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i have The Cell in my list...i dont know, i thought it was creepy as all hell.

requiem for a dream, hands down. great movie...wish i had never seen it. on that note, i dont think there are other great movies like that that i wish i could unsee...i recommend that movie but i'd never watch it again

WHY on earth would you watch Norbit in the first place?
As for the rest, you'll have to excuse me but I've only seen four of them and, yes, they were disturbing but not enough for me to want to unsee them. Of course, I didn't cry on the commercials that will make you weep (or something like that) article. It's just that, I am not an impressionable person and this stuff rarely moves me.
Now I want to quote Tim Bisley from Spaced: "You think I'm unemotional, don't you? I can *be* emotional. Jesus, I cried like a child at the end of Terminator 2."

Fat suits are comic gold.

Dude. Really? "Last House on the Left" scarred me permanently. So bravo...I guess.

I had Requiem for a Dream on my netflix list for like a year before I finally just decided to remove it because it was on too many of people's nightmare fuel lists. I am sure it's great but I have enough nightmares already thank you.

Mysterious Skin

That is all.

Sex And The City
Next
The Smokers
The Proposal
What Happens In Vegas
Zack & Miri Make A Porno

my husband tricked me into watching "antichrist" and i'm still not happy about it.

"requiem" is so amazing... and upsetting. my friends and i still quote the movie, but no one is game to watch it a 2nd time.

"cannibal holocaust" is on my NO list.

also, i can't sit through "cybil" or "a boy's life".

and finally, the most traumatizing scene in any film: the brother swallowing string/gauze in "crumb". blech!!!

Alex as his beloved Ludwig Von is playing
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Speaking of ...

My nightmare fuel is a little different. I've sat wide eyed through any number of horror movies but the two movies I had to close my eyes were, by sheer coincidence, playing in a double feature at a big old theater in downtown Pittsburgh in my college days.

"Deliverance," not when Ned Beatty gets pig-fucked but when Burt Reynolds pulls the arrow out of the dead hillbilly. The sound it makes ... oh dear Godtopus. I notice when it shows on TV that part is usually edited out, so I can't be the only one.

The other was "Clockwork Orange," when Alex has his eyes propped open. I have a real phobia about anything getting near my eyes. Well, I mean most people would, but I mean SERIOUS. I have to blink severely or just look away. I've only seen it once and I never want to again.

Also, I'm pretty sure it's Ludwig Van, isn't it?

I can deal with a lot of disturbing shit but one that I could never get over is Hannibal, when he makes Ray Liotta EAT HIS OWN BRAIN. The way that scene is done is just... it's so trivial - that's what bugged me.

Requiem for a dream, I agree though.. Bluch...

DeistBrawler - I've seen The Girl Next Door. It was so fucked up my boyfriend actually asked me to turn it off halfway through. I did, and I'm pretty glad about it.

Wow... I'm definitely a horror fan and yet I've seen exactly NONE of these.

I have seen the recent version of Last House on the Left, which was mostly a stinkin' pile of meh. The rape scene was pretty brutal, as in, well-done enough to be very affecting, although I'm sure it's nothing compared to Irreversible or I Spit On Your Grave. The violence seemed pretty tame and ordinary to me by today's splattery standards.

So really, I guess I have to qualify that I love horror when it has zombies, vampires, werewolves, supernatural events, ghosts, the devil, monsters, aliens, or giant sharks.... let's see, what am I forgetting? Yetis? I also like a good faceless homicidal maniac slasher flick, but mostly because I grew up with Freddy, Jason and Michael, and it's a nostalgia thing.

What I don't like is man's (woman's) inhumanity to man (woman). As in torture porn and all its ilk. And that goes double for any fucked up family shit, as in, family being fucked up to each other.

So a movie that I think has some merit, but that I never want to see, or think about again: Oldboy.

Yeah, it's interesting, the line between "realistic" and "too fucking real." Movies CAN show us everything, but I don't know if they should.

I have no desire to see any of the named films. Regardless of their artistic merit. It seems like only a few have any artistic merit, so I'm not missing a lot.

I would do just about anything to be able to unsee the curb scene from American History X. Still gives me chills thinking about it. Also, my wife is still pissed at me for making her watch the original Funny Games.

Call me a sick fuckin' bastard then, because I went out and bought Irreversible and Requiem as soon as I could get my hands on them. As sick as they make you feel, they are incredible pieces of cinema.

In the case of Irreversible, it actually has low-frequency sound effects on the soundtrack designed to stimulate "unease" and "disorientation" (according to the wikipedia page)

Deadgirl. Not the greatest movie, but WOW. I can't even come up with words. I didn't expect to watch a full length film about (slightly spoilerish) high school kids keeping a retarded zombie sex slave. Just... want to unsee...

Db, that sounds like basically the same story as An American Crime http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/. A horrific, horrific story. I still remember reading about Gertrude in the newspaper growing up.

As for those on this list, I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left were pretty frucked up, and Requiem for a Dream was absolutely traumatizing...but GODDAMN YOU!!! NORBIT!! NO ONE should be subjected to such horrors!!!

I imagine that Norbit, Meet Dave and Pluto Nash are used in lieu of water-boarding at Gitmo. Far more permanently damaging and far more effective.

A list like this that doesn't mention Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is just plain incomplete, no two ways about it. I never want to see that film again as long as I live...and this is coming from someone who owns not just Nekromantik on DVD, but Nekromantik 2, as well, so...that's saying something.

I wish I could unsee House of 1,000 Corpses because it was fucking horrible and derivative and full of shit. HATE. Also Rob Zombie's Halloween: Little Mikey Myers Was White Trash and His Momma A Whore.

I have actually wiped the memory of films I hated so perfectly from my brain, that I cannot now remember the names of them. I guess I have successfully UNSEEN them. WHOO-HOO! I have the power to unsee.

I nominate the August Underground series. I've only seen the first one, because it was so realistic, so graphic and so messed up that I had to check and check to make sure I wasn't watching a snuff film.

TV Links is a double-edged sword, my friends.

Count me in as one who cannot handle rape scenes...The Last House on the Left messed me up so much that I still shudder when I think of it. Bought it on a whim, regretted it bitterly.

Same thing when The Girl Next Door was on one of my movie channels. Started watching it, couldn't finish. There are some things that I just don't want to expose myself to for the sake of entertainment.

Speaking of which...every year, my friends and I have a Halloween party. We used to have a bit of a contest that whoever brought the worst horror flick would get a free classic horror film. Well, one year, someone brought a little film called The Item. It was not scary, and at first we had fun making fun of all the weirdness in it. Then came the end. We never held that contest again.

american psycho
city slickers
almost any movie where the friggin' dog died

leading to the most traumatic movie experience of my life:
among a set of lovely little shorts at a film festival, was an israeli short film (name?) during most of which a man euthanizes his sick, old german shepherd. in real time. holding his paw, with the sound of the dog's dying breaths amplified.

very early on, i started to cry, plugged my ears, covered my eyes and imagined the letter that i would later send to the festival organizers, complaining in very strong terms about the lack of warning in the festival program.

Dude, that list was a bunch of bunk. Unsee? 6/10 movies I love. 1/10 I didn't mind. 2/10 I haven't seen. I'm throwin a pussy card on the field. Next!

I would have to list In My Skin. I have never been able to get those images out of my brain. And while I've seen a few of the movies listed above, nothing has lasted quite as much.

Although I do wish I'd believed my boyfriend about how horrible the Irreversible scene is....

"Funny Games." I feel loathsome just typing the words.

I nominate the August Underground series. I've only seen the first one, because it was so realistic, so graphic and so messed up that I had to check and check to make sure I wasn't watching a snuff film.

Melodie, I might be wrong because it's been forever since we discussed this, but I believe Pajiba's very own PissBoy worked on this film. That's too funny.

The Piano Teacher - Isabella Huppert sitting on the side of the bathtub, cutting on her business. I'll never ever forget it.

Oh sweet mercy, Neonlexicon, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person who watched and was traumatized by Visitor Q. It's nice to know I'm not. *shudder*

Irreversible very nearly destroyed ruined my favorite candy (Riesen) for me. I saw it at one of my local art house theatres, one of the few theatres that sells that candy in concessions. The fire extinguisher scene early in the film was shocking, but not enough to put me off my chocolate-y treats. Now anyone who's had that candy knows one piece will last you a good 5-6 minutes (takes forever to melt, and chewing it does you about as much good as eating a tube of superglue). When THE scene started, I had just popped one into my mouth. As the 9 1/2 minute rape scene played out, that piece of candy slowly turned to wallpaper paste in my mouth, absorbing every ounce of saliva and gluing my jaws together. When the scene was over and the candy finally melted away, I glared at that bag like it was the one raping Ms. Bellucci. I took the remaining candy home, and it sat on my desk for a couple of weeks like the physical aspect of PTSD. To this day I think of that movie every time I see the candy (I got over the revulsion; if you've had Riesen then you know why.)

All the violence in Oldboy aside, the squid scene still gets me every time.

dammitjanet, it is the same story. AC is based on the actual case, while TGND is based on a Jack Ketchum novel based on the actual case. I guess Ketchum didn't think the real case was quite violent enough.

I like a few of those films. Norbit is not one of them. Thanks for bringing those painful memories back.

Just for that: The Human Centipede. See what you people make me do? Suffer as I do. Ass to mouth, bitches. Out.

This might be in bad taste given the topic but am I the only one who thinks Jennifer Connelly's cans look huge in that picture above?

I've heard rumors that she got a reduction but never confirmation - does anyone know for sure?

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Welcome to Pajiba - stay awhile, won't you? Bad taste our specialty.

I'd like to nominate "Beloved" as the only movie that has seriously creeped out this horror fan. I did read the book first and maybe that made it worse? I don't know, but I didn't feel okay for a few hours after I left the theatre.

i so wish i could unsee martyrs

Requiem for a Dream was a great movie until it got stupid. Where in the world would they not wait until the patient was completely anesthetized not to mention fully prepped and draped and a pneumatic tourniquet before doing an amputation. That was just unbelievably silly and laughable. Seeing Jennifer Connelly on all fours ass to ass with another stripper and a double ended dildo was not as good as her skinny dipping scene and then laying out on the sand in The Hot Spot primarily because she copped out and used a body double. But it left Mr. Dennis Hopper with the title to the best nude scene in cinema history.

The Patriot. That Mel Gibson piece of poop film, for some reason I just hated it beyond reason and would happily erase it from my memory.

Oh, and my Dad, way back when I was in college and taking courses in foreign film, asked if "Caligula" was worth seeing. Now THERE'S a conversation with Pop I didn't ever expect to have. I have a feeling he thought it was a classic like "La Dolce Vita". Oh, how wrong he was :-)

@Neonlexicon: Ah man, I LOVE Miike. And yes, I'm 100% with you on Visitor Q being a complete mindfuck from start to finish. I had read a bit about it before watching it (I went on a massive Miike kick right after joining Netflix), but I still wasn't prepared for the complete insanity I was about to watch. From the moment that dude gets bashed in the head with the rock to the end, it just never lets up. And that lactating lady has been in more than one of his movies, no? Or maybe I saw her in something else, lactating away. Either way, I read some article about his movies once that talked about her and how she's sorta famous for that particular, uh, "talent". That movie is definitely the strangest of his that I've seen, though Gozu follows a very close second. Audition is one of those movies that gets in your brain and takes up lodging. I'll never look at piano wire the same again. Ichi was, sadly, mostly forgettable for me, though I plan on giving it a second watch. And Imprint was good, but it felt a little restrained for a Miike film. Of course, restrained for him is flat out balls-to-the-wall for a lot of American filmmakers. Seriously, fuck PG-13 horror in the ear.

Have you seen The Happiness of the Katakuris? It's another mindfuck of his, but it's more light-hearted and fun than Visitor Q. There's a wacky family, zombies, and claymation! What's not to love?

Missing from this list? Naked Lunch. It's disturbing. The birdcage scene made me run from the room - I thought I was going to puke.

My husband wanted to watch Ichi the other night. I think he was joking. It's on Netflix instant view for those interested.

I googled Calvaire as I'd never heard of it. Now, I wish I could unread what I've read.

As Norbit demonstrates, even "comedies" can burn painful holes in your brain. We walked out of Kingpin early, from a theater where nobody was laughing, but the revolting scene with the elderly landlady still squats in a corner of my mind all these years later.

Personally, I thought The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover was an exhilarating work of artistic brilliance, but [spoiler alert] my spouse found the cannibalistic banquet scene extremely upsetting.

*Has anyone else seen Ed Gein?

Good news - I found my glasses.

The Reflecting Skin freaked me out too, so much so that I apparently blocked out the fact that Viggo was in it. I'd like to unsee Dancer in the Dark and possibly Happiness, please.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance.
I thought I was going to have to sleep on my ceiling after Imprint, Session 9 too- that voice-
no -- just no
They are not really horror, but when Mr Park decides to bring it... wooo. The scenes in Lady Vengeance with the videotaped kids .... noooooo
Dumplings from 3 Extremes it was one of the few times I have literally asked myself why are you watching this.
IT ... I know its corny but FUCK THAT CLOWN

Some for me:
Pan's Labyrinth- the wine bottle scene and the sewing scene.
House of 1,000 Corpses- the whole movie was gross
8mm - again, whole movie was gross and unneeded.
Strangeland
Star Wars Episodes 1-3

@ JustBill-- Heck yeah I've seen Katakuris. I love the hell out of that movie. To this day I still don't have Netflix, so I actually own a decent amount of Miike's flicks. I had a local record store that was pretty decent at digging them up for me. The DVDs are convenient. It makes it easier to force those around me to sit through them. I honestly need Netflix, though. There are so many more of his movies that I want to watch but can't afford to buy & can't find to rent.

Also, I just saw the words "zombie rape". I have yet to find a sequence of this that bothered me in film. Print, however... the comic Crossed by Garth Ennis. While more "rage" infected types than traditional zombies.. Oh, the raping... they didn't even discriminate with it. EVERYTHING got raped.

-Men Behind the Sun- A dude's organs shoot out of him. THROUGH HIS ANUS. The frostbitten finger scene is gross too.

-Dead Alive- I own it, and I like it now, but the first time I saw the lady eat her own ear in the porridge I almost projectile vomited EVERYWHERE.

-Teeth- That's the defining parable for abstinence. It's unbeatable.

@Neonlexicon: I'm sorry, are we the same person? All I have to say about Crossed is...HORSE COCK! (I fucking love Garth Ennis.)

Netflix is a must-have for lovers of foreign directors. There have been only one or two titles I've been unable to rent through them.

How could I have forgotten Dancer in the Dark?

*picture Bjork in the swan dress*
*picture Bjork in THAT SWAN DRESS!*

Re: "scar you permanently" factor from ninetwenteetoo. That would be a great comment diversion because there are are many movies that don't quite qualify for this list but that have nevertheless left life-long scars on some of us.

This is far too late, and no one's going to read this, but when I was in grade 10, my media arts teacher showed us a short. I can't remember the plot - it involved witches, wheelchairs, chases across the city, and unutterable terror. I still get that empty, bottomless feeling of dread whenever I think about it, but I can't for the life of me remember anything else about it.

Can't believe only one person has mentioned Mysterious Skin. Amazing movie, but one I know I would probably be happier not having seen.

I too have seen Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream countless times but for different reasons to Kimberly. For me it reminds me where 'the pull' can take you if you let it.
Movies I wish I could 'unsee':
The Killer Inside Me - the violence was just far too extreme for me, I was almost vomiting at the realism.
The Hillside Strangler(2004) - my hubby refused to watch it after the first 10 minutes, I am a true crime buff and had read about the story so stuck it out, but, ugh..... necrophilia should stay on paper.
Then there are movies where I want my 90 or so minutes back thank you very much:
Snakes on a Plane and Eurotrip (nothing could save those movies!)

Umm.. Earthlings anyone?