Have you ever been unable to shake off a movie experience...?

...What movie? Why?

I had a hard time with Se7en, by David Fincher. He did an incredible job of creating a mood with that film that permeated the entire film. There was an intensity and 'ickiness' (for lack of better term) that I felt while watching the film, that made it quite difficult to sit still. On top of that, I couldn't shake off the 'ick' factor of that film for at least a month. One of the few films I've said was 'good' but can't manage to watch again.

What about you?

When I saw it; "Audition" haunted me for weeks after I saw it, too..

if for no other reason that Cruise isn't the same person he usually is in a film. Also, I like PT Anderson's work. I just have to do it when dh is at work, he hates Cruise, and I wouldn't be able to watch without hearing how annoyed he is by his performance. LOL!

I'll have to look up Audition on imdb. I haven't heard of it before now...

On edit--Hey--Good to see you! :hi:

and he's the worst link in the film, but in this film, that's pretty good. I love the film; I knew get tired of seeing it, and I never watch it again w/o getting something new out of it.

I should have mentioned "My Dinner With Andre", too; that's another that really affected me when I first saw it in the early 80's. And it's nice to see you, too!

If you haven't seen it, it's a French film about (coincidentally) miners in 1800s France. They're being exploited by the mine owners, but they eventually turn on them. The depictions of poverty and desperation are surreal. There's a scene where some miner wives ...uh... remove the Company Store owner's "private parts" that's really grueling.

Great film about Labor vs Corporations. But hard to shrug off.

that sounds like a powerful film! ...I have a feeling I'd have a hard time shrugging that one off, too.

M (1931) Dir: Fritz Lang

Man Behind the Sun (1988) Dir: Tun Fei Mu

Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1996) Dir Tun Fei Mu

Bad Leutenant (1992) Dir: Abel Ferarra

We talked a bit about M previously. From the small sampling I had of the film, I can see why it's hard to shake off.

Is Bad Lieutenant the film with Harvey Keitel? I seem to recall hearing something about it--just don't recall what...

at the risk of spoiling the film (I will try to be vague)...

I had to watch Bad Leutenant in two sittings. At about an hour my senses had been overloaded by his descent into drug and gambling fueled madness. Three months AFTER seeing the film I was driving home from college and it dawned on me "Holy shit, it's the bookie!" And then, as if by magic, the entire subtext an plot of the film opened up to me. It's hard to believe that it took 3 months of processing to suss out just what was going on behind Keitel's mania in the film.

Good movie.

I've only watched it one time.

I probably won't see it. I have issues with movies where people are consuming mass amounts of drugs. For some reason Boogie Nights didn't bother me. Scarface did. :shrug:

Crazy how some films have that effect on us, where we can only watch it once despite thinking it's a good film. Some film really affect our psyches it seems.

the Plot of the film is a mcguffin, that is Harvey Keitel's inability to win at the track due to a massive and continuous intake of cocaine and heroin throughout the film. He begins stealing evidence (drugs) to pay off his debts, but manages to botch that as well. This is the mcguffin part.

The real plot is-

Meanwhile someone is killing lowlife characters (unnamed all, one is a pimp, another a dope dealer etc..). The killer's MO is shooting them in their car while they are parked or sitting in traffic. Keitel is also involved in this investigation, one of the victims has a kilo of cocain stashed in his car that, while trying to steal it, Keitel drops it and is lauded for his ability to work a crime scene. Throughout the film he makes increasingly large bets at the track and on baseball.

At the end he is sitting in his patrol car waiting to kill his bookie, who has called in on all the money Keitel owes him. The bookie shoots Keitel dead.

The bit I didn't connect until three months later -

The bookie was also killing all of the other people in the film too.

so the bookie was killing everyone. Was he doing it so people would think it was keitel's character?

Sounds like a seedy movie! Little bit of a weird twist there--

The bookie was killing everyone who owed him money. But it was such a peripheral element of the plot for the entire film it really sneaks in under the radar.

It was seedier than a 500 pound watermelon.

a really good film--it alows, even commands the viewer to take on the mood or feeling of the film. It was so seedy you don't even want to see it again. Once was enough--from what you've described, I wouldn't want to either.

Thanks so much for the spoilers! :hi: Sorry I'm too much of a weenie to attempt it. LOL!

Did you know Zoe Lund (the beautiful redhead Lt. shot-op with) actually died of a heroin overdose?

She was allegedly Gia Carangi's girlfriend, for a time.

Oh, and by the way...

"WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, YOU RAT-FUCK MOTHERFUCKER?!! WHERE WHERE YOU?! MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! MMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!!!"

but when I did it was like a light went off, and I had a deeper appreciation for the movie.

and i was living in a shitty apartment in philadelphia with dim bare bulbs hanging in the hallway and weird neighbors.

disturbing film. The imagery Lynch uses is frequently a bit too disturbing for me, so I tend to shy away... I had a difficult time with his other film, Fire Walk With Me on my first viewing. In fact, I found it so disturbing I didn't even finish it.

It was many years before I could watch it again, I actually find I like it now. But NO Eraserhead for me...ever! LOL!

in a very wierd sort of way

How a film can be funny, then disturbing... I love movies!

what's your favorite?

i think mine might be Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch

I like that he does exactly what he wants to do, without worrying about if it will be a commercial success or not.

It's so hard to name a favorite as I like so many films that cross so many genres. Classic--All About Eve, Foreign--Raise the Red Lantern and Europa Europa, mainstream feel good--Shawshenk Redemption, film by a woman --Eve's Bayou...

Just a few off the top of my head, there's many more... :blush:

Scared the bejeezus out of me. I was 16, saw it alone, and it literally blew me away. I had nightmares for a solid year and a half.

at least what I've seen of it. You're not going to believe this, but I attempted to watch it after it's release on cable. I fell asleep! To this day, I haven't seen Alien all the way through! :wow:

When I go back and look at it again-feh. No biggie. But when it first came out it was remarkable for the special effects and the visualization. The only thing it could be compared to is the Exorcist as a scary movie, and as far as the effects went, it went way past that. It was a revolutionizing movie for the industry. Kind of like Star Wars was, but for horror movies.

I fell asleep because I was underwhelmed at all. I fell asleep because I was hiding my eyes during so much of it, I eventually nodded off. LOL! The first time that alien bursts out of the guy, OMG!

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I wouldn't dare look at anymore of it...

I was so blown away I couldn't move, and wanted to run out of the theater the whole time, so I had my hands over my face the whole time!

I'm such a dork! LOL!

saw it back to back with The Hills Have Eyes. nightmares for weeks.

My friend turned to me and said, "do you want to leave?", and I said yup.

"Don't Look Now"
"Rock the Cradle"
"Se7en"
"Basic Instinct"


A few others I can't recall the names of, but which I could not watch again. They did too much of a number on my head!

Basic Instinct. I LOVE that film--so sorry it disturbed you. :hug:

Se7en I can relate. Which murder did you find the most unsettling (or should I say murder aftermath, since they are never seen actually)?

For me--gluttony. Messed me up for a loooong time!

Rock the Cradle? Who's in that?

Just freaked me the hell out! And forgive me, but I cannot remember who was in the movie, though I can see the main stair clearly in my mind!

that's how I felt about Se7en. I thought it was a great film, just F***** me UP! LOL! :hi:

Single White Female". Don't remember who was in it, but damn, it was creepy as all get-out! :scared:

Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Jennifer has a way of really immersing herself in her work--quite convincing as a homicidal maniac, wasn't she?

Yes, that was one freaky damned movie!!!!!

I've never been able to even look at photos of Mars since.

That was one of my sib's faves when we were kids. Thinking about it still makes me laugh. I don't mean to make light of your pain. ;)

why do you hate me?

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The Omen, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Guardian (the 1990 horror movie; though the main problem with it was that I decided to watch it on one of the first nights I ever spent home alone), and Wolf Creek all made me want to keep a light on to sleep for a night or two! Oh yeah, and The Butterfly Effect, while not "horror", did have a couple scenes that stayed with me a while.

Oh yeah, and when I was young Poltergeist and Stephen King's Cat's Eye got to me pretty badly as well. I think I could live with never seeing that clown toy scene from Poltergeist again!

Overall, though, I've probably stayed away from seeing the stuff that would disturb me too deeply. I like suspenseful, creepy movies, but don't care for really graphic violence so I'm usually pretty good about staying away from those kind of movies. I do slip on occasion, though!

thanks for mentioning it--I will stay AWAY! LOL! Seriously, it was one that I wanted to see back when it was released.

I don't like graphic violence either. Love suspense, action thriller, suspense-mystery, scary without seeing the process of things...more than that I'm screwed! :scared:

Was that movie one with a few different stories in one film? I think I heard about this one before--others have expressed it 'bothered' them.

I watched it when I was too young to pick up on some of the more sinister storylines. The story that scared me so much was the third one, which has a young Drew Barrymore playing a girl who truly has a monster living inside her wall that comes out at night, but she can't convince her parents to believe her. I guess it makes sense that that storyline would be the most frightening to a six year old.

However, the other stories, including one about an agency that spies on you and does "whatever it takes" to get you to stop smoking are actually more disturbing to me now than they were when I was young... I guess they went over my head a little bit back then!

AND disturbing! Funny how those more profound storylines bother us more as adults, isn't it?

christ that was a fucked up film...

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Despite my innate curiousity, I haven't DARED to watch that one. I read a lot about it from on-line reviews (imdb, critics, etc.). Just does NOT sound like something I would EVER shake off!

I've tried to watch some other Larry Clark films, like Bully--didn't like that. I made it through the one starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith. No big whoop.

the Cronenberg version.

I couldn't get past the gore, violence and overall gross factor of this film. I left it horrified and intensely disturbed. It gave me nightmares. Many nights after seeing it I just couldn't sleep at all.

Vile, disturbing movie.

There was just something about it that kept me shaking with emotion-- the music is so...haunting

and rent this one eventually. Just keep hearing so much praise for it and the subject matter.

The Aviator. I just saw it this week. Whenever Hughes has a really bad OCD attack they play "Nightmare" by Artie Shaw, which is that freaky old tune in the movie.
It's really creeping me out.

that you're having a tough time.

I haven't seen the Aviator, yet. Did Dicaprio deserve an Oscar? I know he didn't win one, just wondered if he deserved the praise everyone gave him for the role.

AS Catherine Hepburn

Everything that woman does is art, imo. Just an immaculate performer. :thumbsup:

Yeah, very good. Nailed Hepburn down cold.

for any award, Oscar, Golden Globe, anything--give it all to her, she deserves it! That's rare these days. Too many overrated actors.

There's a drought at the moment.

as I can go on about how much this bugs me, but most in hollywood want to cast who's most popular, or most attractive as opposed to the best actress for the role. Doing so doesn't always serve the role or the piece(film). Not to mention it's boring to see the same people all the time and annoying to see someone destroying what may have been a better picture if it was cast better.

Kathy Baker, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton -- and that's just a fraction of the English-speaking contingent.

I also don't believe there is a dearth of good directors and screenwriters. What is a problem is the industry itself, with the proliferation of cheesy projects and whatnot. For more than a few years I've found it harder to come up with a movie I'd like to see in the theater. Things have improved slightly of late, but there's still a lot of stuff out that I regard as a waste of time and money.

I've only seen this movie once, and I saw the version that was edited for television. It still gave me nightmares and more sleepless nights than I've ever seen!

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I can't even watch commercials during Halloween for channels showing it. Can't listen to it either. Something about that voice coming out of a small, female child is more disturbing to me than anything I experienced up to that point or since.

Crazy thing is while watching it I laughed at the special effects. After, thinking about the spiritual implications freaked me out!

I remember the first time it was shown on TV in my area the signal would not come in, it was all snowy. I got totally freaked out.

It was heartbreaking and gut-wrenching seeing the way Brandon Teena was tortured and then executed, along with the woman he was staying with, simply for being transgendered. Although I'm all too aware of how real hate crimes are, just seeing this movie made it all the more significant. No matter how many news stories I hear or read, it still makes me cry to watch this movie and see how vicious people can be to others just because they don't fit their notion of what is "right".

Good one, Buffy--thanks for reminding me! I thought it was an excellent film, but I haven't been able to watch it again. The one time did me in. Bigoted assholes! :grr::mad: Truly broke my heart!

And I've watched it a few times, though my roomie could only stomach it once. She's not good at anything containing rape scenes as it is. I'd like to make it required watching for reich-wingers, but no doubt they'd blame the victim for his own plight. :eyes:


"American History X" is another movie I find particularly profound and disturbing. The level of blind hatred those Skinheads posess is frightening, and reminds me very much of the freepers positions on gays and Muslims. :scared:

Stayed with me for ages.

I vividly remember driving home from the movie listenting to the soundtrack. Of course; we are Van Halen FANATICS (hence the screenname).
Respect the Wind.

when Van Halen and Valerie divorced? I was. :( I know that's stupid--I don't know them, but I felt really bad for them for some silly reason.

My only regret about Twister is that I didn't see it on the big screen. Would have been amazing watching it HUGE!

probably why it stuck with me.

Sad when they divorced? Yes; but I have to say the angst may fuel Eddie in the right way. It's too bad that things like that have to happen to inspire people; but that's the way it goes. Loving a musician is a very hard thing to do.

The scene with the drill...

I can't wait til "The Fountain" comes out.

That one really left me drained.

given its topic. :(

"Death and the Maiden."

Can anyone guess the theme? No, don't. It's too horrible. Yes, traumatic movies are...traumatic. To stop thinking about the scary ass film you just saw--just think about elephants.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The movie pissed me off, and I've never watched the entire thing. I just thought it was far fetched when the psycho stalker starts to breast feed the baby. It pissed me off so much, I got up, walked out and asked for my money back! :grr: :mad:

One of the most intense, disturbing films I've ever seen.

with Nicole Kidman and Paul Bettany. Just thinking about it still makes my hands sweat and my stomach turn. Very disturbing on so many levels.

Other than that, I'll third the recommendation for "Boys Don't Cry".

what's that one about?

"Set in an American Town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier re-explores the concept of goodness, but this in an idiom very different from that of his Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The idiots and Dancer in the Dark). DOGVILLE is shot exclusively in studio with a minimum of props once again allowing the actors' maximum freedom and full exposure inspired by televised theatre of the 70s. In DOGVILLE Trier works extensively with light, sound, score and music to obtain and heighten dramatic atmosphere.

Summary written by Trust Film Sales

The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth...

Summary written by Anonymous"

The things the "good" townsfolk do to her are horrifying. I guess there's some controversy over how this play (turned movie) is supposedly anti-American which, if this is supposed to be "small town America" is not undeserved. The idea it tries to suggest though is that "small town goodness" may not be all that it seems. Warning: if you have issues with rape, do not see this film.

and the advice! It sounds intriguing. I may have to check it out sometime--just not when I'm feeling low.

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most black comedies and Tarentino films leave me blah. This one got under my skin for days. Rent it, but yeah, pick a day when you don't already feel like crap. It might help. :)

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...you don't have a pulse.

Seriously, I've watched that movie with grown men whom have immediately called their mothers afterwards. That movie is an emotional sledgehammer.

Extremely disturbing. I couldn't even watch it in parts. I closed my eyes.

Many scenes in that movie made me cringe

I won't see it.

I'm disturbed by the cinematography. I knew the film would be tortorous. No need to go there, ever.

It's one of the best films ever made. A film that truly defines cinema as art.

We're all entitled to have different taste in films.

Liking or disliking it is completely irrelevant.

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My wife and I watched that in the theatre, came home, and cried for hours.

Absolutely amazing.

Life is depressing enough to have to sit through a 9.00 movie and come out the other end feeling like a wrung out washcloth. For whatever reason, some movie directors think that putting the most horrible images/situations on film makes them great directors. Or they think that putting their characters through travail after travail while learning nothing (i.e. "Dancer in the Dark") makes for good cinema. It doesn't.

I could see if it was 1963 and the theatres were full of "Mary Poppins"es and "Sound of Music"s, a film like "Requiem for a Dream" would be necessary. Nowadays, it's just like pouring water on a drowning audience.

It was a well-made film, but there's lots of well-made films out there.

It's not even about the drugs at all, but I suppose it's fairly pointless to get into it.

And not all cinema is supposed to be entertaining, you know. There are a million and one films out at any given point in time which will be more than happy to sell you a ticket if all you want is entertainment.

but being put through a meat grinder is not ALL I want either. Why should it be all or nothing? Why couldn't the characters in "Requiem for a Dream" have made some good decisions? Why couldn't there have been even a hint of redemption at the end? Why did everything have to be SOOO bleak. It's not exactly daring to make a desperately bleak film anymore as it might have been in the 70's ("taxi Driver," "Deer Hunter," etc.)

There have been great movies which insist on presenting the audience with ugly realities but DON'T manipulate the audience or make them want to commit suicide when the film ends. "Requiem for a Dream" seems like it was just too easy to make: take a bunch of characters, have them make terrible decisions, then make horrible things happen to them in succession until the film ends. Bam. Nothing learned, nothing really exposed, just empty (and outdated) nihilism.

My wife is a screenwriter and a filmmaker. She came away from "Requiem for a Dream" pissed off, because she felt like very little effort went into the creative side of the movie...it's just too easy to create a character and then throw danger at him until he dies. She likened it to "Friday the 13th" or other similar cheap horror movies, where the characters keep getting tortured and killed for no reason other than to satisfy the hunger for violence in the audience. Of course, it was harrowing for her. She cried, as did I. But she came away livid about the craftsmanship while I came away livid about the content.

Anyhow, to each his own. I disliked it, you liked it. That's okay.

Birth b/c the viewer kind of decides what happened. It leaves you hanging a little.

Closer b/c everyone ended up hurt in the end.

is that the one with Nicole Kidman and the little boy? If so, I was kind of creeped out by the premise and decided not to see it.

Is Closer with J. Roberts, Natalie Portman and Jude Law? I may still see that one...

I couldn't think straight for weeks after I first saw that. It's also probably one of my top 3 all-time faves.

Also a movie from a couple years ago about speed freaks called "Spun". It made me alternately want to run around and smash things and fall into a heap and cry my head off. :cry:

edit for misspelling "Leigh". Clearly, more coffee is needed. :eyes: :D

Isn't that by Jonas Akerlund? His work (even some of his music videos) have that affect on people. I recall seeing the box for that movie at the video store. I thought it definitely would not be something I would enjoy. Stuff about druggies tends to DISTURB me deeply--any major addictive behaviours really, not just drugs.

It didn't scare me while I was watching it, but I had weird dreams for a couple of nights afterwards, with images from the movie, especially of the lighthouse and such.

I never want to see it again, nor anything associated with it. I don't scare easily from movies.

it sounds creepy. I really wasn't planning to see it, but I definitely won't now. I'm sensitive and movies that tend to get under people's skin that way, tend to bother me--A LOT!

I can't say that it's an enjoyable experience, but hardly a week goes by where I don't think about it a little.

I didn't enjoy that movie either, but I didn't think about it at all after seeing it. Other than maybe to think about how much seeing it pissed me off. It seems to be a film that incites strong emotions in viewers.

Bothered me for a LONG time after watching it. The images of the child being tortured still upset me.

one of the first times they showed such graphic torture of a child on tv?

I was a kid when it was aired. I recall a relative talking about how much it bothered her. I've managed to steer clear of it. LOL!

They'd always show it in 2 parts. I thought it was a funny time to broadcast it, but I always looked forward to it.

also "Se7en", even before reading the rest of your post. That movie stuck with me for quite a while. I think I was just so blown away by the sucker-punch delivered by it. It's been one of my favorites ever since.

you've been able to watch it again?

I haven't. :scared: Seriously, I think about what a great film it was, but I just don't want to feel that way again. It's very hard to describe--the feeling watching it and then the feeling after. Couldn't shake it for months it seems. My former roomie wanted me to see it when it went to the discount theater--for midnight shows. Couldn't.

Which murder aftermath bothered you the most?

On edit--it is amazing that after reading my thread title you immediately thought of Se7en. Isn't it incredible that film affected so many this way? It's a powerful film.

The bonus features are pretty interesting -- especially the alternate ending (only storyboards, though) where Somerset, not Mills, kills John Doe. Plus, I really like David Fincher's work (The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room). And the opening credits sequence was just wicked. Great acting as well -- Morgan Freeman (who is always good), Brad Pitt (his anguish in the end), Kevin Spacey (he does creepy very well). The sloth murder was the creepiest, the lust murder was the most disturbing (to say the least!). But the one(s) that bothered me the most was the end -- envy and wrath. It's rare to see a "Hollywood" film not pull any punches -- especially as brutal as the ones thrown the audience's way in this one!

did they provide any reason behind it? I don't see Somerset doing that. He was really in tune to this guy being a sick ticket and not giving him what he wanted.

Sloth and lust were difficult to imagine due to their disturbing nature. Not sure why but gluttony bothered me the most. That was the one I couldn't shake for a while...

The idea was that since Somerset was retiring he would sacrifice himself (the commentary implied that he would probably go to prison as a result) for Mills' sake. In the end, though, it would have been a cheat, both to the ending and to the Mills character.

That would have been a HUGE cheat--lol! Wouldn't have served the story as well, imo. Thanks so much for sharing this. I find director's cuts and alternate endings rather fascinating. Getting a glimpse into the director's process and why they chose one thing over another is always interesting.

Battle Royale is a Japanese movie which really messed me up. Each year, a class of 9th graders is chosen at random. They are drugged and taken to an island. They are each given a weapon and a few basic supplies and told they must kill each other within 48 hours until only one student remains alive. That kid is the winner. Needless to say, a movie about 14 year olds brutally mutilating and killing each other is pretty haunting.

On a related note, I think there might be something wrong with me.

After I finished watching it, I couldn't figure out what disturbed me more: the fact that it was kids killing kids or the fact that I REALLY enjoyed the film and actually found some parts funny.

Overly perky Japanese girl talking about how the kids have to kill each other, telling them to fight with gusto? If that's not high comedy, I don't know what is!

"Each weapon is different...maybe you will get lucky, maybe not..." then she pulls that huge axe out of the bag and says "Ooooh! This one is SUPER lucky!!!"

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Seeing the original House of Wax wasn't either.

Went into the theater slightly tipsy with a bunch of attractive fraternity boys -- we were laughing and throwing popcorn at each other.

Left the theater wordless, we all went back to where we lived to get dinner without any talking.

Very intense experience.

Seeing that movie on the big screen must have been quite an experience! I was awestruck by your description of how you experienced it for the first time.

--- that I had the opportunity to see such a masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen - on the big screen.

I think we're missing something with some movies when we watch them on our DVD players...

I make an effort to see certain films on the big screen--as I appreciate that for some you lose something seeing it any other way.

Every blue moon, some theaters here will feature some films on the big screen--films that have been out of rotation a LOOOONG time. From time to time I'll read about Apocalypse, Godfather or Kubrick fare being screened somewhere in LA. Usually (unfortunately) I find out AFTER the fact... :(

Now that I'm aware some do this, I try to check the papers more frequently for this sort of thing.

I never thought about life the same again.

same thing out of the movie if I just left the room during this/these scene(s)? (I just can't sit through rape scenes, but I've heard so many people say that it was a really good movie. After hearing what you feel about it, maybe I should consider watching it.)

The rapes are brief and not terribly graphic (thank goodness). You usually can tell when they are coming--I can tell you how if you'd like. And again, they are brief. They occur pretty early in the film--I think only shown a couple of times--not at all graphic.

Not watching those moments you could still derive enjoyment from this film. It is amazing. One of my all time favorite films. Been looking for the poster to put up on my wall.

Think about it and let me know... :hi:

Tim Robbins I am sure was suppose to be a republican banker with all the fruits of his success. Morgan Freeman was a black man spending his whole life behind the walls. The friendship they find after decades was something that has stayed with me for years. DEFINITELY, see it.

House of Wax really creeped me out.

I didn't think it was especially scaring and it was pretty dumb but I had to turn it off because it was making my skin crawl for some reason, ick.

I really only rented it to see Paris Hilton get killed, then turned it off before that happened.

there's no rhyme or reason as to what gets under our skin.

Sorry you didn't get to see Paris die--that must have been disappointing. ;)

A very upsetting movie in its own right, but due to things going on in my personal life at the time, not only was the movie disturbing, but the memories associated with the people I saw it with are equally disturbing.

have to leave the room during the 'ear scene' to this day

The song will never mean the same thing after watching that film.

...while I was eating dinner. You ought to have SEEN how fast I got out of that room.

I'm still friends with one of the housemates (having lost touch with the others), but I still have never watched a whole Quentin Tarantino movie and probably never will. :-)

I wanted to slit my wrists after all of them.

Syriana too, but not in a bad way.

21 grams or Monsters Ball would have that affect. I'll try not to watch those if I'm already in a depressed moood.

Hey--good to see you, Beverhausen! :hi:

by Mark Romanek. That stayed with me for hours after seeing it. If I think about it at all, or hear Johnny Cash's version of the song--I can still see it and I will sob uncontrollably.

It's visually beautiful yet simultaneously unsettling, even disturbing. Haunting... Writing this and thinking of it now--wow, still feels the same.

One of the most amazing ones I've seen...and yes, it is unsettling and disturbing, and haunting, but I love watching it.

I can watch that video again, and I have, can't help myself--it's so beautiful. But the moment when he starts to spill the wine--I lose it everytime!:cry: But I still love it... lol.

I LOVE Mark Romanek's music videos! He brought artistry to Music videos!

That video is what turned my daughter and her boyfriend on to Johnny Cash, as they are both big Nine Inch Nails fans, and they really liked how Johnny did the song.

was very moved by Johnny's portrayal of the song after he saw the video. I watched the video with Trent's commentary--such a sensitive, intelligent man! Same director also did Trent's Closer, another visually unsettling video that I can't help but watch.

My favorite gift this year--The music videos of Mark Romanek. Perfect for a uber music video geek, aspiring photographer such as myself. :D

is that I grew up listening to Johnny's music, because of my dad. He listened to it quite a bit, and would also play the songs on his guitar and sing them. So in my mind, Johnny and dad are forever intertwined. My dad passed away many years ago, so listening to Johnny Cash always brings my dad a little closer to me.

that's so sweet. :hug: I can see how Hurt would be emotional from that stance, too--seeing Johnny in his younger days in the footage, then seeing him older, frailer--looking back over his life.

It's all so moving...

The younger footage is one of my favorite parts of the video, especially the footage of he and June together. :hug:

god it scared me

Probably the most depressing movie, ever.

(as I said in a response to a poster above that named this).

I consider my sensitivity a curse and blessing--in that sometimes it protects me from things that I know I would not be capable of shaking from my psyche. This is one of those things. Everything people have said about it confirms that for me.

I'm sorry it depressed you.

I hated that movie.

Like Sickboy's pimping of underage girls, and "Mother Superior" losing his legs because of an injection-related infection?

Just when you think a movie couldn't get worse... It sounds awful.

I hate it when I see something that not only can I not shake, but I HATED it and wish I hadn't seen it. :hug:

but the book was AWFUL.... sick shit, and it made the movie seem much, much sicker, like how the fuck did such a sick film beccome such a cult classic?

And Prince of Darkness.

Couldn't get either of those out of my head for quite awhile.

work seems to incite such reactions--particularly Dead Ringers. So many people have told me it ICKED them out so bad, I won't see it.

Cronenberg is my favorite director.

how did I not guess that? ;)

Poor cats! LOL! I accidentally caught a moment of that movie, channel surfing late one night. One of the twins was vomiting on himself. I HATE on-screen vomiting more than I can express with words--I was SO pissed! I can usually see it coming a mile away and look away. Since I just happened on the movie, I had no warning. So disgusting and wrong. lol.

The story was so complex, the acting, direction and setting were so exotic that I was captivated immediately. And Jesus, that ending. That one movie took the whole hard-boiled detective genre and gave it a good, hard kick in the ass---Nicholson's private eye, rather than being on top of things and ahead of the audience, really didn't have a clue as to what was really going on, until the very end.

I went home that evening after I saw it and didn't get a wink of sleep all night. Now THAT'S entertainment.........

You've made me want to rent this movie! Thanks so much for sharing how it affected you! :hi:

I envy you for being able to see it for the first time; one of my favorites......

The scene where most members of the family were raped traumatized me. I can't even imagine going through something like this. :scared::cry::scared:

This was all in ONE scene?! The entire family--all simultaneously raped?! OMG! :scared: I think I'd have trouble with that, too. Glad I never saw that movie...

I can usually handle one or two rapes per film--I just turn away if it gets too bad. But an entire family at the same time, in one scene. No way.

3 children (maybe it was just 2 of the 3) & the mother were raped by escaped convicts, and the mother forced all of the children to act as though it never happened. (The third child killed the convicts, and the family buried the bodies.) The abusive father never knew that it even happened. It was interesting to see how all three of the children processed the event differently. It was heartwrenching.

that poor family. Pretending it never happened, doesn't negate the experience. I can only imagine the kind of residual issues the children (and mother) grew up with.

Sorry the film experience was tough for you. :hug: I know what that's like.

bother me. I can't bring myself to go to any movies that are about rape or are about Satanic things. However, sometimes I go to a movie and am surprised to find that one of these themes is in the movie. As I'm watching it, I know that I'm going to be in trouble later. I should probably just leave then, but I'm usually with other people and I don't want to ruin their enjoyment.

I'm exactly the same way. I tend to avoid anything I know will disturb me. For me, satanic stuff, major graphic violence and torture, addictions (food, drugs, alcohol, etc.) I don't like watching people do anything to excess.

I know I should not laugh but.....

That one infiltrated my dreams

I'm glad it didn't have that affect on me. Maybe because when I saw it, I just thought it was weird, and didn't spend much time trying to process it. I'm sure if I tried to watch it now, it would be a much different experience!

I have never been tempted to re-watch that movie. It gave me nightmares, and I hardly ever have nightmares.

When the Mother gorilla was killed I started to cry so hard, and I literally cried for days, on and off. It really broke my heart.

Also pretty much the entire movie Trainspotting. I've seen it twice and I'll never watch it again. It's well done, but way too painful for me. I fucking HATE heroin.

have said Trainspotting--that must be one sick film.

I'll never see it because I'm just not into 'addiction' related films.

I'd say...and this is coming from ME...avoid it. Don't seek out the pain.

:hi:

If rbnyc, is saying it was rough--I need to AVOID that movie! LOL! For a horror buff/fan to say that, it's saying A LOT!

;)

I'm a movie buff, go see one or two a week but I am always well aware IT IS JUST A MOVIE

:(

This is a french film. Anyone seen it? It's about someone seeking revenge against the man who raped his girlfriend.

In terms of violence, take the shower scene that was edited from Scarface, multiply it by the hatchet to the face scene in American Psycho, add the break-in, rape scene from Clockwork Orange, take it to the power of Cannibal Holocaust, and multiply again by the storming of Normandy and you'll be part of the way there.

but fuck was it hard to watch, SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER made worse by the fact they got the wrong guy.

The underpass scene was equally horrible, particularly the static camera. I own it, but I can't see myself watching it too many times.

Have you seen Gasper Noe's previous film - "I Stand Alone" (Saul Contre Tous)? Phillipe Nahon (the fat bald guy at the start of Irreversible / psycho in "High Tension") plays "The Butcher" (a continuation of his character in Noe's short "Carne") in what is a kind of French "Taxi Driver" (but that's a really poor comparison). Anyway, I definately recommend it.

...but they didn't have Came.

I'm so glad you've seen Irreversible. It's just so intense. I needed a witness.

but without subtitles.

I've not seen it, but speaking of Noe, here's one to look out for:

Calvaire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407621/

from Mark Kermode:

"Personally, I like my Christmas movies to have a bit more bite, which is why I'll be washing down the mince pies with a screening of the European tinsel-and-torture romp Calvaire. Described by Irréversible director Gaspar Noé as being "Sexier than Deliverance , and funnier than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Calvaire dishes up a fabulously nasty festive feast in which a bereaved psychopath (Jackie Berroyer) mistakes a pathetic cabaret singer for his wife, and promptly shaves his head and nails him to the furniture so that they can enjoy "the best Christmas in years!"

Philippe Nahon, the star of Seul Contre Tous and Switchblade Romance* turns in a typically unsettling cameo as the leader of a gang of pig-f**king yokels who appear to have wandered off the set of The Wicker Man and who unfortunately share Berroyer's passion for Laurent Lucas' beleaguered songstrell. The title Calvaire (which signifies both 'ordeal' and 'martyrdom' in French) invokes the suffering of Calvary, and there's enough religious symbolism to feed the proverbial 5,000. Like Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ it all adds up to a strangely spiritual blend of God and gore."

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=153553&page=2

*the stupid British name for "High Tension"

I think Noe is really worth checking out. This is great.

It's hard to explain why without giving away spoilers, as part of what was so powerful about it for me was my complete ignorance of the story. The experience was so powerful because of the way that Haneke fucks with your head. Amazon says:

"It is impossible to have a neutral opinion about the Austrian thriller Funny Games--a movie so relentless in its ability to shock that it gained pariah status on the film festival circuit in 1997. In the warped tradition of A Clockwork Orange, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Blue Velvet, this is a film--directed with electrifying audacity by Munich-born Michael Haneke--that addresses the controversy of screen violence by making the viewer as guilty (...) Funny Games is guaranteed to outrage some viewers with its manipulative schemes, but there's no denying the film's visceral impact, generated by Haneke's expert handling of a superior cast. Don't even think of allowing anyone under age 17 to watch this film; all others should proceed with caution."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305228876 (plot spoilers at link)

It begins with a family going off to a holiday home for a fortnight sailing and takes off from there.

Go rent it.

Thanks.

"The Untold Story" is the true story of a serial killer played incredibly by Anthony Wong (who won the Hong Kong equivalent of an Oscar). We see "Bunman" at work twice and both times it is extremely horrific. The first involves the sexualized killing of a woman, the second the massacre of an entire family, including very young children.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103743/

"Anatomy of Hell" opens with a man giving another guy a (real) blowjob outside a gay club. Then we cut to The Woman, who is in the toilets, slitting her wrists. There she is 'rescued' by The Man (played by porn star Rocco Siffredi), whom she pays to watch her for a week (this will make more sense if you see it!). There follows an examination of sexuality, male-female relations and some rather pretentious dialogue. There is also some incredibly provocative imagery mixed in (for example, the woman removing a bloody tampon, putting it in a glass of water and drinking from it).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348529/

oh, and "Who Can Kill A Child?" which I got for Xmas. A couple go on holiday to this little island, only to discover that the children have taken over and murdered all the adults. It's quite a simple concept, but it's done very well indeed and doesn't hold back.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075462/

I kept worrying I would see that girl at night in my house. It was so stupid, but from some reason it scare the hell out of me. Thankfully that has stopped.

Terry Gilliam's movie left me in a daze for hours

Apocalypse Now stuck around for days........

think about it too much.

I couldn't even imagine.... :cry:

..will most likely, always, think about helicopter blades when visiting the tar pits...


Tikki

:scared:

The other movie that left an impression on me is Titanic.

the first time I ever saw "The Blair Witch Project". It was in the movie theatre, and it kept me on the edge of the seat the whole time. Creeped me out...but I was about 17 at the time, so anything and everything scared me at that age. :shrug:

scary

more recently, The Pianist with/ Adriane Brody. Even though he won the Academy Award, I don't think a whole lot of people saw this film. There were so many scenes that just left me sick. Also, for an incredible mind F, check out Primal Fear.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

Starring Bruce Dern. A movie that reminds me of what we could be in for in the relatively near future.