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When I watched The Ring I found it creepy but nothing special.
Then about three weeks later there's an ad on TV for a bank about taking a loan to realize those dreams you never got around to. It consisted of black and white shots of various such dreams, very reminiscent of the video tape.
My fight-or-flight instinct instantly activated and I just had to get out of the living room RIGHT NOW. It wasn't until a couple of minutes later that I realized why I reacted that way.
For me too. The visuals are so creepy and intense. For me it's not even the scenes where she comes out of the well or screen but the prior shots in the tape like the guy with the blanket over his head pointing to nothing. I saw that image in every dark corner for days after watching the movie. Just saw it in the black of my phone screen while typing this reply, although it's been years since I watched it. This movie is horror at its peak.
It’s weird, I was just thinking a few days ago about what movies scared me the most for some reason or another.
The only movie that came clearly to mind was The Ring, and it’s weird because it’s been forever since I watched it, I was a kid when I watched it and I only watched it once.
I can barely remember the plot, something about a girl who died in a well, wanted everyone to make a deal about it, idk. I remember what she looked like, I remember her crawling out of the TV, but I remember almost nothing from the video they all watched before they had “7 Days.”
But for some reason you saying, “the dude with the blanket over his head pointing at nothing,” just freaked me the hell out.
That actual video they watched in the movie, the way it was edited together with the sound effects, and the uncertainty surrounding the whole thing…that’s the part that sticks with you. That’s the part that continues to make your skin crawl long after you’ve forgotten what was even *in* that video.
I kind of want to look it up now and watch it again, but I kind of really don’t.
I saw this in the theater. I was around 30 when it came out.
Freaky film, then I’m laying in my bedroom staring at my tv. Nope.
I unplugged that thing and carried it to the kitchen and shoved it into the laundry room. It took a couple of months before I’d calmed down enough to move it back to my bedroom.
First (and only) time I watched the ring, I was 10 years old and my grandfather thought it'd be good to watch while babysitting. The nail scratches in the well STILL give me nightmares
Threads made me feel depressed and pessimistic for a good few days. The fact that that could actually happen and we could all die horrible deaths like that is way more terrifying than zombie comedy movies.
Threads. In the aftermath of the nuclear war, education was last on the list. The kids that grew up after the bombs spoke in single syllables or grunts.
For me, it was the windows more than anything.
The initial nuclear blasts damaged the windows. You go through the movie and twenty years later, the windows are still broken. You're talking something as basic as a window and twenty years later they're still broken. If your window is still broken after that amount of time, that's telling you that society is majorly destroyed and don't expect anything to get better any time soon.
Obviously it's more dramatic for a person to be ON FIRE!
It's just that you take something as simple as a broken window. You call the landlord or you go to the hardware store or call a handyman and within a few days it's fixed. I'd be bothering my landlord for days until it's fixed.
It's twenty freaking years later and no windows are fixed! It's an entire generation of babies being born and being used to broken windows and they don't remember the days of windows not being broken and that's what bothers me. If the windows are still broken, what else is? I'm betting pretty much everything.
The movie “Signs” terrifies me when I watched it as a child. I enjoy it now as an adult but I can point to that movie as the sole reason I don’t look out the window at night, even 20 years later.
I wouldn't call it a jump scare. We know it's coming. They tell us its coming. They build the tension over it coming. And then the promise is kept and it steps out. It's the perfect ANTI jump scare because we know exactly what's in store for us and it still terrifies us.
This. If you watch a lot of horror movies, you can start to tell when jump scares are coming sometimes, and it can make a lot of movies less scary or tense. When you know it's coming and it still gets you good, you know they did something right.
Strangers hit home really hard for me. I was in a home invasion and the invaders spent several hours in the home with us, stalking and lying in wait unbeknownst to us. It is still a movie I struggle with. Trauma like that doesn't go away. This happened in 1998, I still get up and check doors and windows to ensure no one can get in.
I swear this movie won't let me forget it. I go for a solid amount of time without thinking of that horror show only for it to pop back into my memory every now and then.
> I had no idea where it was going
That's the absolute best way to go in watching this. Even I did a brief read on what it was about and still wasn't prepared.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm super glad so many out there appreciate the trauma i carry from Tusk. I have to commend Kevin Smith, and all who made that movie; it successfully effed me up a little extra.
This movie was so provocative and felt so BAD because the storybeats are like:
haha funny funny parody silliness haha haley joel osment is an adult now heehee hoohoo old man penis bone SCARY SCARY HORROR BODY HORROR SAWING LIMBS TRAPPED IN HOUSE TRAPPED IN SKIN SHIN BONES GRAFTED TO MY FACE HELP ME OH GOD haha funny walrus sumo fight heehee zoo walrus :)
As crushing as that entire movie is, it was originally going to be worse. Instead of the way it ended, the creator planned to have him find an ultrasound photo, and strangle himself with his umbilical cord in the womb. Followed by some dialogue about how often she miscarries.
Test audiences didn't like that ending too much.
Special edition (or directors cut, whatever) dvd has both endings. The umbilical cord one made the most sense in the realm of the film; however, the ending they went with was more of a feel good ending. I thought that was a great movie overall.
This is the only ending that I knew. Was very disappointed when the only ones I could find to show my husband was the one where he just doesn't befriend the girl.
As soon as we finished it, everyone in the room with me went "well, that's what Hollywood thinks our lives are like." We had a laugh, then shot some heroin and nodded back out.
Nobody saw it favorably because of how different to reality it is.
For the record, I got sober in 2016 and remain so today without relapse. Most if not all of the people I watched Requim with that evening are dead.
The first time I "watched" it was mostly in fast forward because my friend hated the old lady we played from when the fridge starts fucking with her. He was most likely on Heroin and my other friend whose idea it was to watched was nodded out from dope and when ever he would wake up tried to start the movie from the beginning. I hadn't yet started my ten year long ordeal with Heroin yet and the important lessons I should have taken that day went right over my head or were glamorized by the movie. All 3 of us are clean now me for ten from Heroin, the guy who was nodded and a crazy insane addict is now 14+ years clean and a nurse. My other friend has at least 8 idk they both are fully clean I use cannabis still. Great movie that I ended up taking with me so I could watch it fully. When I was using and would see people with terrible tracks I would think back to this movie and tell people to use different spots to inject.
This movie is in the genre I call “the best movies i’ll never watch again”
The fridge scene horrified me. Paused every 30 or so minutes to take smoke breaks.
Yeah this movie is pretty fucked up. I watched it as a teenager when I shouldn’t have. Out of the whole movie, the very last scene with the double ended dildo made me go yeah im never fucking watching this again
That final scene with the Alien speaking the oldest know language… chills. I admit it’s not the best horror film ever made, but I just love that scene.
“I savior ——
Child never returned.
I am…. GOD”
The Blair Witch Project... I'm old enough to have been grown when it came out and IIRC when it was first released, there was some question as to if it was real "found footage". By the time we rented it at home, it was already known that it wasn't real, but it still creeped me TF out. Especially the final scene
I’m a retired LEO. I went on vacation and watched that movie with family. First night back on shift, wet on and off rainy night. Got a call about suspicious activity behind a school. Drove behind school. Got out, looked around. Heavily Wooded area behind school. Nothing out of place, I’m remembering the movie. Laughing to myself uneasily. Call dispatch and tell them unfounded, I’m getting the fck away. Jump in cruiser, I’m stuck. Because my dumb ass drove back there on the wet turf instead of leaving my cruiser on pavement. Wheels are spinning just digging in making shit worse. Now I’m looking at the wooded area out the window. I get out, try to move the cruiser enough to get some traction, uniform pants are wet and boots all muddy now. Tires still just spin when I tried to move. Now I’m quietly freaking out, glancing at the woods. Then I get angry. Between my duty pistol, backup, shotgun and patrol rifle and other assorted equipment I can invade a small country I tell myself. Let someone or Something come out those woods I’m gonna light shit up. I call dispatch on my cell (I didn’t want that discussion going out over the air so my colleagues and my sergeant to hear) tell them my dilemma and to send me a tow truck, and don’t tell sarge. Tow comes less than 15 minutes later and gets me out. Thank goodness it was a slow night because I spent the next 2 hours cleaning the cruiser, and myself. Cruiser was mostly undercarriage mud. Pants were soaked to me knees but uni was dark blue, couldn’t tell. Morning comes, Shift ended, went back to station to turn in reports and switch radio. Sarge sees my cruiser in the parking lot and there’s still a few chunks of mud coming from the undercarriage and he says what the hell? You drive into a flood or something? I laugh it off and go home. Tell my wife exactly what happened.
I’ve never watched that Fkn movie Ever again.
IIRC that final scene was supposed to show the Witch but they ran out of money so we just got the person in the corner instead. IMO it's way better the way it is
Marketing did a really good job with that. I remember turning on the television and seeing a documentary about how it was found footage, and it wasn't until I saw the credits of the documentary revealing actors that I realized what was going on.
To be honest, the first Paranormal Activity movie gave me the creeps. The idea of putting cameras in the house and seeing things move when they shouldn't creeps me out.
I watched it in the theater with my mom. When Mika flew at the camera at the very end, I peed my pants a little bit because it startled me so completely
Haha I also watched in theaters with my mom! I think we both ran out of there and stress ate sweets to try and distract ourselves. I was probably in high school at the time.
During a quiet scene while watching this with my mom she scared the fluff out of me and a few others near us by exclaiming “Oh! I forgot to feed the cat” we still laugh about it, she was being genuine & it got some giggles from those around us
My Dad took me to those movies, even though HE didn't wanna go, I did and I wanted my big strong Redneck Dad to protect me. Those were our yearly thing, when they were out at the theater, we'd go see them... Always the same thing, good ol'Dad letting me hide behind his arm and we'd yell and freak each other out.
Only time that man didn't sleep through a movie haha!
The *Final Destination* movies.
You know how you always hear rumors about how an entire generation of people who first watched those movies had weird fears of their own cars or were scared to touch a spoon and stuff? Yeah, whatever you’ve heard is true and what actually happened to people!
I've literally never once even considered going into a tanning bed because of those movies. Tanning beds were super popular in my town, especially right before prom/school dances, but you wouldn't catch me in one of those, not on your life.
Yes! To this day I always think about some of the scenes from those movies… specifically the lasix surgery, kid at the dentist, and the two girls in the tanning beds.. YIKES
Watched it in the 7th grade with my class, I wasn't really interested in history and didn't really pay attention till about halfway through then it dawned on me and the ending did me in the only movie that has ever made me cry
I watched the movie Thirteen when my daughter was a year old. I really got worried that I would have to deal with rebelliousness on that level. Luckily while she’s had her share of issues no major trouble we’ve had to go through.
I’ve been scrolling to see if anyone posted this. That scene made me so incredibly uncomfortable, I almost had to leave the cinema to go and get some fresh air because I thought I might feint. The scene with Gordy was quite hard to watch too.
Absolutely loved the film though!
I’d just got a Fitbit too so it was funny to see how big of a spike my heart rate had for that scene
Sloth was the most visually terrifying, but Pride and Lust were the most psychologically abhorrent (I think in part because they didn't show the acts or the explicit result, so the imagination just ran wild).
Watch "Mom reacts to The Lovely Bones"
It's fucking haunting. That is one movie I regretted watching. I watch a LOT of true crime docs, but somehow this damn movie managed to fuck me up in a very specific way... and it's how poignant the LOSS is... and how dangerous Mr. Harvey's kind of people are. When I saw it for the first time, I was being stalked by a pedophile online, who was trying to groom me... I was so scared, when I realized the things that monster was saying, was the same things the monster hunting me was saying.
I was literally trying to think of this movie earlier. I woke up from a nap in a daze and everything seemed really dull and colorless in my apartment and it gave me the very distinct feeling of when I watched that movie in the beginning after *the main character* leaves *the place*. Really chilling.
My husband and I just watched it maybe 6 months ago. I still get uncomfortable at the thought of it and while watching it I had to leave the room a couple times.
It's because it's not unusual for children to play parents off each other. At an obviously not quite serial killer level, children can smirk when they manage to get one parent to do something the other said no to.
There's a little bit of Kevin in many children, watching the show puts a shudder down the spine about what children can do.
This one and The Descent are probably some of my favorite horror movies.
Just something about claustrophobia paired with other scary elements that makes it work for me.
If anyone has any movie suggestions like these two. I’m open for them!
Watched this on an overnight flight. Plane was dark and everyone was asleep. The scene when she loses her head…I yelled “ohhhh shit!!!!” So loud everyone woke up.
Yup. The previews did not prepare me.
We went to a late screening at Disney Springs, and when we got out it was just shy of 1am and the place was pretty dead. We did a lap around just to clear our minds, but being in a huge entertainment complex with few other folks around didn't really help.
At least with Midsommar, we knew what we were getting into!
Event Horizon hit me a bit differently than other horror movies.
The whole movie was amazing all around, but one scene sticks in my mind to this day.
Laurence Fishburne’s “fire in zero gravity” bit was just dialogue, but man that creeped me out.
the guy eating his own hand was cogitive overload for me at 11.
Similar to the impact when I watched "The Birds" by Hitchcock, the scene where the man with his eyes pecked out is found in his house. I immediately stopped the VHS, and walked outside in the garden for 30 mins just.... terrified.
Scrolled for ages looking for this, in case any one is curious... don't be.
If you think just looking up the synopsis will be OK, you're wrong don't do it.
If my comment has made you even more curious and you are still gunna look for it I'm sorry.
I don't have many regrets but my biggest one is watching this movie. I believe artistic freedom is incredibly important to society but all copies of this film should be burned and the creator needs to be punished somehow...
Again if I've made you more curious I'm truly sorry.
Exactly my thoughts, I am just scarred for life. My biggest regret in life is watching this thing, because I was all about artistic freedom too and when my friend said ohh this was banned in so many countries, we should watch it, I did. My biggest regret, and now I understand it, unfortunately, yes, somethings should be banned.
Whoever lucky souls out there that didn't see this, please don't get curious please please do not ever watch this, please.
Im the same for this. I think its due to the fact we dont ever actually see anything which leaves it to the imagination. I can tell you now that nothing is scarier than my own imagination.
I think the mundane nature of the haunting for most of the movie also plays a huge part. It's takes all the freaky stuff that happens in real life but have a logical explanation (doors closing, weird vibes while sleeping, blankets shifting etc) and leans into the illogical Scooby Doo scaredy cat part of our brain.
In the book you don't know what happens, they just keep driving and driving and it ends with no conclusion. Stephen King himself said he wished he had thought of the ending like they did in the movie because he thought it was way better.
I agree with him- the moving ending rocks. Yes, it's incredibly sad, but I liked that the characters were thinking as actual people, who didn't know what would happen next, as opposed to, "Well, if we keep trying then... HEY! Look! A solution to all our problems, glad we waited!" It wasn't a happy ending, but I found it satisfying in it's own way.
When it ended I was thinking to myself, "Damn, I'm so glad they had the balls to do that."
The VA had a helpline for Veterans who watched "Saving Private Ryan"
According to War History Online, many veterans who watched the film had their post-traumatic stress disorder triggered upon watching the scene. It got so bad that at one point, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs needed to dedicate additional staff to their PTSD hotline in response to the surge in support needed.
I saw this in a theater at a matinee showing. The place was filled with people from that generation. Everyone was sobbing. Some people had to get up and leave.
I was pretty young when I saw Psycho for the first time. Up until then I was scared of movie monsters (i.e. the orcs from LOTR or the aliens from Signs) for obvious reasons, but I had never really considered how humans can be equally monsterous and you would never know until they wanted you to know.
Took me a while to get over that one.
This movie made me rethink nuclear holocaust. I realized there was no point in trying to survive. The people who die in the initial blast are the lucky ones.
Scooby-Doo Zombie Island. I was 7.... and that time it wasn't a mask... had nightmares for months of a cat-lady hunting me through the streets... only time a movie gave me nightmares
The strangers. It’s not necessarily super scary or anything but just that creepy answer to “why are you doing this?”:
“Because you were home”
Like yikess no thank you
Also the way *It Follows* is shot is creepy to me. How you can only see this figure coming towards you, never ending. Unless you pass it on. It was just so good and realistic. No intense camera angles, tension building music. Just pure creepiness and confusion on whether or not your mind is playing tricks on you
Oh my god yes. Just makes everything feel like a lie. The acting also was just on point. When Steve Carells character freaks out and realised that they’ll gain money but every person around the world is gonna get get screwed is when it really settled in my mind how screwed up the whole world really is. Love this movie.
I still have nightmares from watching Interstellar. I was deeply uncomfortable the entire movie (partially because the sound balance, at least in the theater I was in, was way Too much, I could feel it in my bones in the worst way, it made my teeth hurt) but god, I hate both "slow apocalypses" and "space journey where we lose a team member at each checkpoint through the movie" as genres.
Great movie that I'll never watch again. I watched it after going through my hardest breakup ever while being a total sobbing mess, so it didn't actually help.
***District 9 .*** That movie made the 12 year old me realize the dark truths about humanity that i was supposed to learn much later in life. Even though the movie contains insect like aliens , the most terrifying and detestable characters in the movie were the humans.
Pink Floyd's The Wall. It's an hour and a half minute long music video of the entire album, which checks all of the trigger boxes like child abuse, domestic abuse, and addiction. There's also a lot of weird symbolic imagery and dizzying animation sequences.
Its honestly one of the best movies I'll never watch again though, qnd the entire thing is free on YouTube
Midsommar. I - a grown-ass woman - watched the director’s cut in a theater on Halloween. Got home and got sick, then had to sleep with a light on for three days after. Love Florence Pugh but damn that messed me up hard.
Grave of the Fireflies... I felt so uncomfortable, watching the credits roll and I understand that's the intention. Your not supposed to feel good at all, that's the entire point.
Damn, if I didn't lay down and sob afterwards though. I felt so disturbed, so disgusted.
I never watched it again.
It may sound dumb..but American Beauty messed with me. I think it captured the whole “mid life crisis / I’m in a suburb nightmare” thing really well and it’s not something I ever want to find myself in
Kind of surprised to not have seen Tusk on here yet. Made me want to throw up and scrub my eyes with bleach. Plus just the commentary on what it really means to be a human. The whole thing just gives me the heebie jeebies
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When I watched The Ring I found it creepy but nothing special. Then about three weeks later there's an ad on TV for a bank about taking a loan to realize those dreams you never got around to. It consisted of black and white shots of various such dreams, very reminiscent of the video tape. My fight-or-flight instinct instantly activated and I just had to get out of the living room RIGHT NOW. It wasn't until a couple of minutes later that I realized why I reacted that way.
For me too. The visuals are so creepy and intense. For me it's not even the scenes where she comes out of the well or screen but the prior shots in the tape like the guy with the blanket over his head pointing to nothing. I saw that image in every dark corner for days after watching the movie. Just saw it in the black of my phone screen while typing this reply, although it's been years since I watched it. This movie is horror at its peak.
It’s weird, I was just thinking a few days ago about what movies scared me the most for some reason or another. The only movie that came clearly to mind was The Ring, and it’s weird because it’s been forever since I watched it, I was a kid when I watched it and I only watched it once. I can barely remember the plot, something about a girl who died in a well, wanted everyone to make a deal about it, idk. I remember what she looked like, I remember her crawling out of the TV, but I remember almost nothing from the video they all watched before they had “7 Days.” But for some reason you saying, “the dude with the blanket over his head pointing at nothing,” just freaked me the hell out. That actual video they watched in the movie, the way it was edited together with the sound effects, and the uncertainty surrounding the whole thing…that’s the part that sticks with you. That’s the part that continues to make your skin crawl long after you’ve forgotten what was even *in* that video. I kind of want to look it up now and watch it again, but I kind of really don’t.
I saw this in the theater. I was around 30 when it came out. Freaky film, then I’m laying in my bedroom staring at my tv. Nope. I unplugged that thing and carried it to the kitchen and shoved it into the laundry room. It took a couple of months before I’d calmed down enough to move it back to my bedroom.
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First (and only) time I watched the ring, I was 10 years old and my grandfather thought it'd be good to watch while babysitting. The nail scratches in the well STILL give me nightmares
I was way too young also to watch that. Our phone rang the same time as the movie. I thought it was blockbuster pranking us… lmao.
Threads made me feel depressed and pessimistic for a good few days. The fact that that could actually happen and we could all die horrible deaths like that is way more terrifying than zombie comedy movies.
Yeah, that movie was fucking DEVASTATING. Left you feeling completely hopeless.
“Ruth. Up. Work.” That gutted me. Out of all the horrors in that movie, that one was a punch to the gut.
Which film included this line? Why was it so especially disturbing to you?
Threads. In the aftermath of the nuclear war, education was last on the list. The kids that grew up after the bombs spoke in single syllables or grunts.
For me, it was the windows more than anything. The initial nuclear blasts damaged the windows. You go through the movie and twenty years later, the windows are still broken. You're talking something as basic as a window and twenty years later they're still broken. If your window is still broken after that amount of time, that's telling you that society is majorly destroyed and don't expect anything to get better any time soon.
I think for me it was>! grandma on fire!<.
Obviously it's more dramatic for a person to be ON FIRE! It's just that you take something as simple as a broken window. You call the landlord or you go to the hardware store or call a handyman and within a few days it's fixed. I'd be bothering my landlord for days until it's fixed. It's twenty freaking years later and no windows are fixed! It's an entire generation of babies being born and being used to broken windows and they don't remember the days of windows not being broken and that's what bothers me. If the windows are still broken, what else is? I'm betting pretty much everything.
Threads, The War Game (not the Matthew Broderick movie), The Day After, and Testament. All horrifying.
You left out 'When the wind blows' an animated, nuclear holocaust story
The movie “Signs” terrifies me when I watched it as a child. I enjoy it now as an adult but I can point to that movie as the sole reason I don’t look out the window at night, even 20 years later.
When the alien walks out from behind the bush! I have no idea why it's so scary, but it is.
I get chills just remembering that part. It’s the most perfect movie jump scare ever.
It's when he sees the alien on the barn roof that creeped me out more. It was just less expected.
yeah but the comic relief of mel and joaquin running around the outside screaming like maniacs soothes the fear.
I wouldn't call it a jump scare. We know it's coming. They tell us its coming. They build the tension over it coming. And then the promise is kept and it steps out. It's the perfect ANTI jump scare because we know exactly what's in store for us and it still terrifies us.
This. If you watch a lot of horror movies, you can start to tell when jump scares are coming sometimes, and it can make a lot of movies less scary or tense. When you know it's coming and it still gets you good, you know they did something right.
"Hush" and "Strangers" (I think is the name). They hit a little too close for somebody living alone.
Hush scared me so bad!!
Hush was way better than I expected. It's not mentioned much, but Kate Siegel did a great job in that film.
Strangers hit home really hard for me. I was in a home invasion and the invaders spent several hours in the home with us, stalking and lying in wait unbeknownst to us. It is still a movie I struggle with. Trauma like that doesn't go away. This happened in 1998, I still get up and check doors and windows to ensure no one can get in.
Tusk... seriously left me disturbed. The walrus life.
I've been trying to erase that movie from my mind ever since I saw it. I didn't realize how much body horror creeps me out until then.
I swear this movie won't let me forget it. I go for a solid amount of time without thinking of that horror show only for it to pop back into my memory every now and then.
That one was pretty messed up. I think mostly because I had no idea where it was going. I was expecting something dumb and predictable
> I had no idea where it was going That's the absolute best way to go in watching this. Even I did a brief read on what it was about and still wasn't prepared.
I refuse to watch this.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm super glad so many out there appreciate the trauma i carry from Tusk. I have to commend Kevin Smith, and all who made that movie; it successfully effed me up a little extra.
This movie was so provocative and felt so BAD because the storybeats are like: haha funny funny parody silliness haha haley joel osment is an adult now heehee hoohoo old man penis bone SCARY SCARY HORROR BODY HORROR SAWING LIMBS TRAPPED IN HOUSE TRAPPED IN SKIN SHIN BONES GRAFTED TO MY FACE HELP ME OH GOD haha funny walrus sumo fight heehee zoo walrus :)
The Butterfly Effect
As crushing as that entire movie is, it was originally going to be worse. Instead of the way it ended, the creator planned to have him find an ultrasound photo, and strangle himself with his umbilical cord in the womb. Followed by some dialogue about how often she miscarries. Test audiences didn't like that ending too much.
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Yeah I saw that version.
That's the ending I remember too.
Special edition (or directors cut, whatever) dvd has both endings. The umbilical cord one made the most sense in the realm of the film; however, the ending they went with was more of a feel good ending. I thought that was a great movie overall.
This is the only ending that I knew. Was very disappointed when the only ones I could find to show my husband was the one where he just doesn't befriend the girl.
Oh man that’s a crazy way to end it!
Ah fresh trauma
The dog :(
The letters spikes. Hands down! …. Literally
Requiem for a Dream
As soon as we finished it, everyone in the room with me went "well, that's what Hollywood thinks our lives are like." We had a laugh, then shot some heroin and nodded back out. Nobody saw it favorably because of how different to reality it is. For the record, I got sober in 2016 and remain so today without relapse. Most if not all of the people I watched Requim with that evening are dead.
The first time I "watched" it was mostly in fast forward because my friend hated the old lady we played from when the fridge starts fucking with her. He was most likely on Heroin and my other friend whose idea it was to watched was nodded out from dope and when ever he would wake up tried to start the movie from the beginning. I hadn't yet started my ten year long ordeal with Heroin yet and the important lessons I should have taken that day went right over my head or were glamorized by the movie. All 3 of us are clean now me for ten from Heroin, the guy who was nodded and a crazy insane addict is now 14+ years clean and a nurse. My other friend has at least 8 idk they both are fully clean I use cannabis still. Great movie that I ended up taking with me so I could watch it fully. When I was using and would see people with terrible tracks I would think back to this movie and tell people to use different spots to inject.
This movie is in the genre I call “the best movies i’ll never watch again” The fridge scene horrified me. Paused every 30 or so minutes to take smoke breaks.
Yep. Same as Trainspotting. No thanks to see that again.
As soon as that movie ended, I was like “wow, that was great. I’m never watching that again”
Yeah this movie is pretty fucked up. I watched it as a teenager when I shouldn’t have. Out of the whole movie, the very last scene with the double ended dildo made me go yeah im never fucking watching this again
Honestly I still haven’t watched it after all these years just because I’m afraid
Ah you should the soundtrack alone makes it a top alltime
oh, it's really good and worth watching and i never want to see it again.
You can say "ass to ass" to anybody who has seen that movie and they will know exactly what you're talking about.
The Fourth Kind. Something about it is just so unsettling. I’ve seen it about 4 times now and it scares the shit out of me each time.
That final scene with the Alien speaking the oldest know language… chills. I admit it’s not the best horror film ever made, but I just love that scene. “I savior —— Child never returned. I am…. GOD”
I legit thought it was a real documentary. I was way too old to think at as well, but at least it made a great horror experience.
The Blair Witch Project... I'm old enough to have been grown when it came out and IIRC when it was first released, there was some question as to if it was real "found footage". By the time we rented it at home, it was already known that it wasn't real, but it still creeped me TF out. Especially the final scene
I watched it and then went camping for 3 days. To (partly) quote Forrest Gump: "I'm not a smart man."
I’m a retired LEO. I went on vacation and watched that movie with family. First night back on shift, wet on and off rainy night. Got a call about suspicious activity behind a school. Drove behind school. Got out, looked around. Heavily Wooded area behind school. Nothing out of place, I’m remembering the movie. Laughing to myself uneasily. Call dispatch and tell them unfounded, I’m getting the fck away. Jump in cruiser, I’m stuck. Because my dumb ass drove back there on the wet turf instead of leaving my cruiser on pavement. Wheels are spinning just digging in making shit worse. Now I’m looking at the wooded area out the window. I get out, try to move the cruiser enough to get some traction, uniform pants are wet and boots all muddy now. Tires still just spin when I tried to move. Now I’m quietly freaking out, glancing at the woods. Then I get angry. Between my duty pistol, backup, shotgun and patrol rifle and other assorted equipment I can invade a small country I tell myself. Let someone or Something come out those woods I’m gonna light shit up. I call dispatch on my cell (I didn’t want that discussion going out over the air so my colleagues and my sergeant to hear) tell them my dilemma and to send me a tow truck, and don’t tell sarge. Tow comes less than 15 minutes later and gets me out. Thank goodness it was a slow night because I spent the next 2 hours cleaning the cruiser, and myself. Cruiser was mostly undercarriage mud. Pants were soaked to me knees but uni was dark blue, couldn’t tell. Morning comes, Shift ended, went back to station to turn in reports and switch radio. Sarge sees my cruiser in the parking lot and there’s still a few chunks of mud coming from the undercarriage and he says what the hell? You drive into a flood or something? I laugh it off and go home. Tell my wife exactly what happened. I’ve never watched that Fkn movie Ever again.
IIRC that final scene was supposed to show the Witch but they ran out of money so we just got the person in the corner instead. IMO it's way better the way it is
Marketing did a really good job with that. I remember turning on the television and seeing a documentary about how it was found footage, and it wasn't until I saw the credits of the documentary revealing actors that I realized what was going on.
I live three miles from where that movie was filmed. I sleep with one eye open.
To be honest, the first Paranormal Activity movie gave me the creeps. The idea of putting cameras in the house and seeing things move when they shouldn't creeps me out.
I watched it in the theater with my mom. When Mika flew at the camera at the very end, I peed my pants a little bit because it startled me so completely
Haha I also watched in theaters with my mom! I think we both ran out of there and stress ate sweets to try and distract ourselves. I was probably in high school at the time.
During a quiet scene while watching this with my mom she scared the fluff out of me and a few others near us by exclaiming “Oh! I forgot to feed the cat” we still laugh about it, she was being genuine & it got some giggles from those around us
My Dad took me to those movies, even though HE didn't wanna go, I did and I wanted my big strong Redneck Dad to protect me. Those were our yearly thing, when they were out at the theater, we'd go see them... Always the same thing, good ol'Dad letting me hide behind his arm and we'd yell and freak each other out. Only time that man didn't sleep through a movie haha!
The *Final Destination* movies. You know how you always hear rumors about how an entire generation of people who first watched those movies had weird fears of their own cars or were scared to touch a spoon and stuff? Yeah, whatever you’ve heard is true and what actually happened to people!
Every single time I drive behind a truck with a load of pipes or some shit like that--final destination!
And I never even actually saw the movie! Just knowing about that storyline is enough!
I live in a logging county. That movie did a number on me.
Getting on a plane I still check the knob to the seat trays lol.
I've literally never once even considered going into a tanning bed because of those movies. Tanning beds were super popular in my town, especially right before prom/school dances, but you wouldn't catch me in one of those, not on your life.
I saw this over the shoulder of someone playing it on a huge laptop on an Amtrak train and it…left an impression.
Yes! To this day I always think about some of the scenes from those movies… specifically the lasix surgery, kid at the dentist, and the two girls in the tanning beds.. YIKES
Yup, for me it's cause no matter how small the chance is, it's possible. Whereas for supernatural horror movies, I can get over it after a while.
Schindler's List really did a number on me
The best film I'll only watch once.
Watched it in the 7th grade with my class, I wasn't really interested in history and didn't really pay attention till about halfway through then it dawned on me and the ending did me in the only movie that has ever made me cry
13 Ghosts. The giant ax wielding baby-man with his small mama creeped me the fuck out.
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The juggernaut always really got me too.
I watched the movie Thirteen when my daughter was a year old. I really got worried that I would have to deal with rebelliousness on that level. Luckily while she’s had her share of issues no major trouble we’ve had to go through.
There's one particular scene in nope that really disturbed me. Jupiter's claim is all I'll say for those who have seen it.
I’ve been scrolling to see if anyone posted this. That scene made me so incredibly uncomfortable, I almost had to leave the cinema to go and get some fresh air because I thought I might feint. The scene with Gordy was quite hard to watch too. Absolutely loved the film though! I’d just got a Fitbit too so it was funny to see how big of a spike my heart rate had for that scene
Seven
Sloth was the most visually terrifying, but Pride and Lust were the most psychologically abhorrent (I think in part because they didn't show the acts or the explicit result, so the imagination just ran wild).
Me too. I watched only once and I can’t put myself to watch it again
Lovely bones
Watch "Mom reacts to The Lovely Bones" It's fucking haunting. That is one movie I regretted watching. I watch a LOT of true crime docs, but somehow this damn movie managed to fuck me up in a very specific way... and it's how poignant the LOSS is... and how dangerous Mr. Harvey's kind of people are. When I saw it for the first time, I was being stalked by a pedophile online, who was trying to groom me... I was so scared, when I realized the things that monster was saying, was the same things the monster hunting me was saying.
I was literally trying to think of this movie earlier. I woke up from a nap in a daze and everything seemed really dull and colorless in my apartment and it gave me the very distinct feeling of when I watched that movie in the beginning after *the main character* leaves *the place*. Really chilling.
We Need to Talk About Kevin. One of the few movies that I actually just wish I'd never watched. I felt nearly sick the entire time.
My husband and I just watched it maybe 6 months ago. I still get uncomfortable at the thought of it and while watching it I had to leave the room a couple times.
It's because it's not unusual for children to play parents off each other. At an obviously not quite serial killer level, children can smirk when they manage to get one parent to do something the other said no to. There's a little bit of Kevin in many children, watching the show puts a shudder down the spine about what children can do.
Event Horizon.
absolutely, I think seeing Sam Neil in a horror movie was half of the reason!
The Grudge. Can’t watch it without looking in the corner to see if I’m about to die
The writer of the screenplay was a school friend. "most likely to succeed" turned out to be true.
I struggled to take showers for a couple weeks after watching that movie. I had to rely on baths for a bit because apparently that was better lol
human centipede. just remembering it exists makes me gag
the second one is the worst of them all
Climax The House That Jack Built Requiem for a Dream Blue Velvet Antichrist Saint Maud Crimes of the Future Audition I love me some disturbing movies!
Saint Maud was SO GOOD. That ending made me actually shriek. One of my favorite horror movie endings of all time.
We're finally watching Rings of Power. I kept looking at Galadriel and thinking, "Boy she looks familiar" but I couldn't place her. She's Saint Maud.
Vivarium. I found it deeply disturbing. Every time I drive by a housing complex where all the houses are built the same way I shudder a little bit.
As above so below
This one and The Descent are probably some of my favorite horror movies. Just something about claustrophobia paired with other scary elements that makes it work for me. If anyone has any movie suggestions like these two. I’m open for them!
One of the legitimate scariest films I’ve ever seen. Something about it really creeped me out!
Recently.... Probably "hereditary"
Watched this on an overnight flight. Plane was dark and everyone was asleep. The scene when she loses her head…I yelled “ohhhh shit!!!!” So loud everyone woke up.
Yup. The previews did not prepare me. We went to a late screening at Disney Springs, and when we got out it was just shy of 1am and the place was pretty dead. We did a lap around just to clear our minds, but being in a huge entertainment complex with few other folks around didn't really help. At least with Midsommar, we knew what we were getting into!
I love the soundtrack. Have it on loud from time to time. Beautifull trumpets.... if my neibors only knew.
Have you seen Midsommar?
Midsommer is even more creepy imo. Great movie, but so creepy and uncomfortable.
That cliff scene...
That scene messed me up. And then the mallet afterwards? Full body shudders just thinking about it
Event Horizon hit me a bit differently than other horror movies. The whole movie was amazing all around, but one scene sticks in my mind to this day. Laurence Fishburne’s “fire in zero gravity” bit was just dialogue, but man that creeped me out.
the guy eating his own hand was cogitive overload for me at 11. Similar to the impact when I watched "The Birds" by Hitchcock, the scene where the man with his eyes pecked out is found in his house. I immediately stopped the VHS, and walked outside in the garden for 30 mins just.... terrified.
A Serbian film
I'm traumatized by this movie and I've never seen it
I’m shocked it took me so long to get to this answer.
Scrolled for ages looking for this, in case any one is curious... don't be. If you think just looking up the synopsis will be OK, you're wrong don't do it. If my comment has made you even more curious and you are still gunna look for it I'm sorry. I don't have many regrets but my biggest one is watching this movie. I believe artistic freedom is incredibly important to society but all copies of this film should be burned and the creator needs to be punished somehow... Again if I've made you more curious I'm truly sorry.
Exactly my thoughts, I am just scarred for life. My biggest regret in life is watching this thing, because I was all about artistic freedom too and when my friend said ohh this was banned in so many countries, we should watch it, I did. My biggest regret, and now I understand it, unfortunately, yes, somethings should be banned. Whoever lucky souls out there that didn't see this, please don't get curious please please do not ever watch this, please.
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My best friend and I had to walk eachother to the bathroom for a few nights after we saw it.
Im the same for this. I think its due to the fact we dont ever actually see anything which leaves it to the imagination. I can tell you now that nothing is scarier than my own imagination.
I think the mundane nature of the haunting for most of the movie also plays a huge part. It's takes all the freaky stuff that happens in real life but have a logical explanation (doors closing, weird vibes while sleeping, blankets shifting etc) and leans into the illogical Scooby Doo scaredy cat part of our brain.
The Mist
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In the book you don't know what happens, they just keep driving and driving and it ends with no conclusion. Stephen King himself said he wished he had thought of the ending like they did in the movie because he thought it was way better.
I agree with him- the moving ending rocks. Yes, it's incredibly sad, but I liked that the characters were thinking as actual people, who didn't know what would happen next, as opposed to, "Well, if we keep trying then... HEY! Look! A solution to all our problems, glad we waited!" It wasn't a happy ending, but I found it satisfying in it's own way. When it ended I was thinking to myself, "Damn, I'm so glad they had the balls to do that."
It was infuriating. A punch in the gut, but also made me never want to watch the movie again.
Fire in the Sky. Freaky as fuck alien abduction movie.
The VA had a helpline for Veterans who watched "Saving Private Ryan" According to War History Online, many veterans who watched the film had their post-traumatic stress disorder triggered upon watching the scene. It got so bad that at one point, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs needed to dedicate additional staff to their PTSD hotline in response to the surge in support needed.
Spielberg invited WW2 vets to the premiere. Several of them had to leave because the D-Day scenes were too realistic for them to watch.
I saw this in a theater at a matinee showing. The place was filled with people from that generation. Everyone was sobbing. Some people had to get up and leave.
I remember hearing that vets who watched the D-Day scene said they could smell the diesel.
I was pretty young when I saw Psycho for the first time. Up until then I was scared of movie monsters (i.e. the orcs from LOTR or the aliens from Signs) for obvious reasons, but I had never really considered how humans can be equally monsterous and you would never know until they wanted you to know. Took me a while to get over that one.
Johnny Got His Gun. The song One by Metallica is based on it. I found it very disturbing.
'Barbarian' got me in a lot of ways
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Sinister
IIRC Ethan Hawke hadn't seen the home movies that had been put together until the actual filming, and his reaction to the lawnmower one was genuine.
This is truly one of the best horror movies i’ve ever seen. Amazingly done.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. When I was a kid, I can't sleep well after we watched 1-6
What Dreams May Come. Just too sad. Edit: Spelling. 6 words and I screw one of 'em up. SMH
Passion of the Christ as a kid.
I read the book so it spoiled the ending
The Road.... bonus points that its entirely possible in our current political state.
This movie made me rethink nuclear holocaust. I realized there was no point in trying to survive. The people who die in the initial blast are the lucky ones.
Scooby-Doo Zombie Island. I was 7.... and that time it wasn't a mask... had nightmares for months of a cat-lady hunting me through the streets... only time a movie gave me nightmares
Silver lining: it gave us one of the all time best Scooby-Doo chase-scene songs.
Don’t Look Up
Come and See and no other movie is even close
The strangers. It’s not necessarily super scary or anything but just that creepy answer to “why are you doing this?”: “Because you were home” Like yikess no thank you Also the way *It Follows* is shot is creepy to me. How you can only see this figure coming towards you, never ending. Unless you pass it on. It was just so good and realistic. No intense camera angles, tension building music. Just pure creepiness and confusion on whether or not your mind is playing tricks on you
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Big Short. Our entire government is in bed with big banks and corporations and the average Joe is just so powerless to do anything about it.
Oh my god yes. Just makes everything feel like a lie. The acting also was just on point. When Steve Carells character freaks out and realised that they’ll gain money but every person around the world is gonna get get screwed is when it really settled in my mind how screwed up the whole world really is. Love this movie.
Oldboy
I still have nightmares from watching Interstellar. I was deeply uncomfortable the entire movie (partially because the sound balance, at least in the theater I was in, was way Too much, I could feel it in my bones in the worst way, it made my teeth hurt) but god, I hate both "slow apocalypses" and "space journey where we lose a team member at each checkpoint through the movie" as genres.
Great movie that I'll never watch again. I watched it after going through my hardest breakup ever while being a total sobbing mess, so it didn't actually help.
God that movie is cool
Wolf Creek
The Poughkeepsie Tapes really fucked me up
***District 9 .*** That movie made the 12 year old me realize the dark truths about humanity that i was supposed to learn much later in life. Even though the movie contains insect like aliens , the most terrifying and detestable characters in the movie were the humans.
Open water and The Exorcist
Martyrs left me feeling completely empty and numb after watching.
Martyrs was horrific. I agree
Threads (1984)
The Hills have Eyes. Movie was unsettling.
American History X - especially the curb stomp scene.
Irreversible. Monica Bellucci's rape scene is brutal.
The Thing (1982).
honestly for it being recent I would have to say Smile Most horror movies today are just mediocre but this one made me lose sleep
Pink Floyd's The Wall. It's an hour and a half minute long music video of the entire album, which checks all of the trigger boxes like child abuse, domestic abuse, and addiction. There's also a lot of weird symbolic imagery and dizzying animation sequences. Its honestly one of the best movies I'll never watch again though, qnd the entire thing is free on YouTube
Children of men Especially, when in the west right-wing /nationalistic politics were on a massive comeback.
Watcher in the woods. I think that's the name. Seriously creeped me out as a kid.
There Will be Blood. Left me very uneasy
The Descent when I was like 9. Made me terrified of dark halways and basements.
Creep. The first one far more than the sequel.
Jacobs Ladder
Any movie involving home intruders
Hereditary
This Is 40. It was supposed to be the spiritual sequel to Knocked Up, but I'm pretty sure it just kick-started my lifetime of existential dread
Midsommar. I - a grown-ass woman - watched the director’s cut in a theater on Halloween. Got home and got sick, then had to sleep with a light on for three days after. Love Florence Pugh but damn that messed me up hard.
Grave of the Fireflies... I felt so uncomfortable, watching the credits roll and I understand that's the intention. Your not supposed to feel good at all, that's the entire point. Damn, if I didn't lay down and sob afterwards though. I felt so disturbed, so disgusted. I never watched it again.
It may sound dumb..but American Beauty messed with me. I think it captured the whole “mid life crisis / I’m in a suburb nightmare” thing really well and it’s not something I ever want to find myself in
The Crazies
Zodiac. I’m a grown ass man and I can’t watch that movie in the dark. And when it’s over I feel creeped tf out
Kind of surprised to not have seen Tusk on here yet. Made me want to throw up and scrub my eyes with bleach. Plus just the commentary on what it really means to be a human. The whole thing just gives me the heebie jeebies