At the same time, its reliquary character, ornamentally embellishing images of pain and deformation, can be genuinely disturbing.
He described the film as being "too hyperbolic to be genuinely disturbing."
There are no genuinely disturbing, Sadean scenarios here.
The shock and surprise he feels - and the sense of real panic - are genuinely disturbing.
It's infuriating to read a horror story that sets up a genuinely disturbing premise and then pulls back from its nastier implications.
The Chelsea piece, which was first shone by the gallery two years ago, has moral implications that are genuinely disturbing.
Some scenes read as vaguely comic; others were genuinely disturbing, like a segment capturing hardscrabble street life in Manila.
I'm interested, like most people, in images of genuinely disturbing things.
The London FrightFest's blog called the film "a genuinely disturbing piece of work."
Here, on the crowded trains, the standing and sitting salarymen read comic books, called manga, the local versions of novels, which were genuinely disturbing.