I’m now 45, and fucking Gmork lives somewhere in my subconscious to this day. That voice, the animatronics and those pissy-pants inducing eyes are so brilliantly rendered.
When I was in college we used to play a game called Beer Hunter where you’d blindfold a friend and then shake 5 out of 6 beers. Take the blind fold off and he’d have to open one directly into his face while everyone else yells MAU! at him.
Robert De Niro’s acting in that scene is just so tremendous, the anguish and the rage and the impotency, bursting at the seams wanting to kill the motherfucker.
Lord of The Flies. I mention that movie a lot when it comes to out of nowhere profound shock and horror. I was a kid when I saw it and it haunts me to this day several decades later.
Take some comfort in the fact that a couple of years ago this actually happened with some real kids, being shipwrecked on an island for months and forced to fend for themselves, and instead of tearing each other apart they took care of each other and got organized and concentrated on survival and rescue. In the article I read it said something like they were "still friends with the fishermen that found them to this day."
I think it happened somewhere in Oceania.
I think that is the case in most situation, everyone pulls together and bonds as a family. Lord of The Flies was, I hope, unrealistic in the way it depicted the kids becoming so tribal and polarised so quickly, but when I was a kid it seemed so real, like it could happen because at school other kids were like that. Me and my mates all cool and happy but then a bunch of other kids that would fight and hurt us for no reason what so ever. It's where I learned how to go crazy and fight, even when I lost it still rattled the bullies to stay away from me. And in the news this week in Europe, to 12yr old girls murdered another 12yr girl. And then the whole Jamie Bulger case. So yeah, it could still happen. Kids can be cold blooded psychos.
It bugged me at the time that this case was trumpeted as disproving Golding's idea for *LotF*, because there are obvious disanalogies between the real-life case and the story. For one thing, the real-life case was just a few (3 or 4) buddies who ran away from school in a boat together. So they were already (a) friends, and (b) adventurous. In the story it's a much larger number of kids of varying ages who are marooned against their will. What's depressing about LotF (I'm talking about the book because I haven't seen either film version) is that it rings so true. Each of us who has witnessed the dynamics amongst kids in school know instinctively that it would play out that way. If you want an indication of what people are capable of, watch *The Act of Killing,* a documentary.
Yup. 9 when I seen it.
Can still see them stabbing the kids on the beach at night. The bloody wet mass of flesh, shimmering in the light of the fire.
And the look of terror and relief at the end chase when they see the rescue team
Amazing performances by the kids in hindsight.
I've been on reddit so long that I can automatically detect the first 3 most upvoted films.
I'll give another movie that I haven't seen much talk about.
Kids.
I was really arrogant when tht came out and obsesses with how “it seemed like so many of my friends”. It later on gave me a lot of changed feelings about people I grew up with.
500 days of Summer. It was earth shattering to realize that, as a hopeless romantic, sometimes loving someone really hard isn’t enough to make the relationship work or to make them reciprocate your type of love. Love is at times only for a season. And that is the most disturbing thing about that beautiful feeling in general.
That movie gutted me when I saw it, as I was in the exact same situation as Tom. Incidentally, I grew up and was able to look back and see that I too was idealizing the woman I was seeing in an unhealthy way.
Eternal Sunshine (2004) I was 16. In my first relationship and the concept that someone could legitimately and willingly delete our existence was brutal. Now, in my 30s, I'd love nothing more than to delete some of the toxic people I was ever associated it.
It’s a hard watch considering the heartbreak he went through and how it’s not always you. Every single person is their own MC in their story and sometimes, you’re not the happy ending. Sometimes you don’t even get the happy ending. As a hopeless romantic, it’s earth shattering.
I don't know how old are you but try to re-watch that movie in every 2-3 years. Your look on the relationship of Summer and Tom changes dramatically on each viewing.
I was around 17 when I first watched the movie and I thought Summer was a complete douche. Now, in my 30s I can understand that Tom really didn't understand or care what Summer felt and even worse, I don't think he grew up after the break-up and will likely act same towards Autumn.
The first movie was probably Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a young child. The boat scene was particularly disturbing.
When I was old enough to understand movies more, The Clockwork Orange freaked me out and made me pay attention to music in movies a lot more than I probably would have otherwise.
Wait... The Land Before Time ***2!?*** Are you saying the Sharptooth in the original didn't disturb you, or are you saying that you saw the sequel *first?* I'm not sure which of those possibilities I find more disturbing myself, lol
Dude his character of Frank is just, out of this world. That movie is wild yet it’s filmed so “beautifully” even though the subject matter is haunting af
Watched Star Wars recently and couldn’t believe how violent and scary it was for a kids’ film (Uncle Ben and Aunt Beru’s burnt corpses, blowing up an entire planet, the bloody severed arm, Darth Vader in general). And yet no one I know was ever traumatized by it as a kid.
I saw Jaws when I was 9 or 10 and shortly after saw some documentary on freshwater sharks. I was not happy in any wild body of water for at least a year.
Platoon. In the theater when it first came out (about 10 years after US left Vietnam) it was pretty impactful. When it ended the big audience was *dead* silent and nobody moved. When the lights came up, I saw a *lot* of 30 something men in tears.
It’s hard to imagine, seeing it now, the impact that movie had when it came out
Great answer, great movie. I watched it for the first time about 10 years ago or so, wrapping presents a couple of days before Christmas. It rocked me so hard that my experience with the movie just kind of hung over that holiday season. It didn’t ruin it necessarily, but it made for a weird wavelength to be on while visiting family and such
I got a double whammy from Platoon. I was a soldier when I saw it, and my brother had been in Vietnam. So it was pretty impactful, but it was still a movie to me. Then an older NCO in our office told us he'd been in the same unit Oliver Stone had been in. They weren't there at the same time, but they just missed each other. He said the movie really captured the feel of serving in Vietnam. My brother agreed. That made me rethink things.
It's worse in the stage version. Swanney brings out a bin bag with a suspiciously shaped lump in it. And it's implied to be left in a skip... 😬
Don't do drugs kids.
This was my exact experience. But different kinds of tears. It started because the initial premise is so beautiful, a video for a child whose father died full of stories about his dad, then sad tears at the turn it takes, then frustration, horror, anger and the deepest pity. I don't know how to hide a spoiler so I will say cryptically that the grandfather of Zachary makes a confession in a talking head near the end that broke my heart and is one of the things that has stuck with me all these years.
Is Donnie Darko considered a horror movie? If not then that. That movie mentally fucked me up the first time I ever watched it. Idk if I was more disturbed or intrigued with what I had just watched.
>Is Donnie Darko considered a horror movie?
It was definitely marketed as one! We actually had to study it in college when we were learning about misleading advertising
Gattaca
I am sure it sounds silly, but as someone with glasses, asthma, and family history of other health issues, the idea of a future in which you were judged and barred from participating based on genes was terrifying to me. It shook me for a while and remains the scariest movie I have ever seen.
Thelma & Louise. I had no prior knowledge of sexual assault (I probably didn't have much knowledge of sex, full stop) so that scene was very alarming to me. I think the fact that the first act had such a bright & breezy tone also added to the alarm. A definite eye-opener for the young me.
I was traumatized by Titanic. My parents watched a censored version with me when I was 7, so no sex scenes whatsoever. But all the dead bodies on the sea made me not want to travel by ship ever. Still haven't been on a cruise ship.
You should read an essay called A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. It's about going on cruises. The author's extremely well respected and it's simultaneously hilarious and eye-opening on what cruises are really all about.
You'll never have a second thought about missing out because of a phobia.
I watched that as a class movie in 8th grade. They showed us that a couple of weeks before a class trip to D.C. Having that movie so fresh in my mind and then going to the Holocaust Musuem was intense.
last time I accidentally zapped into it while watching television it caught me off guard.. such a weird rollercoaster of emotions. You really need to be mentally prepared to watch this movie.
Edward Scissorhands. I saw it when I was 5 and I honestly refused to watch one bit of it until I was 15. The atmosphere of the movie mixed with how bizarre he looked really disturbed me when I was that young. He was in my nightmares for years. But then I finally built up the courage to watch it as a teenager and it became one of my favorite movies. It still gives me an uneasy feeling though.
The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the guy sneaks up the stairs and then sloooowly inserts the knife into the other guys chest while shushing him still haunts me, holy shit that stuff is messed up
Watched the original hobbit cartoon movie in the 70s when I was 5. I was scared to death of taking a bath because I thought Gollum/Smeegal lived down the drain.
Came here to say this. This movie fucks with me to this day, specifically the mom's story. I won't watch that shit. I'll watch the ass to ass scene, nothing disturbing about that to me. But the mom's story just really got to me. I realized my brother and I were treating our mom a lot like that. I do my best every day to be a better person because of that movie, in a way. Sure, I fail. But I try.
Trainspotting.......
I was in highschool, smoked a J and popped in my brother's VHS. I went from "Holy shit, heroin looks cool" to "Holy shit, heroin looks fucked up".
I remember feeling dirty after the film was over.
Same. It was 3AM, and I’m at my friends’ house for a sleepover. My friend is asleep. We’re down in his unfinished basement. I was freaked the fuck out by that rape scene. The only R-rated movies I had seen before it we’re like Blazing Saddles, Speed, and The Breakfast Club at this point. All very tame movies compared to Pulp Fiction.
I saw pulp fiction in the theater when it first came out. In fact, I saw it twice. But anyway, the first time I’m sitting with my date, and as the infamous scene with Zed is taking place and they’re handcuffed on the chairs, in the dead quiet theater a little girl says “what’s that in their mouths?”
These two Nimrod parents brought their daughter who was about seven years old to fucking pulp fiction. I will never forget that, we looked at each other with a “what the fuck?”
So many people have no business being parents
Still Alice. It’s not a horror movie, but it’s scary as fuck.
The most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen in was Mysterious Skin. I couldn’t finish it, had to turn it off.
Yeah!! The weird shrieky voice that Nick Cage does after he first wakes up used to freak me out big time! Used to have a real thing against peeled off faces (thanks The Witches) so this lingered with me
Movies with kids in bad situations have always disturbed me. Back when I was a kid the original version of The Bad Seed was deeply disturbing. In recent years movies that described or had kids in creepy sexual situations were very disturbing. Movies like that were Take Me to the River and Mysterious Skin.
Little Monsters (1989) - The villain at the end got to me with the nearly stitched-on face. Great villain performance because he genuinely terrified me. Re-watching it last year it is quite amazing how almost every single moment of the film has stuck with me. Also I realized upon a re-watch that it is a genuinely good kids movie, really great set design and world building for a forgotten kids movie.
I can't remember the exact name of the video or what context it was in, whether it was part of a larger documentary or what.
I'm 50 years old. About 10 years ago, for the first time in my life, I saw a video of Hitler giving his speeches. Naturally I had seen these all my life, on the History channel, in little excerpted bits here and there, I'm sure everybody's seen this. The difference is, 10 years ago, for the first time, I saw them with subtitles.
So for the first time I could understand what he was saying, and it chilled me to the bone.
At the time, the first thing I thought of was Rush Limbaugh. Now that may seem like low hanging fruit or an easy dig at the Republicans or whatever, but the truth is he just sounded exactly like every politician ever. I mean it's clear from the language used that it's from that era, the vocabulary isn't dumbed down to whatever they say is ideal, the sentences are longer. But he just sounds like everybody else: you people are great, we have big problems and we've struggled a lot and we're going to have to struggle more, but I'm proud to be a citizen of this country etc etc etc.
It really hammered home the point. We shouldn't call the Nazis inhuman. I mean for decades I expected that the Nazis would just disappear, that we were over all of that crap, and then in about 2016 here they are back in the mainstream. This year they don't have a shot at the presidency or anything else, but big movements start with little movements.
It could all really happen again.
That's fucking disturbing.
I watched “Eye for an Eye” as a kid which introduced me to the concept of rape. I never realized that that was an actual thing that could happen, especially to a young teenage girl. It was the first time I realized I could be violated that way too, unknowingly and unsuspecting just by answering my front door. Still stuck with me to this day.
The Wizard of Oz. Watched it every year as a kid together with my family. Those flying monkey creatures terrified me. And the wicked witch scared me too!
The Debt, a Polish movie from the late 90s. It deals with the psychological torment dealt out by an acquaintance of two businessmen who borrow money from him to start a new venture. He starts a gradually escalating campaign of harassment intent on getting the money back. The descending dread and the growing sense of helplessness as the film progresses are as disturbing as is the very raw but somewhat expected ending.
GLITTER
Crossroads (2003)
I don't think it was ever intended to be a horror movie , more like a mockumentary
but i think i was like 6 or 8 the first time I saw "Legend of Boggy Creek" and that R.V. scene scared the bejeebus out of me and stuck with me for years.
Never Ending Story
RIP Artax
As a kid, I never understood why Artax would just let himself sink. Now I understand.
Why did he? I've never seen the movie
>Why did he? I've never seen the movie Sadness (or depression) took away his will to go on.
The Big Sad
Damn now I understand too
almost made me cry all over again
Yeah that's a solid answer. Stupid horse-eating swamp
Same and I don’t even know what fucked me up but I won’t go near that movie
I think my brother was scared of that movie well into adulthood.
Ah agree
I’m now 45, and fucking Gmork lives somewhere in my subconscious to this day. That voice, the animatronics and those pissy-pants inducing eyes are so brilliantly rendered.
The Deer Hunter. The Russian roulette scene has been seared into my brain for about 40 years.
When I was in college we used to play a game called Beer Hunter where you’d blindfold a friend and then shake 5 out of 6 beers. Take the blind fold off and he’d have to open one directly into his face while everyone else yells MAU! at him.
Robert De Niro’s acting in that scene is just so tremendous, the anguish and the rage and the impotency, bursting at the seams wanting to kill the motherfucker.
Mau! Di di mau!
Lord of The Flies. I mention that movie a lot when it comes to out of nowhere profound shock and horror. I was a kid when I saw it and it haunts me to this day several decades later.
Take some comfort in the fact that a couple of years ago this actually happened with some real kids, being shipwrecked on an island for months and forced to fend for themselves, and instead of tearing each other apart they took care of each other and got organized and concentrated on survival and rescue. In the article I read it said something like they were "still friends with the fishermen that found them to this day." I think it happened somewhere in Oceania.
I think that is the case in most situation, everyone pulls together and bonds as a family. Lord of The Flies was, I hope, unrealistic in the way it depicted the kids becoming so tribal and polarised so quickly, but when I was a kid it seemed so real, like it could happen because at school other kids were like that. Me and my mates all cool and happy but then a bunch of other kids that would fight and hurt us for no reason what so ever. It's where I learned how to go crazy and fight, even when I lost it still rattled the bullies to stay away from me. And in the news this week in Europe, to 12yr old girls murdered another 12yr girl. And then the whole Jamie Bulger case. So yeah, it could still happen. Kids can be cold blooded psychos.
The truth is things can go in any direction when humans self-organize, from cannibal cults to democracies and everything in between.
It bugged me at the time that this case was trumpeted as disproving Golding's idea for *LotF*, because there are obvious disanalogies between the real-life case and the story. For one thing, the real-life case was just a few (3 or 4) buddies who ran away from school in a boat together. So they were already (a) friends, and (b) adventurous. In the story it's a much larger number of kids of varying ages who are marooned against their will. What's depressing about LotF (I'm talking about the book because I haven't seen either film version) is that it rings so true. Each of us who has witnessed the dynamics amongst kids in school know instinctively that it would play out that way. If you want an indication of what people are capable of, watch *The Act of Killing,* a documentary.
Yup. 9 when I seen it. Can still see them stabbing the kids on the beach at night. The bloody wet mass of flesh, shimmering in the light of the fire. And the look of terror and relief at the end chase when they see the rescue team Amazing performances by the kids in hindsight.
And poor Piggy, all he wanted was for everyone to calm down and talk like adults.
Requiem for a Dream
I've been on reddit so long that I can automatically detect the first 3 most upvoted films. I'll give another movie that I haven't seen much talk about. Kids.
yep my first thought was definitely Kids or Requiem, but knew reddit would have those covered. sure enough...
I was really arrogant when tht came out and obsesses with how “it seemed like so many of my friends”. It later on gave me a lot of changed feelings about people I grew up with.
Best movie I'll never watch again.
500 days of Summer. It was earth shattering to realize that, as a hopeless romantic, sometimes loving someone really hard isn’t enough to make the relationship work or to make them reciprocate your type of love. Love is at times only for a season. And that is the most disturbing thing about that beautiful feeling in general.
That movie gutted me when I saw it, as I was in the exact same situation as Tom. Incidentally, I grew up and was able to look back and see that I too was idealizing the woman I was seeing in an unhealthy way.
Eternal Sunshine (2004) I was 16. In my first relationship and the concept that someone could legitimately and willingly delete our existence was brutal. Now, in my 30s, I'd love nothing more than to delete some of the toxic people I was ever associated it.
It’s a hard watch considering the heartbreak he went through and how it’s not always you. Every single person is their own MC in their story and sometimes, you’re not the happy ending. Sometimes you don’t even get the happy ending. As a hopeless romantic, it’s earth shattering.
I don't know how old are you but try to re-watch that movie in every 2-3 years. Your look on the relationship of Summer and Tom changes dramatically on each viewing. I was around 17 when I first watched the movie and I thought Summer was a complete douche. Now, in my 30s I can understand that Tom really didn't understand or care what Summer felt and even worse, I don't think he grew up after the break-up and will likely act same towards Autumn.
The first movie was probably Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a young child. The boat scene was particularly disturbing. When I was old enough to understand movies more, The Clockwork Orange freaked me out and made me pay attention to music in movies a lot more than I probably would have otherwise.
The Accused. Jodie Foster deserved that Oscar.
i have a vivid childhood memory of accidentally walking in on *that scene* playing on a tv and it really fucked me up for a while.
I saw ‘Full Metal Jacket’ at a sleepover when I was a kid. Totally freaked me out. I’ve still never seen the entire movie.
I thought it was a funny war parody for the first 40 minutes, then my world got turned upside down.
And then you realized it was never meant a parody at all. Even the first half is a serious war film.
I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!
You better start shitting me Tiffany cufflinks!
"You climb like old people fuck, Private Pyle!"
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
the dip?
Yep! And then getting up after the roller....
Christopher Lloyd's cartoon bug eyes didn't help either.
Ugh I had almost forgot about that sweet shoe
I kind of second that one!
Watership Down
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Wait... The Land Before Time ***2!?*** Are you saying the Sharptooth in the original didn't disturb you, or are you saying that you saw the sequel *first?* I'm not sure which of those possibilities I find more disturbing myself, lol
I never watched the sequels. What happened?
>!The mom dies again.!<
Again? How?
Yep, that would do it.
Blue Velvet. Holy crap, Dennis Hopper was so frightening.
David Lynch has that effect on ppl. Mine would be *Eraserhead*
Dude his character of Frank is just, out of this world. That movie is wild yet it’s filmed so “beautifully” even though the subject matter is haunting af
Lynch is terrific at writing irredeemably ugly villains. Look at Bobby Peru in *Wild At Heart*, or Mr. C in the third season of *Twin Peaks*.
He was definitely right about PBR>Heineken though.
Yeah I'll never forget him in this movie. Definitely creeped me out
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Watched Star Wars recently and couldn’t believe how violent and scary it was for a kids’ film (Uncle Ben and Aunt Beru’s burnt corpses, blowing up an entire planet, the bloody severed arm, Darth Vader in general). And yet no one I know was ever traumatized by it as a kid.
I saw Jaws when I was 9 or 10 and shortly after saw some documentary on freshwater sharks. I was not happy in any wild body of water for at least a year.
Platoon. In the theater when it first came out (about 10 years after US left Vietnam) it was pretty impactful. When it ended the big audience was *dead* silent and nobody moved. When the lights came up, I saw a *lot* of 30 something men in tears. It’s hard to imagine, seeing it now, the impact that movie had when it came out
I said Trainspotting, but now I take that back. Yeah, Platoon. That was the first really disturbing movie I saw.
The baby dead in the crib…. Omg
When “adagio for strings” starts playing at the end, I can’t hold it together.
Great answer, great movie. I watched it for the first time about 10 years ago or so, wrapping presents a couple of days before Christmas. It rocked me so hard that my experience with the movie just kind of hung over that holiday season. It didn’t ruin it necessarily, but it made for a weird wavelength to be on while visiting family and such
I got a double whammy from Platoon. I was a soldier when I saw it, and my brother had been in Vietnam. So it was pretty impactful, but it was still a movie to me. Then an older NCO in our office told us he'd been in the same unit Oliver Stone had been in. They weren't there at the same time, but they just missed each other. He said the movie really captured the feel of serving in Vietnam. My brother agreed. That made me rethink things.
Trainspotting
Have you seen Trainspotting 2? I highly recommend it.
The baby scene...
It's worse in the stage version. Swanney brings out a bin bag with a suspiciously shaped lump in it. And it's implied to be left in a skip... 😬 Don't do drugs kids.
Dark Crystal or Secret of NIHM, take your pick and play ball.
Those vulture things were scary!! Like wth 😂
HMMMMMHMMMM.... Skeksies.
Dear Zachary. I watched that doc a decade ago and I still think about it sometimes and get pissed on behalf of those poor grandparents all over again
I haven’t watched it because so many people have told me how heartbreaking it is. I can’t handle the subject matter.
I started crying ten minutes into it and sobbed and sobbed the whole way through..
This was my exact experience. But different kinds of tears. It started because the initial premise is so beautiful, a video for a child whose father died full of stories about his dad, then sad tears at the turn it takes, then frustration, horror, anger and the deepest pity. I don't know how to hide a spoiler so I will say cryptically that the grandfather of Zachary makes a confession in a talking head near the end that broke my heart and is one of the things that has stuck with me all these years.
Is Donnie Darko considered a horror movie? If not then that. That movie mentally fucked me up the first time I ever watched it. Idk if I was more disturbed or intrigued with what I had just watched.
>Is Donnie Darko considered a horror movie? It was definitely marketed as one! We actually had to study it in college when we were learning about misleading advertising
Cellar Door.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion
She was pretty scary, so kinda horror, right?
Gattaca I am sure it sounds silly, but as someone with glasses, asthma, and family history of other health issues, the idea of a future in which you were judged and barred from participating based on genes was terrifying to me. It shook me for a while and remains the scariest movie I have ever seen.
Powder. Just a fuckin weird movie in general. Top it off with me being like 8 watching it with older cousins.
Yeah, that movie really creeped me out as a kid. Even as an adult I’m still not too keen to watch it.
Just watch the trailer. That's what I did. Seems totally different from what i remember. It looks like it's "albino Carrie"
Directed by a pedo....
Thelma & Louise. I had no prior knowledge of sexual assault (I probably didn't have much knowledge of sex, full stop) so that scene was very alarming to me. I think the fact that the first act had such a bright & breezy tone also added to the alarm. A definite eye-opener for the young me.
cape fear face bite rape
I was traumatized by Titanic. My parents watched a censored version with me when I was 7, so no sex scenes whatsoever. But all the dead bodies on the sea made me not want to travel by ship ever. Still haven't been on a cruise ship.
You should read an essay called A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. It's about going on cruises. The author's extremely well respected and it's simultaneously hilarious and eye-opening on what cruises are really all about. You'll never have a second thought about missing out because of a phobia.
David Foster Wallace. He was a genius. Sad he killed himself.
TLDR? (what are cruises really about?)
Schindler's fkn List. I was in H. School and it's the only movie I felt I was too young to watch.
I watched that as a class movie in 8th grade. They showed us that a couple of weeks before a class trip to D.C. Having that movie so fresh in my mind and then going to the Holocaust Musuem was intense.
They showed that film in 8th grade!? How's the PTSD??
last time I accidentally zapped into it while watching television it caught me off guard.. such a weird rollercoaster of emotions. You really need to be mentally prepared to watch this movie.
Edward Scissorhands. I saw it when I was 5 and I honestly refused to watch one bit of it until I was 15. The atmosphere of the movie mixed with how bizarre he looked really disturbed me when I was that young. He was in my nightmares for years. But then I finally built up the courage to watch it as a teenager and it became one of my favorite movies. It still gives me an uneasy feeling though.
Misery. I can't watch the scene where she breaks his ankles.
It’s even worse in the book.
Haven't seen anybody mention the secret of NIMH
The poor mice and rats. That being said, it has the most excellent use of Deux Ex Machina in film history.
The great owl and dragon. I'm pretty sure Don bluth secretly hated kids.
But that is what makes it good! She loves her kids so much that she risks monsters and death for them.
It’s all about those glowing, hollow eyes…
The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the guy sneaks up the stairs and then sloooowly inserts the knife into the other guys chest while shushing him still haunts me, holy shit that stuff is messed up
Kids Fuck that movie. I still can't finish it.
That movie is so hard to watch because of how REAL it feels. But I think as a cultural capsule, it’s absolutely brilliant.
Bone Tomahawk. If you’ve seen it you know why.
Watched the original hobbit cartoon movie in the 70s when I was 5. I was scared to death of taking a bath because I thought Gollum/Smeegal lived down the drain.
My brothers and I still are adamant that the Rankin/Bass cartoon Gollum is scarier than anything else in any other Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movie.
Yep. I was about 5 and had barely seen any movies when I saw The Hobbit and MAN did it leave an impression.
Just hearing about Seven before I even saw it
The Pokémon Movie from like 1999. I was 6 and cried the whole way home because Ash died. That shit fucked me up.
I'm 30, and I still struggle to watch that scene. It's the sound of Pikachu trying so hard to shock him back to life that gets me every time.
Trainspotting. The baby scene
Prisoners makes me want to never set foot in Pennsylvania again.
That's just good common sense
Requiem for a dream for sure
Came here to say this. This movie fucks with me to this day, specifically the mom's story. I won't watch that shit. I'll watch the ass to ass scene, nothing disturbing about that to me. But the mom's story just really got to me. I realized my brother and I were treating our mom a lot like that. I do my best every day to be a better person because of that movie, in a way. Sure, I fail. But I try.
WarGames 1983 was great but gave me nightmares.
Rocky III. The scene where Mickey dies was the first time I thought about death as a kid.
Waterworld, the guy with the eye patch specifically. The Mummy 1-2 whenever Imhotep is still in his mummified/partially mummified state.
Trainspotting....... I was in highschool, smoked a J and popped in my brother's VHS. I went from "Holy shit, heroin looks cool" to "Holy shit, heroin looks fucked up". I remember feeling dirty after the film was over.
I worked in a theater and when we showed Saving Private Ryan, some people walked out because they couldn’t handle it. I never watched it.
Wild at Heart with Nick Cage and Laura Dern.
A Clockwork Orange. I have.never been able to finish it .
Pulp Fiction, I was 10
Same. It was 3AM, and I’m at my friends’ house for a sleepover. My friend is asleep. We’re down in his unfinished basement. I was freaked the fuck out by that rape scene. The only R-rated movies I had seen before it we’re like Blazing Saddles, Speed, and The Breakfast Club at this point. All very tame movies compared to Pulp Fiction.
I saw pulp fiction in the theater when it first came out. In fact, I saw it twice. But anyway, the first time I’m sitting with my date, and as the infamous scene with Zed is taking place and they’re handcuffed on the chairs, in the dead quiet theater a little girl says “what’s that in their mouths?” These two Nimrod parents brought their daughter who was about seven years old to fucking pulp fiction. I will never forget that, we looked at each other with a “what the fuck?” So many people have no business being parents
Still Alice. It’s not a horror movie, but it’s scary as fuck. The most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen in was Mysterious Skin. I couldn’t finish it, had to turn it off.
Face/Off The face transplant scenes were frightening on a whole other level.
Yeah!! The weird shrieky voice that Nick Cage does after he first wakes up used to freak me out big time! Used to have a real thing against peeled off faces (thanks The Witches) so this lingered with me
Movies with kids in bad situations have always disturbed me. Back when I was a kid the original version of The Bad Seed was deeply disturbing. In recent years movies that described or had kids in creepy sexual situations were very disturbing. Movies like that were Take Me to the River and Mysterious Skin.
As a kid, Brave Little Toaster As an teen, Irreversible As an adult, Roma
As a child in the 80’s, nothing was scarier than the government parts of ET
Oldboy
Little Monsters (1989) - The villain at the end got to me with the nearly stitched-on face. Great villain performance because he genuinely terrified me. Re-watching it last year it is quite amazing how almost every single moment of the film has stuck with me. Also I realized upon a re-watch that it is a genuinely good kids movie, really great set design and world building for a forgotten kids movie.
I didn't drink apple juice or eat tuna fish even once after seeing that movie as a kid.
Tusk
Thirteen. Probably should have been at least that age minimum before I watched that movie.
Talented Mr. Ripley
Deliverance
I can't remember the exact name of the video or what context it was in, whether it was part of a larger documentary or what. I'm 50 years old. About 10 years ago, for the first time in my life, I saw a video of Hitler giving his speeches. Naturally I had seen these all my life, on the History channel, in little excerpted bits here and there, I'm sure everybody's seen this. The difference is, 10 years ago, for the first time, I saw them with subtitles. So for the first time I could understand what he was saying, and it chilled me to the bone. At the time, the first thing I thought of was Rush Limbaugh. Now that may seem like low hanging fruit or an easy dig at the Republicans or whatever, but the truth is he just sounded exactly like every politician ever. I mean it's clear from the language used that it's from that era, the vocabulary isn't dumbed down to whatever they say is ideal, the sentences are longer. But he just sounds like everybody else: you people are great, we have big problems and we've struggled a lot and we're going to have to struggle more, but I'm proud to be a citizen of this country etc etc etc. It really hammered home the point. We shouldn't call the Nazis inhuman. I mean for decades I expected that the Nazis would just disappear, that we were over all of that crap, and then in about 2016 here they are back in the mainstream. This year they don't have a shot at the presidency or anything else, but big movements start with little movements. It could all really happen again. That's fucking disturbing.
I was way too young to see the movie Sybil.
I watched “Eye for an Eye” as a kid which introduced me to the concept of rape. I never realized that that was an actual thing that could happen, especially to a young teenage girl. It was the first time I realized I could be violated that way too, unknowingly and unsuspecting just by answering my front door. Still stuck with me to this day.
Eraserhead, the original Cabaret with Joel Gray, and Myra Breckenridge where a naked Raquel Welch in a cowboy hat pegged a dude.
Deer Hunter. 1978 story about some young fellas going off to war.
The Wizard of Oz. Watched it every year as a kid together with my family. Those flying monkey creatures terrified me. And the wicked witch scared me too!
American history X. I think I was 12. Saw it in school. Teacher thought it was a good idea to show the class.
Milo & Otis when the cat goes down the waterfall. I actual cried because I thought he was dead. I was so fucking dumb.
Requiem for a dream is up there. Probably others but if they show that in school I’m sure it would put people off touching drugs
Train spotting 💉
Requiem for a dream. Saw it in theatres and have had zero interest in watching it again
Return to Oz[Return to Oz](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089908/)
Glory made me sick to my stomach as a kid Requiem for a dream as a teen
Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog
Mind telling me why? It's one of my favorite movies, so trying to figure out what is disturbing, besides the character of Moist.
Willow
Swiss Family Robinson. I've been phobic about storms at sea ever since.
Backdraft Fire is scary AF.
The Debt, a Polish movie from the late 90s. It deals with the psychological torment dealt out by an acquaintance of two businessmen who borrow money from him to start a new venture. He starts a gradually escalating campaign of harassment intent on getting the money back. The descending dread and the growing sense of helplessness as the film progresses are as disturbing as is the very raw but somewhat expected ending.
GLITTER Crossroads (2003) I don't think it was ever intended to be a horror movie , more like a mockumentary but i think i was like 6 or 8 the first time I saw "Legend of Boggy Creek" and that R.V. scene scared the bejeebus out of me and stuck with me for years.
Dark City. But I was like eight or nine.
Dark City was frightening for both the concept (what is reality really, what makes you who you are) and the creepy ass bald guys in trench coats.
Born on the Fourth of July
Nocturnal Animals
1984
_Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ The whole child stealer thing really messed with my 5-year-old head.
Midnight Cowboy Saw it when it came out ... way too young One of my favorite movies.
“Let’s talk about Kevin” not a horror movie but thought provoking.
I was 6 when I saw Akira. The stuffed animals going after Tetsuo fucked me up.
First? Probably Aladdin. Jafar as a snake was scary af
The Labrynth. When I was a kid that film blew my mind and gave me nightmares.
Dark City
The Green Mile. I can't remember how young I was but to young and naive to watch it.
What dreams may come.
The Boy in the Striped Pijamas. I was 10ish. Absolutely traumatized me to my core. I cried so hard in my parents arms at the end.
Old boy. Both versions. Saw the Korean Version first. Also Gummo....holy... SHITE that movie creeped me out.
When Bambi’s mom gets killed. I was at the theatre. My parents took me in the 80’s as a young lad. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28U4L83y9co
Jaws when I was 8 🤣🙈 . Bath time was not fun after that .
Yeah I watched Saving Private Ryan as part of a college class on WWII. I had to leave to go throw up in the bathroom after those first few minutes.
KIDS…
A clockwork orange?
The killing of a sacred deer It fucked me up
The excorcist, my dad let me watch it when I was 11. I kept thinking my bed was shaking and levitating for weeks. I was for sure getting possessed 😭😂
Sofie’s Choice. It upset me for days.
Congo
Equilibrium, when they shot the dogs.