Casual Shinji said:
ad5x5 said:
The cutting open of the live baby's stomach in Eraserhead.
You forgot the moment right after that when the baby's head grows exponentially untill it fills the entire room.
I'll never watch that movie again, that was fucking weird.
Yeah, that was possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. The scene you described, where the worm-baby's head grows and... eats him?, and the scene where the main character discovers that worms or some shit were coming out of the woman's vagina, or the screaming chicken dinner at the beginning with the smiling father cutting it open as it bled out... Jesus Christ, that movie was fucking strange. I watched it with a bunch of friends and they all laughed, but the surreal imagery disturbed me terribly.
The only movie I ever walked out on was A Clockwork Orange for the rape scene in the beginning. A film has never brought me so close to vomiting. Ever since then, I've always been careful to learn ahead of time that the movie I'm watching next has nothing of the sort in it, whatsoever. I can tolerate a lot of stuff, but I can't tolerate rape. It hits home for me especially, being a woman and knowing victims of rape. I've never watched Deliverance and a bunch of other movies mentioned here because of it.
Some other movies that gave me trouble were King Kong, where the guy got slowly eaten alive, screaming, by that giant tube worm, and Saving Private Ryan where the soldier in the Normandy sequence is near death and screaming for his mother. The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth was awful, too, with the boney legs, dangling skin, and pinholes where the eyes should be... Eeegh.
Jacob's Ladder was the most nightmare-inducing film I've ever seen, though. The fact that it was a psychological sort of haunting that you could never escape from (remember the hell scene, and what he heard right after? *shudder*) was terrifying. The faceless people always watching, the demons that mutilated people, the teeth in the head of that receptionist, all the other terrified veterans experiencing the same things, the fact that strange men in power were stopping them from ever getting help... Oh, god. Brilliant movie, just absolutely horrifying in every way.