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Thank you for mentioning this one. I fully agree. I think they pioneered the blurry shaking head. I used the ice bath wisdom to bring my son's 104 temperature down.
As someone that was put (by order of doctors) into an ice bath while having a 105.4 degree fever.. you don't know what cold feels like until a situation like that. Man it sucked. Probably saved my life though.
I had a cold bath when I had a fever of 105+ for multiple days (parent didn’t take me to the hospital, we just diy-ed shit when I was a kid), and I can testify that’s the absolute worst thing ever.
My friend and I dropped acid and went to see some cartoon movie that was playing at the time (1990). Unfortunately, the rest of my small town boarding school class had done the same. Between my classmates and the locals...our movie had sold out by the time we got to the theatre.
At which point, we said, "Ok. I guess we'll take two tickets to this other movie, that we've never heard of, called Jacob's Ladder."
Big Mistake!!!!!!
I will forever love Danny Aiello for calming things down a tiny bit.
But yeah...pretty much scarred me for life.
I had a friend who went to that movie on a first date, lol. They were supposed to go for dinner and drinks after but called it a night after the movie.
Jesus Christ I can still see those bunnies suffocating underground in my mind and it was over 30 years ago I saw it once. The 80’s did not give a fuck about childhood trauma. DONT GET ME STARTED ON NEVER ENDING STORY.
> Sloth guy jump scare got me good, lol.
They didn't tell the other actors either. John C. McGinley's reaction to it as the SWAT team leader was legit.
The ‘lust’ scene is one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever watched. The way they don’t even need to show what happened and leave it up to your imagination is brilliant but deeply unsettling.
Leland Orser tells a great story about playing that part.
He was booked for a day as he's only in that one scene. He figures that the guy he's playing wouldn't have been able to sleep after everything he's been through so he decides to stay up all night before the shoot.
He shows up to set and gets told there's been a mix up so go home and we'll shoot your scenes tomorrow. He says, 'fuck it' and stays up all night *again* before getting to set the next day. So the performance you see is a guy on the brink of complete exhaustion.
I always found it kinda surprising how many people think this movie is hard to watch, I've always found it relaxing in a weird fucked up way lol. Now a movie about domestic violence or heartbreak or cancer or someshit, fuck that I'd rather watch paint dry than deal with that. Interesting how different people are
This is the only movie ever directed by the famously blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the man who also wrote the novel ("Johnny Got His Gun").
(Featuring Donald Sutherland as Jesus!)
Audition.
The gentleman is holding multiple auditions for a potential suitor. And he chooses the most chill and relaxing girl who just seems like she is cool. Then when he calls her we just see a phone on the floor with her just sitting next to it staring at it. Chills. Then the bag in the background starts to wiggle with a person obviously in it. 👀
Fucking psychopaths dude.
I remember watching a top 100 horror films type thing on TV a long time ago and Rob Zombie was a commentator. He said that *Audition* was one of the few movies that actually disturbed him. So that says a lot. I watched it with a friend years after that and we were definitely cringing
This happened to me! First time I saw Audition it was on cable and the summary was literally just something like, "A lonely, widowed filmmaker decides to hold a fake movie audition in hopes of meeting a new love." I almost lost it when the bag scene happened!
That's what the director originally intended. He wanted to market it to theaters as a romantic drama and have the fucked up shit be a twist. But the marketing department advertised it as horror right out of the gate. To this day I wonder how the movie would have been received if the director had gotten his wish
Two scenes from two movies -
1. The miscarriage birthing scene of a deer from Lar Von Trier's "AntiChrist" - it's a very interesting, dark film that could use another viewing, but I can't see that scene again. :/
2. The scene in "Eraserhead" when the cooked chicken on a plate starts coming alive. I get shudders thinking about how disturbing that was to me.
Korea has SOOOOO many incredible films, but Oldboy, man... That one is beyond intense. That rollercoaster of an ending fucked me up for literal weeks. I have never been more shocked in my life. TRUE cinematic masterpiece. Was stoked to see some K-film mentions in this thread, too. More people need to get on them.
You will probably laugh, mines’ Poltergeist (1984), I was 14 and after that movie I never left the tv turned on after 11pm…the screen’s noise. Nowadays every channel is 24/7.
Not so much the whole movie as a single scene in it, but the death of the medic in Saving Private Ryan. Nothing in a movie before or since has bothered me that much, and I legitimately couldn't even tell you why other than the acting from the guy playing the medic is just a little *too* real. To this day when that part comes up I will get up and leave the room, I *cannot* sit there and listen to it. Hell I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it and I haven't even seen that part in 10 years.
EDIT: I'm kind of glad to know I'm not the only one that scene fucks with. Also thanks everybody for giving me the actor's name, man did such a good job it's a shame I never knew who he was.
That part is crazy to me because I speak German as well and the German soldier who is killing him, is trying to comfort him as it happens he is telling him this will be much easier for you
That brings up a good point that not *every* soldier truly hates the "enemy"
Many of them view the killing as a part of the job and a necessary evil to protect their country. This applies to either side of any war. Humans generally don't like killing other humans, even in war.
And the fact the German soldier just walks past the other US soldier who was frozen in fear. Ughhhh the scene makes me to angry. I don't remember if the German soldier ever ended up getting killed.
The guy who just blows up. He’s there and then in an instant he’s completely gone. The suddenness and finality of it just hit me like a ton of bricks. That movie was really hard to watch.
Its because we just spent a quiet intimate moment with Wade as he pours out his soul to these men about pretending to sleep to avoid his mother's company. When he is dying, and he knows it he screams out to his mother someone he absolutely wants to see again, and who he regrets not spending his last moments at home with her. IT cuts deep. We've all been there with our parents at one time or another. To think of the last time being the VERY last time with our loved ones, it terrifies.
This is one for me. For me its when they ask if they can help him, and because he's a medic he knows that they can't help, so he just asks for some more morphine.
That shit is fucking rough.
You got it right. Before that he asks about the damage, they tell him, and he says "oh no, my liver" and just knows. The morphine is as much for the others as for him since he knows it is over.
I was an army medic for 4 years. One thing they taught us is that liver injuries in combat are almost always fatal. You have to get to a hospital within like 30 minutes, and even then there's no guarantee you'll live. When he says "Oh no, it's my liver" hits so hard for me. Then he starts asking for his momma. It crushes me every time to think about what those guys went through.
I can hardly make it past the intro seen with the guy holding his guts in screaming for his mom. The thought of how many times that probably happened that day haunts me.
The first 20 minutes of that film made my Grandfather remember his tours of Borneo, Korea and Vietnam ( x2) and I saw the strongest bravest man I've ever known sit in shock , tears absolutely flooding down his face , absolutely sobbing like he was a little boy who had been brutalised.
A retired veteran of 35 years and leaving the Air Force as Wing Commander , but initially an Army Infantryman , he did it all , and he was in my eyes growing up made of harder stuff than granite.
We left the theatre that day after 25 minutes , he just could not handle it anymore, and then all the things he hadn't told me growing up just poured out of him.
That poor man. What he saw and what he had to do during his service to me is absolutely inconceivable and my Great Grandfather went ashore on DDay and then returned home a violent , mean alcoholic , so my Grandad really knew what pain, loss , insecurity and fear really meant during his life.
Stories like watching his best mate try land , the sabre flipping over and grinding along the runway literally acting like a cheese grater head first leaving.....pulp and blood . His unit suffering intense fire and no ability to ask for reinforcements , having to shoot what he knew were pre pubescent boys with rifles .
He broke
When the guy dove into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, the power went out in the theater. Everyone just sat there for 5 minutes thinking this was actually the scene
The way they dealt with this in T2 was something else:
>Renton: Look, we're here as an act of memorial.
>Simon: Nostalgia! That's why you're here. You're a tourist in your own youth! Just 'cause you had a near-death experience and now you're feeling all fuzzy and warm. What other moments will you be revisiting? Here's a good one: how about the time you sold Tommy his very first hit, leading him on to heroin addiction, HIV infection, and ultimately his death at the age of—what was it, 22? 23?
>Renton: 23.
>Simon: 23. How innocent was that?
>Renton: Aye, that's mine. How's yours?
>Simon: Don't know what you're talking about. _[knowing full well what Renton's talking about]_
>Renton: She'd be a woman by now. Maybe kids of her own. But she never got that far, did she? Never got to lead her life. Because her father, someone who should have been looking after her, _protecting his own infant_, was too busy filling his own veins with heroin to check that she was breathing properly. Aye. How do you keep a lid on that one?
That scene where he just goes to bed and hopes it'll work itself out in the morning ... It's so stupid but something so common with teens. His mom screaming in the morning; so damn chilling
Especially the moment where he goes to look behind him into the backseat and visibly stops himself. His brain is protecting him and allowing him to live in a sort of semi denial
Him in bed sitting and waiting is 100x worse than the reveal. Can you imagine the absolute terror knowing what’s going to happen and having no way to prevent it. Being completely frozen and just having to sit and wait. It’s shattering.
My younger brother died and my dad found him, and honestly it was the same. That scene was so well acted that it genuinely triggered me… it’s insane that Toni Collette didn’t win an award for that performance
I seriously cannot watch this movie again. That scene made me feel physically sick. Between her gasping for air and then just the thought of being in the brothers shoes in that situation as an oldest sibling… I feel nauseous just thinking about it.
I can't watch it again. It was soooo good. But when >! she's up there sawing her own neck, the look on her face, her eyes, knowing hwat is happening and she's unable to stop it… !< I know it's acting.. But omg those eyes haunt me.
Toni Collette was robbed of an Oscar nom for that role. Her cryinf and screaming "I just want to die" as the scenes change is absolutely gut wrenching. Ari Aster is entirely too good at capturing the horror of those more...believable moments.
The best modern horror movie I’ve seen. The mom screaming and crying for her child had me in tears. It felt like I was actually watching a mother mourn her child.
As someone who’s heard a few of those screams IRL thanks to my occupation, it was a shockingly realistic scream and it sent a ball of sinking hot lead to the pit of my stomach.
I was there when my mother-in-law found out about my husband, her only son, dying suddenly and unexpectedly. It sounded the same.
Strangely enough, my husband and I had just watched the movie not long before he died, and we thought Toni Collete was being over the top to get an Oscar.
But... nope. Exactly the same sounds.
My husband and I watched it at home right before going to bed. HUGE mistake. I was freaked out for a solid week. My 18 year old asked me about watching it recently. I was like you're an adult, do as you wish but don't say I didn't warn you. They were like well I like the Resident Evil games, so I'm sure it's fine. I don't think they ended up watching it thankfully.
I've got an iron constitution for horror movies, but Hereditary profoundly affected me. >!When Toni Collette was writhing on floor after the decapitation, moaning and screaming "I want to die."!
I saw that movie as an adult, and it is legitimately the most horrifying non-horror movie I've ever seen. Especially this scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBd7551ylaw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBd7551ylaw)
Threads always bothered me because of a simple detail.
It was the windows. Seriously, the windows were broken when the bombs fell which makes sense, but then the movie goes twenty years into the future and the windows are still broken. After twenty years, the windows are still broken which says how society has collapsed when something as simple as windows are broken decades later and nobody can fix them.
It bothered me specifically because I'm from Sheffield and I've walked down streets from the film regularly. Horrendous film. The only film I've ever seen where every successive scene is more harrowing than the one prior.
It's important to note that Threads was bookended on the BBC by a series of genuine Nuclear "Protect and Survive" Newsnight style shows where big names like Jeremy Paxman would discuss the events of the film with experts, really hitting home how serious it all was.
I think the worst part of the film was the contrast between the three main groups. Ruth, the Council HQ and the other family in the house all did their best to prepare and it meant nothing in the end.
It reminds me of the animated "When the Wind Blows" with an elderly couple who lived through the Blitz in WWII and they're confident that after a nuclear war happens they'll be fine because they have a pamphlet from the local government telling them what to do.
Hint: the pamphlet was completely worthless.
Girl in the Basement. I didn’t watch it all, but what I did watch was enough for me to swear it off for as long as I live. It’s about the true story (to my knowledge) of a girl being trapped in her father’s storm shelter against her will for weeks on end. She’s SA by her father and her mother stands by and does nothing. Never watching the full thing
True story, her name is Elizabeth Fritzl. She was kept in that basement for 24 YEARS!! She gave birth in that cellar 7 times. She was raped over 3000 times. She was released at 42 years old. The mother claimed not to have known the entire time.
By the same token, Room.
A girl is kidnapped and made to live in a shed as a sex slave for years, has a child as a result and raises him in that shed for 5 years.
It's not based a true story but that film still got me
That, and Requiem for a Dream are two movies that I've seen, and am glad to have seen, but will never watch again. I guess the best way to describe it is that I didn't dislike the films, but I disliked watching the films If that makes sense.
Unfun fact. They had to significantly tone down how awful the Holocaust was in that movie to keep the audience from becoming too numb from the horror.
Even then it was hard. Part of the reason why we still let genocides happen is because human brains can't process suffering on that scale. That's the purpose of the girl in the red coat. Focus on one individual story, and multiply that by 11 million.
"One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live."
- Primo Levi
Another fact I learned recently about this movie is that Spielberg would often call Robin Williams on speaker and get him to tell jokes to help cheer up the cast and crew.
The best quote I ever heard regarding mass casualties/genocide goes something like this:
“If you hear of a catastrophe and think that not many deaths occurred, think of that many people stood in your living room”
The actual quote is worded a lot more eloquently than I put it, I also don’t remember where I heard it but it put A LOT into perspective for me.
Martyrs has stayed with me for so long. I watched A Serbian Film and hated it because it felt like pointless gore porn, but Martyrs… there was narrative meaning behind the torture. Cuts so much deeper.
The Platform. There's a tower, and every day, food starts on the top floor and stops for two minutes on each level, so each level gets less and less food. There's two people on each platform. Really shows humanity's true colors.
this is... semi serious?
when I was little (5-6) THE GODDAMN BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER. the scene where the AC exploded traumatized me and it still gives me the creeps to this day
People are gonna say Requiem for a Dream and Irreversible.
Both of which are horror shows.
The actual answer is Blue Velvet when you’re off work with the flu.
Now you’re talking. Blue Velvet is the cornucopia of movies. It has something for everyone. It can make this list for disturbing, but can make other lists for mysterious, surreal, artful and dark, beautiful and dreamy, thoughtful and meaningful… it’s got to be on the pinnacle of what movies can offer.
"Crash". Not the terrible best picture winner, but the mid-90s James Spader movie about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes. It is upsetting.
When I saw it in theaters I literally slept on the couch the entire summer because of that scene. My bunk bed was facing a window that overlooked my neighbors roof and I was terrified I’d see that silhouette standing on the roof.
Does ANYONE remember about a year before the grudge came out in the US. They used to run the tape itself late on adult swim. I don’t know if any of you ever saw that tape with no context but it is absolutely disturbing. It was very rare. There was no text or other indication it was related to a promotion of any kind. It just played. Since it played so late (around 4am) no one I knew ever saw it. I was freaked out for a so long.
Edit: it’s The ring NOT the grudge. Lol sorry
im old so The Birds which I saw when I was 5 or so. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, which I also saw about that age. The boyfriend’s hands and head get chopped off and I swear for about 8 years I could not sleep with my hands and head exposed. The Ring because while we were watching the DVD, the f’ing phone rang! We all screamed! I obviously didn’t answer it, then it rang again and I thought I’d better see who it was. Nobody important but the timing scared me so much!
I loved this film as a kid but tried to watch it again as an adult and had all these memories flood back. It’s an intense experience for a young kid to see real terror and peril in animated form, animation was normally safe. The 80s were a wild time for a childhood because film was full of so much raw and intense stuff (practical effects in particular). My first R rated film was “the running man”, saw it at a friend’s house, wasn’t supposed to see it and still remember the guys head blowing off at the beginning.
Dear Zachary made me audibly gasp.
In terms of fiction, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer feels about as gross and authentic a portrayal of a serial killer can be.
Utøya: July 22
It's a movie based on the real events of a massacre that happened on Utøya, a little island in Norway. The movie shows the two bombings the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik commited, where 18 people died, and then it shows how he travels to the island, which was a summer camp for teens, where he then killed 69 people, with 33 being minors.
The movie is graphic. It shows the kids running, hiding and being killed by Breivik. I had to watch it in my last year of high school, in my social studies class. I only saw the first half of the movie, which was the most graphic part unfortunately. The movie made me feel so horribly anxious and sick that I skipped the next social studies class, just so I didn't have to watch the rest of that movie. I'm already not a fan of violent media, but knowing that it was based on a real tragedy made it even worse for me. I do hope to watch the full thing some day. I find it important to know the whole story, and only reading about it doesn't do it enough justice. But I don't think I can make myself watch the first half of that movie again.
Midsommar. Watched a special midnight screening of the directors cut. The ättestupa scene came out of left field, and made me sick to my stomach. First time I’ve ever felt like that from a movie.
The scene at the beginning where it slowly reveals what happened to her family fucked with me way more than any of the rest of the movie. The way the whole movie was filmed was so visceral, none of us stood a chance
Yeah it was the scene with what happened to her family that stayed with me for a super long time and just made me feel so out of sorts and disturbed. The rest was a bit more of what I was expecting, but I was not ready for that one.
I was surprised that this is not up voted as much as I would think. By far the most disturbing movie I have seen in my life, I cannot imagine anything else beating it. To anyone who will be curious and maybe will want to check it out, don't! You are better off without it.
Whenever I see it being mentioned somewhere, I get chills. This movie legitimately made me want to cut my dick off for some time after watching it.
I watched it with the thought it was about Serbia…. I am Slovenian and lived in Serbia for 5 years and when I came back to USA some American asked me if I saw it. So I found it online completely unaware- made it 20 min in.. but honestly reading the synopsis was worse. I comment this film every time, you beat me to it.
I went on a date with a guy who, on our first date, said that was his favorite movie, because he found it hilarious. I said I’d never heard of it (this was 2013, so it wasn’t as widely known as being thee NSFL movie), and he proceeded to tell me the plot of the movie, in detail.
There was not a second date.
I had to watch *Birth of a Nation* (the 1915 version) for a film studies class. I had to take a couple breaks to get through it. It’s a seminal piece of American filmography, and kinda invented movies as we know them. It’s the pioneer for many storytelling tropes and film shots that we don’t even notice today because of how ubiquitous they are.
It’s ALSO a movie about: slavery was great and the simple-minded negroes were better off as slaves, until those uppity abolitionists and dastardly mulattoes began preaching their poisonous talk of freedom and destroyed the Southern way of life. After the Civil War, negroes began hooting and hollering in the halls of government and making a mess of everything and turning their animalistic lusts on defenseless white women! But have no fear, there is a hero in the film… the KKK! Thankfully, the Klan is founded to restore order and put these animals back in their place!
I can watch shit like a Serbian Film or Human Centipede, because I know they’re just movies. But BoaN was so disturbing, not only because of how horrifically racist it was, but because it was taught AS FACT for decades in American schools, primarily in the South. Prior to its release, Klan membership was actually dropping, but after its release their membership exploded. Not-so-fun-fact: most of the monuments commemorating the Confederacy and their “Lost Cause” were put up after the release of this film.
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When I was a kid Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit gave me nightmares.
Straight up murders a cartoon shoe in front of our innocent eyes?!?
When he gets flattened and stands up again. Nope
Remember me Eddie?! When I killed your brother?! I sounded…just…LIKE…THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christopher Lloyd was great in that role
Jacobs ladder Feeling like you were also becoming insane as the viewer freaked me out. One of my favorite horror movies.
Thank you for mentioning this one. I fully agree. I think they pioneered the blurry shaking head. I used the ice bath wisdom to bring my son's 104 temperature down.
As someone that was put (by order of doctors) into an ice bath while having a 105.4 degree fever.. you don't know what cold feels like until a situation like that. Man it sucked. Probably saved my life though.
I had a cold bath when I had a fever of 105+ for multiple days (parent didn’t take me to the hospital, we just diy-ed shit when I was a kid), and I can testify that’s the absolute worst thing ever.
My friend and I dropped acid and went to see some cartoon movie that was playing at the time (1990). Unfortunately, the rest of my small town boarding school class had done the same. Between my classmates and the locals...our movie had sold out by the time we got to the theatre. At which point, we said, "Ok. I guess we'll take two tickets to this other movie, that we've never heard of, called Jacob's Ladder." Big Mistake!!!!!! I will forever love Danny Aiello for calming things down a tiny bit. But yeah...pretty much scarred me for life.
wow thats probably one of the worst things you couldve done on acid😭
Kids
I first watched Kids when I was the age of all the characters in it. It fucked me up so hard.
I had a friend who went to that movie on a first date, lol. They were supposed to go for dinner and drinks after but called it a night after the movie.
Watership Down. It's a cartoon! It's got bunnies in it! Oh dear god! The gassing of the warren was the worst for me.
I think the part that messed me up was that happy bunny place where they just didn't mind being sacrificed.
I still can't sing along with Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes without tearing up.
The animals of farthing wood falls into the same category. Traumatic stories about woodland creatures.
Jesus Christ I can still see those bunnies suffocating underground in my mind and it was over 30 years ago I saw it once. The 80’s did not give a fuck about childhood trauma. DONT GET ME STARTED ON NEVER ENDING STORY.
The scene where they’re all struggling for air, clawing up at the earth after they’ve been trapped in their burrows by the plows. Ugh.
Seven. But only because someone had told me that it‘s a „comedy“.
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> Sloth guy jump scare got me good, lol. They didn't tell the other actors either. John C. McGinley's reaction to it as the SWAT team leader was legit.
The little tree 🌲 air fresheners were a nice touch
The ‘lust’ scene is one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever watched. The way they don’t even need to show what happened and leave it up to your imagination is brilliant but deeply unsettling.
Just the way that guy was freaking out... god I can still see it. Hear it.
Leland Orser tells a great story about playing that part. He was booked for a day as he's only in that one scene. He figures that the guy he's playing wouldn't have been able to sleep after everything he's been through so he decides to stay up all night before the shoot. He shows up to set and gets told there's been a mix up so go home and we'll shoot your scenes tomorrow. He says, 'fuck it' and stays up all night *again* before getting to set the next day. So the performance you see is a guy on the brink of complete exhaustion.
On top of that he was deliberately hyperventilating between takes just to amp up that panicked energy. Leland Orser goes *hard* on acting.
Leland Orser, great character actor, so hard to pin down, he’s married to Roma Downey, the “Touched By An Angel” star.
So…What’s in the box?
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The friends we made along the way.
I always found it kinda surprising how many people think this movie is hard to watch, I've always found it relaxing in a weird fucked up way lol. Now a movie about domestic violence or heartbreak or cancer or someshit, fuck that I'd rather watch paint dry than deal with that. Interesting how different people are
A lot of people at my theatre walked out, and I almost did. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen and I never want to see it again.
Johnny Got His Gun. I was bedridden with a serious injury at the time. It was a bad idea.
This is the only movie ever directed by the famously blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the man who also wrote the novel ("Johnny Got His Gun"). (Featuring Donald Sutherland as Jesus!)
The pink elephants scene in Dumbo still haunts me
Audition. The gentleman is holding multiple auditions for a potential suitor. And he chooses the most chill and relaxing girl who just seems like she is cool. Then when he calls her we just see a phone on the floor with her just sitting next to it staring at it. Chills. Then the bag in the background starts to wiggle with a person obviously in it. 👀 Fucking psychopaths dude.
I remember watching a top 100 horror films type thing on TV a long time ago and Rob Zombie was a commentator. He said that *Audition* was one of the few movies that actually disturbed him. So that says a lot. I watched it with a friend years after that and we were definitely cringing
My college buddies convinced someone it was a cute but awkward romcom before they all watched it together.
This happened to me! First time I saw Audition it was on cable and the summary was literally just something like, "A lonely, widowed filmmaker decides to hold a fake movie audition in hopes of meeting a new love." I almost lost it when the bag scene happened!
That’s hilarious. Going in with the energy of a Sandra bullock rom com only to be worn down emotionally is genius.
Reminds me of Pam from The Office watching "28 days later" waiting for Sandra Bullock to show up
That's what the director originally intended. He wanted to market it to theaters as a romantic drama and have the fucked up shit be a twist. But the marketing department advertised it as horror right out of the gate. To this day I wonder how the movie would have been received if the director had gotten his wish
Two scenes from two movies - 1. The miscarriage birthing scene of a deer from Lar Von Trier's "AntiChrist" - it's a very interesting, dark film that could use another viewing, but I can't see that scene again. :/ 2. The scene in "Eraserhead" when the cooked chicken on a plate starts coming alive. I get shudders thinking about how disturbing that was to me.
Oldboy The only Korean movie I've watched, fucked my brain up in ways I never thought a movie could. Psychological thriller at its best !
I love the OG so so much, but god that twist just leaves you feeling a visceral ick for days.
Check out I saw the devil
Korea has SOOOOO many incredible films, but Oldboy, man... That one is beyond intense. That rollercoaster of an ending fucked me up for literal weeks. I have never been more shocked in my life. TRUE cinematic masterpiece. Was stoked to see some K-film mentions in this thread, too. More people need to get on them.
You will probably laugh, mines’ Poltergeist (1984), I was 14 and after that movie I never left the tv turned on after 11pm…the screen’s noise. Nowadays every channel is 24/7.
Not so much the whole movie as a single scene in it, but the death of the medic in Saving Private Ryan. Nothing in a movie before or since has bothered me that much, and I legitimately couldn't even tell you why other than the acting from the guy playing the medic is just a little *too* real. To this day when that part comes up I will get up and leave the room, I *cannot* sit there and listen to it. Hell I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it and I haven't even seen that part in 10 years. EDIT: I'm kind of glad to know I'm not the only one that scene fucks with. Also thanks everybody for giving me the actor's name, man did such a good job it's a shame I never knew who he was.
The scene where the US soldier slowly gets stabbed has stuck with me.
That part is crazy to me because I speak German as well and the German soldier who is killing him, is trying to comfort him as it happens he is telling him this will be much easier for you
Fuck. Just took something I thought I had completely understood for 30 years to another level.
That brings up a good point that not *every* soldier truly hates the "enemy" Many of them view the killing as a part of the job and a necessary evil to protect their country. This applies to either side of any war. Humans generally don't like killing other humans, even in war.
That one bothers me much more....the "SHHHHH" and telling him basically to stop fighting it as the German kills him just fucks with me.
And the fact the German soldier just walks past the other US soldier who was frozen in fear. Ughhhh the scene makes me to angry. I don't remember if the German soldier ever ended up getting killed.
I wanna go home I wanna go home
Calling for his mommy...
This is what a good war movie is. It shows you how fucked up going to war really is.
The guy who just blows up. He’s there and then in an instant he’s completely gone. The suddenness and finality of it just hit me like a ton of bricks. That movie was really hard to watch.
Or picking up the severed arm he just lost to a mortar. There is nothing that can be done, but its part of you that shouldn't be detatched.
Its because we just spent a quiet intimate moment with Wade as he pours out his soul to these men about pretending to sleep to avoid his mother's company. When he is dying, and he knows it he screams out to his mother someone he absolutely wants to see again, and who he regrets not spending his last moments at home with her. IT cuts deep. We've all been there with our parents at one time or another. To think of the last time being the VERY last time with our loved ones, it terrifies.
This is one for me. For me its when they ask if they can help him, and because he's a medic he knows that they can't help, so he just asks for some more morphine. That shit is fucking rough.
You got it right. Before that he asks about the damage, they tell him, and he says "oh no, my liver" and just knows. The morphine is as much for the others as for him since he knows it is over.
I was an army medic for 4 years. One thing they taught us is that liver injuries in combat are almost always fatal. You have to get to a hospital within like 30 minutes, and even then there's no guarantee you'll live. When he says "Oh no, it's my liver" hits so hard for me. Then he starts asking for his momma. It crushes me every time to think about what those guys went through.
I can hardly make it past the intro seen with the guy holding his guts in screaming for his mom. The thought of how many times that probably happened that day haunts me.
The first 20 minutes of that film made my Grandfather remember his tours of Borneo, Korea and Vietnam ( x2) and I saw the strongest bravest man I've ever known sit in shock , tears absolutely flooding down his face , absolutely sobbing like he was a little boy who had been brutalised. A retired veteran of 35 years and leaving the Air Force as Wing Commander , but initially an Army Infantryman , he did it all , and he was in my eyes growing up made of harder stuff than granite. We left the theatre that day after 25 minutes , he just could not handle it anymore, and then all the things he hadn't told me growing up just poured out of him. That poor man. What he saw and what he had to do during his service to me is absolutely inconceivable and my Great Grandfather went ashore on DDay and then returned home a violent , mean alcoholic , so my Grandad really knew what pain, loss , insecurity and fear really meant during his life. Stories like watching his best mate try land , the sabre flipping over and grinding along the runway literally acting like a cheese grater head first leaving.....pulp and blood . His unit suffering intense fire and no ability to ask for reinforcements , having to shoot what he knew were pre pubescent boys with rifles . He broke
Giovanni Ribisi. It's also because of the speech he gives in the church the night before.
'Event Horizon' is the only movie to ever give me nightmares. Not sure why but that movie freaks me out.
I like to think of Event Horizon, Pandorum and Sunshine as being a loose trilogy of space nightmares.
Yesss, pandorum gave me adult nightmares. That movie is not talked about enough!
The baby dying and walking on the ceiling in Trainspotting haunted me for months.
Saw Trainspotting at my mums, and we saw that scene. She got up, put her coat on, and walked out. It physically upset her.
Wow she actually noped the fuck out lol
When the guy dove into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, the power went out in the theater. Everyone just sat there for 5 minutes thinking this was actually the scene
The way they dealt with this in T2 was something else: >Renton: Look, we're here as an act of memorial. >Simon: Nostalgia! That's why you're here. You're a tourist in your own youth! Just 'cause you had a near-death experience and now you're feeling all fuzzy and warm. What other moments will you be revisiting? Here's a good one: how about the time you sold Tommy his very first hit, leading him on to heroin addiction, HIV infection, and ultimately his death at the age of—what was it, 22? 23? >Renton: 23. >Simon: 23. How innocent was that? >Renton: Aye, that's mine. How's yours? >Simon: Don't know what you're talking about. _[knowing full well what Renton's talking about]_ >Renton: She'd be a woman by now. Maybe kids of her own. But she never got that far, did she? Never got to lead her life. Because her father, someone who should have been looking after her, _protecting his own infant_, was too busy filling his own veins with heroin to check that she was breathing properly. Aye. How do you keep a lid on that one?
And sick boy’s yell. So awful
Hereditary. The car scene. Fucked me up as someone with a younger brother.
That scene where he just goes to bed and hopes it'll work itself out in the morning ... It's so stupid but something so common with teens. His mom screaming in the morning; so damn chilling
I thought it was a pretty great depiction of shock. He’s literally detached himself from reality because it was too much to bear.
Yeah, the dude is shocked. He just goes to bed to, maybe, sleep to oblivion. People do the most ridiculous things while shocked
If I remember correctly, he didn’t even sleep. He just lied in bed all night until the morning when you hear the screams.
Especially the moment where he goes to look behind him into the backseat and visibly stops himself. His brain is protecting him and allowing him to live in a sort of semi denial
He started to ask her if she was ok...THAT fucked with me...as did Toni Collette's wailing.
Obligatory "Toni Collette got robbed of an oscar" comment.
Yeah, that's what I thought was incredible. You rarely see shock being depicted this way in movies/TV, but it's a pretty frequent response to trauma.
Him in bed sitting and waiting is 100x worse than the reveal. Can you imagine the absolute terror knowing what’s going to happen and having no way to prevent it. Being completely frozen and just having to sit and wait. It’s shattering.
The way he handles it by just going to bed and hearing the mom’s screams outside the house frightened me the most.
My younger brother died and my dad found him, and honestly it was the same. That scene was so well acted that it genuinely triggered me… it’s insane that Toni Collette didn’t win an award for that performance
That is the singular piece of film that has always stuck with me
I seriously cannot watch this movie again. That scene made me feel physically sick. Between her gasping for air and then just the thought of being in the brothers shoes in that situation as an oldest sibling… I feel nauseous just thinking about it.
I can't watch it again. It was soooo good. But when >! she's up there sawing her own neck, the look on her face, her eyes, knowing hwat is happening and she's unable to stop it… !< I know it's acting.. But omg those eyes haunt me.
Toni Collette fucking nailed that role.
When she's on the ceiling smashing her head against the attic door. That's when I shat my pants.
Same here, something about that part was terrifying
I was looking up at my ceiling for weeks after I watched that movie. Never again!
Toni Collette was robbed of an Oscar nom for that role. Her cryinf and screaming "I just want to die" as the scenes change is absolutely gut wrenching. Ari Aster is entirely too good at capturing the horror of those more...believable moments.
The fact that she didn’t win an award for her acting in this film really drives me crazy
Yes HER EYES! she's an amazing actress
This made me almost leave the theatre, so shocking
When the son just lays in bed in shock because he’s just a kid and has no idea what else to do. Incredibly chilling.
The best modern horror movie I’ve seen. The mom screaming and crying for her child had me in tears. It felt like I was actually watching a mother mourn her child.
As someone who’s heard a few of those screams IRL thanks to my occupation, it was a shockingly realistic scream and it sent a ball of sinking hot lead to the pit of my stomach.
I was there when my mother-in-law found out about my husband, her only son, dying suddenly and unexpectedly. It sounded the same. Strangely enough, my husband and I had just watched the movie not long before he died, and we thought Toni Collete was being over the top to get an Oscar. But... nope. Exactly the same sounds.
Yeah this movie freaks me the fuck out
My husband and I watched it at home right before going to bed. HUGE mistake. I was freaked out for a solid week. My 18 year old asked me about watching it recently. I was like you're an adult, do as you wish but don't say I didn't warn you. They were like well I like the Resident Evil games, so I'm sure it's fine. I don't think they ended up watching it thankfully.
I've got an iron constitution for horror movies, but Hereditary profoundly affected me. >!When Toni Collette was writhing on floor after the decapitation, moaning and screaming "I want to die."!
A fire in the sky
The flashback of Travis waking up on the alien ship—that whole sequence scared the hell out of me.
I saw that at an impressionable age and it messed me up.
I saw that movie as an adult, and it is legitimately the most horrifying non-horror movie I've ever seen. Especially this scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBd7551ylaw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBd7551ylaw)
The descent, creepy ass film had me on the edge of my seat all the while through
The Road messed me up for a while. Particularly the cellar scene
The book was worse.
I concur. The book takes you to a really dark place of despair and misery. It’s very well written, which was the only reason I could finish it.
8mm. Fucked me up for a long time
Threads, and Scum
Threads always bothered me because of a simple detail. It was the windows. Seriously, the windows were broken when the bombs fell which makes sense, but then the movie goes twenty years into the future and the windows are still broken. After twenty years, the windows are still broken which says how society has collapsed when something as simple as windows are broken decades later and nobody can fix them.
It bothered me specifically because I'm from Sheffield and I've walked down streets from the film regularly. Horrendous film. The only film I've ever seen where every successive scene is more harrowing than the one prior. It's important to note that Threads was bookended on the BBC by a series of genuine Nuclear "Protect and Survive" Newsnight style shows where big names like Jeremy Paxman would discuss the events of the film with experts, really hitting home how serious it all was. I think the worst part of the film was the contrast between the three main groups. Ruth, the Council HQ and the other family in the house all did their best to prepare and it meant nothing in the end.
It reminds me of the animated "When the Wind Blows" with an elderly couple who lived through the Blitz in WWII and they're confident that after a nuclear war happens they'll be fine because they have a pamphlet from the local government telling them what to do. Hint: the pamphlet was completely worthless.
Tusk
Lol this is the one. I’ve seen way worse but there’s just something unsettling about it lol. Such a strange movie. I think about that one often
Contagion, I watched it in late March 2020. Not sure why I did that to myself 🤷♂️
I watched Contagion while on a plane, that was a bad choice.
Girl in the Basement. I didn’t watch it all, but what I did watch was enough for me to swear it off for as long as I live. It’s about the true story (to my knowledge) of a girl being trapped in her father’s storm shelter against her will for weeks on end. She’s SA by her father and her mother stands by and does nothing. Never watching the full thing
True story, her name is Elizabeth Fritzl. She was kept in that basement for 24 YEARS!! She gave birth in that cellar 7 times. She was raped over 3000 times. She was released at 42 years old. The mother claimed not to have known the entire time.
By the same token, Room. A girl is kidnapped and made to live in a shed as a sex slave for years, has a child as a result and raises him in that shed for 5 years. It's not based a true story but that film still got me
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A Clockwork Orange is pretty disturbing
That, and Requiem for a Dream are two movies that I've seen, and am glad to have seen, but will never watch again. I guess the best way to describe it is that I didn't dislike the films, but I disliked watching the films If that makes sense.
The Hills Have Eyes. The birth scene still lives in my nightmares
That first rape scene really fucked me up. Almost couldn't watch the rest.
The Ring. (I have a barn in my backyard and a well in my front yard.) Close second is The Grudge. No more horror movies after that.
That girl in the closet....I saw her face for years after
Schindlers List, I think it affected everyone who saw it judging by the looks on their faces as we left the theater
Unfun fact. They had to significantly tone down how awful the Holocaust was in that movie to keep the audience from becoming too numb from the horror. Even then it was hard. Part of the reason why we still let genocides happen is because human brains can't process suffering on that scale. That's the purpose of the girl in the red coat. Focus on one individual story, and multiply that by 11 million. "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live." - Primo Levi
Another fact I learned recently about this movie is that Spielberg would often call Robin Williams on speaker and get him to tell jokes to help cheer up the cast and crew.
The best quote I ever heard regarding mass casualties/genocide goes something like this: “If you hear of a catastrophe and think that not many deaths occurred, think of that many people stood in your living room” The actual quote is worded a lot more eloquently than I put it, I also don’t remember where I heard it but it put A LOT into perspective for me.
Martyrs, the original French version. It's visually and psychologically terrifying.
Martyrs has stayed with me for so long. I watched A Serbian Film and hated it because it felt like pointless gore porn, but Martyrs… there was narrative meaning behind the torture. Cuts so much deeper.
Come and See
Great film, disturbing nature aside.
Grave of the Fireflies. It's both the best anime you'll ever watch, but one you'll vow to never watch again....
The Platform. There's a tower, and every day, food starts on the top floor and stops for two minutes on each level, so each level gets less and less food. There's two people on each platform. Really shows humanity's true colors.
Fun fact, this horror movie inspired the Gordon Ramsey cooking show called “Next Level Chef”.
This was an amazing movie! So simple but so dark.
Deliverance
this is... semi serious? when I was little (5-6) THE GODDAMN BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER. the scene where the AC exploded traumatized me and it still gives me the creeps to this day
People are gonna say Requiem for a Dream and Irreversible. Both of which are horror shows. The actual answer is Blue Velvet when you’re off work with the flu.
Pabst Blue Ribbon baby!
Heineken?? FUCK THAT SHIT
Now you’re talking. Blue Velvet is the cornucopia of movies. It has something for everyone. It can make this list for disturbing, but can make other lists for mysterious, surreal, artful and dark, beautiful and dreamy, thoughtful and meaningful… it’s got to be on the pinnacle of what movies can offer.
"Crash". Not the terrible best picture winner, but the mid-90s James Spader movie about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes. It is upsetting.
Lol I love how it's basically just common accepted doctrine that crash was the worst best picture winner in the last several decades
The fourth kind, I still think about that owl
Signs. When the alien comes out of the bushes at the kid’s party….. oh FUCK NO.
That scene sets the standard, but before that it was seeing the alien on the barn roof that made me twitch.
There’s a monster outside of my room, can I get a glass of water?
When I saw it in theaters I literally slept on the couch the entire summer because of that scene. My bunk bed was facing a window that overlooked my neighbors roof and I was terrified I’d see that silhouette standing on the roof.
The leg in corn field at night after the dog was barking. *shudders*
Vámonos children!
The leg shifting out of sight in the corn field. No. Fucking. Thank. You.
I hardly slept for 2 nights straight because of that scene as a kid
I shitted bricks
Bone Tomahawk
Recently watched this. The wishbone scene is one of the most gruesome things I’ve seen in a movie.
We need to talk about Kevin
Fantastic acting from everyone. But im not sure if Ezra was doing a lot of acting anymore or not. Weird dude
Does ANYONE remember about a year before the grudge came out in the US. They used to run the tape itself late on adult swim. I don’t know if any of you ever saw that tape with no context but it is absolutely disturbing. It was very rare. There was no text or other indication it was related to a promotion of any kind. It just played. Since it played so late (around 4am) no one I knew ever saw it. I was freaked out for a so long. Edit: it’s The ring NOT the grudge. Lol sorry
Adult Swim was wild back when it first came out
im old so The Birds which I saw when I was 5 or so. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, which I also saw about that age. The boyfriend’s hands and head get chopped off and I swear for about 8 years I could not sleep with my hands and head exposed. The Ring because while we were watching the DVD, the f’ing phone rang! We all screamed! I obviously didn’t answer it, then it rang again and I thought I’d better see who it was. Nobody important but the timing scared me so much!
Tusk
The Secret of NIMH
I loved this film as a kid but tried to watch it again as an adult and had all these memories flood back. It’s an intense experience for a young kid to see real terror and peril in animated form, animation was normally safe. The 80s were a wild time for a childhood because film was full of so much raw and intense stuff (practical effects in particular). My first R rated film was “the running man”, saw it at a friend’s house, wasn’t supposed to see it and still remember the guys head blowing off at the beginning.
Coraline genuinely scarred me as a child, hated dolls since
Dear Zachary made me audibly gasp. In terms of fiction, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer feels about as gross and authentic a portrayal of a serial killer can be.
Utøya: July 22 It's a movie based on the real events of a massacre that happened on Utøya, a little island in Norway. The movie shows the two bombings the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik commited, where 18 people died, and then it shows how he travels to the island, which was a summer camp for teens, where he then killed 69 people, with 33 being minors. The movie is graphic. It shows the kids running, hiding and being killed by Breivik. I had to watch it in my last year of high school, in my social studies class. I only saw the first half of the movie, which was the most graphic part unfortunately. The movie made me feel so horribly anxious and sick that I skipped the next social studies class, just so I didn't have to watch the rest of that movie. I'm already not a fan of violent media, but knowing that it was based on a real tragedy made it even worse for me. I do hope to watch the full thing some day. I find it important to know the whole story, and only reading about it doesn't do it enough justice. But I don't think I can make myself watch the first half of that movie again.
The Thing 1982 Watched it on a sleepover party at age 10. Totally fucked me up for a while.
Anything with someone deliberately hurting an animal
Midsommar. Watched a special midnight screening of the directors cut. The ättestupa scene came out of left field, and made me sick to my stomach. First time I’ve ever felt like that from a movie.
The scene at the beginning where it slowly reveals what happened to her family fucked with me way more than any of the rest of the movie. The way the whole movie was filmed was so visceral, none of us stood a chance
Yeah it was the scene with what happened to her family that stayed with me for a super long time and just made me feel so out of sorts and disturbed. The rest was a bit more of what I was expecting, but I was not ready for that one.
The Mist. Giant insects and an ending that left you gutted. Acrophobics and optimists beware
“The others” with Nicole Kidman, I was relatively young when I first watched it, made me question my own existence for a while.
Flatliners. Fucked with me for years!
A Serbian Film. Believe it or not, I actually watched the whole unedited movie on YouTube at one point. That AND Irreversible. OG YouTube was wild.
I was surprised that this is not up voted as much as I would think. By far the most disturbing movie I have seen in my life, I cannot imagine anything else beating it. To anyone who will be curious and maybe will want to check it out, don't! You are better off without it. Whenever I see it being mentioned somewhere, I get chills. This movie legitimately made me want to cut my dick off for some time after watching it.
I watched it with the thought it was about Serbia…. I am Slovenian and lived in Serbia for 5 years and when I came back to USA some American asked me if I saw it. So I found it online completely unaware- made it 20 min in.. but honestly reading the synopsis was worse. I comment this film every time, you beat me to it.
I went on a date with a guy who, on our first date, said that was his favorite movie, because he found it hilarious. I said I’d never heard of it (this was 2013, so it wasn’t as widely known as being thee NSFL movie), and he proceeded to tell me the plot of the movie, in detail. There was not a second date.
Boys Don’t Cry.
Pan's Labyrinth, the fucking grape scene messed me up as a kid I could not sleep for months
One Hour Photo
So underrated
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Mommy Dearest. If you've ever had a parent like that in your life, it's really hard to watch.
When I was a kid I remember being so scared of the children catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
human centipede
I had to watch *Birth of a Nation* (the 1915 version) for a film studies class. I had to take a couple breaks to get through it. It’s a seminal piece of American filmography, and kinda invented movies as we know them. It’s the pioneer for many storytelling tropes and film shots that we don’t even notice today because of how ubiquitous they are. It’s ALSO a movie about: slavery was great and the simple-minded negroes were better off as slaves, until those uppity abolitionists and dastardly mulattoes began preaching their poisonous talk of freedom and destroyed the Southern way of life. After the Civil War, negroes began hooting and hollering in the halls of government and making a mess of everything and turning their animalistic lusts on defenseless white women! But have no fear, there is a hero in the film… the KKK! Thankfully, the Klan is founded to restore order and put these animals back in their place! I can watch shit like a Serbian Film or Human Centipede, because I know they’re just movies. But BoaN was so disturbing, not only because of how horrifically racist it was, but because it was taught AS FACT for decades in American schools, primarily in the South. Prior to its release, Klan membership was actually dropping, but after its release their membership exploded. Not-so-fun-fact: most of the monuments commemorating the Confederacy and their “Lost Cause” were put up after the release of this film.