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Movies that scarred you?

posted 7 years ago by AngularTurnip (3337)
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"The Innocents" with Deborah Kerr.

One day, I come home from school early, and found my babysitter, who was a big film snob, in the middle of watching a black and white movie. Now, being a '90s kid, and thus wired to find anything in black and white contemptible, I begged her to watch something else (our lower/middle class status confined us to only one TV). She refused and so I reluctantly screened "The Innocents" with her ... I shouldn't have. Something about this film -- the music, the performances, the eerie atmosphere -- got to me, despite my initial resistance, and I found myself, for several nights after, toss and turning, unable to expunge from my head "The Innocent"'s oddly unsettling imagery and soundscapes.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

Irreversible...just horrific but really brilliantly made

The lovely Monica Bellucci is terribly assaulted and her boyfriend Vincent Cassell springs into action to avenge her
Everything goes wrong...this is no 'Deathwish' sort of revenge thriller
A sickening story told in reverse order ( hence the title)
Directed by the 'bad boy' of Paris Gaspar Noe'

Honestly, skip this one
The production was perfection but the story was way too much!
Sickening

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

Now, I want to see it! Sounds like something I'd have fun watching!
Irreversible! I'm looking into this one!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

Its honestly blood curdling
Not for you dear Miss!
Skip it

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

Trust me, Shogun, I can handle a great deal! I'm one of those little ole ladies who LUV blood and gore in their movies. I just love the crazy stuff!
Actually, I prefer the psychological thrillers, but for fun? I love horror, gore, mystery and camp!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

Best wishes Miss
Its really a bit much
Noe' and his audio guy played with the soundtrack
They designed it to make the audience puke and have the utmost discomfort..it is a very unsettling film and score

Go for it Miss
You were warned😔

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[–] keybored (2660) 7 years ago

If you are really observant, you will notice that what happens at the end was actually [spoiler]the wrong person and the real person was in the club elsewehere - you see him leaning against a wall earlier.[/spoiler]

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

ETA: SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS!!!


Yes
It was the pimp Le Tenia who did the horrible crime

I have never wanted a movie character do die painfully more than Le Tenia

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[–] TheLovelyAnomaly (619) 7 years ago

I've been debating whether or not to watch that one. Part of me wants to, but part of me is hesitant.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

I wish you well
Its a really rough one

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[–] Skullomania (483) 7 years ago

Watership Down.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

That seems to be a frequenty mentioned 'WTF?' Sort of movie

I loved it and read the novel 3 times...
Just a wonderful story imo but certainly very sad
And quite lovely!
Watership is a great one for me

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

Did you ever read The Plague Dogs? That's one I'll never read again. Knew better by the time the film came out to see it.

Again I've got to go with Silence of the Lambs, in answer to the OP.

That and Old Yeller 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 7 years ago

The Plague Dogs was a so/so book

Not sure if i caught the movie tbh...

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

I thought it was an excellent book, but so heartbreaking.

He did an amazing job writing the dialogue for Skitters (? I think that was his name), the dog who'd mostly lost his mind due to the horrific experiments he was put through over and over, since he was a pup 💔

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[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

The original "Night of the Living Dead". I was a geeky kid who loved the campy sci-fi and horror flicks they showed on "Creature Features", and that was the only one that got to me.

I found it horrifying and nightmarish and not in a good way (being 10 or so), and for years afterwards I had nightmares about everyone around me turning into zombies. The dreams stopped quite suddenly, because one night I started on one of those dreams, and then within the dreams I realized it was a dream - MY dream - and because it was MY dream I could take control of it. I started gleefully kicking zombie ass in the dream, and never had the zombie nightmare again!

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

Not necessarily scarred, but every time I see a flock of birds gathering I can't help but think of Hitchcock's "The Birds." It was the first Hitchcock movie I saw.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

Ha ha!

The night I first saw it on TV, when I was a kid, the next day it was raining. When it rained, frequently seagulls flew inland to get away from the storm. A huge flock of them landed in the football field, which was right next to the covered area where we ate lunch.

A lot of kids had seen it that night. There were a lot of very nervous kids, nibbling at their lunches while keeping one or both eyeballs on those birds.

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

I can't remember how old I was when I first saw The Birds, but my guess is early 20s. Old enough to understand it was just a movie, but still...quite unsettling.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

It really was. Probably more so when you're a kid because then you don't notice the hokey parts. But even if you're old enough to notice them, still unsettling!

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

I don't remember the hokey parts, but it has been a while since I watched it. Maybe I'll watch it again one of these days.

Cheers! 🥂

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

The part where Tippi is wrestling with an obviously stuffed bird was pretty hokey!

🥂🍻

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

I will have to watch it again. It has been a long time since I saw it.

🥂

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

You'll probably enjoy it. Again. And be unsettled. Again.

Don't go into any pet shops afterwards!

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

Suzanne Pleshette is a favorite of mine. I remember being disappointed that she didn't survive.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

I always liked her too, and yes, she did NOT deserve to die like that! She was a much more interesting character than Tippi's anyway.

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

I thought so, too. Please excuse any typos going forward tonight. I'm getting a bit loopy, if you know what I mean. 🥂🥂🥂

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

I know exactly what you maen.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

HEY, you just turned 2300 posts old!!!!

🎂

🍻🍻🍻!

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

Gosh, I did, didn't I? Cheers! 🥂🥂🥂 That calls for a refill!

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

Have a couple few! They're all Mike's. I mean they're YOURS, but they're Mike's.

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

Done. 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

I may pay for this in the morning, but oh well.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

If it's any consolation, I'm pouring more glasses of wine in celebration of your shiny new birthday, and am getting ahmmered.

I've got a bottle of aspirin for the morning and will share!

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[–] GlenEllyn (21526) 7 years ago

Thanks for the offer, but I do have aspirin, and not just for over-drinking. Getting old sucks. Some days everything aches.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

The Innocents!
I feel the same way about that movie. I have it. This is one haunting film..... originally The Turn of the Screw. I agree that this is very unsettling!

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[–] AngularTurnip (3337) 7 years ago

The best horror films (and novels) are the ones you never quite figure out -- and both Henry James' original story, and Jack Clayton's film adaptation, will likely puzzle me for the rest of my days.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

What about The Innocents puzzled you? Are you unsure if it was a haunting, or if it was all in her mind?

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[–] AngularTurnip (3337) 7 years ago

I still can't decide whether it was all a product of her imagination or not; it could go either way I suppose. Horror movies like "Friday the 13th" leave me with nothing to ponder; their horror is all surface (which is a relief to those with active imaginations). Not so "The Innocents." Its horrors are subconscious. Its about those "Aladdin Caves" (as Joseph Campbell put it) inside us all ... and the nameless terrors that could conceivably come howling out of them at any moment.

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

I am inclined to believe that it was all in her mind.
I do confess that I've gone back and forth on that over the years, but I always come back to her and her imagination. She talks about that with the uncle in the beginning.
While I enjoy disgusting gory horror for fun, I really prefer the psychological horror that makes a person think. The stuff that really frightens me is the things that can happen, and do, in real life.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3337) 7 years ago

Other movies reminiscent of "The Innocents" -- movies with unreliable narrators and an emphasis on the psychological rather than the explicit -- like "The Others" and "Rosemary's Baby" left quite an impression on me as well.

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[–] mplo (2356) 7 years ago

I confess that I found the movie "IT" somewhat scary, despite its being a very good film.

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[–] duckwrangler (9) 7 years ago

I saw a theatrical screening of the BBC TV nuclear war drama THREADS.

Its the only time a movie really scared the shit out of me.

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[–] Padeen (6459) 7 years ago

They are releasing it in DVD sometime soon. Have you seen its American Cousin "The Day After" 1983?

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