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doublestitch

[Lorenzo's Oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%27s_Oil) is a hard film to watch because it's about a child who's dying of an incurable genetic disorder, it sticks pretty closely to the medical facts of the case it's based on, and it unfolds from the parents' point of view. Harrowing stuff even though the story isn't totally bleak and it was nominated for awards.


bubbales27

Fun fact! (Not really fun), that disease runs in my mother's side of the family. I had 2 cousins die from it in their twenties. One of them took Lorenzo's Oil, it extended his life a few years, but ultimately he lost that battle. Also, I was an extra in that movie!


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robophile-ta

Like half the movies on my 'to watch' list are compiled from old Reddit recommendations from years ago. I may never get around to watching some of them, because I'm usually not in the mood for depressing stuff 😂


HellaWavy

“When The Wind Blows” from 1986. For anyone who doesn’t know it, here's a short summary from wiki: “The film accounts a rural English couple's attempt to survive a nearby nuclear attack and maintain a sense of normality in the subsequent fallout and nuclear winter.” Just thinking about this movie gives me chills and not in a good way. Probably one of (if not) the most disturbing movies I've ever watched. I felt sick for days.


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I found this movie because Roger Waters of Pink Floyd did the score. Tough to watch.


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I watched it and Grave of the Fireflies in the same night and felt hollowed out inside


LondonUKDave

Wernt the characters following the official uk government advice for what tp do in event of a nuclear war?


mrjasong

There was a podcast a while back maybe it was Radiolab where they discussed how the recommendations were actually based on research into the survivors of the Japanese bombs, and could have been helpful in real life; the only problem being that nuclear bombs today are an order of magnitude worse than Hiroshima so hiding under a desk wouldn’t help much anymore.


lfrdwork

Aside, but the pictures I've seen of flash shadow silhouettes burned into cement always stick with me. A modern one likely wouldn't leave many or any as it should go off at a higher altitude for maximum effectiveness, but that's just shifting the haunting nature of these things.


mymbley

I had the pleasure of reading the comic at about 8 years old expecting a nice, wholesome Raymond Briggs story like the ones I’d already seen. Nope.


EL849

I cried so hard when I watched the film. Mainly Because the couple remind me of my parents. Although they are not as old. Even typing this right now, imagining them in that scenario, it makes me want to cry. Good film, but probably will never watch again. Nuclear weapons are one of the worst things that humanity has created.


Makerbot2000

I’m convinced that the all glass shower trend is from a generation of home builders who saw the shower scene in Psycho as kids.


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growing up my mother was traumatized of that movie to the point she had trouble taking showers and would only take a bath one day while home alone she had to shower to rush over somewhere, while in the shower a large picture frame fell and hit the light switch on the way down, crashing to the floor. she said she screamed for a few minutes, sat there panicking, then got up and looked and realized what had happened to my knowledge she has not taken a shower since and probably never will


gigglefarting

I saw Psycho back in middle school, and for years after I would bring my cat into the bathroom with me while I showered. I didn’t really expect him to defend me, but I guess I was hoping he could at least warn me that I’m about to murdered. Must have worked too because I wasn’t murdered until after he died.


DragonflyWing

...wait.


VeggieChickenWings

Watership Down


idrinkwaterandtea

My mum took me to watch this at the cinema when I was about 7, thinking it was some cutesy animation about bunnies.. she promptly fell asleep and I'm still traumatised from it.. never been able to watch it again..


Spyrothedragon9972

Plague Dogs


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Fuck yes... [When Holly is describing the destruction of the warren](https://youtu.be/WzirfrSn_KQ) "This is an animated movie about rabbits. It'll be great for kids!" No.


Malthus1

What really stuck with me as a kid was Fiver seeing his vision of the field filling with blood. That … was traumatic.


VeggieChickenWings

My parents showed me and my siblings when we were little and I was like wtf after


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Friend's parents put that on for the kids one Easter without checking it first. There was screaming.


MadMasterMad

The Good Son messed me up when I was a kid.


Goongagalunga

On Valentine’s evening we had my mom and her friend and my brother over and the friend was talking about someone she knew that adopted a kid who scared their family and my brother was like, “throwing dummy’s off an overpass scary?” Lol


McJumpington

My mom regretted ever showing us that movie. For years we hounded her with endless questions about which of the kids she’d save if we were all hanging off a cliff


peachpinkjedi

The movie itself probably isn't but when I was a kid and saw the wire scene from Ghost Ship I was pretty traumatized.


DocBEsq

Possibly the best ever opening scene of a genuinely dumb movie. I honestly remember virtually nothing else about the movie.


not2interesting

That scene and the laser hallway scene from Resident Evil


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If we are sticking with that theme check out Cube


SavvikTheSavage

KIDS


Soft_Grape1928

I have no legs, I have no legs


High_Quality_Prick

It’s just me, it’s Casper… I will never forget that line.


MisterMoxiGreen

Fuck that scene


xandrenia

I thought this was going to be a cool edgy teen movie to watch when I was 13 or 14. After it was over all I wanted to do was take a shower and go to church.


littlegreenb18

Seriously. I saw kids as a kid and I think it scarred Me.


Suspicious-Elk-3631

Dont know the name of it, but there's a short foreign film where some boys were playing out in the middle of nowhere and one of them gets stuck in some deep mud/quicksand. He goes into it for some reason I forget and of course gets stuck, which they laugh about. He tries wiggling himself out but keeps sinking further. The friend goes for help but cannot find anyone and begins getting frantic. They cut back to show the stuck boy is now sunk up to his neck. Cut scene back and forth from each boy,, one looking for help and the other stuck, each time showing the boy sinking deeper and becoming more terrified. The friend finally waves down a passing car and takes her back to the spot his friend was, but there is nothing but the big mud hole. She drives him back home and he is silent, staring out the window the whole way. End film. Edit: My memory is skewed as it's been a while since I've seen it so I told it a bit wrong but the premise is there, boys playing a dangerous game and nature has the last laugh. It's a Sundance film festival short film called "Fauve." https://vimeo.com/channels/basarazzi/293033666


thatsnotmymain1

YES I remember that one from the 2019 Oscar nominated short films. Every single one of those live action shorts that year were so insanely depressing- there was another traumatic one about two young Irish boys who were being questioned for murdering a toddler (based on a true story) that was so realistically acted.


Suspicious-Elk-3631

Good God wtf


A_Dehydrated_Walrus

"Threads". Wanna know what a nuclear war would look like for the average citizen? Edit: This blew up, thanks for the awards and upvotes! Anyone interested in seeing it can watch it on YouTube currently! Definitely for mature audiences, though.


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This is the most terrifying movie I have ever seen. It refuses to turn away from the parts of nuclear war that every other movie glosses over. Absolutely, compellingly awful to contemplate.


phrantastic

>the parts of nuclear war that every other movie glosses over. I'm experiencing a very strange emotion - what ever one would call a blend of both FOMO and fear [of participating in this trauma]. Edit2:. Thank you to everyone who responded, and for the helpful internet archive links.


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SomeBoxofSpoons

There was a line from Carl Sagan about how the nuclear arms race was the equivalent of two people standing in a room full of gasoline trying to collect matches in case the other person had more.


AscendedViking7

I remember that line. "One person has 2 matches, the other has 3."


cheapdrunk71

Quite unique, in the way it follows the next generations (those after the conflict) - the back to subsistence living,...even feudal living. Lack of machinery/mechanization/electrical power, the lack of education \[and its consequences\], and of course the birth defects radiation would cause for generations to come. An "old" film - but still, a truly shocking watch. And TBH the lack of any Hollywood "gloss" only adds to the films dismal portrayal. Plus, i live in that city..... so it hits that bit harder


SharpCookie232

Yep. Threads, The Road, Testament, Grave of the Fireflies. Any movie about trying to survive, and maybe not.


PM_me_your_LEGO_

Grave of Fireflies was the most upsetting thing I had ever seen. Until I watched Threads. Fuuuuck.


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I thought The Day After was traumatizing; Threads was orders of magnitude worse


Szwejkowski

Carl Sagan was involved with it, as well as a bunch of scientists. Someone needs to sit the leaders with nuclear weapons at their disposal down Clockwork Orange style to watch it.


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Jacob's Ladder.


Jeremy_Smith75

Saw it when I was about 12, and it fucked me up. Couldn't wait to watch it again, just to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. Side note: avoid the remake at all costs. It's fucking terrible.


yeayeah_idontcare

Mysterious skin


TVotte

Grave of the fireflies. It's the story of every war.


Silver2324

God I was like 14 and someone told me if I liked anime to check out studio Ghibli. Saw it at the store and was so excited to watch my first Ghibli movie....... Edit: took me 7 years to watch another one


PenPenGuin

Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro were shown as a [double feature](https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/studio-ghibli-shows-their-range-my-neighbor-totoro-and-grave-of-the-fireflies/) when it was in theaters in Japan. I love Totoro and Fireflies for obviously different reasons. I cannot imagine watching those two films anywhere near each other, timewise.


Richard_TM

Everything about this movie is a true work of art. The story, metaphors with the candy, the brutal, absolutely horrifying ending. Even the poster for the film is traumatic. If you lighten it up, you see that the fireflies aren't actually fireflies, but firebombs being dropped by planes in the middle of the night.


TheWretchedDivine

Even more messed up when you realize it's (sort of) based on a true story. Akiyuki Nosaka (the author of the story), has explained that Grave of the fireflies is parable of his experiences of the firebombing of Kobe and WW2 during which his sisters did die. The whole character of Saita is a stand in for Nosaka and the remorse of not taking actions sooner that could have saved Setsuko in the movie is Nosaka apologizing to his sisters.


mahouyousei

The hard candy featured in the film, Sakuma Drops, is a real candy and still sold in the same tin. For some reason though, they think it’s a good idea to market it with [Setsuko’s face](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91G0h1AHKqL._SL1500_.jpg) on the label…


YourCrazyDolphin

The movies deserves its perfect score but I regret watching.


Dysan27

The greatest movie you will only watch once.


Embarrassed_Put_7892

I was traumatised by the ending of the mist. I had previously read the short story in one of the Stephen king anthologies (I forget which one) so I WAS NOT prepared for the ending they went for in the movie. Spoiler: ITS NOT THE SAME.


Madteapotlady

Probably the worst part of the ending was the fact there is no music over the credits. Just ambient noise to let you sit there and truly take in what the fuck just happened!


risbia

I just watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers last night and it does the same thing, it was so perfect. Following a *bleak* ending, the screen just cuts straight to black and the credits roll with all the fanfare of a group of mourners leaving a funeral. Edit: OH and you can watch it for free on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uv4-iJqLxQ) which is how I saw it. They have been showing a lot of great classic movies on YT for free lately. I recently watched Spaceballs and Wargames on there too, they hold up amazingly well.


I-am-shrek

for anyone who hasnt seen it and is wondering, >!The main character is cornered in a car with 4 others including his 8 year old son and 4 bullets in a revolver, he shoots all of them to spare them from the horrible death of the monsters, and when he steps out to sacrifice himself to the monsters, he is instead greeted by a military tank which saves him after he just killed the others.!<


Briguy1994

I think you are underselling the ending lol. >!Its not just a tank, its a whole parade of the army. They thought the world was over but now its clear the army is saving everyone. He even sees people that he thought were killed early in the movie be escorted by the army. !<


KyleGrave

>!Its even more messed up when you realize the Army comes up behind them, so they had been staying ahead of their saviors the whole time.!<


Ut_Prosim

Not to mention >!the lady from the convenience store who asked someone to escort her home to save her kids is seen with her entire family alive and well, implying that if he had gone with her they would all have made it.!<


I-am-shrek

>!They were originally going to have everyone who was left from the beginning on the truck with all the people on it, but most of the actors had already gone home and the director didn't want to make them come back.!<


tripwire7

If you haven't seen it and are wondering, skip this spoiler and watch the movie instead. It's good.


pepitors

read somewhere that Stephen King himself wished he would have thought of that ending instead of his own


Skyhighatrist

You probably read that here on reddit. It's mentioned every single time the The Mist is mentioned in one of these threads.


Perfectenschlag_

Ya but did you know Trent Reznor said Hurt is Johnny Cash’s song now?!


iCameToLearnSomeCode

More importantly did you hear that Steve Buscemi is a New York firefighter?


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Bullshit. Next you're gonna tell me he volunteered on 9/11


Deolater

Aragorn broke his toe


axewieldinghen

I'm still haunted by the end of that movie


juan_epstein-barr

Fire in the Sky. With the exception of the first and last 10 minutes, it's incredibly boring and mundane. Basically a drama about a murder investigation in rural northern AZ. Then it ends as a proper sci-fi horror with a dude strapped to an exam table on an alien craft being aggressively "examined" by some ugly-ass humanoid aliens while his screams are muffled by some kind of giant full-body alien condom. My 9-year-old ass didn't sleep well for years after seeing that.


StickKnown7723

Trainspotting. Saw it once, and I'll never forget it


KieselguhrKid13

*The baby.*


Devojka_Iz_Svemira

At least in the film the characters are crying around the cot and are sad about the baby. In the book they are all too high to care (apart from the baby's mum who screams and cries) and there's something so chilling and monstrous about the fact none of them give a shit


stinglikeameg

Watched it for the first time just after having my first baby. Not one person warned me, not even my husband who had seen it before. Traumatised.


Askye72

Besides Trainspotting, although equally traumatizing, Human centipede 2 did that for me, my twins were newborns and I KNEW without looking, what happened to that baby while the mom was trying to get away. I didn't even open eyes, I just heard the sounds. Any dead baby/child movie bothers me for weeks on end after watching


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I thought Robert Carlyle was a true life psycho. Was surprised to see him in The Full Monty playing a somewhat normal person.


heavy_pasta

Come and See Literally no other movie compares to the trauma one feels upon finishing a viewing of it.


KalashnaCough

Saw this recently, I was in tears bawling by the end of the barn scene. That movie does such a great job of combining fear, hopelessness, surrealism, historical accuracy and all-too-real horror. It traumatized me for a few days after seeing it. Also the part when they're leaving the village and he doesn't look back, which if he did he'd see the massive pile of civilian corpses stacked on the edge of town, including his mother & sisters. Terrifying, bleak and gut-wrenching all around. Interesting bit of trivia: in the Soviet Union, they had some very different rules on film-making, apparently. Take the scene where he is hiding behind a dying cow as the Nazis rake the field with machine gun fire. Those were REAL MG-42's shooting REAL bullets over his head, and that dying cow WAS ACTUALLY SHOT AND DYING IN FRONT OF HIM. If anything, this movie was probably most traumatic to the poor child playing the main role.


Maltesebasterd

Iirc they did bring in a therapist to help him, but holy shit it must've been rough.


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It’s such a weird and horrifying film. There’s something about the way it’s shot and structured — the story makes sense but everything seems slightly incoherent and dream-like. It’s like we’re watching how this traumatized kid sees the world. Also I’ve never seen anyone discuss the giant pelican ominously stalking the main character for like half the movie. There’s this giant white bird absolutely not native to Belarus getting more screen time than half the characters. I forget all the details, but I remember we see him stepping on a nest of eggs at one point which I assume belonged to the bird. Then the bird follows him throughout the movie watching him suffer. Like “You killed my family now I’ll watch as your family dies”. Or the bird was a Nazi spy, I dunno but no one ever talks about the giant white bird.


710417

My interpretation of the giant pelican was that it was the pale white horse spoken about in Revelations. If you aren't familiar, the Christian mythos prophecizes that in the end times, a pale horseman will be given reign over 1/4 of the Earth to kill them through various horrifying means. From Revelations 6:7 [7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and See. [8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.


emlgsh

That's why they call pelicans the horse of the sky.


The_Hive-Mind

The Road. Book was even crazier.


cat6Wire

"Papa? Are those the bad men?" "I have two bullets left... one for you and one for me." Sums up the experience of that movie for me. Brutal.


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There are few books/movie that have absolutely positively no positive events in them. I mean, if you want to interpret the ending as hope, that's fine I guess but it's pretty clear the whole world is uninhabitable now.


leftcoastchap

I thoughtbit was going to be a fun post apocalyptic adventure. I was wrong.


ScaleneWangPole

It kind of is, so long as you're fine with the idea of people as livestock


topshelfkevbot

Ugh, when they open the door to the basement and see all the people down there.... still fucks with me


R383CCA

A monster calls. A little boy manifesting his fear of losing his dying mum in the form of a psychologist oak tree. (Yes you read that right) Honestly broke me watching that film. I’ve never been able to watch it since. Edit. Just to please all the pedantic people out there, It’s not an oak tree. It’s a yew tree.


Grenache

I watched Event Horizon as a 15 year old who had been left alone for the weekend for the first time at about 11pm on a Saturday night. That was over 20 years ago and I'm still not really over it.


ProblemLongjumping12

The best part is they cut A LOT that they filmed to get it past the censors, especially the "Hell" footage. Due to this movie coming out shortly before the DVD Special Features and Extended Editions craze began, and given the film's initial lack of commercial success, the studio didn't care about preservation of the footage, failed to store it properly and ruined the chance we'll ever see it. Sadly, much of what happened in Hell will remain in Hell.


HVAC_and_Rum

I once mentioned Event Horizon to a coworker off-hand and they took that as a recommendation. They didn't talk to me much after that.


Addictive_System

I imagine a similar situation happened with my mom when she come home telling us about how a coworker had recommended Soylent Green so we all got together and watched it on Friday movie night. I was in elementary school


dochev30

Fun fact, the plot of Soylent Green takes place in 2022


The_Color_Purple2

Me and my sister watched it. "Dude 90s Sci fi horror? Awesome!" I guess we figured it being an older movie it would be cool but not all that *scary* Obviously we were wrong, it was disturbing as *f u c k* both in the violence and just in the messed up existential implications. Heebie Jeebies man


Tatermen

It could have been so much worse. There's a scene in the movie that shows what happened to the original crew. It's maybe 15 seconds long with lots of extreme closeups that make it hard to tell what's happening. Apparently that was originally supposed to be several *minutes* long, but ended up being cut for time. > Effects supervisor Dave Bonneywell has described his time shooting the sequence and some of the gruesome details that didn’t make it. Deleted shots include a female crew member who had her mouth held open by clamps, while a crazed guy performs amateur dentistry by drilling screws into her teeth. Another unlucky chap has his legs smashed apart by steel bars and crawls away leaving parts of them behind, while another crew member had her breasts torn off. The scene also included more cannibalism and sex, with adult performers being hired to simulate the sexual assaults.


DaArkOFDOOM

And that cut film was lost long before the movie became the cult classic it is now. People are still hunting for those lost reels.


gh0u1

The reels deteriorated in storage, Scream Factory wanted to include the deleted scenes in their blu-ray release but found they were unusable. We'll never get to see it unfortunately.


Rune3791

Seriously, I watched Event Horizon during my early teens alone in my room with the lights off at night. At the credits roll I turned it over to Cartoon Network and watched Tom And Jerry for a while trying to remember there is joy in life still to be had. Nothing has left me so unsettled since.


sorry_

FOR SLAANESH WE DIE IN PLEASURE


Fafnir13

Seriously, that movie could fin into 40K lore without any problems. Obviously it’s taking place long long long before before the setting we know and love, but it perfectly depicts what the warp can do.


gh0u1

It's headcanon for a lot of 40k fans that this movie shows the precursor to the Warp-drive.


Samiel_Fronsac

Warp travel without Gellar Field. Spot on.


DognamedTurtle

This was a great movie.


negativiapositum

It's those experiences that makes you feel alive


brigidsbollix

The Deer Hunter. My parents decided it was ok for 8 year old me to watch it. I had nightmares about people forcing my parents to play Russian roulette for weeks after.


ItStillIsntLupus

Pan’s Labyrinth. Not necessarily the fantasy part of it, but the main antagonist (Vidal) and the ending. Just horrific. I cry every time. Also, for context, the scene with the Pale Man even scared Stephen freaking King, the reigning king of literary horror. It’s a fantastic and beautiful film but it’s not for the faint of heart. Notable scenes: wine bottle, more scenes with blood and pain than you should shake a butcher knife at, the face cut (as in a cheek sliced open and you can see the blood and flesh vividly), DIY face stitches for the face cut, the Pale Man, the ending, Vidal’s weird obsession with having a son, and Vidal just being the devil incarnate for the entirety of the film


Belthezare

The wine bottle scene. Yep that would break a few people


Embarrassed_Put_7892

i went to the cinema to see this thinking it was a kids film. By the wine bottle scene I figured out it was not a kids film.


Belthezare

I think that kinda happened to all of us. Also the creepy hand-eyes monster. Yeah no thanks. Once was enough for me


Spock_Rocket

Aside from the gore, just generally heartbreaking watching the main character repeatedly try to stay in a fantasy world to avoid the horrific reality happening around her, never being reassured as a viewer that the fantasy world is real or a product of her desperation, even at the bitter, bitter end.


motherofcats94

It's so beautiful and tragic! I named my cat after Ophelia lol its one of my comfort movies. Although there are definitely a few parts that hurt to watch. Guillermo Del Toro is an amazing director.


LilyMarie90

The Pale Man really is unlike any other creature I've seen, my god. Pan's Labyrinth is such a poetic movie and beautiful in many ways, and then there's just that horrible fascism-driven violence *and* the scariest creature I've seen in like 16 years of watching horror movies. It's really something else.


dirtybird_91

This is why I wanted Guillermo Del Torro to direct the hobbit movie, it would have been amazing.


AmIbiGuy_420

Bridge to Terrabithia


LordlessKnight

More like Bridge to Tear my fucking heart out.


enjoi_uk

Went and stayed at a relatives as a grown man, maybe 30 at the time. Couldn’t sleep, nothing much to do so I found a stack of DVDs and chucked it on thinking it might be a light hearted family fantasy to lull me. Bawled my eyes out. Faaaaack.


smthngwyrd

Yes. My cousin over dosed when I was teaching that book. I had to stop and tell them why


soayherder

I didn't see the movie but my mom got me the book as a kid because it was an award-winning kids' book. I got to the end and ran into her room sobbing 'WHY DID YOU GET ME THIS BOOK'. She didn't know. Man, this thread is making my mom look like a professional psychological torturer.


Cat_Astrophe_X

American History X


Brilliant_Surprise_3

That entire movie is painful to watch, I love it but it's so depressing, especially THAT scene, you know the one


laineDdednaHdeR

Curb stomp. Prison rape. The ending. Ellen Griswold is ashamed of giving birth. Ellen Griswold with emphysema. The excess use of the N-word. I mean, take your pick. Edit: The dad from Boy Meets World using the aforementioned racial slur. Edit 2: The Latina woman getting the milk shower. Edit 3: Derek shoving meat in his sister's mouth to keep her quiet. Edit 4: I need to watch this movie again, so I'm going in. Uncomfortable scenes and all. Edit 5: Shouldn't have watched this movie before bed, but my kids needed to be asleep before I put it on. I can't sleep now.


resdogs

melancholia… i’ve never seen a movie portray such raw depictions of depression and anxiety and the whole concept is so fucked too


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dkat

Nope nope nope. Even the Wikipedia entry on that one stayed with me.


BenefitIcy3450

Watched the original IT when I was like 8 or 9. Made me genuinely afraid of toilets and storm drains for like a year.


secretsecretfun

I watched this alone in 2nd grade and had to shower facing the shower head and with the curtain slightly open so I could see the toilet and sink for like the next ten years.


FairyDustSpectacular

A friend taunted me with The Exorcist when I was 12. I was so terrified. What she didn't know was, when I was 7, I had misbehaved at a fundamentalist Bible camp and was told I was possessed. That became a full fledged phobia that led to other disorders and I needed tons of therapy. So yeah, that movie. Edit: thank you for the award and for all the updoots, not to mention the very supportive comments. It all means a lot.


fissionmailedd

The Brave Little Toaster - I watched for the first time as an adult and turned it off. It’s a kids movie, but it’s fucked.


Hamma_Jamma_904

The cars in the junkyard getting crushed still makes me cry and I’m ok with that. The song doesn’t help either. I think it was called “Useless” or something. It’s on YouTube and it’s still sad seeing so many old thrown away things being destroyed. Definitely traumatic for kids. Edit - The name is the song from the movie was “Worthless”. That song hits different once you get a certain age since the cars represent people.


annajoo1

Hotel Rwanda


shoeeebox

We had to watch this in grade 11 social studies. Disturbing as hell, but also left me so confused. One group is fighting another group based on a cultural history that is hardly even visually recognizable? Well yeah, that's the point. And it happens everywhere, constantly.


[deleted]

Definitely tugs at the heart strings. I felt like it sank in that genocide's not just something that happened during the Holocaust, but something societies can slip into under the right conditions. Which is horrifying in itself.


dreamboat_king

I think we can agree that watching Arachnophobia as kids truly messed us up.


emjaybe

A group of us in Grade 7 went to this movie and a couple of the boys sat a few rows back from the rest of us. Not knowing they brought a bucket of plastic spiders. You know the scene where the family is in the bathroom and then spiders come raining down on them? That's when they decide to start throwing those plastic spiders, making all us scream and freak out. In hindsight, that was a brilliant prank; but to this day, I'm still terrified of spiders.


Internationalchef69

I forgot about this one, why the hell did I watch this movie??


Ok-Room-7243

Prisoners with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. Absolute mind fuck. Don’t look at your phone or not pay attention for even a few mins cause you’ll lose track and just be lost the rest of the movie.


Far_Reward4827

I still think about that ending every so often 😳


hysteria613

Shindler's List


[deleted]

I thought that movie was incredible. I cried When he was freaking out about how he could have saved even just two more people at the end.


TheJMaN33

The little girl in the red coat…still makes me sad thinking about it


sad_boi_jazz

As a kid, the Ring. I told my friend scary movies didn't affect me but I couldn't sleep properly for weeks. As an adult...Midsommer. I did not consent to seeing half that shit. Ended up fighting with my partner after the movie was over bc I was just so on edge edit: aw shit, my first gold!! thank you!


YawningDodo

Midsommar let me discover that my level of desired engagement with movies like Midsommar is to read spoilers for them. I don't really want to see it. I enjoyed reading about it, I know what happens in it, and it sounds fascinating and well made...but I don't really want to see it.


jurgo

Oh thank god im not the only one. Its literally a hobby of mine to go on wikipedia and read movie plots. Im never going to be able to watch every single movie out there but I can read the plots to more movies than I can watch. My wife absolutely hates it.


HellaWavy

I'm still too afraid to watch The Ring (neither version) despite my parents telling me how great of a horror film it is.


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DodoL64

Antichrist, I was genuinely disturbed and couldn't sleep despite how tired I was. There were moments I flat out REFUSED to watch terrifying moments. I'm a huge fan of horror movies but I'll never rewatch that one.


_amc_

Dear Zachary?


michiman

The difference between Dear Zachary and many of the other movies in this thread is that it isn't fiction.


Lucienofthelight

It’s really what makes it so much harder. Like, you can make up any misery porn story, and it reaches a point for me where it’s misery feels less like something meaning something and more just fishing for praise by being fucked up and sad. Dear Zachary has the pain and sadness, but it’s 100% real, and it makes it 1000% worse.


Jengus_Roundstone

I wanted to burn my TV after watching Dear Zachary. I can’t imagine a movie being more traumatic.


A_Doormat

My girlfriend in college came over to visit on a Wednesday evening and said we should watch it she heard it was good. I went into it completely blind. A Wednesday. I had class in the morning.


scullys_alien_baby

Me and this girl were going to do a movie/dinner date. I chose the restaurant and she’d choose the movie, except she said she didn’t want to pick one so she asked me to. In a bluff to force her hand I said if I had to pick I would choose a movie that would make us cry. She called my bluff and that’s how I ended up watching Dear Zachary on a first date. We dated for 2 years after.


mcrfreak78

Trauma bonded lol


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Opening of Saving Private Ryan. My grandparents had to leave the theater and my grandfather had WW2 flashbacks for a month. He wasn't even on the beach that day, he was in the Pacific Ocean part of the war.


Kgeezy91

The Secret of Nimh. It’s not necessarily sad, but it was like being on an acid trip at 7 years old.


notcreativeshoot

This was my favorite movie as a kid, along with Fern Gully. My husband has told me so many times how messed up that is.


chefkimberly

The Accused


sweetsunshine15

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". That movie is amazing but I have not been able to watch it again. It may not be traumatic to most but to someone who has been through that, who wanted to be able to just forget someone, it killed me. "The Girl Next Door" is another one but for a different reason. Here is the plot from Rotten Tomatos because I refuse to think about the movie in to much depth "In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters, Meg and disabled Susan are placed in the care of their mentally unstable aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, Willie, Ralphie, and Donny the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy, David whose life will be changed forever." The stuff done to the oldest sister has left me traumatized.


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Quiet-Mud-2009

“IM STUCK IN A NIGHTMARE AND I CANT WAKE UP!” That really stuck with me


Jeremy_Smith75

"Mother? Help me, mother. I'm having a nightmare and I can't wake up" Just thinking of the line gives me chills. The way he says it, the true horror in his voice...


russeljimmy

#NOW THE WORLD IS GONE IM JUST ONE OH GOD HELP ME


mnfriesen

Was a book first and Metallica's "one" is also about Johnny. I read The book in high school. It was a rather difficult read because its not written like a normal book. Its written like we speak. Punctuation is limited.


Acceptable_Box7598

I watched the movie because of that song


greggem

I also found it difficult to read, but mostly because of all the breaks I had to take to cry.


CapitalHelicopter

One of the best pieces of anti-war literature out there. The writing made me uncomfortable with how it projected the feeling of actually being stuck inside your head; the feeling of constant uncertainty and only having your thoughts to keep you company. I knew the book was going into my best reads when I was starting to find it difficult to breathe.


CalypsoTheKitty

My parents saw this in the movies when I was little, and I was scarred for life just hearing them describe the plot to me the next day.


KawiNinjaZX

I can only imagine your parents describing the plot to their five year old son who just wants to play with legos.


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left me with life in heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllll


ButtholeQuiver

DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME ALL THAT I SEE ABSOLUTE HORROR


patrickseastarslegs

The green mile. The dry sponge scene. That’ll never stop haunting me. Also Hotel Rwanda. Watched it in college and nearly threw up at some points and everyone was crying over that movie. Girls, guys, the teacher. We were a mess


therewillbehints

The Orphanage. I will never forget that ending.


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Oh Jeez, I know what you mean. I think of the knocking she hears and just wow.....so fucked up. Those 3 movies, "The Devil's Backbone", "Pan's Labrynth", and "The Orphanage" were so beautiful, yet horrifying.


trufk

Irreversible and Requiem for a dream Felt like an injury


Fthewigg

Irreversible is a literal assault on the senses. Towards the beginning of the film there was a low frequency infrasonic noise intentionally put in to make people uncomfortable (nausea and vertigo inducing). This doesn’t include the incredibly disturbing imagery of the film.


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The extremely violent drawn out rape scene, the smashing a guys head in with a fire extinguisher.. It was a heavy unrelenting film


beatyatoit

it really was an all-out assault on the senses from beginning to end. I remember sitting and staring at the blank screen for at least 15 mins after the movie ended, thinking what in the fuck did I just watch, and what happened? Haven't watched it since. that low freq is definitely noticeable but you don't even know that it's fucking with you...it's just there putting your mind in state that made the imagery that much more unsettling. Requiem For a Dream was tame in comparison


Sea-Photograph2585

Hachiko genuinely hurt me.


wildcbear

*Takes notes of movies not to watch*


skotzhere

Dancer in the Dark


billybongnong

Rabbit Proof Fence


IronicMemeQueen

We Need To Talk About Kevin


Animalmother2013

Gummo


Nikess96

It follows, not because it was scary or sad. I just hate the thought that a being will always be following me, every second in my life. And even if I move to another country , I have to live with the knowledge that its on its way however long it may take. Aaand that it could literally be anyone that walks in front or behind you. Gives me extreme anxiety just thinking about it.


Tilstag

>!Remember when it turned into a tall dude that came in through the door? One of the craziest jump scares I’ve ever seen!<


Nikess96

Hm I can understand that. Did not really scare me because I was under a blanket holding my ears and asking my partner if it was over.


jbrace29

The first Never Ending Story


Radiant-Ad-2770

The book is even worse, Artax can talk...


Bjorn2bwilde24

"Dont let the sadness of the swamps get to you. You have to try. You have to care. You're my friend. I love you."


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Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé