Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Event Horizon. I couldn’t sleep for days as an 11 year old! Love it now, but man, way too scary.
Sam Neillalmost seemed apologetic about how it turned out after editing in an interview.
Eight Legged Freaks fucked me up with the cat scene at the beginning. I’m a big softie for animals in films.
Killer clowns from outer space, that clown thing that comes up from the toilet messed me up.
Somewhat related, I have a funny story related to Killer Klowns.
My local movie theatre had a live screening of it several years ago that I went to with a friend. I had never seen it before, I barely ate that day and had just gotten off of a 13 hour shift, and of COURSE I had to get one of those terrible canned cocktails. So there I am, shit faced in the back row, my friend sitting next to me, I’m whispering my reactions to him to whole time, when at the end of the movie it’s revealed that the other guy sitting next to me was one of the brothers who worked on the movie.
I don’t remember a lot of that night but my friend said he recognized him immediately but didn’t say anything. Apparently the guy looked happy to sit next to someone drunkenly reacting to his movie for the first time in their lives.
Twister. Living and visiting the Midwest USA surely didn’t help. I used to get extremely anxious when it would get even mildly windy and still have a bit of a panic attack when a tornado warning/watch go off.
The ring
Yeah, I saw the western version age… 12? Intrusive thoughts for weeks. Dude electrocuting himself in a bathtub was what did it for me for some reason
Western is like 1/20th of quality. Japanese is so so so much more on point. It’s relentless and keeps on coming. It’s not treating you as if you are watching a movie. American version has flashbacks, switching shots to different characters only for them to react. It’s made like a movie. Japanese version is made like you are going to die in 7 days.
The Ring, age 8 or 9, did me in as well. The bathtub scene is also the one that messed with my head the most.
When I was about 5-6 I had fever and couldn’t sleep. I lived in a apartment complex and my mom had the neighbour from the next apartment over for coffee so I was sitting in the neighbours apartment while they had the doors open into the hall. Well, there I was, sitting alone in the dark, watching some sappy teens have a heart to heart while suddenly the earth opens under one of them and it gets brutally eaten the fuck alive while the other one screams in panic and tries to rescue it. Had some unforgettable nightmares that night.
Fucking Tremors man.
This movie for me too. The scene I most remember was a dude talking to another dude through a window. The camera is facing out the window. Then the outside dudes face changes and the camera switches to outside and his whole lower half had been eaten
Was scared of sleeping on the ground for years incase I got swallowed
The Sound of Music.
the exorcist. At age 8
My Catholic church going up bringing has made possession into a genuine fair even though I’m atheist now.
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It doesn’t really haunt me, but when I was a kid I was up early in the morning and had nothing to do so I turned the TV on. And a black and white movie was showing. And I knew that those are funny. Like Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy. So I laughed my ass off as Miss Marple was horrified watching a woman being choked to death in the next train over.
Oh oh oh I know this one!
Glory! The civil war film! There’s a scene where a union soldier takes a cannon ball to the head and it explodes in a gory mess. It was during a tour to Gettysburg, and I threw up on the bus after seeing it. Then they brilliantly played the Mel Gibson Patriot movie where a revolutionary also takes a cannon ball to the head, only this time it removes the head in slow motion and more detaches it than blows it to head smoothie
I remember watching the first one in school. That image of the cannon ball to the head was very shocking and it’s practically all I remember about the film.
I was going to ask you what school you went to where they were allowed to show that, but then I remembered my private christian middle school took us all to see the Passion of the Christ at the movie theater for a fucking field trip 😂
It was a public middle school, would you believe! I remember we had to have a permission slip to watch the movie, at least. I had a great time at that school.
This reminds me of a time when I was on a bus in Honduras with the entire back third occupied by Nuns, the bus driver put on the action thriller Officer Downe where the scene kicks off with machine gun welding Nuns battling it out in extreme graphic action and gore… Pretty crazy irony.
same!
Anaconda. It’s not that it was a particularly impressive movie but for some reason it intensified my ophidiophobia.
A Serbian Film. Any age is too young
Literally the only movie I’ve ever regretted watching.
There’s some others in the same genre too. Cannibal holocaust was one I think. Salo too, less intense but still pretty fucked up. The human centipede too.
So if you want more regrets in your life …
I guess i just don’t put them on the same level in my head. Visually shocking g vs morally horrifying. Salo i have avoided now since Serbian Film because I’m a little more cautious lol
IIRC, Salo has people eating shit, among other … interesting acts.
Salk and Cannibal Holocaust are actually good movies. A Serbian Film sucks, but is has shock factor
I seldom just stop watching a film but I’m glad I did with this one. Afterword i looked up a summary of the rest and I’m glad I stopped.
Stand By Me - The scene with the leaches. As a kid in a small country town with nothing to do on weekends but run around and swim in the local creek, I was so scared to ever do that again.
For me the movie was fine until the lingering shot on Ray Brower’s face.
Hmm I guess I’ve only seen the edited-for-TV version of that movie, they don’t show the body. Which reminds me, that’s the original name of that story, based on a Stephen King novel called The Body.
same!!
We’ll it doesn’t haunt me but looking back it was RoboCop. That movie is a bit much for a 6 year old to watch.
If I caught my kids watching that, I would say “bitches, leave.”
Clarence Boddicker you are coming with me!
greatest movie though
I have a vivid memory of my first time watching it (at about 8 years old, on good ol’ VHS), and running away to peek from behind the door during >!Murphy’s execution!<. It’s still fucked up every time it comes on. Horrific
I kept scrolling to see if someone else posted this. I don’t remember it bothering me much at the time (my memory isn’t great). However, I watched it later as an adult and thought, holy shit that’s intense.
Also, Ren and Stimpy. A very messed up show.
A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was about 8 at a sleepover birthday party. All of us had nightmares after that and he’s still my go to boogeyman.
I think I was at that birthday party.
