Films you never dared watch because of their reputation (scary, or disgusting)

I’ve been a little nervous about seeing The Painted Bird, I heard it’s brutal. Raw is another one I’ve been trepidatious about.

Antichrist and Nymphomaniac. Melancholia is one of my favorite movies and I want to watch those but Von Trier really does go too far sometimes in the disturbing department and so I just have not put myself through Antichrist or Nymphomaniac.

Se7en disturbed me deeply when I saw it as a teenager. “Scary movies” never scare me, but nihilistic and amoral ones can do a number on my heart.

Antichrist wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The House That Jack Built was harder to watch.

This started for me ages ago, when too many friends had bad reactions (nightmares, etc.) after seeing "Silence of the Lambs." I didn't go, and still haven't seen it. I became much more picky about ultra-violent or sick-o films, even the "good" ones.

Silence of the lambs is something I would like to be able to un-see. Lucky you

R4 I highly recommend you see The Silence of the Lambs. It’s creepy, but it’s not ultra violent or gory. It’s a thriller - probably the best one there is. Give the first 20 minutes a go and see how you get on. Ignore R5, she’s clearly a snowflake.

I have personally never seen (and never will see) A Serbian Film. The Wikipedia entry was enough for me. Has anyone watched it? x

The Human Centipede. I got duped into seeing it. Sometimes I have sporadic flashbacks and end up doing a mini-sick in my mouth.

Pink Flamingos. I don't like John Waters which I know is gay blasphemy.

I won't see Salo. I was required to read 120 Days Of Sodom for a history course and that was bad enough so why see it played out.

I've watched Serbian Film. It is an out and out sleazefest. It doesn't fuck you up mentally for days like Salo' or Irreversible becaue it is not as intelligent or provocative as those films are. It is all about the shocks like newborn porn. Don't assk me what that is.......it is just gross.

Pasolini's Salo's shock value lies more in the psychological department rather than in the gore department. It is a statement on the utter cruelty of Italian fascism and man's inhumanity to men. The final sequence features one degrading act after another including a suicide. It is not for the sqeamish but it is not gore porn when compared to your most shocking horror films.

Song of Norway

Rosemary's Baby is not scary in least. Spooky yes, but that is about far as things go.

OTOH Night of Living Dead had my young self sleeping on dining room table with every light on in house. Was home alone (parents went to a dinner dance, brothers out doing their own thing), and so watched NOLD alone; big mistake. *LOL*

We lived out in a rural area with nothing but darkness, woods and silence at night, well aside from crickets and occasional dogs barking....

To this day you won't catch me in a graveyard beyond dusk and certainly not after nightfall. Pay my respects during broad daylight hours only.

There is another film that scared me to death, but cannot recall name. It is about a woman who buys/moves into an old house inhabited by little creatures who live inside walls or something. They eventually drag her inside the walls (or down into basement?) to be with them.....

Is it this one, r13? Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark?

R14

Yes, that do be the one! Thank you!

R3, try watching it as the owner of a clitoris.

I read and watch all kinds of scary and "troubling" material with no issue (as in everything in this thread, and much more), but that 3 seconds.

Myra Breckenridge

I dearly wish I never saw The Blair Witch Project. Fucked me up, couldn't sleep with the lights off for months.

That said, the book Risemary's Baby is far scarier than the fairy vanilla movie.

A Clockwork Orange

Tusk. Ive never regretted watching a movie as much I regretted that one. You've all been warned.

Salo

R16 Try watching the ten minute anal rape scene in Irreversible then. It is controversial in that a gay man is anally raping a woman who dared to defy him and protect another woman from his wrath.

Come and See - the synopsis will just have to do. I don't think I want to add any visuals that grim to my head.

I don't know if the Road (based on McCarthy's book) was as grim as the book, and I don't really want to find out.

R23 Ditto regarding The Road and also Blindness by Jose Saramago. Great literature that I would never want to watch play out visually.

'Andrei Rublev' includes the killing of a horse.I can't see that without nightmares. I'n still bothered by Apocalypse Now and the water buffalo scene.

I don't remember being horrified by anything in Nymphomaniac. The S & M is very hot. Billy Elliot gives total alpha attitude.

The joke's on you R17. Myra Breckinridge is terrific in its own way.

Old Yeller, Bambi and Dumbo are films I won't go near. Fuck Walt Disney and the emotional damage he caused generations of children.

My mother had me believing that The Exorcist was the most horrifying experience in the world. When I was a kid, she would scream and change the channel if the damn commercial came on. I saw it when I was about 17 and I was like WTF? It was gross, but not the scariest movie. I grew up on horror - I was either desensitized to it or she was the most sheltered 20 year old in the world when she saw it. I watched it again a couple of years ago and was still immune to it. She built it up too much - can’t live up to the hype.

R25 not a horse but a cow being burnt alive. Then the footage wasn't even included in the final cut. There is a horse breaking its legs falling from a staircase though. Tarkovsky was crucified by Soviet intellectuals for his cruelty back in the day.

Similarly, the carriage horse hanging from a bridge in Eisenstein's October gives me nightmares to this day.

R22, 10 minutes? Ugh. But what am I supposed to gain by seeing this? I mean, I've been violently anally raped, so I'm pretty familiar with how it goes. 😶

I heard that Cannibal Holocaust is up there there is realistic looking cannibalism, rape, and actual animal killings.

Yes with an S. More than one. A muskrat gets evicersted, a pig gets shot and a freshwater sea turtle🐢 gets hacked up, cooked and eaten. You can see one the actresses attempt to eat the cooked turtle but she throws up. I don't think that was scripted

"Showgirls."

For r32

I’ll never see Irreversible. It’s not just that I find the idea of watching it upsetting, I find its existence repulsive.

Audition

Irreversible

Funny Games (both versions)

Reading (and hearing) about them seems more than enough

I haven't seen either Happiness or Storytelling by Todd Solondz due to their reputations. I think they're both supposed to be "good," but they both sound so dreary and depressing.

R34 The scenes in The Rectum club are absolutely out there. Especially the revenge scene for the rape and beating . The film is a cautionary tale on violence and revenge. It is a film that sticks with you long afterwards.

L.A. Rim Buddies.