A movie that messed you up

[Nouw]

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.

 

[the spud]

The 1980s Transformers movie.

That movie had a body count higher than almost any other movie I know.

The scene that really got to me was the one where they were dropping the autobots into the acid vat.

Seriously, that shit will give you nightmares.

 

[sassafrasses]

I want to know what movie you have seen that traumatised you. It could be Bambi and Bambi's mum famously taking a 338 Lapua to the frontal lobe, or it could be Saw... in general.

Me? I saw Antichrist. Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsborough, 2 hours of mindrape. I highly recommend it to those with strong stomachs.

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.

 

[Talydia]

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.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

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.

 

[Evil Imp 1138]

The South Park movie. It introduced me to swearing, and honestly, it wasn't that good.

 

[PonySlaystation]

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.

 

[Phishfood]

The Grudge, that little girl scared the crap out of me. I could not look at scary movies the after...

ARGH! that was creepy....the NOISE she made...I forgot all about that movie. Gonna go curl up in a corner under my desk for a while now.

 

[Iron Lightning]

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.

 

[Valksy]

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).

 

[The Human Torch]

Splice.

Me and my girlfriend actually felt sick to our stomach after seeing this movie.

 

[Tonythion]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

seriously wtf were you watching as a child! I'm traumatized just by watching a minute of that video!

 

[TheIronRuler]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

No I don't think it's a kids film either. The book is even worse and it was apparently a story the author made up on a long car journey to keep his kids entertained.

I only read the first 20 some pages or so of the book, it seemed like it was word for word, scene for scene, the same. I have never heard of another film being as close to a book as this one was.

You saying the book is 'worse' really makes me want to read it again... Thanks!

Near the end it changes, the series brought in new characters and plot lines.
Damn you all, you just reminded me of my old recurring nightmare I had as a child.
DAMN YOU ALL.

 

[darraghmck]

Marley and me. Just, jesus christ like...

 

[Fiend13]

Technically not a movie but the latest season finale of Torchwood. Still shivering thinking about that.

 

[Kenji_03]

9 months with Hugh Grant. I will never think having kids is fun, EVER, after seeing that movie.

 

[Vrex360]

Pet Sematary.

I was twelve when I saw it and I had weeks worth of nightmares and terror and subsequent trauma. I would later discover that I'd lost my sense of fear. To this day, I can't feel fear properly.

It really did mess me up majorly. The most scared I've ever been by a movie.

 

[tzimize]

Psychologically strong movies I've seen:

Antichrist
Saw (only the first, the rest is garbage)
Oldboy of course
Buried was also surprisingly good

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Togs]

A touch pathetic but Butterfly Effect, that one had me creeped out for days.

 

[.No.]

There was a thread on most disturbing film, and a lot of people said it was A Serbian Film. I just HAD to look it up. I didn't see it, just read the plot on wikipedia. If you even think about laughing during that movie, please fellate a shotgun. I legitimately couldn't sleep after reading it, and I'm not fazed by any of the Saw movies.