Movies That Traumatized You?

Same thing happened to me with Candyman. Was maybe 7-8 and had to sleep with my parents that night. Pretty much came up to the same conclusion as you.

Pet Semetary is a good movie though. HAve you rewatched it since?
I know I never rewatched Candyman and never will!

With me it was Stephen King's "Firestarter." After the eyeball-ripping scene, I couldn't watch horror movies for a long time...I am still very careful what I watch...also I couldn't grow out my fingernails for at least two years and often bit them to the quick. No telling how many finger infections resulted from that one scene in that one movie! Also, the whole thing was well-done, as far as acting and all, but horrible--that poor child confiding in someone who, not to create too big of a spoiler, she really shouldn't have trusted. My sister asked why I watched these movies. I always watched them, and they always upset me, but I felt I really SHOULD watch because they were popular and I should learn something about what was popular, and why....

Yeah, Zelda was creepy as F! Even though I loved horror movies since I sat on my Dad's knee as a baby.
I saw this in theaters when I was a preteen. My brother snuck me in the back door of the theater. We never paid for movies, just walked in the back door when people left the theater LOL

For me it was The Curse of the Werewolf.Again I was far too young and I font think I slept properly for about a year afterwards. I've watched it as an adult and was fine.

I think as an adult The War Zone was pretty horrendous and Nil by Mouth.

I don't know about traumatization, but yes, depictions of the horrible acts of history. I had a very bad reaction when I tried to watch "Schindler's List". When the soldier was shooting people from the window I almost threw up and turned it off and never watched it. Same thing but not so much with Roots, or 12 Years A Slave ... but there is a a very old photo of a man who was a slave whose back was entirely scarred that has more impact than any movie. We are a very sick species.

i was trying to make a funny vid

the patsy whipping scene with Devo Whip It in the background

Agreed. I watched it with a group of friends right after we saw Man of Steel (total buzz kill). I couldn't bear to watch anymore past the first hour and I've rarely ever not finished watching a movie. Human beings need to fix the evil/indifferece/darkness in our DNA before we start reaching out for other planets to infect.

Old Yeller was traumatic for me. After all, it was a *Disney* movie, known for everything being sunshine and fluffy bunnies. Similarly, many have said Bambi.

Jaws, The Yearling, and The Haunting (original version) are a few others.

Signs scared me, but only because I knew nothing about it before watching, and wasn't expecting it to be what it was.

Added: Silence of the Lambs. One of the scariest scenes for me was when they were transporting him and showed him strapped down in that isolation room, with that mask on.

Same here. I can't watch Old Yeller, or any movie similar to it, where a dog dying is a major part of the story.

Breakdown was a good movie. I recognize some of the other titles . During the winter I watched Extremities ( also Farrah Fawcett ). Pretty intense movie.

roger ebert was all outraged when kathleen quinlan took off the hand break ...

Marla Hanson and Theresa Saldana -- both bothered me big time. Didn't Theresa die recently?

Another is An American Crime. The story about 16 year old Sylvia Likens. The movie is pretty watered down compared to what really happened but the movie alone was still bothersome.
Another true one was a mini-series called Bitter Blood.

if streep did that they'd give her the oscar and call her fearless

I saw that one too, very terrifying. There were so many scary tv movies based on true stories in the 80s and 90s, not sure why you don't see as many these days.