A movie that messed you up
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I was staying around my friends house at the impressionable age of eight, when I walked into his living room to find his dad watching the excorsist, right at the bit where her head spins around. Euuuurggh, still gives me the creeps today, though when I watched the scene again it looked different, because in the version I watched everything was alot brighter than the original.
I want to try watching something like Antichrist, Salo or the Human centipede, but I dont have the guts to start watching them, I could handle them once they start, but I cant take the suspense beforehand.
I also need to watch or read Watership down now
I want to try watching something like Antichrist, Salo or the Human centipede, but I dont have the guts to start watching them, I could handle them once they start, but I cant take the suspense beforehand.
I also need to watch or read Watership down now
Yeap, one of the few movies that freaked me out as well. Honestly barely anything really does, all the mentions of Jurassic Park's T-Rex; all I could think about as an 8 year old was riding that thing into the sunset. Films like Alien as a kid? Bring 'em on!Ray De Ation said:
But when I saw Eraserhead a few years ago...that one scene with that baby thing...
Oh and I can't really stand any horror movie in which cute girls die horribly. I know it's sexist, I just can't help but feel sad at it. It's just such a waste y'know.
Well, when I was about 9 I saw this Western - unfortunately I can't remember its name - in which one of the cowboys was taken prisoner by indians, and tortured throughout the night by being strung up on a wheel and roasted over a fire, with the protagonist subsequently having to shoot him dead the morning after. They didn't actually show it, but the scene with the screams echoing through the night did give me some nightmares for several weeks after watching it.
Nothing ever got to me since though.
Nothing ever got to me since though.
Starship Troopers. I saw a glimpse of it when I was young and unfortunately wasn't allowed to watch it. Those few-seconds of a man being ripped in half by a giant bug gave birth to my fascination of giant space-bugs. Appropriately, it grew to something bigger. I now love Science Fiction
Taegukgi. A well-known Korean film about the Korean War. I saw it at a young age and it depressed me greatly, seeing the brothers split up. However the scene where the brother steps on a land-mine-early in the film- and is sent to an Aid-station really disturbed me. It shook me up and I felt a sensation never felt before. It gave birth to my interest in war. I now love films such as Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket. More so Band of Brothers.
I know what you're thinking, that didn't mess you up! Some beg to differ but I feel that without being exposed to such material, I wouldn't be here today. I long to finish the latter film.
Taegukgi. A well-known Korean film about the Korean War. I saw it at a young age and it depressed me greatly, seeing the brothers split up. However the scene where the brother steps on a land-mine-early in the film- and is sent to an Aid-station really disturbed me. It shook me up and I felt a sensation never felt before. It gave birth to my interest in war. I now love films such as Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket. More so Band of Brothers.
I know what you're thinking, that didn't mess you up! Some beg to differ but I feel that without being exposed to such material, I wouldn't be here today. I long to finish the latter film.
Oddly I haven't really seen a movie that traumatized me. Any war movie is really emotional for me to watch, my dad was in Vietnam, my grandfather was at Pearl Harbor, I had a neighbor and good family friend that was part of D-day. There were parts of Passion of the Christ that I couldn't force myself to watch in the theater. I broke into tears. Now, I can get through it without crying horribly at least. I haven't attempted to watch it in a while, so I'm not sure I can make it through all that well.sexbutler said:
The Grudge, because of that damned kid, and I didn't even SEE the movie. That's purely from the trailers on TV at the time...
Arachnophobia scared the crap out of me growing up enough that I refuse to see it again and I really really really hate spiders now/still.
I lived in Florida in a neighborhood with a lot of undeveloped land when Jurassic Park came out, I had read the book with no problems, but after seeing the movie I was convinced there were out in the undergrowth around our house/lot. I was so paranoid when I had to go out and mow the lawn.
But really, I find myself always kinda glancing over my shoulder after seeing pretty much any horror movie.
Arachnophobia scared the crap out of me growing up enough that I refuse to see it again and I really really really hate spiders now/still.
I lived in Florida in a neighborhood with a lot of undeveloped land when Jurassic Park came out, I had read the book with no problems, but after seeing the movie I was convinced there were out in the undergrowth around our house/lot. I was so paranoid when I had to go out and mow the lawn.
But really, I find myself always kinda glancing over my shoulder after seeing pretty much any horror movie.
When I was four my dad apparently thought it was a good idea to let me watch James Cameron's "Aliens."
I'm arachnophobic.
For a solid month I couldn't sleep because of that scene with Ripley and Newt trapped in MedLab with the two facehuggers. I couldn't fall asleep, constantly wondering if there was one hiding somewhere in my room like in the movie. Once I finally managed to fall asleep because of sheer exhaustion I'd have nightmares about that MedLab scene and wake up screaming.
The kicker? Now that I've grown up it's probably one of my favorite movies. Go freakin' figure.
I'm arachnophobic.
For a solid month I couldn't sleep because of that scene with Ripley and Newt trapped in MedLab with the two facehuggers. I couldn't fall asleep, constantly wondering if there was one hiding somewhere in my room like in the movie. Once I finally managed to fall asleep because of sheer exhaustion I'd have nightmares about that MedLab scene and wake up screaming.
The kicker? Now that I've grown up it's probably one of my favorite movies. Go freakin' figure.
Requiem for a Dream for me. When i saw it, i felt really bad inside, and wasnt able to really get up from my seat for about an hour. I'm glad i watched it with my girlfriend so we could talk about it.
Mr. Ando of The Woods
It destroyed my mental integrity and I regressed to a terrified parody of a man unable to do anything but make proto-linguistic sounds of utter bewilderment for several hours upon my first viewing. I would post a youtube link, but I'm far to terrified to click on the video.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote at length about things too alien for the human mind to fully comprehend. I never dreamed that a human being could create images to illustrate this utterly alien terror, and yet we have Mr. Ando of The Woods.
If you wish to look it up, be forewarned, this short film will change your life.
It destroyed my mental integrity and I regressed to a terrified parody of a man unable to do anything but make proto-linguistic sounds of utter bewilderment for several hours upon my first viewing. I would post a youtube link, but I'm far to terrified to click on the video.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote at length about things too alien for the human mind to fully comprehend. I never dreamed that a human being could create images to illustrate this utterly alien terror, and yet we have Mr. Ando of The Woods.
If you wish to look it up, be forewarned, this short film will change your life.
Another vote for Watership Down. That movie...shit...I had nightmares about it like no other film has ever caused in me since and even at the age of 37, I still really don't like it.
I thought the Antichrist movie was a bit dull myself and I am wracking my brains trying to think of which bit has bothered people (I'm assuming the bit where she cuts off part of her genitalia?). But then gore/graphic violence really does not bother me. Put it this way:
In the early days of cinema, people would rub screaming from footage of what they perceived as a train coming towards them. Then they became a little more sophisticated and understood what they were looking at and it stopped being so frightening.
That is kind of how I feel about violence in films. Am I desensitised? Perhaps. But I understand that what I am looking at is prosthetics and bits of rubber and fake blood, or CGI, or camera trickery. None of it is ever real and because I know that, it really is a non-issue for me. I think it manifestly unlikely that any scene of cinematic violence will ever "mess me up". At best it is a good performance by a screaming actor. At worst, I know that when "cut" is called, people simply stand up and walk away as if nothing ever happened because, well, nothing happened.
Of course, Watership Down is not real either. But the themes, and perhaps the memory of how much it upset me as a kid, are still troubling (probably the later).
I thought the Antichrist movie was a bit dull myself and I am wracking my brains trying to think of which bit has bothered people (I'm assuming the bit where she cuts off part of her genitalia?). But then gore/graphic violence really does not bother me. Put it this way:
In the early days of cinema, people would rub screaming from footage of what they perceived as a train coming towards them. Then they became a little more sophisticated and understood what they were looking at and it stopped being so frightening.
That is kind of how I feel about violence in films. Am I desensitised? Perhaps. But I understand that what I am looking at is prosthetics and bits of rubber and fake blood, or CGI, or camera trickery. None of it is ever real and because I know that, it really is a non-issue for me. I think it manifestly unlikely that any scene of cinematic violence will ever "mess me up". At best it is a good performance by a screaming actor. At worst, I know that when "cut" is called, people simply stand up and walk away as if nothing ever happened because, well, nothing happened.
Of course, Watership Down is not real either. But the themes, and perhaps the memory of how much it upset me as a kid, are still troubling (probably the later).
Near the end it changes, the series brought in new characters and plot lines.Sober Thal said:
Damn you all, you just reminded me of my old recurring nightmare I had as a child.
DAMN YOU ALL.