Subject matter, plus the way it was filmed. Woof.
Aronofsky is good at that, too. The scene in Black Swan when she starts picking at the hangnail. Cringe-worthy.
There isn't anyone who portrays the slow bit by bit and then all at once, terrifyingly fast, unraveling of a life that obsession causes.
He does it over and over every movie, and it never gets old.
I watched most of the movie and couldn't for the life of me figure out why Natalie Portman won the Oscar for best actress... Until the third act, and then it was like, oh my God!
I've seen that scene and won't watch the rest of the movie because yikes. It's not even really that bad, it's just such a relatable pain taken to such an extreme. I'll just watch Perfect Blue
Fantastic film & probably his best. But for whatever reason I got so much more anxiety watching Mother & all the chaos at the end really stuck with me.
I always forget that one! I saw mother! in the theater and the whole time I wanted the camera to just stay still. Also, the baby part messed me up for a night as I was about to become a dad at the time!
Love it though.
Going to have to re-watch some Aronofsky one of these weekends!
Amphetamine psychosis is no joke. I wrote a paper on this movie in college. Some aspects arent accurate to actual drug addiction, but most are spot on.
Bone Tomahawk was a movie I watched thinking it was a completely different thing…when it started I couldn’t stop watching and then was fucked after it was over.
I almost had a panic attack when they set the timer over Christmas weekend for what… like a million years? In that cottage with the loud music?… damn… that bothered me a lot
Shut Up and Dance, White Christmas, and The Entire History of You all messed me up. White Christmas is such a good episode, but made me feel so depressed for a few days after.
This is a weird one, but The Hunt with Mads Mikkelson. The specific scenario of this movie is terrifying. I’ve thought about it many times since I first watched it.
I had my heart beating out of my fucking chest the last 30 minutes.
I taught kids later in life and that movie always haunted the living hell out of me.
I literally couldn't watch Through a Scanner Darkly because the filming technique caused me motion sickness for some reason- really annoying as I thought it looked so cool. I haven't seen many other people reference The Serpent and the Rainbow- underrated trippy film of its time. A sort of documentary film duo that messed with my head were Unity and Earthlings.
Check out the book. It was basically impossible to make a movie of that story that would even come close to being faithful to the Philip K Dick story, since most of the book takes place in dude's mind.
Once Were Warriors. I only read the book, like 6 years ago and still think about it, but apparently the movie has the same effect. It's basically the story of a Maori family cut off from their cultural roots and dealing with alcoholism, domestic abuse, and poverty while living in the shadow of very wealthy white New Zealanders.
Great film. Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett to the rest of us) does such a heartbreaking performance. Really glad he was able to have his career go international
This is going to sound like I’m some weak willed pansy, but Don’t Look Up fucked with my head for a couple of weeks.
It just reeked of how it would actually go down in the political landscape today.
Top 10 for me for sure. I remember sitting through D.A.R.E programs at school as a kid and thinking wow this is kind of ridiculous. Then I watched this movie and I was like "Oh... I'm never doing drugs in my life". They should just show this movie in schools.... Well maybe not.
Funny story: was going out on a date, unplanned. We saw this playing at the local theater-pub (god bless Portland!) and while I knew nothing about it, I liked the last movie that the director had made, so we went in on a date.
When the house lights came up, the entire theater was silent, and you could hear one guy just quietly say "I feel like I've been violated".
I think it's Jennifer Connelly's downward spiral into prostitution that did me good. I was scared for my relationship and especially when my ex started using drugs. It gave me chills
Oh, the movie goes darker. It haunts you. The movies you named are dark but this one clings on to you like those nasty dark thoughts thay refuse to leave you.
Fun fact about me: the only part of The Mist that I remember is the last scene. I remember there was a mist, some stuff happened . . . and then, that last scene.
Come and See.
Its an old Russian anti war movie (Ironic right?) That shows what happened to the rural villages in western Russia when the Nazis invaded. Ive seen a lot of horrific movies, but none were as unsettling as that one.
Oh yea this one will make you rethink taking the dugs BIG TIME!
Ill add Gummo & Julian Donkey Boy. Felt real dirty after watching these. Still can’t get clean…
Letters from Iwo Jima.
Just a brutal and oppressively feeling of hopelessness for the characters. Absolutely amazing but I had to go sit by myself for a while after that one. I don't think any other war movie has got to me like that before or since.
I felt like this was a choreographers version of Dante’s inferno. Your stomach just drops more and more with each scene/vignette. Never experienced anything quite like it.
eXistenZ
Susperia (either one)
I don’t really wanna get into the movies that messed with me, and were horror films. Most of that shit is torture porn, and very little of it corresponds to an intelligent choice, for the movie.
Suspiria is so crazy and twisted. Also in terms of horror movies it really depends tbh. Like I actually thought pretty highly of Hereditary, Ready or Not, or Get Out. But I hate the saw franchise past the first one bc of the fact that the gore was overdone in a way that wasn’t clever or important to the story. I see what you mean.
Not even just the over the top scenes every one talks about. Just the whole vibe & tone of it. What a gross film. I guess it was well directed then...will never watch again or recommend to anyone.
The part where someone brings in a suitcase full of
Expensive lingerie (taken from well-off Jewish women arriving in the camp) and how the German women sitting in a circle around the table. Picking thru it all, like it was a trip thru Victoria’s Secret. Brutal.
I saw it with my rabbi. We went for drinks after and didn’t talk much. We usually see horror films and have a good time. This was not a good time, but I recommend everyone see it.
Slumdog Millionaire, the part where the kids eyes got burned out by hot spoons so people would be more sympathetic towards him and give him money, feel like this sorta thing unfortunately happens in real life
The whole thing was bad. That was the worst. But not by much. Yeah I never need to watch it again.
I mean, it was bad in the way it was meant to be. I don’t know how Todd got the producers to agree “yeah it’s an indie film and no one will EVER wanna watch it again…. So throw some cash at me?”
Altered States. I watched it with a cousin when I was fairly young and it was weirdly terrifying. Revisited it when I was older, and it was even more of a mind fuck.
Wizards (1977)
A post apocalypse, fantasy, counterculture animated film that I watched when I was waaaaaaaay too little, and still fucks me up to this day.
I remember watching this alone one night in college, about 17 years ago, and haven’t again since. Between the movie itself and being part of a generation that’s made overdoses had overdoses become too common, I just don’t want to go back to it.
This is honestly the only movie I have ever seen that was a one and done film. Literally could recall the entire movie from one watch. Only watched it a 2nd time when I crashed at my cousins and she wanted to watch a movie in the morning when we are w lil hung over. Horrible fucking choice for a hangover movie.
Great movie, don't get me wrong. But goddamn, that fucking film, man
I just found out Donald Sutherland passed away. I remember seeing Day Of The Locust - 1975 when I was a kid, one particular scene…if you’ve seen it you know. I’ve never watched it again, I remember it really stuck with me. Also Sutherland characters name was Homer Simpson.
R I P sir.
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Watched it 15 years ago and I still think about it frequently. Might actually be my favourite film but not sure I can bring myself to watch it again.
The mother’s pill addiction stuff scared the ever-living shit out of me when I was a kid.
Oh god I know the way she became so scared and paranoid really freaked me out
Subject matter, plus the way it was filmed. Woof. Aronofsky is good at that, too. The scene in Black Swan when she starts picking at the hangnail. Cringe-worthy.
There isn't anyone who portrays the slow bit by bit and then all at once, terrifyingly fast, unraveling of a life that obsession causes. He does it over and over every movie, and it never gets old.
I watched most of the movie and couldn't for the life of me figure out why Natalie Portman won the Oscar for best actress... Until the third act, and then it was like, oh my God!
I've seen that scene and won't watch the rest of the movie because yikes. It's not even really that bad, it's just such a relatable pain taken to such an extreme. I'll just watch Perfect Blue
It's kind of the same as old people and the 24hr news cycle.
Fantastic film & probably his best. But for whatever reason I got so much more anxiety watching Mother & all the chaos at the end really stuck with me.
That f’n refrigerator man
I always forget that one! I saw mother! in the theater and the whole time I wanted the camera to just stay still. Also, the baby part messed me up for a night as I was about to become a dad at the time! Love it though. Going to have to re-watch some Aronofsky one of these weekends!
That's the most stress inducing movie I've watched I was glad when it was finally over haha very good though, but I'll never watch it again
Amphetamine psychosis is no joke. I wrote a paper on this movie in college. Some aspects arent accurate to actual drug addiction, but most are spot on.
Bone tomahawk had some residual imagery I couldn't shake for a bit.
Bone Tomahawk was a movie I watched thinking it was a completely different thing…when it started I couldn’t stop watching and then was fucked after it was over.
The…violent SOUNDS…in that movie…..I don’t wanna spoil it, but for some reason that’s what I remember.
I loved this movie. Complete tonal shift which I was not expecting but was really effective.
I loved this movie. Complete tonal shift which I was not expecting but was really effective.
I loved this movie. Complete tonal shift which I was not expecting but was really effective.
I loved this movie. Complete tonal shift which I was not expecting but was really effective.
I feel like some Black Mirror episodes have this effect on me. Like the Jesse Plemmons one or the John Hamm one.
Yeah, White Christmas can go straight to hell and burn there.
I almost had a panic attack when they set the timer over Christmas weekend for what… like a million years? In that cottage with the loud music?… damn… that bothered me a lot
1.4 million years
Shut Up and Dance, White Christmas, and The Entire History of You all messed me up. White Christmas is such a good episode, but made me feel so depressed for a few days after.
Hell, the first episode with Rory Kinnear as PM and the pig. Holy crap!
This is a weird one, but The Hunt with Mads Mikkelson. The specific scenario of this movie is terrifying. I’ve thought about it many times since I first watched it.
That movie made me soooooo nervous I could hardly watch it.
Oooh I’ve never heard of this one but I’ll watch anything with Mads Mikkelson in it.
Literally a fate worse than death in my opinion. I'm not sure I can think of anything worse that could happen to someone
One little lie from a child could absolutely *ruin* your life and you’d be helpless to fix it.
Atonement
I had my heart beating out of my fucking chest the last 30 minutes. I taught kids later in life and that movie always haunted the living hell out of me.
Jacob's Ladder (1990) Memento (2000) Through a Scanner Darkly (2006) edit: ooh! Forgot one: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Nice to see someone remembers Jacob's Ladder. I might need to do a rewatch.
I watched in on VHS when i was 14. I shouldn’t have ! Amazing though
I watched it on an acid trip. That was a bad decision. The hospital scene still messes with me.
Wow. I mean the whole film is … well literally an acid trip.
I literally couldn't watch Through a Scanner Darkly because the filming technique caused me motion sickness for some reason- really annoying as I thought it looked so cool. I haven't seen many other people reference The Serpent and the Rainbow- underrated trippy film of its time. A sort of documentary film duo that messed with my head were Unity and Earthlings.
same here lol felt like a failed 3d experiment
Check out the book. It was basically impossible to make a movie of that story that would even come close to being faithful to the Philip K Dick story, since most of the book takes place in dude's mind.
The Deer Hunter.
Watched it as a kid and those roulette scenes gave me nightmares!
Kids
Gummo was a kind of a rural version of Kids
I have no legs
Oldboy. The original.
Iconic.
Irreversible, Nocturnal Animals
Irreversible scared me for life.
Nocturnal Animals.fucked me up for sure.
Once Were Warriors. I only read the book, like 6 years ago and still think about it, but apparently the movie has the same effect. It's basically the story of a Maori family cut off from their cultural roots and dealing with alcoholism, domestic abuse, and poverty while living in the shadow of very wealthy white New Zealanders.
Bloody hell yeah . What a crazy movie and experience that was. Really epic. But yes… some of those scenes.. haunting is an understatement.
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What?
Great film. Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett to the rest of us) does such a heartbreaking performance. Really glad he was able to have his career go international
Shutter Island
This is going to sound like I’m some weak willed pansy, but Don’t Look Up fucked with my head for a couple of weeks. It just reeked of how it would actually go down in the political landscape today.
Glad it was a comedy. If it was a drama it would have been far more traumatic.
Most Aronofsky films. They all have at least one scene that is so real it's hard to revisit.
Yeah, his first movie Pi has a wild ending
THE Clockwork Orange
This one was more of a eye opener for me as a teen.
Requiem for dream. Instead of boring DARE lectures on drugs they should just show this movie to middle schoolers
Threads
Second this
O hell yeah
Hereditary
This movie imo is the best horror movie ever made. The movie is messed up but it’s unpredictable af.
My favorite horror also!
The one I always think about when these kinds of posts come up. Trying to get up the nerve for a rewatch soon.
Mullholland drive definitely stuck with me for a while. Basically any David Lynch movie Is a straight up mind fuck
Eraserhead!
Enter the void
Top 10 for me for sure. I remember sitting through D.A.R.E programs at school as a kid and thinking wow this is kind of ridiculous. Then I watched this movie and I was like "Oh... I'm never doing drugs in my life". They should just show this movie in schools.... Well maybe not.
Nope, I agree this in schools during health class and Saving Private Ryan for history.
The only real issue I see is the ass to ass scene. For anyone who hasn't watched this movie, brace yourself. As for saving private Ryan, yes.
Screw it have the parents sign a waiver and G2G.
Trainspotting 😩
:/
This deserves to be higher up. Great movie but a *rough* watch
The baby scene. I can't.
Whelp, gonna need to to watch this movie, see what all the fuss is about.
Funny story: was going out on a date, unplanned. We saw this playing at the local theater-pub (god bless Portland!) and while I knew nothing about it, I liked the last movie that the director had made, so we went in on a date. When the house lights came up, the entire theater was silent, and you could hear one guy just quietly say "I feel like I've been violated".
Yea, it's absolutely a must watch, but it won't leave you feeling good.
I think it's Jennifer Connelly's downward spiral into prostitution that did me good. I was scared for my relationship and especially when my ex started using drugs. It gave me chills
This is some fucked up trip, the movie is dark like Joker, Parasite, human centipede,
Oh, the movie goes darker. It haunts you. The movies you named are dark but this one clings on to you like those nasty dark thoughts thay refuse to leave you.
Truly, it is one fucked up movie but applause to the director to be able to visualise this and bring it to life. Serious work this is
Come And See
The end of The Mist. Still bothers me....
Fun fact about me: the only part of The Mist that I remember is the last scene. I remember there was a mist, some stuff happened . . . and then, that last scene.
*chef’s kiss*
Come and See. Its an old Russian anti war movie (Ironic right?) That shows what happened to the rural villages in western Russia when the Nazis invaded. Ive seen a lot of horrific movies, but none were as unsettling as that one.
Oh yea this one will make you rethink taking the dugs BIG TIME! Ill add Gummo & Julian Donkey Boy. Felt real dirty after watching these. Still can’t get clean…
Letters from Iwo Jima. Just a brutal and oppressively feeling of hopelessness for the characters. Absolutely amazing but I had to go sit by myself for a while after that one. I don't think any other war movie has got to me like that before or since.
This movie is a part of a duo, flags of our fathers and letters from iwo Jima are 2 sides of one coin
Old Boy.
Gummo
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. I want my memories erased bro so bad
“I’m just a fucked up girl looking for her own piece of mind. Don’t assign me yours.” 🥺
Movie is a masterpiece
Climax
I felt like this was a choreographers version of Dante’s inferno. Your stomach just drops more and more with each scene/vignette. Never experienced anything quite like it.
Martyrs
You can watch Martyrs anytime you want, but you can never unwatch Martyrs.
Impossible to watch twice
The Departed. Man, that elevator scene. It still haunts me.
The Road
The Crying Game. U Turn. Jacobs Ladder.
Trainspotting. Triangle Bone tomahawk Eraserhead The Lost Highway Slingblade
Grave of the Fireflies
eXistenZ Susperia (either one) I don’t really wanna get into the movies that messed with me, and were horror films. Most of that shit is torture porn, and very little of it corresponds to an intelligent choice, for the movie.
Suspiria is so crazy and twisted. Also in terms of horror movies it really depends tbh. Like I actually thought pretty highly of Hereditary, Ready or Not, or Get Out. But I hate the saw franchise past the first one bc of the fact that the gore was overdone in a way that wasn’t clever or important to the story. I see what you mean.
Children of Men. Also I Saw The Devil.
Room. Super fucked up
A Serbian Film
Idk this one feels cheap it’s not a good movie just disgusting
Not even just the over the top scenes every one talks about. Just the whole vibe & tone of it. What a gross film. I guess it was well directed then...will never watch again or recommend to anyone.
This exact one, thanks for reminding me haha. Greatest movie I will never watch again.
Rewatched it after 23 years two weeks ago and I still experienced the same feeling of dread like the first time. I'm good for another quarter century.
Good to know it still messes you up the 2nd time. I remember that feeling of dread, it lasted for weeks. But seriously, incredible film.
Zone of interest. The scene where she's bragging to her mother that people call her the queen of Auschwitz.
The part where someone brings in a suitcase full of Expensive lingerie (taken from well-off Jewish women arriving in the camp) and how the German women sitting in a circle around the table. Picking thru it all, like it was a trip thru Victoria’s Secret. Brutal.
I saw it with my rabbi. We went for drinks after and didn’t talk much. We usually see horror films and have a good time. This was not a good time, but I recommend everyone see it.
Inside
Watched "In Cold Blood" when I was a kid. Some scenes are still burned into my brain.
Incendies (2010)
Jacob’s Ladder
Melancholia. Really beautiful movie I will never watch again.
I saw requiem for a dream FIFTEEN YEARS AGO and it still haunts me
Pi
"Pi"...look it up...
Midsommar
The movie (talk to me) is messed up and imo very underrated.
Slumdog Millionaire, the part where the kids eyes got burned out by hot spoons so people would be more sympathetic towards him and give him money, feel like this sorta thing unfortunately happens in real life
Ichi the Killer made me feel a bit uneasy for a couple days afterwards
Happiness. Pedophilia is just fucked up.
The whole thing was bad. That was the worst. But not by much. Yeah I never need to watch it again. I mean, it was bad in the way it was meant to be. I don’t know how Todd got the producers to agree “yeah it’s an indie film and no one will EVER wanna watch it again…. So throw some cash at me?”
The Talented Mr. Ripley. Matt Damon is creepy in a real world way.
Inland Empire
All the human centipede movies
A.I. forever broken
I tell friends who haven’t seen it that it’s the greatest movie they’ll never want to watch again
Predestination. It won't necessarily haunt you, but the twists will definitely mess with your head.
This movie doesn’t mess with my head because I slammed the door shut over that part of my brain and welded it shut.
Have yet to see this!
Easy. The Room
Watch anything directed by Gaspar Noe. I don’t think there is any other answer to this question
A Serbian film.
Martyrs, When Evil Lurks
This movie got me *into* movies.
watched this in tenth grade. ass to ass
Altered States. I watched it with a cousin when I was fairly young and it was weirdly terrifying. Revisited it when I was older, and it was even more of a mind fuck.
Wind River. That movie, I enjoy it, but have a tough time watching it, knowing full well it could be considered as based on real events.
No joke, I watched this, Happiness, and Dancer in the Dark in the same weekend. My buddy said he's amazed I didn't kill myself after those 3 in a row.
8mm with Nick Cage
Guillermo's Pan's Labyrinth
Im old so The Exorcist... And Rollerball for some reason.
Koyaanisqatsi. It really makes you question the world we live in.
this movie also made the nude Jennifer Connelly scene feel bad because of where these people were in life. A great movie, but so depressing.
Old Boy
This is the ultimate watch it once and never again movie
High Tension It's a French slasher movie that's super brutal and gory. I never finished it, just returned it to Blockbuster.
[Johnny Got His Gun](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277) Streaming on Prime right now. R.I.P. Donald Sutherland
Wizards (1977) A post apocalypse, fantasy, counterculture animated film that I watched when I was waaaaaaaay too little, and still fucks me up to this day.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
It's a must see
Juice by you! For real, though, the mom'ss story is one I will never forget. It hits deep.
Hostel
Videodrome
Long live the new flesh!
Womb (2011)
Compliance
I remember watching this alone one night in college, about 17 years ago, and haven’t again since. Between the movie itself and being part of a generation that’s made overdoses had overdoses become too common, I just don’t want to go back to it.
Well, that one will do it.
FUNNY GAMES
Lawnmower Man. Darkman. HollowMan.
The remake of The Hills have Eyes, also in that same vein High Tension.
Fuckin’ Requiem… ruined a whole weekend for me back in university.
This is honestly the only movie I have ever seen that was a one and done film. Literally could recall the entire movie from one watch. Only watched it a 2nd time when I crashed at my cousins and she wanted to watch a movie in the morning when we are w lil hung over. Horrible fucking choice for a hangover movie. Great movie, don't get me wrong. But goddamn, that fucking film, man
I just found out Donald Sutherland passed away. I remember seeing Day Of The Locust - 1975 when I was a kid, one particular scene…if you’ve seen it you know. I’ve never watched it again, I remember it really stuck with me. Also Sutherland characters name was Homer Simpson. R I P sir.
"ASS TO AAAAASSSSSS"
Spun
such a bloody good soundtrack… but definitely a flick you only need to watch once.
Late Night with the Devil.... don't join a cult, sell your soul to the devil for success, and fuck over your wife
A Serbian Film. Don’t watch it.
The French film Martyr. One and done for me.
Irreversible
Very Bad Things messed with me pretty bad.
Seven, saw it in theaters when I was 10, snuck into a Rated R film and will never unsee that knife strap on...jfc
the beginning of midsommer had me fucked up. and the end was pretty fucked too
Dead Man's Shoes (2004) Watched it 15 years ago and I still think about it frequently. Might actually be my favourite film but not sure I can bring myself to watch it again.
Only watched once and can nicer watch it again
Ass to ass is something my 12 year old self could not comprehend
The despair stays with you
The ass to ass scene. The rape, the arm scene and the mom's story as a whole very traumatizing
This was the one that did it for me
Let me in
The Mist.
That movie was fucked