Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Blair witch project. Friend and I were suppose to go watch some other movie but didn’t realize we went to watch this one. At the time I lived outside of city and had to walk home some distance through woods without street lights. Boy did shadows move that evening. I totally didn’t expect it, even though I find horror movies not as entertaining today, back then that one experience left quite an impression.
I had to walk home with a friend in the middle a small city…and still shit my socks. Didn’t sleep right for a week.
Having to walk through the woods after watching THAT movie? No chance…
It was also first snow of the year, so everything was eerily quiet. I didn’t really walk into to the woods. Road was going through it, I just followed the road. However sound of trees and silence snow makes didn’t make it any easier. I was a 16 year old teenager then and very susceptible to all kinds of beliefs. Doubt any horror would give me the same feeling today, but these days existence itself is horror with constant dark thoughts, so no problem there.
Yeah screw all that. BWP was super disturbing.
I didn’t even know we were watching horror movie as well. We went to watch something else, James Bond or something like that, but we didn’t check the schedule for the day. Imagine our surprise :)
It’s silly, but as a kid I once turned on the TV to Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”, and in particular, the scene where an enormous man is fed so much that he explodes. Still haunts me to this day.
It’s wafer thin.
“Oh shit, it’s Mr. Creosote.”
Jaws when I was six. Even swimming pools make me uncomfortable.
This, not too long ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Mommy
amityville 2.
fucking movie was wrong on so many levels.
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.
The Sound of Music.
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.
same!
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.
Anaconda. It’s not that it was a particularly impressive movie but for some reason it intensified my ophidiophobia.
the exorcist. At age 8
My Catholic church going up bringing has made possession into a genuine fair even though I’m atheist now.
Same, but with Passion of the Christ. Shit’s rated R, they crowed about how Caviezel’s pain during the scourging scene was so authentic because he accidentally did get whipped, but Catholics will show it to kids because Jesus.
Don’t be talking about gay people though. 8 year olds can apparently handle vivid torture and murder but not the knowledge that their grade school teacher has a relationship with someone of the same sex.
A Serbian Film. Any age is too young
Literally the only movie I’ve ever regretted watching.
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.
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 …
Salk and Cannibal Holocaust are actually good movies. A Serbian Film sucks, but is has shock factor
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
greatest movie though
If I caught my kids watching that, I would say “bitches, leave.”
Clarence Boddicker you are coming with me!
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
Deliverance.
