I just accidentally watched a really violent horror . . .

[GuessingGownaGoGo]

It's was way too far in before I realised what was coming and it was really graphic. I usually avoid anything like this as the images show up in nightmares for years.

Has anyone got any good tips for cleaning my brain of this horrific film or am I stuck with it?

Yeah, sticking forks in your own face over and over again is run of the mill nowadays.

@GuessingGownaGoGoOP you are abnormally sensitive, you are the issue here not the film, you’re taking it too seriously, no I don’t get nightmares. It’s fine they’re not your cup of tea. But you’re the one that needs to adjust your behaviour and take more care in choosing a film if you’re going to have a disproportionate reaction, the whole film industry doesn’t need to change for you.

Keep your hair on - I only asked if someone could help me get the gross images out of my head before I went to bed. I have not requested the whole film industry change in any way at all.

Anyway - who are you to judge someone's film sensitivity?

Maybe you don't get these images in your dreams because you are desensitized - which isn't ideal either.

I was responding more to your posts after your opening post, you’ve come across judgemental. People are just different, I don’t take these films literally, they’re just stories, I dont struggle to differentiate between a story and real life. They don’t stay with me after the fact. I think it’s pretty disproportionate to have nightmares and ask for help on a forum, which is fine, but you can help yourself by being more cautious in what you watch.

Weapons is terrifying and brilliant because of the acting and the lunacy - but it is not gory - which does not mean it is not terifying! I love horror and it got to me in ways that ultra violent film don't.
I like to watch the netflix cartoon Gudetama, it is so low energy and really sucks all emotion out of me lol 😂

No. Horror is pretty much all I watch. Its rare for find a decent one these days I think.

My brain can churn out some much better stuff than any horror film.

You know you do get a fair bit of warning of what type of film you're sitting down to watch. It might be worth paying more attention if it affects you that much.

I think for a lot of people it depends on their ability to picture things.

I'm completely aphantasic, so incapable of picturing anything in my mind at all. So while I don't particularly like horror movies, they don't bother me afterwards because I can't "re-live" those images in my minds eye. It's the same with reading horrific news stories etc., they don't really affect me because it's not something I'm picturing. Apparently people with aphantasia are much less likely to develop PTSD after a traumatic experience as well.

Possibly you're at the other end of the scale @GuessingGownaGoGo , so can picture things really vividly, which means it's worse for you than most when you picture these scenes after the fact.

To late now but I watch a couple of episodes of the simpsons that usually does it

Next time this happens don’t bother with any of this. Instead go blast yourself with an ice cold shower. Then while still wet go outside.

By the time you’ve got inside, dried, warmed up etc you’ve been so focussed on the horrible cold and wet and tasks that the images in your mind are gone.

Make the brain busier.

Is Weapons gory or graphic?! I do like horror though so may be immune to it 🤷🏼‍♀️

You sound more judgemental than she does tbh. It’s normal for the human mind to react in horror to a genre literally called horror. The images are designed to cause revulsion.

This is really interesting. Yes I can create very vivid embellished pictures with only a small amount of input. I played cannon-fodder when I was in my teens which was literally tiny lego pixel people on a screen. I would dream full on warzone scenarios where I'd be in water-filled ditched firing bazookas while bombs exploded around me.

Weapons is barely a horror. It’s weird AF but it’s really not that violent or scary. You’re massively overreacting

I’m not disputing that and I didn’t judge the OP for that at all, my second DS will likely be the same he is very sensitive to things like horror. I just suggested if that’s how they react they should probably take more care in choosing the film. It’s no secret Weapons is gory, it’s literally an 18, unusual these days.

I hate it when this happens to me.

I have OCD too, so the images become very repetitive in my mind. I still have one that lingers from about 5 years ago.

If the image pops up, imaging scrunching the image up like a piece of paper and throwing it away.

I’m terrible with horror it sticks in my mind far too long. Get Out is my limit.

I avoid descriptions of the worst too and annoyingly an unbelievably innocuous Ikea thread had some post about a particularly grim movie.

Oh, and in future, IMDB parents guide section for any films. It can give you the heads up for any potential triggers.

Haha, I loved Cannon Fodder as a kid! Brilliant game! But while I've got no ability to picture something like that, I've got pretty much perfect recall when it comes to music and sound. And I can still remember the sound effects when you shot someone in that game, especially when they wouldn't die and you'd hear them crying out in pain in the jungle, injured.

It’s not that bad. You’re definitely overreacting

The headbutting scene didn't phase you?

Nor the children ripping the woman's face off with their bare hands?

Haven’t seen that film but generally with anything gory I try to imagine how they did all the effects, make up etc, which refocuses me on the fact it’s not real.

I came out of the film Seven (at the cinema) and had to go for a very long walk in the sunshine.

I have never watched it again.

Some of the images are still in my head.

Why didn’t you look away when you saw what was coming? I averted my gaze the second the principal launched at the partner and the kids launched at Gladys, it was obvious what was going to happen! Same with the the peeler scene! As soon as she grabbed that peeler I was like nope, lol.

I did look away. Then I had to blindly scrabble for the remote as the sounds effects were horrific too.

Same