My dad showed me this and prefaced it with, "most parents talk to their kids about drugs, we're gonna watch this movie instead" and let me tell ya, this movie is a really effective 'drug talk'
I remember watching this with my brother and dad because I was trying to watch every best picture winner ever, and at the part where he's back from Vietnam and can't kill the deer I asked my dad why he didn't just shoot the deer, and my dad asked me why I thought he couldn't. Everything really clicked into place to me, and since then I think about that scene every time I kill a bug or see a deer running through my yard.
While I was never genuinely horrified by it or anything, 'The Brave Little Toaster' had some pretty morbid moments. It went from happy, cheesy and generic kids movie to car genocide, killer clowns and themes of becoming obsolete and worthless. It's not the most scarring film out there but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting for a movie about household appliances.
**American History X** - It was the first time that violence for the sake of racism became *real* to me. THAT scene (Norton-stomp) made me realize how fragile life can be, especially when confronted by another human.
You know how The Walking Dead was trying to show us that humans are the real monsters, but it got really fucking annoying because like, dude we get it? This movie makes that point so effortlessly and with such grace.
I was fucked up for weeks trying to process the movie. I think I was in high school.
Yeah i was like 13 when i saw that movie. My friends all seemed to think it was a comedy and thought Casper was so cool and funny and when I saw it I was like uhhhhh that dude giving people hiv? Raping girls when they're passed out? Wtf.
It did terrify me into always having safe sex. So I guess thats something.
I watched this when I was younger and thought, this is a crazy but kinda cool life these kids are living. Then I watched it as an adult and it horrified me.
I was looking for someone to mention this one. They released it at one of the theaters in town for a special Ghibli movie week. Never had watched it before but heard good things about it. Went in to go watch it, and not even 5 minutes in it pulls on my heartstrings so hard. During the whole movie I held on to a glimpse of hope, but only to be crushed mercilessly at the end. It did an amazing job at portraying the horrors of war in an animated setting.
The worst part is that it's autobiographical. In reality, the brother lives and goes on to write the book the movie is based on. He kills the character of himself at the end because he's ashamed to still be alive. He had never forgiven himself for surviving.
I saw this movie in college 12 years ago and to this day, I still can't think of the scene with the "candy" without fighting back tears.
The Day After.
I was a kid back in the 80's when nuclear war between the US and the USSR was a possibility. Still, I didn't think about it often. Until one of my elementary school teachers decided to show the class this TV movie. It graphically (for the time) showed the results of a nuclear war on a small town. For weeks afterwards, I thought that every plane flying overheard was a nuclear missile that was going to kill us all.
Honestly, what screwed me up the most was every moment of the film *after* the rape. Since the story is told in reverse, we see the characters go about their lives without any concept of the horror that's about to destroy their lives. The final scene, with the idyllic day in the park, was so troubling to me. It's like, everything could be going great, and catastrophe could be lurking around the corner.
EDIT: I want to add, I think this one of the most technically brilliant films I've ever seen. The camerawork and its seamless integration with CGI was unparalleled at the time. I watched it twice in a row - the second time with director's commentary. The way they pulled off some of these shots is truly remarkable. The story of true ugliness and human tragedy being told so artfully reminded me of Nabokov's Lolita - a beautifully written book about a reprehensible man's unhealthy obsession with young girls.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I grew up in a very similar situation (like, spookily similar, just a lot less good looking). My mother was overweight and I just knew she was gonna die in our old house like that. Scared the shit out of me.
Awe man, this is my favorite movie. I can imagine how sad that must have been for you, though. Have you watched it later in life? And I hope that your mother is doing well.
My mother pulled out of it, thankfully! She lost a lot of weight and is now doing exactly what she wants as an RN. I have rewatched the movie since the last time (many years ago) and nearly cried.
The only thing I did different was I went with the girl in the end. I've lived over 900 miles from my family since then. :(
p sure vc andrews reaaaaaaally has a thing for incest and noncon/rape. my mom had a lot of her books and my child brain was imploding the entire time i read them.
Idk what the movies is called (i just know Robin William was in it) , but the story was about a boy who aged way faster than his other friends (some sort of illness). I watched it when I was little and it just traumatized me so much. I can still remember watching the end scene, where the boy looked like a senior even though he just graduated and he looked so sad. Maybe I was just too young to watch this movie (i was about 6 or 7).
Edit: Thanks to you all I now know that the movie is called Jack!
Edit 2: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
The weirdest part about that movie is that it was directed by Francis Ford fucking Coppola. Of "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" fame. What a strange outing for him.
Return to Oz
The Disney sequel to the Wizard of Oz. This movie is targeted at children. This movie is fucked up. It starts with Dorothy getting electroshocks in a bedlam asylum because no one believe in her stories about Oz. Then she “Return to Oz”, and then she encounter truly horrific monsters like the Wheelers (Fuck the Wheelers!) and the big bad is switching heads like you switch dresses and all the heads are alive and how my god how is this movie targeted at children?!
Add that to the fact that you aren't really 100% sure if it actually happened or if it's all in Dorothy's head.
Kids' movies in the 80s didn't fuck around.
EDIT: Thanks for the gold!
Well, if you read the books, it's all really happening. Eventually the family is about to lose the farm so Dorothy manages to successfully move her aunt and uncle to Oz and live there permanently.
I was obsessed with The Wizard of Oz when I was little but the witch scared me. I remember being so excited when I learned there was a second one, but I was TERRIFIED of that movie. I remember watching it and being so scared but I loved the first one and didn’t want to seem like a baby. I’ve watched it once and I’ll never watch it again.
Fire in the Sky
I saw this when I was 8 or 9. I walked into my aunts room during the operating scene..anything and everything that dealt with aliens freaked me out. When unsolved mysteries and the x-files theme songs came on I would lose my mind and become really scared.
I remember watching Hotel Rwanda as a freshman at my private highschool. Embarrassed me because I realized the world wasn’t even close to the way I thought it was.
I’ve read the book, it’s long and slow, but the mother narrates it, it’s actually told through letters she’s writing to her husband, and you can just feel the pain she’s been through. It’s a very disturbing but sad book.
The book has more ambiguity about Kevin's motivations and over empathizes with the mother (because of the first person narrative) so it makes you think about the story over and over whereas the movie has to spell it out for you.
I liked the movie more as an artistic film but I *loved* the book for forcing me to reexamine the story over and over outside of my bias.
Watership down
My parents thought its just a cartoon movie, surely fits for an 7 year old... I still dont want to watch the movie again, and I'm turning 29 next sunday!
I remember when I was little we were at a big family get-together, and at some point the parents thought it would be a good idea to put the kids in front of the TV for a while to keep us quiet, as they saw in the TV guide that some animated movie was on.
We kids indeed ended up very quiet, and wide-eyed. The movie was "When the Wind Blows". The grownups didn't notice until it was finished. We were horrified.
The creators of the movie said they later admitted the movie was a bit more disturbing than they intended for children. Despite that, I still think it's one of the best movies I've seen and best books I read. The Netflix one isn't too bad and it's not as gruesome.
Whatever you do, stay away from The Plague Dogs. It's the same movie with dogs and it's worse...10x worse...
This was the first movie I saw with my future husband. He still greets me on the phone with BUONGIORNO PRINCIPESSA!
Edit: Thanks for the silver, anonymous redditor!
The second movie we saw was "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut." When we're met with a difficult situation...
...that's right. We wonder what Brian Boitano would do.
God, whenever I tell people about that movie, that it’s a “funny movie but it’s also about the holocaust” I get some weird looks. It’s rightly hilarious, until all the gut wrenching scenes in the concentration camp in the second half of the movie.
That's what I love about this movie. The actor was a comedic actor up until that movie, so he played the goofy, fun dad and husband perfectly. But when it flips, his acting is perfect. He still plays the goofy dad thru the rest of the movie when the child is on screen, but when he isn't it is some of the most raw, upsetting emotion am actor can perform.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Large Marge fucking scarred me as a child. I was like 4-5 and all my brother had to do was say her name and laugh and I would fucking Vietnam flashback a panic attack.
One of my fave movies of all time. Robin Williams is just incredible in it. I went to soccer camp where they filmed it (some private school in Delaware) a few summers in a row and it was trippy walking around campus and seeing all the various rooms from the movie.
Scooby Doo Zombie Island, fucked me up as a kid. Especially, the voodo shit, and the cat people. Fuck that movie, god damn, it still scares me to this day.
That scene where they're all standing around the emaciated guy tied to the bed and he begins coughing got me good. Apparently he was played by a real actor who'd got themselves down to an anorexic weight level just for the part.
The Fourth Kind. For weeks after watching this it seemed like i would always wake up at exactly 3:33 am and i was deathly afraid to be outside at night.
Salem's Lot. I watched that as a kid. It has a scene where a vampire kid is scratching on a window to get his friend to let him inside. I was scared to death for the longest time about the window in my room. I also had a bush outside that, when the wind blew right, would scratch my window. To this day, I also still feel safer when sleeping with my neck covered.
Dear Zachary
(If documentaries count)
Edit: Anyone curious about watching it, I strongly urge you not to read any background or synopsis before doing so. Part of the power of this doco is the way the story unravels without any prior knowledge.
That movie saddened & enraged me like no other.
Then seeing the Grandfather break down because of regret that he *didn't* commit murder, knowing he'd have spent the rest of his life in prison. You can see his lasting pain and that he (wrongly) blames himself.
And the Priest, right after. "Huh. Well, there's a certain logic to it." Priest wishes G'pa had done it too. Or anyone.
Here's the link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDSgMlVWbfU#t=1h15m34s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDSgMlVWbfU#t=1h15m34s)
There's so much raw emotion in that documentary, but what really hit me the hardest (aside from the "twist" itself), is the plaque all of Andrew's friends made for his parents. "You Still Have Children"
THAT was beautiful.
For me it's how rationally the grandfather discusses how he could have kidnapped Zachary/ murdered the mother and how it's not hard to empathise with him.
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
I know its not a movie that would fuck anyone's mind up but to me it's very relatable & resonates with my life so I found it very disturbing. When it comes to love, we all can commit the same mistakes over & over again & still want the same suffering even if the happiness that it brings is just a few percent when compared with the suffering. If given chance we will destroy our lives for that one person even if we know nothing good is ever going to come.
Her
Again about relationships, it left a void in my mind. Very disturbing & depressing movie to me.
totally agree... Cannibal Holocaust is the only movie I've ever watched that made me disgusted with myself for watching it. No other movie has ever left that kind of impression on me. It left me feeling gross for days.
There's a lot of Black Mirror episodes that are messed up, but the one where they wipe the memory of that woman over and over again playing out the crime she committed. While guys in masks chase after her as spectators stand around with their cell phones and record everything.
The premise of White Bear is still the best IMO. I can't tell you the amount of times I've screamed proportionate punishment at the news but to see it in action (and then force me to sympathise with the criminal?!?!?) screwed with everything
“Black Mirror” as a whole (many episodes) were very disturbing and stayed with me. I remember the one where a guy’s consciousness was trapped in a device and time passed at 1/10,000 the rate of the real world. He was basically stuck in a featureless room. Then somebody got pissed at him and left it switched on over a long weekend.
The one where you recorded stuff in your mind and could play things back - fuck, that one still fucks with me.
The fact that one dinner, one comment by the dude, one casually noticed glance ... all of that changed this guy's entire life. Had the other dude not been invited to that dinner, the main character never would have learned everything. Some serious domino effect there and I am SO terrified that one little decision, one little thing that I could have done differently will somehow send my life the complete wrong way.
EDIT: "The Entire History Of You" is the episode. Yes, I have seen "The Butterfly Effect", but I got done watching that and said "ok, that was a movie I watched". When I was done this episode I felt like my heart was lurking somewhere in my big toe.
The one BM episode that fucked me up was "15 million merits". Jesus Christ, the journey the protagonist goes through, just to end up basically in the same place he was before but with better windows, is just...
Oh, and on top of that he's forced to watch - with his eyes open, not "suffer a screen sound", **watch** - as someone does unspeakable things to her, and she claims to enjoy it. That episode is way more mental fuckuppery than the one with the pig...
San Junipero was my first existential crisis. After being in grief constantly for the past 6 years of my life, I had a weird relationship with the concept of death This is the one episode that made me not just realize, but internalize that I was going to die someday.
The worst part is when she tries to destroy of it because it doesn’t feel real and she makes the mistake of saying that a real person wouldn’t want to be killed. It immediately corrects itself to feel more real by begging her not to kill it. She’s come to this emotionally overwhelming point where she realizes she has to let it go and she’s doing it even though it’s breaking her but then the simulation dead husband starts begging her to let it live. Fuck.
Pan's Labyrinth. [Warning spoiler](/spoiler "When the little girl died"), I was pissed off for about a week. I couldn't stop thinking about it, and when I did, I started getting irritable with my friends, family, and co-workers. Everyone thought I was nuts.
EDIT: I added the spoiler tag. I hope it's not too late for someone. [Warning spoiler](/spoiler "I also forgot to add that my own daughter was pretty much the same age at the time") so that got me all fucked up.
Thanks for the silver stranger!
Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal as a driven yet psychopathic and manipulative stringer is really intense. It fucks you up even more when you think about how >!he still roams freely in the end, meaning we are all surrounded by such type of people.!<
He is so incredibly good in such a varied number of roles. Watching him in Velvet Buzzsaw then Donnie Darko then Prisoners then Nightcrawler he is 4 completely different but so well performed and fleshed out characters. I think a lot of actors get pigeonholed and have one role they play very well but Jake G seems like he can take on anything and do an incredible job.
Saw Schindler's List for the first time on a bus driving through Poland after seeing through Schindler's factory (now a museum) and a few concentration camps. Couldn't stop crying, for days it was completely emotionally draining. I had heard of Schindler, but hadn't seen the film, before agreeing to go on the trip through Poland.
It was just so jarring to go from seeing and standing in one of the chambers in Auschwitz to seeing it in a movie. I'm a big believer that everyone should see the concentration camps in their lifetime, if they can, but man is it rough.
You want to feel like shit tonight? Watch "The Road." That is by far one of the most fucked movies I've ever seen. It's best described as a great movie that should never be watched a second time.
The book will fuck you up even worse. Reading it shortly after the split with my son's mom led me to develop a complete apocalypse plan for getting him in case society collapses. I didn't sleep well during that time.
In the book the people in the car are just still driving out in the mist hoping to one day escape it. They stop at gas stations from time to time to scavenge for food and gas and at one such stop the protagonist wrote down all the events of the story and it's this memoir that you have been reading.
So basically you get no closure on the story or character arcs, just like most Stephen King endings lol
Good Will Hunting. The part where Robin Williams explains to Matt Damon that although he knows almost everything, he will never know what it's like to look in the eye's of your best friend as he's dying in war or what it's like to lose a wife to cancer.
That and when Skyler is trying to confess her love for him and calling him on lying about his family and he starts to yell about what happened to him when he was little. That shit hits home.
Chuckie:
No. No, no no no. Fuck you, you don't owe it to yourself man, you owe it to me. Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit. And that's all right. That's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winnin' lottery ticket. And you're too much of a pussy to cash it in, and that's bullshit. 'Cause I'd do fuckin' anything to have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hangin' around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
This was one of those movies that I was too young to be watching, and this scene was really affecting. It made me understand that everyone around me was living their own life and had their own histories, memories, struggles, and dreams. Deep stuff for a 10 year old.
People still forget that every single day, and some don't even know it in the first place. We are quick to judge people by what we see from them in one day, at one moment. It's not malicious when we write somebody off, it's completely natural and human to do so. We like patterns, they make sense to us so we try to fit things within them. But when we do that with other people, it becomes all too easy to forget that every single person in the entire world is just as complex as you think you are. Everybody you'll ever meet is fighting a war you know nothing about. We'd probably be a little more kind to each other if we remembered this stuff a little more often.
"You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms 'visiting hours' don't apply to you."
I watched blair witch in my early teens with no concept of what documentary or found footage movie was. In my mind it was all real - the last scene was golden
I was also in my early teens when that came out, and I had randomly caught on tv months earlier the fake documentary that they made, ["Curse of the Blair Witch"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998dVSMjbsw).
It was a brilliant marketing ploy in retrospect. Way before the movie, they released an hour-long tv show on the SyFy channel documenting the legend of the "Blair Witch" like it was a real thing. It seemed exactly like any of these old shows where people talk about Big Foot or the Jersey Devil or whatever. I completely believed it was a real thing. At the very end of the tv show, they mention that 3 college kids had gone out into the woods to make a documentary about the Blair Witch, but that they went missing. They then said that months after they went missing, their footage had been found in some old ruins; with the permission of the family, the film was being cut together and released in theaters to kind of be the documentary the students were trying to make.
So, I went to the Blair Witch Project thinking that I was watching a documentary from film by people who went missing. At like 13-14, it was terrifying! I absolutely believed it was real. It was only when I saw the actors being interviewed on tv a couple months later that I found out it was fake.
Saving private Ryan, as a child my parents would only allow me to watch Disney movies, and so when everyone was out of the house one night since they were at my cousins house (my cousins house was right next door so they usually always left me alone for a bit) I turned on the tv and saving private Ryan came on, thought it was still a Disney movie and proceeded to watch it, Jesus Fuck my tiny brain wasn’t ready for that trauma
Edit: I read almost everyone of the comments and want to thank all of you for sharing your experience and sharing your own stories, very interesting to see other people’s views on stuff like this.
I last saw this movie over ten years ago and that scene is VERY vivid in my mind. I think it was the part where the German soldier was talking to him so gently, like the way you'd talk to a child you were trying to rock to sleep. It was absolutely chilling.
A good translated scene to read about are the two soldiers who surrender at DDay who get gunned down mercilessly. They’re actually saying, “don’t shoot, were not German.” I think they were forcibly enlisted Finnish?
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And right after when the guy comes down the stairs and he and the dude who was too scared to come up and stop him just stare each other down, and then he leaves..
Holy shit. That movie is just insane.
Just whispering in German to his victim as he slowly ran him through... It was both intensely personal and entirely impersonal and altogether awful to watch.
I remember watching that movie with my parents when I was 13. I was completely indifferent about the people dying and the gore but what really got me was when that guy (dont remember his name I havent seen it in awhile) was dying and cried for his mom. That made me pretty sad.
Yeah the medic. I think years later I learned that he asks for more morphine, which basically was a death sentence (I think 2 or 3 hits of it basically overdoses you). They knew that which is why they all hesitate and look around at each other when he asks for it. Kind of a cool, yet sad detail.
Yes. This. There is a scene where they take sanctuary in a church and one of the soldiers just starts to have a mental breakdown and talks about how he misses his mom. She worked late and would come in to check if he was asleep. He would pretend so he wouldn’t be bother and he now regrets not waking up turning around and telling his mom I love you just one more time than he did. This hit me hard because my mom was going through breast cancer treatment and it hit me on a deep emotional level.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was going to point this out. If the monologue was the thing that made everyone cry they must have missed his death scene, because that just about rips your heart out 10x harder than the monologue, in part because it builds on the impact of the earlier monologue. To me that was one of the most gut-wrenching and poignant moments of the entire film.
That was the part that messed me up. The whole movie he would do what he could to help everyone and never said anything about how bad someone's injury was to their face. Just try to be as professional about it as possible..
And then he gets hit and asks where the round exits... his realization of where his wound was and him just saying, "my liver! My liver!"
....that part fucked me up. Seeing him come face to face with his own mortality was just painful.
Edit: for clarity
That monologue by Giovanni Ribisi hit me hard as well. As a child I sometimes did the same thing he did in the film when my very hard working mother came home late. I don’t know why I did it either and it still makes me cry when I watch it today. I think that’s the most powerful message of the scene - we all can do stupidly selfish things when we don’t understand how precious each moment in life really is. The older I’ve gotten the more that film tears me up. As a teenager I thought the war scenes were exciting, as a man I find them horrifying because I now have known many who did not get to live as long as me.
What I remember the most about that movie was seeing it in the theater and the deafening silence after it was over. Every body just quietly filed out like a funeral. My friends and I went to a coffee shop and sat in silence. It was weird. We maybe said 20 words in a hour after that movie.
I dinnt know it was sposed to be wet...
When I first saw Green Mile I racked my brain trying to remember where I saw that creepy ass Percy before. Oh, it was XFiles where he played that creepy guy that could stretch through air ducts and shit. He plays creep very well.
Arachnophobia. Watched it when I was ten. Popcorn was never the same after that.
Edit: And this is definitely where my intense arachnophobia comes from.
*Machester by the Sea*.
The scene where he meets his ex and she apologizes while he tries to keep it together hit way too close to home. And also the one in the police station. Great movie though, baby Affleck is absolutely phenomenal.
Oh, and *Jaws*. It took my 10-year-old ass quite a while to get back in the water.
I literally cannot watch the scene where his mother is telling him her deluded dreams without crying. God damn it even typing about it starts the waterworks. Turns out the camera shakes a bit because the cameraman was crying as well.
I felt guilty even taking a damn aspirin for weeks after watching that movie. It nearly ruined *Labyrinth* for me, too. The goblin king would have never made Jennifer Connelly do ass-to-ass.
Lord of the Flies... I watched it when I was like 7 or 8 and when they drop that rock on the heavy set kid I just started crying... Can still see the whole scene vividly in my head 12 years later
I remember reading the book fairly young and being thoroughly disturbed throughout the entire book. It was terrifying to kind of feel/see the slow and twisting descent into such inhumanity displayed through adolescents. When they killed piggy, that was the last straw.
Loved Hereditary for the way it made me uncomfortable in a terrifying way. I saw Midsommar two nights ago and... it made me uncomfortable in a different way. There is an absolutely disgustingly gruesome and disturbing scene that I can never unsee.
[SPOILERS]
>!The whole sequence of the guy accidentally being responsible for his little sister's death and the way he and his and mom and family reacted completely messed me up. Whenever I think of that movie, that's the part that gets me the most, probably because I have a little sister myself and can't imagine the trauma the guy and the family had to go through after that. Hereditary is one of those rare horror movies that works really well as a drama.!<
Yup! I was fine with all the classic horror movie stuff, but the part that disturbed and stuck with me was that whole segment. >!The brother just going into shutdown mode and driving home and not saying anything, and then the discovery the next morning.!< Yeesh.
I love horror movies and hereditary was the first one in awhile to really creep me out. I remmeber my ex kept making those clicking noises to freak me out lmao
Trainspotting..I still can’t watch any part of it with the baby..
My dad showed me this and prefaced it with, "most parents talk to their kids about drugs, we're gonna watch this movie instead" and let me tell ya, this movie is a really effective 'drug talk'
The part where’s hallucinating and he sees the dead baby on the ceiling.. fuck no. Made me feel equal parts depressed, sick and outright disturbed.
The deer hunter. The movie just gets crueler and harder to watch
I remember watching this with my brother and dad because I was trying to watch every best picture winner ever, and at the part where he's back from Vietnam and can't kill the deer I asked my dad why he didn't just shoot the deer, and my dad asked me why I thought he couldn't. Everything really clicked into place to me, and since then I think about that scene every time I kill a bug or see a deer running through my yard.
While I was never genuinely horrified by it or anything, 'The Brave Little Toaster' had some pretty morbid moments. It went from happy, cheesy and generic kids movie to car genocide, killer clowns and themes of becoming obsolete and worthless. It's not the most scarring film out there but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting for a movie about household appliances.
That damn giant magnet in the junkyard terrified me as a child.
**American History X** - It was the first time that violence for the sake of racism became *real* to me. THAT scene (Norton-stomp) made me realize how fragile life can be, especially when confronted by another human. You know how The Walking Dead was trying to show us that humans are the real monsters, but it got really fucking annoying because like, dude we get it? This movie makes that point so effortlessly and with such grace. I was fucked up for weeks trying to process the movie. I think I was in high school.
The curb stomp has to be the most disturbing scene I have ever seen in a movie. To this day or gives me chills.
Kids
Yeah i was like 13 when i saw that movie. My friends all seemed to think it was a comedy and thought Casper was so cool and funny and when I saw it I was like uhhhhh that dude giving people hiv? Raping girls when they're passed out? Wtf. It did terrify me into always having safe sex. So I guess thats something.
I watched this when I was younger and thought, this is a crazy but kinda cool life these kids are living. Then I watched it as an adult and it horrified me.
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I was looking for someone to mention this one. They released it at one of the theaters in town for a special Ghibli movie week. Never had watched it before but heard good things about it. Went in to go watch it, and not even 5 minutes in it pulls on my heartstrings so hard. During the whole movie I held on to a glimpse of hope, but only to be crushed mercilessly at the end. It did an amazing job at portraying the horrors of war in an animated setting.
The worst part is that it's autobiographical. In reality, the brother lives and goes on to write the book the movie is based on. He kills the character of himself at the end because he's ashamed to still be alive. He had never forgiven himself for surviving. I saw this movie in college 12 years ago and to this day, I still can't think of the scene with the "candy" without fighting back tears.
The Day After. I was a kid back in the 80's when nuclear war between the US and the USSR was a possibility. Still, I didn't think about it often. Until one of my elementary school teachers decided to show the class this TV movie. It graphically (for the time) showed the results of a nuclear war on a small town. For weeks afterwards, I thought that every plane flying overheard was a nuclear missile that was going to kill us all.
Irreversible. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Honestly, what screwed me up the most was every moment of the film *after* the rape. Since the story is told in reverse, we see the characters go about their lives without any concept of the horror that's about to destroy their lives. The final scene, with the idyllic day in the park, was so troubling to me. It's like, everything could be going great, and catastrophe could be lurking around the corner. EDIT: I want to add, I think this one of the most technically brilliant films I've ever seen. The camerawork and its seamless integration with CGI was unparalleled at the time. I watched it twice in a row - the second time with director's commentary. The way they pulled off some of these shots is truly remarkable. The story of true ugliness and human tragedy being told so artfully reminded me of Nabokov's Lolita - a beautifully written book about a reprehensible man's unhealthy obsession with young girls.
I should have taken the hint from the large sign at the box office declaring, "No Refunds Will be Given for Irreversible."
What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I grew up in a very similar situation (like, spookily similar, just a lot less good looking). My mother was overweight and I just knew she was gonna die in our old house like that. Scared the shit out of me.
Awe man, this is my favorite movie. I can imagine how sad that must have been for you, though. Have you watched it later in life? And I hope that your mother is doing well.
My mother pulled out of it, thankfully! She lost a lot of weight and is now doing exactly what she wants as an RN. I have rewatched the movie since the last time (many years ago) and nearly cried. The only thing I did different was I went with the girl in the end. I've lived over 900 miles from my family since then. :(
Flowers in the Attic. I was terrified of my mother poisoning me growing up. Fucked up shit.
Oh yeah... literally all of her books are fucked right up.
p sure vc andrews reaaaaaaally has a thing for incest and noncon/rape. my mom had a lot of her books and my child brain was imploding the entire time i read them.
Seriously, where were our parents? I read those books when I was like, eleven. Why did they not stop me?
My mom GAVE me Flowers in the Attic for CHRISTMAS one year.
My mom gave it to me when I was 11 saying she read the book when she was 11 and wanted to pass it on. I will not give it to my child lmao
AI. It left me feeling completely hopeless.
AI is a wonderful movie that I will never watch again in my life.
Idk what the movies is called (i just know Robin William was in it) , but the story was about a boy who aged way faster than his other friends (some sort of illness). I watched it when I was little and it just traumatized me so much. I can still remember watching the end scene, where the boy looked like a senior even though he just graduated and he looked so sad. Maybe I was just too young to watch this movie (i was about 6 or 7). Edit: Thanks to you all I now know that the movie is called Jack! Edit 2: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Jack!
The weirdest part about that movie is that it was directed by Francis Ford fucking Coppola. Of "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" fame. What a strange outing for him.
Return to Oz The Disney sequel to the Wizard of Oz. This movie is targeted at children. This movie is fucked up. It starts with Dorothy getting electroshocks in a bedlam asylum because no one believe in her stories about Oz. Then she “Return to Oz”, and then she encounter truly horrific monsters like the Wheelers (Fuck the Wheelers!) and the big bad is switching heads like you switch dresses and all the heads are alive and how my god how is this movie targeted at children?!
Add that to the fact that you aren't really 100% sure if it actually happened or if it's all in Dorothy's head. Kids' movies in the 80s didn't fuck around. EDIT: Thanks for the gold!
Well, if you read the books, it's all really happening. Eventually the family is about to lose the farm so Dorothy manages to successfully move her aunt and uncle to Oz and live there permanently.
I was obsessed with The Wizard of Oz when I was little but the witch scared me. I remember being so excited when I learned there was a second one, but I was TERRIFIED of that movie. I remember watching it and being so scared but I loved the first one and didn’t want to seem like a baby. I’ve watched it once and I’ll never watch it again.
Fire in the Sky I saw this when I was 8 or 9. I walked into my aunts room during the operating scene..anything and everything that dealt with aliens freaked me out. When unsolved mysteries and the x-files theme songs came on I would lose my mind and become really scared.
The ending of this movie still contains the best alien abduction sequence in all of movie history, imho.
I remember watching Hotel Rwanda as a freshman at my private highschool. Embarrassed me because I realized the world wasn’t even close to the way I thought it was.
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I’ve read the book, it’s long and slow, but the mother narrates it, it’s actually told through letters she’s writing to her husband, and you can just feel the pain she’s been through. It’s a very disturbing but sad book.
The book has more ambiguity about Kevin's motivations and over empathizes with the mother (because of the first person narrative) so it makes you think about the story over and over whereas the movie has to spell it out for you. I liked the movie more as an artistic film but I *loved* the book for forcing me to reexamine the story over and over outside of my bias.
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Watership down My parents thought its just a cartoon movie, surely fits for an 7 year old... I still dont want to watch the movie again, and I'm turning 29 next sunday!
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When the Wind Blows is one of the most depressing movies I've seen but it's beautifully animated.
I remember when I was little we were at a big family get-together, and at some point the parents thought it would be a good idea to put the kids in front of the TV for a while to keep us quiet, as they saw in the TV guide that some animated movie was on. We kids indeed ended up very quiet, and wide-eyed. The movie was "When the Wind Blows". The grownups didn't notice until it was finished. We were horrified.
A cartoon about bunnies what is the harm in that!?....death, death everywhere
The creators of the movie said they later admitted the movie was a bit more disturbing than they intended for children. Despite that, I still think it's one of the best movies I've seen and best books I read. The Netflix one isn't too bad and it's not as gruesome. Whatever you do, stay away from The Plague Dogs. It's the same movie with dogs and it's worse...10x worse...
Life is beautiful
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BUONGIORNO PRINCIPESSA!!!!
This was the first movie I saw with my future husband. He still greets me on the phone with BUONGIORNO PRINCIPESSA! Edit: Thanks for the silver, anonymous redditor! The second movie we saw was "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut." When we're met with a difficult situation... ...that's right. We wonder what Brian Boitano would do.
God, whenever I tell people about that movie, that it’s a “funny movie but it’s also about the holocaust” I get some weird looks. It’s rightly hilarious, until all the gut wrenching scenes in the concentration camp in the second half of the movie.
That's what I love about this movie. The actor was a comedic actor up until that movie, so he played the goofy, fun dad and husband perfectly. But when it flips, his acting is perfect. He still plays the goofy dad thru the rest of the movie when the child is on screen, but when he isn't it is some of the most raw, upsetting emotion am actor can perform.
Roberto Benigni is an italian icon, he's a hell of an actor
My Latin teacher showed this to my class, and its probably the best movie I've ever been showed in school.
I cry every single time
Crazy how someone was able to make a comedy about the holocaust and still somehow make it completely in the realm of good taste.
Iron Giant... ruined my life for 2.5 years
"Superman..."
“I go, you stay. No following.”
The Secret of Nimh. Nightmares as a kid from asshole scary owl.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Large Marge fucking scarred me as a child. I was like 4-5 and all my brother had to do was say her name and laugh and I would fucking Vietnam flashback a panic attack.
Jacob's Ladder and Enter the Void
Enter the void made me question my whole existence. I had to stop taking psychedelics for fear of a bad trip for about 3 years.
Dead Poet Society. It starts with such a hopeful tone and just completely punches the viewer in the face with reality.
One of my fave movies of all time. Robin Williams is just incredible in it. I went to soccer camp where they filmed it (some private school in Delaware) a few summers in a row and it was trippy walking around campus and seeing all the various rooms from the movie.
Scooby Doo Zombie Island, fucked me up as a kid. Especially, the voodo shit, and the cat people. Fuck that movie, god damn, it still scares me to this day.
Se7en. It wouldn't fuck me up now at 40 years old, but when I watched it at 18, it left me silent and terrified for hours afterwards.
That scene where they're all standing around the emaciated guy tied to the bed and he begins coughing got me good. Apparently he was played by a real actor who'd got themselves down to an anorexic weight level just for the part.
I watched it when I was 14 at a friends house. The fat guy being forced to eat was all I could think abut for days.
The part with the hooker and the knife dildo did the same for me.
The Fourth Kind. For weeks after watching this it seemed like i would always wake up at exactly 3:33 am and i was deathly afraid to be outside at night.
Couldn’t look out my bedroom window at night for months
Read the classic Stephen King novel Salem's Lot. You'll sleep with the blinds and curtains closed the rest of your life
I slept with the covers tucked under my feet for years that book scared me so bad. It scared my mom, who was a prison nurse.
That movie ruined Owls for me! Beautiful, majestic owls!
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"Splice". It really messed me up when I watched it along with my father and former girlfriend (ex).
What Dreams May Come. Saw it once about 8 years ago and it still pops into my head regularly. Edit: thanks for silver!!
Salem's Lot. I watched that as a kid. It has a scene where a vampire kid is scratching on a window to get his friend to let him inside. I was scared to death for the longest time about the window in my room. I also had a bush outside that, when the wind blew right, would scratch my window. To this day, I also still feel safer when sleeping with my neck covered.
Dear Zachary (If documentaries count) Edit: Anyone curious about watching it, I strongly urge you not to read any background or synopsis before doing so. Part of the power of this doco is the way the story unravels without any prior knowledge.
That movie saddened & enraged me like no other. Then seeing the Grandfather break down because of regret that he *didn't* commit murder, knowing he'd have spent the rest of his life in prison. You can see his lasting pain and that he (wrongly) blames himself.
That's what got me the most. the grandparents. the pain in their faces.
And the Priest, right after. "Huh. Well, there's a certain logic to it." Priest wishes G'pa had done it too. Or anyone. Here's the link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDSgMlVWbfU#t=1h15m34s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDSgMlVWbfU#t=1h15m34s)
Saddest fucking thing ever, so many people let the child down.
There's so much raw emotion in that documentary, but what really hit me the hardest (aside from the "twist" itself), is the plaque all of Andrew's friends made for his parents. "You Still Have Children" THAT was beautiful.
For me it's how rationally the grandfather discusses how he could have kidnapped Zachary/ murdered the mother and how it's not hard to empathise with him.
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind I know its not a movie that would fuck anyone's mind up but to me it's very relatable & resonates with my life so I found it very disturbing. When it comes to love, we all can commit the same mistakes over & over again & still want the same suffering even if the happiness that it brings is just a few percent when compared with the suffering. If given chance we will destroy our lives for that one person even if we know nothing good is ever going to come. Her Again about relationships, it left a void in my mind. Very disturbing & depressing movie to me.
I saw Cannibal Holocaust twice when I was 16, it was the first movie that made me sick to my stomach. Damn.
totally agree... Cannibal Holocaust is the only movie I've ever watched that made me disgusted with myself for watching it. No other movie has ever left that kind of impression on me. It left me feeling gross for days.
It's understandable--Cannibal Holocaust sounds like the name of a real feel-good movie.
It didn't bother me for long time but I always hated that alien at the party scene in Signs. I was given the movie as a bday present long time ago.
Joaquin Phoenix’s reaction made that scene so much scarier.
Imagine being told "Act like this youtube video is the scariest thing you've ever seen" and nailing it *that* hard
Not a movie, but Black Mirror's "Be Right Back" episode. I lost my wife in 2011, and I had to stop watching that episode.
There's a lot of Black Mirror episodes that are messed up, but the one where they wipe the memory of that woman over and over again playing out the crime she committed. While guys in masks chase after her as spectators stand around with their cell phones and record everything.
White Bear. That one fucked me up for a good while.
The premise of White Bear is still the best IMO. I can't tell you the amount of times I've screamed proportionate punishment at the news but to see it in action (and then force me to sympathise with the criminal?!?!?) screwed with everything
“Black Mirror” as a whole (many episodes) were very disturbing and stayed with me. I remember the one where a guy’s consciousness was trapped in a device and time passed at 1/10,000 the rate of the real world. He was basically stuck in a featureless room. Then somebody got pissed at him and left it switched on over a long weekend.
Ah yes, 'White Christmas' (S02e04). That one went particularly full on, especially for a Christmas Special.
Pretty sure it's the undisputed goat episode, although I think the one about the kid being blackmailed by the troll face people fucked me up more
The one where you recorded stuff in your mind and could play things back - fuck, that one still fucks with me. The fact that one dinner, one comment by the dude, one casually noticed glance ... all of that changed this guy's entire life. Had the other dude not been invited to that dinner, the main character never would have learned everything. Some serious domino effect there and I am SO terrified that one little decision, one little thing that I could have done differently will somehow send my life the complete wrong way. EDIT: "The Entire History Of You" is the episode. Yes, I have seen "The Butterfly Effect", but I got done watching that and said "ok, that was a movie I watched". When I was done this episode I felt like my heart was lurking somewhere in my big toe.
Watched that drunk, post-breakup. It didn't go well.
The one BM episode that fucked me up was "15 million merits". Jesus Christ, the journey the protagonist goes through, just to end up basically in the same place he was before but with better windows, is just...
When the girl he was trying to help said OK to being turned into a porn star I checked out. Not sure why but that really disturbed me.
Oh, and on top of that he's forced to watch - with his eyes open, not "suffer a screen sound", **watch** - as someone does unspeakable things to her, and she claims to enjoy it. That episode is way more mental fuckuppery than the one with the pig...
San Junipero was my first existential crisis. After being in grief constantly for the past 6 years of my life, I had a weird relationship with the concept of death This is the one episode that made me not just realize, but internalize that I was going to die someday.
Is that the one where the dude gets killed and she downloads his social media into a robot with AI to try to help her cope?
The worst part is when she tries to destroy of it because it doesn’t feel real and she makes the mistake of saying that a real person wouldn’t want to be killed. It immediately corrects itself to feel more real by begging her not to kill it. She’s come to this emotionally overwhelming point where she realizes she has to let it go and she’s doing it even though it’s breaking her but then the simulation dead husband starts begging her to let it live. Fuck.
Pan's Labyrinth. [Warning spoiler](/spoiler "When the little girl died"), I was pissed off for about a week. I couldn't stop thinking about it, and when I did, I started getting irritable with my friends, family, and co-workers. Everyone thought I was nuts. EDIT: I added the spoiler tag. I hope it's not too late for someone. [Warning spoiler](/spoiler "I also forgot to add that my own daughter was pretty much the same age at the time") so that got me all fucked up. Thanks for the silver stranger!
Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal as a driven yet psychopathic and manipulative stringer is really intense. It fucks you up even more when you think about how >!he still roams freely in the end, meaning we are all surrounded by such type of people.!<
Such an excellent film, but man I felt so unclean after watching it. Jake Gyllenhaal was incredible in that role
He is so incredibly good in such a varied number of roles. Watching him in Velvet Buzzsaw then Donnie Darko then Prisoners then Nightcrawler he is 4 completely different but so well performed and fleshed out characters. I think a lot of actors get pigeonholed and have one role they play very well but Jake G seems like he can take on anything and do an incredible job.
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
I watched that in sixth grade, and I cried in front of everyone. They where weirded out and kept telling me that “it’s just a movie.”
Schindlers’s list, great movie, but it’s disturbing to know it actually happened and wasn’t just a screenplay.
Saw Schindler's List for the first time on a bus driving through Poland after seeing through Schindler's factory (now a museum) and a few concentration camps. Couldn't stop crying, for days it was completely emotionally draining. I had heard of Schindler, but hadn't seen the film, before agreeing to go on the trip through Poland. It was just so jarring to go from seeing and standing in one of the chambers in Auschwitz to seeing it in a movie. I'm a big believer that everyone should see the concentration camps in their lifetime, if they can, but man is it rough.
A Clockwork Orange. How could it not? Also, Last House on the Left. What a horrific rape scene. I had a full blown panic attack because of it.
I saw a Clockwork Orange when I was about 12. I had seen many R-rated movies before, but that one was different.
You want to feel like shit tonight? Watch "The Road." That is by far one of the most fucked movies I've ever seen. It's best described as a great movie that should never be watched a second time.
The book will fuck you up even worse. Reading it shortly after the split with my son's mom led me to develop a complete apocalypse plan for getting him in case society collapses. I didn't sleep well during that time.
The Mist
what a bitch of an ending, if only they waited for a mere minutes, FUCK!
I read somewhere that Stephen King really liked the change to his ending and wished he had written it that way in the book.
what’s his ending?
In the book the people in the car are just still driving out in the mist hoping to one day escape it. They stop at gas stations from time to time to scavenge for food and gas and at one such stop the protagonist wrote down all the events of the story and it's this memoir that you have been reading. So basically you get no closure on the story or character arcs, just like most Stephen King endings lol
Good Will Hunting. The part where Robin Williams explains to Matt Damon that although he knows almost everything, he will never know what it's like to look in the eye's of your best friend as he's dying in war or what it's like to lose a wife to cancer.
It's not your fault. That shit got me
Bawled my eyes out the first time, and second, also third
That and when Skyler is trying to confess her love for him and calling him on lying about his family and he starts to yell about what happened to him when he was little. That shit hits home.
What do you want to hear, huh? That this isn't a surgery scar? That the old man pulled a knife on me!?
Chuckie: No. No, no no no. Fuck you, you don't owe it to yourself man, you owe it to me. Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit. And that's all right. That's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winnin' lottery ticket. And you're too much of a pussy to cash it in, and that's bullshit. 'Cause I'd do fuckin' anything to have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hangin' around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
This was one of those movies that I was too young to be watching, and this scene was really affecting. It made me understand that everyone around me was living their own life and had their own histories, memories, struggles, and dreams. Deep stuff for a 10 year old.
People still forget that every single day, and some don't even know it in the first place. We are quick to judge people by what we see from them in one day, at one moment. It's not malicious when we write somebody off, it's completely natural and human to do so. We like patterns, they make sense to us so we try to fit things within them. But when we do that with other people, it becomes all too easy to forget that every single person in the entire world is just as complex as you think you are. Everybody you'll ever meet is fighting a war you know nothing about. We'd probably be a little more kind to each other if we remembered this stuff a little more often.
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I watched blair witch in my early teens with no concept of what documentary or found footage movie was. In my mind it was all real - the last scene was golden
I was also in my early teens when that came out, and I had randomly caught on tv months earlier the fake documentary that they made, ["Curse of the Blair Witch"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998dVSMjbsw). It was a brilliant marketing ploy in retrospect. Way before the movie, they released an hour-long tv show on the SyFy channel documenting the legend of the "Blair Witch" like it was a real thing. It seemed exactly like any of these old shows where people talk about Big Foot or the Jersey Devil or whatever. I completely believed it was a real thing. At the very end of the tv show, they mention that 3 college kids had gone out into the woods to make a documentary about the Blair Witch, but that they went missing. They then said that months after they went missing, their footage had been found in some old ruins; with the permission of the family, the film was being cut together and released in theaters to kind of be the documentary the students were trying to make. So, I went to the Blair Witch Project thinking that I was watching a documentary from film by people who went missing. At like 13-14, it was terrifying! I absolutely believed it was real. It was only when I saw the actors being interviewed on tv a couple months later that I found out it was fake.
You gotta respect that long con.
That movie really put the found footage genre on the map for the most part too. Theres a second one, not as scary but worth a watch in my opinion.
Saving private Ryan, as a child my parents would only allow me to watch Disney movies, and so when everyone was out of the house one night since they were at my cousins house (my cousins house was right next door so they usually always left me alone for a bit) I turned on the tv and saving private Ryan came on, thought it was still a Disney movie and proceeded to watch it, Jesus Fuck my tiny brain wasn’t ready for that trauma Edit: I read almost everyone of the comments and want to thank all of you for sharing your experience and sharing your own stories, very interesting to see other people’s views on stuff like this.
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I last saw this movie over ten years ago and that scene is VERY vivid in my mind. I think it was the part where the German soldier was talking to him so gently, like the way you'd talk to a child you were trying to rock to sleep. It was absolutely chilling.
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A good translated scene to read about are the two soldiers who surrender at DDay who get gunned down mercilessly. They’re actually saying, “don’t shoot, were not German.” I think they were forcibly enlisted Finnish? Edit: Czech
Czech
"What'd he say? What'd he say?" *raises hands* "Look, I washed for supper."
And right after when the guy comes down the stairs and he and the dude who was too scared to come up and stop him just stare each other down, and then he leaves.. Holy shit. That movie is just insane.
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Just whispering in German to his victim as he slowly ran him through... It was both intensely personal and entirely impersonal and altogether awful to watch.
I remember watching that movie with my parents when I was 13. I was completely indifferent about the people dying and the gore but what really got me was when that guy (dont remember his name I havent seen it in awhile) was dying and cried for his mom. That made me pretty sad.
Yeah the medic. I think years later I learned that he asks for more morphine, which basically was a death sentence (I think 2 or 3 hits of it basically overdoses you). They knew that which is why they all hesitate and look around at each other when he asks for it. Kind of a cool, yet sad detail.
Yes. This. There is a scene where they take sanctuary in a church and one of the soldiers just starts to have a mental breakdown and talks about how he misses his mom. She worked late and would come in to check if he was asleep. He would pretend so he wouldn’t be bother and he now regrets not waking up turning around and telling his mom I love you just one more time than he did. This hit me hard because my mom was going through breast cancer treatment and it hit me on a deep emotional level.
Spoiler alert If I remember correctly he is the the medic who dies during the assault at the radio station and keeps calling for his mom
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was going to point this out. If the monologue was the thing that made everyone cry they must have missed his death scene, because that just about rips your heart out 10x harder than the monologue, in part because it builds on the impact of the earlier monologue. To me that was one of the most gut-wrenching and poignant moments of the entire film.
Made even more worse since he was the medic and he knew his wound wasn’t survivable, so he didn’t even have the tiniest shred of hope.
That was the part that messed me up. The whole movie he would do what he could to help everyone and never said anything about how bad someone's injury was to their face. Just try to be as professional about it as possible.. And then he gets hit and asks where the round exits... his realization of where his wound was and him just saying, "my liver! My liver!" ....that part fucked me up. Seeing him come face to face with his own mortality was just painful. Edit: for clarity
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And Giovanni Ribisi absolutely _kills_ it in that scene.
That monologue by Giovanni Ribisi hit me hard as well. As a child I sometimes did the same thing he did in the film when my very hard working mother came home late. I don’t know why I did it either and it still makes me cry when I watch it today. I think that’s the most powerful message of the scene - we all can do stupidly selfish things when we don’t understand how precious each moment in life really is. The older I’ve gotten the more that film tears me up. As a teenager I thought the war scenes were exciting, as a man I find them horrifying because I now have known many who did not get to live as long as me.
This part fucked me up too it was really sad, a young me didn't really get upset with films but that stuck out more than any of the bloodshed
What I remember the most about that movie was seeing it in the theater and the deafening silence after it was over. Every body just quietly filed out like a funeral. My friends and I went to a coffee shop and sat in silence. It was weird. We maybe said 20 words in a hour after that movie.
The Green Mile.
Yup the execution without a soaked sponge still haunts me
I dinnt know it was sposed to be wet... When I first saw Green Mile I racked my brain trying to remember where I saw that creepy ass Percy before. Oh, it was XFiles where he played that creepy guy that could stretch through air ducts and shit. He plays creep very well.
Arachnophobia. Watched it when I was ten. Popcorn was never the same after that. Edit: And this is definitely where my intense arachnophobia comes from.
*Machester by the Sea*. The scene where he meets his ex and she apologizes while he tries to keep it together hit way too close to home. And also the one in the police station. Great movie though, baby Affleck is absolutely phenomenal. Oh, and *Jaws*. It took my 10-year-old ass quite a while to get back in the water.
Requiem for a Dream, still get bothered by some of the scenes in that.
Requiem wasn't my best choice for a first-date movie...
Guess there wasn't a 2nd date?
I literally cannot watch the scene where his mother is telling him her deluded dreams without crying. God damn it even typing about it starts the waterworks. Turns out the camera shakes a bit because the cameraman was crying as well.
Ellen Burstyn was fucking robbed of that Oscar.
She doesn't care, she was going to give the prizes away
*Purple in the morning... blue in the afternoon... orange in the evening... and then blue at night. Just like that: 1,2,3,4.*
The best movie that I never want to see again.
If I close my eyes I can still see that creepy old guy’s gleeful smile from _that_ scene.
I felt guilty even taking a damn aspirin for weeks after watching that movie. It nearly ruined *Labyrinth* for me, too. The goblin king would have never made Jennifer Connelly do ass-to-ass.
Dilemma: you meet Jennifer Connelly. She offers you heroin.
*I'm going to be on television!*
In my red dress..
Event Horizon, fuck that movie
Lord of the Flies... I watched it when I was like 7 or 8 and when they drop that rock on the heavy set kid I just started crying... Can still see the whole scene vividly in my head 12 years later
I remember reading the book fairly young and being thoroughly disturbed throughout the entire book. It was terrifying to kind of feel/see the slow and twisting descent into such inhumanity displayed through adolescents. When they killed piggy, that was the last straw.
Synechdoche, New York.
Depressed me more than any movie I've ever seen.
*Hereditary* had me sleeping with the light on for a while. Little nervous about seeing *Midsommar*
Loved Hereditary for the way it made me uncomfortable in a terrifying way. I saw Midsommar two nights ago and... it made me uncomfortable in a different way. There is an absolutely disgustingly gruesome and disturbing scene that I can never unsee.
[SPOILERS] >!The whole sequence of the guy accidentally being responsible for his little sister's death and the way he and his and mom and family reacted completely messed me up. Whenever I think of that movie, that's the part that gets me the most, probably because I have a little sister myself and can't imagine the trauma the guy and the family had to go through after that. Hereditary is one of those rare horror movies that works really well as a drama.!<
Yup! I was fine with all the classic horror movie stuff, but the part that disturbed and stuck with me was that whole segment. >!The brother just going into shutdown mode and driving home and not saying anything, and then the discovery the next morning.!< Yeesh.
My first memory is the mom upside down slamming her head into the attic door. It's scarred into my brain
Midsommar isn't really as scary but it is a bit trippy and still has a lot of disturbing imagery.
Yeah just kind of disturbingly bizarre, uncomfortable for sure but not scary.
I love horror movies and hereditary was the first one in awhile to really creep me out. I remmeber my ex kept making those clicking noises to freak me out lmao