10 Most Disturbing British Movies Ever
2. The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
Comfortably the worst film on this list in terms of quality but not quite deserving of the top spot in terms of disturbing impact, 2005's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is best known for the walkouts which its Cannes debut prompted, which led some critics to compare the film to A Clockwork Orange.
Until it was released.
Trashy and exploitative, this over-the-top and cloyingly self-satisfied drama garnered boos because of a pair of horrific rape sequences, one offscreen and one on, which served to illustrate the filmmaker's glaringly unsubtle critique of UK foreign policy by...
Depicting working class youths as monstrous, amoral demons. But they're watching the invasion of Iraq on the news, get it?
Truly daring stuff. Maybe next time the people responsible for and complicit the war could be the ones demonised onscreen? Though that might really upset well-to-do art cinema patrons.