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Inmates in a vertical prison rely on food coming from the platforms above them. However, the prisoners above eat way more than their share, leaving those below to survive off of the scraps. This seemed like a simple enough Spanish sci-fi film in the beginning. Then a rebellion breaks out, causing things to go from weird and tense to violently chaotic. The Platform is a lot to chew on and gives the audience a lot to unpack.

Netflix has so much upsetting content that this list could go on for days. I left off Silent Hill, which is so many levels of WTF and you should also revisit before the next one drops. I also have been hearing good things about Disappear Completely and need to check it out this weekend. Enough about me though. What are your favorite disturbing movies on the streamer this month? Let me know at @misssharai.

"In it, a film crew is following a serial killer, and they move from observers to participants. The film is relentlessly brutal, graphic, and upsetting with nothing held back. It crawls under your skin and stays there."

"The shunting scene genuinely left me speechless. It may not be as dark as some other films listed, but it disturbed me. I didn't even know what I was seeing. What kind of sick mind thinks of these things?!"

"I know a lot of films by Lars von Trier are messed up, but that was uncomfortable and just downright disgusting from start to finish. I did finish it (for some reason) and remember just thinking, Why did I put myself through that?!"

"I couldn't sleep right for days after watching it, and it was all I could think about in the worst way possible. I hated it from start to finish and wish I never saw it. I understand that it was well made and some people loved it, but it fucked with my head."

"Not a traditionally 'disturbing' movie. It was excellent, but the depiction of acute alcoholism is just so disturbing to me. I appreciated the excellent performances, but seeing it once was more than enough."

"It's an anthology film about the different ways you can die. Pick a letter from the 26 choices and pick your poison. Every scene is worse than the last. It will make you want to scrub the last two hours from your brain."

"When I put all the pieces together and made sense of what was really going on in the film, all I kept thinking was, Who the hell came up with the idea for this? I watched it a long time ago, and it still shocks me to this day that someone actually came up with that."

"It's based on a real story, so knowing that poor girl was tortured to death in real life just sickens me. I can stomach most fictional stories, but anything based on a real person's suffering makes me very uncomfortable."

"I watch the worst of the 'worst' horror movies as a hobby. I actually got through Cannibal Holocaust and all three Human Centipede movies just fine. I can never rewatch this. I almost stopped watching multiple times because of how sick it made me."

"It was on a local cable access horror movie show, and my father insisted I watch it with him. It was so disgusting and upsetting that I ended up sleeping with the light on and pop music playing for weeks."

This is definitely one of the most messed up and disturbing movies on Netflix. Directed by Richard Shepard and starring Allison Williams, Logan Browning and Steven Weber; this psychological horror revolves around a talented musical prodigy attending a prestigious music school. She befriends the new star pupil of the school and together they venture out on a sinister journey filled with several gruesome and gory events that will make your skin crawl.

The 2015 movie closely follows the story of the real-life 1971 simulation study on the psychology of imprisonment conducted by Professor Philip G. Zimbardo at Stanford University in the United States.

None of the young men who took part in the experiment, and who were paid $15 a day for their participation, showed a predisposition for inflicting cruelty on others. And they all went into this experiment under the proviso that no participant could physically harm another.

The prison guards process the prisoners and assign them to their three-person cells, which are simply offices at Stanford University which have been converted into the makeshift prison cells, containing three trundle beds and very little else.

But within a few hours they seem more comfortable in their new roles - especially the prison guards. When a prisoner asks for a cigarette at dinner time, the most dominant prison guard denies his request, firmly putting him in his place as an inmate.

When one prison guard oversteps the line, a prisoner grabs him by the throat. The prison guard then punches the prisoner and puts him in the isolation cell, which was formally a supply cupboard at the university.

On the sixth day, the prison erupts into chaos. The prison guards are becoming even more violent towards the prisoners. At one point they make the prisoners simulate sex to humiliate a conservative prisoner who had just admitted that he was a virgin.

What happens next is probably the most shocking scene in the movie. Both the prisoners and prison guards do not initially understand what Zimbardo is trying to tell them. They're so entrenched in their role-playing, they so believe that they're in a real prison, they don't understand how they can all of a sudden be free.

This is why The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. While watching the movie you can't help but put yourself in the shoes of both the prison guards and the prisoners.

The movie made me question everything I thought I knew about myself. I wondered if I was in that position, would I be capable of such cruelty? Could I inflict harm on others just to stay in a position of power? And, after a while would I start to enjoy it?

The Stanford Prison Experiment proves that we're all capable of extreme cruelty in the right circumstances. That we could all quickly abandon our own principles and belief systems, and put our needs above others, if we thought that was our only means of survival.

The Stanford Experiment makes for some fascinating reading.
If you like that one check out The Milgram Experiment which shows how far people are willing to go when they receive orders. They tried to link the results to what Nazi Germany did during the Holocaust (as in were they just following orders...).

Rising to prominence in the 2010s, Netflix has amassed a diverse catalog of series, films, and shorts. The streaming platform has earned a middling reputation among viewers, with some claiming that the streaming site has introduced them to some of the best domestic and international programs while also producing projects that leave much to be desired. Nevertheless, Netflix continues to be a leading streaming platform with content that ranges from the typical and saccharine to the deeply disturbing.

As quiet as it's kept, Netflix's original horror series and films are some of the most recognizable projects in the genre. With series such as Stranger Things and films like Bird Box providing viewers with a front-row seat to their fears onscreen, Netflix owes its success to the countless creatives that pour their energy and provide their countless imaginations to the company, no matter how harrowing their horror stories are.

One of Netflix's most recent successes, The Fear Street Franchise is a trilogy that boasts quite the ensemble cast. Kiana Madeira (Trinkets) joins Sadie Sink (Stranger Things), Benjamin Flores Jr., and Olivia Scott Welch in the Leigh Janiak-directed reimagination of R.L. Stine's series of stories that share the same name.

The series follows a brother-sister duo, Deena and Josh Johnson, and their relentless search for the secrets behind the various, vicious murders occurring in their hometown of Shadyside After gathering their friends for an unforgettable night, the group unearths buried truths. The initial film follows traditional tropes of slasher and horror films, especially the grotesque nature of the killings. In the Fear Street Universe, no one is spared and viewers come to learn of that statement the hard way.

Coming across gut-wrenching revelations about the events that took place in the past, the characters eventually learn of the structural atrocities that led to the development of Shadyside While arriving at several hiccups throughout the three films, the Fear Street trilogy is a generally enjoyable project for anyone looking for a modern twist on traditional horror films.

As many critics have highlighted, sex, and by proxy, sex work has traditionally been demonized onscreen. The final girls and fellow survivors were typically virtuous. They may not have been virgins, but they were far more inexperienced compared to the sex workers and slut-shamed teenagers that met a bloody demise.

Cam, a film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, instead centers on a sex worker in its story. The film stars Madeline Brewer as Alice Ackerman, a woman leading a double life. While most of her friends and family believe that she currently holds a profitable position in web development, she works as a "FreeGirlsLive" camgirl under the name of "Lola_Lola".

Her experience on FreeGirlsLive is typical: filled with adoring fans, misogynistic comments, and the added pressure of having to keep her occupation a secret. Alice's life unexpectedly turns into a nightmare after a clone of hers seemingly has a life of its own, hijacking her account and streaming as if she were the real Alice. Cam retains all fear-inducing plots leading up to a powerful conclusion that hits close to home than most viewers would like to admit.

At the time of the film's premiere, Hush was a viral phenomenon. The discourse surrounding the film was nigh-inescapable. Now synonymous with the streaming platform, director Mike Flanagan collaborated with Netflix in crafting a horror film that centers on a woman who is deaf and mute. Maddie Young, a horror author, secludes herself in a house in the woods after the success of her novel Midnight Mass. Her island away from the clamoring of critics raving about her successful novel is initially pleasant. Her friend Sarah visits and the two discuss Sarah's sign language education as well as Maddie's recent success.

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