I wish mine had! This movie is a childhood favorite. I haven't seen it in decades but I can still describe the plot in great detail. I've been dying to rewatch it lately.
I didn't until I watched that movie. If you ever do watch it, watch the trailer first; it's cut in a way that makes the movie seem like some Jeff Daniels comedy movie about a bumbling dad with a bit of a spider problem. It's terribly misleading.
That's a shame because it's actually a really great 90s movie with wonderful performances from the cast and a tight story before movies had to be 3 hours.
That new spider movie, Sting, is gonna be one I definitely skip. Hell, I turned the trailer off almost immediately. I wouldn't recommend looking it up if you haven't seen it.
I too had bad Arachnophobia as a kid and forced myself to watch this movie because apparently I was a sado masochist - Actually really enjoyed it and have gone on to catch multiple spiders in a pringles tube and chucked them out the window since! Genuinely recommend to anyone looking to overcome a dislike of all things 8 legged and hairy
Though all bets are off if one touches me.
Okay wtf, I looked this movie up because I wanted to watch it as a kid, but back then I found out it wasn’t actually about spiders, only to just now realize I’ve been confusing it with Along Came A Spider for like 20 years.
Yeah the older I get the less I want to see any of that kind of shit. Give me monsters and ghosts and demons and magic… I can still stomach slashers if it’s something over the top like Jason or Michael Meyers… but I have no interest in people hurting other people anymore if it feels like a real world scenario.
I totally get this, and I know a couple people that feel the same way. The older I get, the less interest I have in movies portraying abject,realistic, naked human cruelty. It hits harder and harder the older I get. But I’m enjoying supernatural horror more and more.
This is me now. I credit it to the HD cameras in every person's hands and on every corner. We are shown enough real footage of people hurting people. It's not a good thing.
I can still stomach slashers if it’s something over the top like Jason or Michael Meyers… but I have no interest in people hurting other people anymore if it feels like a real world scenario.
THIS!
This is the only movie I have watched that I refuse to watch again. I'm numb to almost everything in horror but the inhumanity and dread that engulfs this movie is too much for another watch. The fact that it is rooted in real events and people makes it even worse. I can't stand the scenes where >!the mom and kids just stand there looking at the girl and there seems to be no remorse or any kind of human emotion towards wanting to help her.!<
I haven't seen the movie, but recently read the book not realizing it was based on a true story when I started. The real events are more fucked up than the book. ChatGPT refused to give me a summary of the real events because it tripped the censors.
I still do this an entire decade later with Junko Furuta's case, it's never left my mind and is still as vivid as it first was. Same with the Hello Kitty Murders... ugh.
I'm with you on the IRL atrocities of monsters being made into horror films, it's just too harrowing and problematic to dredge up the suffering and deaths of people.
EDIT: Oops ignore the second bit, I thought you were the user who made the initial comment!
I won't even watch any true crime shit at all any more. I'll watch any fictional work once, no matter how depraved. I won't ever watch this movie again. I honestly can't fathom why anyone wanted to make it in the first place. If you simply want to shed life on real atrocities, make a documentary.
I spent 3 years working for a large horror film festival and as such, the audience is 'genre' and used to extreme film.
When we screened The Girl Next Door one audience member became extremely distressed; I had to take them out of the cinema, give them some water and just generally let them calm down. Then the person they were with came out and 'took over' so I was free to go back in but, yeah, it was the only film that I had someone became near hysterical (and I've seen nearly everyone crying (Pan's Labyrinth & Train to Busan) but this was different)
The novel by Jack Ketchum was so cruel, the movie actually tried to give it a happier ending, but the book was all around bleak. That's included with an Audible subscription, and such a rough listen. Like one chapter was under a minute long because the protagonist refused to go into detail of what he saw at this point, it involved a tire iron being heated up, and that's as much as he was going to say.
Same. I watched one of those movies (there are at least two about the same case), I'm definitely never watching the other. I think some have argued it's even worse as the main victim seems even younger.
I don't like "torture porn" in general, but I don't avoid them for "traumatizing" me in any way, I'm often going back and forth in the suspension of disbelief thing when there are special effects involved, thinking how would it have been done, and I think that pretty much prevents things from being disturbing in a "real" way, rather than almost an abstract idea, or someone telling a joke with something extremely painful. But to think that something like what's being "faked" in the movie has really happened... then that can be really disturbing.
Pure, senseless cruelty, being worse than the aspect of suffering alone, without someone deliberately causing it. Although I'm not also very keen on watching stories of how someone survived something by slowly eating one's own body parts or something.
Same here! The more fucked up it seems, the more intrigued I am 😆 I also read some messed up stuff, too! Very seldom am I in agreement with people on how disturbing something is lol. It takes a lot. I’d love some recommendations! :)
I just finished Raging Loop, Saya No Uta, and am going back through Higurashi. All solid. There’s some h scenes in Saya, but the story is good enough to go through it. Some good, delicious despair and body horror in there. 👍🏼
For manga, Dead Tube is a classic.
I used to be like this, but I feel like it's gone away as I've gotten older and I find myself avoiding the really disturbing things I used to seek out. I still love horror, but don't find myself drawn to the Martyrs-esque movies like I used to be. I think when WPD got banned on Reddit is when my morbid curiosity started to die and I realized that watching that kind of stuff is probably not good for me mentally.
I'll watch anything as long as it's fiction, or at least just a portrayel of something real. But even the tamist real-life videos on wpd or old-school sites like ebaums would deeply affect me.
I used to do that but it fucks me up too much anymore. I'll get intrusive thoughts about some things with body horror and things with animals. Usually dogs
I think a lot of that is because it was written and directed by Kevin Smith and was born out of a joke on his podcast. It’s also loaded with a bunch of his specific brand of dialogue and easter eggs of stuff he’s done. Like the core of it is essentially a comedy movie but then he injected all kinds of body horror into it. I’m always fascinated (and a little jealous) when people say they watch Tusk and think it’s really fucked up and never want to watch it again, because I saw it in the theater and grinned and laughed the whole time, but that was mostly because I already had a lot of knowledge of the backstory of it, so I couldn’t really experience in the way others have with no knowledge or preconceived notions of what it is.
I was warned about Tusk and was too scared to watch it for two years until I decided I was being ridiculous and watched it anyway
The movie was created on a podcast as a joke and then ends up being pretty scary, pretty funny, very twisted, but somehow the ending is kinda beautiful in a very ugly way
I used to want to have a Basset Hound dog.
After watching Tusk, I realized that Basset Hounds kind of look like walruses.
I don't want a Basset Hound anymore.
I spit on your grave.
I'm sure it's amazing? But I feel it'll trigger me lol
Terrifier is my favorite movie, though, because the actor for Art is so expressive (he understudied for Robbie Rotten LOL) and I love the true suspense.
That being said, apparently during filming of the 3rd movie, he puked after filming a particular scene...
I've seen the I Spit On Your Grave movies once and never again. To me it's literally the same shit over and over. I know "it's only a movie" but I don't think we need to keep seeing groups of disgusting guys take such savage advantage over a woman.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Based on the case of Anneliese Michel, a religious woman who suffered seizures and psychosis. In short, she was exorcised to death as she wasted away from malnutrition. The movie trailer I've seen presented it as: "Emily Rose died during an exorcism. She was afflicted with severe epileptic delirium..... or was it ACTUALLY demons?"
My brother has developed seizures and postictal psychosis and it has been traumatic. Schizophrenia-like behavior that sometimes requires sedation and hospitalization. To see this movie present real physical and mental health conditions framed as "But what if it really was demons?" is deeply, deeply infuriating. Such things can perpetuate dangerous misinformation. Many people have enough education and critical thought to understand that it's only a movie, but I just brought up the trailer to refresh my memory and the first comment is, 'Whoever is reading my comment, may you and your family stay safe from these types of things.' Doubt they mean epilepsy.
Perhaps my perception of the movie is wrong, perhaps they rule it as seizures in the end, though it doesn't look that way from here. Either way, too much trauma and too much ignorance to be comfortable with that movie.
I understand why you would not want to subject yourself to a movie that resonates so much with your own life. I watched Emily Rose with my horror club, but we watched a series of exorcism themed movies, and Emily Rose was just another of many. I don’t think it presented itself as a particular mystery, just one of many movies about demon possession but with a courtroom angle. The movie we had watched just prior was Exorcist Believer, which was pretty schlocky and ridiculous. But at the end, our group was asking, how are the parents going to explain that? So the Emily Rose movie was kind of the answer to what the messy aftermath of an exorcism might look like legally.
This one is a good one to mention because the way this movie portrays this case is truly vile.
The very clear and obvious implication the movie makes is that the priest on trial was doing everything correctly and in the best interest of a young woman who was actually honest-to-god possessed by a demon. It plays the priest off like a hero.
In actuality, the poor young woman this movie is based on was badly mentally ill and her delusions were fed relentlessly by these priests and her parents who killed her through neglect.
I have similar feelings about The Conjuring and its sequels/spin offs, portraying a pair of real life serial con artists as brave warriors against demons and evil spirits. Fuck those two.
It’s one of the most jarring and violent movies to watch, but also beautiful and tragic. A very difficult watch and a powerful experience at the same time. I’m a Noë fan.
Yeah, I had a friend save me from this one. He knows I like to go in blind for movies and he just blurted out what it was about and said "please don't watch it." I took his advice to heart lol
Yeah this one stuck with me. The scene in the tunnel....you know.....THAT scene.....ws proper fucked, but the part that really took part of my soul was the club....and the fire extinguisher. Gaspar Noe has something dark in him
The first is gross and disturbing but is a coherent movie that’s at least original and a little creative. The second is completely vile that just tries to keep pushing boundaries just to push them without a shred of artistic merit. The third is unwatchable because of how bad it is.
Bottom line: you aren’t missing much.
My friends and i in high school hated the third one. It just felt like the director didnt know how to top the shock value of the second one and just slapped a bunch of garbage together. It didnt even feel like a horror movie, more like just a gross movie
I watched that alone with the lights off at 1am. Had to take a break and do a lap around the room (my couch was in the centre of the room, no wall behind me). I love it though. I’ve watched it a few times since. But it’s creepy as fuck.
I had M3GAN recommended to me by word of mouth from a co worker. I accidentally watched Megan is Missing because I only vaguely remembered the title and it popped up in the search. I wondered why that guy let his nine year old daughter watch Megan is Missing. Then I found out I had the wrong movie.
Yeah, those "Women get tortured with no way out" sort of movies are the answer to this question for me. No, I don't think everyone who makes or enjoys them is a misogynist, and I'm sure they mean something to someone, but that someone's not me.
i watched that recently and it genuinely ruined my night. i tried watching coyote ugly afterwards to forget it. i wish i could scrub it from my memory.
That whole movie comes off like a really fucked up cautionary tale. Like some kind of demeted, alternate reality after school special about not meeting strangers online. I think that's the only way it has any value.
This 💯
. Honestly to me it has no justification for it being considered a film or having a reason for its existence. Salo at least can serve as a cautious reminder of giving people power with no oversight in ethics or morality, I spit on your grave focused on revenge and had some form of morality, and cannibal holocaust has a vague moral lesson/reflection of society’s faults. But Serbian film is just shock awfulness for the sake of shock awfulness. There is nothing to take from it beyond social dare like bragging rights that mean nothing to me.
Some people on reddit have referred to it as a comedy because of the political statement it makes towards Serbian political climate
I don’t see how SA a newborn baby or a 10
Year old child relate to that personally nor do I see the humour
People might see humor in the same way John Waters movies are humorous, the situations are just too absurd and outlandish to take it with any seriousness.
I personally think that’s just an excuse the director came up with after the fact in an interview. I don’t see anywhere in the actual movie where they attempt any sort of comparison or attempt to make any point.
I could be wrong, maybe the director just failed really bad at conveying his intended message. Either way it is still functionally a bad film if it can even be considered such.
Apparently, the movie was supposed to be "as extreme as possible" in order to "protest against the censorship of films in Serbia."
Personally, I don't care how deep it is. I'm still not watching it.
At the time I watched it (the one and only time) my son was probably the same age as the main characters and that was the only effed up part for me. I can see past all the other stuff as being put in for shock and to be extreme, but that took me a little while to let go.
ASF is brutal but, in reality, it’s a black comedy, which no one seems to get. When you actually watch it, it’s kind of hard to take seriously as it becomes increasingly over-the-top as it progresses.
I actually think it’s a worthwhile film to check out, as most of the things that get people upset aren’t depicted particularly seriously in the film. Also, it has surprisingly high production values and solid performances.
That being said, it DOES go ‘there’ several times and I wouldn’t blame anyone for not wanting to watch it.
That’s actually very helpful to know. I’ve had that happen before where I’ve read something about a movie and thought it would be super disturbing but the way it was handled onscreen was less distressing than reading about it. I think that’s a big thing about just reading the plot of something or a description is it leaves so much room for the brain to fill in the gaps and the mind can make it so much more horrifying.
It is darkly comedic at times -- the Director character seems to be channeling Udo Kier and Dieter Laser. The cinematography and music are good, and as you say the acting is generally good. I think most people saying it's terrible are just reacting to how it made them feel rather than its actual quality. I love the kind of film which feels like a waking nightmare you can't escape. "After Hours" would be the mainstream version of that kind of movie, but in both films, things just keep getting worse for the main character in often inexplicable ways.
It's an incredible film, but it's definitely a watch once then never again kinda thing. Only piece of media that's ever given me a full blown, blacking tf out panic attack (likely cuz I went through childhood abuse that's very similar to the last 30ish min of the movie) but it was, in a weird way, cathartic for me. Highly recommend not watching alone and being prepared for your brain to feel weird for at least a few days after watching (if you want to try and watch it, that is - if not that is totally understandable lol)
I've only seen the French version of it so I'm not totally sure how similar the American one is in comparison. I thought it would be way more difficult to watch than it turned out to be because of everything I had heard too. It was a great movie and I really liked it, but to me the hardest part was watching the abuse and it wasn't even that hard. Then again, I'm desensitized to a ton of stuff.
I get that. Our tolerance to what we can watch is different. I don't really know where my line is with horror movies, but I know some concepts just feel too much. Like I have no desire to watch Cannibal Holocaust tho I hear it's a good film.
I watched CH so long ago that I cannot even remember the animal stuff and at the time I didn't even know it was real. Thank goodness for that too bc I absolutely understand the desire to never see those things, having seen it done in front of me by my stepfather when I was literally a very small child.. still repressing that shit. I can watch fake characters being tortured/killed no problem but let me hear just one wimper from an animal and I'm ready to fight someone!
I can’t do movies with rape scenes; so if I read or hear that a horror movie has one, I skip it by default. It brings back memories for me that I’d rather forget about.
I’m with you on this, when you’ve lived real life horrors you want to skip onscreen depictions of them. Very few have any actual purpose and if they’re trying to prove its an awful thing, I am already well aware.
Yep. Only a few times in my life have I stopped a movie because I was getting freaked out and this was one. Some people laugh at it, others it breaks them down, which is great media in my opinion!
It filled my husband and I with dread the whole time. When the movie was over it felt like we could breathe again. Felt more like an experience than a movie, as pretentious as that may come off haha!
The beginning of the movie is boring schlock but it really picks up about 1/3rd In. It took me 4 attempts to make it 30 mins in and I loved the rest of it.
This is truly the most divisive film I can think of—it either fucked people up big time or you thought it was just a series of increasingly spooky shots of crown molding.
I watched the whole thing and I have never been so tense and uncomfortable watching a movie as I was in the last third or so. It evoked the feeling of being a little kid deathly scared of the dark almost a little *too* well for me.
Don't go into it with any expectations and enjoy the atmosphere. I'd say watch alone with lights off and sound up. It's more of an experience than your typical movie.
Surprisingly, since the second Purge movie, I haven't watched any others. Just creeps me out because although I don't think it'll happen IRL, the US has become a crazy hellscape.
From the trailer of the Strangers movie, I just can't. Basically, anything that seems like it can really happen freaks me out. I blame it on my interest in true crime as I got older. I can't even watch The Collector.
The purge movies are my guilty pleasure but I totally get what you mean. I’m not going to watch Civil War and Don’t Look Up made me highly uncomfortable for the same reasons. Just a little too realistic for what our current society is like.
Same. I also can’t make it through idiocracy. From that perspective, Marjorie Taylor green is well qualified for the presidency, she can even wear her State of the Union outfit.
I've heard enough about A Serbian Film to know I don't need to see it. Seems like shock porn/edgy nonsense.
The only others I won't watch are those that involve real animal deaths. Specifically, Cannibal Holocaust. I refuse to support a cast, crew, and director who killed a bunch of animals for a C-teir movie. Also, I just don't want to watch animals die, much less for a nonsense movie.
As a general thing I'm not big on horror films with a focus on realistic bleak subject matter, abuse for example. So things like The Girl Next Door are big no gos. Extensive awkwardness can often be offputting to me too. I'll watch anything if it comes highly recommended, I'm not purely into horror for escapist fun, but if something is going to be depressing and stick with me in a bad way it has to also look like a really good film to draw me.
I’ve noped out of Cannibal Holocaust twice now. I’ve never made it through the first act. I always hear about the animal cruelty in the film, no one ever mentions the multiple acts of SA that occur. I still have yet to make it past that scene on the beach with the wooden phallus.
i think that's one of the only movies i would never even try watching. in general i'll watch anything once, but i can barely handle very mild animal cruelty in movies (like... i have teared up from off screen animal death), there's no way i could handle watching that
People constantly point out in this sub that they boycott CH because of animal cruelty, but some of those same people turn around and rave about Oldboy, a movie in which an actor eats a live octopus (in reality the actor ate like 4 or 5 actual, living octopus.)
That’s a really good point! And not that its a contest amongst the animals but octopus are so freaking intelligent and fascinating, I’m starting to realize that I don’t want to eat them at all anymore.
Not technically a ‘horror’ film, but ‘Come and See’ (Idi i Smotri) seems like a pretty traumatizing experience that I’ll have to watch someday, but I never feel I have enough guts to actualy go for it.
Come and See is such a masterpiece. My beloved history teacher decided to show it to me and my old classmates back in 9th grade while we were learning about World War II. Thinking back about it feels sort of like a fever dream, in the beginning we were even chuckling at one of the first scenes as the immature teenagers we were. It’s such a rollercoaster of emotions but it is one of the best anti war movies out there. It really depicts how gross, terrifying and filthy war is and it doesn’t shy away from showing it. My classmates and I talked about the movie for a couple of weeks after watching it and everyone agreed that it was definitely a traumatizing movie experience. However it’s one of those movies that I think everyone interested in history should watch at least one time in their life.
The opening 25 minutes is one of the most tragic plots ive ever watched in a movie. Florence Pugh’s guttural wailing after “it” happens is probably the best performance of agony ive ever seen in my life. Then the rest of the movie just fills you with pure desolation.
it’s interesting because ari aster’s other hit film (hereditary) also had an incredible performance of grief from toni collette. both movies are so so good, and sooo many layers of meaning
At its core, the movie is about a cult indoctrinating a person dealing with intense emotional fragility. Not silly at all; I'd say it sounds like you made a very good choice for yourself.
I don’t even know if this one is in the horror genre but the Human Centipede. I “watched” the first one, mostly from behind a blanket, and I was traumatized. No horror movie has ever had that effect on me before.
After watching parts 2 and 3, the first Human Centipede is a decent movie. The second one is just gross, and the third one is even messier and doesn’t really have a plot. Super gross 0/10 would not recommend 2 and 3
agree part two felt like a joke it was so absurdly disgusting and immature. the first one is pretty great though if you’re the type of person who enjoys disturbing films. very dark but a well made nightmare.
For the longest time it was A Serbian Film. I kept putting it off and putting it off because of all the things I heard about it. But then I finally decided to watch it and it didn't traumatize me at all like I thought it would.
Yes, it did have lots of disgusting, vulgar content. But it was still hard for me to take seriously. I thought it came across as though it was written by a teenage boy trying to be as edgy and controversial and possible. It just tried too hard to be offensive and that made it less offensive.
>it came across as though it was written by a teenage boy trying to be as edgy and offensive and possible. It just tried too hard to be offensive and that made it less offensive.
Lmao!
I tried to watch the Amityville with Ryan Reynolds, couldn't finish it, and I refuse to try. He plays an incredibly convincing angry father, one that was so similar to my own that I could hear Ryan's lines in my fathers voice. I made it through 30 or so minutes and backed out. Hell of an actor, but it was too close to home
Can’t do torture porn. If it moves the plot along and is meant to show some sort of significance other than just suffering, I’ll watch it. If it’s for the love of gore and pain itself? Nah.
i’m super interested in the plot and really like timothée chalamet’s other work, but i don’t ever see myself watching bones and all.
and i watched terrifier to see what all the fuss was about. it was just shockingly misogynistic for shocking misogyny’s sake imo (don’t know if that’s an unpopular opinion so don’t come for me). i’m morbidly curious about the sequels but i’m not gonna let myself repeat that experience.
yeah like i could get on board with the outlandish kills/killer. but the female characters have no personalities or redemption so it felt like a thinly veiled exercise in “how can we brutalize these women in the most heinous way possible?”
I feel the same way about the Terrifier movies. The director and the guy who plays Art are really full of themselves. The director seems to think he’s some sort of genius who is re-inventing the wheel with his movies about a….Killer clown. What an original idea!
I kind of think *Terrifier* (1 and 2) is special. Generally I do avoid "gorenography". There isn't much I've avoided but there's been plenty I've turned off. I've never spent the effort to watch *A Serbian Film* or any *Human Centipedes*. I think I had the fist one on in the background while I was painting once. I don't think I'd be traumatized necessarily, but I don't want some amateur fumbling around in my psyche like that.
*Terrifier* is special. It's playful and wants you to have fun, whereas someone like Raimi wants you uncomfortable. *Terrifier* has the jovial energy of a good friend saying "Gross! This smells so bad!" then pushing something toward you so you can smell it with them and laugh together. I feel like there is an implicit desire to connect with you as another human being there. I don't know how else to describe it but I'm broadly positive on it.
In my opinion, Jason X works so well because even though the idea of Jason in space is inherently cheesy, it plays out like a standard Jason flick. The other extreme is Leprechaun 4, which went balls to walls. That method for Leprechaun pretty well too. Gotta know what you're dealing with when you're putting slashers in space.
The Saw movies. I remember my mom was watching one while I was doing my homework I looked up for a second and saw someone’s heart or something being cut open and I ran to the bathroom to throw up.
The first movie was really well done. There is some gore but from what I remember it doesn’t feel nearly as gratuitous as it does as the series moves on (Saw III and beyond).
I'm a huge, huge scaredy cat and I actually really enjoyed the first Saw movie! And I'm someone who could barely handle Scream when I watched it in high school (and I still can't do many horror movies fwiw, I thought Talk To Me from last year looked too scary for example). It's one of those movies that leaves more up to the imagination than actually showing it on screen -- and a lot of the mid-2000s editing takes the edge off, I think, because it looks really goofy. The film is a bit more like a procedural before they went and amped up the gore for the sequels.
But it's absolutely understandable if you don't ever want to watch them, it took me over a decade to try it.
Big fan of the Saw series here and I loved the fact that he always (at least Jigsaw himself) let some kind of way to survive and already knew what their choice would be, reading them like a book. Also the traps are so fucking cool, I don't know how someone could think of those
The first saw movie is an actual movie. It focuses more on psychological horror than gore, and the gore that's there is minor. It feels completely separate from the other movies, which are basically an excuse for shlocky gore horror and which I will not watch. Mind you, it's been 10+ years since I saw it, but I saw the first one as a kid and was completely fine
My opinion, Art is scary in the MOST fun way! We watch those movies over and over and chuckle, we have t-shirts. Art is hilarious! That's his schtick, funny and terrifying!
It’s because he’s a proper circus mime clown, not a monster dressed like a clown. I love when he gets hurt he just silently acts out the “ow!” He’s great fun, and so gleeful and sick.
I can personally never watch any of the Terrifier movies because they've all been ruined for me as one of my 'older' coworkers is friends with the guy that plays Art the clown and he won't stop spoiling each and every thing especially things about the 3rd one that's in the making
I've never seen the movies so idk what the actor looks like irl. Last year at a small horror convention that had just begun an hour before, a dude named Dave standing near me introduced himself. We walked and talked about the pandemic and our love for horror, and how we were glad to see people together again. I thought he was just a regular ole fan like me. I will forever appreciate it because was alone and nervous, and limping even with my walking stick. He seems like a genuinely kind and down to earth person.
Art was creepy but being a scary clown doesn't bother me nearly as much as the weird misogyny driven stuff tbh. When my friend and I got to the part where he had that girl hung upside down, we just turned it off. Life's too short to make myself sit through some director's hangups in an unironically cheesy horror movie.
Cannibal Holocaust. I can watch any fucked up movie out there, in fact I seek them out. But when I hear there is actual animal abuse in the film, there is no way in hell I'm watching it.
Have you seen Dead Girl? No one I know has ever seen it and I hardly ever come across it being mentioned here. I personally thought it was fucked bc I wonder if that's really what 2 guys would do if they actually did find something like that. Sad.
Eta: I'm only asking bc you said you seek out messed up movies.
Arachnophobia, because I have arachnophobia
That's valid.
First horror/thriller movie I ever saw. You have made the right decision on not watching it haha.
My grandma took me to see it in the theaters.
I wish mine had! This movie is a childhood favorite. I haven't seen it in decades but I can still describe the plot in great detail. I've been dying to rewatch it lately.
I didn't until I watched that movie. If you ever do watch it, watch the trailer first; it's cut in a way that makes the movie seem like some Jeff Daniels comedy movie about a bumbling dad with a bit of a spider problem. It's terribly misleading.
It is a comedy, though.
It’s not often movie titles come with their own trigger warning
At least nobody can say they weren't warned!
That's a shame because it's actually a really great 90s movie with wonderful performances from the cast and a tight story before movies had to be 3 hours.
That new spider movie, Sting, is gonna be one I definitely skip. Hell, I turned the trailer off almost immediately. I wouldn't recommend looking it up if you haven't seen it.
After looking it up I kind of want to watch just to know what the hell this line in the synopsis means; >an unnervingly talented spider
Yuuuuuup. Watching that movie in my grandma's basement as a kid was a terrible idea.
I too had bad Arachnophobia as a kid and forced myself to watch this movie because apparently I was a sado masochist - Actually really enjoyed it and have gone on to catch multiple spiders in a pringles tube and chucked them out the window since! Genuinely recommend to anyone looking to overcome a dislike of all things 8 legged and hairy Though all bets are off if one touches me.
Pretty sure this movie and the second Harry Potter movie were what gave me my arachnophobia.
Okay wtf, I looked this movie up because I wanted to watch it as a kid, but back then I found out it wasn’t actually about spiders, only to just now realize I’ve been confusing it with Along Came A Spider for like 20 years.
same for me. i even tried once. could not get past the first 5 minutes
Ones based on true stories of inhumane brutality, like The Girl Next Door.
Yeah the older I get the less I want to see any of that kind of shit. Give me monsters and ghosts and demons and magic… I can still stomach slashers if it’s something over the top like Jason or Michael Meyers… but I have no interest in people hurting other people anymore if it feels like a real world scenario.
Same. I love paranormal stuff now, whereas it didn't use to interest me.
I totally get this, and I know a couple people that feel the same way. The older I get, the less interest I have in movies portraying abject,realistic, naked human cruelty. It hits harder and harder the older I get. But I’m enjoying supernatural horror more and more.
This is me now. I credit it to the HD cameras in every person's hands and on every corner. We are shown enough real footage of people hurting people. It's not a good thing.
I can still stomach slashers if it’s something over the top like Jason or Michael Meyers… but I have no interest in people hurting other people anymore if it feels like a real world scenario. THIS!
This is the only movie I have watched that I refuse to watch again. I'm numb to almost everything in horror but the inhumanity and dread that engulfs this movie is too much for another watch. The fact that it is rooted in real events and people makes it even worse. I can't stand the scenes where >!the mom and kids just stand there looking at the girl and there seems to be no remorse or any kind of human emotion towards wanting to help her.!<
I steeled myself to click the spoiler text, imagining brutal horrors, but in fact the quiet scenes you describe are the truest horror of all.
I haven't seen the movie, but recently read the book not realizing it was based on a true story when I started. The real events are more fucked up than the book. ChatGPT refused to give me a summary of the real events because it tripped the censors.
I perfer my horror films to NOT be based on true events, personally.
Damn, that one is fucked up!
Even the Wikipedia page is horrible. I still think about it. And it’s only a Wikipedia page!
I still do this an entire decade later with Junko Furuta's case, it's never left my mind and is still as vivid as it first was. Same with the Hello Kitty Murders... ugh. I'm with you on the IRL atrocities of monsters being made into horror films, it's just too harrowing and problematic to dredge up the suffering and deaths of people. EDIT: Oops ignore the second bit, I thought you were the user who made the initial comment!
Agree, can’t see this one or Martyrs.
I came to this thread to say Martyrs too.
I won't even watch any true crime shit at all any more. I'll watch any fictional work once, no matter how depraved. I won't ever watch this movie again. I honestly can't fathom why anyone wanted to make it in the first place. If you simply want to shed life on real atrocities, make a documentary.
I spent 3 years working for a large horror film festival and as such, the audience is 'genre' and used to extreme film. When we screened The Girl Next Door one audience member became extremely distressed; I had to take them out of the cinema, give them some water and just generally let them calm down. Then the person they were with came out and 'took over' so I was free to go back in but, yeah, it was the only film that I had someone became near hysterical (and I've seen nearly everyone crying (Pan's Labyrinth & Train to Busan) but this was different)
I listened to a podcast covering the actual event the movie is based on. Just so, so heartbreakingly disturbing... will never watch this movie.
I won't even do that. It's disgusting to me that podcasters make ad revenue on this kind of stuff.
I read the book but I didn't know there was a movie, good to know I am going to avoid it at all cost
The shitty part is that there was more justice in the movie than there was in rel life. Everyone pretty much got off with a slap on the wrist
The novel by Jack Ketchum was so cruel, the movie actually tried to give it a happier ending, but the book was all around bleak. That's included with an Audible subscription, and such a rough listen. Like one chapter was under a minute long because the protagonist refused to go into detail of what he saw at this point, it involved a tire iron being heated up, and that's as much as he was going to say.
Yes, I will never watch that one again. Scarred me.
Same. I watched one of those movies (there are at least two about the same case), I'm definitely never watching the other. I think some have argued it's even worse as the main victim seems even younger. I don't like "torture porn" in general, but I don't avoid them for "traumatizing" me in any way, I'm often going back and forth in the suspension of disbelief thing when there are special effects involved, thinking how would it have been done, and I think that pretty much prevents things from being disturbing in a "real" way, rather than almost an abstract idea, or someone telling a joke with something extremely painful. But to think that something like what's being "faked" in the movie has really happened... then that can be really disturbing. Pure, senseless cruelty, being worse than the aspect of suffering alone, without someone deliberately causing it. Although I'm not also very keen on watching stories of how someone survived something by slowly eating one's own body parts or something.
None, I’ll watch anything once, even if I end up regretting it afterwards hahaha.
Same. Usually, if I hear it’s disturbing, I’m actively looking for it. I’ve recently dabbled in VNs (visual novels) and there’s some gold there.
Same here! The more fucked up it seems, the more intrigued I am 😆 I also read some messed up stuff, too! Very seldom am I in agreement with people on how disturbing something is lol. It takes a lot. I’d love some recommendations! :)
I just finished Raging Loop, Saya No Uta, and am going back through Higurashi. All solid. There’s some h scenes in Saya, but the story is good enough to go through it. Some good, delicious despair and body horror in there. 👍🏼 For manga, Dead Tube is a classic.
Doki Doki Literature Club is one of the few works of fiction to give me nightmares as an adult and I’m not joking.
It’s so good!!
I used to be like this, but I feel like it's gone away as I've gotten older and I find myself avoiding the really disturbing things I used to seek out. I still love horror, but don't find myself drawn to the Martyrs-esque movies like I used to be. I think when WPD got banned on Reddit is when my morbid curiosity started to die and I realized that watching that kind of stuff is probably not good for me mentally.
I'll watch anything as long as it's fiction, or at least just a portrayel of something real. But even the tamist real-life videos on wpd or old-school sites like ebaums would deeply affect me.
Yup. I won't say No to any horror movie. Give me remakes, subtitles, international, indie, idgaf I want to see it all.
I used to do that but it fucks me up too much anymore. I'll get intrusive thoughts about some things with body horror and things with animals. Usually dogs
So fearless. I like it.
Tusk and human centipede
Just the description of Tusk gave me nightmares
Seeing him as walrus nearly made me gag
Same. I saw that picture without seeing the movie and i was genuinely disturbed
I’ve seen clips of it and it’s almost horror comedy. Like it’s fucked up but I laughed. To be fair most movies have at least one funny line.
I think a lot of that is because it was written and directed by Kevin Smith and was born out of a joke on his podcast. It’s also loaded with a bunch of his specific brand of dialogue and easter eggs of stuff he’s done. Like the core of it is essentially a comedy movie but then he injected all kinds of body horror into it. I’m always fascinated (and a little jealous) when people say they watch Tusk and think it’s really fucked up and never want to watch it again, because I saw it in the theater and grinned and laughed the whole time, but that was mostly because I already had a lot of knowledge of the backstory of it, so I couldn’t really experience in the way others have with no knowledge or preconceived notions of what it is.
It's definitely too ridiculous and stupid to be taken seriously
I wasn't expecting to have 'Jesus christ wtf' moment with Tusk. But I did and I don't think I'll ever watch it again. Glad I'm not the only one
I was warned about Tusk and was too scared to watch it for two years until I decided I was being ridiculous and watched it anyway The movie was created on a podcast as a joke and then ends up being pretty scary, pretty funny, very twisted, but somehow the ending is kinda beautiful in a very ugly way
I used to want to have a Basset Hound dog. After watching Tusk, I realized that Basset Hounds kind of look like walruses. I don't want a Basset Hound anymore.
I spit on your grave. I'm sure it's amazing? But I feel it'll trigger me lol Terrifier is my favorite movie, though, because the actor for Art is so expressive (he understudied for Robbie Rotten LOL) and I love the true suspense. That being said, apparently during filming of the 3rd movie, he puked after filming a particular scene...
I've seen the I Spit On Your Grave movies once and never again. To me it's literally the same shit over and over. I know "it's only a movie" but I don't think we need to keep seeing groups of disgusting guys take such savage advantage over a woman.
That's what I was expecting so thank you for letting me know I was right lolol
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Based on the case of Anneliese Michel, a religious woman who suffered seizures and psychosis. In short, she was exorcised to death as she wasted away from malnutrition. The movie trailer I've seen presented it as: "Emily Rose died during an exorcism. She was afflicted with severe epileptic delirium..... or was it ACTUALLY demons?" My brother has developed seizures and postictal psychosis and it has been traumatic. Schizophrenia-like behavior that sometimes requires sedation and hospitalization. To see this movie present real physical and mental health conditions framed as "But what if it really was demons?" is deeply, deeply infuriating. Such things can perpetuate dangerous misinformation. Many people have enough education and critical thought to understand that it's only a movie, but I just brought up the trailer to refresh my memory and the first comment is, 'Whoever is reading my comment, may you and your family stay safe from these types of things.' Doubt they mean epilepsy. Perhaps my perception of the movie is wrong, perhaps they rule it as seizures in the end, though it doesn't look that way from here. Either way, too much trauma and too much ignorance to be comfortable with that movie.
I understand why you would not want to subject yourself to a movie that resonates so much with your own life. I watched Emily Rose with my horror club, but we watched a series of exorcism themed movies, and Emily Rose was just another of many. I don’t think it presented itself as a particular mystery, just one of many movies about demon possession but with a courtroom angle. The movie we had watched just prior was Exorcist Believer, which was pretty schlocky and ridiculous. But at the end, our group was asking, how are the parents going to explain that? So the Emily Rose movie was kind of the answer to what the messy aftermath of an exorcism might look like legally.
This one is a good one to mention because the way this movie portrays this case is truly vile. The very clear and obvious implication the movie makes is that the priest on trial was doing everything correctly and in the best interest of a young woman who was actually honest-to-god possessed by a demon. It plays the priest off like a hero. In actuality, the poor young woman this movie is based on was badly mentally ill and her delusions were fed relentlessly by these priests and her parents who killed her through neglect. I have similar feelings about The Conjuring and its sequels/spin offs, portraying a pair of real life serial con artists as brave warriors against demons and evil spirits. Fuck those two.
I doubt I will ever watch Irreversible (2002)
It’s one of the most jarring and violent movies to watch, but also beautiful and tragic. A very difficult watch and a powerful experience at the same time. I’m a Noë fan.
That film has haunted me for over 20 years lol. I don't recommend it to anyone ever.
Yeah, I had a friend save me from this one. He knows I like to go in blind for movies and he just blurted out what it was about and said "please don't watch it." I took his advice to heart lol
Yeah this one stuck with me. The scene in the tunnel....you know.....THAT scene.....ws proper fucked, but the part that really took part of my soul was the club....and the fire extinguisher. Gaspar Noe has something dark in him
It's simply a masterpiece
That’s the one for me. I’ve watched detailed reviews ewth screenshots. That’s it. If i watched it i dont think I could ever forget it.
Do not judge me but I love this film
Human Centipede. From what I’ve heard- no thanks
The first is gross and disturbing but is a coherent movie that’s at least original and a little creative. The second is completely vile that just tries to keep pushing boundaries just to push them without a shred of artistic merit. The third is unwatchable because of how bad it is. Bottom line: you aren’t missing much.
Man, the third one was gross for the sake of being gross. None of those scenes needed to happen. That whole movie didn’t need to happen!
My friends and i in high school hated the third one. It just felt like the director didnt know how to top the shock value of the second one and just slapped a bunch of garbage together. It didnt even feel like a horror movie, more like just a gross movie
First one isnt that bad at all, the sequel however…
Still not interested. I will never watch it
The sequel is terrifying..... Because it can happen. I've seen all 3 0/10 do NOT recommend ANY of them
Agreed.
Yeah same here. Not interested in pure disgusting.
Same, itxs not even that I'd feel traumatized but the premise sounds like clickbait
The second one sits very firmly within my “I will never watch this” list.
The Strangers.
I watched that alone with the lights off at 1am. Had to take a break and do a lap around the room (my couch was in the centre of the room, no wall behind me). I love it though. I’ve watched it a few times since. But it’s creepy as fuck.
Same. I can’t watch anything bad happen to Liv Tyler.
Megan is missing. I have young daughters.
Heh. For a second, I thought you were referring to M3GAN, the movie with the little robot girl. I was like, “Geez, that movie is pretty tame.”
I had M3GAN recommended to me by word of mouth from a co worker. I accidentally watched Megan is Missing because I only vaguely remembered the title and it popped up in the search. I wondered why that guy let his nine year old daughter watch Megan is Missing. Then I found out I had the wrong movie.
Yeah, those "Women get tortured with no way out" sort of movies are the answer to this question for me. No, I don't think everyone who makes or enjoys them is a misogynist, and I'm sure they mean something to someone, but that someone's not me.
Understandable.
Is that the one ending in a barrel?
i watched that recently and it genuinely ruined my night. i tried watching coyote ugly afterwards to forget it. i wish i could scrub it from my memory.
Same. I’ve read the plot synopsis and I just can’t.
That whole movie comes off like a really fucked up cautionary tale. Like some kind of demeted, alternate reality after school special about not meeting strangers online. I think that's the only way it has any value.
The good news is the movie itself is terrible, with one shocking shot.
I have a daughter named Charlie so I won’t watch Hereditary. Adding Megan is Missing to the list now.
Serbian Film. I watched all the stuff like Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, Human Centipede and such, but I don't need that shit.
Yeah, you're not missing anything worthwhile
I wouldn’t even call it a horror movie it’s a piece of shit and the terrible plot doesn’t even make it worth watching
This 💯 . Honestly to me it has no justification for it being considered a film or having a reason for its existence. Salo at least can serve as a cautious reminder of giving people power with no oversight in ethics or morality, I spit on your grave focused on revenge and had some form of morality, and cannibal holocaust has a vague moral lesson/reflection of society’s faults. But Serbian film is just shock awfulness for the sake of shock awfulness. There is nothing to take from it beyond social dare like bragging rights that mean nothing to me.
Some people on reddit have referred to it as a comedy because of the political statement it makes towards Serbian political climate I don’t see how SA a newborn baby or a 10 Year old child relate to that personally nor do I see the humour
People might see humor in the same way John Waters movies are humorous, the situations are just too absurd and outlandish to take it with any seriousness.
I personally think that’s just an excuse the director came up with after the fact in an interview. I don’t see anywhere in the actual movie where they attempt any sort of comparison or attempt to make any point. I could be wrong, maybe the director just failed really bad at conveying his intended message. Either way it is still functionally a bad film if it can even be considered such.
Apparently, the movie was supposed to be "as extreme as possible" in order to "protest against the censorship of films in Serbia." Personally, I don't care how deep it is. I'm still not watching it.
At the time I watched it (the one and only time) my son was probably the same age as the main characters and that was the only effed up part for me. I can see past all the other stuff as being put in for shock and to be extreme, but that took me a little while to let go.
ASF is brutal but, in reality, it’s a black comedy, which no one seems to get. When you actually watch it, it’s kind of hard to take seriously as it becomes increasingly over-the-top as it progresses. I actually think it’s a worthwhile film to check out, as most of the things that get people upset aren’t depicted particularly seriously in the film. Also, it has surprisingly high production values and solid performances. That being said, it DOES go ‘there’ several times and I wouldn’t blame anyone for not wanting to watch it.
That’s actually very helpful to know. I’ve had that happen before where I’ve read something about a movie and thought it would be super disturbing but the way it was handled onscreen was less distressing than reading about it. I think that’s a big thing about just reading the plot of something or a description is it leaves so much room for the brain to fill in the gaps and the mind can make it so much more horrifying.
It is darkly comedic at times -- the Director character seems to be channeling Udo Kier and Dieter Laser. The cinematography and music are good, and as you say the acting is generally good. I think most people saying it's terrible are just reacting to how it made them feel rather than its actual quality. I love the kind of film which feels like a waking nightmare you can't escape. "After Hours" would be the mainstream version of that kind of movie, but in both films, things just keep getting worse for the main character in often inexplicable ways.
Martyrs just sounds too horrifying.
It took me a while to finally watch that, it'll stick with you for a while but it's a good one.
I'm disturbed by the concept and especially the ending. I had heard it's pretty good tbf.
It's an incredible film, but it's definitely a watch once then never again kinda thing. Only piece of media that's ever given me a full blown, blacking tf out panic attack (likely cuz I went through childhood abuse that's very similar to the last 30ish min of the movie) but it was, in a weird way, cathartic for me. Highly recommend not watching alone and being prepared for your brain to feel weird for at least a few days after watching (if you want to try and watch it, that is - if not that is totally understandable lol)
I'm sorry it gave you a panic attack. I don't know if I'll ever watch it tbh.
I've only seen the French version of it so I'm not totally sure how similar the American one is in comparison. I thought it would be way more difficult to watch than it turned out to be because of everything I had heard too. It was a great movie and I really liked it, but to me the hardest part was watching the abuse and it wasn't even that hard. Then again, I'm desensitized to a ton of stuff.
I get that. Our tolerance to what we can watch is different. I don't really know where my line is with horror movies, but I know some concepts just feel too much. Like I have no desire to watch Cannibal Holocaust tho I hear it's a good film.
I watched CH so long ago that I cannot even remember the animal stuff and at the time I didn't even know it was real. Thank goodness for that too bc I absolutely understand the desire to never see those things, having seen it done in front of me by my stepfather when I was literally a very small child.. still repressing that shit. I can watch fake characters being tortured/killed no problem but let me hear just one wimper from an animal and I'm ready to fight someone!
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Salo, A Serbian Film, The Human Centipede, Antichrist because >!of the genital mutilation!!of the actual animal cruelty!<
Antichrist is fantastic. The others are gross.
Those are the ones I won’t watch either.
I can’t do movies with rape scenes; so if I read or hear that a horror movie has one, I skip it by default. It brings back memories for me that I’d rather forget about.
I’m with you on this, when you’ve lived real life horrors you want to skip onscreen depictions of them. Very few have any actual purpose and if they’re trying to prove its an awful thing, I am already well aware.
I watched maybe 15 minutes of Skinamarink and it was too effective at making me feel like a scared child so I had to turn it off lol
Yep. Only a few times in my life have I stopped a movie because I was getting freaked out and this was one. Some people laugh at it, others it breaks them down, which is great media in my opinion!
It filled my husband and I with dread the whole time. When the movie was over it felt like we could breathe again. Felt more like an experience than a movie, as pretentious as that may come off haha!
It’s really interesting to me how we all have our own triggers. I also watched it for 15 minutes, but I thought it was boring haha.
The beginning of the movie is boring schlock but it really picks up about 1/3rd In. It took me 4 attempts to make it 30 mins in and I loved the rest of it.
This is truly the most divisive film I can think of—it either fucked people up big time or you thought it was just a series of increasingly spooky shots of crown molding.
I watched the whole thing and I have never been so tense and uncomfortable watching a movie as I was in the last third or so. It evoked the feeling of being a little kid deathly scared of the dark almost a little *too* well for me.
Ive been wanting to try that one, actually
Don't go into it with any expectations and enjoy the atmosphere. I'd say watch alone with lights off and sound up. It's more of an experience than your typical movie.
Sweet. Ill do that tonight.
Surprisingly, since the second Purge movie, I haven't watched any others. Just creeps me out because although I don't think it'll happen IRL, the US has become a crazy hellscape. From the trailer of the Strangers movie, I just can't. Basically, anything that seems like it can really happen freaks me out. I blame it on my interest in true crime as I got older. I can't even watch The Collector.
> anything that seems like it can really happen freaks me out. 100% understandable. It sucks when real life ruins horror movies.
The purge movies are my guilty pleasure but I totally get what you mean. I’m not going to watch Civil War and Don’t Look Up made me highly uncomfortable for the same reasons. Just a little too realistic for what our current society is like.
Same. I also can’t make it through idiocracy. From that perspective, Marjorie Taylor green is well qualified for the presidency, she can even wear her State of the Union outfit.
I'd say Don't Look Up is my pick, as anti-intellectual, anti-science political grandstanding IRL drives me insane.
Yes I just felt incredibly empty afterwards. Scariest shit I’ve ever seen and it’s not even a technical horror movie
I've heard enough about A Serbian Film to know I don't need to see it. Seems like shock porn/edgy nonsense. The only others I won't watch are those that involve real animal deaths. Specifically, Cannibal Holocaust. I refuse to support a cast, crew, and director who killed a bunch of animals for a C-teir movie. Also, I just don't want to watch animals die, much less for a nonsense movie.
As a general thing I'm not big on horror films with a focus on realistic bleak subject matter, abuse for example. So things like The Girl Next Door are big no gos. Extensive awkwardness can often be offputting to me too. I'll watch anything if it comes highly recommended, I'm not purely into horror for escapist fun, but if something is going to be depressing and stick with me in a bad way it has to also look like a really good film to draw me.
I’ve noped out of Cannibal Holocaust twice now. I’ve never made it through the first act. I always hear about the animal cruelty in the film, no one ever mentions the multiple acts of SA that occur. I still have yet to make it past that scene on the beach with the wooden phallus.
i think that's one of the only movies i would never even try watching. in general i'll watch anything once, but i can barely handle very mild animal cruelty in movies (like... i have teared up from off screen animal death), there's no way i could handle watching that
Fortunately, it sucks so it's not worth watching anyway. But yes, the animal cruelty was disgusting, I will never recommend this movie to anyone.
People constantly point out in this sub that they boycott CH because of animal cruelty, but some of those same people turn around and rave about Oldboy, a movie in which an actor eats a live octopus (in reality the actor ate like 4 or 5 actual, living octopus.)
That’s a really good point! And not that its a contest amongst the animals but octopus are so freaking intelligent and fascinating, I’m starting to realize that I don’t want to eat them at all anymore.
Not technically a ‘horror’ film, but ‘Come and See’ (Idi i Smotri) seems like a pretty traumatizing experience that I’ll have to watch someday, but I never feel I have enough guts to actualy go for it.
Come and See is such a masterpiece. My beloved history teacher decided to show it to me and my old classmates back in 9th grade while we were learning about World War II. Thinking back about it feels sort of like a fever dream, in the beginning we were even chuckling at one of the first scenes as the immature teenagers we were. It’s such a rollercoaster of emotions but it is one of the best anti war movies out there. It really depicts how gross, terrifying and filthy war is and it doesn’t shy away from showing it. My classmates and I talked about the movie for a couple of weeks after watching it and everyone agreed that it was definitely a traumatizing movie experience. However it’s one of those movies that I think everyone interested in history should watch at least one time in their life.
Maybe silly, but Midsommar I saw the trailer along with several clips and just went NOPE. I have religious trauma to begin with and just. No.
The opening 25 minutes is one of the most tragic plots ive ever watched in a movie. Florence Pugh’s guttural wailing after “it” happens is probably the best performance of agony ive ever seen in my life. Then the rest of the movie just fills you with pure desolation.
it’s interesting because ari aster’s other hit film (hereditary) also had an incredible performance of grief from toni collette. both movies are so so good, and sooo many layers of meaning
Both involving a car too…
At its core, the movie is about a cult indoctrinating a person dealing with intense emotional fragility. Not silly at all; I'd say it sounds like you made a very good choice for yourself.
That would probably explain it. I'm very sorry to hear that.
The Nightingale.
I saw it once and I will never watch it again. It’s a great film overall, but oh my god, I can’t.
I don’t even know if this one is in the horror genre but the Human Centipede. I “watched” the first one, mostly from behind a blanket, and I was traumatized. No horror movie has ever had that effect on me before.
After watching parts 2 and 3, the first Human Centipede is a decent movie. The second one is just gross, and the third one is even messier and doesn’t really have a plot. Super gross 0/10 would not recommend 2 and 3
agree part two felt like a joke it was so absurdly disgusting and immature. the first one is pretty great though if you’re the type of person who enjoys disturbing films. very dark but a well made nightmare.
For the longest time it was A Serbian Film. I kept putting it off and putting it off because of all the things I heard about it. But then I finally decided to watch it and it didn't traumatize me at all like I thought it would. Yes, it did have lots of disgusting, vulgar content. But it was still hard for me to take seriously. I thought it came across as though it was written by a teenage boy trying to be as edgy and controversial and possible. It just tried too hard to be offensive and that made it less offensive.
>it came across as though it was written by a teenage boy trying to be as edgy and offensive and possible. It just tried too hard to be offensive and that made it less offensive. Lmao!
The Human Centipede movies. I enjoy eating and I feel like I might not as much after watching it. 😅
I tried to watch the Amityville with Ryan Reynolds, couldn't finish it, and I refuse to try. He plays an incredibly convincing angry father, one that was so similar to my own that I could hear Ryan's lines in my fathers voice. I made it through 30 or so minutes and backed out. Hell of an actor, but it was too close to home
Salo
Can’t do torture porn. If it moves the plot along and is meant to show some sort of significance other than just suffering, I’ll watch it. If it’s for the love of gore and pain itself? Nah.
i’m super interested in the plot and really like timothée chalamet’s other work, but i don’t ever see myself watching bones and all. and i watched terrifier to see what all the fuss was about. it was just shockingly misogynistic for shocking misogyny’s sake imo (don’t know if that’s an unpopular opinion so don’t come for me). i’m morbidly curious about the sequels but i’m not gonna let myself repeat that experience.
Yeah, the movie seems to be a fetish for men who want women dressed scantily to be terrified.
yeah like i could get on board with the outlandish kills/killer. but the female characters have no personalities or redemption so it felt like a thinly veiled exercise in “how can we brutalize these women in the most heinous way possible?”
I’m of the same opinion with the Terrifier movies and no, it is not a popular take, lol. Every time I say it, I get people jumping on me.
I feel the same way about the Terrifier movies. The director and the guy who plays Art are really full of themselves. The director seems to think he’s some sort of genius who is re-inventing the wheel with his movies about a….Killer clown. What an original idea!
Martyrs, Serbian Film, Terrifier, Hostel, Saw, Human Centipede. I have a problem watching people be in physical pain.
I kind of think *Terrifier* (1 and 2) is special. Generally I do avoid "gorenography". There isn't much I've avoided but there's been plenty I've turned off. I've never spent the effort to watch *A Serbian Film* or any *Human Centipedes*. I think I had the fist one on in the background while I was painting once. I don't think I'd be traumatized necessarily, but I don't want some amateur fumbling around in my psyche like that. *Terrifier* is special. It's playful and wants you to have fun, whereas someone like Raimi wants you uncomfortable. *Terrifier* has the jovial energy of a good friend saying "Gross! This smells so bad!" then pushing something toward you so you can smell it with them and laugh together. I feel like there is an implicit desire to connect with you as another human being there. I don't know how else to describe it but I'm broadly positive on it.
>"gorenography" OMG! I love this word!
My brother and I think of Art The Clown as a Looney Tune character gone bad in the real world.
Terrifiier never takes itself too serious but also never tries to be something cheesy as Jason Goes to Space.
In my opinion, Jason X works so well because even though the idea of Jason in space is inherently cheesy, it plays out like a standard Jason flick. The other extreme is Leprechaun 4, which went balls to walls. That method for Leprechaun pretty well too. Gotta know what you're dealing with when you're putting slashers in space.
The Saw movies. I remember my mom was watching one while I was doing my homework I looked up for a second and saw someone’s heart or something being cut open and I ran to the bathroom to throw up.
The first movie was really well done. There is some gore but from what I remember it doesn’t feel nearly as gratuitous as it does as the series moves on (Saw III and beyond).
I'm a huge, huge scaredy cat and I actually really enjoyed the first Saw movie! And I'm someone who could barely handle Scream when I watched it in high school (and I still can't do many horror movies fwiw, I thought Talk To Me from last year looked too scary for example). It's one of those movies that leaves more up to the imagination than actually showing it on screen -- and a lot of the mid-2000s editing takes the edge off, I think, because it looks really goofy. The film is a bit more like a procedural before they went and amped up the gore for the sequels. But it's absolutely understandable if you don't ever want to watch them, it took me over a decade to try it.
Big fan of the Saw series here and I loved the fact that he always (at least Jigsaw himself) let some kind of way to survive and already knew what their choice would be, reading them like a book. Also the traps are so fucking cool, I don't know how someone could think of those
The first saw movie is an actual movie. It focuses more on psychological horror than gore, and the gore that's there is minor. It feels completely separate from the other movies, which are basically an excuse for shlocky gore horror and which I will not watch. Mind you, it's been 10+ years since I saw it, but I saw the first one as a kid and was completely fine
My opinion, Art is scary in the MOST fun way! We watch those movies over and over and chuckle, we have t-shirts. Art is hilarious! That's his schtick, funny and terrifying!
It’s because he’s a proper circus mime clown, not a monster dressed like a clown. I love when he gets hurt he just silently acts out the “ow!” He’s great fun, and so gleeful and sick.
I don’t have any lines. I’ll watch anything
The first one that comes to mind is US. I dont know why, but that concept is a BIG no
The House That Jack Built. Lars Von Trier doing a movie about a serial killer. Nuff said.
Martyrs, everyone talks about it but some scenes that I caught a glimpse are just too much for me.
Human Centipede or Tusk.
I can personally never watch any of the Terrifier movies because they've all been ruined for me as one of my 'older' coworkers is friends with the guy that plays Art the clown and he won't stop spoiling each and every thing especially things about the 3rd one that's in the making
I've never seen the movies so idk what the actor looks like irl. Last year at a small horror convention that had just begun an hour before, a dude named Dave standing near me introduced himself. We walked and talked about the pandemic and our love for horror, and how we were glad to see people together again. I thought he was just a regular ole fan like me. I will forever appreciate it because was alone and nervous, and limping even with my walking stick. He seems like a genuinely kind and down to earth person.
Blackfish.
I’ve been putting off watching Martyrs for this exact reason
Art was creepy but being a scary clown doesn't bother me nearly as much as the weird misogyny driven stuff tbh. When my friend and I got to the part where he had that girl hung upside down, we just turned it off. Life's too short to make myself sit through some director's hangups in an unironically cheesy horror movie.
[Skinned Alive](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=ygUXbmV2ZXIgZ29ubmEgZ2l2ZSB5b3UgdXA%3D)
Cannibal Holocaust. I can watch any fucked up movie out there, in fact I seek them out. But when I hear there is actual animal abuse in the film, there is no way in hell I'm watching it.
Have you seen Dead Girl? No one I know has ever seen it and I hardly ever come across it being mentioned here. I personally thought it was fucked bc I wonder if that's really what 2 guys would do if they actually did find something like that. Sad. Eta: I'm only asking bc you said you seek out messed up movies.