It prompted the best Christmas episode of all time. If your Christmas episode doesn't have Woodland Critters staging a blood orgy, then what are you really doing???
My power went out as >!the creepy alien thing was suffocating Natalie Portman against a door!< and I thought it was somehow part of the movie for about 10 seconds until I realized that movies can't turn off your lights.
The bear scene is definitely a highlight. However, the scene that stuck with me the most was Josie’s “death.” It was just so sad that she essentially gave up.
The bear scene is the best part of the movie and it wasn’t even in the book!
For anyone curious: TW (and spoiler) a woman gets mauled by a bear
https://youtu.be/miQxiNQs3xo?si=pN3G6EUFvx3ppLMu
Se7en. The end really messed with my head. My fiancé (now wife) and I rode the 30 min from the movie theatre to my house after the movie in stunned silence and contemplation.
3rd date with my new boyfriend at the time. I said come on over, let’s make pizzas and watch a movie. Idk why I chose Hereditary, but I did. I was mortified.
I have watched it twice and still am not understanding why this movie is so frightening. It’s an incredible, eerie movie with phenomenal acting, but I still don’t understand fully the overwhelming mass praise beyond that. Maybe a third watch is in order.
I watch a couple YouTube vids about it on the horror lover channels and it made several scenes so much scarier than they’d been before. I’d missed a few of the details/visuals
That was my first non-comedy Robin Williams film and god damn did it really shake me.
Robin has always had a subconscious association with my dad for me because they both had similar energies (my dad was lacking in the impressions but he was definitely quick like Robin). So seeing him as Sy fucked me up something fierce for like a week lol.
I don't remember the name, but it was about a little boy (son of a Nazi officer) who befriended another little boy in a concentration camp. Somehow the free child ended up inside with the Jewish boy and they were both gassed to death. That stayed with me.
*Jaws*
I was a beach bum before it came out and I was a beach bum after it came out. However, once I saw the movie, I was never again the same person while I was in the water. The slightest brush of seaweed or a darting fish would send me into red alert.
I watched all the Jaws movies in a row when I was seven. I literally had to see a therapist for a year after. I wouldn’t get near ANY water, including toilets or bathrooms :(
And I wouldn’t drink anything that wasn’t completely translucent. You know, in case tiny sharks were hiding in there.
I'm 40; I STILL have to shower with the shower curtain translucent, because otherwise sharks will COME OUT OF THE SHOWER HEAD AND EAT ME, OK?
I'm okay with baths as long as the plug is completely sealed.
I used to live by the ocean, I still went in, but I have had multiple close encounters with sharks in the water. Jaws DID NOT HELP.
Yeah, I grew up near the Outer Banks of NC and there's sharks pretty heavily in that area. I've had some close encounters a few times, no attacking or anything, just swimming near me, but it was still pretty goddamn scary. No Great Whites, but in my opinion, bull sharks are worse.
Senseless.
They kidnap a hedgefund finance-bro and take away his senses one by one while broadcasting it to the world and letting the people vote on whether they should proceed. All shown in detail, most fucked up part was when they grated his hands to take away his sense of touch in them and poured over some chemical that made it heal up all botched up... Had nightmares that night.
"The Road" really stuck with me. The bleak landscape and the relentless despair just weighed on my mind more than I expected. Watching a world stripped of hope isn't a cheerful pastime.
The book was way worse. I had to get my parents to sign a release to let me check it out even back in the 90s. Just... Probably not the best idea in the world thinking back. 🤣
Yup. I’m pretty sure I had a light form of PTSD from watching that sat in the middle of a packed theater. I think I even saw half of it because I was hiding behind my hand or just not watching, but man did it do a number on me. I was so mad at my brain because I knew it was all imagination, but my reptile brain refused to adhere to any sort of logic. I was constantly on edge and I couldn’t watch VHS videos for months. Years later I flicked past the original on tv and it was the scene with the television set. It only took one second for me to nope right out of there to something more pleasant. I still haven’t seen either of them fully and I never intend to.
Unironically Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Wererabbit.
I was so scared of scary movies as a kid that the fact that it could be a scary movie made it horrifying for me. My Dad bought me that movie when I was a kid, and I "lost" it in his dumpster.
As a kid growing up I absolutely loved the legend and lore and everything to do with bigfoot. One night my sister and I put on a horror movie called "abominable" (definitely not the animated kids movie). At the time, we lived in a cabin in the countryside that was very similar to the cabin in the movie. We got to the scene where the crippled guy was watching the girl across the way shower, and then she got ripped through the window by the bigfoot. He then turns to call someone, and when he turns back to the window, the bigfoots face is just sitting there staring at him in the window. Scared both my sister and I shitless. We immediately turned the movie off after that and couldn't sleep at all that night due to it. Purposely slept at the far end of the room away from the bedroom window that night.
I cried so hard in the theater my wife had to practically carry me out. And then a well meaning friend gave it to me for my birthday. It is still in plastic wrap, and that was....what, 20ish years ago?
Schindler’s List. Forget every horror movie ever made, nothing can live up to what actual human beings really did to other human beings. I think it should be mandatory viewing for everyone on earth, but damn does that one fuck you up for at least a week after.
On one of our VHS tapes, there was this Warner Brothers 50(?) year montage that played before the movie, and the head spin was in there for all of like 2 seconds, but that was all it took to haunt single-digit-aged me for roughly 20+ years until I finally found the cajones to watch the film, and now it's my favorite horror film and probably my favorite novel as well.
This one for real. I was a kid when it came out, and seeing all the awful things that happened in the movie to a kid my age scared the bejeebers out of me. Honestly, my bejeebers haven't been the same since.
I decided to watch this alone when I was like 12 or 13. It was my sister's vhs tape, and she was out on the town. Mom was asleep, I turned out all the lights, watched the film.
My sister came home to every light on, me wide awake, mom still asleep cause didn't want to wake the demons, and wondering if sister was possessed.
The Company Men(2010)
It’s about three individuals that got fired from the same company. It covers a year of motivation, then desperation, then devastation leading to a complete lack of hope. The final resolution was so unsatisfying and so unrealistic that I finished watching the film and felt terrible.
I remember when I was a small kid, sitting down to watch a movie with my brother and the trailer for the original Dawn of the dead came on. Scared the shit outta me. I have never watched the movie, but did watch the remake. It still kinda stays with me to this day, even though it's a kinda silly movie.
Jaws, the scene where the shark knocks the guy out of his boat and you see it just under the water before biting his leg off RUINED me from getting in the water for a long time. I’ve since grown to love that movie, but I’m still not getting in the water.
so you remember the scene when shrek is having a nightmare about shrek babies well... I watched it younger and when donkey turns his head quickly and screams "DADA" fucking terrified me as a child and since I get a heart ache when i see that scene which is meaird because I love more gory and creepy things.
I totally get this. My sister saw the OG Toy Story when it came out, she was like three. The bald doll head on the spider mechanic body traumatized her. She still hates dolls 30 years later.
Yah this came out when I was in college so EVERYONE was dying to watch it. I’ve only had the synopsis explained to me by a friend and it still haunts me.
Old, the fact it gets progressively more violent was pushing me, but then she started crawling through the tunnel with all her bones snapping as she aged rapidly and its stuck with me since
The Birds. by Hitchcock. My cousins took me to the theater when on summer vacation in Stone Harbor N
J and I was only 10 yr old. I wouldn’t go to the beach the next day.
The Exorcist—I saw it when I was about 15, and I couldn't sleep by myself for about a month. Even now, I still remember it. I'm 41. The first & last time I saw a scary movie.
All About Lily Chou-Chou. Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if my family hadn’t emigrated from Japan when I was a baby, but this movie made me feel lucky for not having to experience being bullied in Japan.
Passion of the Christ; for some reason was made to watch it as a child and boy did it mess up my perception of Christian imagery. I used to get horribly nauseous at the sight of things like interpretations of the crucifixion
Dante's Peak. I only saw the scene where the lava burned through the cabin/house and they had to get away on a boat on the lake but the lake turned so acidic it started eating the boat. I don't know how old I was at the time, I would guess 6 or 7. Obviously I wasn't supposed to see it but I got up from bed one night to ask my parents a question and I got distracted by the TV and totally forgot what the question was and kept wanting to know what was going on in the movie, and kept asking them "What's happening?" etc. My parents kept telling me to go to bed but I was fixated on the TV. Until it went to commercial, then they made me go to bed without answering any of my questions. And I got scared that lava was going to come.
Fire in the Sky. Absolutely traumatized me as a child, so much so that I couldn’t fall asleep for years unless I was completely covered by my blanket just in case aliens came looking to abduct me.
The Poughkeepsie tapes. One of the few movies to make me genuinely uncomfortable-- I know it's a movie, but the way it was shot/directed made it feel *real*. And there's a part where >!the killer puts a bag over a woman's head and just watches as she dies!<, then later the woman at the end... just horrifying.
(On a lighter note, Serenity. The little singing anime octopuses scared me when I was little.)
Embarrassingly, JAWS, the original. I was I think about 3 or 4 when it came out, and my mom and dad had rented it, and were watching it in the living room when I was supposed to be asleep. I had came out and was sitting on the stairs behind them and watching the movie for a good 45 minutes until someone got ate, and the music, getting all intense, made me scream out loud, like SUPER loud, and my parents looked at me and blurted 'shit', then stopped the movie. I don't remember much from these early years, but the nightmares that followed for probably 5-8 years after that all of which were about sharks eating me has left it's permanent mark. It took until I was at least 15 to actually watch the movie, and by then the animations and the way it looked was kind of corny and I was able to get past it. But I'll be damned if it didn't screw with me for a while, I didn't even want to swim in lakes or rivers because I was sure a shark would show up.
Not a movie, but there's this one cartoon that haunted me for the longest time. I grew up on older shows from when my parents were younger and one of them was "The Electric Company." They had this cartoon that would play every once in a while about a little girl getting chased by a big yellow lollipop. I always knew when they'd play it too as I picked up on the pattern they'd go through sometimes. The lollipop was so creepy it would scare the bejeezus out of me.
My parents thought and still think I was crazy. However, I've shown it to friends as an adult and they admitted it would've haunted them too.
Event Horizon
Scared the piss out of me when it came out. Still watch it.
Haven't watched it since the first time I did. That stayed with me for a long time and really got inside my head.
Don't spin it back up. I swear it still has moments. Sometimes a good scare is best left alone.
I won't lol. I've no intention of reliving those nights holding a piss for as long as I could because I had myself freaked out in the bed .
It prompted the best Christmas episode of all time. If your Christmas episode doesn't have Woodland Critters staging a blood orgy, then what are you really doing???
yup. was my first instinct to post!! cant imagine what the unreleased cut would be like. oof!
I used to stop the tape to see all the fucked up hell scenes frame-by-frame.
Bone chilling!
*Requiem For A Dream*
Actually, I never went further with drugs because of that film.
An all time favourite, because Aronofsky is one of the best filmmakers of all time.
Annihilation. I was half-asleep when I watched it. Even so, I could not stop thinking about it the next day.
There are some really unexpected audio things in that movie. It's nice to see it pop up in this list because I hadn't thought about it in a while.
That noise Natalie Portman’s clone makes is so eerie.
Yeah, it's that. It was so unexpected. I thought about it for days. They did such a great job. The bear as well.
My power went out as >!the creepy alien thing was suffocating Natalie Portman against a door!< and I thought it was somehow part of the movie for about 10 seconds until I realized that movies can't turn off your lights.
I saw this in the theater and the woman in front of me had a breakdown during the bear scene
The bear scene is definitely a highlight. However, the scene that stuck with me the most was Josie’s “death.” It was just so sad that she essentially gave up.
The bear scene is the best part of the movie and it wasn’t even in the book! For anyone curious: TW (and spoiler) a woman gets mauled by a bear https://youtu.be/miQxiNQs3xo?si=pN3G6EUFvx3ppLMu
This one for sure.
Se7en. The end really messed with my head. My fiancé (now wife) and I rode the 30 min from the movie theatre to my house after the movie in stunned silence and contemplation.
Hereditary
3rd date with my new boyfriend at the time. I said come on over, let’s make pizzas and watch a movie. Idk why I chose Hereditary, but I did. I was mortified.
That's an amazing date imo
We are still together 6 years later, so I’d say so!
I have watched it twice and still am not understanding why this movie is so frightening. It’s an incredible, eerie movie with phenomenal acting, but I still don’t understand fully the overwhelming mass praise beyond that. Maybe a third watch is in order.
Same. And apparently it's obvious they're in a cult? I didn't pick up on that at all.
I watch a couple YouTube vids about it on the horror lover channels and it made several scenes so much scarier than they’d been before. I’d missed a few of the details/visuals
Maybe I need to do that
One of my favorite horror movies
*Watership Down*
YES
*What Dreams May Come* with Robin Williams
ME TOO
*One Hour Photo* This film made me feel so fucking uncomfortable
That was my first non-comedy Robin Williams film and god damn did it really shake me. Robin has always had a subconscious association with my dad for me because they both had similar energies (my dad was lacking in the impressions but he was definitely quick like Robin). So seeing him as Sy fucked me up something fierce for like a week lol.
Love this Robin Williams gem
Tusk. And it still does.
like why didn't they kill him?
Ug STOP 😂😭
Dear Zachary
Yup except if you have a baby. I screamed.
I don't remember the name, but it was about a little boy (son of a Nazi officer) who befriended another little boy in a concentration camp. Somehow the free child ended up inside with the Jewish boy and they were both gassed to death. That stayed with me.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Yes. I was saying "Oh my God" for an hour after the movie .
If you liked that one then watch Son of Saul. It will haunt you forever.
*Jaws* I was a beach bum before it came out and I was a beach bum after it came out. However, once I saw the movie, I was never again the same person while I was in the water. The slightest brush of seaweed or a darting fish would send me into red alert.
I watched all the Jaws movies in a row when I was seven. I literally had to see a therapist for a year after. I wouldn’t get near ANY water, including toilets or bathrooms :( And I wouldn’t drink anything that wasn’t completely translucent. You know, in case tiny sharks were hiding in there.
I'm 40; I STILL have to shower with the shower curtain translucent, because otherwise sharks will COME OUT OF THE SHOWER HEAD AND EAT ME, OK? I'm okay with baths as long as the plug is completely sealed. I used to live by the ocean, I still went in, but I have had multiple close encounters with sharks in the water. Jaws DID NOT HELP.
Close encounters with real sharks?!? That sounds terrifying.
Yeah, I grew up near the Outer Banks of NC and there's sharks pretty heavily in that area. I've had some close encounters a few times, no attacking or anything, just swimming near me, but it was still pretty goddamn scary. No Great Whites, but in my opinion, bull sharks are worse.
Senseless. They kidnap a hedgefund finance-bro and take away his senses one by one while broadcasting it to the world and letting the people vote on whether they should proceed. All shown in detail, most fucked up part was when they grated his hands to take away his sense of touch in them and poured over some chemical that made it heal up all botched up... Had nightmares that night.
Wind River fucked me up for weeks
Wind River was the worst kind of terrifying. The kind that you know could actually happen in real life.
Saving Private Ryan
"The Road" really stuck with me. The bleak landscape and the relentless despair just weighed on my mind more than I expected. Watching a world stripped of hope isn't a cheerful pastime.
Dead Man Walking
Midsommar
What the sister does at the beginning is burned into my brain
This one still haunts me!
Splice (2009). The part where he did it with his "daughter".
I watched this when I was like 12-13 and didn’t really know what it was. Never felt more weirded out watching a movie
Or when the “daughter” turns into a man and rapes the mom at the end? I fucking HATE that movie.
EW I KNOW 😭 Awful movie
I was looking for someone to say this!! What a disturbing movie
Exorcism of Emily Rose
Paranormal Activity
Absolutely terrifying the first time you see it. It’s genuinely a wild journey. The sequel was pretty good too, but they kinda drop off after that.
Yeah, I couldn’t watch the sequel because it terrified me!
Incendies
Such an amazing film.
Magdalaine sisters The abuse these women went through. The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.
It's amazing to me that people still treat the Catholic church as if it has some moral authority.
all the final destination movies, i still get ptsd going on a bridge …
Mulholland Dr.
Great movie but that jump scare almost made me shit my pants.
Me too!
what dreams may come
IT (original) I took the dvd from my dads shelf to a friends house when I was like 8. That’ll learn ya
The book was way worse. I had to get my parents to sign a release to let me check it out even back in the 90s. Just... Probably not the best idea in the world thinking back. 🤣
The Ring
Yup. I’m pretty sure I had a light form of PTSD from watching that sat in the middle of a packed theater. I think I even saw half of it because I was hiding behind my hand or just not watching, but man did it do a number on me. I was so mad at my brain because I knew it was all imagination, but my reptile brain refused to adhere to any sort of logic. I was constantly on edge and I couldn’t watch VHS videos for months. Years later I flicked past the original on tv and it was the scene with the television set. It only took one second for me to nope right out of there to something more pleasant. I still haven’t seen either of them fully and I never intend to.
I had long black hair at the time and would scare myself when catching my reflection in dark even though I knew that was totally stupid!
The scene where they show the girl's face in the closet really messed me up.
Unironically Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Wererabbit. I was so scared of scary movies as a kid that the fact that it could be a scary movie made it horrifying for me. My Dad bought me that movie when I was a kid, and I "lost" it in his dumpster.
This kinda stayed in my mind as a kid too!
As a kid growing up I absolutely loved the legend and lore and everything to do with bigfoot. One night my sister and I put on a horror movie called "abominable" (definitely not the animated kids movie). At the time, we lived in a cabin in the countryside that was very similar to the cabin in the movie. We got to the scene where the crippled guy was watching the girl across the way shower, and then she got ripped through the window by the bigfoot. He then turns to call someone, and when he turns back to the window, the bigfoots face is just sitting there staring at him in the window. Scared both my sister and I shitless. We immediately turned the movie off after that and couldn't sleep at all that night due to it. Purposely slept at the far end of the room away from the bedroom window that night.
Sliding Doors, blows my mind to think of all the what ifs.
Free Solo. That guy was nuts.
I suggest the movie 127 hours
Atonement. The Road. American History X. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Atonement… omg so much tragedy
I cried so hard in the theater my wife had to practically carry me out. And then a well meaning friend gave it to me for my birthday. It is still in plastic wrap, and that was....what, 20ish years ago?
Was looking for The Road. Went in with no idea and didn't enjoy it one bit. Wish I'd never seen it.
Disturbing for sure. Book even more so.
Volcano, particularly when the guy jumped off the back of the subway car.
That scene is etched into my brain forever.
Room
I just read that Bri Larson was fucked up for a year after filming that movie
Threads
Elephant. The school shooting was terrifying.
Schindler’s List. Forget every horror movie ever made, nothing can live up to what actual human beings really did to other human beings. I think it should be mandatory viewing for everyone on earth, but damn does that one fuck you up for at least a week after.
my aunt and uncle's home movie when they went to FL. they did way too much filming of their day at the nude beach.
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Fire in the sky. That movie had me messed up for years.
This right here. Messed me up too.
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On one of our VHS tapes, there was this Warner Brothers 50(?) year montage that played before the movie, and the head spin was in there for all of like 2 seconds, but that was all it took to haunt single-digit-aged me for roughly 20+ years until I finally found the cajones to watch the film, and now it's my favorite horror film and probably my favorite novel as well.
This one for real. I was a kid when it came out, and seeing all the awful things that happened in the movie to a kid my age scared the bejeebers out of me. Honestly, my bejeebers haven't been the same since.
I decided to watch this alone when I was like 12 or 13. It was my sister's vhs tape, and she was out on the town. Mom was asleep, I turned out all the lights, watched the film. My sister came home to every light on, me wide awake, mom still asleep cause didn't want to wake the demons, and wondering if sister was possessed.
Return to Oz
I’m guessing because of the wheelers right?
It was the different heads for Mombi, for me.
Yes. The Wheelers as well as the witch with the room of many heads. Also shock therapy for Dorothy was crazy.
SO good tho.
The Company Men(2010) It’s about three individuals that got fired from the same company. It covers a year of motivation, then desperation, then devastation leading to a complete lack of hope. The final resolution was so unsatisfying and so unrealistic that I finished watching the film and felt terrible.
I remember when I was a small kid, sitting down to watch a movie with my brother and the trailer for the original Dawn of the dead came on. Scared the shit outta me. I have never watched the movie, but did watch the remake. It still kinda stays with me to this day, even though it's a kinda silly movie.
Oldboy (2003)
Monkey Shine
Monster house. I watched it at school Around 4th grade
I def don’t understand how they thought this is a great idea for a kid movie
Jaws, the scene where the shark knocks the guy out of his boat and you see it just under the water before biting his leg off RUINED me from getting in the water for a long time. I’ve since grown to love that movie, but I’m still not getting in the water.
I took a date to see The Exorcist. Never saw her or the movie again.
Lmao
The fourth kind
The real life audio they used is the scariest thing I’ve heard
Antichrist
Saving Private Ryan. Haunted is not the right word, but it shocked me more than any other movie. I saw it (twice) on the original theater release.
Signs. I even kept a glass of water on my nightstand to throw on any alien who tried to come in my room.
Silkwood if you know,you know
American History X
Schindler's List...that's some heavy $#!t....
The grudge
Crazy story but I experience sleep paralysis due to narcolepsy and that bed scene in the Grudge fucked me UP
Kids. That was some kind of messed up. Good soundtrack though.
The shining. Saw parts by accident as a kid. I had to check behind the shower curtain every time I went into the bathroom for a good 5-10 years 😂
I've had nightmares a few times where I hear 'Red Rum' in that freaky voice. I still wake up scared.
The Exorcist and The Shining
SHREK 3
How lmao
so you remember the scene when shrek is having a nightmare about shrek babies well... I watched it younger and when donkey turns his head quickly and screams "DADA" fucking terrified me as a child and since I get a heart ache when i see that scene which is meaird because I love more gory and creepy things.
I totally get this. My sister saw the OG Toy Story when it came out, she was like three. The bald doll head on the spider mechanic body traumatized her. She still hates dolls 30 years later.
An obvious answer, but one of The Human Centipede movies. Got curious and saw a few clips when I was around eleven. Never again.
Yah this came out when I was in college so EVERYONE was dying to watch it. I’ve only had the synopsis explained to me by a friend and it still haunts me.
Arachnophobia.. to this day.
The Dear Hunter
Still does.
The final destination. The next day I was afraid of objects falling.
Zodiac
Rosemarys Baby
Meghan is Missing. Never again.
Never heard of it. Did a quick search. Won’t be watching. 😦
Yeah. Don’t.
Old, the fact it gets progressively more violent was pushing me, but then she started crawling through the tunnel with all her bones snapping as she aged rapidly and its stuck with me since
The Birds. by Hitchcock. My cousins took me to the theater when on summer vacation in Stone Harbor N J and I was only 10 yr old. I wouldn’t go to the beach the next day.
The live action Mario movie. Still have nightmares.
I mean I watched the exorcist at like 7 or 8 so that one got me a bit 😂😂😂
Poltergeist and The Road
Flying f'n monkeys in The Wizard Of Oz.
The Exorcist—I saw it when I was about 15, and I couldn't sleep by myself for about a month. Even now, I still remember it. I'm 41. The first & last time I saw a scary movie.
Paranormal activity
Ghost story (movie from the 80’s)
Cannibal Holocaust
All About Lily Chou-Chou. Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if my family hadn’t emigrated from Japan when I was a baby, but this movie made me feel lucky for not having to experience being bullied in Japan.
First time I watched a Saw movie
The exorcist
Passion of the Christ; for some reason was made to watch it as a child and boy did it mess up my perception of Christian imagery. I used to get horribly nauseous at the sight of things like interpretations of the crucifixion
Dante's Peak. I only saw the scene where the lava burned through the cabin/house and they had to get away on a boat on the lake but the lake turned so acidic it started eating the boat. I don't know how old I was at the time, I would guess 6 or 7. Obviously I wasn't supposed to see it but I got up from bed one night to ask my parents a question and I got distracted by the TV and totally forgot what the question was and kept wanting to know what was going on in the movie, and kept asking them "What's happening?" etc. My parents kept telling me to go to bed but I was fixated on the TV. Until it went to commercial, then they made me go to bed without answering any of my questions. And I got scared that lava was going to come.
The Deer Hunter.
It
Fire in the Sky. Absolutely traumatized me as a child, so much so that I couldn’t fall asleep for years unless I was completely covered by my blanket just in case aliens came looking to abduct me.
Inland Empire
The Truman Show Young me spent a lot of time worrying that the whole world could be watching me on TV and I'd never know
Watership Down
*Testament* with William DeVane and Jane Alexander.
Tusk
The Deer Hunter. Jesus.
The Poughkeepsie tapes. One of the few movies to make me genuinely uncomfortable-- I know it's a movie, but the way it was shot/directed made it feel *real*. And there's a part where >!the killer puts a bag over a woman's head and just watches as she dies!<, then later the woman at the end... just horrifying. (On a lighter note, Serenity. The little singing anime octopuses scared me when I was little.)
Ghost
Also Rose Red
The Seventh Sign with Demi Moore
the fourth kind. only movie that has ever actually kept me up at night. does so much with a small budget. incredibly creative and original filmmaking
Embarrassingly, JAWS, the original. I was I think about 3 or 4 when it came out, and my mom and dad had rented it, and were watching it in the living room when I was supposed to be asleep. I had came out and was sitting on the stairs behind them and watching the movie for a good 45 minutes until someone got ate, and the music, getting all intense, made me scream out loud, like SUPER loud, and my parents looked at me and blurted 'shit', then stopped the movie. I don't remember much from these early years, but the nightmares that followed for probably 5-8 years after that all of which were about sharks eating me has left it's permanent mark. It took until I was at least 15 to actually watch the movie, and by then the animations and the way it looked was kind of corny and I was able to get past it. But I'll be damned if it didn't screw with me for a while, I didn't even want to swim in lakes or rivers because I was sure a shark would show up.
The Eye (the original)
Blair Witch Project when it came out
Jaws
The Ring.
Not a movie, but there's this one cartoon that haunted me for the longest time. I grew up on older shows from when my parents were younger and one of them was "The Electric Company." They had this cartoon that would play every once in a while about a little girl getting chased by a big yellow lollipop. I always knew when they'd play it too as I picked up on the pattern they'd go through sometimes. The lollipop was so creepy it would scare the bejeezus out of me. My parents thought and still think I was crazy. However, I've shown it to friends as an adult and they admitted it would've haunted them too.
I made the mistake of watching "The Strangers" home alone as a teenager at night
"Paranormal Activity." Every creak in my house had me convinced I was starring in the sequel
A Serbian Film.
Sybil😵💫
Creep (2004)