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).

I remember being totally freaked out at the original Halloween film with Jamie Lee Curtis back in the late 70s, I think it was.

The Michael Myers character kept stalking her and there was a scene where he hid in the back seat of a car, and as a women got in to drive it, he veered up from behind and slit her throat with a knife!

I didn't sleep for a week and to this day always look behind me when getting in a car at night...!!

The Mist! Great film and I was watching away quite happily...and then the last 10 minutes scarred me for life.
I don't think I will ever get over the harrowing end to that film and I can watch some gruesome stuff without getting upset, but that will stay with me forever

The Birds. Saw it in b&w on our little telly at home, broad daylight, oarents and brothers and grandmother all there with me.

I have refused to see it again. It's been nearly 50 years and just the name of it send a little frisson of fear through me. I expect if I were to see it now, it would be as nothing!

Glad it wasn't just me Frazzle! Put me off psychological/horror for life!!

Wolf Creek is now a series on FOX, based on the films which I haven't seen, I sat there with my mouth open in shock after the first 10 mins.

Christiane F. It's a true story about a group of 14 year olds in 1970s West Berlin who are heroin addicts and prostitutes. It's utterly grim. Several of the group die of overdoses and the scenes of Christiane and Detlef going through cold turkey at home are harrowing. What makes it even bleaker is the scenes of the glamour of the city centre contrasted with the grim deprivation and hopelessness of the estate the teens lived on, with parents who were either working all hours or too ground down by their own lives to pay much attention to their children. The teens try to escape their reality with clubbing and drugs and of course it only hits a downward spiral they can't escape.

1984 - brilliant film but chilling

Patrick - the original 1970s film - nearly shat myself

Any film involving animals - I really wanted to watch I Am Legend as I love post apocalyptic stuff but couldn't. But then I can't watch children's films as I always cry.

Isn't wolf creek based on true events?
1984.. did this at school… had to watch it so many times and read it.. and it certainly stayed with me. It was actually 84 or 85 when we had to do it!

I didn't get round to reading 1984 until about five years ago - we only did shit books at school

oh Sleepers really haunted me too.. what those kids went through.. worse when you know it all happened….

also the TV series North And South which I loved so much as a teen but couldn't watch now.. re the treatment of slaves in it .. upset me so much I can't watch any films about slavery since

Also haven't seen Rabbit Proof Fence as I know it will be too upsetting! But I think I should as is an amazing true story

Ooh just thought of another - those public info films in the 80s about nuclear war, also all the bloody films they made at the time about it - there was one (When The Wind Blows) which was animated and the drawings were by Raymond Briggs, also Threads... It's a wonder that any of us survived the 80s

The Wicker Man

Oooo, and Play Misty For Me

oh, WTWB freaked me out as an 80s kid!

I could never, ever watch Tarka The Otter or Kes, it would just finish me off! Watership Down hard enough! (another one had to watch loads at school)

Watership Down - YES! WTF were they doing showing that to children??!! We had to watch it loads of times too.

It was only a few days ago that I posted Hazel's death scene (W Down) to my FB. So sad and beautiful! Not a negative scene though.. off he goes to bunny heaven to watch over his rodent pals..
A harsh film (in parts) for sure… I was taken to the cinema when I was about 6 to see it and my brother only 4! 'and they will kill you.. but first they must catch you'…

I had to walk out of a shop two days ago because Bright Eyes was playing!
I didn't have any tissues with me. It's the only song on the planet that has that effect on me!

I'm welling up

Apocalypto
And Wolf Creek. I barely watch horror films, I'm a wimp. I don't think I managed to the end of Wolf Creek.

I got a bit bored with Requiem for a dream and never finished it, perhaps I should persevere!

I read 'the road' but turned off the film after the first few minutes, I'm sure it's good but way too bleak
'The shining' I've seen a couple of times, great film but I didnt personally find it disturbing, likewise 'pans labyrinth'

Feeders...about erm, feeders!

Christiane F. It's a true story about a group of 14 year olds in 1970s West Berlin who are heroin addicts and prostitutes
I read the book when I was about 15, very gripping but I've not seen the film, I should look it up!

Wolf creek that was ridiculous, not one I found scary.