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I saw Fennel posted on the 'we need to talk about Kevin' thread saying she's just seen the film and wished she hadn't

I really wish I hadn't seen 'Seven' I found it really disturbing.

Any other films you recommend avoiding?

not really what you asked but I have read the Kevin book. Now I know the film won't be the same exactly, but the book has told me I don't wish to see it.

I watched the Shining and was quite distressed by it (but I was young teenage)

Don't Go In The House

Saw it about 25 years ago and am still frighterned by some of the images that happened too quickly for me to hide my eyes.

The Cube.

<shudder>

Yes, the twins in The Shining <shakes>

Blood Diamond. It disturbed me beyond belief.

nothing really, but tend to avoid film i know will upset me like sophie's choice and schindler's list.

I read the thread title and immediaty thought of Seven too. Had I not been with a large group I would have left in the middle. It was horrible, and the thought of the writers coming up with all those awful set pieces, with horror laid on horror. I find the thought of that disturbing actually.

Funny games.....really haunted me.

Schindler's list was terrible but in a good way iykwim - excellent film, awful subject but it happened, I don't think it should be forgotten and ultimately it is a story about bravery and survival. Having said that, I am not sure I ever want to see it again. Maybe one day.

The Pianist, couldn't stop thinking about it for days afterwards. An excellent film but i wouldn't choose to watch it again.

Thefallenmadonna - I am glad it's not just me. I don't watch gruesome stuff but seven caught me out, I saw it at the cinema having heard it was good but didn't really know what it was about, it was vile.

I remember seeing seven when I was still in highschool, can't remember how old but def under 15. I can't say it bothered me at all really, I thought it was crap.

However the hills have eyes is horrendous. Only watched some of it then it got to the rape scene and I walked out. Can't forget what I did see though I think I was 17 or 18 at the time.

Now I refuse to watch horror, weepy films or violent thrillers because they upset me too much.

Feel I have to add that my mum didn't know I saw either of those films, they wereseen at friends houses.

My mum banned us from watching a clockwork orange and silence of the lambs because they were the two films she has seen that really bothered her. I have to say I trust her judgement and I have no inclination to watch either of them.

I haven't actually seen the film but my mum gave me the scene by scene account of the Boy in the Striped pyjamas. I cried just listening to the plot and have vowed never to watch it. I couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards.

Dead Ringers - with Jeremy Irons. Critically acclaimed but very traumatising.
The Krays - just deeply unpleasant
Trainspotting - obviously a "have to see" zeitgeist kind of film, but again left me feeling traumatised. The dead baby bit haunted me for weeks afterwards.

Irreversible.

Traumatic ain't the word.

'Silence of the Lambs' is very disturbing - not Hannibal Lector so much as the poor senator's daughter who is kidnapped and kept in a well by herself. Really sick.

'Requiem for a Dream' is the most disturbing film I've ever seen. I think it's completely brilliant but I was practically curled into a ball and wailing by the end. The last 30 minutes feel like a walk through hell.

Ring.

Up until seeing it horror films were my favourite genre but now I can't watch any of them. It really, really disturbed me for ages <shudder>

'Irreversible' - I've been toying with the idea of watching this for years Poppy because I'm intrigued by it but I have very little stomach for sexual violence and I understand there is an excruciating 8 minute rape scene. I think I should probably just carry on giving it a miss!

I saw something recently where a female army cadet was tied down and gang raped. The thing that really upset me about it was that it was supposed to be entertainment - it wasn't some sick shock horror hollywood thing to get people talking, it was something like Midsummer Murders. Is gang rape really entertaining?

Salvador. Videodrome.
I dont do horror films any more. Jack Nicholson's face at the end of the Shining is terrifying

The Descent. At one level a regular kill-them-one-by-one horror, but the false ending, where at first you sigh with relief as the main character seems to escape her fate and then realise it was only a hallucination and there will in fact be no escape for her makes it just too disturbing.

I suppose watching horror films provides us with catharsis for our own deep fears, but if there is no redemption for the character set up to represent us we are left with the message that there is no hope - and it is hope which keeps us putting one foot in front of the other in life.

So although I left the cinema thinking "Gosh, that was exciting!" I felt it had planted a nasty little seed in my brain's poisonous plant-patch where the "Oh god, what's the bloody point" weeds grow.

Reading a lot into it, perhaps, but then stories are never just stories.

Even DH was disturbed and he is chronically insensitive!

Come to think of it, I think Se7en falls into the same category.

Ah the descent, I consider that to verge most terrifying (but not most disturbing) film I have ever watched. I actually had a really awful sleep paralysis episode for the first and (hopefully) last time ever after watching that film. I actually had to sleep with the big light on for about a week.

I'm fine now though

I meant "consider that to be" not verge.

Jaws (I'm old). Spoilt my holidays <wuss emoticon>

A second vote for Irreversible. Epecially considering the relationships between the actors not that that should matter I just imagined how much harder it was for them than for us watching it.

Erm. Baise-moi is another film I wish I hadn't seen.

A film I wish I hadn't seen because it is so crap is Four Weddings and a Funeral - I watched it for the first time a few months ago and remembered why I hadn't wanted to see it in the first place. It's shite.

The best film I have ever seen that everyone had told me was crap was the Truman Show. it is one of my favourite films ever and everyone I know warned me off it.

Another one for Requiem For a Dream. Just kept thinking, surely there will be some kind of redemption or uplift, but no, down and down and down, relentlessly. Similarly, Dancer in the Dark. I was sobbing for 15 minutes after the film had ended.

Buried with Ryan Reynolds.

It was a very good film but really claustrophobic and left me feeling really strange.

Second vote for Jaws, I watched it when I was really young and still won't go in the sea anywhere. Don't really like swimming pools because of it either

The Last King of Scotland -just for that shot of his mutilated wife. Wanted to throw up all day, the image still comes intrusively into my mind.

Cannibal Holocaust - not the cannablism but horrific rape/ sexual violence scenes.

The Red Road - just heart breaking scenes relating to a mother whos child was killed. Can never forget the scenes where she stuffed his little clothes to make a "child" to cuddle.

I watched a lot of pretty extreme horror films as a teen/ young adult and really wish i didn't. But i didn't know then that i'd grow into an adult who only watches rom-coms but can still be freaked out by the memory of a horror film late at night!

I stopped at Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I listened to Die Hard 11, under the cinema chair. I have seen, 'Trainspotting' clips. This is where I don't get halligenic drugs. Imagine those images popping up. I like, 'Wings o' Desire', and, 'Drowning By Numbers', 'The Dead' and other deathy movies. Just without the gore.

hallucinogenic.

I wish I'd never watched 'The Road' - it really disturbed me and I kept thinking about it for ages, I hated the precariousness of their existence and the constant fear, plus the cannibals. Urgh.

Red Road - just heart breaking scenes relating to a mother whos child was killed. Can never forget the scenes where she stuffed his little clothes to make a "child" to cuddle

Oh yes I remember this Glimmerberry, it was unbearably sad

A Clockwork Orange was horrible and I wish I could un-watch it. The only other thing I can think of is not an actual film, but the news footage of an American politician who killed himself on live tv. Obviously very upsetting and I couldn't get the image out of my head for ages.

I'm with Hullygully on this. I saw Don't go in the house twenty something years ago and it frightened the life out of me. To this day I can't watch horror films, it was very nasty.

Rabbit proof fence. Those poor children

American History X. There's one scene in particular that I can't get out of my head and it must be at least 10 years since I watched it.

RoxyRobin but you could argue that the main character in The Descent does achieve escape, of a sort. It might not be the real happy ending kind but it's better than knowing and feeling what is actually happening to you. A bit like Jonathan Pryce at the end of Brazil.

Glimmerberry I sobbed my heart out at Red Road - great film. However, you have just totally given away the plot with your post!

I've been pretty good at avoiding truly nasty / distressing films but I do have issues with hotel corridors and mazes after seeing The Shining.

And I bottled out of surfing in Cornwall in the summer because of Jaws .

The Exorcist. It gave me nightmares for weeks. I still cannot look at a picture of a still from the film in a magazine without my heart thudding with fear. And that VOICE, I can bloody hear it now. And that subliminal flash of a picture of a devil right at the beginning, that gave me the creeps as well.

Ooh, I didn't think the Shining was scary at all, just very clever (and funny).

Mind you I watched it pretty much every day when I was 15 because I had a mad crush on Jack Nicholson.

I don't really want to think to deeply about what that says about my psyche

Secretary is one of the very very few films I didn't even manage to finish watching.

All the sexual stuff mixed in with the depression was really disturbing, as just felt girl was massively being taken advantage of and not really in her right mind to consent.

Maybe I'd feel differently if I knew how it ended but just can't bring myself to get that far.

The Mist.
I had just starter recovering from hyperemesis and dh didn't realise I would be distraught by a fim which ends badly in a parent-child stylee. I was wailing.

I love horror, but not if it is torture porn type stuff. Yuk.

Reading a synopsis of 'A Serbian Film' gave me nightmares.

The trailer of The human centipede made me shudder too. WHy would anyone want to see that?!

Whoops, sorry about my spoiler. Can i edit my post?

Agree about The Mist, the end is just harrowing and seems jarringly out of step with the rest of the film.

I watched City of God for the first time recently; what a mistake post partum.

Have watched a lot of horror films, but the only one I couldn't finish watching was Wolf Creek - the main character was just so scary I was practically paralysed with fear! Had to leave the room and had nightmares for a week afterwards, will never watch it again!

The Magdalene Sisters. And I saw it before having children. I think it would be the end of me now.

I have a list of films I won't inflict upon myself. La Vita e Bella, Sophie's Choice etc.

Sophie's choice, it really haunted me after I had my dcs. Still keeps me awake at times.

I watched a film with Nick Cage about a snuff movie, I think it was called 35mm, it was horrible. Such a dreadful storyline. I know snuff movies are urban legend, but even the thought of it makes me feel sick.

The Bogeyman..I was 8 and the babysitter put it on, now I would find it crap and offensive, then I found it terrifying

Just remembered another one.. not really a film but it was the last episode of M*A*S*H, Hawkeye has a nervous breakdown and he's recovering and having some therapy to help him remember why he had the breakdown. The real reason for his breakdown is heartbreaking.

Blimey, I haven't heard of half these films but I will be guaranteed not to watch any of them now.

Why do we do this to ourselves?! I watched seven without realising it was going to be so grim - I should have walked out of the cinema.

It - I was a teen, already had a fear of clowns <shudders> not recommended
Cujo - Now can't watch Beethoven for fear that he will turn into a psycho dog

There was also a film back in the late 80's early 90's called Eve of destruction about a cyborg woman who could only be killed by being poked in the eye. Still very squemish about eye things

Lorenzo's Oil. Even hearing the music makes me well up .

See I'm not bothered by gore, films like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre don't bother me, I just find them pretty tedious. Films with heartbreaking sadness traumatise me more.

That said I cannot stand zombie films, 28 Days Later left me unable to sleep with the lights off for weeks. Same with that film Channel 4 did about zombies invading the Big Brother set... I think it was called Dead Set. God that utterly freaked me out, because the ending is so grim.

Oh got another one for you... The Descent. Really really depressing ending. Utterly bleak.

Mine is kinda random. I still get shaken just thinking of the film A.I. People look at me like a loony when I tell them.
But, I went to see it about a month after I found out I was adopted and the imagery of a child simply being abandoned stirred up something in me that I still struggle to cope with. I cried from about 30 minutes in until about 3 hours after, people must have thought I was a nutter.

Oh God yes, Lorenzo's Oil It's really manipulative but in a brilliant way and just heartbreaking. The scenes of little Lorenzo having seizures are excruciating. And I don't have any DCs - parents must find it extra gut-wrenching!

It's not a film, but I watched the Fred West drama 'Appropriate Adult' on ITV in September and that proper messed me up! I literally got about 2 hours sleep after watching the second episode - every time I closed my eyes I saw his face and heard his voice. I was scared to get out of bed for a wee in the middle of the night! The program really got under my skin and just the thought of it still disturbs me. This extreme reaction was probably partly due to the completely fantastic acting and the fact that I had read a (nightmarish, sickening) book about Rose West a month before

Shutter Island - as I have MH issues in my past - and it just felt like sitting through a pastiche of years of medication, pyschiatrists, horror. Hardly entertainment. Also, I have to say Rendition. And Kite Runner. I understand these issues, I just think its v hard to produce entertainment out of them.

goldenbrown that's so sad

The Cube- messed with my head. Even.now thinking about it makes me feel weird.

The Road, I was in shock for days.

City of Life and Death about the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930's and enforced rape camps. It is an amazing film but made me feel sick to the stomach.

Oh Goldenbrown, I found AI utterly traumatizing (the first section and the last) and I don't have your history. You poor thing. People heap scorn on that film (certainly the middle section anyway) but it's incredibly well done, expert pulling of the heartstrings. I came home and tried to tell DH about it and just wept for ages, I couldn't speak. I curse the cynical bastards who made AI.

American History X the part with the teeth on the kerb still lives with me

Schindlers List with the hiding kids

A1 is one of the saddest films ever - I had a lump in throat almost all the way through and expected it to somehow redeem itself towards the end but it just stayed heartbreakingly sad.

Another vote for Dancer in the Dark. I was an absolute mess after that one.

Clockwork Orange

Also a film I can't remember about a couple who went camping in a forest and were attacked by a gang of teenagers. It was a quite a low budget brit flick but still makes me nervous walking the dog in the woods.

Casualties of War, with Sean Penn (and Michael J. Fox). I watched that in my early 20s and it still comes into my mind. Sean Penn is brilliant at being just so so vile and brutal. Very disturbing when you think it was based on similar real events.

I also remember The Accused had a very profound effect on me at the time, with the rape scene (Jodie Foster).

I cannot watch horror type films AT ALL. Dh recommended I watch "Dog Soldiers", actually a very entertaining mock-horror type British film with Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd and Liam "dishy" Cunningham, I can see why he liked it, its very well done (on a tiny budget i assume) but it gave me the creeps for weeks, as i never watch any of that type of film and am a total wuss!!!

Ooh, I just remembered "Westworld"! I have issues with robots and people not being who they say they are. Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger is terrifying, even more so when he's supposed to "die" and doesn't (shudder)
The root of this? The bloody fembots on "Six Million Dollar Man" No, I still cant watch them. SO daft.

A british film the lake something, about a couple who go camping in woods by a lake and are hunted and tortured by a group of youths. The most distubrbing thing i've seen.

edan lake. That is the name. sick sick film

Resevior Dogs - I haven't even seen the whole film but just hated it. The bit where they torture the policeman was the end for me, I'm usually a horror fan but that was just too realistic.

Has anyone seen The Lost Son?

It was/is the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Afilm about a Child kidnap/abuse ring with scenes of child rape.

I didn't sleep right for months...literally.

Please don't watch it

Just remembered a film I saw when I was a child (not horror but very sad) "who will love my children?" Iirc the mother had a terminal illness and found homes for her 10 children before she died.

I watched it again as a teenager and cried from start to finish. I wouldn't be able to watch it now I don't think.

Another vote for American History X here. Shudder.
Candyman is the most disturbing horror film I've seen. unrelentingly grim and suffocating.
I love the Shining and Silence of the Lambs- both clever tales of what the mind can do.

The exorsist has scenes in it I really wish I hadn't seen. That is truly one of the most disturbing films ever made. Brilliantly done, but truly hideous.

I haven't watched The Lost Son,but I purchased it recently because I'm a huge Daniel Auteuil fan. I might not watch it now.

I honestly,really wouldn't advise you to,LaFilleSurLePont
It seriously messed with my head. I know it was fiction,but knowing that shit really does go on...jeez,it shook me up. Give it a miss,I reckon.

Josie - do not watch. It is appalling. I cried so hard it was just terrible. Great acting, yes. But something you really do not want to see.

I would second requiem for a dream. Just got more and more depressing. When the film ended my DH and I just sat there. Wanting to jump in front of a train.

Sorry that was message for josierosie re irreversible. Not a film called Josie!

Candyman (don't say his name 4 times)

<runs away screaming>

jaws and psycho whoch made me a bit shitty about having a shower.

Sophie's Choice - haunts me forever

The Lovely Bones is the one I never want to see again.

another vote for Jaws. I am still wary when I am in the swimming pool

I am very shallow. I do not watch thought provoking or horror films. I just want to be entertained and feel good after. I usually have to stick with kids films

Salo is one of the wrongest films I have ever seen, banned for many years in the uk. Requiem for a dream I thought was well made but just when you thought it couldn't great any worse plunges to new depths. Irreversible was messed up too.

requiem for a dream- i loved it but it was so traumatic

the road- i want to watch it, but can't bring myself to do so

the exorcist- the horror that has stayed with me, saw it when i was 16, am 34 now and the thought of it still scares me shitless

the exorcism of emily rose- why the hell did i watch that given my terrified response to the exorcist?! idiot that i am.

Creep, The Saw, The Cube.

yes to Creep

Hannibal - that scene where the guy is unknowingly eating his own brain. Totally daft yet it really haunts me <shudder>

The Godfather - that horse's head.

Not a film, but so many of the Tudors episodes with the horrific torture methods. The recent one where on guy got a red hot poker shoved up his rear end - I cannot get that out of my head.

I am much much more sensitive to most things now that I've had children. I can't watch horror films at all any more.

Oh God, Saw is horrible. I don't even know why I watched it. The end scene where you think he's in a room with a dead body but it's really the man who's been setting up all the horrible deaths pretending to be dead. Terrifying.

Another vote for American History X. Although it's actually one of my favourite films but that scene really traumatised me. Even though you don't actually see anything, the sound and images you imagine are horrific. I've watched it a few times but I have to ff that bit.

I don't mind horror stuff at all, and I enjoy things like Seven because I seem to be able to detach them from reality. The ones that disturb me are anything that show historic violence or torture - I had to stop watching Last of the Mohicans years ago because I just couldn't bear the thought of what they did to each other. Same with Braveheart, and often anything to do with war. I had to build myself up for years before I could watch Saving Private Ryan.

Horror stuff is ok but anything that plays with your imagination can terrify me - Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity freaked me out much more than other graphic stuff.

Oh and the first film I saw that traumatised me for life was The Accused when I was about 16. That's one I wish I could un-see, along with the rape scene in the recent This is England series. I find rape extremely difficult to watch.

I wish I hadn't watched the video of Colonel Gadaffi's last moments.

I know what a complete bastard he was, but mob violence forcussed on one man is a really disturbing thing.

Gone Baby Gone is the only film I can think of that still disturbs me. I still think about it and it has been maybe 2 years since I've seen it. All of the lying and manipulating the mother did to cover up what happened when her daughter went missing and how she didn't give a shit when she was returned to her, and especially that paedophile family and what happened to that little boy that Casey Affleck's character found in their house. Most upsetting film.

GB - I am with you on 'Seven'. I think it was the most horrible thing I have ever seen and for years I couldn't forget the images.

TBH now I completely avoid films with anything disturbing in because of 'Seven' - my poor DH has to wait for me to go out before he can watch anything like that.

Hostel, I was depressed for ages afterwards when random scenes popped into my head...... Dead set, the zombie big brother tv series, had night mares for weeks, especially after reading up about a scientist that said an epidemic like zombies could be possible by crossing rabies with chickenpox (I can't remember the exact phrase but it scared the he'll out of me)

Would like to add 'Splice'. Some truly awful mind-boggling scenes where the man has sex with the girl alien. I wish i could remove those images from my mind as it was just WRONG! And the end bit where the man alien says to the women 'I want to be inside you' [shudder]. Watched it with friends otherwise i would have turned it off. Awful awful movie.

the entity,.

becuase it graphic sexual violence against a women by an 'entity'

and when i was younger 'based on a true story' was something i believed

Irreversible comes tops.

Someone mentioned the Nick Cage snuff one? 35mm or was it 8mm? disturbing and I couldnt watch it to the end.

An english film, road to Brighton? something Brighton anyway, about a prositute and runaway young girl. just not nice.

28 days later scared me for a long time.

Sixth sense had me scared to even put a flannel over my face in the bath without wondering who or what was behind me <shudder>

The scene un this is England where re tapes his daughter. I was in a hotel and couldn't work the telly quick enough to turn over/off. I can't think about it without feeling sick. Amazing acting. Truly awful scene

What about Seven Pounds the Will Smith film? I watched that knowing that it was upsetting but not really knowing what it was about. I still wasn't sure what made it so upsetting until right near the end when it suddenly hit me like a brick

If you've not seen it it's a good film but NOT one that will leave you in any way happy by the end.

The ring
Not long after my horse was put down, and the horse jumping off the ferry had me crying. I just found the whole film disturbing - I can do gore and blood but not stuff that messes with your head

I saw an award winning documentary called "Grizzley Man", about this guy who lives amongst bears in Alaska and subsequently gets eaten by one......l actually think I have some PTSD from this film. there is a horrifying live sound recording of the guy and his gf being killed - it is the most traumatic thing I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. Do yourself a favor and stay away

The Ring
Nightmare on Elm Street

I refused to watch Seven, Saw and pretty much any horror film for ages - the Ring was an exception and I wish I hadn't. Things that get you in your sleep bother me (perhaps stupidly) because you have no control there.

The Accused was vile.

There are a few books I don't need to read again either (I have a pretty graphic imagination and can't shift a couple of scenes):
The Sett by Sir Ranulph Fiennes - although it is described as a novel, and may well be, it is supposed to be a story by another person - and that person is thanked in the credits/acknowledgements for the book. As fiction it is bad enough, if it is real then it is 100x worse.
The KiteRunner - never again. Not so much the initial rape, but the child abuse of the first boy's son when he's only 4. Ugh
E.V.Thompson's Harvest of the Sun - E.V.Thompson was a policeman in the Drugs and Vice dept, and he has a brutal rape in every book of his I read. This was the worst. It still stays with me now, over 20 years later.
Anything by Karin Slaughter. She is a sick woman.

Thank you for starting this thread - it has warned me off several other films I may not have realised would be so bad.

And in another vein - never watch Seeker - The Dark is Rising; well not if you read the Susan Cooper books and have any fondness for them. It is a travesty, an absolute travesty.

Oh - I'd forgotten about irreversible (though it took me years to forget it!) - I watched it in a packed arts cinema and what made it worse was that I had the sense that certain of the audience were enjoying it!

Unthinkable - grim scenes of torture, meant to be really thought provoking, but too gory/horrendous for me.

Also had to stop Secretary after the first scene when she cut herself.

What lies beneath gave me a few nightmares (saw as a young & v sheltered teen though - inspector morse used to give me nightmares).

Pinocchio - the first time I ever went to the cinema, aged 6. Really traumatised me!

Lassie Come Home. I watched this as a young child in the 70's and it still upsets me.I I sobbed my heart out when the old man's dog got killed. Could never watch it again. The trailer for the remake was shown when I was pregnant for DD. I started crying in the cinema! Damn hormones!

Blue Velvet - Really disturbed me for a long time

Another vote for Funny Games- it made me feel uncomfortable and unsettled for quite a while afterwards, never had a film affect me like that before.

Clockwork Orange

I agree with Seven, it was horrible and also Erasorhead was far too disturbing for my liking

I've got no idea what happens by the end of La Vita e Bella because I just had to turn it off. I knew if I kept watching I would never get it out of my mind.

Also, a book. It's called The People of the Book; one scene depicts a man being tortured during the Inquisition. He is forced to swallow a length of cloth by having it put into his throat then litres of water poured down. They then pull it out bit by bit. God. I couldn't get that out of my head for ages.

sophie's choice

american history x

oh - the bone collector - that awful film where a new york cabbie is killing people he fetches from the airport. he is the reason we had to take a train in the middle of the night (and then ended up in a cab anyway!!!) terrifying!

ah. just remembered.

the absolute number one, without any doubt or other contenders is:

Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer

most chilling, frightening movie i have ever seen. was terrified of sleeping alone for years. it was so frightening because it was told in a docudrama sort of way. do NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ever watch this movie

Hotel Rwanda, great film, but couldn't watch it again.

There is an episode of the X Files that DH and I wish we'd never seen.It featured a woman trapped in a bed under the floorboards by a member/members of her incestous family.It was so awful I have blanked most of it from my mind.I was unable to eat my dinner after seeing that.

My friend and I went to see a film, can't recall what but it was sold out so watched 28 Days Later like this but behind our hands and halfway down the seat so we couldn't see the screen properly.

Also My Little Eye was an horrific film!! Didn't know what it was going to be about and turned out to be a snuff film style with people been killed upclose to the camera - HORRIFIC!!

I remember that episode vividly and feel the same.

Def another here for Jaws. I'm also I disagreement here with DH's family as they let DS's (3 & 5 ) watch it!!!! Was fucking furious when I found out

The Human Centipede anyone? I'm a horror addict, it takes a LOT to shock/scare me, and even though it's totally ridiculous in essence, a couple of scenes really got into my head. Similarly, the novel 'Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal Johnson severely fucked with my head. Please don't read it unless you have a seriously high tolerance for disturbing things. Still glad I read it though.

The Krays gave me nightmares for a long time, the chelsea dagger smile, the snakes and the blood dripping through the snooker ball nets...........[scared emotioncon]

Also Born on the 4th of July and Jacob's Ladder-very disturbing.

Oh and Creep is another. You will never ever want to fall asleep on an Underground platform late at night again!!

Can't believe noone has mentioned sleepers... Could not now watch that film being the mother of two young boys.

The strangers. Sounds similar to the Eden one people have cited, a young couple being terrorised by other young people for no good reason.

Recently watched cherry tree lane. Utterly horrifying as a very realistic portrayal of what could quite realistically happen to a 'normal' middle class family that encounters grudge gang revenge. Shocking and will stay with me - unfortunately.

Born on the 4th of July

that is a film I will not watch again. I am glad I watched it the first time, but far to harrowing to watch again.

Creep is the one I was thinking of. The scene in the "clinic" area is just horrible.

I saw Trainspotting after I'd had my children and just couldn't get that dead baby out of my head.

Also Wolf Creek stayed with me for a long time. Especially when you get to see the things he has piled up in his lair and realise that there have been children in some of the cars he has hijacked Doesn't bear thinking about.

The original When a Stranger Calls frightened me to death too. The idea of the killer calling you from a phone inside your house. The remake wasn't anywhere near as scary.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Made me cry and cry. To think that lobotomies were considered appropriate medical treatment.

Marathon Man (I think of every time I am at the dentist), and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (similarly, because of the torture scenes).

I love horror films and it takes a lot to disturb me but the scene in Last King of Scotland when his has his wife killed because she was having an affair with James Mcavoys character, that stayed with me for days, think because I wasn't excpecting it

I have not read the thread but I would be amazed if I was the first to say Requiem for a Dream.

Well acted and thought provoking but there are some bits that stay with you and make you wish for mind bleach

Another vote for Jacobs ladder and also Sophie's choice here.

Also i've loved you so long with kristin Scott Thomas - very well made but disturbing and stayed with me for ages.

Paranormal Activity. Watched it a few weeks ago, had to switch it off half way through. Still think about it and get a little freaked out, so does my partner and he's normally nails.

I live jaws it is my favourite film of all time! Also love seven and silence of the lambs (not sure what that says about me) however I can't watch paranormal stuff. Loved x-files but watched most I it from between my fingers!! I have watched te 1st saw but won't bother with the others. Found creep ridiculous and not at all scary, just one of those gratuitous ott films (ditto keepers creepers) but I could never watch paranormal activity or things like poltergeist.

I suppose the film the messed with my head the most was Halloween, though I was 13 at the time, still can't watch it now and I hate the Michael mask thr you can et every Halloween. I've warned dh that I WILL divorce him if he chooses that for his costume!

Dark knight. Very disturbing.

Also Juno. Broke my heart.

the films i really wish i hadn't seen are Wolf Creek, Funny Games and 28 days later. they made me feel like my world wasn't real, and the film's was.

The Hills Have Eyes remake. I like horror films and I enjoy their campy formula - the dog dies, the fat one dies, the annoying girl dies - but this is the first one I've had to turn off.

Not schlocky but revolting. I lasted quite a long way out of disbelief but the mutant rapists are what did it.

Sophie's Choice.

Breaking the waves. Very well done and amazing acting but just sooooo depressing.

I was really upset by Cold Mountain, the scene where the parents are being tortured and the two sons burst out of hiding to save their mum and they get shot.

The pianist where the old disabled man is tipped out of his wheelchair from the balcony.

Horrid.

Sorry if TMI.

Funny games, requiem for a dream, irreversible, the mist, dancer in the dark all upset me a lot, still can't get them out of my head.
Milky being beaten in this is England, The rape scene and the killing of the rapist in this is England 86. Also Lols suicide attempt in TIE 88, just harrowing. But an amazing film/series nonetheless!

Wolf Creek & Blair Witch Project both really disturbed me. Not sure why I watched as very easily distrurbed by films

I regret watching "On the Beach" about people in Australia waiting for the radiation from world war three to drift south and kill them, the scene where the young couple poison their baby and then themselves....haunting. Very well made film from the early sixties but couldn't watch it again.

I really wished I hadn't watched The Human Centipede & The Hills Have Eyes. There was nothing redeemable in either, no good characters or plot. They really were just depraved for the sake of it & I'll never watch them again!

the road,made me decide i would not leave my children on this earth if i couldnt be with them.

good thread.

I remember 'The Accused' affecting me badly too.

I don't watch scary or disturbing films, havent since I was about 18, i just would not be able to put myself thru it. Just too scared.

Agree completely about Candyman and the Ring, although Seven did live with me afterwards I would and did watch it again.

My vote would be for the Machinist, just disturbing on many levels, including the freakish weight loss of Christian Bale who plays the lead

Wolf Creek,

and somewhat strangely 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' really stuck with me for a long time

The Accused rape scene - wish I'd never seen that

Osama is the saddest film I've ever seen. It's about a young girl in Afghanistan who pretends to be a boy to earn some money, as she and her mother are so poor.

I am Legend - hate any film with scary non-human things that look like people but move differently. I fell off my chair in the cinema and stayed on the floor with that one. I also hated The War of the Worlds (the one with Tom Cruise) because it was so bleak. Total destruction of humanity definitely freaks me out, so The Road will have to be a no for me. My husband read the book but couldn't read the end and couldn't sleep till the book was out of the house.

The other one for me is The Neverending Story with the drowning horse. Awful, awful.

The Mist, brilliant film but the ending is just so bleak. Trainspotting - i was pg with DD3 and the baby scene was just too much, i was inconsolable. The Lovely Bones - a bit crap and far fetched but oh-so-sad. The Road, i don't know why the hell i watched it after seeing DH crying his eyes out at the book ( i wont read it now).

And finally ... One Day, FFS everybody was going on about the book and i had no idea about the ending - i really liked her character and was really pissed off (and crying my eyes out) when i left the cinema.

I don't watch much horror anymore but i found The Evil Dead utterly terrifying - I'm scared shitless of Zombies but my DH has been trying to get my tolerance up with watching a few since we've been married - he recently got me to read a new book by Isaac Marion which has been made into a film called 'Warm Bodies' (due out in August i think) where a Zombie (slightly different Zombie genre in the book where Zombies are capable of basic thought but its a bit grim how they manage it) falls in love with a woman - i thought it would be Twilight crapness but its a fantastic book, beautifully written - think the film might be a let-down though.

Torture films are way out of my parameters though - Saw, Hostel et al is just too much for me.

Monster - horrible

Lilya 4 Eva. I knew it would be heartbreaking, and tried not to watch it, it left me depressed for a long time, and I still get flashbacks and can well up when reminded about it.

I watch a lot of films, but have managed to avoid most of the ones mentioned.

Juno? I love Juno!

Mirage that episode of X-files is horrible, you are right! <boak>

I haven't seen A Serbian Film but I wish I hadn't read the wikipedia entry about it, if that gives you any idea.

I saw Seven when I was about 13 and was depressed for weeks.

Irreversible - made me feel sick and scared and violated...awful film. 28 days later scared the poo out of me and when I watched the descent with my dh I actually screamed out when that things face appears behind the frightened woman...omg just thinking about it makes me want to turn all lights on.
Also Blair witch project gave me the worst nightmare ever straight after I watched it...dreamt a hooded figure came up the stairs in my house came into my room lent down to my face...I woke up paralysed with terror and made my then bf turn the lights on and search the house.
I don't tend to watch horror anymore as the few that I have watched still leave me with a fear of the dark and the necessity to have to run up the stairs at night for fear of something grabbing my ankles and dragging me down! Sad but true!

In the American version of the Descent, she gets away. We don't do so well with hopeless.

A Ray Winstone film called 'The Warzone'. It destroyed me. I still have flashbacks to the scene. I truly wish I could bleach it from my brain.

Ok so now i really want to see Eden Lake and Saw.

Cant believe people have mentioed Creep, its so lame!

Mine is anything catholic exorcist type thing so The Exorcist (which i now refuse to watch) and the Exorcism of Emily Rose. I dont like horror that is possible, i can cope with the made up shit.

Oh and Wolfs Creek really freaked me out too.

Has anyone got an old copy of 'lets go play at the Adams' that they want to lend me?

Oh Chicken 'The Warzone' was one of the most disturbing films I have (n)ever seen, I didn't make it to the end, truly horrendous. Bleached brain and eyeballs needed!

Isn't it heartbreaking, Fay? I actually can't watch Ray Winstone in anything else now. My logical brain knows that he is just, you know, acting, but my emotional primal brain wants to kill him and kill him good.

Sophies choice and Manhunter (the old version of red dragon) made me very nervous at night for ages.

To be honest, there aren't films I wish I hadn't seen, even those that haunted me for a while.
The few films I wish I had never seen were really the crap, pretentious waste of timers, like Lost in Translation.

Another vote for breaking the waves, and not just because it was depressing, but because she got on my nerves.

Wolf Creek for me as well. Had no idea what it was about when started watching it. Really disturbed by it.

Ring. The Korean version. The thing it's brilliant but the third time I watched it I had a panic attack in the middle and had to walk out. It wasn't as if I was watching it alone, either. Definitely qualifies as Most Creepy Film Ever.
Natural Born Killers was pretty bad too.

Another for Wolfe Creek . I didn't dare get in the hot tub afterwards .

Blair Witch. My Uni friend had to come and sleep in my bedroom .

Mum and Dad is just vile, vile, vile.

I was really disturbed but not scared by Pans Labyrinth and Apocylitpto (can't spell)

Chicken, I think the fact that it was Ray W made it even worse!
I had the same experience with This is England '86 and had to google the actor who disturbed me the most to remind myself that he was really just an actor.

Agree about Seven as well, and A Clockwork Orange is horrifying and not in a good way.

Oh, and Rosemary's Baby!!!

MadameWooovary has reminded me of one: Salvador, mainly because of the rape scene.

Goodnight Mother. Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. Traumatic.

The Vanishing. I'd heard it was really good, very involving, remake a travesty etc. All true, it was excellent. I never normally watch horror and should have stuck to my rule. It's 90 minutes (?) of vague unease and gathering clouds and then an absolute explosion of horror and everything looks different afterwards. I still get images from it before going to sleep 15 years later.

Grave of the Fireflies.
Beautiful, beautiful film but absoloutely heartbreaking. It stayed with me for a looong time.

Oh, and any of the 'Saw' films. Just fucking awful.

Horror and gore, I quite enjoy

But films that have left me emotionally traumatised...

Sophie's Choice
Who will love my children
schindlers list
Boy in striped pyjamas
Beaches....prob cos I cry when I hear Bette Midler singing sad songs
And I watched that film (can't rememeber name) with Tom Hanks about the man who has aids, a couple of weeks ago, and I cried buckets!

Boy in the Striped Pajamas - upset me for ages

I can't watch anything like Saw or Hostel. I can't watch that sort of gory 'violence for violence' sake'. Unfortunately I did accidentally see the bit where the girl is tied to the chair and screaming her head off whilst the man takes a blowtorch to her eyes. Sick. Who actually gets given money to make rubbish like that?

Oh yes and the film "Escape from Sobibor" was truly upsetting....

I agree with pretty much everyone, and would like to add Bad Boy Bubby and the Deer Hunter to the ever growing list.

Wish I'd never read the synopsis of a Serbian film, that stayed in the back of my mind for months.

That said, it was fiction. I have just put the tv on and its some guy, children's services are trying to take his child into foster care for neglect, guy is upset, child is howling, I can't watch this

Funny Games.

Oh no now the mothers crying this is awful

Eden Lake - horrible, horrible. Just made me scared of what teenagers can be capable of.
Human Cantipede - very silly film, but very very disturbing
Fire in the Sky - for some reason terrified me

And I also remember the American History X kerb scene, and wish I didn't

I love Clockwork Orange - though the subjetc matter is disturbing the film is so well directed, choreographed (spelling?) and directed.

the wiki synopsis of Mum and Dad has made me ill. I've gone all cold and clammy.

Oh yes and Rosemary's Baby. I had recurring nightmares about that while pregnant with DD2 - think it is over the lack of control Rosemary has over her pregnancy

I have always loved horror films, but as I've got older I've realised it's a certain type that I love - I adore scream, I know what you did last summer, final destination etc. it took me a good few horror films to work that out though

Eden Lake appalled me. I started off thinking it was a bit lame, but I ended it feeling really distressed and sitting on the edge of the soda ramrod straight. If I'm being completely honest, it did play a tiny part in my decision not to move from rural north Wales to Ipswich (stupid I know)

DP made me watch requiem for a dream and I have successfully blocked most of it out.

Is wolf creek the Australian one with two girls and a boy? Is there a scene in there where the bad man rapes/threatens to rape a girl with a knife? Because when I saw it first I was a teenager in my mums house with a tv in my bedroom that you had to operate at the set instead of with a remote. When that scene came on I leapt from my bed shouting "no no no no no no!" and trying to turn it over without lookin at the screen.

I also watched the human caterpillar over a period of three days and wish I hadn't made myself do it. Ditto "I spit on your grave" which is just horrific.

I watched one recently called Wake Wood that was quite sad as opposed to scary. That has stayed with me as well.

I also find the episodes of ER in Africa extremely distressing.

Oh yes, the kerb scene in American History X. I'd like to erase that from my memory but can't.

I used to be able to watch anything and I absolutely love post-apocalyptic horror. But for some reason I went to watch I Am Legend at the cinema and it had me sobbing all the way home. My Dh was going 'what's the matter? are you ok?' me: 'nooooooo, i'm not but I don't know whyyyyy'.

I never cry at films (except Titanic ).

The one film that has scared me shitless is The Amytiville Horror. I cannot watch it if I am in the house on my own.

I also wish I could un-watch the remake of The Hills Have Eyes. Just plain ole nasty.

That Japanese one where the ghost keeps appearing in odd places...and she hangs over the girls bed really close while the girl is asleep....

Just though of another. The Vanishing, the original one. Gave me nightmares.

I watched 'Harry Brown' whilst pregnant and it left me feeling very low. I panicked for weeks about what kind of a world I was bringing my child into. I'll never watch it again as just thinking about it now makes me so sad.

For me the terrifying aspect of 28 Days later is not the zombies, but the intended actions of those left alive... I cannot imagine for a minute if I were one of the few left alive I would behave like that to others surviving with me

I saw an awful film about torture when I was at university, really wish I hadn't stayed for the entire film.

I never really watch horror films though...

I liked the 28 days film, but the sequel upset me because the husband abandoned the wife

DP and I have discussed potential zombie/crazy stranger attack and we have always done so in the assumption that we love each other too much to abandon each other and that we would fight our way through together, leaving with the cat, the dog and our OFRSssssss, but 28 weeks later left me wondering whether DP would actually stay, or if The Fear would take hold....

god, loads and I'm not in to torture porn like Saw and Hostel etc...

The Mist - very good but the ending was horrific and stayed with me for ages.
Seven - wanted to walk out the cinema, I found it too disturbing.
casualties of War - ditto
Sophies Choice - the camp scene is horrific and will haunt me forever.
The Bone Collector - again too disturbing just for the sake of being disturbing.
The Accused - so emotional and angry but a great movie
Deliverance - fantastic but again puts you through the ringer.
A Clockwork Orange

Saw Eden Lake last week as a like Michael Fassbender but couldn't watch it all - the torture scene for me was unwatchable and physically distressing.

Made the mistake of catching some of The Hills Have Eyes - not my usual type and it was horrific without any redeeming features.

When I was studying in France I read a review of some arty sounding, interesting film and took my friend along to see it. It was called Romance and it was one of the most uncomfortable films I have ever sat thru. I love movies but I was desperate to walk out of that one, horrible sexual scenes and a weak plot, just miserable, and to cap it off, a really shite ending. We were both a bit too horrified to move I think, and when we came out we both said "...and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...IT DID!" Never let it be part of your "interesting French movies" list, PLEASE.

I saw thread title and thought 'Seven'. Horrible.

Some films I don't ever intend to watch - any Hannibal Lecter, and the Boy in the Striped PJs cos I thought the book was so poor - manipulative faux naive.

Precious- wasnt scary just sad and every time you thought it might be turning a happier corner it went bleak again. Left me feeling sad, wish I hadn't watched it.

Also mum and dad watched it years ago and it still makes me feel funny now.

The Deer Hunter
Born On The Fourth Of July
Sophie's Choice
Alien (never watched any of the rest of them)
Silence of the Lambs (have never got to the end!)

Precious, just awful rape and abuse cannot get it out of my head. I can just about deal with gore and horror but real life abuse is just wrong as entertainment.

The Shining was brilliant but left me utterly shattered & terrified. Don't regret watching it though.

2 films I definitely regret watching: Jeepers Creepers which was v nasty, and The Young Poisoners Handbook, based on a true story about a psychotic teenager who poisoned his family. The film turned it into a black comedy which was so inappropriate when set against the real events.

Silence of the Lambs on the other hand: one of my favourite films! Watch it at least once a year, but do have to cover my eyes in a couple of places...

Many over the past 30 odd years
But like others on here,with the passing of time&having dc's my tolerance level has diminished.
But recently I watched 'Sarahs Key' which really upset me,but holocaust based films usually do

Oh yeah just remembered 'Passion of the Christ' really traumatised me.I don't think I could ever sit through it again!!

The Road, mentioned by previous posters

City of Life and Death, which is based on the true story of the Japanese invasion of China and the enforced prostitution of comfort women. It is utterly harrowing. It did help me understand why the Japanese are still hated by people like my aged chinese father.Also how a Japanese student asked me if I minded her sitting next to me, of course I didn't mind. I'm not in to "sins of the father" stuff but she was so deeply ashamed, poor woman.

Watching Tyrannosaur on DVD at the moment and think I may regret it.

I watched 'my murder' I think it was called on iplayer last week. My god, I sobbed and sobbed, sobbed some more. I am crying now recalling it. Wish I hadn't seen it, it is about a young lad growing up in south London and you know he will be murdered the whole way through. Just too close to home, I can't bear it.

Oh and I watched requiem for a dream alone in my student days on a nasty druggy comedown of some sorts with a takeaway pizza. I was in a real mess after that, I tell you!

Ray Winstone film 'Nil by Mouth'.

I didn't get past the first scene of 'A Clockwork Orange' years ago.I just knew it was a film I would NEVER want to watch.

I love A Clockwork Orange, could watch it over and over. It takes a lot for a film to shock me.

However I found I Spit On Your Grave horrific. Past experiences made half of me cheer for the girl, the other half of me wanted to bleach my eyeballs. Could not stop thinking about it for weeks.

And The Human Centipede - Well. I was pregnant with my DD when I watched that, and had morning sickness all day long. One scene in particular made me actually throw up in my mouth a little. It was silly, but utterly vile.

And when I was 6 I kicked and screamed until my teenaged sister and her friends let me in to watch Nightmare on Elm Street with them. [spoiled brat emoticon] I ended up having nightmares about Freddy Kreuger every night for a year, and I still can't watch anything with Freddy Kreuger in. He scares the life out of me. I can't even watch Robert Englund on anything, sans Freddy gear

The War Horse. Just saw (half of) it on the plane to USA. Really cheesy plot but I was tolerating it, then an actress with a really atrocious French accent appeared - couldn't stand another minute so switched it off.

Erm. Just read original OP. Sorry - the War Horse was just crap, not at all scary.

Antichrist. Left me feeling depressed, unclean and confused.

The saw wins hands down. I don't know why I've seen much worse but something about the saw unsettled me and has left me unable to watch anything remotely horror like !!!! Also a recent film with vinnie jones where they are all on an island with bombs round their legs and they have to kill each other or die themselves. Was violence and rape galore for no good reason other than shock value. Utterly stupid and horrid !!

I presume nobody has seen Kill List then?
Sold to me as a thriller but actually a very disturbing Satanic horror. Really, really unpleasant and almost gave me a panic attack.

Some great films in this list, Seven is great.

I would agree with The Road to a degree, relentlessly grim and I could not stop thinking about it, but it's a fantastically well made film.

Loads of these films are just torture porn, why would you watch Saw/Hostel etc if that's not your sort of thing?

The original "Texas chain saw massacre" horrible horrible horrible.

Saw, i had to turn it off

I used to like horror films, now im just about them. Saying that, DP is watching nighmare on elm street and im hiding behind the lap top!! No, scrub that, ive made him turn it off

oh god, reading through this thread "wolf creek" FFS that film was EVIL! DP and i turned it on half way through and i as hoping for the ending where one or both survive, errr no, i was then at the end realised it was based on a true story - its making me anxious just thinking about it

Another one for Nil by mouth here - such a depressing, grim, bleak film.

I remember watching a film with my friend alone in the house when we were about 15 called Black Christmas. We had to turn it off in the end and i had to stand in the garden and watch her run home she was so scared - we lived on the same street! All i remember about it is the actress Margot Kidder from the Superman films was in it and there was something living in the attic who breathed heavily!

Another vote for Sophie's Choice. I had no idea what that film was about until it was way too late and it is seared in my memory. It was an acting masterclass though.

Magnolia. I was ill once and my friends came over with a film, not knowing at all what it was about, I can't remember a single thing about it now but I just remember it was so depressing.

I have also never recovered from "Alive", which I saw in the cinema as a teen.
And "Trainspotting", when I became a mum I kept thinking of the baby scene even though it was years after seeing it.

I've been wanting to watch the Shining but wondering now if that's wise!

lucyellen "I used to like horror films, now im just about them." That'll be down to seeing Saw & Texas Chainsaw Massacre , torture porn =not good, comedy horror=fun (if you like that sort of thing, I don't generally). Have you seen Cabin in the Woods? If you have, you'll know why I'm asking. If you haven't - go see it! It's a great film. I'm a Whedonite though. I won't say too much more, but it's not what you think it is.-avoid all spoilers!!

Saving Private Ryan, and i missed the harrowing opening scene.

I read the Wikipedia blurb about a Serbian film and I wish I had not!

Films that upset me that I have seen: Mum and Dad (awful), The Ring (Terrifying), Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (upsetting), Sophie's Choice (fucking watched it in hospital the day after I gave birth to my DS!!!), Rosemary's baby (Still scares me).

I also DETEST The Cat In The Hat. HATE it. Very creepy.

Read the blurb of The Human Centipede and I wish I had not.

American History X is a superb film but the biting the kerb scene is etched on my mind forever and is really horrific.

'Boys Don't Cry' partly because it was based on a true story and featured a graphic rape scene. And partly because the main character reminded me of one of my best friends (also a trans* man) and it really brought home to me how much he was at risk just on a day to day basis...

Trainspotting
Sophies Choice
Cherrytree Lane
AI
Never Let Me Go.

Oh dear, some of my favourite films, books and even TV are being mentioned here.

I wish I'd never watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The ending is devastating.

Just recently watched Flowers Of War.

It's about the Massacre of Nanjing and is a chinese film but peculiarly also has Christian Bale in playing an American.
Has similarities to Schindler's List but also deals with the very horrible subject of the abuse and murder of women in the war. Very disturbing to think about what happened.

Martyrs, is pretty disturbing.

I was gutted that the tv dramatisations of The Crimson Petal and the White and South Riding were both shown when I was in the depths of bad PND. Both were superb dramas that I couldn't help myself from watching, but both feature 'female madness' quite heavily.

Made me go all weird, and I got no pleasure from either of them.

I'd love to watch them both now though.

Quite a lot of "disturbing" films I have just found tedious, like SAW, human centipede etc.

I actually quite liked the first 2 Hostel films and seven. My sisters walked out of Wolf Creek, I found it moderately disturbing.

Funny Games though eurgh, I hate that film, so claustrophobic and horrid, I hate any kind of home invasion type thing. I don't do rape very well either, Irreversible was awful, I think I actually watched it on ff, with my hands over my eyes for most of it.

Lilya4eva is brutal, as is Breaking the waves and Antichrist, I just don't really know what to make of Von Triers if I'm honest.

The ring (Japanese version) shit me up good and proper, especially because I watched it on my own, then went to go to bed and the dvd player decided to switch itself back on with a screen of static, brown trouser time .

Life is Beautiful is pretty disturbing, I generally steer clear of those type of movies.

The Orphanage was pretty heartbreaking, Mum and Dad was bizarre. Tony:Serial Killer was brilliant.

I thought Martyrs was pretty pants tbh, it bored the shite out of me.

Also the much touted "disturbing" film Haute Tension is a bloody blatent rip off of "Intensity" by Dean Koontz.

Actually Pet Semetary is actually much scarier and more disturbing than the shining, the film/book totally gives me the willies.

These films had a hopeless feel. Like someone already said, it's the lack of resolution that lingers:

Boxing Helena (storyline similar to Misery, but I found it worse.)

Kiss the girls. Just horrible.

Wolf creek. I don't tend to remember quotes from films but "head on a stick" urgh.

I haven't seen Sophie's Choice but have it on Tivo. So I think I'll delete that one.