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Dumbo.

The first time I saw the end of GALLIPOLI (1980) it gave me nightmares.  A more grim portrayal of the utter futility of the Great War has never been filmed.
ANTHROPHAGUS (U.S. title THE GRIM REAPER) scared me so badly when I was 17 I walked out of the theater.  Oddly enough, when I watched it again as an adult it didn't bother me at all.
Last of all, JEEPERS CREEPERS freaked me out so badly I paused the movie, walked around the house a couple of times with all the lights on, and got a bowl of popcorn before I could make myself sit down and finish it.  GREAT horror film!

BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL/HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN really got to me for some time; I had never seen a movie displaying gouged-out eyeballs before.  Plus, that ending is rather nasty.  Watching it now, it's kind of silly.

Watership Down when I was about four years old.

That one had a huge age restriction when it was released here then.

"It's just an animated film about bunnies. It'll be great for kids."

Nightmares ensue.

Got to see it in the cinema. Death of bunnies on the big screen.

I have never seen it, but, if Water ship Down is traumatic, then Plague Dogs is said to be even more traumatic. Both animated films have several similiarities. Both are based upon books by Richard Adams. Both feature the voice of John Hurt. Both were produced by Nepentine Productions and directed by Martin Rosen.

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

I was way too young when I watched this on TV. This was also my very first horror movie I watched. It gave me nightmares and I recall waking up screaming at night. Nonetheless it paved my way to be a horror movie addict.

Though I have noticed over the years that many many people always claim they have been severely traumatized by Disney movies. I have seen most of the Disney classics as a kid, and none affected me in a negative way in the slightest  :bluesad:

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) 

WILD AT HEART (1990) 

MULHOLLAND DRIVE genuinely scared me and weirded me out.

The Wall scarred my childhood, I had plenty of nightmares involving the animations from that movie. Ironically, Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands nowadays.

The original Puppet Master also freaked me out pretty bad.

The Three Stooges, I guess. I mean-smacking each other was funny when I was a little kid in the 60's.
Me and my brothers beat the s**t out of each other once in a while! But it was all in fun!
Now that I think about it-I still think it's funny.
Is that tramautized?  :question:

The 80's remake of The Blob

I've always had a bit of a problem with amorphous slime like monsters.  Creatures like the Blob, the thing, the slime creature from Creepshow 2: The Raft, plus I saw this movie on tv when maybe I was still just a bit too young for 80's style horror. It had a kid die horribly on screen and such.

For months after seeing it, I wouldn't eat anything that had syrup on it.  No pancakes, waffles, french toast, etc..... Anything like that grossed me out because it reminded me of that movie.

I grew out of it.  I can watch those movies now without real problem.  (Although sentient slime is still my least favorite type of monster)
 

Along these lines I wonder about how many parents took their kids to see "A boy and his dog. " :buggedout:

In a similar vein I had a problem eating cooked tomato's after the dream David has where he hunts down a dear and eat's its heart in An American Werewolf In London.

My schoolmate Desmond saw this and told me afterwards that he didn't "know who was Arthur or Martha" in this. I also found it disturbing: the images, not the music.

The original Amityville Horror got me bad when I was a kid. Of course watching it as an adult, it isn't particularly great and hasn't aged well, but at 9 years old -- total nightmare fuel.

Disney's The Black Hole was a big one too. To this day, I don't think they knew if they were making a "Star Wars" knock off with laser gun fights and cute robots for the kids, or a "2001" style sci-fi mindf*** for adults.
The scene where the big red robot "Maximilian" killed Anthony Perkins' character with those spinning blades haunted me for weeks after I saw it, and I never knew quite what to make of the surreal ending (when Dr. Reinhardt "melds" with Max and becomes overlord of some sort of hellish robot underworld... or something), either. 

...that said, even as freaked out as I was when we left the theater, I begged Mom and Dad to let me see it again only a few days later :D

Sometime in the 1970s... maybe '75 or '76, I watched NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD alone on late night TV (I think the program started at 11:30pm and ended after 1 am)... everyone was asleep...I went to bed looking out the windows hoping a car would drive by... 

Walter Graumann's Crowhaven Farm
Uwe Boll's Darfur / Attack On Darfur
John Schlesinger's The Believers
Jans Rautenbach's Jannie Totsiens [Johnny Farewell]
Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch
Phillip Leacock's Baffled!
Nicolas Gessner's The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Paul Anderson's Event Horizon
Darrell Roodt's The Stick
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Jamie Uys' Dirkie / Lost In The Desert
Sutton Roley's Satan's Triangle
Lucio Fulci's City of The Living Dead

Silent running. I cried during it and at the end. :bluesad:

Aliens (1986). I was like ~7 back then. It's not a film for 7 years old. I had nightmares for a few weeks after watching it in cinema. A very good film. I even thought back then iirc but it didn't make it any less scary.

Watched Plague Dogs many years ago with my (now) ex-wife. At the end we agree to put the movie in the attic and never watch it again.

Was quite disturbed by Nancy's murder in Oliver!. A family movie and she gets bludgeoned to death in the street.

For real trauma, though, it was TV that did it. There was in the late seventies a program called Armchair Thriller. It was an anthology series and one of the stories, 'Quiet As A Nun', scared the living snot out of me. I'm not sure I'd be willing to watch it again even now.

there's a few episodes of TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED that are properly dark as well. 'Flypaper' is one...I don't think anything like that episode would even make it onto tv today!

and yet there were other episodes of TALES... that were completely silly/comedy based

I was told BAMBI traumatized me as a kid, but I don't remember it.

SALO comes to mind.

Yeah, I have mixed memories of that show. When it was good it was excellent, but most of the time 'Tales of the Entirely Expected' would have been more appropriate.

agree...I had all the series of it on dvd a few years back. there were literally only about 5 or 6 episodes out of the entire however many (over 100?) that I genuinely thought were great.

the theme tune still sounds a bit creepy though!

I thought of buying a copy of SALO, but chickened out... 

Did you ever see the old Hammer House of Horror TV series? It didn't last as long as Tales, but I thought it was better.

I bought one and traded it to someone for something else. Didn't want it around, really.

SALO :question:

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT... I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE... TWO WOMEN...

don't think I have...will check it out  :thumbup:

Hopefully you'll enjoy it. Or at least not think it totally sucks.

https://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-salo-the-120-days-of-sodom-1975/

I can't say any movie traumatized me.
None.

I dig it.  I feel that way now.  But rape torture movies always get under my skin.  Even if their great.  I hate 'em. 

I was traumatized when I seen this-
This f**king movie made me question my own sanity.
The GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS (1973)
Yes. I'm sorry. A movie can f**k me up.


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The first Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 10 years old in 1984.
I had nightmares for days after seeing it.   :buggedout:

Hey, Brother Ash: Welcome!  :thumbup: :cheers:

I saw an advanced viewing of Trevor's Man On Toilet  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I will never be the same again

"I saw the devil" would traumatize Jeffrey Dahmer.  Honestly,  if you haven't see this, I have to recommend you remain so blessed.  When it comes to dark,  this movie sets a record....

found Hammer House Of Horror on dvd in HMV for a tenner. bargain at that price -- the blu ray was £30! will report back when I've watched a few episodes, but I think I'll like it...

Hammer House Of Horror is top fun. Like many series of that time, you'll spot actors from other places, like Blake's 7's Paul Darrow. Plus the delightfully minxy British and European actresses of that time.

I second Dirkie / Lost In The Desert (1970) as a movie that scarred me. It's a film about a young boy, lost in the desert, blinded by heat and sun and thinking he's eating the remains of his lost dog. Saw that as a kid and it burned into my mind indelibly. Trevor and I have discussed this phenomenon before!  :cheers:

Wolf. The thought of Michelle Phififefffererrferr bumping uglies with Jack Nicholson.  :buggedout:

Here be spoilers:

Are you sure he was eating the dog? My recollection is that he thought he was and freaked out at the father and son who were helping him and after he chased them away, the dog reappears.

As I said, "... lost in the desert, blinded by heat and sun and thinking he's eating the remains of his lost dog."   :teddyr:

yep I've watched 2 episodes so far, The House That Bled Death and Silent Scream. weirder and a lot more edgy than I anticipated...definitely scarier and more tense than any Hammer movies I've seen. looking forwad to the rest! (thanks again Alex  :cheers:)

I have to say, The House That Bled Death has a big effect on me when I first saw it (aged around 7 or 8 I think). Glad you are enjoying them, I hate recommending something to someone and then they don't like it, especially if they've went out and bought something on my say so.

heh...my back up plan was if I didn't like it then it would be my brother's xmas present instead, so it was always a no lose situation :)

That is here:

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A very unsettling film indeed.

It's been ten years since I screened the film for an audience - this was at a 2008 film festival - but my recollection is that Dirkie thinks the San [Bushmen] are giving him his dog to eat (which they aren't) and his father finds him at the end and the dog Lollie is there too.

Very very unsettling film.

Month python and the meaning of life nearly sent me into shock when I saw the "every sperm is sacred" skit...

Manhunter with William Petersen is another film which unsettled me when I first saw it and it still does. Very un-nerving, even when I saw it on TV.

That'll teach me to try something as complicated as reading an entire sentence  :drink:

LOL  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

How odd, I just watched that again last night. Not the scene I'd think would traumatize you.

Probably a mistake engaging that person on that subject. 

the commercials for Gremlins gave me nightmares as a kid  - never seen it in a related note

Maybe not, for reasons I'm not aware of. But the only people I'd imagine would "Every Sperm Is Sacred" traumatizing are very devout Catholics with no sense of humor.

I forgot about The Hitcher (1986) and the original The Haunting (1963).

Both of these rattled me and the remakes of both made me want to puke.

For the record,  I just could not believe they were  singing it and had children singing along too.

I happen to agree with slamming the catholic church on the issue of opposing contraception as overpopulation causes starvation and misery on vast scales.  I was just shocked the first time I saw it as I coudn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.  Especially  having young children singing it.  That was the shocking part.

OK, I see. For the record, some of the dialogue was dubbed in later: i.e. Palin said "rubber thing on the end of my sock" to the kids and then they dubbed it over with "cock." Also the kid's solo is dubbed. But I bet they really did sing the chorus.

I find real kids acting in sexual situations disturbing. If you do too avoid SWEET SWEETBACK, SWEET MOVIE and TIDELAND.

The Little Shop of Horrors remake left me afraid of plants for awhile.

Now I think about it, it wasn't only Dumbo, darn near every Disney "classic" traumatized me.

Dumbo is just a fugging cruel film.

Bambi....well.

The Lion King showed that killing off a dad could hit hard too.

Snow White peed in my wheaties because I liked the wicked stepmother and Walt, naturally, did her in.

Cinderella seemed cruel beyond its ending's powers to redeem.

101 Dalmatians had more offscreen animal death than a season of Kentucky Afield.

Sleeping Beauty, an otherwise perfect motion picture, had dragon abuse.

Tarzan....Just OMG. (Plus Rosie O'Donnell...Ros-ie-O'-Don-nell!)

Now Lady and the Tramp, it was safe, I love Lady and the Tramp which even includes   PSAs about car-dog safety and the hazards of not spaying and neutering.

Beauty and the Beast left me wondering if Chip got cracked because of some sort of child beating episode.

The Little Mermaid mangled my innocence BAD since it came out when I was in fifth grade but the school administrators put me in an advanced reading class with eighth-graders and I had to hear all the boys talking about how they went home and wanked to Ariel. I didn't even know what wanking was til I was so naive as to come out and ask, which I never lived down.

Fantasia (dying dinosaurs!), Fantasia 2000 (flying whales....whales-don't-fly!) The Emperor's New Groove (royalty abuse!), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I mean, really, Walt?)

But a Disney scene that utterly traumatized me was in Mulan when Eddie Murphy as the dragon MuShu compared the smell of stinky feet to corn chips, which put me off nachos for about a year.

Ok,  that helps a little,  thanks.

The TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE scared the s**t out of me!
Because I live in the boonies with interbred folks like this (well, not quite like this) - I went to school with them.
 

"A view to a kill". Roger Moore. Naked. In bed.  With........ Grace Jones. :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


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"On the beach". Yeah, when I was a kid seeing it traumatized me. I had a nightmare about radiation coming to kill me and everyone i knew. As a kid I imagined radiation looking like a giant oscilloscope trace from the ground to the sky. I was a kid, ok?

damn...the episode 'The Two Faces Of Evil' from that Hammer House Of Horror is properly disturbing. similar vibe to those old kids safety things they used to show which always shook me up

I saw some "birth of a baby" s**t on PBS Ch.34 in the 70's when I was a teenager.
AHHH!  :buggedout:

Whether the live action versions will ever be more traumatizing than the animated versions, only time will tell.

We have already had a live action version of Beauty and the Beast, in 2017, which did well at the box office, which is probably why we will see more of these animated films turned into live action.

2014 saw a live action version of Sleeping Beauty called . . .
--Maleficent

2018 Though not from Disney, saw a live action version of . . .
The Little Mermaid

2019 will see live action versions of . . .
--Dumbo
--The Lion king

And 2020 will see a sequel to Maleficent called . . . and a live action version of . . .
--Maleficent II
--Mulan

And that does not include a live action version of Aladdin in 2019.

And we will see what we will see.

When I first saw Motel Hell many years ago I was a pre-teen who was fairly new to horror movies, and it freaked me right the f*** out.

I re-visited it many years later and was surprised at how comedic and goofy it actually was. All I remembered was the horrific stuff (pigs' heads, the chainsaw duel, the people buried up to their necks in the garden, etc.) - the black humor of it all went completely over my head when I was a kid..

Now there was a film that took me decades to track down a copy of.

The Day After (1983) directed by Nicholas Meyer.  :buggedout:

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You are not the only one, Trevor. A film I have not seen, but, some hold it be still the best film ever made about a nuclear holocaust.

Maybe not traumatic, but going back to my original post, there are--at least to me--a surprising number of live action or a combination of live action and animation films that were spawned by an animated series. Some of these would include . . .

Yogi and Boo Boo (my later father's favorite animated TV character) -- Underdog -- Speed racer -- Rocky and Bullwinkle -- Inspector Gadget -- George of the Jungle -- The Flintstone -- Dudley Do-rite -- and Boris and Natasha.

That some of you have not heard of some of these, says a lot about how little business at the box office, many of these did.

Though, I think the most intriguing film would have been one that was never done, as a number of years ago, there was some talk of doing a live action Jonny Quest film with Zac Efron as Jonny and Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson as Race, which was never made.

I reckon they won't do a movie version of Ruff and Ready or Clutch Cargo anytime soon... :bluesad:

Maybe Sleepyhallow when I was young, I dunno when I was 7 or 8. Seeing The Headless Horseman gets his head back with the skull to muscle to skin transformation freaked me out a bit, plus some of the decapitations. Ah what a time to have a young mind full of imagination.

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just... avoid

so many things in this.... thing are crimes against cinema

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