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).

Traumatising - Schindler's List every time. My mum, sister and I left the cinema in total silence and simultaneously burst into tears in the car. I'd never cried like it before at a film and doubt I ever will again.

Horror films are ten a penny. I remember being quite disturbed by Clockwork Orange. I've deliberately steered clear of Wolf Creek on the basis of warnings from people who have seen it. I don't think my stomach is strong enough, though I've occasionally been tempted to try it.

Hostel 1 and 2.
The others, starring Nicole Kidman, its the twist at the end, made me feel real uneasy.

yy the borderlands, nothing has ever disturbed me so much as the end of that film.

The descent too, just bleak as fuck.

Event horizon ! I couldn't sleep after watching it and had to come back down to dh. I actually can't even remember the plot now! I must have blocked it out.

Another vote for Stephen Kings IT! I hear they're doing a remake of it too. That's one I won't be rushing to see.

I don't understand The Changeling being here. It is interesting but not scarey.
Mine would be:
Original Night of the Living Dead
Halloween

Bad Timing, Man Bites Dog and The Hills have Eyes ( which I still haven't seen the whole way through). I think Man Bites Dog is a very clever film though and have watched it more than once. I couldn't watch all of Saw either. Also had to take a breal during cinema viewing of a couple of particularly gory scenes in Born on the 4th July.

Sophie's Choice. Saw it when DD was a few weeks old, and am still traumatised 30+ years on. Even the name makes me sweat. Awful, awful.

Irreversible
Ladybird Ladybird
Dead Man's Shoes
Black Swan
Kill List

All excellent, all dark and lingering.

Threads. Nothing has ever disturbed me quite as much as Threads.

AWolf, counterintuitive as it sounds, I recommend watching Event Horizon again. It horrified me the first time I saw it at the cinema; I think I might have cried it was so scary. Then DH and I decided to watch it again a few years ago and it wasn't really so frightening after all. It actually seemed a bit silly and over the top, which left me both relieved and a little bit disappointed.

Definitely 'Sinister'.

The woman in back. Watched it when it first came out, still terrifies me to this day. It should not be a 12.

Eden lake

Threads is hideous.

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

Me too! My DM was super strict about any violent or scary films so it was all musicals and Disney in our house. I went to a sleepover with my friend and her parents ENCOURAGED us to watch The Fog. I'm still petrified of fog now and won't walk on my own in fog at night

ASheep, apologies for mixing up your name!

Hallowe'en. I couldn't sleep in a house on my own for 10 years after seeing that.

Cape Fear with Robert de Niro I kept waiting for him to surface from the water .

August Underground's Mordum, Irreversible and Antichrist are the more gory films I've watched. Baskin was gross too. I LOVE these kind of films though and actively seek them out.

A film that wasn't particular scary, but creeped me out and is the only film to ever give me a nightmare is It Follows. Just the thought of something slowly walking towards you forever gives me the creeps.

Omg do not Google Megan is missing
There is an image from that that is truly horrific and it always comes up first hit.

Never Let Me Go, bleak and horrible, great film though, despite grim subject matter.

An 80s horror film called, I think Ghost House, really creepy music came on whenever the thing/ghost appeared, at the end a demon was sat on this girls bed.

The Thing, original Kurt Russell, scared the living daylights out of me. I still dont think I could watch it.

This is silly, but that scene in Battlestar Galactica (70s version), where they discover these aliens that look a bit like flies are using people as food for their grubs. There were people in clear cylinders, like a high tech insect cell, with a maggot.

I accidently started watching a Russian second world war film called Come and See until I switched it off in horror. Since seen in mentioned on best war film ever type film programmes. Really, really grim. Saw it many years ago and still can't get the images out of my head.

On a more trivial note It scared the pants off me. I've hated clowns since the test card clown of my early childhood. Tim Curry staring up at you from a drain is the stuff of nightmares. Salem's Lot gave me the tapping at windows nightmares not helped by the student hovel I was living in at the time, creaky and drafty patio doors to my bedroom.

Top one is Stephen King's IT as I HATE clowns, closely followed by Wolf Creek, which really is pretty horrific. I got tricked into seeing it at the cinema with my cousin, 'no really, you don't need to Google it, it's not even really scary!' and spent nearly the whole time hiding behind my hands. It's truly grim and I wouldn't watch it again if you paid me. Didn't much like Funny Games or Eden Lake either, although neither are in the same league as WC.

Threads is very disturbing, I watched it a few years ago and won't forget it in a hurry. Lilya 4-Ever is bleak, as is Dancer in the Dark. Nymphomaniac was... I don't know how I'd describe it actually, we turned it off after about an hour, couldn't stomach any more of it.

I can't watch torture porn type films, haven't seen any of the Saws, Hostel, Human Centipede etc. I love horrors - The Conjuring I and II are both amazing - but gratuitous hacking bits off doesn't do it for me at all.

Requiem for a dream - just grim.

I do quite like some of other ones mentioned.

Ringu. (Original Japanese version of Ring). I could never watch it again.
And Strangers.