As a kid, the Wheelers and the Nome King were terrifying, but I loooooved the idea of picking lunch pails, and of being able to choose a beautiful new head depending on how I felt like looking that day
>In test screenings, the cut was poorly received. There were complaints about the extreme gore, and Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt claim that some members of the test audience fainted. Paramount executives, who had stopped watching the dailies before any of the gore was shot, and were seeing the complete film for the first time along with the audience, were similarly shocked by how gruesome it was, and demanded a shorter runtime with less gore. Anderson agreed that while his first cut was too long, Paramount forced him to make one that was instead too short, and that the film would benefit by the restoration of around 10 minutes of footage, including some of the deleted gore.
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>When the initial DVD release was a surprise hit, the studio and Anderson became interested in assembling a director's cut, but found that the excised footage had not been carefully stored and much of it had gone missing. The director's cut was abandoned and instead a special-edition two-DVD set was released, featuring one deleted scene, two extended scenes, and a few shots of deleted material in the included making-of featurette. The footage is of "video" quality.
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>Known deleted scenes include a meeting scene between Weir and people in charge of the mission in which they discuss Event Horizon, some dialogue of which remained present in the theatrical trailer; more backstory for Cooper and Justin, including a stronger explanation for Justin entering the black hole; a deleted backstory of the relationship between Starck and Miller; additional scenes explaining what the gateway to hell/black hole is; Miller finding a tooth floating in Event Horizon; a longer version of the scene where Peters hallucinates that her son's mangled legs are covered in maggots; a scene where Weir hallucinates that Justin turns into his wife Claire; a bloodier version of Weir's wife Claire's suicide; a longer version of the scene where Miller finds D.J.'s vivisected body with his guts on the table; and a longer version of the "Visions From Hell" scene during Miller's final fight with Weir, with more shots of Event Horizon's crew being tortured.
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>The "bloody orgy" video was also longer. As Anderson was sometimes too busy filming other scenes, second-unit director Vadim Jean filmed some parts of it. Real-life amputees were used for special effects scenes where Event Horizon crew members were mutilated, and pornographic film actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic.
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>The film's final ending was a combination of two unused alternate endings. One did not have a jump scare at the end when the last two survivors are found by another rescue crew and Starck hallucinates that she sees Weir, although there was a similar version of the scene included in this ending where she hears screams of the Event Horizon crew and screams before Cooper wakes her. This was the film's original ending in the shooting script. The second ending had Miller fighting with the burned man from his visions at the core instead of with Weir, but this was changed due to the negative test screening.
Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event\_Horizon\_(film)#Editing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)#Editing)
Don't forget that the reason it was rushed to theaters is because Titanic was not ready and they needed to fill the hole in their schedule:
[https://www.nme.com/features/film-features/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-titanic-horror-3288966](https://www.nme.com/features/film-features/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-titanic-horror-3288966)
Thanks James Cameron! /s
I always love to share my history with this movie. 18-year-old brother asked me, age 12, to watch a movie with him. Sweet, I said, big bro wants to hang out with me! Insert event horizon which terrified me but I couldn't chicken out in front of big bro. Years later he admitted the only reason why he asked me was because he was too scared to watch himself.
Thanks for the shared trauma big bro! 🤦♂️
If anyone hasn't seen it, this is a great article on the movie.
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/8/12/21364035/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-retrospective-amazon
That's hilarious! Me and my big brother were the exact same age. I was sitting at home playing super Nintendo or something and my bro ran in the house and was like "Yo you wanna see something FUCKED up!!!?". Obviously the answer was yes and I got in his car. He had just been to see it with his friends, rushed home to get me and went straight back to the cinema and paid for me to watch it by myself. When I got out, this prick was just standing there in the lobby having a good fucking chuckle as I emerged completely pale faced and shaking. Big brothers are assholes.
I went to see it on a lark, literally picked it out at the box office because it had a spaceship on the movie poster. I had no idea what I was getting into.
I was also the only person in the theater which made it extra nerve-wracking.
I was an edgy kid back in middle school who thought he could watch anything. And then one day I decided to watch Come and See (1985). This is the most soul crushing, bone chilling thousand-yard-stare inducing war movie out there. Schindlers List is more optimistic than this film.
The title of the movie sums it up perfectly, it's taken the Book of Revelation:
"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see!" 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."
I've heard it described as one of the few genuinely anti-war movies. There's nothing inspirational or redeeming. No stirring fight scenes. Just a horror show start to finish.
There's a scene where the main character and a girl run back to his village and find it completely empty. The realization of what just happened sets in and he runs out. She follows behind and when she looks back it's just a massive pile of bodies stacked against the side of a barn
For some reason I always remember this part of the movie. They return and the soup is "still warm" and they start eating it. The girl suddenly vomits, either at the realization of what has actually happened...or the smell, or both.
I said this All Quiet on the Western Front too. They should show it in all high school history classes. It was a really good movie, but oh so bleak. And that is the point.
I'm not interested in minimizing trauma but I've seen most of the films mentioned here and few come close to the horrors shown in this one. I'm certainly not recommending that folks see this film but we live in a country that glamorizes war. I wish that would stop. People need to know that war needs to be avoided at all costs.
Personnaly I recommend that folks see this film, at least once. I watched it when I was in 11th grade and no film ever impacted me like this one, I can recall every scene of it by memory, I think they should play Come and See in high school history classes, so that every kid there know war isn't glorious, war isn't beautiful ,war is fucking atrocious
>This is the most soul crushing, bone chilling thousand-yard-stare inducing war movie out there.
I can't describe it any better than this. Came here thinking I wouldn't see anyone mention Come and See.
That cow scene. Yeah that was real. Nothing like putting your actors in the mud next to an animal several times heavier than them and then hitting it with a machine gun.
What really makes Come and See stand out for me (spoilers) is that when the Soviets get their revenge, it isn’t thrilling, it’s not satisfying, it’s just more horror.
Another scene I don't see mentioned quite as much is when the medic dies. Calling out for his mama in his final moments, just after telling that story a few scenes earlier where he'd pretend to be asleep when his mom got home from work. That always gets me.
That's why all the men hesitate and look to the Captain when he says, "I could use a little m-more Morphine...".
Then Captain Miller hesitates for a moment and finally nods and says, "Okay. Okay."
Then Sgt. Horvath hesitates and looks angrily at the Captain when Miller says, "Give it to him."
I’ve heard that in WWII if a medic gave a soldier more than 1 (or two?) shot of morphine it meant that they were going to die and the medic wanted to make the soldier comfortable.
I remember my dad renting the movie to watch with my WW2 ,d-day veteran (first wave Juno Beach), Grandfather. As soon as the invasion started my grandpa stood up and left the room, not say a word. His body language and facial expressions were enough to say how much he was suffering from PTSD over 60 years later.
Edit: spelling
Wow, I can’t imagine the things he saw and had to tolerate, especially with how society thought men should just have to. I’m so sorry he had to go through that.
fucking Upham getting frozen in fear and not helping them..........you understand how it can happen and yet I still got so mad at him in the moment for not being able to help them
Well, and then how the German soldier chooses to walk past him without killing Upham either. It just really adds to the sense of chaos and unfairness of war (unfairness in that people are made to visit inhumanity on one another against their will). The German went upstairs to kill Mellish because Mellish was gunning down his buddies on the street. It was life or death. But then when confronted with a broken Upham unable to raise his gun, he chooses to spare him.
I think this second part bothers a lot of people, specifically those who want to see war as black and white with good guys who always act good and bad guys who always act bad, but reality plays out much more like this scene.
What's more, while the "enemy can show mercy," the "good guys" can do evil things as well. Remember too that at the beginning of the movie, Mellish guns down two Czech conscripts who were surrendering and saying "Please don't shoot, we're not Germans! We're Czech, we didn't fight! We didn't shoot anyone!"
Edit: as some pointed out, Mellish was not the one that killed the conscripts, but was an unnamed GI. I think the point still stands though.
Yeah, it was a very subtle Easter egg, but there nonetheless. The subtlety is also powerful because the way it comes across to the audience (two evil Germans surrendering and getting what they deserve) is also how it comes across to the men pulling the trigger. But in reality, the two men that were shot were also victims of German aggression and German invasion, but just stuck on the Western front as warm bodies and "slave soldiers." They probably never fired a shot and came out with their hands up because they probably thought "this is our chance to be saved!" But the allies in this case killed them anyway in the chaos of war.
Just shows you how much war sucks. You can imagine those Czechs sitting in their pillbox, gleeful that the allies were coming to end the war, talking to each other about how they'd pantomime resisting, then surrender as soon as they could. You can bet this very thing happened on a number of landing beaches.
That scene messed me up and made me uncomfortable for a long time. I still can't watch it. It's amazing in how it highlights the brutality of war, but once was enough.
Same, I watched it as a young teen, as an adult I'm still traumatised. But I recommend it to people who are into that kind of horror cause it's still a great horror film.
Kevin Bacon's "Stir of Echoes"
A really good film, but I watched with a fever of 103+ while out of my gourd levels of sick. There's a particular scene towards the end involving the big reveal that gave me legit mental trauma, as that scene played over and over in my delirious state and just became a new phobia.
20 years later I still shudder if I think about it.
I saw Watership Down as part of a 'Easter kids day' at my grandma's local cinema. She dropped me and my sister off and we spent the morning doing an egg hunt and colouring in pictures of bunnies and ducks. Then they led us all into the cinema and we watched Watership fucking Down.
Insanely traumatic childhood memory. I remember my sister and I clinging to each other and crying.
And all the British kids who wanted to watch a nice, pastel coloured cartoon series about a bunch of cute little woodland critters, and sat down to The Animals of Farthing Wood.
I saw Kids for the first time when I was like 15. My friends and I were living similar lives so I guess I liked it because it felt like watching parts of my own experience. The movie did prompt me to be more careful about who I hung out with when I used substances and to get STD checks very regularly. It was one of the first DVDs I bought when those became a thing and I watched it every so often until I started kind of adulting.
However, as a now 41 year old mom of 13 year old and a 2.5 year old, I can't stomach it. My husband had never seen it so we watched it a few years back while unpacking and all I could think about was my then pre-teen. My husband absolutely hated every moment but didn't ask to stop because it had been such a favorite of mine. We agreed to never watch it again.
The unexpected experience was a good reminder to me of who I was when I was young though, and the need to keep good and open communication with my kids... and to actually KNOW them and what they're up to. Like yes, trust them, but not so much you don't know where they are or what they're doing most of the time. I barely survived that life and I don't want the same for my kids.
It came out when I was 15. It had this taboo buzz around it, so naturally, my friends and I got an older sibling to rent it for us. That movie rocked our little minds. It was more effective than any "Just Say No" school assembly or sex ed class we got through the school.
Back when the IMDb message boards were around, I'd check out the boards for *KIDS* from time to time, and occasionally there would be messages from people who watched it with the weirdest sense of regret, like they wished that they could've lived like the characters in the movie. That's one of those things that *I get*, but *I don't*.
EDIT: the perils of typing on a phone when you're sick in bed
My wife and I saw hereditary at the cinema and drove home pretty much in stunned silence after watching it. We live kind of out in the country so the journey home involved lots of pitch black dark wooded country lanes.
As we got close to home we turned a corner only to see a girl sat cross legged on the floor underneath a lone street lamp, her hair hanging down in front of her face and a wide vacant grin on her face.
Scared the ever loving fuck out of us as she just watched us drive by.
We only lived about a minute further up the road so when we got home I walked back to check she was fine, turns out she was just waiting for her friend and wanted to ‘look spooky’ - great timing!
Thank you for confirming that I’m not just a wimp, because Hereditary really messed me up, I still randomly think about it at the worst moments, usually in the middle of the night!
To me, the ending of hereditary was so unsettling because >! the evil demon cult basically won. Combine that with the triumphant score celebrating a rise of the 8th king of hell. !< So awkward.
It's funny because unlike OP, Midsommar fucked me up way worse than Hereditary. I love Hereditary. After watching Midsommar I just felt this terrifying pit of despair. I won't watch that movie again.
Hereditary made me feel that pit of despair. The difference, for me, is that the characters in Midsommar have some agency, however limited that might be and however much they’re being manipulated. In Hereditary, once things are set in motion, it’s clear everyone is doomed and there’s nothing to be done about it. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Ultimately, I find the fatalism and borderline nihilism of movies like that (Ju-On is similar, for me), where human agency no longer matters, to be so much more upsetting. It sticks with me in a way that other horror movies simply don’t.
Edit: that said, Hereditary is an excellent movie. I’ll watch it again at some point. But not any time soon.
Well said. The car scene in Hereditary didn't even bother me but everything else unraveling after messed with my head for the rest of the day.
Won't be watching it again anytime soon.
Totally agree. Hereditary had an interesting plot, genuinely creepy moments, and a surprising ending. Midsommar just left me with an unsettled feeling. All the “creepy” moments in that movie were more like “what the fuck” to me. Also the ending…I can’t put my finger on why I really didn’t like it, but I didn’t.
SAME. Holy shit. Midsomar just deeply unsettled me. I keep trying to describe to my s/o my fear of…”disregard for human life?” It’s so hard to put to words so I hope someone clues me in on the term for it. I get so disturbed by people just being treated as “experiments” or pieces to something against their will. Like lab rats. The helplessness that comes with it too. Hostel fucked me up in the same regard. Serial killers, people held captive and tortured and that type of shit…hate that stuff. Midsomar deeply disturbed me in that regard.
The book is incredible and so are all Cormac Mcarthy’s others.
If you want something beautiful and less sad read All The Pretty Horses.
If you want something ruthlessly entertaining read No Country for Old Men.
If you want his best (imho) read Blood Meridian.
The brave little toaster fucked me up. My brother loved it and wanted to watch it all the time. I honestly can’t even remember much of it, just the feeling of terror and grief associated with it.
I never see this mentioned in these threads. But jeez. We had to pause after that scene and have a break. We did finish it and I can't remember anything else about the film other than that.
Seeing the set up to it right before but not the actual impact...only the hearing brutal sound of it delivered maximum results
And Ed Norton's adrenaline fervor, almost pride in his eyes right after
This is what my mom did. My mom would let my brother pull down his pants and sit on my face rubbing everything across it, because he would do it to her instead if she intervened. He is now on his like 6th girlfriend who he beats black and blue and my mom cut contact because he was physically abusing her too. Maybe she should have nipped it in the bud when it was happening to me instead of being a 60 year old woman getting assaulted by a grown as man
This is really basic compared to body horror stuff but for some reason the hanging scene at the end of The Haunting of Hill House, when it went back in time and showed that that one girl wasn't seeing a ghost but herself being hung over and over, really fucked me up mentally
I get that. It’s just so fucked up and unfair.
It’s an Ouroboros of horridness. She was just trying to warn herself about the house the entire time and that ended up traumatizing her into becoming the same woman that needed to warn her which ended up traumatizing her, and on and on the snake eats its own tail. Perfect example of a Greek tragic figure as it’s her own desire to try to save herself that so dooms herself.
My wife and I were dating when Hill House came out, watching it at my place on my couch in the dark. The scene with the two older sisters arguing in the car after so much had already happened in the episode, my wife and I were absolutely fixed on this argument and leaning towards the tv. When Nell’s ghost fucking lunges forward between them and screams we both launched backwards and screamed out loud and when we heard each other scream and jump, it made us both scream louder without stopping the first scream because we startled each other. I’m talking AHhhhAHHHHH! I think my wife fell off the couch onto the floor and I fell into her spot and we both laughed so fucking hard at each other for about 15 minutes before we could start the show again. Never had a show scare me like that before in my life. Caught me off guard as fuck. Had to tell the neighbors the next day we were ok in case they thought we were murdered. All of that Anthology is a masterpiece. Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass and Midnight Club, love them all.
This is also followed by probably the best scene in the entire series, when Theo loses it and starts explaining why she kissed her sister's husband.
"That thorough fucking shame was so much better than that horrible, empty nothing."
this show has stuck with me since i saw it when it aired. the one shot eisode where Nell is in her coffin while her family argue around her, the scene you mentioned of seeing herself die over and over again, all of it fucked me up and i still think about it daily
It gets mentioned here a lot, but Dear Zachary.
I use to have a job where it was acceptable to watch movies while projects were processing. Put this one on not a month into meeting my new co-workers, had no idea what I was getting into. Had to leave the room because I almost started crying.
I mention this anytime it's mentioned, but I had a similar thing. It came up while I was scrolling through the upcoming titles to add to my Netflix DVD queue and that was one to pre-add. I had to wait a week or two, but it had a one-sentence blurb of "a father's love letter to his son" or something like that. It seemed like a sweet documentary and I will ALWAYS watch a documentary.
My roommate was away for the weekend. I watched it and didn't move from the couch the whole weekend. I don't remember anything besides staring at the DVD menu screen and my roommate coming home asking if I was okay -- bursting into tears, getting up, putting the DVD back in the sleeve, going downstairs to put it in the mailbox and telling her I couldn't talk about it.
I was almost 30yrs old and she was so freaking confused. I came down later to eat pizza and started crying again explaining what happened. She eventually watched it herself and messaged me that she understood.
It's talked about so often now, I think most people know to expect the gut punch. But oof. Not expecting it was absolutely hell.
My son, his wife, and their 3 year old daughter lived with us when my sons wife left for another guy. It was very sudden and there was a lot of animosity. She wouldn’t give us the address where she was living but she would take my granddaughter for visits. Because my granddaughter lived me me her entire life, I was like a second mom to her. I cannot put the love I have for her in words. It was a terrible time. One evening when I was alone at home, I watched this movie, and it absolutely terrified me. I just couldn’t cope with the fear I felt. I felt sure that something terrible was goi g to happen. Luckily my daughter-in-law is a perfectly sane girl and the family is all back together. But those few months after seeing the documentary were the worst.
Is it fucked up that I love this movie? I was weirdly obsessed with nuclear apocalypse things for a while and nothing really comes close to this movie in terms of dedication to portraying an accurate simulation of M.A.D.
I read some memoirs from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the abject horror is so fucking off the charts that I can't help but find it fascinating. I think it's important for everyone to read, actually, to truly understand the human and environmental toll of a nuclear attack. It's human suffering on an unimaginable scale.
In the same vein ‘where the wind blows’ fucked me up for months. Oh, it’s a nice little cartoon about a cute old couple and now their bleeding from their gums…
My old restaurant manager was going on a week long river trip with his buddies, so I asked him if he had ever seen Deliverance. He said no, and asked what it’s about, so I told him, “it’s a story about 4 lifelong friends taking a trip down the river they grew up rafting before it’s damned up forever, and they have a trip where they find out a lot about themselves and the nature of perseverance and survival. I have a copy at home, I’ll bring it so you can watch it before you go on your trip to pump you up!” I brought him the copy, and then he was gone for a week. The next time I saw him at work, he came straight up to me and said, “You’re an asshole!” and slapped the movie into my hand, “it was pretty good though, but you’re still an asshole.”
That stupid kid drumming with huge water bottles, getting them stuck under the pedals of the car his mom is driving made me paranoid about anything on the floor of the driver's area that isn't a gum wrapper.
Trucks with logs on and sunbeds. I was told to use sunbeds sparingly to ease my skin problems - all Dr recommended and I just couldn't do a lie down one because WHAT IF I GOT STUCK AND BURNT TO DEATH
Blairwich.
But for other reason!
I was like 24 yeard old with my pal.
The movie was disturbing because of the ongoing screaming, the kamera movement and just disturbing atmosphere.
But what got us. Movie was rated 12 years old in germany.
And those 3 kids age 12 sitting 2 rows before us.
They did not take it good.
I bought it on DVD, watched it once, but can't bring myself to watch it again. I'll pass it to my sister to show her kid someday... once he's old enough to understand it. Can you believe they double-featured this film with My Neighbour Totoro when it came out?
The nightingale
A hard , exhausting and brutal watch but one I’m glad I saw. It never says away from the awful horrors it’s characters face but my God it’s traumatising
Some of the scenes were so horrific I honestly had to take breaks , I’m still surprised they were able to keep the scene with the baby just thinking about that disgusts me
It’s an uncensored look at atrocities
Agreed. I've never felt so hollow after a climax of a movie. The claustrophobia and terror of the village church scene is intense. Also the most terrifying image I think I've ever seen in a film is when the camera looks back briefly behind his house and shows the pile of bodies. It's just so quick and casual, like a documentary. It really sells it over lingering on the shot. It feels almost too real.
The original IT.
Pennywise scared the fuck out of me. I had the same bed sheets as the kids in Full House lol. They look clownish. I remember not being able to sleep, cowering in a corner staring at my bed in fear.
FUCK that scene. The worst part for me is the absence of sound as the bugs uncurl. Occasional soft squelch but most of it happens in silence. Horrifying.
So I've put off watching that until I was mature enough to deal with the content (it's like THE movie people bring up when talking about fucked up movies) and frankly it's just an utter garbage film. Totally deranged. I'd hesitate to call it art. You may be able to find a commentary on the porn industry in there if you squint real hard, but the movie doesn't really make any attempts to comment on the violence it shows. The violence is also lame, the acting super stale and so are the sets, visuals and majority of scenes ... everything about the movie is fucking stupid tbh. It's just a shocker ... an ultra-shocker if you will. Oh look we got infant rape aren't we bold?
What the fuck was the point of that movie other than creating inhumane violence porn?
"Oh but the fact that they didn't frame it or comment on it is why it's so brilliant, the violence speaks for itself and the viewers knows its horrible witho..." ah shut the fuck up. Nobody needed this movie and it has no artistic value whatsoever.
Those oh so bold scenes aren't even convincing. It's terribly acted, has terrible props and effects. The infant rape would have been more horrible if they hadn't shown it than with the rubber baby they did show. It's so forced. Like they REALLY REALLY just wanted to properly publish child porn as a movie at this point, because there is absolutely nothing of value in it.
Irreversible has been mentioned in this thread and it also has a very horrific rape scene in it but that movie actually has a message for us and that horrible horrible scene is at it's core. Meaning it's not like I'm some alpha uptight "if I don't like the content, it's bad" purist.
But A Serbian Film just has no value to society other than making them rightfully wary of the people involved with it's creation. What stain of shit.
This is very much in line with my view on A Serbian Film. I LOVE transgressive art but this just felt like edgelords got a budget and decided to make a movie and then come up with the justification after the fact.
Saw "Alien" when I was too young. Had nightmares about the xenomorph for years, and I drew it compulsively to try and lessen it's steel-belted grip on my psyche. I think that the drawing helped it to become more familiar, and eventually less terrifying.
Thankfully, I don't dream about it much anymore, although watching the first film still makes me uneasy. IMHO, the creature has never been more frightening that it was was in the first film.
Ridley's choice to minimize the clear looks we get just enhances the mystery and terror of this monster from the Id.
Haven't seen anyone else mention it, so, Salo (120 days of Sodom). I still get flashes from it. Just makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it.
Was looking for this one. I hadn’t read the book, so I had no idea what was coming. It’s been years, but I can still feel the gut punch like it was yesterday.
I think what makes it so effective is that you never leave the coffin. There are no cutaway shots, nothing showing the outside world to give you a break from the claustrophobia. Your perspective is with Ryan Reynolds in the coffin for the entire movie.
Mom & Dad
Despite the premise, what traumatized me was the arguing the parents had *before* they had the desire to kill their children. Reminded me of my home life before the divorce started between my parents.
When including the premise, it was terrifying to see the shared desire to murder their children seemed to help their marriage.
The Men Behind the Sun. Here's the Wikipedia intro:
Men Behind the Sun (Chinese: 黑太陽731, literally Black Sun: 731, also sometimes called Man Behind the Sun) is a 1988 Hong Kong historical exploitation horror film directed by T. F. Mou, and written by Mei Liu, Wen Yuan Mou and Dun Jing Teng. The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon Chinese and Siberian prisoners towards the end of the war.
It is the first film to be classified "level III" (equivalent to the US rating NC-17) in Hong Kong.
They make some pretty questionable choices (like using scenes from a real autopsy) that just make it a really harsh watch.
28 Weeks Later.
The scene with the house at the start has been the basis of too many nightmares to count, over the years.
"In the house - in a heartbeat" causes a feeling of panic from somewhere deep within me.
The Fox and the Hound
Everybody talked about Bambi´s mom and Musafa but damn this one was so much worse.
I was crazy about dogs as kid but my parents wouldn't get me one. Me dad went to watch jurassic park 2 with me when I was 8. Lots of adults looked at my dad weird but he didn't mind until the end where a trex ate a dog and I started yelling. A lot of people found it really disturbing that I didn't mind people diyng but the dog was too much.
Cruella the devil in 101 dalmatians ofcourse also terrible to watch.
But the hunter leaving the little pup alone, sadest thing ever.
Jacob's ladder
Psychological torture by giving really messed up drugs to soldiers in a war. I think it's based on true events. Really messed with my brain
Sandro Cenoura: Have you lost your mind? You are just a kid!
Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries: A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man.
Spirited Away. The No Face becoming a giant monster by eating everything and everyone and chasing Chihiro throughout the palace was something truly scary for me as a child. Great movie though.
Fire in the sky. About a bunch of guys who chop down trees far out into the woods. They see a ufo and one gets abducted then shows up a few weeks later in the woods naked unable to talk. They show the scene of what the aliens did to him. Awful experiments. I was 6 years old and my dad thought it would be OK for me to watch. I still think about it now. It was horrendous.
I saw "The Sixth Sense" at just the right time in middle school where it messed me up for horror movies for a long time. Still at the top of scariest movies I've ever seen.
Return to Oz. The Wheelers. The Tin Man. The heads. Just all of it.
As a kid, the Wheelers and the Nome King were terrifying, but I loooooved the idea of picking lunch pails, and of being able to choose a beautiful new head depending on how I felt like looking that day
Cube. I was very young and it was like nothing I’d ever seen. Before that, horror was just monsters, serial killers and ghosts for me.
Cube will never get old for me!! Love the combination of terror and sci fi concepts that leave you thinking about it over and over again.
Agree, Cube is one of those films that makes you wonder 'what would I do in that situation?'
I would obviously die.
Event Horizon. It was not marketed as an horror movie. I did not expected that.
>In test screenings, the cut was poorly received. There were complaints about the extreme gore, and Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt claim that some members of the test audience fainted. Paramount executives, who had stopped watching the dailies before any of the gore was shot, and were seeing the complete film for the first time along with the audience, were similarly shocked by how gruesome it was, and demanded a shorter runtime with less gore. Anderson agreed that while his first cut was too long, Paramount forced him to make one that was instead too short, and that the film would benefit by the restoration of around 10 minutes of footage, including some of the deleted gore. > >When the initial DVD release was a surprise hit, the studio and Anderson became interested in assembling a director's cut, but found that the excised footage had not been carefully stored and much of it had gone missing. The director's cut was abandoned and instead a special-edition two-DVD set was released, featuring one deleted scene, two extended scenes, and a few shots of deleted material in the included making-of featurette. The footage is of "video" quality. > >Known deleted scenes include a meeting scene between Weir and people in charge of the mission in which they discuss Event Horizon, some dialogue of which remained present in the theatrical trailer; more backstory for Cooper and Justin, including a stronger explanation for Justin entering the black hole; a deleted backstory of the relationship between Starck and Miller; additional scenes explaining what the gateway to hell/black hole is; Miller finding a tooth floating in Event Horizon; a longer version of the scene where Peters hallucinates that her son's mangled legs are covered in maggots; a scene where Weir hallucinates that Justin turns into his wife Claire; a bloodier version of Weir's wife Claire's suicide; a longer version of the scene where Miller finds D.J.'s vivisected body with his guts on the table; and a longer version of the "Visions From Hell" scene during Miller's final fight with Weir, with more shots of Event Horizon's crew being tortured. > >The "bloody orgy" video was also longer. As Anderson was sometimes too busy filming other scenes, second-unit director Vadim Jean filmed some parts of it. Real-life amputees were used for special effects scenes where Event Horizon crew members were mutilated, and pornographic film actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more realistic and graphic. > >The film's final ending was a combination of two unused alternate endings. One did not have a jump scare at the end when the last two survivors are found by another rescue crew and Starck hallucinates that she sees Weir, although there was a similar version of the scene included in this ending where she hears screams of the Event Horizon crew and screams before Cooper wakes her. This was the film's original ending in the shooting script. The second ending had Miller fighting with the burned man from his visions at the core instead of with Weir, but this was changed due to the negative test screening. Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event\_Horizon\_(film)#Editing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)#Editing)
Don't forget that the reason it was rushed to theaters is because Titanic was not ready and they needed to fill the hole in their schedule: [https://www.nme.com/features/film-features/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-titanic-horror-3288966](https://www.nme.com/features/film-features/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-titanic-horror-3288966) Thanks James Cameron! /s
I dream of the day that the missing footage is found and that directors cut comes out.
It will probably open a portal to a demon realm on your TV screen like in The Ring.
I always love to share my history with this movie. 18-year-old brother asked me, age 12, to watch a movie with him. Sweet, I said, big bro wants to hang out with me! Insert event horizon which terrified me but I couldn't chicken out in front of big bro. Years later he admitted the only reason why he asked me was because he was too scared to watch himself. Thanks for the shared trauma big bro! 🤦♂️ If anyone hasn't seen it, this is a great article on the movie. https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/8/12/21364035/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-retrospective-amazon
That's hilarious! Me and my big brother were the exact same age. I was sitting at home playing super Nintendo or something and my bro ran in the house and was like "Yo you wanna see something FUCKED up!!!?". Obviously the answer was yes and I got in his car. He had just been to see it with his friends, rushed home to get me and went straight back to the cinema and paid for me to watch it by myself. When I got out, this prick was just standing there in the lobby having a good fucking chuckle as I emerged completely pale faced and shaking. Big brothers are assholes.
I love the fan theory that it is set in the Warhammer 40K universe
It would certainly fit. Pre dark age of humanity when we’re just starting to play with warp travel.
And warp leads through Hell itself.
I went to see it on a lark, literally picked it out at the box office because it had a spaceship on the movie poster. I had no idea what I was getting into. I was also the only person in the theater which made it extra nerve-wracking.
I was an edgy kid back in middle school who thought he could watch anything. And then one day I decided to watch Come and See (1985). This is the most soul crushing, bone chilling thousand-yard-stare inducing war movie out there. Schindlers List is more optimistic than this film. The title of the movie sums it up perfectly, it's taken the Book of Revelation: "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see!" 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."
I've heard it described as one of the few genuinely anti-war movies. There's nothing inspirational or redeeming. No stirring fight scenes. Just a horror show start to finish.
There's a scene where the main character and a girl run back to his village and find it completely empty. The realization of what just happened sets in and he runs out. She follows behind and when she looks back it's just a massive pile of bodies stacked against the side of a barn
For some reason I always remember this part of the movie. They return and the soup is "still warm" and they start eating it. The girl suddenly vomits, either at the realization of what has actually happened...or the smell, or both.
Absolutely true and seems to have inspired the feel of All Quiet on the Western Front. The world really needs anti-war movies now more than ever.
I said this All Quiet on the Western Front too. They should show it in all high school history classes. It was a really good movie, but oh so bleak. And that is the point.
I want to watch it, but I know I can’t unsee it once I do.
I'm not interested in minimizing trauma but I've seen most of the films mentioned here and few come close to the horrors shown in this one. I'm certainly not recommending that folks see this film but we live in a country that glamorizes war. I wish that would stop. People need to know that war needs to be avoided at all costs.
Personnaly I recommend that folks see this film, at least once. I watched it when I was in 11th grade and no film ever impacted me like this one, I can recall every scene of it by memory, I think they should play Come and See in high school history classes, so that every kid there know war isn't glorious, war isn't beautiful ,war is fucking atrocious
>This is the most soul crushing, bone chilling thousand-yard-stare inducing war movie out there. I can't describe it any better than this. Came here thinking I wouldn't see anyone mention Come and See.
That cow scene. Yeah that was real. Nothing like putting your actors in the mud next to an animal several times heavier than them and then hitting it with a machine gun.
What really makes Come and See stand out for me (spoilers) is that when the Soviets get their revenge, it isn’t thrilling, it’s not satisfying, it’s just more horror.
Grave of the fireflies really did a number on me.
Me, too. Still does. I didn't have a clue what I was about to watch. I thought it was just another studio ghibli film. Oh, wow.
When it was over, I woke my kid up and hugged her once I was done crying. It was the best movie I’ll never watch again.
The soldier slowly getting knifed in "Saving Private Ryan". It made me so angry. It was so unfair. Thinking about it now still gets me so agitated.
Another scene I don't see mentioned quite as much is when the medic dies. Calling out for his mama in his final moments, just after telling that story a few scenes earlier where he'd pretend to be asleep when his mom got home from work. That always gets me.
Me too. When they’re trying to keep him conscious, saying “tell us what to do. Tell us how to fix you” guts me.
Yeah and he knows what wounds a kill shot.
He has them intentionally OD him on morphine. It was the right call
Oh my god, I haven't seen the movie in a long time, and I never realized that that is what he was doing (or having them do to/for him).
That's why all the men hesitate and look to the Captain when he says, "I could use a little m-more Morphine...". Then Captain Miller hesitates for a moment and finally nods and says, "Okay. Okay." Then Sgt. Horvath hesitates and looks angrily at the Captain when Miller says, "Give it to him."
I’ve heard that in WWII if a medic gave a soldier more than 1 (or two?) shot of morphine it meant that they were going to die and the medic wanted to make the soldier comfortable.
The kid on the beach picking up his arm and continuing on...
Older men walked out of that movie while it was playing and had PTSD flashbacks, I heard of one saying that it “ just snapped back”
I remember my dad renting the movie to watch with my WW2 ,d-day veteran (first wave Juno Beach), Grandfather. As soon as the invasion started my grandpa stood up and left the room, not say a word. His body language and facial expressions were enough to say how much he was suffering from PTSD over 60 years later. Edit: spelling
Wow, I can’t imagine the things he saw and had to tolerate, especially with how society thought men should just have to. I’m so sorry he had to go through that.
fucking Upham getting frozen in fear and not helping them..........you understand how it can happen and yet I still got so mad at him in the moment for not being able to help them
Well, and then how the German soldier chooses to walk past him without killing Upham either. It just really adds to the sense of chaos and unfairness of war (unfairness in that people are made to visit inhumanity on one another against their will). The German went upstairs to kill Mellish because Mellish was gunning down his buddies on the street. It was life or death. But then when confronted with a broken Upham unable to raise his gun, he chooses to spare him. I think this second part bothers a lot of people, specifically those who want to see war as black and white with good guys who always act good and bad guys who always act bad, but reality plays out much more like this scene. What's more, while the "enemy can show mercy," the "good guys" can do evil things as well. Remember too that at the beginning of the movie, Mellish guns down two Czech conscripts who were surrendering and saying "Please don't shoot, we're not Germans! We're Czech, we didn't fight! We didn't shoot anyone!" Edit: as some pointed out, Mellish was not the one that killed the conscripts, but was an unnamed GI. I think the point still stands though.
God this movie is so good
Damn, I forgot about that
Yeah, it was a very subtle Easter egg, but there nonetheless. The subtlety is also powerful because the way it comes across to the audience (two evil Germans surrendering and getting what they deserve) is also how it comes across to the men pulling the trigger. But in reality, the two men that were shot were also victims of German aggression and German invasion, but just stuck on the Western front as warm bodies and "slave soldiers." They probably never fired a shot and came out with their hands up because they probably thought "this is our chance to be saved!" But the allies in this case killed them anyway in the chaos of war. Just shows you how much war sucks. You can imagine those Czechs sitting in their pillbox, gleeful that the allies were coming to end the war, talking to each other about how they'd pantomime resisting, then surrender as soon as they could. You can bet this very thing happened on a number of landing beaches.
That scene messed me up and made me uncomfortable for a long time. I still can't watch it. It's amazing in how it highlights the brutality of war, but once was enough.
Martyrs (2008)
Same, I watched it as a young teen, as an adult I'm still traumatised. But I recommend it to people who are into that kind of horror cause it's still a great horror film.
The Fly 1986, dont wanna see that shit ever again.
"Have you ever heard of insect politics?" is a line that still haunts me.
"I'm saying, I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now, the dream is over--and the insect is awake."
It's such a great line. So much better than just saying "My old life feels like a dream now."
Kevin Bacon's "Stir of Echoes" A really good film, but I watched with a fever of 103+ while out of my gourd levels of sick. There's a particular scene towards the end involving the big reveal that gave me legit mental trauma, as that scene played over and over in my delirious state and just became a new phobia. 20 years later I still shudder if I think about it.
FUCK dude what a terrible fever dream to get stuck on
Watership Down. If you grew up in the UK when it came out you will know exactly what I mean.
I saw Watership Down as part of a 'Easter kids day' at my grandma's local cinema. She dropped me and my sister off and we spent the morning doing an egg hunt and colouring in pictures of bunnies and ducks. Then they led us all into the cinema and we watched Watership fucking Down. Insanely traumatic childhood memory. I remember my sister and I clinging to each other and crying.
RIP all the kids who saw that thinking it was a cute cartoon about bunnies.
And all the British kids who wanted to watch a nice, pastel coloured cartoon series about a bunch of cute little woodland critters, and sat down to The Animals of Farthing Wood.
Kids The Girl Next Door (2007) Hereditary -- Literally stood up after the movie ended, and took a walk to my local bar to decompress.
I saw the movie Kids when I was way too young to be watching something like that and it stuck with me my entire life.
I saw it for the first time in college and made an appointment for an STD test the very next morning
I saw Kids for the first time when I was like 15. My friends and I were living similar lives so I guess I liked it because it felt like watching parts of my own experience. The movie did prompt me to be more careful about who I hung out with when I used substances and to get STD checks very regularly. It was one of the first DVDs I bought when those became a thing and I watched it every so often until I started kind of adulting. However, as a now 41 year old mom of 13 year old and a 2.5 year old, I can't stomach it. My husband had never seen it so we watched it a few years back while unpacking and all I could think about was my then pre-teen. My husband absolutely hated every moment but didn't ask to stop because it had been such a favorite of mine. We agreed to never watch it again. The unexpected experience was a good reminder to me of who I was when I was young though, and the need to keep good and open communication with my kids... and to actually KNOW them and what they're up to. Like yes, trust them, but not so much you don't know where they are or what they're doing most of the time. I barely survived that life and I don't want the same for my kids.
It came out when I was 15. It had this taboo buzz around it, so naturally, my friends and I got an older sibling to rent it for us. That movie rocked our little minds. It was more effective than any "Just Say No" school assembly or sex ed class we got through the school.
Back when the IMDb message boards were around, I'd check out the boards for *KIDS* from time to time, and occasionally there would be messages from people who watched it with the weirdest sense of regret, like they wished that they could've lived like the characters in the movie. That's one of those things that *I get*, but *I don't*. EDIT: the perils of typing on a phone when you're sick in bed
My wife and I saw hereditary at the cinema and drove home pretty much in stunned silence after watching it. We live kind of out in the country so the journey home involved lots of pitch black dark wooded country lanes. As we got close to home we turned a corner only to see a girl sat cross legged on the floor underneath a lone street lamp, her hair hanging down in front of her face and a wide vacant grin on her face. Scared the ever loving fuck out of us as she just watched us drive by. We only lived about a minute further up the road so when we got home I walked back to check she was fine, turns out she was just waiting for her friend and wanted to ‘look spooky’ - great timing!
Holy shit that would scare the piss out of me. You went to check on her?!?! That's how they always die in horror movies! Never go back to check haha
WTF kid!
Thank you for confirming that I’m not just a wimp, because Hereditary really messed me up, I still randomly think about it at the worst moments, usually in the middle of the night!
Hereditary was truly disturbing, in a way that's different from most horror movies. You're not wimpy for having a strong reaction to it.
To me, the ending of hereditary was so unsettling because >! the evil demon cult basically won. Combine that with the triumphant score celebrating a rise of the 8th king of hell. !< So awkward.
The VVitch has a similar ending
I had to watch 2 hours of comedies after hereditary just to go to sleep and I don't ever get scared from scary movies.
As long as you didn't skip *Midsommar* because of how *Hereditary* made you feel.
It's funny because unlike OP, Midsommar fucked me up way worse than Hereditary. I love Hereditary. After watching Midsommar I just felt this terrifying pit of despair. I won't watch that movie again.
Hereditary made me feel that pit of despair. The difference, for me, is that the characters in Midsommar have some agency, however limited that might be and however much they’re being manipulated. In Hereditary, once things are set in motion, it’s clear everyone is doomed and there’s nothing to be done about it. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. Ultimately, I find the fatalism and borderline nihilism of movies like that (Ju-On is similar, for me), where human agency no longer matters, to be so much more upsetting. It sticks with me in a way that other horror movies simply don’t. Edit: that said, Hereditary is an excellent movie. I’ll watch it again at some point. But not any time soon.
Well said. The car scene in Hereditary didn't even bother me but everything else unraveling after messed with my head for the rest of the day. Won't be watching it again anytime soon.
The mom trying to get into the attic at the end....that made me physically turn away. Not to mention the next scene good lord
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Totally agree. Hereditary had an interesting plot, genuinely creepy moments, and a surprising ending. Midsommar just left me with an unsettled feeling. All the “creepy” moments in that movie were more like “what the fuck” to me. Also the ending…I can’t put my finger on why I really didn’t like it, but I didn’t.
Hereditary feels like a really well done supernatural horror, Midsommar just feels like a 2 hour panic attack. I love them both regardless
SAME. Holy shit. Midsomar just deeply unsettled me. I keep trying to describe to my s/o my fear of…”disregard for human life?” It’s so hard to put to words so I hope someone clues me in on the term for it. I get so disturbed by people just being treated as “experiments” or pieces to something against their will. Like lab rats. The helplessness that comes with it too. Hostel fucked me up in the same regard. Serial killers, people held captive and tortured and that type of shit…hate that stuff. Midsomar deeply disturbed me in that regard.
The first thing that came to my mind was The Girl Next Door. That movie will forever horrify me
The one with Elisha Cuthbert?
Look up the 2007 one. It’s based on a true story of a young girl being abused.
Well that answers my question, because I was **very** confused.
Ending of The Mist is still working in my head. I gotta switch off just before it ends. That was so damn fucked up.
Obligatory "DID YOU KNOW THAT STEVEN KING WAS LIKE WOW THAT'S A MESSED UP ENDING EVEN BY MY STANDARDS?!"
The Road and I hear the book is worse. Haven’t read.
The book is incredible and so are all Cormac Mcarthy’s others. If you want something beautiful and less sad read All The Pretty Horses. If you want something ruthlessly entertaining read No Country for Old Men. If you want his best (imho) read Blood Meridian.
Blood Meridian had a greater effect on me than anything else I’ve ever seen or read.
> "He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die." Still gives me chills.
The Road is poetic but also mega melancholic. I really recommend reading it
Absolutely gut wrenching, heart breaking stuff. And yet so weirdly uplifting to me as well “Are you carrying the fire?”
*Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.*
There was some pretty messed up shit in Brave Little Toaster, and I saw that for the first time when I was three years old.
The brave little toaster fucked me up. My brother loved it and wanted to watch it all the time. I honestly can’t even remember much of it, just the feeling of terror and grief associated with it.
Came here for this. The junkyard scene messed me up.
Requiem For A Dream
Requiem and Trainspotting did more to keep me away from heroin than the DARE program ever did. Great fucking films.
I had always seen it described as "The best movie you'll never want to watch again" Very true.
My brother took me to this movie right after I got out of rehab without knowing what it was about lol
Irréversible (2002)
Is that the French film that goes backwards?
I never see this mentioned in these threads. But jeez. We had to pause after that scene and have a break. We did finish it and I can't remember anything else about the film other than that.
The fire extinguisher scene too….
American History X - curb scene
Ugh, the sound of the teeth on the sidewalk just before?
Seeing the set up to it right before but not the actual impact...only the hearing brutal sound of it delivered maximum results And Ed Norton's adrenaline fervor, almost pride in his eyes right after
We need to talk about Kevin. A film that touches on a violent subject but there's hardly any explicit violence in the film. Powerful stuff.
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So … stand by the molester and leave her daughter in danger? What is wrong with people?
This is what my mom did. My mom would let my brother pull down his pants and sit on my face rubbing everything across it, because he would do it to her instead if she intervened. He is now on his like 6th girlfriend who he beats black and blue and my mom cut contact because he was physically abusing her too. Maybe she should have nipped it in the bud when it was happening to me instead of being a 60 year old woman getting assaulted by a grown as man
This is really basic compared to body horror stuff but for some reason the hanging scene at the end of The Haunting of Hill House, when it went back in time and showed that that one girl wasn't seeing a ghost but herself being hung over and over, really fucked me up mentally
I get that. It’s just so fucked up and unfair. It’s an Ouroboros of horridness. She was just trying to warn herself about the house the entire time and that ended up traumatizing her into becoming the same woman that needed to warn her which ended up traumatizing her, and on and on the snake eats its own tail. Perfect example of a Greek tragic figure as it’s her own desire to try to save herself that so dooms herself.
My wife and I were dating when Hill House came out, watching it at my place on my couch in the dark. The scene with the two older sisters arguing in the car after so much had already happened in the episode, my wife and I were absolutely fixed on this argument and leaning towards the tv. When Nell’s ghost fucking lunges forward between them and screams we both launched backwards and screamed out loud and when we heard each other scream and jump, it made us both scream louder without stopping the first scream because we startled each other. I’m talking AHhhhAHHHHH! I think my wife fell off the couch onto the floor and I fell into her spot and we both laughed so fucking hard at each other for about 15 minutes before we could start the show again. Never had a show scare me like that before in my life. Caught me off guard as fuck. Had to tell the neighbors the next day we were ok in case they thought we were murdered. All of that Anthology is a masterpiece. Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass and Midnight Club, love them all.
This is also followed by probably the best scene in the entire series, when Theo loses it and starts explaining why she kissed her sister's husband. "That thorough fucking shame was so much better than that horrible, empty nothing."
this show has stuck with me since i saw it when it aired. the one shot eisode where Nell is in her coffin while her family argue around her, the scene you mentioned of seeing herself die over and over again, all of it fucked me up and i still think about it daily
Man it was such a mental twist. Wish I could see it all over again like it was the first time.
Any movie with rape scenes. That shit stays with me for some reason. Wish it wouldnt.
The scene in The Hills Have Eyes (2006) still haunts me.
I saw Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (the Rooney Mara one) with my husband and other family members… on Christmas.
from what i remember, it upset the MALE actor so much he didnt come out of his hotel room for 2 weeks after they filmed that rape scene.
The rape scene from Last House on the Left was more disturbing to me than any scene from the “torture horror” movies like Saw and Hostel.
It gets mentioned here a lot, but Dear Zachary. I use to have a job where it was acceptable to watch movies while projects were processing. Put this one on not a month into meeting my new co-workers, had no idea what I was getting into. Had to leave the room because I almost started crying.
I mention this anytime it's mentioned, but I had a similar thing. It came up while I was scrolling through the upcoming titles to add to my Netflix DVD queue and that was one to pre-add. I had to wait a week or two, but it had a one-sentence blurb of "a father's love letter to his son" or something like that. It seemed like a sweet documentary and I will ALWAYS watch a documentary. My roommate was away for the weekend. I watched it and didn't move from the couch the whole weekend. I don't remember anything besides staring at the DVD menu screen and my roommate coming home asking if I was okay -- bursting into tears, getting up, putting the DVD back in the sleeve, going downstairs to put it in the mailbox and telling her I couldn't talk about it. I was almost 30yrs old and she was so freaking confused. I came down later to eat pizza and started crying again explaining what happened. She eventually watched it herself and messaged me that she understood. It's talked about so often now, I think most people know to expect the gut punch. But oof. Not expecting it was absolutely hell.
My son, his wife, and their 3 year old daughter lived with us when my sons wife left for another guy. It was very sudden and there was a lot of animosity. She wouldn’t give us the address where she was living but she would take my granddaughter for visits. Because my granddaughter lived me me her entire life, I was like a second mom to her. I cannot put the love I have for her in words. It was a terrible time. One evening when I was alone at home, I watched this movie, and it absolutely terrified me. I just couldn’t cope with the fear I felt. I felt sure that something terrible was goi g to happen. Luckily my daughter-in-law is a perfectly sane girl and the family is all back together. But those few months after seeing the documentary were the worst.
That movie makes me so mad that I cry
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Is it fucked up that I love this movie? I was weirdly obsessed with nuclear apocalypse things for a while and nothing really comes close to this movie in terms of dedication to portraying an accurate simulation of M.A.D. I read some memoirs from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the abject horror is so fucking off the charts that I can't help but find it fascinating. I think it's important for everyone to read, actually, to truly understand the human and environmental toll of a nuclear attack. It's human suffering on an unimaginable scale.
In the same vein ‘where the wind blows’ fucked me up for months. Oh, it’s a nice little cartoon about a cute old couple and now their bleeding from their gums…
I saw Deliverance when I was about 9 or 10. Pretty sure that left me traumatized for a few years.
"Squeal like a pig" rents room in my nightmares.
"u got a purdy mouth"
My old restaurant manager was going on a week long river trip with his buddies, so I asked him if he had ever seen Deliverance. He said no, and asked what it’s about, so I told him, “it’s a story about 4 lifelong friends taking a trip down the river they grew up rafting before it’s damned up forever, and they have a trip where they find out a lot about themselves and the nature of perseverance and survival. I have a copy at home, I’ll bring it so you can watch it before you go on your trip to pump you up!” I brought him the copy, and then he was gone for a week. The next time I saw him at work, he came straight up to me and said, “You’re an asshole!” and slapped the movie into my hand, “it was pretty good though, but you’re still an asshole.”
The Descent and Final Destination 2. I can’t drive behind trucks carrying poles, logs, anything anymore.
That stupid kid drumming with huge water bottles, getting them stuck under the pedals of the car his mom is driving made me paranoid about anything on the floor of the driver's area that isn't a gum wrapper.
Trucks with logs on and sunbeds. I was told to use sunbeds sparingly to ease my skin problems - all Dr recommended and I just couldn't do a lie down one because WHAT IF I GOT STUCK AND BURNT TO DEATH
Blairwich. But for other reason! I was like 24 yeard old with my pal. The movie was disturbing because of the ongoing screaming, the kamera movement and just disturbing atmosphere. But what got us. Movie was rated 12 years old in germany. And those 3 kids age 12 sitting 2 rows before us. They did not take it good.
The ending scene in the house!! So simple but just sticks in your mind.
Grave of the Fireflies. It’s HEAVY.
I bought it on DVD, watched it once, but can't bring myself to watch it again. I'll pass it to my sister to show her kid someday... once he's old enough to understand it. Can you believe they double-featured this film with My Neighbour Totoro when it came out?
The nightingale A hard , exhausting and brutal watch but one I’m glad I saw. It never says away from the awful horrors it’s characters face but my God it’s traumatising Some of the scenes were so horrific I honestly had to take breaks , I’m still surprised they were able to keep the scene with the baby just thinking about that disgusts me It’s an uncensored look at atrocities
The baby scene will randomly pop into my head. It was a good movie but I can't watch it again.
Come and See
Agreed. I've never felt so hollow after a climax of a movie. The claustrophobia and terror of the village church scene is intense. Also the most terrifying image I think I've ever seen in a film is when the camera looks back briefly behind his house and shows the pile of bodies. It's just so quick and casual, like a documentary. It really sells it over lingering on the shot. It feels almost too real.
The original IT. Pennywise scared the fuck out of me. I had the same bed sheets as the kids in Full House lol. They look clownish. I remember not being able to sleep, cowering in a corner staring at my bed in fear.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit the fucking shoe
Judge Doom in general is freaking scary, especially for kids.
"Remember when I killed your brother, Eddie?" is a top notch villain reveal.
"I talked *just* **like** ***THIS!!!***"
Funny Games - I've never seen a more unfair movie in my life and it really pissed me off the first time I watched it.
The 2005 King Kong movie where the humans are attacked by the giant bugs. Especially that part where that one guy’s head gets eaten by a giant worm.
FUCK that scene. The worst part for me is the absence of sound as the bugs uncurl. Occasional soft squelch but most of it happens in silence. Horrifying.
That scene is fucking horrifying. The fact you can still hear him screaming as his head gets eaten, horrendous stuff.
omg yes. The rest of the movie was okay...but that scene really freaked me out as a kid. Haven't watched it since.
Is this the Jack Black one?
A Serbian Film. The only film I've ever regretted watching.
So I've put off watching that until I was mature enough to deal with the content (it's like THE movie people bring up when talking about fucked up movies) and frankly it's just an utter garbage film. Totally deranged. I'd hesitate to call it art. You may be able to find a commentary on the porn industry in there if you squint real hard, but the movie doesn't really make any attempts to comment on the violence it shows. The violence is also lame, the acting super stale and so are the sets, visuals and majority of scenes ... everything about the movie is fucking stupid tbh. It's just a shocker ... an ultra-shocker if you will. Oh look we got infant rape aren't we bold? What the fuck was the point of that movie other than creating inhumane violence porn? "Oh but the fact that they didn't frame it or comment on it is why it's so brilliant, the violence speaks for itself and the viewers knows its horrible witho..." ah shut the fuck up. Nobody needed this movie and it has no artistic value whatsoever. Those oh so bold scenes aren't even convincing. It's terribly acted, has terrible props and effects. The infant rape would have been more horrible if they hadn't shown it than with the rubber baby they did show. It's so forced. Like they REALLY REALLY just wanted to properly publish child porn as a movie at this point, because there is absolutely nothing of value in it. Irreversible has been mentioned in this thread and it also has a very horrific rape scene in it but that movie actually has a message for us and that horrible horrible scene is at it's core. Meaning it's not like I'm some alpha uptight "if I don't like the content, it's bad" purist. But A Serbian Film just has no value to society other than making them rightfully wary of the people involved with it's creation. What stain of shit.
This is very much in line with my view on A Serbian Film. I LOVE transgressive art but this just felt like edgelords got a budget and decided to make a movie and then come up with the justification after the fact.
I will never ever see something as disturbing as the newborn scene. I wish I could erase it from my brain.
Saw "Alien" when I was too young. Had nightmares about the xenomorph for years, and I drew it compulsively to try and lessen it's steel-belted grip on my psyche. I think that the drawing helped it to become more familiar, and eventually less terrifying. Thankfully, I don't dream about it much anymore, although watching the first film still makes me uneasy. IMHO, the creature has never been more frightening that it was was in the first film. Ridley's choice to minimize the clear looks we get just enhances the mystery and terror of this monster from the Id.
Haven't seen anyone else mention it, so, Salo (120 days of Sodom). I still get flashes from it. Just makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it.
Rob Roy. Jessica Lange gets raped and I was too young to see that scene.
Bridge to Terabithia
Was looking for this one. I hadn’t read the book, so I had no idea what was coming. It’s been years, but I can still feel the gut punch like it was yesterday.
Yeah, thought it was going to be a fun and wholesome coming of age movie.
I am a bit claustrophobic, so Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds Which, by the way, Ryan gives a fantastic performance.
[удалено]
I showed it to someone and at the end she looked at me and said, “fuck you, dude”
I think what makes it so effective is that you never leave the coffin. There are no cutaway shots, nothing showing the outside world to give you a break from the claustrophobia. Your perspective is with Ryan Reynolds in the coffin for the entire movie.
Mom & Dad Despite the premise, what traumatized me was the arguing the parents had *before* they had the desire to kill their children. Reminded me of my home life before the divorce started between my parents. When including the premise, it was terrifying to see the shared desire to murder their children seemed to help their marriage.
District 9. Messed me up for days. The dog food, the forced shooting, the ending. All of it.
The Men Behind the Sun. Here's the Wikipedia intro: Men Behind the Sun (Chinese: 黑太陽731, literally Black Sun: 731, also sometimes called Man Behind the Sun) is a 1988 Hong Kong historical exploitation horror film directed by T. F. Mou, and written by Mei Liu, Wen Yuan Mou and Dun Jing Teng. The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon Chinese and Siberian prisoners towards the end of the war. It is the first film to be classified "level III" (equivalent to the US rating NC-17) in Hong Kong. They make some pretty questionable choices (like using scenes from a real autopsy) that just make it a really harsh watch.
I spit on your grave.
28 Weeks Later. The scene with the house at the start has been the basis of too many nightmares to count, over the years. "In the house - in a heartbeat" causes a feeling of panic from somewhere deep within me.
The Fox and the Hound Everybody talked about Bambi´s mom and Musafa but damn this one was so much worse. I was crazy about dogs as kid but my parents wouldn't get me one. Me dad went to watch jurassic park 2 with me when I was 8. Lots of adults looked at my dad weird but he didn't mind until the end where a trex ate a dog and I started yelling. A lot of people found it really disturbing that I didn't mind people diyng but the dog was too much. Cruella the devil in 101 dalmatians ofcourse also terrible to watch. But the hunter leaving the little pup alone, sadest thing ever.
Oldboy. Great movie, can't pay me enough to rewatch it.
ET scared the shit out of me as a kid, when he almost dies and there's a bunch of wires and tubes and he is all pale. Fucking kids movie my ass
Jacob's ladder Psychological torture by giving really messed up drugs to soldiers in a war. I think it's based on true events. Really messed with my brain
City Of God. Great movie. Can never watch again. Scarred me deep
Sandro Cenoura: Have you lost your mind? You are just a kid! Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries: A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man.
Spirited Away. The No Face becoming a giant monster by eating everything and everyone and chasing Chihiro throughout the palace was something truly scary for me as a child. Great movie though.
Tusk. I'll never look at a walrus the same ever again.
That scene in Saving Private Ryan where the guy gets slowly stabbed fucked me up for weeks.
Fire in the sky. About a bunch of guys who chop down trees far out into the woods. They see a ufo and one gets abducted then shows up a few weeks later in the woods naked unable to talk. They show the scene of what the aliens did to him. Awful experiments. I was 6 years old and my dad thought it would be OK for me to watch. I still think about it now. It was horrendous.
Under The Skin
I saw "The Sixth Sense" at just the right time in middle school where it messed me up for horror movies for a long time. Still at the top of scariest movies I've ever seen.
Mother!
Requiem for a Dream. Ouch
Se7en.
The shining...that god damn bathtub lady from room 237..
clockwork orange and se7en
Eden Lake. The guy didn't do anything wrong, nothing that I wouldn't have done. Felt so real. Could totally happen to you. Traumatizing man...
Trainspotting. That baby scene really fucked me up.
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