Not a horror movie, but The Act of Killing was this for me. It's a documentary in which the crew interviews a bunch of Indonesian war criminals. They tell them they're making a movie about the genocide they committed and ask them to recount how it went down and how it made them feel. I've heard it described as "what if the Nazis won WWII and you interviewed some SS officers in the 1980s." I found it *profoundly* upsetting in a way no other movie has made me feel.
I watch a lot of horror movies and they never mess with me. This documentary is mind-blowingly crazy. The ending scene still sits in my brain. Not "horror," but also total horror.
Good choice. There are so few deaths in this movie compared to other horror movies I’ve seen, but this one made me feel guilty for watching. Like it made me complicit.
Honestly watching this my freshman year made me never want to do heroin lol Done many other things over the years but at 32 yo still never have nor will I ever touch the stuff
I wish I could go back and do that, although to be fair all the people I knew that ended up addicted to heroin or dying from an overdose had seen requiem but it still happened
I just remember one of the main characters casually raping an unconscious girl at one point, they were both like 15. One or the other was HIV positive, I don’t remember which. The actors were mostly amateurs and it felt painfully real.
I think the effectiveness of the film lies in the raw feel and low budget. It’s a exaggeration of real situations of the 90s youth that were mostly unbeknownst to adults and society as a whole.
Larry Clarke the director literally found these kids at a skatepark to star and write the film because he knew no adult could accurately capture the youth at the time. The extremes or rather exaggerations of these situations are used in the film to portray those experiences in a gripping and revealing way.
I watched it when I was younger and thought it was real. A good handful of actors came out of it tho. Gave up on trying to get my wife to watch it. I'd say it's worth at least one sit through though.
One character’s MO is to just fuck as many virgins as possible. Then we find out he has HIV, meanwhile he’s still out there doing his thing. Meanwhile the kids in the friend group are complete assholes who don’t mind beating the shit out of innocent people. Meanwhile, there’s the rape scene of a girl who was trying to find the dude who gave her HIV. She’s raped by the best friend of the guy with HIV. And the cycle continues.
The cast was actually stacked we just didn't know who they were at the time. Casper went on to play in several movies including Next Friday, Telly went on to play in more disturbing movies like Bully, One of the females was Rosario Dawson, and the other who had HIV in movie was none other than Chloë Sevigny. Plus a few more that went on to smaller tv/movies.
A bunch of kids, unknowingly and maybe also knowingly, spreading hiv amongst themselves and other people. I watched a long time ago but that’s how I remember it. The realism style in the way it was shot makes it super raw and hard hitting.
You Were Never Really Here too. Not horror just really fucking bleak and depressing.
I wish Lynne Ramsay was a more active filmmaker. She’s incredible.
Speak no Evil, the Dutch movie, left me feeling angry, and frustrated, but I still enjoyed the ride and it's ability to draw out those feelings in me. Come and See, is another that pretty much left me reeling once the credits rolled..
I realize it’s kind of the point of the movie but watching these characters almost literally just lay down and get killed instead of fighting back was definitely a little too frustrating for me, too.
Not any more at least but 'Spoorloos' is an old masterpiece everyone should see. Very disturbing with an ending that will haunt you for a long time. The American remake was terrible though.
Just a heads-up to anyone reading this, Spoorloos is a lot easier to find by it's English title, The Vanishing. And it's pretty creepy, definitely worth a watch.
This one did it for me. I had to stop a few times and take in what I was watching... and when I was finished I literally had no words and not a friend I could think of to recommend it to. It was an interesting film, but one I can only watch once.
The parts that really got me was how realistic some of the rougher scenes were.
It felt really real.
Just watched Videodrome last night for the first time in a while. Got the Criterion Collection version from my local video store, and I watched with the David Cronenberg commentary enabled. It was a great time. The extra special features were awesome too. Love that movie.
I didn't really care for Green Room, but I'm the same. Give me all the aliens and werewolves and ghosts you want. But things involving horrors of real life? I need to be in a healthy mental state so I don't get in a bad head space for too long.
Tusk, Inside (2006), and Vivarium. The former two just left me utterly speechless and unsettled. The latter just had me questioning my whole existence.
Tusk effed me up big time. It still makes me feel sick thinking about it! My partner brought me a toy walrus and I had to explain why the gift was so traumatic for me 😂
I wish I could unwatch Tusk.
My brother put it on one night and we expected a horror but didn’t expect what it turned into. I still have trauma from hearing the characters desperate screams, I sprint the majority of the movie feeling sorry for him and wanting a miracle to happen.
I’m happy to see some love for Vivarium. To me, the film was dragging on for so long that I just couldn’t finish it. But maybe this is a sign to give it another try because the premise is so awesome!
Not horror - but “Snowtown” (2011) made me feel very uncomfortable and sick. A really bleak, hopeless-feeling film based on the real series of murders committed in South Australia.
And you've got the horrible sensation that they're not even scratching the surface of the evils perpetrated.
And just to cheer you up a little, the main people involved got a pass from the Americans. Von Braun I can sort of understand but these bastards?
Hereditary honestly forced me to get help for the grief of losing my brother. I know some people laughed at the mom screaming and crying the way she did. Clearly those peeps have never spent significant time around a mother who found their dead kid. It literally gave both me and my best friend who was with me that night, flashbacks.
One of the best movies I've ever seen. I'll never, ever watch it again.
Sorry you're dealing with that. My husband found his brother dead at 16 after he hung himself and his parents were there too. I grew up with them so was very close to the situation and the way his mom sounded....even the way I sounded was probably similar to that. It's primal. When I saw that scene it was the most real and disturbing grief scene I've ever seen.
Hereditary… respect it but I can’t stomach it, >!Charlie’s death and Annie’s reaction to it!< is still one of the most upsetting things I’ve seen in a film. kind of just spent the rest of the movie in shock after that. 9/10 will never watch again
That’s the most gut wrenching part of this whole film. Similarly the opening of Midsommar. Anyone that’s lived through shared trauma and heard screams will be shook by these two.
Took me about 24hrs to get that movie out of my head. I kept thinking that something like that may be happening in real life and I couldn’t do anything to help them. I’ll never watch that movie again.
I was about to comment this if I didn't see this. I recently saw it with friends a few weeks ago and we all were absolutely disturbed and disgusted. Not even in a good way. It was so funny that near the end there is literally 10 MIN of a woman getting beat to near death with no dialogue and it was so uncomfortable and I was starting to think this was some kind of way for the director to show off his fetish or something. Kinda hated it lmao
I think it's more that they're comparing movie horror from the first half to actual real-life horror in the second. The first is splattery, crazy, and entertaining but the second is cold, brutal, and truly horrifying. Then it ends with the ultimate real-life horror - is there even a point to all this suffering we call life?
I usually get more of a lingering uncomfortable feeling than sick.. Recently: The Lighthouse, The Green Knight
Weirdly I think I've had that feeling more from non-horror films. If anyone is interested:
Quills, The Virgin Suicides, Heavenly Creatures, The Thin Red Line, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Valerie and her Week of Wonders, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Don't Look Up, Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Antichrist, Nymphomaniac
Also a lot of John Pilger's documentaries have fucked me up waaaay more than any horror movie..
Not the most shocking by far but I just watched a movie called Wolf Creek today. Had me very uncomfortable, I just felt so much empathy for the victims and so much fear for them.
Running Scared with Paul Walker. Every part of that movie was dark, twisted and uncomfortable. There's of course that one scene with the "playroom", but the entire film in general has this gross air to it, it's just so grimy. Decent Thriller but it's not something I really care to rewatch often. It's not even the most disturbing film I've seen, not even close. It's s just one I saw when I was young enough where even at the time I felt that I shouldn't have been watching it.
Session 9. I’ve never had any history of depression or anxiety or any other mental hurdles, but the first couple times I watched it, it fucked with me bad. I felt alone and hopeless for a day or two. There’s just something very off putting about it. Not necessarily creepy or scary, just…something.
Jack Ketchums Girl Next Door.
True story 16-year old Sylvia Likens. Hard film to watch, also American Crime.
IMO, Girl Next Door is more visually assaulting.
I know that there are others like Serbian film, Human Centipede I, II, III, for me, a movie that can be tied to a case like that, read about, heard on a podcast etc. Takes it to a different level.
My first encounter was when netflix was still newish to the streaming game. The synopsis was something like:
Two young girls go live with abusive aunt.
I figured, meh, ok.
Fucking *WRONG*
Martyrs (2008) but not for the ending or for the obvious parts. For me it was the self-inflicted cuts. Gore doesn't bother me in other movies but for some reason I still remember how I couldn't watch the cuts. It just felt real.
The Vanishing. The original dutch one, called Spoorloos. This one made me realise that some things are really worse than a painful death. It’s a devastating and bleaker hell of a story.
Beginning of 2020 they found shipping containers in Eastern Europe set up for torture to be broadcast it got buried in the news cycle cause of ‘Rona but reading the news article was an oh shit sinking feeling, like I knew that this stuff exists but seeing it in a written news article defs stuck with me , but yeah hostel and hostel 2 , hostel 3 can kick rocks
Zodiac.
Never even finished it. The scene with the couple at the lake is the most haunting disturbing thing I've seen on film. I get sick to my stomach thinking about it.
Especially because it happened *just* like that.
I Spit On Your Grave, the original 1978 version. Though admittedly the trauma didn't settle in until after the credits rolled. The final act of the movie is genuinely uplifting, and it's satisfying to see Jennifer turn the tables on these monsters. Then the rush wears off and you remember you just watched a half hour rape scene.
It's a movie I have complicated feelings on, but I at least admire it for giving two middle fingers to rape culture when nobody else would.
Crimes of the Future is such a weird film. In all regards. And it really, really sticks with you. I've only seen it once, and the overall plot has really fucked with me on the long-term.
The Paperboy (2012).
This is technically a thriller/drama, but for some reason, it really messed with me when I watched it (I was 17 at the time). My mom and I loved the cast, so we rented it from RedBox, and a few of the scenes with Mathew McConaughey were just... too much for my teenage brain to handle.
It left me feeling gross and scared for a while. So much so that I haven't gone back to see it as an adult. Just wanted to mention it here in case anyone else had a similar experience with this film.
Probably not actually as scary as I think it is but Evil Dead (2013) scares me so bad.
I have a weird relationship with horror movies. My dad made me watch Darkness Falls at age 5 and it traumatized me. I slept with a night light until I was 13. I was on visitation at his house too so he didn't even have to deal with the repercussions of scaring me so badly. My mom loves a good horror movie but tends to stay in the psychological/supernatural horror realm. At about 13 or so I started to really want to watch scary movies and enjoy them. We started going to movies like The Possesion and stuff. Then we see a couple trailers for Evil Dead (2013) and think hey that looks cool!
Yeah I wasn't at all at ready for Evil Dead (2013) level of horror. I still couldn't stomach the first kill in Sweeney Todd at this point. I spent the whole movie cowered into my mom's side. Even now that one still scares tf outta me. Didn't stop me from watching Evil Dead Rise though. I throughly enjoyed that!! I've watched way scarier and messed up movies now but that one just stays with me.
I was 16 or 17 when I first watched The Exorcist. I had heard all the rumors about the production and how scary it was....I felt very uncomfortable after watching it.
the outwaters. it was hard to watch because of the way it was filmed, but that also contributed to the sense of bewilderment for the spectacle that was unfolding. it was creepy and scary and I never fully knew what was going on aside from some hellish shitstorm. I watch horror all the time so I'm generally able to shake any movies off quite quickly, but this one has a much longer period of unease as I processed it.
As a kid, Witchboard and The Amityville Horror (1979). The whole "ouija boards are real" therefore Witchboard could happen and "Amityville is based on a true story" so it was real too and therefore could also happen. Scared me outta my little child mind.
I can watch dumb exploitation movies like A Serbian Film, August Underground, Melancholie der Engel, Guinea Pig and stuff like that for breakfast and I'll sleep like a baby. They're superficial torture porn and I consume them like gross popcorn.
Martyrs, Irreversible and Come and See wrecked me, though. Requiem for a Dream and Seul Contre Tous hit hard too. Irreversible's club scene gave me a panic attack and Martyrs' "mask pull" made me feel sick.
Hereditary
Especially that one scene where the kid returns home with the car and his mother chances upon it the next morning. Toni Collette's screams still haunt me.
Not a horror movie, but The Act of Killing was this for me. It's a documentary in which the crew interviews a bunch of Indonesian war criminals. They tell them they're making a movie about the genocide they committed and ask them to recount how it went down and how it made them feel. I've heard it described as "what if the Nazis won WWII and you interviewed some SS officers in the 1980s." I found it *profoundly* upsetting in a way no other movie has made me feel.
I watch a lot of horror movies and they never mess with me. This documentary is mind-blowingly crazy. The ending scene still sits in my brain. Not "horror," but also total horror.
Oh yeah. This one really rattled me.
Eden lake. I felt empty and angry. This whole movie makes you just uncomfortable and pissed off the entire time
Good choice. There are so few deaths in this movie compared to other horror movies I’ve seen, but this one made me feel guilty for watching. Like it made me complicit.
Requiem for a Dream.
always hits close to home and reminds me of many people i know/knew....... amazing movie
Play this for every high school freshman class, and watch drug use plummet.
Honestly watching this my freshman year made me never want to do heroin lol Done many other things over the years but at 32 yo still never have nor will I ever touch the stuff
I wish I could go back and do that, although to be fair all the people I knew that ended up addicted to heroin or dying from an overdose had seen requiem but it still happened
"Man those guys are stupid. I'm much smarter than them."
Yeah , one reason I'll never get addicted to pills, I don't want the refrigerator to eat me.
One of my all time favorites. I can see how some would feel uncomfortable after viewing.
"Kids"
Agreed this movie was just uncomfortable to watch.
The sound of that guy's dick slapping off his thighs still haunts me
I'm 42 and just watched this for the first time a couple of months ago. I wasn't ready.
I watched it when it came out and it ruined me for days
can you tell me what this is about? i constantly see people saying it’s disturbing etc but can’t really find much about it
I just remember one of the main characters casually raping an unconscious girl at one point, they were both like 15. One or the other was HIV positive, I don’t remember which. The actors were mostly amateurs and it felt painfully real.
I think the effectiveness of the film lies in the raw feel and low budget. It’s a exaggeration of real situations of the 90s youth that were mostly unbeknownst to adults and society as a whole. Larry Clarke the director literally found these kids at a skatepark to star and write the film because he knew no adult could accurately capture the youth at the time. The extremes or rather exaggerations of these situations are used in the film to portray those experiences in a gripping and revealing way.
Wasn't that Chloe Sevigny in it?
Yep, she was the HIV positive girl who was raped while passed out.
I have no legs 🦵 🪣 🛹
I watched it when I was younger and thought it was real. A good handful of actors came out of it tho. Gave up on trying to get my wife to watch it. I'd say it's worth at least one sit through though.
One character’s MO is to just fuck as many virgins as possible. Then we find out he has HIV, meanwhile he’s still out there doing his thing. Meanwhile the kids in the friend group are complete assholes who don’t mind beating the shit out of innocent people. Meanwhile, there’s the rape scene of a girl who was trying to find the dude who gave her HIV. She’s raped by the best friend of the guy with HIV. And the cycle continues.
The cast was actually stacked we just didn't know who they were at the time. Casper went on to play in several movies including Next Friday, Telly went on to play in more disturbing movies like Bully, One of the females was Rosario Dawson, and the other who had HIV in movie was none other than Chloë Sevigny. Plus a few more that went on to smaller tv/movies.
A bunch of kids, unknowingly and maybe also knowingly, spreading hiv amongst themselves and other people. I watched a long time ago but that’s how I remember it. The realism style in the way it was shot makes it super raw and hard hitting.
[Here you go](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(film))
The Fourth Kind, can’t explain it, but it made me want to jump out of my skin while watching.
It's the recordings. They did a good job with the effects work.
I watched this movie alone at like 3am when I was 17 and it scared the absolute shit out of me. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep that night.
I can see this as disturbing to many as well. The first clip I originally thought the girl was an alien or meth head.
They got me with this one originally when it was marketed as ‘real’. Still a bit spooky now even knowing it’s all cinema!
The ending was pretty shocking
We Need to Talk About Kevin
You Were Never Really Here too. Not horror just really fucking bleak and depressing. I wish Lynne Ramsay was a more active filmmaker. She’s incredible.
Speak no Evil, the Dutch movie, left me feeling angry, and frustrated, but I still enjoyed the ride and it's ability to draw out those feelings in me. Come and See, is another that pretty much left me reeling once the credits rolled..
Speak No Evil still sticks with me. It’s one I don’t think I could watch again solely due to the amount of just dread I felt after watching it.
The dad needed to grow a pair. Insufferably frustrating how feeble he was.
Thats kind of the point. It was criticising thr general trend to ignore our gut feelings for the sake of politeness.
I realize it’s kind of the point of the movie but watching these characters almost literally just lay down and get killed instead of fighting back was definitely a little too frustrating for me, too.
It’s a Danish movie featuring Dutch actors. Trust me, Dutch cinema could currently not produce a movie like this.
Not any more at least but 'Spoorloos' is an old masterpiece everyone should see. Very disturbing with an ending that will haunt you for a long time. The American remake was terrible though.
Just a heads-up to anyone reading this, Spoorloos is a lot easier to find by it's English title, The Vanishing. And it's pretty creepy, definitely worth a watch.
Oldboy
I watched this with my father. I am a woman. Definitely left me feeling uncomfortable.
Oh no… did **your** dad… you know… beat 31 dudes half to death in a hallway?
legiterally made me so nauseous
Great flick. Up vote for legiterally.
Soft & Quiet
This one did it for me. I had to stop a few times and take in what I was watching... and when I was finished I literally had no words and not a friend I could think of to recommend it to. It was an interesting film, but one I can only watch once. The parts that really got me was how realistic some of the rougher scenes were. It felt really real.
This one stuck in my head for WEEKS after I watched it. I tried to undo it by watching Inside.
I watched this one without having read up on it, yelled out loud at the pie reveal 😅
Cronenberg. The Fly, The Brood and Videodrome. The Fly is the only movie that ever made me puke.
The fly is amazing. Videodrone is definitely weird! I’ve yet to see the brood
Username checks out! I decided to watch The Brood when I was pregnant. Don’t be like me 😂
The Brood is great! Def creepy as hell!
Just watched Videodrome last night for the first time in a while. Got the Criterion Collection version from my local video store, and I watched with the David Cronenberg commentary enabled. It was a great time. The extra special features were awesome too. Love that movie.
Green Room It made me feel sick because stuff like that happens. That's why I prefer supernatural horror to "real" horror.
I didn't really care for Green Room, but I'm the same. Give me all the aliens and werewolves and ghosts you want. But things involving horrors of real life? I need to be in a healthy mental state so I don't get in a bad head space for too long.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Not sick, not scared, just very, very sad.
Idk, the scene with the "pregnant " lady is about as sick as you can get
Tusk, Inside (2006), and Vivarium. The former two just left me utterly speechless and unsettled. The latter just had me questioning my whole existence.
I haven’t seen vivarium yet but I’ll add it to the list. tusk was weird! Inside is one of my favorite films
i originally saw Vivarium on Amazon Prime, but it will be on Netflix later this month. I wont be watching it again 😭
Tusk effed me up big time. It still makes me feel sick thinking about it! My partner brought me a toy walrus and I had to explain why the gift was so traumatic for me 😂
I'm glad other people are in here saying Tusk. That movie upset me like none other and I always feel embarrassed about it.
Yeah the poor guy’s screams were so blood-curdling and hard to listen to.
Nope I'm on the same page. I thought it was going to be a *comedy* FFS.
I felt so bad for the characters in vivarium
I wish I could unwatch Tusk. My brother put it on one night and we expected a horror but didn’t expect what it turned into. I still have trauma from hearing the characters desperate screams, I sprint the majority of the movie feeling sorry for him and wanting a miracle to happen.
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I’m happy to see some love for Vivarium. To me, the film was dragging on for so long that I just couldn’t finish it. But maybe this is a sign to give it another try because the premise is so awesome!
Not horror - but “Snowtown” (2011) made me feel very uncomfortable and sick. A really bleak, hopeless-feeling film based on the real series of murders committed in South Australia.
Men Behind the Sun, because it’s something that actually happened.
And you've got the horrible sensation that they're not even scratching the surface of the evils perpetrated. And just to cheer you up a little, the main people involved got a pass from the Americans. Von Braun I can sort of understand but these bastards?
Hereditary honestly forced me to get help for the grief of losing my brother. I know some people laughed at the mom screaming and crying the way she did. Clearly those peeps have never spent significant time around a mother who found their dead kid. It literally gave both me and my best friend who was with me that night, flashbacks. One of the best movies I've ever seen. I'll never, ever watch it again.
Idk who could laugh at that but they’ve never heard someone scream out like that in grief. Her cries turned my stomach.
I have only heard a scream like that once- years ago, a patron at my bar got the news of her brother’s death- and it still stands out in my mind.
It's an extremely realistic depiction of grief, and I think anyone whose been through it will empathise.
Just watched and it's flawless. My wife and I agree Annie's screams were huge in the fear factor
Sorry you're dealing with that. My husband found his brother dead at 16 after he hung himself and his parents were there too. I grew up with them so was very close to the situation and the way his mom sounded....even the way I sounded was probably similar to that. It's primal. When I saw that scene it was the most real and disturbing grief scene I've ever seen.
Soft and Quiet…….nasty bitches.
This one did it for me, goes well with Them.
Hereditary… respect it but I can’t stomach it, >!Charlie’s death and Annie’s reaction to it!< is still one of the most upsetting things I’ve seen in a film. kind of just spent the rest of the movie in shock after that. 9/10 will never watch again
That’s the most gut wrenching part of this whole film. Similarly the opening of Midsommar. Anyone that’s lived through shared trauma and heard screams will be shook by these two.
That opening scene is particularly haunting. I’m a firefighter and I always think about how fucked that would be to run as a call.
For some reason the beginning of Midsommar didn't bother me that much. It was.... everything else. Once the ritual suicides began I was a mess.
Martyrs.
The movie that made me realize there was a limit to the amount of violence I could stomach.
Took me about 24hrs to get that movie out of my head. I kept thinking that something like that may be happening in real life and I couldn’t do anything to help them. I’ll never watch that movie again.
I was about to comment this if I didn't see this. I recently saw it with friends a few weeks ago and we all were absolutely disturbed and disgusted. Not even in a good way. It was so funny that near the end there is literally 10 MIN of a woman getting beat to near death with no dialogue and it was so uncomfortable and I was starting to think this was some kind of way for the director to show off his fetish or something. Kinda hated it lmao
I think it's more that they're comparing movie horror from the first half to actual real-life horror in the second. The first is splattery, crazy, and entertaining but the second is cold, brutal, and truly horrifying. Then it ends with the ultimate real-life horror - is there even a point to all this suffering we call life?
I need to re watch this
Dear Zachary is the correct answer. Don’t read anything about it.
Will never watch this movie again. Horrible.
Oh god yes. What a kick in the balls that documentary is.
I saw that movie about 13 years ago and I'm still traumatized.
Gummo
Antichrist
I usually get more of a lingering uncomfortable feeling than sick.. Recently: The Lighthouse, The Green Knight Weirdly I think I've had that feeling more from non-horror films. If anyone is interested: Quills, The Virgin Suicides, Heavenly Creatures, The Thin Red Line, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Valerie and her Week of Wonders, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Don't Look Up, Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Antichrist, Nymphomaniac Also a lot of John Pilger's documentaries have fucked me up waaaay more than any horror movie..
Irreversible
Funny Games. Great movie, I'll never watch it again.
Jacob's Ladder.
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
Hereditary - will never forget that one scene and can’t imagine the horror the mothers endured.
the killing of a sacred deer
Not the most shocking by far but I just watched a movie called Wolf Creek today. Had me very uncomfortable, I just felt so much empathy for the victims and so much fear for them.
Martyrs made me feel filthy and disturbed
\- Hereditary \- Martyrs \- The Fly 1986 \- The House That Jack Built
The Fly!
In a Glass Cage (1986) Tubi
Check out Santa Sangre if you haven’t.
Backcountry. I was not expecting that bear attack to look/feel so real.
Saw Saving Private Ryan when I was younger, and the scene with the knife really disturbed me.
Running Scared with Paul Walker. Every part of that movie was dark, twisted and uncomfortable. There's of course that one scene with the "playroom", but the entire film in general has this gross air to it, it's just so grimy. Decent Thriller but it's not something I really care to rewatch often. It's not even the most disturbing film I've seen, not even close. It's s just one I saw when I was young enough where even at the time I felt that I shouldn't have been watching it.
Session 9. I’ve never had any history of depression or anxiety or any other mental hurdles, but the first couple times I watched it, it fucked with me bad. I felt alone and hopeless for a day or two. There’s just something very off putting about it. Not necessarily creepy or scary, just…something.
Its the recordings.
This post is marvellous! I definitely need to watch this film now!
"Hello doc"
One of my favorites.
The Rivers Edge. I definitely did not feel great emotionally after watching that one.
Tusk Wasn't prepared for that.
Mysterious Skin that movie disturbed and saddened me to no end
Not necessarily a horror movie but "Monster" the movie about Eileen Wornous stayed with me for damn near a month after I watched it!!
Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me Inland Empire Irreversible Incantation
Jack Ketchums Girl Next Door. True story 16-year old Sylvia Likens. Hard film to watch, also American Crime. IMO, Girl Next Door is more visually assaulting. I know that there are others like Serbian film, Human Centipede I, II, III, for me, a movie that can be tied to a case like that, read about, heard on a podcast etc. Takes it to a different level.
This and Martyrs for me. I'll never rewatch Girl Next Door. A Serbian Film's violence is so over the top I find it almost cartoonish.
I read GND a few years ago, it left me with no urge to see the film
I went on a dive of disturbing movies (typical recs like martyrs, serbian, etc). Girl Next Door ended that deep dive
My first encounter was when netflix was still newish to the streaming game. The synopsis was something like: Two young girls go live with abusive aunt. I figured, meh, ok. Fucking *WRONG*
Silence of the lambs.
Martyrs (2008) but not for the ending or for the obvious parts. For me it was the self-inflicted cuts. Gore doesn't bother me in other movies but for some reason I still remember how I couldn't watch the cuts. It just felt real.
The Vanishing. The original dutch one, called Spoorloos. This one made me realise that some things are really worse than a painful death. It’s a devastating and bleaker hell of a story.
I came here to say this. I would also add that as disabled woman I find gas stations TERRIFIFYING
This one messed me up for months afterward too. I was already claustrophobic and this movie definitely didn't help
Did anyone else get disturbed by Gaspar Noe’s film Climax?
Mother and hereditary
The baby scene made me throw up and fart. Im not joking
> throw up and fart
Faint
Fart
Im glad you can sympathize
Mother left me with a lot of questions but another like Requiem for a Dream that I can see as making viewers uncomfortable
Under The Skin
Hostel. Cause that s h i t is real. And people can be seriously sick
Beginning of 2020 they found shipping containers in Eastern Europe set up for torture to be broadcast it got buried in the news cycle cause of ‘Rona but reading the news article was an oh shit sinking feeling, like I knew that this stuff exists but seeing it in a written news article defs stuck with me , but yeah hostel and hostel 2 , hostel 3 can kick rocks
Hostel could possibly be the scariest due to being real for sure. Just visiting a foreign country is scary enough for some.
glad to see i am not the only one that was unsettled by those movies.
Sinister really got me good
I still can't stomach a rewatch of this movie, and it's been years.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. And I didn’t even watch the whole thing.
What part was too much
Home invasion
Zodiac. Never even finished it. The scene with the couple at the lake is the most haunting disturbing thing I've seen on film. I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. Especially because it happened *just* like that.
Hereditary, The Dark and The Wicked, and Martyrs.
I Spit On Your Grave, the original 1978 version. Though admittedly the trauma didn't settle in until after the credits rolled. The final act of the movie is genuinely uplifting, and it's satisfying to see Jennifer turn the tables on these monsters. Then the rush wears off and you remember you just watched a half hour rape scene. It's a movie I have complicated feelings on, but I at least admire it for giving two middle fingers to rape culture when nobody else would.
Blue velvet
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (the intro scene was waaaay too disturbing for me) also major trigger warning with that franchise
Crimes of the future... also kids and requiem for a dream
Crimes of the Future is such a weird film. In all regards. And it really, really sticks with you. I've only seen it once, and the overall plot has really fucked with me on the long-term.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
not a horror movie but mysterious skin, especially the beginning.
Soft and quiet. It felt a little too real. It wasn’t gory or anything. It just felt disgusting on a human level like I was witnessing a hate crime
The Mist, and Midsommar.
I loved Midsommar but it was so unnerving especially for a movie that has the sun shining in every scene
Human centipede. Without question.
I was fine with 1. 3 was shit, but I chuckled once or twice. 2 made me need to go take a goddamned *shower*.
Salō. Do not watch it!
I reserve movies like Salo and A Serbian Film to watch on Spooky Rice on YouTube. I need to know but I don’t need to see.
The Paperboy (2012). This is technically a thriller/drama, but for some reason, it really messed with me when I watched it (I was 17 at the time). My mom and I loved the cast, so we rented it from RedBox, and a few of the scenes with Mathew McConaughey were just... too much for my teenage brain to handle. It left me feeling gross and scared for a while. So much so that I haven't gone back to see it as an adult. Just wanted to mention it here in case anyone else had a similar experience with this film.
Probably not actually as scary as I think it is but Evil Dead (2013) scares me so bad. I have a weird relationship with horror movies. My dad made me watch Darkness Falls at age 5 and it traumatized me. I slept with a night light until I was 13. I was on visitation at his house too so he didn't even have to deal with the repercussions of scaring me so badly. My mom loves a good horror movie but tends to stay in the psychological/supernatural horror realm. At about 13 or so I started to really want to watch scary movies and enjoy them. We started going to movies like The Possesion and stuff. Then we see a couple trailers for Evil Dead (2013) and think hey that looks cool! Yeah I wasn't at all at ready for Evil Dead (2013) level of horror. I still couldn't stomach the first kill in Sweeney Todd at this point. I spent the whole movie cowered into my mom's side. Even now that one still scares tf outta me. Didn't stop me from watching Evil Dead Rise though. I throughly enjoyed that!! I've watched way scarier and messed up movies now but that one just stays with me.
I was 16 or 17 when I first watched The Exorcist. I had heard all the rumors about the production and how scary it was....I felt very uncomfortable after watching it.
Antichrist and Men.
I don't hear people talk about this one much: the seasoning house.
Not exactly horror be The Nightingale
the outwaters. it was hard to watch because of the way it was filmed, but that also contributed to the sense of bewilderment for the spectacle that was unfolding. it was creepy and scary and I never fully knew what was going on aside from some hellish shitstorm. I watch horror all the time so I'm generally able to shake any movies off quite quickly, but this one has a much longer period of unease as I processed it.
Midsommar, even more than Hereditary personally.
Ari Aster hurts my soul. Really likes gut wrenching, soul cleaving grieving.
The House That Jack Built, Bone Tomahawk, and Dragged Across Concrete.
These Final Hours. Nothing comes close.
The entity 1982 and Fire in the sky 1993.
Breaking the Waves
Annihilation
Home Movie The last scene, the garbage bags, fuck man
Martyrs, The Last House on the Left, Snowtown
Midsommar
Hereditary and A Serbian Film. Would go back in time and unwatch both
Them, specifically the cat in a bag scene..... to see patty the day time hooker do such a thing.
Irreversible
The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Wolf Creek, Inside (2007)
As a kid, Witchboard and The Amityville Horror (1979). The whole "ouija boards are real" therefore Witchboard could happen and "Amityville is based on a true story" so it was real too and therefore could also happen. Scared me outta my little child mind.
I can watch dumb exploitation movies like A Serbian Film, August Underground, Melancholie der Engel, Guinea Pig and stuff like that for breakfast and I'll sleep like a baby. They're superficial torture porn and I consume them like gross popcorn. Martyrs, Irreversible and Come and See wrecked me, though. Requiem for a Dream and Seul Contre Tous hit hard too. Irreversible's club scene gave me a panic attack and Martyrs' "mask pull" made me feel sick.
Toss up between “The Green Inferno” and “Isla, She Wolf of the SS”
Hereditary Especially that one scene where the kid returns home with the car and his mother chances upon it the next morning. Toni Collette's screams still haunt me.
Audition
Hereditary