To ask for films that have unsettled you

[marmite92]

I am in need of films that will actually keep me engaged and take my mind off my life at the moment, nice rom coms don't cut it right now! So please send your list of weird/disturbing/unsettling films my way

Contagion

Us - about doppelgängers. I sometimes think about them all living out of sight and it freaks me right out!

Midsommar - about a group of college students who go to stay at a friend’s commune in his home country and what then happens to them all. I still can’t decide whether I liked the film or not, but it was thought provoking!

Rosemary’s Baby
The Shining

Both very good books as well.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is an awful film (& book)

Awwlookatmybabyspider. It's actually the anticipation of the ankles scene as she slowly prepares for it. Also when he's trying to escape and you can see her car returning which has my heart pounding. Amazing actors and an amazing film.

I’m glad other people have also mentioned Wolf Creek.

I turned it off and have never seen the ending.

Totally freaked me out.

Wolf Creek was hands down the most terrifying film I have ever seen. I would never watch it again - once was enough.

Keeping Rosie with Maxine Peak.

Dragonfly

Old boy - the original not the English Language remake if you can put up with subtitles. The twist at the end made me feel physically sick.

Eden Lake

Stayed with me for ages

Midsommar and hereditary. They are both SO unsettling and like pp said quite thought provoking.

Oh god yes Eden lake. I won't be able to watch that again. No way.

Cloverfield.. I don't know why but it gives me the fear. Only managed to watch it the once.

London to Brighton

@gaggiagirl

Oh god yes Eden lake. I won't be able to watch that again. No way.

Yy - and also to your other suggestions.

Oh yes watched Eden lake recently as I watched it when it first came out and remember being disturbed by it then but couldn't remember what happened, so horrible and made me feel angry. Haven't heard of half of these films so thank you all for the suggestions!

It took me a long time to get over one particular reminiscing scene in The Prince of Tides'.

Pulp fiction was also a movie I wished I didn't watch.

Amityville Horror.. the scene where the father in the family wakes up every night, glances at his digital clock and sees 3.15am lit up...To this day if I wake in the night and see my digital clock I have a moment where I think please God don't let it be 3.15!

The Lodge

Johnny Gets His Gun. Admittedly, I was very stoned when I first saw it, but it disturbed me a great deal and stayed with me for years.

DH and I watched an old film Morning Departure to take our minds off lockdown, thinking here’s a nice film with 2 good actors that’ll cheer us up (Richard Attenborough and John Mills). I think if you watch something like Schindlers List you know what to expect.

I have very bad asthma and have experienced the inability to breathe on my own, and it all came back to me!! Maybe that’s why it got me so bad.

Oh YY to Misery. The part where she breaks his ankles with the hammer.

In the book, she chops his foot off with an axe and cauterises it with a blow torch or something 😱 I really like the change though, breaking his ankles feels way more brutal, I don't know why.

Amazing book, and a great film adaptation. Kathy Bates was just made for that role.

The Lighthouse.
I felt like my peace of mind had been shat on then set fire to after watching it. If tinnitus sounded like a foghorn... that's how I describe that film. Beautiful cinematography though.

Horror films don’t usually bother me too much.. for very different reasons I found the Clive Owen film “Trust” very unsettling

I would also recommend For Sama, a documentary/film about the Syrian war. Absolutely gut wrenching. Some parts made me son so hard I felt like I couldn't breathe, then others would have me laughing. It's absolute testament to the human spirit.