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

[dreamingofblueskies]

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.

The watcher in the woods. Only ever watched it once as a teenager and it still terrifies me now

Oo just remembered..

Dumplings
Nobody Knows

Both Asia films that kept my warped mind ticking

I know it isn't a film but the last This is England series really affected me - where Lol had crushing PND and finally spoke to the nurse and said "I think I'm a little bit poorly".
It has stayed with me ever since, I found it excruciating to watch after experiencing being a bit unwell (and in denial about it) myself. It brings all of those horrible feelings back. An amazing piece of film.

One more and I promise I'll shut up.

Nil by Mouth.

If you haven't watched it,and decide to...well,brace yourself.

Control. Anton Corbijn's biopic about Ian Curtis.

Because he's a photographer, every frame was so beautifully composed - and it wasn't rushed, you had time to take it in. I left the cinema quite unable to speak.

I can't watch horror films, find them too scary

"Dear Zachary - A letter to a son about his father" is probably the most haunting film I have ever seen. It's a true story, a documentary by a Canadian filmmaker, intended to be given to the little boy Zachary who is the son of the filmmaker's best friend (but born posthumously - the friend was allegedly murdered by his ex, Zachary's mum, before she found out she was pregnant).
There are so many twists & turns in what started out as a fun way of telling a little child about the father he would never know. The ending is extremely harrowing, I absolutely didn't expect it, probably didn't help myself by watching it when I had a young baby. I also then tracked down all the legal paperwork online and read it which was even more harrowing.

Dead Man's shoes, brilliant but OMG.
I agree with This is England, Lol saying she was poorly had me sobbing.

The Passion of The Christ was horrible to watch. I saw it once and that was enough.
I also cannot watch the scene in The Green Mile where the French man is electrocuted with a dry sponge.
I am a bit of a wuss when it comes to horror movies so haven't seen many of the films mentioned.

TimTam
I watched that recently, just a few weeks ago, and it has stayed with me, whilst my initial reactions were what you'd think (shock/horror/anger/), I now think of it as uplifting.
What wonderful people, a wonderful family who are carrying on.

A TV movie called Profoundly Normal, Kirsty Alley stared in it and produced it. It's about two institutionalised adults trying to live independently, getting married and having a child. There was a bit in it when something dreadful happened to a child, I'd just had DD and was suffering from PND, still don't like to think about it 12 years later.

Havent watched it but read about it. Serbian film, it was out for rent when my friend worked for Blockbuster. A customer returned it, my friend was so disgusted by what the customer told her, she snapped the disc and binned it.

Yy Dead Man's Shoes, I didn't see the ending coming. Love Shane Meadows.

Also, Tyrannosaur - the scene where she's pretending to be sleeping on the sofa and the husband comes home sing songing her name. Horrible.

Definitely Spoorloos (the Vanishing), my benchmark for all scary films.

The Ring (Japanese version, the US one was too silly).

This is England was a powerful film but that was enough, didn't want to see any more on TV.

I wish I'd never watched 'Pierrepoint', couldn't get parts of that out of my head for ages, and this thread has brought it back .

A few months ago I watched "The McPherson Tape" on youtube which featured an a hour of real-time homevideo style footage of a family living at an isolated location while they experience an alien visitation.

The natural reaction is that it is faked naturally, but reading about it afterwards there are the conspiracies that it is authentic but they later claimed it was just a film when it emerged to avoid the truth coming out, and how convienient that this cannot be verified because the original negatives were lost in a fire or somesuch.

Well whatever, I did find it a little eerie as thing unfolded whether or not it was just a film.

Yes, bedelia Moon is very bleak.

I often watch little bits of Moon. The atmosphere (sorry) is extraordinary.

Just remembered, "God bless the child".
One of those films on crappy movie channels, but I can never watch that again.

Anyone else seen a French film called Martyrs? very disturbing.

Also, Brazil with Jonathan Pryce. A very weird film.

Funny Games - the original. 17 years on and im still chilled to the bone.

The Orphanage. Absolutely amazing film, stayed with me for weeks.

I love Moon's soundtrack.

Seven has always stuck in my head and not in a good way, esp the 'lust' murder. Came out of the cinema completely shell shocked and in need of a very stiff drink.

Nil by Mouth is really bleak. The end of Seven is very haunting, as you realise what has happened. Just googled Eden Lake . I won't be watching that.

I agree with previous posters

The Road
The Passion of the Christ
The Watcher in the Woods
The Orphanage

The boy in the striped pyjamas.
Jacobs ladder.
The exorcist.
Omen.
Dreams of a life.
Insidious 2.