Films That Have A Really Majorly Traumatise You

[Smudge]

I absolutely adore Frankie Muniz so when I knew he was in My Dog Skip I just had to watch it. I thought it would be cute and funny, and had I known what I know now I would never have watched it.*

I have to say, during the two main parts, I totally broke my heart. I was quite frankly traumatised. The first couple of times I watched it, I was so upset that I was physically sick. It's not gory, it's not disgusting but it's just such a lovely/sad film.

I have seen it about 5 times. Now, I can't even watch the film anymore because it makes me so upset that I can not bare to think about the end.

I really want to read the book that it's based on but I am not sure I could handle it.




*Well, I still would have probably. But I would have prepared a little better.

[dirtypop]

I just watched Kids last night and I have to say that has traumatised me.

Watching that fucking ugly guy who clearly cannot speak or walk properly sucking some major face and shagging all these young girls was traumatic in the extreme.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Youth today".

[elmsyrup]

Smudge said:

I have seen it about 5 times.

It upset you so much the first time, you saw it another 4 times!

[Elly]

dirtypop said:

I just watched Kids last night and I have to say that has traumatised me.

All of Larry Clark's films are messed up. Watch Bully. It's about fifty times worse.

Films that traumatised me? Elephant was pretty bad, I have to say. I don't often come out of the cinema speechless, but that was one of the few that really affected me.

The Shining is still the only horror film to really, really scare me, although The Exorcist came close.

As a kid, it was Bambi and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang all the way. Childrens films seem to have gotten far less scary nowadays.

[flum]

Return to Oz is, without a doubt, the freakiest and scariest film ever made. For evidence I give you the Wheelers, the desert that turns anyone that touches it into sand, and the hall of heads. Nightmare central.

[si]

The House Of 1000 Corpses.

I could hardly breathe by the end of it. It starts of OK, just a little freaky, a bit like Texas Chainsaw mixed with a freakshow. When they're made to dress like bunny rabbits and Alice from Alice In Wonderland... man, it's so trippy. And then she's running and running and running and goes into the ground and Doctor Death is there and he's this fucking freaky robo-surgeon who sends his Frankenstien's monster thing after her and there's more running and running and screaming and running and claws her way out of the ground and escapes...

...but then doesn't. And you end up feeling violated and slightly cheated that you've just watched this poor girl go through the most horrible torture just because at the end of it you can't believe she wouldn't escape. But then she doesn't.

I watched this at the beginning of the year and it still makes me feel very uncomfortable thinking about it. I couldn't sleep after watching it.

[elmsyrup]

Horror films in general traumatise me, which is why I liked the Scary Movie films so much- they weren't scary.

[frap]

flum said:

Return to Oz is, without a doubt, the freakiest and scariest film ever made. For evidence I give you the Wheelers, the desert that turns anyone that touches it into sand, and the hall of heads. Nightmare central.

The hall of heads traumatised me, majorly.

Si, you're not making me want to watch 1000 Corpses any more than before, heh.

[mikemk]

The scene in Midnight Cowboy (where Jon Voight sits in the cinema with the geeky kid who gives him a bj) made me deny I was gay for years. It is one of the most negative views of homosexuality I have ever seen.

[Jonny]

The boat ride in Willy Wonka + The Chocolate Factory is one of the scariest things ever

The Neverending Story freaked me out (and it ends. What a con)

Labyrinth traumatised me too, due to my parents saying "You like the Muppets- this is by the same guy".
So there was me expecting to see Kermit and Miss Piggy when David Bowie shows up in a codpiece with some freaky looking puppets walking on ceilings.
Emotionally scarred for life

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

If we're talking serious TRAUMA then it has to be The Accused.

First up, at 14 I was far too young to see it in the first place. Second up, it made me absolutely terrified of men for years. It's supposed to be horrific and it jolly well is I can tell you.

[klee]

Return to Oz is fabulous, though it did freak me out at the time.

The bit where the heads all wake up and start shouting . . . the Nome King . . . the egg . . .

It was on the TV not so long ago. I was so happy.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre messed with my head so much I had to get pissed straight after seeing it, simply so I wouldn't think about that girl being lowered onto the meathook anymore. I saw it in a huge empty cinema in Leeds. And they played the theme tune from Dr Miriam Stoppard's mid to late 80s medical programme straight after it had finished.

[Mimternet]

Resident Evil. I watched it yesterday and never ever want to see someone being ripped and eaten apart alive again. The slicing with the lasers was also particularly nasty.

[Cultureslut]

I still cannot watch Blair Witch. I saw it in the cinema and nearly walked out - by the end of it I had my eyes closed and my fingers in my ears. The last time I did that watching anything I was about 7 and it involved Daleks.

I've tried to watch it the several times it's been on the telly but always give up.

[Nick]

I've still never seen Threads. I always meant to, but I just really, really don't want to. Except I do. Some people tell me it's really not that bad. Other people tell me it really is that bad. Who do I believe?

I've sat and listened to large portions of it without a picture on the screen, but I'm told it's not quite the same. The bit towards the end where the Words & Pictures music came on scared the shit out of me. Which is quite strange, give all the nuclear explosions in the middle, which didn't really bother me. Maybe it loses a little impact without all the raggedy-skinned, dying, melting people.

Should I watch it?

Also, The Brave Little Toaster was lovely right up until this weekend, when I had to throw away my desklamp due to general falling-apartness, and I felt really, really guilty. Fucking hell.

[zaffra]

The stomach bursting in Alien

Denis Hopper raping Isabella Rosselini in Blue Velvet

Julian Sands raping the boy (and turning into a monster) in Naked Lunch

All great films but I still find these scenes rather traumatic.

[mikemk]

The attack on the Indian reservation in Soldier Blue

[dizzie]

A Clockwork Orange freaked the sh*t out of me, with the Ludovico conditioning scenes, but also the rape and murder scenes early on in the movie. I’m absolutely useless with proper horror movies, so I just don’t watch them. I’d probably never sleep again if watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

For a completely different kind of trauma, try ‘Who Will Love My Children?’, with Ann-Margret as a dying woman who gives up her 10 children. I sobbed throughout the entire film, descending into near hysteria towards the end. This should come with an ‘At Least 2 Boxes of Man-Size Tissues Required’ warning sticker!

[elmsyrup]

I've just remembered the name of the other film that traumatised me: American History X. Specifically the kerb-jaw interface. I was nearly sick and couldn't stop thinking about it for months; that such a thing would even occur to the film maker suggests their mind is a scary place to be.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

I saw The Elephant Man when I was 7 and was deeply disturbed by how cruel everyone was to John Merrick. It is a great film, but still really upsets me, especially Michael Elphick.

[Becky]

I watched It when I was about 8 and was so scared of the bathroom for a while after that.

[klee]

Crash - the bit with Rosanna Arquette and the wound eroticisation. I'm afraid I had to look away.

[elmsyrup]

Oh, and after I saw Nightmare On Elm Street (number 3 I think it was) on a coach trip WHEN I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. I slept inside my duvet cover for about two years so Freddie couldn't use me as a puppet and lift me out of bed. Thinking about it now he would have just taken me and the duvet. But age has not made me any less of a wimp.

[monkeyrules]

Aracnophobia, it should not be a PG!

[rondette]

Mimternet said:

Resident Evil. I watched it yesterday and never ever want to see someone being ripped and eaten apart alive again. The slicing with the lasers was also particularly nasty.

there seems to be a shitload of films using the old slice 'n dice death technique at the moment. As well as Resident Evil, there is Equilibrium, Ghost Ship, 13 Ghosts, and more I can't remember. It's getting almost as cliched as bullet time.