Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. Please click here to update your account with a username and password.

Hello. Some features on this site require registration. Please click here to register for free.

Hello and thank you for registering. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. If you can't find the email you can resend it here.

Hello. Some features on this site require a subscription. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month.

Horror films you had to stop watching

For me, the original Hill Have Eyes was way too disturbing. It made me feel sick.

by Anonymousreply 188January 9, 2022 10:48 PM

This one

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 1October 25, 2020 1:18 AM

Showgirls 2: Pennies from Heaven

by Anonymousreply 2October 25, 2020 1:21 AM

Follies

by Anonymousreply 3October 25, 2020 1:22 AM

Sex and TheCity 2

by Anonymousreply 4October 25, 2020 1:26 AM

Trump

by Anonymousreply 5October 25, 2020 1:38 AM

Last House on the Left

by Anonymousreply 6October 25, 2020 1:41 AM

Jason Goes To Hell

by Anonymousreply 7October 25, 2020 1:42 AM

Couldn't finish "Us" alone. Cause I'm an effing baby.

by Anonymousreply 8October 25, 2020 1:47 AM

The Tingler

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 9October 25, 2020 1:51 AM

Anything with Vincent Price is merely laughable.

by Anonymousreply 10October 25, 2020 1:51 AM

Showgirls 2: Penis from Heaven

by Anonymousreply 11October 25, 2020 1:52 AM

This thread.

by Anonymousreply 12October 25, 2020 2:29 AM

I had to stop watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the last half-hour because it was so stupid and boring.

by Anonymousreply 13October 25, 2020 2:39 AM

I had to stop watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre during the scary parts because I was stoned and the buzzy background noise, and relentless screaming freaked me the fuck out.

by Anonymousreply 14October 25, 2020 3:11 AM

The Freak. This movie won't just scare you, it will fuck you up for life.

by Anonymousreply 15October 25, 2020 3:15 AM

What year, R15. Never heard of it

by Anonymousreply 16October 25, 2020 3:18 AM

Remake of The Thing.

by Anonymousreply 17October 25, 2020 3:21 AM

Are you talking about the Kurt Russell movie or the prequel?

by Anonymousreply 18October 25, 2020 3:38 AM

I never had that.

BUT, there are movies I have been afraid for years to rent: "High Tension," "Irreversible"...

by Anonymousreply 19October 25, 2020 3:49 AM

I fainted during the conclusion of Hannibal.

by Anonymousreply 20October 25, 2020 3:56 AM

R6 Same here. Last House on the Left

by Anonymousreply 21October 25, 2020 4:02 AM

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Should have never started watching this at 1 in the morning.

by Anonymousreply 22October 25, 2020 4:17 AM

[quote] I fainted during the conclusion of Hannibal.

Mary.

by Anonymousreply 23October 25, 2020 4:59 AM

There was a hilarious thread on IMDb back in the day, about the Human Centipede trying to integrate back into society.

It was an office romp...

by Anonymousreply 24October 25, 2020 6:16 AM

Funny Games

Adam and Steve - after the poop scene

by Anonymousreply 25October 25, 2020 6:39 AM

The Conjuring. Walked out of the movie theater.

by Anonymousreply 26October 25, 2020 7:19 AM

R22, I came to say Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer too.

I felt like I was watching real murders.

by Anonymousreply 27October 25, 2020 7:23 AM

Not a horror movie per se, but I've never been able to watch the murder scene in [italic]Heavenly Creatures.[/italic]

by Anonymousreply 28October 25, 2020 7:27 AM

“Outcast” 2010 UK movie - harsh and gritty and you know it will end, but not how badly. Some effects were awesome and some sucked. The setting is bleak public housing and it’s brutal.

I had to speed through for the ending.

by Anonymousreply 29October 25, 2020 7:40 AM

I have loved the horror genre as far back as I can remember—I remember begging my parents to let me rent "Scream" and "Prom Night" from the video store when I was around 8 eight years old. I've seen just about everything in the years since, and the only horror movie I've ever turned off was Lars von Trier's "Antichrist." Granted, I had seen it before (and have seen it since), but on this particular occasion, I was with my friend housesitting at her mom's place, which was incidentally a small cabin at the end of a dirt road in the mountains. We were essentially in the exact same setting as the characters in the movie, and her mom's cabin had windows all around the ground level with no blinds—all you could see was pitch blackness around you. About halfway through the movie —which is before it gets *really* fucked up—we both looked at each other and she said, "I don't know if I can watch this right now," I agreed. It was just too creepy. The whole atmosphere of that movie is disturbing in and of itself.

by Anonymousreply 30October 25, 2020 8:28 AM

Cannibal (2006). It's based on Armin Miewes. I had to stop watching it twice before I could finish getting through it all the way. The last 15 - 20 minutes in particular are seriously vomit inducing.

by Anonymousreply 31October 25, 2020 8:41 AM

Hellraiser. It was super creepy. I like my horror with a bit of humor.

by Anonymousreply 32October 25, 2020 12:22 PM

I hate watched A Serbian Film. Yes, it's as vile as everyone says it is.

by Anonymousreply 33October 25, 2020 12:50 PM

I almost stopped watching Hereditary after the one character was so gruesomely killed about an hour into the movie. It was just such an awful thing to witness and the other characters' reactions just made it worse. I stuck with it, though, and I’m glad I did. It’s my favorite horror movie since Cronenberg's remake of The Fly (another one I almost walked out of).

by Anonymousreply 34October 25, 2020 12:57 PM

I agree, r13. I finally watched it several years ago and didn't understand what all the hype was about. IIRC, he basically just comes out and knocks people over the head with a big sledgehammer. Where's the fun in that?

by Anonymousreply 35October 25, 2020 1:26 PM

Texas Chainsaw Massacre has an undeserved reputation for super gross violence. I found it suspenseful rather than scary.

by Anonymousreply 36October 25, 2020 2:00 PM

The 2020 Election.

by Anonymousreply 37October 25, 2020 2:16 PM

I didn't walk out of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer but I'd never watch it again.

Such a disturbing film.

by Anonymousreply 38October 25, 2020 7:32 PM

Hereditary took me a good 6 months to finish.

by Anonymousreply 39October 25, 2020 7:33 PM

I was a kid watching some Bigfoot movie in the 70's at the theater. There was a scene where the woman opened her front door and Bigfoot was standing right there. I had to leave and go sit in the lobby.

As teenagers, my brother and I sat up late to watch "The Haunting" (1963). We actually got so spooked that we turned it off. Probably tame by today's standards.

by Anonymousreply 40October 25, 2020 7:50 PM

R40, my sister-in-law and I got freaked out watching "The Haunting" (1963) one rainy afternoon.

It's scary.

by Anonymousreply 41October 25, 2020 7:56 PM

Harold and Maude

by Anonymousreply 42October 25, 2020 11:03 PM

I watched through to the end, but the film A Quiet Place...I still think of it and what would happen here in Vermont. Such a visceral fear.

by Anonymousreply 43October 25, 2020 11:06 PM

"Hostel", because I could kind of see this actually happening in real life; same with an old movie called "Eden Lake" with Fassy before he was famous. The best horror is psychological, or just plain silly stuff like vampires & werewolves - but I hate cruelty horro because that shit *really* happens

by Anonymousreply 44October 25, 2020 11:09 PM

I've loved horror films since I was a little kid and I've never stopped watching one but there are some I have purposely avoided including "A Serbian Film" and "Audition".

by Anonymousreply 45October 25, 2020 11:37 PM

Faces of Death

by Anonymousreply 46October 25, 2020 11:39 PM

Sputnik - bad Russian flick borrowing from Alien

by Anonymousreply 47October 25, 2020 11:54 PM

That heinous Sussex wedding fiasco

The Lair of the White Worm 2.0

Infra dig

by Anonymousreply 48October 26, 2020 12:00 AM

Drag Me to Hell.

by Anonymousreply 49October 26, 2020 12:01 AM

This is a great thread for making a list of films to watch this week. Thanks everyone!

by Anonymousreply 50October 26, 2020 12:09 AM

The Devil’s Rejects. A vile film. I have never understood the acclaim for it. Repulsive

by Anonymousreply 51October 26, 2020 12:14 AM

I wished I had stopped watching "A Quiet Place" . Such an overrated piece of shit with a plot that falls completely apart if you give it the slightest thought. I did almost walk out on Hereditary twice because I was so unnerved.

by Anonymousreply 52October 26, 2020 12:25 AM

I stopped watching Cujo. It was just meaningless ugliness.

I averted my eyes for the last few minutes of Salo, which was a far superior film, but which I find obtuse.

I refuse to watch the Exorcist. I steer clear of anything that smacks of torture porn. A lot of Japanese and Korean horror is too intense for me.

by Anonymousreply 53October 26, 2020 12:32 AM

Can’t say I’ve ever had to stop watching a horror flick altogether but I came close watching Wolf Creek. It’s gory and over the top in certain scenes but what makes it terrifying is that the plot is entirely believable. Read about the backpacker murders in Australia. It’s horrifying.

by Anonymousreply 54October 26, 2020 12:36 AM

'Blood Feast'. I went to see it in 1963, the year it came out. We had to leave the theater it was so gory.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 55October 26, 2020 12:36 AM

[quote] I wished I had stopped watching "A Quiet Place" . Such an overrated piece of shit with a plot that falls completely apart if you give it the slightest thought.

Yeah, like someone with a honker like John Krasinski doesn’t snore in his sleep?

by Anonymousreply 56October 26, 2020 6:22 AM

R33 I had to stop at the 🚼 fucking scene.

OTOH 2 Asian films that push the envelope that I enjoyed were "Three Extremes" It's 3 short films but the best one is "Dumplings" 🥟

The other one is Imprint, it was part of the Showtime series Masters of Horror but it was banned and released on dvd only. It's directed by Takashi Mike so you know it's fucked up

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 57October 26, 2020 8:04 AM

R45, The Audition isn't really as disturbing as people make it out to be imo. Takashi Miike's other film though, Imprint, was so fucked up that Showtime decided not to air it as part of their Masters of Horror series.

by Anonymousreply 58October 26, 2020 5:39 PM

"The Devil’s Rejects. A vile film. I have never understood the acclaim for it. Repulsive"

R51, but it's got Terri from Three's Company!

by Anonymousreply 59October 26, 2020 5:43 PM

R58, I saw Imprint and it completely messed with my head.

As a kid I had to quit watching the Serpent and the Rainbow and Witchboard.

by Anonymousreply 60October 26, 2020 5:44 PM

The whole "Men Behind The Sun" series is pretty messed up. I believe the first one features an actual autopsy of a young boy. The director intended the films to be an accurate portrayal of war atrocities carried out by the Japanese at the infamous Unit 731, but the films got heavily criticized for being exploitation flicks. The final film in the series cuts between what appear to be actual photos of such events interspersed with the film itself. It's actually quite disturbing how accurate the film really was in depicting this.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 61October 26, 2020 5:50 PM

[quote]Audition isn't really as disturbing as people make it out to be imo.

The truly upsetting thing about the movie is that if you don't know anything about it, you feel very safe until the third act. Up to that point, it could almost be a romantic comedy. When the twist comes, it hits hard.

But, again, only if you don't know that you're watching a horror movie.

by Anonymousreply 62October 26, 2020 5:53 PM

Nekromantik. It's a trashy movie about some weird couple that has a fetish for screwing corpses. But the really disturbing part is they actually show a scene of killing a baby rabbit (not fake, it's real) by puncturing it in the neck and filming it bleed to death. There's a sequel as well, but I barely remember anything about it now.

by Anonymousreply 63October 26, 2020 6:03 PM

[quote] Nekromantik. It's a trashy movie about some weird couple that has a fetish for screwing corpses.

Sounds like the feel-good film of the year!

by Anonymousreply 64October 26, 2020 6:15 PM

[quote]I wished I had stopped watching "A Quiet Place" . Such an overrated piece of shit with a plot that falls completely apart if you give it the slightest thought. I did almost walk out on Hereditary twice because I was so unnerved.

All of the films here have plots that fall apart if you think about them. The Thing? The Fly? Tingler? Yeah. Much better plots than A Quiet Place.

by Anonymousreply 65October 27, 2020 12:44 PM

R65=John Krasinski

by Anonymousreply 66October 27, 2020 9:04 PM

There was one Masters of Horror episode with Norman Reedus looking for some horrible film, If you watch the film you die or whatever, it was revolting.

by Anonymousreply 67October 29, 2020 7:55 PM

Any torture porn film. These films such as "Hostel" are not actually scary in the true sense of horror films, they are more disgusting than anything else.

by Anonymousreply 68October 29, 2020 7:58 PM

R19 A thousand times yes to those. I was going to add R54's too, Wolf Creek was too much for me. Isn't it loosely based on actual events or an actual killer who has never been caught? Never EVER going to Australia.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 69October 29, 2020 8:11 PM

[quote]R35 he basically just comes out and knocks people over the head with a big sledgehammer.

Can we have SPOILER ALERTS, please?

by Anonymousreply 70November 1, 2020 9:13 AM

Paranormal Activity--the original. I didn't stop watching...but I REALLY wanted to. The combo of atmosphere, the suspense (e.g. long stretches of NOTHING), and the sounds were scary as FUCK. I know this movie gets a lot of shit BUT as someone who finds silence and stillness completely uncomfortable, it was very effective.

by Anonymousreply 71November 1, 2020 9:23 AM

[quote]"Hostel", because I could kind of see this actually happening in real life; same with an old movie called "Eden Lake" with Fassy before he was famous.

What were they thinking putting Bijou Phillips in the second one? I would've finished the job with that asshole. Were we meant to give a shit about her?

by Anonymousreply 72May 23, 2021 8:07 AM

Night of the Hunter - When I was a kid, Robert Mitchum scared me half to death. I've never tried watching it as an adult.

by Anonymousreply 73May 23, 2021 8:27 AM

The 2009 film The Road (based on the novel by Cormack McCarthy), left me so horrified that I had to contantly stop it, and then I had trouble sleeping for over two weeks. It also left me feeling incredibly depressed. I hate that film and I will never watch it again - while the violent scenes aren't exaggerately gruesome or extreme by horror standards, it manages to cram ALL the worst traits of humanity in about 1 hour and a half. Horrible film.

I also hate The Last House on The Left and had to stop watching it after about 20 minutes - what an utterly repugnant film. Another one that I had to stop watching within the first 10 minutes is the Korean film I Saw the Devil, which is downright disgusting.

I have never even dared to watch Saw, Hostel, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or any of those ultra-violent films. Supernatural horror films like The Conjuring and Insidious are more than enough for me, thank you very much.

by Anonymousreply 74May 23, 2021 8:32 AM

Wolf Creek - the gratuitous violence (yes, a horror staple, I know) just seemed so awful and stupid.

by Anonymousreply 75May 23, 2021 8:35 AM

Ich Seh, Ich Seh (aka Goodnight Mommy). I was looking forward to this one, it looked like a slow burn, creepy movie. Why did the mother have her face covered up like that really? Was she really the mother, etc? Then it all went south.

Three of us were watching it. Two of us left as the last big scene was unfolding, almost angry that we had watched it. I hate stuff like that.

by Anonymousreply 76May 23, 2021 8:41 AM

Slightly OT, but germane to the issue. I somehow acquired a book entitled, "Best American Noir of the Century," edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler. The collection of stories starts off reasonably enough. It's only as they progress that you realize they succeed one another in how gruesome the storylines become. I sent a copy to my cousin to see how far he got before he had to stop reading. We both stopped at nearly the same place.

by Anonymousreply 77May 23, 2021 9:10 AM

I Saw the Devil is absolutely the most terrifying movie I’ve ever seen.

by Anonymousreply 78May 23, 2021 9:35 AM

It's not really a conventional horror film, but I had to turn off Ken Russell's The Devils when it was clear they were about to break Oliver Reed's legs in an effort to extract a confession.

I can deal with violence and even sexual assault on screen. But I can't deal with torture. It's like my brain can no longer recognize that it's only a fictional depiction.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 79May 23, 2021 9:45 AM

That film about the trans boiling the rabbit. The real horror was the acting though.

by Anonymousreply 80May 23, 2021 10:17 AM

A British horror film called Mum & Dad. This young Polish immigrant woman who works at an airport is befriended by one of her co-workers, and is invited to her family's home. The family as it turns out is very, very fucked up, and they've got plans for the young Polish woman. I don't know what those plans ended up being though because I had to quit fairly early on in the movie, when the family gathered around the dad and watched with tender approval as he jacked off into the freshly-removed heart of one of their victims.

Why does shit like that get filmed?

by Anonymousreply 81May 23, 2021 10:40 AM

I love horror films- but to this day I can’t do Cannibal Holocaust (1980). They actually filmed animals being tortured and killed- just can’t do it.

by Anonymousreply 82May 23, 2021 12:38 PM

It's not a horror movie technically but I had to stop Grizzly Man because it really happened, and I'd already seen a news story about it so I knew what was coming. It gave me a panic attack.

by Anonymousreply 83May 23, 2021 12:53 PM

[Quote] Why does shit like that get filmed?

Truly. People like Clive Barker, Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino should be locked away in mental asylums.

by Anonymousreply 84May 23, 2021 12:59 PM

R82, I hated the animal cruelty in Cannibal Holocaust, but aside from that I never really understood the fuss over this movie. I found it quite boring actually. It's beyond obvious right from the get go that it's all staged and fake otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 85May 23, 2021 1:16 PM

I grew up in the 80's and 90's loving the Halloween and Friday the 13th films. Gory, but quaint by today's standards. I can watch them now and have a laugh. I've always loved scary movies, but I found myself thoroughly disgusted as I got older by the ultra-realistic violence of the Hostel and Saw films. Recently, I got stoned and tried to watch the Rob Zombie film "3 From Hell" and it literally gave me a panic attack. One sequence was so realistically gruesome I had to turn it off because my heart started pounding. It's made me really reevaluate watching those sort of films ever again.

by Anonymousreply 86May 23, 2021 2:52 PM

Stopped watching the Saw franchise after the first one. Plots are never enough to overcome gratuitous meat market gore.

by Anonymousreply 87May 23, 2021 2:59 PM

R79 Michael Gothard is creepy-hot in THE DEVILS, though. Shame about what happened to him, he was talented.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 88May 23, 2021 3:15 PM

r88 I didn't know he suicided. Sad.

by Anonymousreply 89May 23, 2021 5:15 PM

The Blair Witch Project (original), though to be fair the only reason I HAD to stop watching it is because it was so boring I fell asleep half way through. You can't watch something while asleep.

by Anonymousreply 90May 23, 2021 6:23 PM

[quote]They actually filmed animals being tortured and killed

I've never heard of the movie. Cannibal Holocaust. You mean like a snuff film but with animals or are you saying it just looked realistic?

How in the hell could they get away with actually killing animals?

by Anonymousreply 91May 23, 2021 6:39 PM

[quote] "Isn't it loosely based on actual events or an actual killer who has never been caught? Never EVER going to Australia."

R69 Ivan Milat was apprehended, and died of cancer in prison, at age 74, in 2019.

by Anonymousreply 92May 23, 2021 6:53 PM

While I'm here, I'll add "Insidious" to this list. The content in the first two acts wasn't awful, but it DRAGGED. The entire third act was trash. I can't believe they created subsequent films under that title.

Okay. Yeah, I can. Most anything under James Wan & Leigh Whannell is going to be garbage, but they're basically allowed to do whatever they want at this point (they have their own production company).

by Anonymousreply 93May 23, 2021 7:03 PM

Glad Miike, the crazy fucker is getting love. I stopped and started Ichi the Killer about ten times. Utter insanity. Audition works because who expects 'deeper, deeper'. My brain shut down during The Serbian Film, nasty.

by Anonymousreply 94May 23, 2021 7:19 PM

[quote]While I'm here, I'll add "Insidious" to this list. The content in the first two acts wasn't awful, but it DRAGGED. The entire third act was trash. I can't believe they created subsequent films under that title.

And now Patrick's got yet another Conjuring coming out. He seems to just go back and forth between the two sets.

by Anonymousreply 95May 23, 2021 7:37 PM

As a child, the Exorcist. I thought I was going to make a prime candidate for demonic possession.

by Anonymousreply 96May 23, 2021 7:39 PM

I've never found a horror film unendurable.

Some shit like SERBIAN FILM go from revolting to just annoying. But it's not like I was so scared or disgusted I couldn't go through with it. Sometimes I look away — like the latest SAW film. That franchise gets awfully squicky, but it's entertaining.

HOWEVER, there are some video games that were too fucking scary for me to continue. Video games put you in the characters' place even greater than a movie. You're in control — or not — and you have points/ achievements/ work on the line.

I found the video games ALIEN: ISOLATION and John Carpenter's THE THING way too fucking scary to continue.

I mean, those movies are scary enough already. What's horrifying about their games is you're all alone. Eventually, all your A.I. allies get killed and you have to go down the dark tunnels all alone and you often can't ever see the creatures coming, no matter what you do.

Add the realistic visuals and Ennio Morricone's daunting score and I was OUT. NO CAN DO.

It's literally like being stuck in a hyper scary film like ALIEN, but it's happening to you, potentially ALL DAY just to clear a level. NO THANKS!

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 97May 23, 2021 7:40 PM

R97 The skull fucking in Serbian Film is, indeed, horror.

by Anonymousreply 98May 23, 2021 7:53 PM

I also avoid torture porn films - anything like Saw, Cannibal Holocaust or Hostel. I did like Hellraiser, though!

by Anonymousreply 99May 23, 2021 8:00 PM

Last House on the Left is a film I've only seen twice in my life and there were about 20+ years in between viewings. I was only used to Wes Craven through Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, People Under the Stairs, etc. so I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was so disturbed by that film, but I felt like at least the filmmakers were trying to make a point. I'm much disturbed by films like that where there doesn't seem to be a point. I saw a film called The Last House on Dead End Street and it was like Last House on the Left without any of the commentary or thought put behind it and that film really made me uncomfortable.

Although it's known for being really stylish and even campy, the original Suspiria scared me so much during its first 15 minutes that I had to turn it off and come back to it later. Something about the extreme violence being presented in such a stylish, colorful, and gaudy way made it even more disturbing than if it had been shot in a more realistic way. It felt like nightmares I'd have as a kid.

by Anonymousreply 100May 23, 2021 8:04 PM

R71 I feel the same way about cybernetic psychological-philosophical horror anime SERIAL EXPERIMENTS: LAIN.

It’s so spine-chilling and horrible to watch, partly because there are many scenes of just silence and no action/dialogue while the picture focuses on some shadowy juxtaposition (say, the eerie alienesque shadows made by stuffed animals lined up in a window at dusk), or worse just a humming static white noise over stills of powerlines. The point is to make the audience sit with the creepy revelations in-story and ask existential questions, and you really have to be in a mentally strong healthy place to do that. Somehow, I find having to quietly sit there alone, listening to electricity noises and my own heartbeat, pondering how everything around me is probably a computer simulation, and that our new God is a system upgrade masquerading as a sociopathic little depressed girl, is as frightening as seeing or hearing bloody visceral gore.

But there is some disgusting physical Gorn and uncomfortable realistic scenes in SE:L too, just to make it even better. A little girl shoots an adult male drug addict through the heart in a public space and then coldly and apathetically watches him bleed to death; another schoolgirl masturbates ostensibly alone in her room over online images of her teacher, then freezes in fear when she notices she’s being spied on by her classmate (from whose POV it turns out we were watching); we see the organ rupture of a man who has injected a parasitic nanobot pleasure-drug into his system, and; much later we see the dead-eyed teen-girl protagonist crawling around hooked up to a CPU like it’s life-support with about a hundred computer cables feeding into her skin and brain (probably the most chilling image I’ve ever seen in animation). Oh, and at the climax there’s a revolting tumourous monster (that looks like it’s come straight out of Hell) to represent humanity’s addiction to technology, and the fact that ‘Reality’ as a concrete concept has collapsed in on itself allowing random perceptions to manifest and terrorise humankind....yeah.

And as the cherry on top, all this presented with complete clinical detachment, no emotional reactions or dramatic music or even any colour in the frame, really. Brrr. The ending strives for a happy ambiguity, but after going through all that as the entire story, it’s just heart-shatteringly sad.

But I’m kind of selling the show too short and too negatively. If you enjoy deep metaphysical dives and slow plotless journeys through time/space where you have to ask yourself tough mental questions about the Universe and Reality, you’d love Lain (L.A.L.L...). It’s beautifully animated, and very intelligent as well as prescient (it was made in 1999, but speaks more to our current reality). Just know too that it’s highly disturbing.

Oh, and re. R97’s reply about videogames—the videogame adaptation of SERIAL EXPERIMENTS: LAIN was banned and later censored, because one of the scenes showed the teen girl protagonist shooting herself point blank in the head. I dont usually hold with any kind of censorship, but that’s difficult for even me to disagree with.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 101May 23, 2021 8:07 PM

R101 Film, not TV.

by Anonymousreply 102May 23, 2021 8:12 PM

Another terrifying, gory and stomach-turning fucked-up horror anime is HIGURASHI: WHEN THEY CRY. I do not recommmend anyone with a shred of sensitivity to watch it; it’s like violence porn for disturbed psychotic incels. How and why the Japanese come up with this kind of stuff, I’ll never understand.

Can’t remember the season/episode it comes from, but there’s one scene where a crazed bloodthirsty teen girl grabs an enormous knife and repeatedly stabs one of her male classmates in the chest about a hundred times, all while laughing maniacally and growling. He somehow stays alive and fights her off through all of it, grabbing a heavy metal object (can’t recall what it was anymore, I think a gasoline can?) and bludgeons her over the head with until her skull cracks. For a moment, it seems like she’s dead and he’s slowly dying. Then there’s a jump-scare where she staggers up, laughs while spitting blood everywhere, retrieves her knife and starts stabbing him again, and the last thing we see is floor of the room their in covered completely in a pool of blood. Just senseless, horrid violence. The fact that it’s animated in a cute childlike style makes it so much worse.

by Anonymousreply 103May 23, 2021 8:16 PM

R103 FILM NOT FUCKING TV.

by Anonymousreply 104May 23, 2021 8:18 PM

R102/R104 all joking aside, get help—and do it out of compassion for yourself and for the world. Thing may seem hard or even impossibly painful right now, but it doesn’t have to be this way forever. The Universe is not out to get you, and you don’t have to respond to your surroundings with aggression. You’re safe, and you’re secure. We mean you no harm. Your loved ones will thank you for addressing your anger issues. There is a more peaceful existence waiting for you to step inside it, if only you make the space and come to a place of acceptance and non-judgement.

by Anonymousreply 105May 23, 2021 8:25 PM

The trailer @ r101 neither scares nor entices me.

But maybe I should check it out to see how cheesey, 2-D anime could ever possibly scare anyone.

by Anonymousreply 106May 23, 2021 8:31 PM

r105 Oh honey, go start a Anime TV that scared an emotional cripple thread.

by Anonymousreply 107May 23, 2021 8:32 PM

I'm not sure if I want to be R53's best friend or someone I'd cross the street to avoid.

But "The Exorcist" isn't torture porn. And I HATE torture porn.

Kisses.

by Anonymousreply 108May 23, 2021 8:33 PM

R107 ‘emotional cripple’...says the person who goes off on a total stranger unprovoked...

....ok, sis.

by Anonymousreply 109May 23, 2021 8:38 PM

R109 Dude, this is a film thread. Go start a TV anime thread.

by Anonymousreply 110May 23, 2021 8:42 PM

"Dawn of the Dead." I'd never seen so much blood in a movie before. I had to walk out and get my bearings but I managed to finish the movie.

I was a little kid when I first tried to watch "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff. The scene with the little girl terrified me. All I could think was "that little girl...what is that monster going to do to her?" And the scene where the girl's father walks through the town, a catatonic look on his face, carrying his dead daughter's body in his arms...I think that scarred me for life.

ALL of Rod Zombie's movies are unwatchable. Not only does he wallow in mindless, gratuitous violence he's a terrible filmmaker. His movies are stupid trash. But they indeed have an audience, one that I guess gets off on all the blood and gore in his movies. They must be a pretty sick bunch.

by Anonymousreply 111May 23, 2021 8:47 PM

R95 It's unfortunate. I know he doesn't have the best reputation as an actor on DL, but I've always been a fan. I'm glad he's making money and staying in the public eye, but at what expense? They will ride The Conjuring Universe until it implodes.

by Anonymousreply 112May 24, 2021 12:03 AM

One of the Saw movies.

The torture was too fucking extreme.

by Anonymousreply 113May 24, 2021 12:05 AM

I watched and enjoyed The Evil Dead, but I only made it through because the special effects weren't very good.

I heard Evil Dead 2 was essentially a remake with better special effects, so I had to stop watching as soon as Ash starts playing the recording by the professor.

by Anonymousreply 114May 24, 2021 12:21 AM

Eden Lake. I've tried to rewatch it several times because it is a brilliant film, but I only get half-way in and then just can't face it, knowing what's still to come.

by Anonymousreply 115May 24, 2021 1:20 AM

Patrick Wilson is an awesome, hot actor and now genuine Scream King.

I wish him nothing but the best because he's been in some of the better-crafted horror flicks.

by Anonymousreply 116May 24, 2021 1:26 AM

EVIL DEAD 2 and later Ash movies are comedies.

I don't see how you can take the cartoon violence seriously — the filmmakers don't! Just enjoy it.

by Anonymousreply 117May 24, 2021 1:28 AM

For me it was Seven. I had to keep pausing/stopping it & was practically hyperventilating. It took me about 4 hrs to finish & it left me with heart palpitations for a few months! I want to rewatch it (it’s been about 25 yrs) & try & appreciate it more, it’s a very good movie (but damn you Kevin Spacey)

by Anonymousreply 118May 24, 2021 3:38 AM

At least people who responded to this thread had the good sense to STOP watching.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 119May 24, 2021 4:48 AM

R119 I agree with the above poster, TCM isn't gory, it is all inferred, which can be more powerful.

by Anonymousreply 120May 24, 2021 4:51 AM

In My Skin. I didn't so much stop watching as tried to leave the cinema. And fainted on the way out.

by Anonymousreply 121May 24, 2021 5:44 AM

^^^ María!

by Anonymousreply 122May 24, 2021 6:20 AM

I’ve never been scared to finish anything I’ve stopped watching a few because they were too stupid or boring though.

by Anonymousreply 123May 24, 2021 6:24 AM

R122 No, not the Almodovar. This one of just so scary and awful.

by Anonymousreply 124May 24, 2021 6:28 AM

I had to stop watching the last half hour of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre because a man in overalls wearing a skin mask came into my house and cut the tv cord with a chainsaw. I thanked him because I found the movie much too scary!

by Anonymousreply 125May 24, 2021 6:30 AM

Adam Sandler: The Box Set

by Anonymousreply 126May 24, 2021 7:05 AM

The Inauguration of Trump.

by Anonymousreply 127May 24, 2021 7:13 AM

[quote] Jason Goes To Hell

What is Ricky Schroder going to call his autobiography?

by Anonymousreply 128May 24, 2021 7:16 AM

Are you thinking of EYES WITHOUT A FACE, r24?

by Anonymousreply 129May 24, 2021 9:10 AM

r124, are you thinking of EYES WITHOUT A FACE?

by Anonymousreply 130May 24, 2021 9:11 AM

R130 Nope, this.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 131May 24, 2021 9:21 AM

I worked at a video store that had about a complete collection of Herschell Gordon Lewis movies. I started watching one and it had two female disembodied heads with blood everywhere talking to each other and it was just too gross/bizarre to continue watching.

by Anonymousreply 132May 24, 2021 1:07 PM

R132 Cute puppy.

by Anonymousreply 133May 24, 2021 1:18 PM

There have been a few I consider more “torture porn” than horror. I like good old fashioned slashers, but the rise of total disembowelment is a bit much. There seems to be very little good horror these days. I think “Hereditary“ was exceptional, but many hated it.

by Anonymousreply 134May 24, 2021 1:26 PM

Again, r132, Herschell Gordon gore looks fake with bright, red paint for blood and no detail. His sequences are also campny and broadly lilt.

It's total schlock and shouldn't scare anyone. That's where "torture porn" began and it's more silly than anything.

by Anonymousreply 135May 24, 2021 3:17 PM

The Devil’s Rejects. A wholly vile, debauched, and evil movie that made me physically ill to watch.

by Anonymousreply 136May 24, 2021 3:19 PM

Hello Dolly

by Anonymousreply 137May 25, 2021 10:01 AM

R137's home movies

by Anonymousreply 138May 26, 2021 12:02 AM

I've never heard of Herschell Gordon Lewis but checking out his stuff now ...

by Anonymousreply 139May 26, 2021 12:11 AM

I walked out of Scarface during the chainsaw/shower scene. I can't stand things like that, especially when I'm not expecting it. Funny, I took The Blair Witch Project up to a cabin for Halloween and then my bf fell asleep in the first ten minutes and I had to watch it alone! Lastly, I don't understand how anyone can watch the horror they conceive of and put out these days. I had a friend who was assistant camera on a lot of horror in the 80s and he'd tell us the techniques, but I don't care, I find it too sick and depressing. Oh, and all I did was read the book of The Devils in college and it depressed me for months. Obviously, I'm reading this thread to find out what to avoid at all costs!

by Anonymousreply 140May 26, 2021 12:15 AM

r140 did you read Huxley's The Devils of Loudun?

by Anonymousreply 141May 26, 2021 12:18 AM

[quote]I saw a film called The Last House on Dead End Street and it was like Last House on the Left without any of the commentary or thought put behind it and that film really made me uncomfortable.

LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET feels like real-time activity of sick biker-meth nihilists. Everyone involved is pseudonymous, so there was speculation that some of the violence and murders might be real.

The director, Roger Watkins, stepped forward about 25 years after the movie's release to claim credit.

by Anonymousreply 142May 26, 2021 1:32 AM

r74, you might want to give the original, "Saw" a try- it's directed by the same guy who did, "Conjuring" and "Insidious". All the gore and violence is implied, and it's more psychological than anything. However all the sequels are disgusting- I can't even finish the 3rd one.

As a young teen, when the infant Xenomorph pops out of John Heard, I hightailed it out of there and watched the movie from the entrance doors to the theater. And this is someone who was weaned on horror. I had no inkling that it was a sci-fi horror film, so was not mentally prepared for it.

by Anonymousreply 143May 26, 2021 2:29 PM

Herschell Gordon Lewis seems delightful! Over the top and very camp, plus his films have that amazing late 60s/early 70s aesthetic that I so love

by Anonymousreply 144May 26, 2021 6:00 PM

Alien: Isolation is legitimately the most amazing video game I have ever played.

by Anonymousreply 145May 26, 2021 6:45 PM

R141, I think so. It had come out as a movie tie-in, and had pictures from the Ken Russell film.

by Anonymousreply 146May 27, 2021 12:23 AM

R141 r146 Book is great.

by Anonymousreply 147May 27, 2021 3:59 AM

R142 "Last House on Dead End Street" is probably the most disturbing horror movie I've ever seen. It makes "Last House on the Left" look like "Sesame Street." The closest thing I can liken it to is home movies shot by the Manson family. It's a grimy, macabre, and debasing affair. I think it's a sick masterpiece, which is surprising given that it was made by a bunch of college-aged drug addicts.

by Anonymousreply 148May 27, 2021 1:53 PM

There truly must be something wrong with me as "Last House on Dead End Street" and "Salo" left me with distinct feelings of "meh". In fact, of all the movies that have been mentioned the only one I was tempted to stop watching was "Hereditary" . I came close with the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" (obvious Gore and gross makeup simply for the sake of it) and the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with Matt Bomer in it (just incredibly bleak).

by Anonymousreply 149May 27, 2021 3:23 PM

The remake of The Hills Have Eyes really got to me in the theater. I didn't have the same reaction to the original, but the remake was really disturbing. Especially that trailer attack scene where most of the family is either raped, shot, or set on fire in the span of about 10 agonizing minutes. The way they were sitting with the mom while she was bleeding out and dying really made me emotional. I salute a horror film anytime I can make me tear up like that. That takes skill. It can be disturbing, but to work an audience up to that point isn't something a lot of horror films can do.

I can sit through any Friday the 13th film or one of the many ripoffs and just laugh everything off. We don't really know most of the characters and a lot of the acting isn't very good, so you're not going to be as emotionally invested when one them gets a hatchet to head. As a kid, they used to terrify me and I'd have to stop watching because of the gore. Gore terrified me as a kid, but once I discovered how a lot of these effects were made, I got over that really quickly.

by Anonymousreply 150May 27, 2021 5:49 PM

I'd never even heard of "Last House on Dead End Street" until this thread

by Anonymousreply 151May 28, 2021 12:16 AM

My ex got rid of his old flame by insisting on going to Motel Hell. He never dared try to make me go to any horror music, as I would have suspected he was using the same technique.

by Anonymousreply 152May 28, 2021 1:11 AM

movies ^ ^ sorry

by Anonymousreply 153May 28, 2021 1:11 AM

Me either, R151. I'm now in that horrible "curious" mode, when people tell you about things like this, and you want to look it up just to see what it's about, but also don't know that you want the potential knowledge in your head either, if you get me.

That happened a lot when I was starting out watching horror in my teens. I'd hear about these crazy films, and would think: "there's no way I will watch that!" but I'd not be able to get it out of my mind, would have to at least read the wiki synopsis. "The Hills Have Eyes" was one of those, I remember.

by Anonymousreply 154May 29, 2021 11:51 PM

Jason Takes Manhattan.

“The actor originally cast to play the male lead Sean also had to be recast during production because, according to the producers, he came off as gay in the dailies and had no romantic chemistry with the female lead Rennie.”

Also Part 1 because they killed a live snake. But I do watch it again, I just fast forward through that scene.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 155May 29, 2021 11:56 PM

These are not necessarily horror films, but they are films that I walked out in the middle. 1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- the first in the trilogy, I did not give a shit about any one of the characters and I kind of hoped that those horsemen would kill the Hobbits and bring this nonsense to an end. Walked out about an hour into it. 2 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Hated it. Santa Claus gives the children weapons ... and then I got up and walked out. 3 Monty Python and the Meaning of Life. Made it all the way through the Mr. Kreosote scene and then had to leave the theater to puke. 4 Faces of Death. My family rented it for home viewing, and I would walk in, catch a glimpse of it, and then walk back out. I didn't watch anything after the monkey brains scene.

I liked Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's intense and a little gory but not particularly violent. I won't watch anything that would be considered a "video nasty," such as The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. But I do read about them.

I like horror that comes with humor. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 are great fun.

by Anonymousreply 156May 30, 2021 12:30 AM

Remembered one more that I walked out on -- Vacancy staring Luke Wilson. I couldn't make it past the scene where they are watching the snuff videos, because there was nothing clever or entertaining about it, it was simply just inhumane torture.

by Anonymousreply 157May 30, 2021 12:35 AM

[quote]I won't watch anything that would be considered a "video nasty," such as The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. But I do read about them.

I like horror that comes with humor. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 are great fun.

I agree with all of this.

by Anonymousreply 158May 30, 2021 12:48 AM

R156, don't you have some leftover tuna casserole to clean out of your fridge or something to do?

Please?

by Anonymousreply 159May 30, 2021 1:12 AM

R159, yep, I do, thanks for the reminder.

by Anonymousreply 160May 30, 2021 1:14 AM

Never mind humor. Put it in if it belongs. But at least make the horror components meaningful in some way and show some intelligence and design.

Horror porn is boring and "life is hopeless so tear out some guts and wear flayed faces as masks and have a demon kill the leads in the end" crap is tired out. And the overdone genres (enough with zombies and hawt vampires) are tedious, because inventiveness is hard to find.

But it can be done. "Things We Do in the Shadows" proved that.

by Anonymousreply 161May 30, 2021 1:18 AM

[quote]Horror porn is boring and "life is hopeless so tear out some guts and wear flayed faces as masks and have a demon kill the leads in the end" crap is tired out

Yep, exactly. I don't like "life is hopeless" type movies ever.

Also, all these franchises... "The Conjuring 27", "Annabelle Returns for the 65th Time", etc. are so dull, and not scary at all. Relying on cheap jump scares is annoying.

by Anonymousreply 162May 30, 2021 1:44 AM

Horror with humor is for loser chickenshits.

by Anonymousreply 163May 30, 2021 5:11 PM

I used to think those hopeless horror movies where everyone dies at the end were so ballsy and hardcore when I was a teenager. These days, they're just depressing and make me feel like I wasted my time. I'm not saying I want everyone to live, because I hate those movies, too, but at least give us something like a message to walk away from the films with. Even the simplest of slasher flicks do that with their final girl characters. We wish we were as smart and resilient as Laurie Strode and Nancy Thompson. They don't even completely vanquish the evil in the end, but you get the feeling they'll still live to see another day and, if evil should find them again, they'll be ready.

by Anonymousreply 164May 30, 2021 7:15 PM

r163, I think Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Cabin in the Woods are great horror movies.

by Anonymousreply 165May 31, 2021 5:02 PM

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 166May 31, 2021 9:44 PM

Jesus, that article is ridiculous. Tha t trial was not a national sensation. I never even fucking heard of it. The Amityville Horror was a national sensation.

by Anonymousreply 167May 31, 2021 10:20 PM

Oh, please. Why does every new horror film have to market itself as being so traumatizing or the scariest movie since The Exorcist? People can see through that shit these days.

by Anonymousreply 168May 31, 2021 11:09 PM

Yes, it's ridiculous, but if you want to support fellow Dataloungers, please see it.

by Anonymousreply 169May 31, 2021 11:11 PM

I find it disgusting that that fake psychic couple made money off the tragedy of the victim and of the family. I wouldn't watch The Conjuring now if I was paid $1000.

by Anonymousreply 170May 31, 2021 11:37 PM

R168, and it just raises the expectations too high and no one ends up thinking it's as amazing.

And Ed and Lorraine Warren were the most obvious charlatans out there, it's so weird they have been chosen to be portrayed in these movies.

by Anonymousreply 171June 1, 2021 7:58 AM

The French are some pretty sick fucks:

Irreversible

High Tension

Inside

and finally MARTYRS. If this is the first 5 minutes you can imagine how the rest of the film is

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 172June 2, 2021 1:01 AM

The French are great at making torture porn films that seem to have a point. Martyrs is a tough watch, but it's got a lot to say about female friendships, cults, religion, etc. It wasn't the violence I remembered days later. I can't even recall the specifics of all the gore scenes, but it's more of the vibe and how it made me feel that I recall years later.

by Anonymousreply 173June 2, 2021 2:40 AM

[quote]the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or any of those ultra-violent films.

Others have mentioned it here, but really TCM is very clever in the way it makes you think you're seeing much more than you are.

Serial Experiments: Lain is a weird one. My friend loaned it to me back in the early 00s, saying it was the scariest thing he'd ever seen. I watched it and was bored. Funny how two different people can have such wildly differing reactions to it.

by Anonymousreply 174January 9, 2022 8:32 AM

Eden Lake. A young couple are relentlessly pursued by a group of teens that they inadvertently pissed off. A hard watch because it's something that could actually happen.

by Anonymousreply 175January 9, 2022 9:44 AM

Martyrs (France, 2008, directed by Pascal Laugier) is probably the most disturbing and gruesome film I have ever watched. It starts off as an extremely violent home invasion movie and progresses to the most obscene and horrifying ending as the plot thickens beyond mere violence and gore towards a nightmarish narrative about a death cult. PS: Beware, only the French original matters, there is a 2016 US remake which is unwatchable trash

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 176January 9, 2022 9:50 AM

I've listened to podcasts discuss Martyrs but I don't think I will ever be able to bring myself to watch it in full. I have watched the scene of the girl murdering the family, which, knowing what they did to her, at least is more satisfying as a revenge story. I don't need to see where it goes to from there, I don't think.

by Anonymousreply 177January 9, 2022 10:20 AM

A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser. I saw both when I was 5 and, to this day, have weird-ass dreams/nightmares comprised of random themes from both films.

My parents were very irresponsible when it came to following "viewer discretion" directives for their kid.

by Anonymousreply 178January 9, 2022 10:42 AM

You stopped watching both when you were five? So how old are you now? Six?

by Anonymousreply 179January 9, 2022 12:52 PM

The Human Centipede was too much for me to handle. While not necessarily graphic in the traditional sense, the graphic cruelty and disgustingness were too much.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 180January 9, 2022 2:37 PM

I had to turn the channel half way through on Wolf Creek. It’s based on a true story which made it so much worse for me.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 181January 9, 2022 3:22 PM

Out of Africa

by Anonymousreply 182January 9, 2022 3:31 PM

Funny teen horror film, Porno, where a penis is mutilated. Cringy-worthy, but hilarious, if yu can stomach it.

by Anonymousreply 183January 9, 2022 3:36 PM

The 2016 Presidential election.

by Anonymousreply 184January 9, 2022 4:38 PM

Idiocracy! Just hit too close to home. I still have nightmares....

by Anonymousreply 185January 9, 2022 4:54 PM

The Fly. Can't do body horror.

For some reason I wimped out on House of the Devil. I've seen much worse. Maybe I've just reached my quota. Real life is often so horrifying, horror movies have lost their thrill for me.

by Anonymousreply 186January 9, 2022 5:02 PM

How about adding horror movies I [italic]should[/italic] have stopped watching: Martyrs. Disgusting repulsive trash that made me feel ashamed for having watched it.

by Anonymousreply 187January 9, 2022 5:09 PM

What did the parents do to her R177?

by Anonymousreply 188January 9, 2022 10:48 PM
Loading
Need more help? Click Here.

Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." Take a look at our privacy/terms or if you just want to see the damn site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, click ACCEPT. Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site for your pointless bitchery needs.

×

Become a contributor - post when you want with no ads!