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The movie that really creeped me out was Tattoo. It's from the early 80's. An unbalanced tattoo artist kidnaps a female model and then proceeds to drug her and tattoo her from head to toe!! (That would be my worst nightmare.) She eventually finds a shard of glass from a broken mirror, stabs him with it & escapes, but still has the permanent tattoos over every square inch of her body.

It's just sick! Who thinks this stuff up???
 
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EmeraldHope said:
The first movie that ever impacted me was a movie about Nazi Germany, but I cannot remember the name of it, alhough I have never forgotten it. I was about eight or nine and was watching it it my Nana. There were three people in the sewer system trying to stay hidden from the Nazis above. The woman was pregnant, and had to give birth without making a sound. She and the two men then took the baby with them. At one point, the Nazis were near, and the baby started to fuss. They then had to make the heartwrenching decision to smother the baby to save themselves. I was hysterical, even more so when my Nana told me that this was based on historic fact and proceeded to tell me more.

Is this it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Invasion
 
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Laura said:
EmeraldHope said:
The first movie that ever impacted me was a movie about Nazi Germany, but I cannot remember the name of it, alhough I have never forgotten it. I was about eight or nine and was watching it it my Nana. There were three people in the sewer system trying to stay hidden from the Nazis above. The woman was pregnant, and had to give birth without making a sound. She and the two men then took the baby with them. At one point, the Nazis were near, and the baby started to fuss. They then had to make the heartwrenching decision to smother the baby to save themselves. I was hysterical, even more so when my Nana told me that this was based on historic fact and proceeded to tell me more.

Is this it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Invasion


It sounds like it. I do not remember anything at all except that one scene, to be honest, and I will never forget it.




Edit- if this is indeed the same move that I saw back then, I guess I do not remember it correctly, but the emotional point of the memory is correct, perhaps mixed in with things my Nana and I discussed. No way to verify.
 
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I've written off all Lars Von Trier's stuff after reading a synopsis of Antichrist. Some brief investigation showed he has a terribly disrespect for women and even psychologically abused the female actresses in his films. Thankfully I avoided seeing his prior 'work'.

I'm over Splice too, that movie was totally eff'd up in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin.

I've never seen Saw or Hostel, any of that gore-porn really turned me off from the get go. I never understood why they kept making more Saw movies... like who was going to see that crap over and over?

Unique additions to this list include Black Swan, which while I enjoyed it two times I saw it, the whole movie really made me feel uncomfortable and edgy the entire time. Elephant, which is basically a fictionalized interpretation of the events at Columbine all those years ago, is something I'll never need to rewatch.

Hmm I'm also avoiding all of Tom Cruises stuff, I've lost any appreciation for his work over time, mostly due to his involvement with Scientology.

As a rule I also avoid War movies, or terrorism themed stuff, or anything having to do with 9-11 - the blatant propaganda vibe just makes me angry and I find myself wanting to critically correct the themes being portrayed.
 
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There is one movie which gave me such an emotional response that even though I think it is a very good movie, I don't think I could watch it again - White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some of the interviews with the survivors brought tears to my eyes. And to see how they are discriminated nowadays and how such an event can be ignored by the Japanese youth. It was very saddening.


From wikipedia:
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an HBO documentary film that was directed and produced by Steven Okazaki and was released on August 6, 2007 on HBO, marking the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic bombing. The film features interviews with fourteen Japanese survivors and four Americans involved in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 
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Tigersoap said:
EmeraldHope said:
I see zombies in a different way. In the Return of the Living Dead movie, I found in very amusing that the central focal point was the mall and the Zombies like to eat peoples brains. Perhaps an analogy for current society? Let the dead bury the dead comes to mind here also.

I always thought about zombies as some kind of analogy with the world as well, as the power of conformity that would rather eat you alive than let you become conscious of what's going on.
Or maybe even with your own predator's mind, where you try to gather a few many I who would help you through the night and fend off those brain gulping horrors.
I think the image of a zombie can sometimes be as symbolic as one of a vampire but that's just me :)

I Maybe it is not just you, because I feel zombies in a different way, and the same than your.
I also looked Saw and Hostel several years ago, but today, I cannot look at this kind of film and there is others ways to understand psychopaths. Those films are terrific to me now, and as Laura I do not need to see more sufferings. When we understood how "some humans" can be, is it really necessary to show and show again the same horrors?

I am a legend is a film I could not look a second time. But I think this speaks to my owns fears more than the creatures in the movie.

There is one film I ever could look until the end, and I ever tried again (I had just talk about it quickly here and wrote I will explain, so, here is the good thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25698.msg305858.html#msg305858)
This film is "Pet Cemetery" from the Stephen King's book and screenplayed by the author.

It is not about the fact I could not look at it a second time, I even not saw the end on the first one!
I was in a theater with a friend of mine and (when it was the time to make come back the son from the dead. I remember I said: "I cannot stay here, I feel bad!" We went out from the theater and went to walk on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, it was night.
I tried to calm myself but it was as if something else than the movie prevented me from feeling me better. Earing the sea, I said to my friend: "Let's go walk on the beach, maybe waves will calm down me." To join the beach coming from Promenade des Anglais, we have to go down staircases and arrived on the first step, I stopped. My breathing had become very fast and I felt badder than before. The sky became really black and at a moment I could not see anymore the difference between beach, sea and sky. No more noise of waves, just something like "nothing". I had this crazy feeling that if I get down on the beach, I would be ate by this big dark space in front of me and never could come back.
We left the place and came back to The hotel to sleep. I could not sleep for all the night, and not well the followings ones.
This movie embodies at once the most big fear to me, and at the same time as an experiment that I always considered as "bad" in the sense dark and as devilish. After that, "someone/something" seemed sometimes to visit me at home, giving me the most bigger fears I had in my life except for one, when I was a little girl. After this period, I changed a lot of things in my life, including with people who said be my friends. And I had to wait several years to read again a Stephen King's book.

When I was a little girl (8 years old) I saw (hiding from my parents) The War of Worlds. I remember having been frightened by this movie as far as I could speak about it to nobody...
And before this, a movie which touched more than what I think is "Gone with the Wind". I was 5 years old, in theater with my parents, and Scarlett O'Hara was my first pseudo on the Web, 7 years ago. And Scarlett is still there... ;)
 
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I have to make a small confession, I'm embarrassed to even tell. Do not call me insane, please! It was just curiosity, and saw a couple of scenes without even finishing it.

I saw on yahoo news that several countries had banned the film "The human centpide 2" because of the harshness and nastiness of his scenes. The typical human curiosity "do not do this, do not look it, do not say this and do it to see why you do not have to do" led me to take a look. As many have seen 2 or 3 minutes of film. Just say I do not know if he is sicker the director of the movie or the fans. Pure disgust, objective disgust, if it exists!
 
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MK Scarlett said:
There is one film I ever could look until the end, and I ever tried again (I had just talk about it quickly here and wrote I will explain, so, here is the good thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25698.msg305858.html#msg305858)
This film is "Pet Cemetery" from the Stephen King's book and screenplayed by the author.

It is not about the fact I could not look at it a second time, I even not saw the end on the first one!
I was in a theater with a friend of mine and (when it was the time to make come back the son from the dead. I remember I said: "I cannot stay here, I feel bad!" We went out from the theater and went to walk on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, it was night.
I tried to calm myself but it was as if something else than the movie prevented me from feeling me better. Earing the sea, I said to my friend: "Let's go walk on the beach, maybe waves will calm down me." To join the beach coming from Promenade des Anglais, we have to go down staircases and arrived on the first step, I stopped. My breathing had become very fast and I felt badder than before. The sky became really black and at a moment I could not see anymore the difference between beach, sea and sky. No more noise of waves, just something like "nothing". I had this crazy feeling that if I get down on the beach, I would be ate by this big dark space in front of me and never could come back.
We left the place and came back to The hotel to sleep. I could not sleep for all the night, and not well the followings ones.
This movie embodies at once the most big fear to me, and at the same time as an experiment that I always considered as "bad" in the sense dark and as devilish. After that, "someone/something" seemed sometimes to visit me at home, giving me the most bigger fears I had in my life except for one, when I was a little girl. After this period, I changed a lot of things in my life, including with people who said be my friends. And I had to wait several years to read again a Stephen King's book.

Did you ever read this Stephen King's book in particular, before or after your bad experience ?
 
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Álvaro said:
I have to make a small confession, I'm embarrassed to even tell. Do not call me insane, please! It was just curiosity, and saw a couple of scenes without even finishing it.

I saw on yahoo news that several countries had banned the film "The human centpide 2" because of the harshness and nastiness of his scenes. The typical human curiosity "do not do this, do not look it, do not say this and do it to see why you do not have to do" led me to take a look. As many have seen 2 or 3 minutes of film. Just say I do not know if he is sicker the director of the movie or the fans. Pure disgust, objective disgust, if it exists!


Wow. I had never heard of this one. Had to go look to see what it was in general. Sorry I did, and no way I would ever watch this. This is one of the vilest, sickest ideas I have ever seen, and I have seen some vile and sick ideas. Note to squeamish and sensitive members- do not let your curiosity get the best of you. Seriously.
 
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Puck said:
Hmm I'm also avoiding all of Tom Cruises stuff, I've lost any appreciation for his work over time, mostly due to his involvement with Scientology.
Maybe you should reconsider this, Valkyrie was excellent movie and I thought he did great job.

As for the topic I would say anything from Lars Von Trier, especially The Dancer in the Dark - took me few days to recover after this movie :(
 
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Maat said:
MK Scarlett said:
There is one film I ever could look until the end, and I ever tried again (I had just talk about it quickly here and wrote I will explain, so, here is the good thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25698.msg305858.html#msg305858)
This film is "Pet Cemetery" from the Stephen King's book and screenplayed by the author.

It is not about the fact I could not look at it a second time, I even not saw the end on the first one!
I was in a theater with a friend of mine and (when it was the time to make come back the son from the dead. I remember I said: "I cannot stay here, I feel bad!" We went out from the theater and went to walk on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, it was night.
I tried to calm myself but it was as if something else than the movie prevented me from feeling me better. Earing the sea, I said to my friend: "Let's go walk on the beach, maybe waves will calm down me." To join the beach coming from Promenade des Anglais, we have to go down staircases and arrived on the first step, I stopped. My breathing had become very fast and I felt badder than before. The sky became really black and at a moment I could not see anymore the difference between beach, sea and sky. No more noise of waves, just something like "nothing". I had this crazy feeling that if I get down on the beach, I would be ate by this big dark space in front of me and never could come back.
We left the place and came back to The hotel to sleep. I could not sleep for all the night, and not well the followings ones.
This movie embodies at once the most big fear to me, and at the same time as an experiment that I always considered as "bad" in the sense dark and as devilish. After that, "someone/something" seemed sometimes to visit me at home, giving me the most bigger fears I had in my life except for one, when I was a little girl. After this period, I changed a lot of things in my life, including with people who said be my friends. And I had to wait several years to read again a Stephen King's book.

Did you ever read this Stephen King's book in particular, before or after your bad experience ?


Yes I had read this book before to go to see the movie Maat, I forgot to specify it in my previous post... And I had read it completely, with a kind of anxiety but it was my "strange period" experimenting some phenomena in a way I would not use today.
So, my friend and I were curious after have read the book, to see what would the movie do. I always have been curious after have read a book to see what theater (especially Hollywood) could do with it. I must say I often was disappointed about the result.

However, it was not my first Stephen King reading and actually, I remember have been pretty surprised to have this reaction during the movie, it was not usual to me. So I guess something happened to me during the movie, because of the movie or not. Maybe it was because a child was in scene. I could not maybe bear for a child, what I thought of being capable of "collecting" for an adult... Today, I do not bear it more either for the one or for the other one.
 
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Puck said:
I'm over Splice too, that movie was totally eff'd up in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin.

Oh, yeah. Splice. Just could not watch that again.

Puck said:
Hmm I'm also avoiding all of Tom Cruises stuff, I've lost any appreciation for his work over time, mostly due to his involvement with Scientology.

I kinda like his earlier films (Legend, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Vanilla Sky).
 
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Herr Eisenheim said:
Puck said:
Hmm I'm also avoiding all of Tom Cruises stuff, I've lost any appreciation for his work over time, mostly due to his involvement with Scientology.
Maybe you should reconsider this, Valkyrie was excellent movie and I thought he did great job.

I don't like Tom Cruise either but I do watch his movies from time to time when he does something worth seeing. I never saw Valkyrie but a few other good ones for me were Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, Minority Report and Eyes Wide Shut. Though I might have to stick Eyes Wide Shut in the category of movies I'll probably never watch again. But it was very interesting and it was Stanley Kubrick's last film.

And I'm a big fan of the classic fantasy films so I will always love Legend (he did that film when he was still sane fwiw :P)
 
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I'd skip seeing again any horror movie or war movie that I've ever seen. House of 1000 Corpses left me feeling so scared and agitated I could never watch one of those gratuitously violent and torturous slasher movies ever again. I tried watching Inglorious Basterds last year but couldn't make it through. And Saving Private Ryan? No thanks.

I did like 28 days later (the focus seemed to be more on the relationships between the survivors) but the sequel was too scary for me so I won't watch that one again.

I'll also never, ever see any of the few Julia Roberts movies I've seen ever again. The same goes for Titanic. And I'd never like to ever see anymore suspenseful "chase" movies again (especially ones starring Tommy Lee Jones :))


The majority of movies that I've seen were colossal wastes of time just seeing once. Others were good but why waste time seeing them more than once? Then there are a small number of flicks I like that I will revisit from time to time.
 
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Back in the 70's I went to see The Other Side of Midnight - there was a bloody scene that made me feel sick - got up to leave the theater and fainted before I got to the lobby - had to be carried out. Was mortified :-[ when I came to, but found out that this was a regular occurrence with that film. Since then, I always read up on films to make sure there is nothing grisly - I know I won't be able to handle it.

Saw A Clockwork Orange and thought it was horrific - was mystified why it was so well liked. Never could watch Silence of the Lambs, would start feeling creepy and always had to turn it off. :scared: Went to see The Titanic when it first came out - I felt depressed for days afterward - and was truly surprised that it turned out to be such a box office hit.

I seem to be very susceptible to images in film, things can haunt me for days, weeks. Have found out the hard way to be very careful about what kinds of images I let into my head! Always been amazed at how others don't seem to be so affected by these things. :huh:
 
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