satanic ritual.
Silent Night (also 2021). If you wanted that plot, why at a Christmas party?

[madrotter]

Also, of course, Come And See and Wolyn (Hatred)..... Great, great movies though, stayed with me for months, the both of them... Another one that comes to mind is Bone Tomahawk, I loved that one....

[ExomatrixTV]

• A Clockwork Orange 1971

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T54uZPI4Z8A

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O96hVc0XkDI

[Open Minded Dude]

For me all movies without a happy ending are evil. "Seven" aforementioned by the OP was certainly one of them. Hated it.
Let the bad guy(s) win... WTF? I do not want to have 'expectations subverted' or anything of the kind. But that's just me.

I do not see horror or scary movies as 'evil' per se. They deal with 'evil', yes, sometimes seriously, sometimes in a funny way. Most Zombie movies are actually quite comical to me and not 'evil' at all. I don't watch a lot of it but when then I almost laugh at them.

So, being evil and portraying evil (in movie, shows, and also music) for me is not the same thing and if I understand the OP we are on the same page here. (?) If not we could just list all crime/war/action/horror etc. movies then.

[JackMcThorn]

My good friend's son was fresh out of the army on a medical discharge. I dropped by his house and he was in the middle of watching the human centipede. I took one look and told him I'd be back later on sometime.

Don't look this up. Just avoid it altogether. But it is probably the most evil and most disgusting ever and there is evidently a sequel. [serious warning here, no kidding around]

Your stomach will turn. Even if you have a military mind. It is grosser than Saw. Now thing thing with Saw is the psychological element. There aren't too many psych thrillers that really make you think. So I kinda liked the Saw series and there is now 1o of them.

One of my ex-girlfriends loved horror. Edge of your seat thrills for her. Psych-thrillers I am usually ok with but pure horror just doesn't do it for me.

[Mari]

I agree with Mark that The Exorcist was a truly evil voyeuristic piece of work. I was horrified at what actress Linda Blair had to 'do' and say in the film - and I was no aged prude, but a young mother bringing up children. What the hell were her parents doing, presumably standing on the sidelines, (mentoring/protection, blah blah) and watching her 'perform'?

I saw it yes, but the images in it still trigger me today: there is a streetlamp just down the road from me, at the top of a flight of stairs, and every time I glance out of the window at night and see this, the Poster image, of the 'Exorcist' standing underneath the lamp appears (remember that?) almost every time: what does that say about ME....or the power of the image, to infiltrate? I'm a fullly grown adult, for Pete's sake

Another was Texas Chainsaw Massacre which, imo, served only to glorify blood and gore and countless ways to use the instrument on the human body and spawned countless more 'gore' offerings.

The same with 'Freddy' of Nightmare On Elm Street, which my daughter - a 'goth' at that time, worshipped...ahh jeez, posters on her bedroom wall.........
Oh yeah, don't even get me started with the bloody 'Chucky' films - which have spawned a generation (and counting!) of children terrified of their dolls. I once volunteered as a guide at Agatha Christie's holiday home in south Devon. In the Morning Room of her pile, sits a large doll on a chair, 'Rosie' is her name, and much loved by Agatha. Large staring eyes (in quite a pretty face) frighten the crap out of quite a lot of kids entering that room, and countless adults even comment on the 'Chucky' influence when they see this doll.

Satanic Influence is firmly embedded in the Hollywood film industry, its so easy to spot now. I would say that most of the stuff coming out of that industry today is Satanically influenced, with the aim to fill us with fear, along with all the other crap we have to endure.

[thepainterdoug]

Mari

I consider the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre as one of the best most harrowing scary films ever. The heat, the smell, the location, the slaughterhouses, the wheelchair, the circumstances, and then, we get to the family

[Mari]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
The original Omen from 1976 with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick is another film that oozed evil and troubled me deeply. I've read, though I don't know if it's true, that multiple people died in mysterious circumstances in the making of that film. I don't think I'd be surprised.

Oh yes.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/cursed-...nner-the-omen/

And

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/e...the-first-omen

[Mari]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Mari

I consider the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre as one of the best most harrowing scary films ever. The heat, the smell, the location, the slaughterhouses, the wheelchair, the circumstances, and then, we get to the family

I will allow that many say the film was a classic. Fair enough. I loathe the chainsaw so I'm biased. For what its worth, my fave horror films are the Alien films, one and two. For me, terrifying heart-stopping suspense (in bucket loads) with a TRULY terrifying Alien that even the cast were afraid of, whilst filming.

[thepainterdoug]

I don't see the Alien films as evil. Scary yes. But not evil

ahh and before i forget, Carnival of Souls, if not mentioned yet. If not Evil, Macabre for sure

[mountain_jim]

The movie that sticks with me the most, perhaps due to the thinly-veiled secret-society occult reality of the deep evil that underpins it all, is Eyes Wide Shut

Which I suspect got Kubrick murdered before the studio reedited released, presumably watered-down version.

I am a huge fan of Kubrick's body of work, and wish I could see his version of that movie before his untimely passing.

https://www.slashfilm.com/601262/the...-devil-ranked/

The Exorcist got ranked #1 here

Also at that link the 106 'best' horror movies, all with synopses/descriptions

There I was reminded of The Wicker Man (original version - 1973)

While "Midsommar" is very good (although not nearly as accomplished as Ari Aster's debut film, "Hereditary"), its best parts are collected part and parcel from Robin Hardy's "The Wicker Man." Though its remake was widely denigrated, Hardy's original is the de facto template for all folk horror. It's a luscious, paranoid, dense, and almost mythic slice of earthy occult weirdness.

Police Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) travels via seaplane to the remote island of Summerisle after receiving an anonymous letter asking him to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. A devout Christian, Howie is first turned off by the island's pagan symbols and rituals and symbols, which directly contradict his faith. Then, he meets Christopher Lee's Lord Summerisle, and the mystery deepens. Residents claim that the missing girl never existed, and, more than that, the people just seem off. With a terrifying and extremely memorable ending and sensational performances throughout, "The Wicker Man" isn't just folk horror — folk horror is "The Wicker Man."

Starring: Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pit

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/780835/best-horror-movies/