Scary, mean, heartless, movies that you will NEVER WATCH....or ...NEVER SEE AGAIN..

[Stuart G]

I cannot watch "House of Wax"......or ..."PSYCHO"

While I understand that the movie is relatively positive...I cannot watch this one: Schindler's List

The over all topic of Schindler's List is horrifying to me.. (I know too much about that topic - concentration camps...While Schindler was really a hero..)

[MFM008]

1. Wicker Man

its not scary its mean/lame.

[IcyPeas]

2. Exorcist,

Last House on the Left

Death Wish

[Stuart G]

4. Opps ....Forgot that one...I have never seen the ..."Exorcist" and never will..Thanks for reminder..

[rsdsharp]

12. I didn't think the movie was as scary as the book.

I stayed up until 2AM to finish the book. No sleep for me that night.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Last House on the Left.

Death Wish was disturbing too, but man...

Last House on the Left (1972) playing "happy music" during rapes and such.

Absolutely no desire to ever see it again. Watched it long ago with a teen 'friend' who proved to be too much of a weirdo for me. He was fascinated by serial killers too, and I started to suspect that he'd like to be one!

[ailsagirl]

19. That movie was sick Sick SICK

I thought it would be just a run-of-the-mill scary movie-- it was absolutely sickening (we left after half an hour)

I'm with you

[rsdsharp]

3. I saw Schindler's List in the theatre.

I bought the laser disc (remember those?), but I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Me too.

Took a young lady to see it... on a first date!

[rsdsharp]

8. I took a first date to an Alice Cooper concert.

Next Tuesday we will have been married 41 years.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Congrats!

[WhiteTara]

6. In Cold Blood

[Stuart G]

13. Yes, I forgot that one....I used to show parts of that movie to my high school classes...

The topic..."human evil"...and the parts were very bad....showed it in the 70s & early 80s..then stopped..

[WhiteTara]

14. I didn't sleep

for days after that. It still horrifies me.

[ailsagirl]

21. I remember after seeing it...

I was sick to my stomach.

And the strange thing is, it wasn't particularly gory. It was the story of the Clutter murders that was so deeply disturbing. I had read the book and knew what happened., but I obviously didn't realize the film would affect me so deeply.

[WhiteTara]

25. It was deeply distrubing

I keep my doors locked at all times, day and night. I saw that movie some 50 years ago and it has stayed with me all this time.

[ailsagirl]

37. I'll never forget it!!

[Paladin]

27. In the 1967 movie, the actual Clutter home was used for the murder sequence scenes. (nt)

[WhiteTara]

33. I was living in Oklahoma at the time

and it being the actual murder scene made it even more horrifying.

[ailsagirl]

38. Right-- that macabre touch gave me the creeps

[WhiteTara]

39. I think that was the last thing I

ever saw or read by Capote.

[Stuart G]

7. Just so you know,I have seen truly horrifying movies.& even posted one .32 minutes...

How horrifying can it be?..Just 32 minutes...Can't be that bad..can it?...You can watch too, if you want to..
Yes it is horrifying..you are warned on this.& you will be warned again, and it is all real horror & death



https://www.democraticunderground.com/11661601

[Glorfindel]

11. "Requiem for a Dream"

"Saving Private Ryan"
"Brokeback Mountain"

Amazing movies all, but very disturbing and sad. I don't like sad.

[Turin_C3PO]

36. All great movies but yes, very depressing.

[Mister Ed]

15. The Silence of the Lambs. n/t

[Maraya1969]

16. I am so sorry I watched 3 episodes of Thacher.

[quickesst]

17. I know why this movie disturbs me...

... but it seems hard for me to come up with the words explaining why. That movie would be "TROY"

[Upthevibe]

18. Stuart G....

Well, I wouldn't use the description as scary, mean or heartless movies as descriptions of the movies I can't see again. I can't see them again because the scarred me as I found them so VERY disturbing....(In no particular order):

The House of Sand and Fog
Manchester By The Sea
The Pianist
Sophie's Choice
The Deerhunter
Requiem for a Dream
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Trainspotting

I'm sure there's more but these are just off the top of my head...

[Jeebo]

20. I've seen really good movies that I can never watch again ...

... because of one scene. One of those is Joan of Arc, a French film from 1928, a silent film starring Maria Falconetti in the title role. One of the best silent films ever made, in my humble opinion, but I don't think I can ever watch it again because of the burning-at-the-stake scene at the end. That scene is so well done that it's just too realistic to be bearable.

There was a movie called Frozen a few years back. Not the two-hour Disney cartoon that all the little girls go all ga-ga over, but a very different film about some friends who are trapped in a chair lift at a ski resort that closes for a three-day weekend. The operators of the chair lift thought all their customers were in and didn't realize that three of them were still out there, feet dangling 40 feet above the barren frozen terrain. The three were a boyfriend and girlfriend and their mutual male friend, and as they gradually became aware that they had been stranded there, the boyfriend decided that maybe the drop wasn't so far. He shouldn't have tried it and they shouldn't have let him try it, because the fall broke both his legs. And then along came a pack of hungry wolves. As the snarling wolves surrounded him and just as they were beginning to devour him alive, he was shouting up to the male friend not to let his girlfriend watch the grisly spectacle. "Don't you let her watch this! Don't fucking let her watch!" And neither of them watched it, but they couldn't help but hear it, while the girlfriend was sobbing on her friend's shoulder. I saw that movie only once, and I can never watch it again because I just couldn't bear to watch that scene again.

Some of the movies y'all mentioned are really good. The Exorcist for example, and also Psycho, which isn't all that scary in my opinion, not by today's standards. Nobody mentioned The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the 1974 original, which is in my opinion by far the best mad-slasher movie ever made.

And Schindler's List, which along with Ben-Hur, another Best Picture winner about persecuted Jews, are my two favorite movies ever. There is actually something very noble and uplifting about Schindler's List. The title character started the film as just another war profiteer, but as the movie progressed you could see the change gradually coming over him, the compassion and humanity and decency taking over the man as he witnessed the madness unfolding all around him. Yes, if he was accurately portrayed in that film, Oskar Schindler truly was a hero. And I think that's one of the best movies ever made.

-- Ron

[electric_blue68]

22. I probably wouldn't watch almost any movie posted here! As for mine ...

Saw "I Am Legend" in the theater. Yikes. Practically jumped out of my seat several times! 1xs enough!

Probably "The Green Mile".
I saw it at a time I was really, really stressed out which made it worse, but still .. ah, no, no second viewing.

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. Reservoir Dogs

I just can't take the ear cutting scene.

[Zorro]

26. My choice, too

The movie is just offensive on so many levels.

[moof]

24. do not ever watch " Funny Games "

it is the very definition of Scary, mean and heartless. also add brutal, cruel, sadistic, disturbing and psychotic.

and the director actually got money to do the exact same film a second time, the american version was a big enough waste of film.

and " the searchers " is a close second and has the added touch of being an boring awful script but it is John Wayne at his most racist and mean role ever.

[hunter]

28. Before I met my wife I had girlfriends who were goth. This was before goth was a thing.

One girlfriend thought Eraserhead was a good date movie.



Our breakup was bloody. I jumped out of her moving car. This was a few hours after she handcuffed her girlfriend's boyfriend to a urinal and beat the crap out of him.

I didn't have a clue until the early 'eighties that most of my misadventures in relationships, and life in general, were a reflection of my own feelings of pessimism and hopelessness.

To pull myself out of that rut I naively decided to become a teacher, like Welcome Back, Kotter

That's how I met my wife. We were both science teachers.

My wife only watches cheerful movies. I like that about her.

I've never seen, and never want to see, most of the movies listed in this thread.

The movie that gave me the most nightmares when I saw it was The Big Chill.

I obsessed that if I ever became those people then please, please, let me be the dead guy. That was the scariest, meanest, most heartless, movie I've ever seen.

[ismnotwasm]

29. Human centipede

Didn’t watch the sequel either.

Generally I like horror, but I don’t want to watch a lot of it twice. Then there are franchises I watch over and over like the “Hellraiser” series

Somebody mentioned “Funny Games”—once was enough. That was a fucked up movie

In the spirit of your thread though, “The Hateful Eight”, I won’t say never again, but making eight unlikeable characters go at each other was certainly an interesting concept.

[mikeargo]

30. Seven

No redeeming qualities

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. The Accused

Saw it once. Good movie, but the gang-rape scene was too much for me. I had to look away several times. I won't ever watch it again.

[Nay]

32. "Open Water," about the scuba-diving couple who were left behind by the dive boat.

Terrifying. Utterly terrifying.

"Cliffhanger," a Stallone movie, for the one scene where his friend falls in a rope climbing accident. CANNOT watch that again. It haunts me.

[3catwoman3]

34. I have seen only 3 of the many movies...

...listed in this thread - House of Wax, Saving Private Ryan and The Deer Hunter. As is my wont, I may have fallen asleep during the Ryan, as I don’t remember much about it, and I detested The Deer Hunter.

I saw House of Wax when I was about 10, and to this day (I’m now 69), I remember the jolt of horror I felt when the young woman pulls the wig off the one figure and realizes it is her missing friend.

I’m like Hunter’s wife in one of the above posts - I like cheerful movies.

[Stuart G]

35. I want you to know....I also like cheerful & happy movies.

In general, I won't go to the other kind...

[3catwoman3]

40. There is enough...

...real horror, tragedy, meanness and scary crap in the everyday world. I don’t need to expose myself to fictional horror, tragedy, meanness and scary crap.

That said, I do like Daphne Du Maurier’s book Rebecca. A rare exception.

I love a good musical.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

41. What about "No Country for Old Men"?

I liked that movie and could watch it again, despite how the antagonist(s) were brutal.

My mother even liked that movie, which shocked me! She usually hated to see psychopathic behavior even when it was a bad guy in the story.

Mom fell in love with the Llewelyn character, I think. Lol. She said he reminded her of Dad (who had passed away by then).

She clapped and cheered over this scene, saying "Get that dirty rat!"

Mom hated how it ended, though.

[backtoblue]

42. The Stoning of Soriah M

Absolutely gut wrenching

[AmyStrange]

43. Relentless...

-

I stopped watching it right after the rapist started bashing her head against the cement floor.

The rape was bad enough, but that was just too fucking much.
==========

[mokawanis]

44. Sophie's Choice

Too much heartbreak in that one to watch it a second time.

[JesterCS]

45. Never will watch "Human Centipede"

I saw enough hints at what it was about. I just can't being myself to even attempt to watch it

[Totally Tunsie]

46. Most violent? Soldier Blue

...a 1970 movie about the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory. The final scene was jaw dropping. Everyone exited the theater either in silence or in tears. I remember a man leaving who was telling those waiting to enter that they should turn around and get a refund. Brutal movie.

Most disliked? Scent of a Woman
Hated Al Pacino's character from the get-go, and the premise was awful. Insulting.

Scariest? The Birds
For some reason, this movie spooked me, and I can never again see birds on overhead wires without reverting back to this movie. Freaky because the scenes were so possible and plausible...the worst kind of horror.

[Stuart G]

48. ....Very Few Of Us Know about the ....SAND CREEK MASSACRE.....

.....What was it?.....Federal Troops ...yes our soldiers...invaded a camp where hundreds of Indians were. (1870s I think)... The men were off hunting, and all that were left were women, old people and children. The soldiers killed everyone....although none of those individuals had a weapon and nobody was a threat to the invading soldiers, YES!!...everyone left in the camp was murdered.....

......I was reading a book, "Bury My Heard at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown, about cruelty to Native Americans...and got to that part.(somewhere in the middle).where the soldiers massacred old people, women and children...&...................................................................................

.........I couldn't read another word.. .............................You didn't know about that, did you?
.....Yes our people can be just as heartless and murderous as others....

[Totally Tunsie]

50. Stuart G, I just happened upon this article today, and

I'm sure it will interest you.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/reconsidering-a-colorado-mountains-controversial-name/ar-BB1beDnF?li=BBnb7Kz

Evans issued a proclamation saying: "Kill and destroy all hostile Indians." So tribes surrendered to the government for protection, and some settled at Sand Creek.

But in an early morning attack, a group of U.S. Cavalry slaughtered mostly elderly people and women and children.

Today it's a national historic site.

Now, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names is considering changing the name of Mt. Evans, along with other Colorado sites: Negro Creek, Chinaman Gulch, Squaw Mountain.

[jmowreader]

47. It's not scary, mean or heartless...

...but The Sixth Sense is a movie I can’t watch a second time. Once you know the plot twist, it just ruins the whole picture for subsequent viewings.

[Paladin]

49. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" "They Shoot Horses, Don't They"

Way too dark and depressing.

[RobinA]

51. Reservoir Dogs

Gratuitously vile. In Cold Blood. Also gratuitously vile, but real life to boot. Hell, I couldn’t take that as a book.