What’s the scariest/most disturbing movie you’ve seen in your adult years?
Other than a Biden press conference, for me it was Bone Tomahawk. It wasn’t scary, but definitely left me feeling WTF
These “most” threads are always difficult. But I have to say The Road was an incredibly disturbing/distressing flick. I don’t even like to remember it.
Just watched the trailer. I may have to check that one out.
I’m not much for horror or slasher flicks. I do like Sci-fi movies like Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Quiet Place, etc… so I thought Event Horizon would be a good one. Jeez, that movie was deeply disturbing…
The Quiet Place was excellent.
I’ve never seen Event Horizon
It’s the darkest father-son movie and book I’ve ever seen or read.
Event Horizon was bothersome to me when I first saw it years ago. Watched it recently and still got me. Hostel was not fun to watch either.
Yeah, Event Horizon screwed with me as well. It was disturbing on a lot of levels.
The worst for me was the first Silent Hill movie from the early 2000’s. Gave me nightmares for months. I played the video game a lot back then and it didn’t affect me the way that damn movie did. I’ll NEVER watch that one again!
I’ve never done the game, but yeah, Silent Hill was a legit creepy movie.
I just watched that for the first time last week (what timing), yeah that was pretty freaky, the blind crippled pregnant women was like WOW, I guess they nipped that ERA thing in bud right off.
Hard to pick out the “one” but I’ve always found the psychological and demonic thrillers much more terrifying than the slasher type and Hereditary is certainly on the list. Requiem for a Dream was a good one about the perils of drug addiction. Eraserhead is up there too, in a bizarre creepy way.
Disturbing is a good word, Hostel might have been the most disturbing, I generally am not a fan of slasher movies beyond 80s nostalgia and I don’t like to mix “hot chicks” with “murder porn.”
As an adult we understand most of this stuff isn’t real so it doesn’t have the same effect, the only monsters that bother me are those who pose as humans. Again why films like “Hostel” made an impact, I’m pretty sure there were places that engaged in “human organs on demand” who would probably sell torture adventures.
The book was excellent, but could not read more than a few pages at a time, recently saw the film, because I could not stomach to watch it when it originally premiered.
Haven’t watched the movie yet, but for a weird twist I bought and read the book while waiting for my wife to deliver our son.
Same here. The evil people movies screw with me. Even more now that I have people that depend on me for their safety.
Not really scary, but if anyone is looking for a “kick in the gut”, the 2000 remake of On The Beach is the only other film in the same category as The Road.
It was an Aussie made for television version that aired on Showtime and most have never seen it, but actually pretty good. That was back when a bunch of Aussie sleepers made it to the US for a short run, notably “The Last Bullet” which was a WWII film set in the pacific that was remarkably good.
I would say “Seven” got me. The most messed up part of the movie is that someone had to come up with the concept of putting people through the 7 deadly sins and then produce it.
Anyone not saying, “Eyes Wide Shut,” or, “The Ninth Gate” are wrong.
Both were incredible disappointments, and The Ninth Gate was a straight hijack of Lovecrafts Necronomicon themes. Eyes Wide Shut was just an illuminati fantasy film.
Blair Witch Project was spooky at the time, but aged poorly, just like The Ring.
1984 becomes more and more scary as time passes.
Andy
Wrong.