Which movies have scarred you for life?

Yeah, it's usually films like this that disturb me more than gorefests. It's one of those films that I think was quite good but nevertheless don't particularly want to ever see again. It goes to areas of the human condition that I don't especially want to revisit.

Let's hope never! Didn't see the sequel, as I thought the original was terrible. It's very boring, just another badly scripted slasher flick where almost nothing of interest happens until the movie is more than half-over, and then we get to the by-the-numbers omniscient, omnipotent killer picking off a bunch of young models you don't care about. I recall it came out around the same time as Hostel, which gets right just about everything Wolf Creek gets wrong.

 

Even had it been fake, it would have bothered me, but knowing it was real really got to me. There was another beheading video recently and I stayed as far away as I could from it. I recommend everybody do the same, as unfortunately there will likely be more of them to come. Once you see it it can't be unseen.

 

I am way too chicken to watch Philosophy Of A Knife and Men Behind The Sun. Anyone brave enough to watch these?

 

I own both of them. Neither one disturbed me at all.
(But then again, what does?)

 

I guess I'm not down with authentic footage of autopsies on babies and whatever Unit 731 craziness is shown.

 

I think this post has scarred me for life. MEN BEHIND THE SUN is based on actual events and is realistically (and unbearably) portrayed. A person who says this film didn't disturb them at all compels me to question their humanity.

 

I've seen Men Behind The Sun, and while it has some grisly scenes, it's another one of those films whose reputation makes it sound much worse than it actually is - not least due to its supposedly using actual corpses in some scenes (like the autopsy on a boy).

 

I know how to scar Rocker...

 

I'm aware that the film was based on actual events, but the fact remains that it's just a movie... it's not like you're seeing the actual footage of those events as they happened. As I've said numerous times before in these types of threads, I don't get disturbed by things that aren't real. It hardly means that my humanity is questionable.

 

Exactly.... it's nowhere near as horrific as its reputation makes it out to be. There are a couple of "yuck!" moments, and there was indeed a real child's corpse involved in part of the autopsy scene... but there plenty of movies out there that are much, much worse.

 

That will do it! Make it stop! Make it stop!

 

16 Pages and no mention of Candyman? That movie gets me every time.

 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

 

Is Philosophy of a Knife any good? I have it but I've never watched it. I think it's a 4 hour movie??

 

I feel EXACTLY the same!!!

 

Saving Private Ryan

The depiction of soldiers getting shot in the head... it is still distressing to me many years later. So realistic.

 

Saving Private Ryan is a movie I`ll never forget,but then that`s the whole point!
That had to be the single most view changing movie I have seen in my entire life.

 

Wow we wrote the same thing at the same time...

 

I saw venom, with klaus kinski, when I was a kid on the z channel. I still have a problem with snakes all these years later...

As for films I wish I hadn't seen, oldboy comes to mind...

 

Yes, it's nearly 4 1/2 hours.
It's been a long time since I watched it, but I seem to recall thinking after my first viewing that it was nowhere as shocking as its reputation would lead you to believe.

 

36 parallel.

 

That's beyond disturbing.

 

The Deer Hunter. I can't handle the ending.

 

I saw Deliverance on first release..
It was just a parable about a group of grown up city boys venturing for the week end -too far out in the Wild, and then finding out they were still just little boys at heart, behind all their expressed confidences and arrogance. There was nothing to be shocked about, in Deliverance

 

The worst scene by far -in Saving Private Ryan , is the one : where the German soldier is 'enjoying' with added voiced sado/ sexual connotations, to boot - the slow stabbing of the helpless soldier on the floor in that house, late in the movie.