Disturbing Movie Moments

[Ella]

I watched The Perfect storm on tv yesterday and it still bothers me. I have a HUGE fear of deep water and that movie brings the fear full force. I first saw it in the theatre and watching all that cold, deep, black water gave me chills. The last scene with Mark Walberg in the water with the high cold waves rolling around him....scary.

[mariposalabrown]

Brindle, I'm the same way. I watched about 90% of that Poseidon remake with my eyes covered.

I am so disturbed that that was Heather Matarazzo in Hostel 2! O pnly saw that scene and got bored, but I'm shivering knowing I saw Weinerdog's boobs.

[bklynred]

I can watch a lot of movies twice or more... The Perfect Storm is not one of them. Probably because I was one of three people who didn't know the story ahead of time. Completely traumatized. Which is too bad, because I loved the cast but it was too intense. It's so strange, you never know will trigger that "this shook me to my core" response.

[Martini Girl]

Count me in on APS! I don't think I've ever been more nervous during a film. I was seriously tense in the theater. I think I left fingernail marks on the arm rest.... and I remember I couldn't sleep that night, I was so disturbed. And I'm not usually afraid of water or sailing.

Also, I know is that I never want to be a:

• Fisherman or
  
• Some one to flies into hurricanes (shudder)
  

Those have to be the worst jobs.

[Atreides]

I agree on The Perfect Storm. That shot of Mark Wahlberg bobbing around in the ocean with nothing around him but endless water with death being inevitable is the stuff of nightmares.

[canuckcutie]

I saw a TV ad for a movie, "last house on the left" yet another of those torture type flicks. I just have zero desire to watch any movie where people spend the entire time brutalizing one another in very graphic ways.

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Mar 11, 2009 22:12:16 GMT -4 canuckcutie said:

I saw a TV ad for a movie, "last house on the left" yet another of those torture type flicks. I just have zero desire to watch any movie where people spend the entire time brutalizing one another in very graphic ways.

And doesn't it seem like another one comes out every 3 months or so? And they continuously raise the bar on how graphic the brutalizing gets? I recall last summar The Strangers came out and right away I thought "I hope this movie is long forgotten by the time Halloween comes around, because I don't think I could handle opening the door to see kids wearing those blank white masks..."

Anyhow, yeah, the torture porn genre has gotten so over the top that its stubborn refusal to fade away is disturbing.

[divasahm]

When I took then-11-year-old divaspawn1 to see Twilight last November, we were both prepared for the sexual suggestiveness and the degree of violence in the film. What we weren't prepared for was the utter horror, violence, and degradation we witnessed in the eight (yes, eight!) trailers that preceded the movie. Ds1 had her head buried in my shoulder through most of it, and told me as we left the theater that if anything gave her nightmares, it would be the coming attractions rather than the feature.

The next day my brother reported the exact same experience with his daughter, so we both decided to call the theater separately to suggest that a soft-R movie geared for tweens and teens and their accompanying parent should probably have PG-13 and soft-R trailers preceding it, rather than previews for films that are much, MUCH harder-core than the one we're there to see. The good news? The theater manager apologized to both of us, offered us both free passes, and switched out the previews, which was confirmed by friends who went back the next week to see Twilight again. Thanks, AMC!

[angelaudie]

7 horrifying moments from classic kids movies. God, I had blocked some of these out! Willy Wonka's delightful boat ride and the kids being turned in donkeys in Pinocchio jacked me up as a kid! Dumbo's pink elephants scene is also a major WTF?! moment from my childhood. I do disagree with #1 though. Pleasure Island and Willy Wonka are much more disturbing that Snow White's trek through the forest!

I find it kinda amusing that Walt Disney is responsible for 5 of the moments on the list.

[Deleted]

Glad to know I'm not the only poor sap who read that article today. The donkey scene in Pinocchio is the most disturbing in my opinion, that gave me nightmares for years afterward. Like an idiot I watched the clip and I'm haunted by it all over again. Disney was seriously disturbed.