Films or Books that Have Haunted You!!!

[LucilleBluth]

A film with Scarlet Johansson called Under the Skin really freaked me out. She's an alien who drives around Glasgow luring men, its all very vague but freaky. She starts to empathise with the humans...I won't spoil the ending but I often think about it. There's a harrowing scene with a baby on beach. I'm not soft and horror film don't phase me but this did.

Book is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I was heavily pregnant when I read it and I lost sleep thinking about it.

The Road (book & film). I couldn't face them post-DC.

The Road for me too.

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan, I loved The Road..what was the one with the roasted baby...The weird hill people? I've had some lockdown wine and I can't remember.

Film wise - the ring and the grudge. I hate them.

'Ghost Children' by Sue Townsend. Everyone I've told about it has said the same. The film 'Keeping Rosy' really got to me.

Let's Go Play at the Adams's - found the book in a charity shop and read it in a sort of weird fascination, metaphorically reading through my fingers.

Young woman spends the summer looking after two children - young teen and pre-teen I think - while their parents are elsewhere. One night they and their slightly older friends chloroform her in her bed and tie her up... and it kind of goes downhill from there...

The Village (film) by M Night Shayalaman (sp?). I had to sleep with the landing light on for several days. I’m 34.

I started to watch The Girl next Door (film) earlier...had to turn it off. Too disturbing, given it's based on a true story ☹️

Under The Skin the book is both better than the film and more disturbing

The Wasp Factory (book)

Deliverance

Nocturnal Animals (in a good way)

Rosemary's Baby (Film)

Thats all I can think of for now

Gods isn't Under the Skin brilliant?! That scene on the beach is very disturbing.

I know the OP said Film or Books. Books can be re-read, films rewatched. If you can find them.

I'm of the generation that was traumatised by things that cannot be revisited and therefore cannot laid to rest. A lot of my haunted media experiences are from the TV back in the days when shows were broadcast once and then the tapes wiped. Not all of them fortunately but I still remember having the terrors from the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear - Some of that turned up a few years ago in Nigeria but at least on episode is still missing.

Most TV things that creeped me out when I was younger were written by Nigel Kneale. An episode of his show Beasts called Baby gave me the real heebie-geebies back in the day and crawled right back under my skin a few moths ago when I watched on DVD for the first time since.

Surprised that The Village upset anyone. I thought it was laughably bad and saw through the 'twist' about 5 minutes in. But it would be a dull old world if we were all terrified by the same things wouldn't it?

'Months' not 'moths'!

The Ka of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley.

I also came to say the wasp factory very disturbing.

Also books that are awful and haunting are:
The magic toyshop
The butcher boy

I am from Glasgow and I found that movie so surreal! Most of my friends felt the same. I still dont know whether liked or disliked it and I'm usually quite opinionated either way!

@oneforsorrow29 when I was a teenager (late 20s now) my friend and I were terrified after watching The Ring. Well - my friend's mum pranked us the next day, telling us 'you have seven days to live' when we answered the phone she was very convincing!

My mum decided i could watch Deliverance when I was about 8.

The others are parts of series. The Singing Detective and the Sopranos episode were Ralphie kicks the prostitute to death

Books are Darkness at Noon, The Outsider, the Trial, White Hotel and wierdly Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge

I am from Glasgow and I found that movie so surreal! Most of my friends felt the same. I still dont know whether liked or disliked it and I'm usually quite opinionated either way!

Yeah - it was weird seeing BHS on Sauchiehall Street. The only time I was thrown out of the movie for a moment.