most disturbing movies

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure,” Marquis de Sade had said. It isn’t definite that pain is interwoven with pleasure, but in many cases, distressing spectacles manifest veritable cerebration that we often avoid, leading to a kind of shocking yet stimulating mental awakening. From Eugène Delacroix’s bloodstained epics to René […]

Blood, violence and depravity are themes that’ve shown up in our artwork for thousands of years. The thrill of watching gladiators torn apart in battle was once a popular form of recreation. Indeed, during the times of barbarism and cavemen, the law of the land was kill or be killed. Mankind’s bloodlust, it would seem, […]