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).

Battle Royale.

Without question the most disturbing and painful film I've ever seen. Really wish I hadn't.

The Riot Club. I was shaking from the horribleness (know that's not a word) of the climactic scene for hours afterwards.

Bad Boy Bubby, an Australian film about a man who was kept confined since infancy in an apartment by his mentally ill mother. Watched it years ago but it has stayed with me. Especially the part where he wraps a cat in cling film . Very powerful film.

Funny Games, (the original Austrian one), seriously disturbed me when I watched it at 17.

So bleak.

Oh god, I'd (mercifully) forgotten about Bad Boy Bubby!

Between that, Wolf Creek, and Snowtown...Australia makes some horrifying movies.

I really enjoyed It Follows. Sort of glad I saw it on DVD as I think large cinema screen would have freaked me out.

I can't watch the ending to REC. as by that point it was fairly clear that nothing nice was going to happen.

Nothing has ever freaked me out as much as Threads though.

cannibal holocaust i saw it over 10 years ago and it still makes me feel ill just thinking about it

Another vote for Eden Lake.
Stayed with me for days.

Ooooo, just remembered Plague Dogs by the merciless bastards that bought us Watership Down. Just harrowing with no redeeming features.

Wolf creek whilst travelling in Austrslia and saw

The Accused
Eden Lake

Also Precious here, harrowing film. And the film with Bjork in it playing a woman who was going blind. Anyone remember the name? I was hysterical at the end

As for documentary or true life movies, India's Daughter was horrific and desperate and had me crying uncontrollably.

Dancer in the Dark, that was it!

Wolf creek sounds hrim

Goblin and Ladybird, I well up just thinking of Cher singing the opening song and then, "Don't take my baby!"

Watership Down, I hate that film, gave me nightmares.

Grim

Wolf creek- torture scenes are some of the worst.
Irreversible- has a awful rape scene in it
Human centipede - just wrong on all levels

Wolf creek
Candy Man
Poltergeist
Amityville Horror
Nightmare on Elm Street
I mostly watched the above as a child of eleven.

Oldboy (the original Japanese one), Requiem for a Dream, Precious and Eraserhead all made me sick

Kramer v Kramer makes me cry too - Meryl
Streep looks like my mum and Billy is only a bit older than me.

I can see why there are issues with the benefit system but I think that anyone who carps on about it unreasonably should be locked in a darkened room have to watch Cathy Come Home on repeat

I know my first name is Steven - well that bloody traumatised me for years. Made the mistake of googling during a night feed and found out that Steven had died - cue two hours of sobbing until the next feed

Nil by Mouth

Bambi (gave me my first ever nightmare & I'm sure it's contributed to my fear of death throughout my life!)

10 Rillington Place. The only film that has ever given me nightmares.