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Post by timegirl on Oct 28, 2020 4:07:42 GMT
This is oddly specific but what are movies (or tv or books or audio) that you simultaneously love/fascinated by you also have to watch through your fingers and cause feelings of being unnerved/ nauseated by?
Mine: I was inspired to make this thread after rewatching Death Becomes Her. It’s a movie that really really stuck with me after only watching one time. I love the gothic camp black comedy atmosphere and the way it handles its themes of aging/eternal youth! However at the same time even just anticipating the body horror made my entire body turn ice cold and teeth began to chatter. And during the actual body horror scenes (especially the ones with Madeleine’s neck) made me feel genuinely nauseous. I still adore the movie to pieces despite this though!
What are some movies, tv, books, audio you simultaneously love/fascinated by but equally have to watch behind your fingers?
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Post by Digi on Oct 28, 2020 21:38:32 GMT
Hmmm I'm not sure it totally lines up with your intent, but I've in the last month or so the two that legitimately gave me scares and/or left my unsettled after the fact were The Conjuring and Insidious.
Others I'd seen before that still give me the willies even though I've seen them more than once: The Blair Witch Project, Event Horizon, The Witch, and Wolf Creek.
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Post by polly on Oct 29, 2020 20:32:39 GMT
I get what you're looking for, I think. Despite being a veteran horror fan by now, there are still certain things that genuinely bother me, even in otherwise great movies. Off the top of my head, I'll go with Day of the Dead and Audition. The first two Living Dead movies are wonderful. I can watch them over and over again. Night has such a great midnight movie feel, and Dawn is an absolute blast. But Day? Day is miserable. By this point there are very few humans left and the entire thing takes place in this oppressive military bunker. It's a very well-made movie with a lot of interesting things to add to zombie lore. And it's effects man Tom Savini's masterpiece. Problem is, he did it a little too well. The gore in this movie is a level of extreme even I find uncomfortable. {Spoiler}There's a bit where one guy is being pulled apart by zombies and one of them jams its fingers into his eyes like a bowling ball and pulls his head off. And he's alive the entire time, and as his head separates from his body, it stretches his vocal cords so that his screams become high-pitched, like a cassette tape being eaten.
This is apparently quite realistic. As for Audition, I don't like to see needles or scalpels or small knives like that. Freaks me right out. The movie's a masterpiece of suspense, but Takashi Miike lives up to his reputation for extreme content. There's this infamous torture scene near the end involving needles and a wire saw... I'm the exact wrong person to be watching that, basically. Both films have a spot on my Blu-ray shelf because I like to torment myself, I guess.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 30, 2020 1:55:25 GMT
"A Serbian Movie". If you are squeamish in any way don't even google the movie to read the plot synopsis. SERIOUS. There is a reason the writer/producer/director was sued by his Government over this movie. I couldn't believe what I was watching, and I have seen many hundreds of horro movies over the decades. :-)
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Post by grinch on Nov 6, 2020 19:54:24 GMT
"A Serbian Movie". If you are squeamish in any way don't even google the movie to read the plot synopsis. SERIOUS. There is a reason the writer/producer/director was sued by his Government over this movie. I couldn't believe what I was watching, and I have seen many hundreds of horro movies over the decades. :-) You know, when films such as this exist it does make me wonder as to the mental state of the director or whoever came up with the concept. There’s exploitation and then there’s simply bad taste bordering on the depraved and inhuman. Admittedly it can be very hard to differentiate the two.
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