Hey. Here are my picks for the directors whose films make people squirm.
In No Particular Order
Takashi Miike
Michael Haneke
Todd Solondz
Harmony Korine
David Cronenberg
David Lynch
John Waters(the early films)
Peter Greenaway
Gaspar Noe
Larry Clark
Ken Russell
Lars Von Trier
There are many more and some deserve to be on this list for just one film or many films.
What are your picks?
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I think you gotta add:
Lucio Fulci City of the Living Dead
Hideshi Hino Guinea Pig series
Ruggero Deodato Cannibal series
E. Elias Merhige for Begotten
Rémy Belvaux for Man Bites Dog
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
AURORE
VISITOR Q
SALO
ALL NIGHT LONG 3
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
MAN BITES DOG
NEKROMANTIK
SALO
IRREVERSABLE
MEN BEHIND THE SUN
ISLAND OF DEATH
NIGHTTRAIN MURDERS (italian Last House remake)
DAHMER
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
COMBAT SHOCK
Eat The Schoolgirl
Naked Blood
Mermaid In a Manhole
Tetsuo
The Isle (talk about things not to do with fishhooks)
Jogakusei harakiri (harakiri fetish movie.)
Professor Pain (hentai movie that's way out there when it comes to demented things going on.)
Eraserhead
Vulgar
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Well, your list pretty much sums it up!
I guess Argento is quite twisted as well.
JP Jeunet can create very weird worlds like in Delicatessen or City of Lost Children, but it would be hard to call Amelie a twisted movie!
Who else...
Have you ever seen a movie by Jean Rollin? Pretty twisted director (and pretty bad, too...), same for Jess Franco.