to ask what are the most horrific/traumatising/terrifying films you have seen?

[WillyW8nker]

Doesn't have to be horror, can be psychological terror etc. Films that stayed with you and made you think.

Mine are Irreversible, the Poughkeepsie Tapes and Spoorloos (the original Dutch version of The Vanishing).

Pans Labyrinth for me...proper ruined me for months, still can't watch it! Upset me deeply

Wolf Creek

It's the only movie I've seen that I really, really wish I could mentally erase. I actually feel slightly psychologically traumatised by it.

Why wolf creek?

In Darkness is also pretty harrowing. It's a Polish film about some Jewish people who were hidden in the sewers for the duration of the war. I find true stories like this the most upsetting. Also Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs.

Lilya 4 Ever, Tyrannosaur, Requim for a Dream......

Human centipede obviously
And saw- not being its gory but because how much of a mind fuck it is! It so real it could be possible.

Psycho and The Birds

Justine Cathy Come Home was so disturbing that it led to massive change in government policy.

Man Bites Dog.

The Fog (original, I was 9yo). I still can't watch the opening scenes or see stills from it.

Breaking the Waves - i cried for DAYS after watching that, even now i well up.

SATC2 haunts me

The Borderlands

man bites dog - a Belgian spoof documentary following a serial killer - billed as a comedy but I found it really distressing and walked out of the cinema during a rape scene

Cathy Come Home. Can't think about the ending, really without sobbing and I first saw it 10 years ago. Particularly awful as the actress' real life DC are her DC in it. Plus the writer of the play, Jeremy Sanford based it on real life research he had carried out. What was 😳 was the fact that her real life DC (who were only very small) weren't told what they were filming so obviously they were terrified and the tears etc were real (don't want to say too much in case a masochist wants to watch it). I read the play too - which was probably even more traumatic. For some bizarre reason, I watched it again when DD was only a few weeks old and I was a total mess - worse than when I watched it the first time as I had no DC then.

Sophie's Choice. I only got to the horrific bit and turned it off. I will never watch the end and I never want to discuss it. I've left threads on here when it's brought up.

"Adam". TV movie about Adam Walsh. It was shown a months before my first son was born. I should NEVER have watched it. 33 years later and just thinking about it chokes me up.

Snap eddie!

I love Requiem for a Dream, is it weird I've watched it several times?

The ones that stick with me are Cannibal Holocaust (which was vile), Wolf Creek (which I stopped watching) and Reservoir Dogs (I really struggle to watch anything with suffering and the poor police guy really does).

The Grudge, The Woman in Black, a film I can't remember but it involved insane serial killers dressing up as clowns, breaking into a house and snapping the fingers of a guy in the house one by one

Precious, for me too. And Hatchi - A Dogs Tale!!! OMFG I sobbed my heart out,I had to go for a lie down.... I showed someone in work the trailer the next day, and started crying again!

I went to see a zombie film when I was staying with my German pen pal - even though it was dubbed into German, so I couldn't understand the finer points of the plot, it still terrified me, and I was afraid of the dark for years.

Wolf Creek
Under the Skin

The scene in AI where the Mum leaves her little robot boy in the woods (because she's got a real child) and he chases her shouting 'Mummy, why are you going?' 'Don't leave me, Mummy'. And then chases the car for a bit while she drives off.

So so awful. Just thinking about it makes me cry

Patsy - Wolf Creek is about a psycho who kidnaps young travellers in the Australian outback and tortures them. The ways in which he tortured the young woman tapped into my worst fears. And it was based on a true story.

I saw it in the cinema and two couples actually walked out. (Wish I had.)

Traumatising award goes to The Pianist or the Devil's arithmetic. Stephen Kings It is also pretty bad!

Psycho, Rosmary's Baby, The Shining (gets silly at the end, but the bit where she sees what he's been typing for weeks still gives me the shivers) Sophie's Choice haunts me. And the Pianist.

Wolf Creek here too. Can't unsee it.