Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Serbian Film. Any age is too young
Literally the only movie I’ve ever regretted watching.
I seldom just stop watching a film but I’m glad I did with this one. Afterword i looked up a summary of the rest and I’m glad I stopped.
There’s some others in the same genre too. Cannibal holocaust was one I think. Salo too, less intense but still pretty fucked up. The human centipede too.
So if you want more regrets in your life …
I guess i just don’t put them on the same level in my head. Visually shocking g vs morally horrifying. Salo i have avoided now since Serbian Film because I’m a little more cautious lol
IIRC, Salo has people eating shit, among other … interesting acts.
Salk and Cannibal Holocaust are actually good movies. A Serbian Film sucks, but is has shock factor
Growing up in the 80s meant that pretty much any kids movie was going to be traumatizing. Gremlins: horrifying. Neverending Story: emotional damage. The Land Before Time: can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up. It’s like the whole movie industry was explicitly devoted to fucking us up.
You also have the Dark Crystal, Water Ship Down, The Last Unicorn, Watcher in the Woods (which was a Disney movie!) and the Secret of NIMH. Seriously, kids movies in the eighties were horrifying.
Flight of the Navigator was awesome.as a kid. Kinda fucked up when I rewatched it a few years ago
Really? I loved that as a kid. What was so bad about it?
Oh yeah…didn’t he come back to see decades had passed on Earth and his family thought he was dead?
Pee-wee Herman did the voice of the ship’s computer
can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up
It may be of solace to know that dinosaurs have survived that mass-extinction event in the lineage of birds.
Unfortunately, the trauma of Littlefoot’s mom dying isn’t lessened by the knowledge that pigeons are shitting on my roof thanks to her sacrifice.
I suspect a bunch of animators wanted their work to be taken seriously as art, but were stuck making kids movies, so they made kids movies that were shockingly dark to try to persuade people that animation was a versatile medium.
We’ll it doesn’t haunt me but looking back it was RoboCop. That movie is a bit much for a 6 year old to watch.
I kept scrolling to see if someone else posted this. I don’t remember it bothering me much at the time (my memory isn’t great). However, I watched it later as an adult and thought, holy shit that’s intense.
Also, Ren and Stimpy. A very messed up show.
greatest movie though
Event Horizon.
I know it gets a bad rap, but it is a cult classic in my book. The most perfect symmetry of science fiction and body horror since Alien(s). Add on top of that a fantastic cast, a mildly campy vibe, and it somehow manages to hold up well even today in my opinion. Even though it scared the fuck out of me as a kid, I have a weird nostalgia for it now.
All of the issues with Event Horizon are because of the studio screwing up the story. And the footage of the good version of the movie was lost on the cutting room floor, so we’ll never see it.
Its such a good premise and so well executed that its still good despite its story & pacing issues. One of the best moments of my life was showing it to my Warhammer 40k loving friend for the first time. It blew his mind.
Event Horizon is an awesome movie.
There was so much I never knew about the production of the movie until the guys at Red Letter Media did a Re:View about it. I was kinda bummed that Mike and Jay didn’t like the movie, but it was cool to learn the history, warts and all.
I keep holding out hope that someday it might be remade or perhaps there could be a sequel from a competent team that enjoyed the first movie. I am generally against remake or reboot culture, but Event Horizon just always seemed like a perfect candidate for it to me.
Knew this one would be on the list. Factor in watching solo in the middle of the night and you have the recipe for staying up until morning.
Watching it solo in the middle of the night thinking it was just a regular sci-fi movie is what fucked me up. I was like “cool! spaceships! warp drives!” and then had my world fucking rocked.
Akira. My father rented it for my brother and me because “animated movie is for kids”. I was 4, and my brother was 3.
i’m so sorry
I don’t remember much of it clearly, thankfully. I know Akira is a classic but it turned me off of anything body horror forever.
Don’t watch Tetsuo the Iron Man then. Director (Shinya Tsukamoto) has all kinds of horror movies which are sure to find that one phobia you have and ride it hard.
Good to know. I don’t like horror movies in general, tbf.
Oh oh oh I know this one!
Glory! The civil war film! There’s a scene where a union soldier takes a cannon ball to the head and it explodes in a gory mess. It was during a tour to Gettysburg, and I threw up on the bus after seeing it. Then they brilliantly played the Mel Gibson Patriot movie where a revolutionary also takes a cannon ball to the head, only this time it removes the head in slow motion and more detaches it than blows it to head smoothie
I remember watching the first one in school. That image of the cannon ball to the head was very shocking and it’s practically all I remember about the film.
I was going to ask you what school you went to where they were allowed to show that, but then I remembered my private christian middle school took us all to see the Passion of the Christ at the movie theater for a fucking field trip 😂
It was a public middle school, would you believe! I remember we had to have a permission slip to watch the movie, at least. I had a great time at that school.
This reminds me of a time when I was on a bus in Honduras with the entire back third occupied by Nuns, the bus driver put on the action thriller Officer Downe where the scene kicks off with machine gun welding Nuns battling it out in extreme graphic action and gore… Pretty crazy irony.
same!
When I was about 5-6 I had fever and couldn’t sleep. I lived in a apartment complex and my mom had the neighbour from the next apartment over for coffee so I was sitting in the neighbours apartment while they had the doors open into the hall. Well, there I was, sitting alone in the dark, watching some sappy teens have a heart to heart while suddenly the earth opens under one of them and it gets brutally eaten the fuck alive while the other one screams in panic and tries to rescue it. Had some unforgettable nightmares that night.
Fucking Tremors man.
This movie for me too. The scene I most remember was a dude talking to another dude through a window. The camera is facing out the window. Then the outside dudes face changes and the camera switches to outside and his whole lower half had been eaten
Was scared of sleeping on the ground for years incase I got swallowed
American History X. I wasn’t ready for the curb scene.
As an adult I wasn’t ready for the curb scene! Poop, now I’m thinking about it.
It’s just so intense and realistic. I’ve learned to cope with splatter, but this is personal and cruel.
So true! And it’s something that I had never thought of before seeing the movie.
same! but i was not really a kid
The movie that actually fucked me up for a bit as a kid was some black and white movie about spiders that took over a small town. I don’t remember a single thing about the movie, other than crates/the town absolutely covered in webs and people getting wrapped up like bugs.
Was it one big spider? If so there are several.
If it wasn’t in black and white there’s a few other options
I don’t recall if there was a massive spider, but I checked out that trailer and it didn’t look super familiar. Pretty sure it was in black and white, but I could be wrong. I just have a vivid memory of the crates covered in spiders/webs, and it may have been the crate that brought the spider there. Also people wrapped up in cocoons ready to be eaten/already drained.
“Tarantula” and “Earth vs the Spider” come to mind, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen them. Both have the small-town thing going for them, if I’m remembering correctly!
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I still dislike clowns to this day.
This movie was on network television at primetime! Like every kid in America was traumatized that day.
Add another one of us to the list of, fuck clowns because of this movie.
Both of mine I later learned are comedy/satire:
Starship Troopers and Mars Attacks.
The sheer gore from Starship Troopers made me ill.
The Martian design was freaky and I wasn’t a fan of the instant death lasers. It had me thinking aliens could come down one day and we’d have no chance against them.
Ack! Ack ack ack! Ack?
/r/Ack
Yeah, yeah. I know.
Bambi (seriously)
Bambi fucked everyone up at that age.
The Shining.
I remember asking dad “what’s wrong with that man (Jack Nicholson)?” and he told me that he had spiders in his brain. That was also really weird.
This one is mine too. Specifically the lady in the tub scene.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space. That was one creepy fucking movie.
My wife’s cousin has been terrified of clowns since he was 5 because of this movie.
I actually love it, it’s pretty great :)
I knew someone else was traumatized by KCFOS.
Not the scariest movie but Pitch Black. I was 7 and definitely didn’t help my fear of darkness very much. Pretty neat movie as an adult but definitely get flashbacks when I see it. Also the movie Signs. Was scared of it as a kid but as an adult I find that movie absolutely hilarious.
But the worst is not a movie but a video game. I watched my brother play Resident Evil 2 when I was around the same age. I was absolutely terrified of zombies after that. Because of a few specific scenes in the game I refused to have my bed close any windows. Even at friends houses I’d rather sleep on the floor if the couch was too close to a window. That lasted until I was like 13. As an adult I still can’t bring myself to play that game. I love Resident Evil and horror games in general, but as soon as I hear the music for the main lobby of the police station in Resident Evil 2 I get so terrified I have to turn the game off. Maybe I’ll be able to play the remake…
