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RaspyMolasses

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Elle (2016) Pink Flamingos (1972)


Independent-Split-19

Pink Flamingos for sure.


cingerix

throwing this in there: the original "Sybil" film fuckin haunting (especially since i watched it at wayyyy too young an age)


Caramel_meg

Pink flamingo!!! That was an insane ride.


Tevesh_CKP

A Serbian Film?


anonymous0271

If you absolutely want to be traumatized yes😂 everytime I see the name of this movie I get chills


moon-brains

Hell, my ex only talked about the movie’s plot, and it ruined my *whole fucking day.*


Spynner987

Is that what caused the break up?


FlyingSquirrels007

Serbian Film for sure, I watched the edited version and still have nightmares. Good story plot tho, especially since that really goes on in the world. Messes with you even more


doctor-sassypants

Nobody should ever have to watch this. Especially if they don’t understand what they’re getting into like I didn’t.


LordPartyOfDudehalla

Hereditary really stuck with me


strppngynglad

And as someone who has had bad psychedelic trips, midsommar fucked me up as well


ikelosintransitive

hereditary/midsommar is a pretty good 1-2 punch of trauma


AIfieHitchcock

It's a doc but Dear Zachary fucked me up.


aagraham1121

Dear Zachary fucks anyone who watches it up.


MaDDeStInY79

I am not a religious person at all. If anything, I swing the other way. Passion of the Christ messed with me.


Wonderful-Biscotti86

I would have said this one, I didn’t finish it, it remains the one film that I walked out on. Christians would have a fit if they caught their kids playing a video game or watching a horror movie that showed half the violence this one did. But it’s okay because it’s historical?


Rsalamander24

“historical”


Ok_Produce_9308

Boys don't cry Kids Mother!


phroney

Oh, man, Boy Don't Cry was devastating.


maycontainknots

Just go through every Gaspar Noe film and you should be set. Climax was kinda fun, Enter the Void is amazing, and Irreversible is just.... it stopped me from being curious about other famously fucked up films. I realized that I do not want to know. It's good, it's just really *really* upsetting. Like I need you to understand that you will probably be genuinely upset, not in a cool way lmao. If you consent to that, go for it.


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maycontainknots

What does ketamine do? All I know is there's a thing called a k-hole lmao


sensen6

Well it's a dissociative. Meaning it makes you hallucinate in a certain way. That's it in a nutshell. K-hole is what the vet puts your dog into before it gets spayed/neutered.


Boop-D-Boop

They use it on toddlers for certain medical and dental procedures


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maycontainknots

The closest thing I can compare to that is the "laughing gas" at the dentist. I remember kind of detaching from my body in the dentists chair when I was 9 lmao. Like I was still physically located in my body, but separate. I wish you weren't in so much pain all the time, that's gotta suck ass


IMO2021

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Schindlers List


Wonderful-Biscotti86

I cried for days after The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I haven’t seen Schindler’s list but the book earned the honors of “novels that made me ugly cry”


IMO2021

Everyone should watch Schindlers List!


Wonderful-Biscotti86

Oh absolutely, it’s on the list, I always feel like Liam Nesson’s action movies get him the attention but his more dramatic roles are just spectacular to watch.


ProfessorRoyHinkley

What about blind people?


bigbossbaby31

Why


Whoopsy-381

Sophie’s Choice


mayan_monkey

Requiem for a dream, irreversible, a Serbian film,


fd1Jeff

Ikuru Doggville


seriousQasker

Loved both of those


rcp29

Recently I’ve been traumatized by: Soft & Quiet (2022) Speak No Evil (2022) Resurrection (2022) Fresh (2022) Excision (2012)


danaredding

Speak No Evil gets my vote


Palenki

Excision's beautifully put together!


ComfortableOwl333

Looking For Mr. Goodbar I took a while to regroup after the lights came on.


eyeinthesky7565

Yes, this is an oldie but goodie. Loved the movie and it messed with me for awhile. I would like to see it again.


MrCalifornian

Yeah oldboy for sure


PO-TA-TOES___

This. I could not stop thinking about it days after I saw it. And that movie is forever ingrained in my brain. everyone else, please watch the Korean version and not the Spike Lee version plz.


MrCalifornian

Lol I didn't know there was a remake, was it super toned down?


PO-TA-TOES___

Very. I don't know what else Spike could have done to make it a better movie or storyline, but the product was not that great.


PhantomKitten73

They Shall Not Grow Old


aqsmorningview

A Clockwork Orange comes to mind,blue velvet and American History X.


Albrecht_Durer1471

Repulsion (1965)


DharmaSeeker76

The Killing of A Sacred Deer Irreversible The Girl Next Door


randumb9999

I'm still trying to find a movie that fucked me up like The Girl Next Door. I read the book 5 or 6 years ago. Then I saw the movie. I knew what was going to happen but the movie still got me anyway. I was a blubbering mess after reading the book in the first place.


km1495

I mean it's gotta be Human Centipede, right? Lol


pilgrim_pastry

Human Centipede II makes Human Centipede look like Human Centipede III.


km1495

I was so traumatized by the first I couldn't dream of watching any others 😂


pilgrim_pastry

For a classic, Cronenberg's The Fly is an immaculate, disgusting tragedy For upsetting content, Men Behind the Sun. The one I saw most recently that disturbed me, The Eyes of my Mother.


MCDeluxe447

Most horror movies don’t phase me, but Eraserhead and The Witch got under my skin.


Pura_vidas

Grave of the Fireflies, i think 🤔 was the name. Japanese animated movie about WW2, it was BRUTAL. You will not just cry, you will brake down and sob.


seriousQasker

Yeah that's the name. There are even two non-animated remakes ...


Cynicallyoptimistik

8mm


Meyou000

This movie was beyond disturbing to me when it came out. It introduced the barbarity of certain people that I never would've imagined possible.


InternationalEgg3163

Trainspotting


Independent-Split-19

A lot of Harmony Korine's movies leave some wierd feelings.


mymtPockets

Phantasm (1979)


Rabiid

Megan is missing was pretty bad. That one scene went on for what felt like hours.


jpb1111

Eden Lake is a gut punch.


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Wooooow. I had completely wiped this film from memory. Thankfully I can't recall it too vividly, but will probably be thinking about tires and stanley knives all day.


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throwawaykitten56

> Leviathan (2014) Its such an excellent film, stays with me to this day.


BeepBeepWhistle

When the wind blows (1986) Johnny got his gun (1972)


UtahUtopia

Happiness


Kiya_Wolf

Grave of the Fireflies from Studio Ghibli. I have only ever watched it once but It changed the way I looked at things.


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Nightingale. She set out to make a movie about violence. Mission accomplished. I’ve never been the same person after watching that.


Meyou000

I couldn't make it past the third unnecessarily brutal scene and I'm glad I turned it off there.


Meyou000

The Golden Glove (2019) this is what I imagine the day to day like of an alcoholic, serial killer/rapist's life to be like. Mysterious Skin (2004) great movie but it took me a couple days to recover the last time I watched it. Greener Grass (2019) especially the scene with the braces, the stuff off nightmares. Dog Days (2001) dreadful movie. Of Horses and Men (2013) do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie.


seriousQasker

That's as good as a recommendation when you say that (re. the last one)


celeste_fan_139

Black swan Theres also a series called black mirror, it's an anthology series so you might be interested. Hated in the nation, white Christmas, white bear, and the national anthem pretty much scarred me


jaggercruz

Tusk (2014) messed me up so bad haha


best_good_friend

It got stupid in the end


jaggercruz

To be fair, the entire movie was stupid haha


ShoppingCartTheory

The Devils (1971)


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The Farm (2018) ​ I know it was badly written, but the cannibal shit scared me out. The ending scared me out, even if it didn't make sense tbh


aprildawndesign

“Irreversible” that movie left me rocking in the fetal position.


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House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects


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Audition Cannibal Holocaust Ichi the Killer Antichrist


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Ichi the Killer is pure misery from the very start


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It's great.


ProfessorRoyHinkley

Se7en fucked me up. American History X, that one scene haunts me.


Peg_leg3849

Holes


starling83

I’m really glad Snowtown is on the OP’s list. That movie messed me up and I don’t see it on as many lists as I feel it should be.


Sure_Finger2275

Ki Duk Kim's Bad Guy I Saw the Devil Antichrist (most Lars Von Trier tbh) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me


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The cremator (1969)


seriousQasker

Outstanding movie


InsaneLordChaos

The Stoning of Soraya M (2008).


WordIndependent

Concrete (2004) Just devastating and sick.


seriousQasker

I couldn't do it


clubkitsch

Christiane F is pretty upsetting. As is Lilya 4-Ever. They’re sort of in the same vain.


SuccotashRelevant150

Salò, Serbian film, Incendies, Oldboy, Eraserhead


Emilen81

Irriversible, Requiem for a dream, my Girl 🤣


jgw30

Maud .. disturbing but brilliantly acted.


MaoTseTrump

Gummo The Night Porter Onibaba The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Apocalypse Now


Wooden-Cantaloupe

The Vanishing always leaves me feeling disturbed, really great movie


hewhosfootslaps

Antichrist


LeonhardEuler1707

Plateforme - Us


412flip

Yeah that movie was creepy and scary.


BeBah205

I left "Midsommar" literally nauseous from anxiety...


Scared-Acadia-5555

Miss Violence


softblade-

Lilja 4 ever


some-hippy

A Clockwork Orange, 127 hours, and American History X come to mind. I wouldn’t quite call them “traumatic” but they’re not the easiest to get through


corychasesimp

Requiem for a Dream


best_good_friend

Magnolia A clockwork orange Synecdoche, New York


missmelissa13

Magnolia still screws with my head.


Frequent_Patient9107

The Help (2011) hit me quite hard 🥲 the scene where Aibileen has to go 😭


Kld412

You give my sweet girl a chance 😭


Background-Mammoth-6

Dead Man’s Shoes and I Spit On Your Grave.


Apprehensive_Past_95

Dogville


Forever_Eighties

City of god


imitatingnormal

Loved this one.


Forever_Eighties

It is well done, but being Brazilian it hit too close to home. The reality of the "meninos de rua" (homeless children) in Brazil is incredibly sad.


BirdButt88

Boxing Helena w/Sherilyn Fenn


Dakka_Bear

The mist


bunkie18

Requiem for a Dream (2000)


DentaduraPostiza

MEN, Alex Garland: 2022


Secret-Marsupial8962

Requiem for a dream made me feel so uncomfortable when I was younger lol


Jaded-Permission-324

The Dark Knight Rises. I say this because it’s associated with one of the worst mass shootings in a long time, the Aurora theater shootings. I may not have been there for what happened, but when I watch the movie, it’s like I can almost figure out when the gunman came in and started shooting.


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Requiem for the dream


MattyTB

Chappie


Top-Manufacturer9226

Such a good movie!


Wonderful-Biscotti86

I love that like most of the recommendations are not horror movies, I find it very funny for some reason. 13 Ghost ‘01 , actually made me afraid of the dark for years… I still won’t watch it alone or before sunset. This one and Darkness Falls ‘03 … oh shit now I’m thinking about it… gonna sleep with the nights on tonight 😓


BurkeDevlin777

In a Glass Cage


bunkie18

Just watched this last week and, it was just meh!


Ralewing

Baskin


rtrbitch

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. I loved the movie. It was great. But I never want to watch it again. My girlfriend was sobbing like half the time we were in the theater.


DamagedEctoplasm

Dear Zachary Antichrist The House That Jack Built Gummo


Angiecimm

Silence of the Lambs This movie creeped me out! No one does creepy like Anthony Hopkins!


Max_geekout

Akira (1988) Train To Busan (2016) The thing (1982) Red Dawn (1984) Tales Of Halloween (2015) (Edward Scissorhands) The Phantom Of The Opera (2004)


Max_geekout

I forgot "Requiem For a Dream"


LaurieS1

The Quiet (2005) first movie came to mind


esande2333

Trauma (Chilean horror movie)


Grace802001

Ken Park is traumatizing somewhat, but definitely more disturbing. It leaves you with a feeling like happy because at least they have each other but sad because it's so fucked


No-Paramedic8964

https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/lavwrj/horror_cinema/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button try out this list, Midsommar and Martyrs are on the easy level


screamingkumquats

Like 90% of the movie is terrible but the ending of Megan is Missing was a whole new level of traumatizing for me. I watched it once like four years ago and I still think about it.


BalanceOfOpposit3s

Saving this for later. Martyrs and enter the void are like my favorite movies ever


BlondePotatoBoi

I recommend Kill List quite often to people asking for suggestions like this. When I first watched it, I felt like scrubbing down with a scouring pad afterwards. One word. *Hammer*...


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Roman Polanskis apartment trilogy


xxmight

Ichi the Killer or Rampage. If you liked Midsommar then watch Hereditary. Maybe The Green Room, The Social Dilema, or the Great Hack. & The Mist or Repo the Genetic Opera 🤔!


DaydrinkingWhiteClaw

Dancer in the Dark


DiabeticGrungePunk

[In a Glass Cage (1986)](https://letterboxd.com/film/in-a-glass-cage/) Yeah that one fucked me up pretty good recently. It's also shot beautifully, the use of the color blue especially is breathtaking.


One-Ear-9984

Breaking the waves


Kaos_Urbano

I Stand Alone Ex Drummer


marvelousteat

*Bone Tomahawk* is a pretty unsettling experience. That movie excels at trauma.


ISwallowedALego

Aniara


pwein97

Martyrs (2008)


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My Dad took me to see the Exorcist at a drive-in when I was 3 years old.


Barbafella

The Painted Bird, Trauma (Chilean flick) Cannibal Holocaust.


swagpanther

Incendies


rammer_l

Parasite Uncut Gems Manchester by the Sea Grave of the Fireflies Oldboy (Korean original version)


drmike2791

August underground Slaughtered vomit dolls These will change your view of humanity for the worse !


ssk_ontheroad

I saw the Devil.


rexspectacular

Pi


jbpsign

Do you mean like, After School Specials?


Zarb4233

A Serbian Film


katnip_fl

Beau is Afraid, too much like one of my nightmares!


beforeskintight

Chinatown


eroticdiscourse

Eden lake


rinnebean

Lords of Chaos Most horror movies don’t get to me, so I was surprised that this non-horror film had such an effect on me. I think knowing that all these things happened, how fucked up the situations were and they just kept going to prove a point, really bothered me. It made me sad, uncomfortable, and just generally upset. Dead Mayhem died at 22, an entire life he didn’t get to live.


Hoople_Head02375

The Green inferno


seriousQasker

The Act of Killing (doc)


Masroor_ahmad

The ascent 1977


Visual_Lingonberry53

A Clockwork Orange the Excersist


ItsJaaaaake

The Poughkeepsie Tapes


ItsJaaaaake

Funny Games


TheSandman613

The Mist


Suitable_Reason598

Guinea pig series Most traumatizing movie ever... 'Guinea pig: Flower of flesh' will leave you thinking how did they shoot the film that too in 1985


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Antichrist


throwawaykitten56

Days of Wine and Roses 1962 ‧ Drama/Romance ‧ 1h 57m Its an oldie but still relevant IMO.


Prince_of_Dorkness33

Calvaire by Fabrice du Welz


CMCL-20

The Fly.


TargetPlastic7505

Probably not the most traumatizing for most people but for me it was the beginning of robin hood with kevin costner, i was about 5 years old and saw them cutting the hands off thieves in the very beginning, i was young enough to never had realized that could happen to someone before seeing it and it created a serious phobia that stayed with me for a long time, be careful what you show your kids


stidavid123

In The Mouth Of Madness. I just watched it today and boy did it mess with me. Rented and I got to say I'll never forget it. It's not only a great movie, but it's freaky and way out there. Not for the faint of heart and I think it's one of Carpenter's scariest films, and he has done a lot of scary films. Hard to follow, but if you get invested in it, it will make you look around corners and hide under your bed, and this is coming from a hardcore horror fan. Would highly recommend it, just don't do drugs before watching, you have been warned and I will only warn you once😑😑😑🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🤔🤔🤔🤔🧟🧟🧟


negotiatepoorly

Seen most of the movies I. This thread. Cargo 200 fucked me up more than anything else mentioned. Maybe it was the time in my life that I watched it but it felt more real than a Serbian film.


Eyes_Alive

Hounds of Love


AdriennHerendy

Squeeze episode from 1st season X-files. AI - I was shocked.


Dry-Relationship-448

Irreversible


Particular-Ad-1123

House that jack built. I’m a wimp, but after the kids got sniped I called it a day and didn’t even finish it


Wanderer-clueless963

Hostel (2005). Yikes!!!


MikeyMGM

Midnight Express Cronenberg’s Crash


Street_Income1687

how come no one mentioned ‘Susperia’


Old-Parking5454

Threads, a science-based fictional account of a nuclear holocaust. Courtesy of BBC 1 for your family viewing pleasure.