Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Serbian Film. Any age is too young
Literally the only movie I’ve ever regretted watching.
There’s some others in the same genre too. Cannibal holocaust was one I think. Salo too, less intense but still pretty fucked up. The human centipede too.
So if you want more regrets in your life …
Jaws when I was six. Even swimming pools make me uncomfortable.
Growing up in the 80s meant that pretty much any kids movie was going to be traumatizing. Gremlins: horrifying. Neverending Story: emotional damage. The Land Before Time: can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up. It’s like the whole movie industry was explicitly devoted to fucking us up.
You also have the Dark Crystal, Water Ship Down, The Last Unicorn, Watcher in the Woods (which was a Disney movie!) and the Secret of NIMH. Seriously, kids movies in the eighties were horrifying.
American History X. I wasn’t ready for the curb scene.
Oh oh oh I know this one!
Glory! The civil war film! There’s a scene where a union soldier takes a cannon ball to the head and it explodes in a gory mess. It was during a tour to Gettysburg, and I threw up on the bus after seeing it. Then they brilliantly played the Mel Gibson Patriot movie where a revolutionary also takes a cannon ball to the head, only this time it removes the head in slow motion and more detaches it than blows it to head smoothie
I remember watching the first one in school. That image of the cannon ball to the head was very shocking and it’s practically all I remember about the film.
I was going to ask you what school you went to where they were allowed to show that, but then I remembered my private christian middle school took us all to see the Passion of the Christ at the movie theater for a fucking field trip 😂
It was a public middle school, would you believe! I remember we had to have a permission slip to watch the movie, at least. I had a great time at that school.
the exorcist. At age 8
My Catholic church going up bringing has made possession into a genuine fair even though I’m atheist now.
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For some reason, I have always found The Brave Little Toaster deeply unsettling, but I can’t really explain why.
Bonus round suggestion: was there a book you read when you were too young?
Mine was Pillars of the Earth. I was, like… 5? I think?
amityville 2.
fucking movie was wrong on so many levels.
