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What’s the scariest/most disturbing movie you’ve seen in your adult years?
Other than a Biden press conference, for me it was Bone Tomahawk. It wasn’t scary, but definitely left me feeling WTF
Johnny Rico
06-22-22, 19:47
These "most" threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don't even like to remember it.
These "most" threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don't even like to remember it.
Just watched the trailer. I may have to check that one out.
I’m not much for horror or slasher flicks. I do like Sci-fi movies like Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Quiet Place, etc… so I thought Event Horizon would be a good one. Jeez, that movie was deeply disturbing…
I’m not much for horror or slasher flicks. I do like Sci-fi movies like Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Quiet Place, etc… so I thought Event Horizon would be a good one. Jeez, that movie was deeply disturbing…
The Quiet Place was excellent.
I’ve never seen Event Horizon
Pacific5th
06-22-22, 20:29
Just watched the trailer. I may have to check that one out.
It’s the darkest father-son movie and book I’ve ever seen or read.
Pacific5th
06-22-22, 20:31
Event Horizon was bothersome to me when I first saw it years ago. Watched it recently and still got me. Hostel was not fun to watch either.
Event Horizon was bothersome to me when I first saw it years ago. Watched it recently and still got me. Hostel was not fun to watch either.
Yeah, Event Horizon screwed with me as well. It was disturbing on a lot of levels.
The worst for me was the first Silent Hill movie from the early 2000's. Gave me nightmares for months. I played the video game a lot back then and it didn't affect me the way that damn movie did. I'll NEVER watch that one again!
Yeah, Event Horizon screwed with me as well. It was disturbing on a lot of levels.
The worst for me was the first Silent Hill movie from the early 2000's. Gave me nightmares for months. I played the video game a lot back then and it didn't affect me the way that damn movie did. I'll NEVER watch that one again!
I’ve never done the game, but yeah, Silent Hill was a legit creepy movie.
titsonritz
06-22-22, 20:41
What’s the scariest/most disturbing movie you’ve seen in your adult years?
Other than a Biden press conference, for me it was Bone Tomahawk. It wasn’t scary, but definitely left me feeling WTF
I just watched that for the first time last week (what timing), yeah that was pretty freaky, the blind crippled pregnant women was like WOW, I guess they nipped that ERA thing in bud right off.
Hard to pick out the "one" but I've always found the psychological and demonic thrillers much more terrifying than the slasher type and Hereditary is certainly on the list. Requiem for a Dream was a good one about the perils of drug addiction. Eraserhead is up there too, in a bizarre creepy way.
These "most" threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don't even like to remember it.
Disturbing is a good word, Hostel might have been the most disturbing, I generally am not a fan of slasher movies beyond 80s nostalgia and I don't like to mix "hot chicks" with "murder porn."
As an adult we understand most of this stuff isn't real so it doesn't have the same effect, the only monsters that bother me are those who pose as humans. Again why films like "Hostel" made an impact, I'm pretty sure there were places that engaged in "human organs on demand" who would probably sell torture adventures.
These "most" threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don't even like to remember it.
The book was excellent, but could not read more than a few pages at a time, recently saw the film, because I could not stomach to watch it when it originally premiered.
It’s the darkest father-son movie and book I’ve ever seen or read.
Haven't watched the movie yet, but for a weird twist I bought and read the book while waiting for my wife to deliver our son.
Disturbing is a good word, Hostel might have been the most disturbing, I generally am not a fan of slasher movies beyond 80s nostalgia and I don't like to mix "hot chicks" with "murder porn."
As an adult we understand most of this stuff isn't real so it doesn't have the same effect, the only monsters that bother me are those who pose as humans. Again why films like "Hostel" made an impact, I'm pretty sure there were places that engaged in "human organs on demand" who would probably sell torture adventures.
Same here. The evil people movies screw with me. Even more now that I have people that depend on me for their safety.
Not really scary, but if anyone is looking for a "kick in the gut", the 2000 remake of On The Beach is the only other film in the same category as The Road.
It was an Aussie made for television version that aired on Showtime and most have never seen it, but actually pretty good. That was back when a bunch of Aussie sleepers made it to the US for a short run, notably "The Last Bullet" which was a WWII film set in the pacific that was remarkably good.
joedirt199
06-22-22, 22:33
I would say "Seven" got me. The most messed up part of the movie is that someone had to come up with the concept of putting people through the 7 deadly sins and then produce it.
Outlander Systems
06-22-22, 22:37
Anyone not saying, “Eyes Wide Shut,” or, “The Ninth Gate” are wrong.
What’s the scariest/most disturbing movie you’ve seen in your adult years?
Other than a Biden press conference, for me it was Bone Tomahawk. It wasn’t scary, but definitely left me feeling WTF
Anyone not saying, “Eyes Wide Shut,” or, “The Ninth Gate” are wrong.
Both were incredible disappointments, and The Ninth Gate was a straight hijack of Lovecrafts Necronomicon themes. Eyes Wide Shut was just an illuminati fantasy film.
Blair Witch Project was spooky at the time, but aged poorly, just like The Ring.
1984 becomes more and more scary as time passes.
Andy
Outlander Systems
06-23-22, 19:50
Wrong.
Both were incredible disappointments, and The Ninth Gate was a straight hijack of Lovecrafts Necronomicon themes. Eyes Wide Shut was just an illuminati fantasy film.
Wrong.
Prepared to change my opinion, go ahead.
What’s the scariest/most disturbing movie you’ve seen in your adult years?
Other than a Biden press conference, for me it was Bone Tomahawk. It wasn’t scary, but definitely left me feeling WTF
That creepy sound the cannibals made stuck in my head for a week, and THAT was disturbing AF. Otherwise I liked that movie.
These "most" threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don't even like to remember it.
Saw that one a long while back. Hardly scary, just depressing as all hell.
SPOILER-
I was much younger when watching it first time, and couldn't understand why the wife would have killed herself shortly after things went to shit.
Well... I get it now.
The Quiet Place was excellent.
I’ve never seen Event Horizon
Oh well, if you know anything about Warhammer 40k, Event Horizon is simply a documentorial film of a starship getting lost in the warp after its Geller fields failed, with the appropriately predicable madness and insanity befalling the crew and would-be rescuers. Pretty quiet average day for 40k actually... :laugh:
If you don't know anything about WH 40K, Event Horizon is a classic scifi tale of "new technology malfunctions horribly in the worst possible ways at the worst possible times".
Heaving heard a lot of reviews, I went into it prepped to be skeered, but it was nowhere near as scary as expected. However, there are some parts towards the end some people may find disturbing on a gore/violence/body horror sort of level.
IIRC there are two versions - the "theatrical" version you can see on like Amazon and such, where they edited out a lot of the body horror stuff at the end.
And then an uncensored version if you want the full madness.
Straight Shooter
06-24-22, 16:40
Scariest thing I ever saw at the movies?
Went to see Hostel when it came out, back when I watched tripe like that.
Scariest thing about that flick- was the 12-13 year old girl who sat next to me, laughing maniacally through the whole pic. She acted/sounded possessed & Ive never forgotten it.
But another incident was in other ways..worse.
We went to see Saving Private Ryan the first weekend out...standing room only.
An old gent sat next to me, was by himself. This man sobbed uncontrollably through the whole flick. Had his head in his hands most of the time. He was well old enough to have "been there". I was shaking so bad until I finally couldnt take it anymore...I too wept. I wanted to speak to the man, to ask him, but I just could not. I was jacked up for several days after that.
Thats TRUE horror..knowing what was going on onscreen actually happened..and this man very well might have actually taken part in it.
Scariest thing I ever saw at the movies?
Went to see Hostel when it came out, back when I watched tripe like that.
Scariest thing about that flick- was the 12-13 year old girl who sat next to me, laughing maniacally through the whole pic. She acted/sounded possessed & Ive never forgotten it.
But another incident was in other ways..worse.
We went to see Saving Private Ryan the first weekend out...standing room only.
An old gent sat next to me, was by himself. This man sobbed uncontrollably through the whole flick. Had his head in his hands most of the time. He was well old enough to have "been there". I was shaking so bad until I finally couldnt take it anymore...I too wept. I wanted to speak to the man, to ask him, but I just could not. I was jacked up for several days after that.
Thats TRUE horror..knowing what was going on onscreen actually happened..and this man very well might have actually taken part in it.
Yeah, SPR brought it home for a lot of people. Even some who only knew WWII vets, they finally had some understanding of what it was like for them. For all it's historical inaccuracies, SPR gave most people the first realistic "feel" of what the landing were like.
As for the girl watching Hostel, I hope she was simply a person who never experienced hardship, understood "it wasn't real" and was being entertained by a film. I watch American Psycho the same way, maybe not laughing maniacally, but definitely laughing as it's intended to be a dark comedy. But at the same time, I've watched slasher films (mostly 80s stuff) in mixed company and some of them seemed to be enjoying the films for very different reasons and I've never really associated with them after that.
Straight Shooter
06-24-22, 19:24
Yeah, SPR brought it home for a lot of people. Even some who only knew WWII vets, they finally had some understanding of what it was like for them. For all it's historical inaccuracies, SPR gave most people the first realistic "feel" of what the landing were like.
As for the girl watching Hostel, I hope she was simply a person who never experienced hardship, understood "it wasn't real" and was being entertained by a film. I watch American Psycho the same way, maybe not laughing maniacally, but definitely laughing as it's intended to be a dark comedy. But at the same time, I've watched slasher films (mostly 80s stuff) in mixed company and some of them seemed to be enjoying the films for very different reasons and I've never really associated with them after that.
But Steyr...this GIRL was YOUNG. And Im like WHY and HOW are you here alone..in an R rated flick at that? You & I laughing at something as grown men, thats light years from an 12-13 at most year old girl in a theater alone watching something like Hostil. And her laugh....You woulda just had to have heard it. It wasnt EXORCIST level, but not too dang far from it.
Good point on SPR. I wont forget that old fella, for sure.
But Steyr...this GIRL was YOUNG. And Im like WHY and HOW are you here alone..in an R rated flick at that? You & I laughing at something as grown men, thats light years from an 12-13 at most year old girl in a theater alone watching something like Hostil. And her laugh....You woulda just had to have heard it. It wasnt EXORCIST level, but not too dang far from it.
Good point on SPR. I wont forget that old fella, for sure.
So I got myself into the Exorcist when I was 13, even though I'd regret it. But like I said, I'm hoping this was just a girl who didn't know better. When I was that age I loved war movies for the history, the machine guns, the explosions and it was all COOL because I didn't really know anybody close in my life who died in combat. It was at that point, nothing more than entertainment for me and I'd actually get annoyed whenever they put in a human interest story of some kind.
Later my views changed. And I'm sure if I'd have sat through the Deer Hunter next to a Vietnam vet with my 12 year old kid world view and understanding, I might have caused him to worry about what was wrong with me. And again, I'm hoping this was the case with the girl watching Hostel, because there are enough scary f'ers in the world already. Please don't think I don't understand what you are talking about.
Straight Shooter
06-25-22, 00:49
So I got myself into the Exorcist when I was 13, even though I'd regret it. But like I said, I'm hoping this was just a girl who didn't know better. When I was that age I loved war movies for the history, the machine guns, the explosions and it was all COOL because I didn't really know anybody close in my life who died in combat. It was at that point, nothing more than entertainment for me and I'd actually get annoyed whenever they put in a human interest story of some kind.
Later my views changed. And I'm sure if I'd have sat through the Deer Hunter next to a Vietnam vet with my 12 year old kid world view and understanding, I might have caused him to worry about what was wrong with me. And again, I'm hoping this was the case with the girl watching Hostel, because there are enough scary f'ers in the world already. Please don't think I don't understand what you are talking about.
I gotcha!
titsonritz
06-26-22, 20:13
Prepared to change my opinion, go ahead.
I don't think it's going to happen, I thought they both sucked, too. I was really disappointed with Eye Wide Shut, but there a few Kubrick films that are suppose to be great that I thought were massively overrated.
I don't think it's going to happen, I thought they both sucked, too. I was really disappointed with Eye Wide Shut, but there a few Kubrick films that are suppose to be great that I thought were massively overrated.
Kubrick can be brilliant. Problem is how he handles abstract ideas. So when it comes to representations of aliens, ghosts, god or things like that, he relies on sometimes bizarre imagery. The result is some think 2001 is profound with it's depictions and to others it's just a movie to watch after you drop acid.
Also his films often don't age well for the same reasons. I can appreciate 2001 and what he was trying to do, but it doesn't have nearly the same impact it did 50 years ago. Similarly A Clockwork Orange was timely and cutting edge when released, now it's just odd hippie / violence porn and most miss the message because we went past the tipping point of the story generations ago. What was once a fanciful representation of what societal violence "could" become was left in the dust by 1980s crips n bloods. It's the same reason films like "Network" have zero impact today, their prophetical warnings have come to pass and the worst case scenario have been standard business for so long we can't even relate to a time when they didn't exist.
Even Full Metal Jacket is almost completely out of touch for most current Marines.
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