What is the most haunting *film* you have ever watched?

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Blatantly stealing the idea from the haunting book thread!

Mine has got to be 'Dreams of a Life', the film about Joyce Vincent, the lady who died in her flat and wasn't discovered for years. It just breaks my heart that she lay there for so long. And the thing that haunts me the most is the fact that her TV was still on.

Another one is 'As Above, So Below' a mediocre 'found footage' film set in the Paris catacombs, although it isn't a brilliant film, it really unnerved me.

I love In Bruges although I don't find it particularly haunting. Brendan Gleeson is just fantastic in it. As is Ralph Fiennes, nice to see him switching it up a bit.

The Machinist
American History X
One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest

Found it. it was called Neither the sea nor the sand. Freaked me out as a kid.

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Griphook, LimitedPeriod
I'm sure there was a French version of Vanishing.

Could be, Tell No One Grip. There's a metro scene in it. Interesting film but no-where near as disturbing as The Vanishing.

Never Let Me Go stuck with me.
I think it was the blandness/grey, shabby authentic feel to it. No one was coiffured/well dressed/made up. No loud drama just quite acceptance. Really could happen. (Some) religious groups don't accept IVF etc... and even the Catholic church questioned early use of intervention. So I suppose there's not a great leap of thinking it could (have) happened. So different to other sci-fi, shiny white and clean Kubrick type films.

A Japanese horror film called 'Imprint'. It was the most disturbing thing ever. About a man who goes looking for his long, lost girlfriend and finds himself in a brothel surrounded by a lake with dead women floating in it. It's really sinister and thee is an awful torture scene.

Don't look Now comes a close second - it made me never want to go to Venice.

Forgot one, don't know how, as certain scenery on walks etc brings it back to me and I shiver.
A Field In England.

rubylee Lilya 4 Ever is also one of my most haunting movies. So unbelievably bleak.

I thought Wolf Creek was a mashup of Peter Falconio and the Belanglo Forest murders? The way it's portrayed in Western Australia is the Peter Falconio scenario but what happened to the poor girls was based on what Ivan Milat actually did to his victims.

The Mist. I watched it whilst pregnant with DC3 and just bawled like a baby for about half an hour afterwards.

Audition is another creepy Japanese film.

Not a film, but I read about The Toolbox Murders after the film based on them came out. Those poor women.

Yes I thought The Vanishing was French first and heard it was much better than the Hollywood one. Something about the ending?

I came on to say Threads but FadedRed beat me to it.

Eden Lake. It's already been mentioned a few times. That film will stay with me forever.

I can't hear Shaun Dooley's voice on a voiceover or advert without getting flashbacks, Total!

"This is a bit Eden Lake" is family shorthand for somewhere that looks lovely but could easily be reached by the sort of people that couple run into.

Sorry that should say Toolbox Killers.

Mum & Dad

I Know my First Name is Steven (true story)
Sleep Tight (Spanish psychological thriller)
Seven (Se7en) (psychological thriller)
Small Sacrifices (based on a true story)
Changeling (based on true story)
The Woman in Black (1989 version)
Sophie's Choice

The Body (Spanish thriller)
The Hidden Face (Colombian/Spanish thriller)

This is a great thread.
I really want to see picnic at hanging rock and the original the vanishing.
The boy in stripped pyjamas upset me, and also flight 93? the film about the plane involved in 9/11. That made me feel very uncomfortable.

The Seasoning house is pretty grim but for sheer vileness, Mum and Dad is hard to beat, really nasty.

Nothing But the Night. About an orphanage. Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Diana Dors.

And a very young Gwyneth Strong (Cassandra from Only Fools and Horses)

"Seven (Se7en) (psychological thriller)"

The ending of that was brilliantly done. I remember it well, the building horror as it dawns on Brad Pitt's character (and us) what "John Doe" has done.

I wouldn't say it was "haunting" but the original Spanish version of Rec built up a great atmosphere from what I remember.

Another film I remember from long ago was something about a Doctor kidnapping people and taking their eyes so he could try to transplant them into his blind son I think it was. Can't remember much about it other than finding it a disturbing sight seeing men and women in cages begging to be let out, with just empty black holes where their eyes used to be.

Shuttle. It wasn't made with a big budget, but it did give me shudders when it finished.

I think one that stays with me is The Wicker Man. (Original one obviously). It's so weird and disturbing.

Antichrist- traumatic to watch from start to finish. I kind of want to understand it better but can't bring myself to watch it again.

IT - that clown is scary as

Mum and dad is really grim and has stayed with me, not sure if it's (loosely) based on the west murders but it's so English rather than the make up and hair dos/glamour that it would have had if it was made in the U.S. it's utterly stark.

Eden lake still scares me now

The scene in the Donald Sutherland version of the plant people thingy. Hang on

Invasion of the body snatchers, urge to the Donald Sutherland scene.

The end if The Mist, still upsets me now.

Definitely that one scene in American history x (shudder)