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

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WillyW8nker · 06/09/2016 18:45

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).

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kensausage13 · 06/09/2016 21:30

Eden Lake
Wolf Creek
Straightheads
Tetsuo the Iron Man (weird Japanese shit!)
Requiem for a dream

Mojito6 · 06/09/2016 21:31

The boy in striped pyjamas....I watched that years ago and I'm still not over it!

QueenLizIII · 06/09/2016 21:32

Chernobyl Diaries.

A but corny but put a chill down my spine.

n0ne · 06/09/2016 21:36

Burdock I loved The Babadook! It was very very scary but the ending is superb. One of the best horror films I've ever seen.

BodsAuntieFlo · 06/09/2016 21:36

After a thread on here we watched the first 30 mins of The Human Centipede. Jesus Christ, that was freaky. We switched it off, God knows why people watch shit like that.

Champagneformyrealfriends · 06/09/2016 21:39

Funny games and Wolf Creek. Both been mentioned already too so it's not just me! Brimstone and Treacle was fucking weird too.

MarcelineTheVampire · 06/09/2016 21:40

JAWS Confused

LilyLapwing · 06/09/2016 21:41

Another vote for Dancer in the Dark here. Most traumatic film I have EVER seen. Absolutely brilliant and absolutely devastating.
Also Black Swan, but because it was actually awful yet very disturbing. Not at all what we expected. And the bit with her fingers - makes my bloody skin crawl even now if I think about it! Shock

PerpetualMotion · 06/09/2016 21:41

Martyrs is horrible hard core horror. We had to take a break in the middle.
Canal really creeped me out, too.

Alconleigh · 06/09/2016 21:47

Lilya 4 Ever, as mentioned by a few people.
London to Brighton.

The Shining terrified me when I was younger.

Alconleigh · 06/09/2016 21:48

Lilya 4 Ever, as mentioned by a few people.
London to Brighton.

The Shining terrified me when I was younger.

maggiethemagpie · 06/09/2016 21:50

Requiem for a dream. In particular the scene where the girlfriend goes on the game and ends up doing that sex show with all those men jeering and cheering.

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FlissMumsnet · 06/09/2016 21:51

..taking notes for future reference....

we'll be moving this thread into film shortly. Happy Horror Shock viewing!

ChillieJeanie · 06/09/2016 21:53

To The Devil a Daughter. It wasn't regarded as a particularly good film, and Dennis Wheatley was apparently so incensed with what Hammer did with his original novel that he banned them from making any more films based on his work, but the one time I watched it I actually felt such a strong sense of evil from it that I've never been able to watch it again.

Hrafnkel · 06/09/2016 21:58

Has anyone said American Psycho?

Actually I found the book worse. I read it aged 26 and had quite a few nightmares about it.

GinIsIn · 06/09/2016 22:07

Oh for god's sake. Just looked up 'I know my name is steven' and Timothy white, the little boy he rescued, bloody died too! Sad

2016Bambino · 06/09/2016 22:12

Not been mentioned on here but I couldn't watch 12 Years a Slave. I had to turn it off after half an hour when the lady got separated from her kids. I kept thinking about it for ages too and still haven't seen it.

TrionicLettuce · 06/09/2016 22:13

Fenella would you believe Steven's brother went on to become a serial killer?

Thomsonandthompson · 06/09/2016 22:15
  • Turtles can fly
  • Requiem for a dream - the best film to put anyone off ever trying drugs
  • Sympathy for Miss Vengence (I wouldn't be able to watch it now. I don't know how I didn't walk out of the cinema)
  • Hotel Rwanda (tried to read the book the film was based on and it was even more horrific than the film)
Amandahugandkisses · 06/09/2016 22:16

Yes Stevens brother went on to be a prolific killer. He mentioned what happened to his brother traumatised the whole family. Not that it's an excuse of course but it was horrific what they all went through. Esp poor Steven :(

QueenLizIII · 06/09/2016 22:22

The Twilight Saga

So traumatised was I by the sheer lack of story line other than a silly girl lusting after a guy.

RainbowDashstolemyidentity · 06/09/2016 22:29

Se7en with Brad Pitt, it made me ill! All I could think was "head in a box" for weeks after

CaminanteNoHayCamino · 06/09/2016 22:30

Escape from Sobibor. It's a true story about a Nazi death camp. I was a teenager when I saw it and I was beyond inconsolable, just could not stop crying. One of my friends threw up, it affected her so much. It completely brought home the horror of the Final Solution in a way nothing else had done to that point.

FrazzleM · 06/09/2016 22:33

God yes Rainbow! I went when to the cinema to see it at age 15 and was traumatised! I actually screamed and stuck my head under my chair. Became a vegetarian after watching that film. Age restrictions ads obviously there for a reason.

As well as Se7en...

The Pianist

Boys Don't Cry

Blair Witch Project (the one and only horror I've ever seen! I'm a chicken.)

Onlygirlinmyhouse1 · 06/09/2016 22:44

The haunting it was about a poltergeist called who took on the voices of the family it really creeped my 12 year old self out!

Stephen kings it! Clowns & horror makes. Clown phobia worse!
Stephen kings the tommyknockers, I wanted to break my sisters porcelain dolls after that one!

Can't watch the curious case of Benjamin button ever again I cried so much after that one

Silly ones, the stop look listen advert where Johnny got killed & the adverts about staying way from pylons have always stayed in my mind.

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