Have you been traumatized by a scene in a movie? Do you still think about or relive it? How does it affect you?

The scene in Saving Private Ryan where they have the knife fight upstairs, and the German slowly slides the knife into the American’s heart and watches him die.

It affected me in that I won’t see the movie again. I heard an interview with the actor much later and he said that the scene really upset his mother.

I have been a bit traumatized by a couple movies- Day of the Triffids, seen when I was young, still bugs me. Certain scenes from Pulp Fiction are pretty gruesome.

But get “help” for them? I have never associated them with real life, I have always known it was just a movie.

Maybe someone can help me find a movie: it traumatize me when I was little so it muct be from before the 70’s. It might be lat 60’s – or maybe early 70’s – but could have been an older movie from the 50’s – I dunno i was a kid.

There were warrior women – maybe amazons? The fight scene was against the men – and they were sort of seducing them and killing them at the same time – maybe blodarts were used?

OMG – I freaked out. I never trusted women since.

@filmfann help?

Oh, I remember another one. I saw The Blob (the first one, not the stupid remake), when I was a kid. I was afraid to sit on a toilet for weeks.

I’m still afraid to. Snakes.

I love movies, and I’m often deeply affected by the very emotional scenes (violence—not so much). Because I’m acutely aware that I’m watching a movie, I can generally leave my emotions in the theater when I walk out, but there are two movies of fairly recent vintage where animals were involved, and the scenes have haunted me (yes, I know no animals were harmed in the making . . .).

In the recent remake of “True Grit,” a horse is ridden to its death – and that was very disturbing to me. But the one that really got me was the scene in “I Am Legend” where Will Smith’s character has to kill his beloved dog. I had a sweet, sweet dog companion at the time, and I was faced with hard decisions about having to put him down, and the scene was just too real for me.

The Huncback of Notre Dame
Bride of Frankenstein
Mondo Cane
Those three as a kid.

The finger torture scene in The English Patient as an adult and the maiming scene in Slumdog Milionaire. I cannot watch sadistic torture.

This from Requiem for a Dream.

Saddest movie that I’ve ever seen.

Several horror movies gave me nightmares, including one that really, really screwed with me (and no, I’m not going to say the name of it. That’ll just scar me all over again, or worse, give people a way to traumatize me for shits and giggles.)

Pretty much all of Eraserhead. Or at least the first half of it or so. I had to stop watching.

I have a tough time with any animal movies in general – Lassie, The Yearling, Black Beauty, Harry and Tonto, there was one with a Siamese cat and two dogs – The Incredible Journey? Even cartoons like Bambi or Dumbo make me cry. Animal movies usually seem to involve loss or separation of the people from the animal.

I heard Marley and Me is very sad and I won’t watch it, although I heard it’s a good movie, because I don’t feel like crying my eyes out. Harry and Tonto was from the early 70’s, Art Carney played an old man who had an orange cat that he would take on walks on a leash, the cat was his companion. He took a road trip with his son and he took the cat with him, and the cat ended up dying. It was so hard to watch, and I had a cat who looked very much like Tonto and two weeks later my cat died, which was equally traumatizing because I had seen the movie and could not imagine it happening to me and then it did.

As far as torture scenes, there was one a few years ago with George Clooney where he was captive and they taped his hand to a desk and pulled his fingernails out.

The electroshock therapy scene in One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest was pretty upsetting.

The scene in Monster where she was raped and then the guy poured bleach onto her private parts almost made me pass out.

Anything involving torture or people getting beat up is hard to watch.

I saw the movie Chucky when I was younger. I don’t remember which one it was but at one part a woman was in the bath tub and Chucky grabbed a knife and stabbed to sole of her foot! Sometimes when I’m sleeping at night I think he might pop up and do the same to me! I know he is not real but it still scares me and I put my feet against the wall so he can’t get to them!

In “White Noise” Michael Keaton starred as an architect who lost his loving wife in an accident. In his attempt to “communicate” with her on the “other side”, he found/saw images in the static or “white noise” of TV channels. The images were people from the “other side” who came for him! This totally creeped me out because I would often fall asleep with the TV on. After seeing this film, I now fall asleep in bed while reading. The TV sleeps in the living room. Alone.

@Rarebear I feel the same way about that scene in “Saving Private Ryan”. I won’t watch it again and I was highly upset by it. Even thinking about that scene makes me ill.

I can’t stand to watch any film where a child is hurt (Pet Semetary is a good example) and won’t watch rape scenes either. I don’t watch horror films (ala Friday the 13th) at all. I do like suspense films.

When I was in high school, I was scared stiff by The Shining, in particular the scenes with the two girls. My parents dragged me to see it and they were sorry because I made my Mom sleep with me that night. Still won’t watch it.

Two words, Bambi’s mother!! I can feel my bottom lip starting to quiver…..yup, there I go. Sobs like a bare arsed baby with nappy rash :¬(

I am a horror movie wimp, and also a scary-stuff-in-general wimp. Yet for some reason, sometimes I stay up late and read Creepy Pasta on the internet like a damned masochist. I did this one night and read a lot of mirror related creepy pasta. The next day I saw the horror movie Mirrors. The next night I slept in a hotel right next to a large full length mirror. djffkiodlfjkdssklofjknfo

The general effect on me is extreme paranoia for a day or two (lots of over-the-shoulder looking) and then I’m over it.

The Amityville Horror remake (sorry if it’s spelt wrong) absolutely terrified me. It was the first horror film I ever watched. I watched it when I was 12 or 13 at my uncle’s house, and got about half an hour’s sleep that night. Our family stayed at my uncle’s that night and I had to share a bed with my mum. When I eventually did get to sleep, my mum only woke me up by feeling my bum cos she thought I’d wet myself – it wasn’t wee, I was just covered in sweat! Didn’t get back to sleep and had to sleep with a lamp in my own bedroom for about two weeks. I can’t even remember what it’s about or what part scared me most. I’ve watched horrors since which are supposed to be really bad but haven’t even effected me, such as The Shining or Silence of the Lambs, but I’d never ever ever watch that one again. Even thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies.

Seeing Kathy Bates naked in About Schmidt.

brrrrrrrrrrr

Irreversible was traumatizing to me. There is a terrible realistic, steady-shot, unflinching 9-minute long rape scene. Then he beats her at the end. As a rape victim, I had my reasons for watching it, but it stayed with me like a bad ghost for days.

Sorry, @seazen, I don’t know that movie off the top of my head. Let me stew on it.

For me, that scene where the rats take over the city in the Klaus Kinski remake of Nosferatu scared me into spasm. I still can’t deal with rats.

I was traumatized just by hearing grownups around me talk about The Blob when I was a kid. It dusturbed me to the point where I started having this recurring nightmare all through my childhood, and I still have it occasionally as an adult.

I was also horribly traumatized when a friend’s mom let a group of us watch The Shining. We were twelve. The scene with the lady in the bathtub, then he sees her rotting in the reflection of the mirror…. Oh. My. God. I can’t watch that movie.

But I never sought help for the nightmares; I just deal with them.

I keep hearing about Eraserhead. As a fan of David Lynch, I think I should see it, but I’m more partial to his purely bizarre yet not disgusting or shocking films…I still think I’ll see it, though.

@lookingglassx3

For me, the original The Amityville Horror was much scarier and is one of my favorite movies. But the scene when they look out the dark window in the livingroom and see those pig-demon eyes and when the father is outside at night and looks into his daughter’s room and see’s the full pig-demon “Jodie” in there…those scenes made it hard to fall asleep sometimes…

Some scenes in certain movies I’ll remember for ever, but perhaps not to the point that I need to get psychological assistance about it. That I know of. >_>

One notable is Zelda’s death in Pet Semetary. I freaked the first time I saw that, and for the few following viewings, when that scene was coming up, I started getting all sweaty and scared, and went to hide in the bathroom until it was over haha. I was a kid though. That doesn’t happen now. >._>

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@sliceswiththings worst accident I ever saw…

The scene in Sophie’s Choice where she makes her choice- could never watch it again.

Irreversible’s scenes.. They were pretty bad, but I got over it, actually and intend to watch that movie in its entirety.

The Star Child in 2001: A Space Odyssey freaked me out for no reason. It was the timing or something, it just hit a nerve or something… For a while after that, babies just lost sense of adorability.

And yeah, I have to agree with @Symbeline about that scene in Pet Sematary, it was just.. awful…

In Alien, when you don’t see it happening but can hear Veronica Cartwright being “split?” by the creature and the brushing and panicked sound just after, no music. Truly effective 1978, A scene at the end of The Sentinel with people backing through walls got me good. Also, King Kong when I was five; only one to give me a nightmare.

For some reason, seeing Andy Dufresne crawl through the sewers at the end of The Shawshank Redemption scared the hell out of me when I was about six. I recall having a nightmare where I crawled desperately through a sewer and kept banging my head off the top of the pipe…I will forever attribute my dislike of tight spaces to that movie.

poop + tight spaces = scary.

@faye That scene was dramatic, however, in real life many had to make that decision – people I know, family…

Watching that scene again – you at least know the ending…

To hear stories from real life scenarios – one should watch testaments of survivors which Speilberg has been documenting.

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The beginning of Saving Private Ryan when they are all storming the beach and being obliterated really got to me. Those images still haunt me and make me queasy whenever I think of them. I left partway through that scene and was a mess for the rest of the night. It took a few days for me to function normally again, and I didn’t even make it to the scene that bothered @Rarebear and @diavolobella. I’m really glad I didn’t stick around to get to that one. I have a hard time imagining being even more traumatized than I was.

I saw a horror film when I was about 7. Never knew the name but it was a guy who went into space and came back infected by a space disease and tried to kill his wife and the hospital staff. Somebody once said it might be Quatermas. He lived under my bed for YEARS! I had to leap off my bed to the other side of the room so that he couldn’t grab my ankles. I also had to keep the duvet tight around me or he would be able to grab any exposed areas. The duvet did protect me though.

When I was a little kid I watched Arachnophobia…. I didn’t sit on a toilet seat until middle school. Although I’ve recently read squatting is far more healthy, so maybe I’ll go back to that….

The airplane crash in Fearless when the baby flies out of the arms of the character played by Rosie Perez. :(

I had a real problem with the eating of human flesh in the movie about the soccer team who’s plane crashed… filmfann help – what movie am I traumatized thinking of?

Alive!

I know who to contact for film info. Thanks big guy.

Whelp! I just watched 127 Hours and I’m adding the scene where he severs his own arm to survive to my prior list of scenes.

@seazen_ I don’t think I could watch those. I leave the room or turn the sound off when there are scenes of German against Jew, master against slave, anything like that. Truly can’t.

@ddude1116 – I know the story – and I’m sure he’s good in it as I like him as an actor – not so much as Green Goblin – but is it worth it to see the film – knowing the ending?

In the 70s, the following anti-war film was shown to all 14-year-old students in German schools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Bruecke_(film)

and it’s about 16-year-old German soldiers recruited in 1945 getting minimum training only.

“Dawn comes, and with it an American fighter plane which fires its machine guns at the bridge, killing the youngest of their number, Siggi, who refused to take cover because he had previously been teased for his alleged lack of bravery. Shocked by Siggi’s death, the boys take up their positions to defend the bridge against a trio of American tanks and their infantry support, but one by one the boys die, shaking their comrades with the true horrors of war. One of the most memorable scenes is when a GI who asks the boys to cease fire has his belly shot open by Karl (who is simultaneously killed by a machine gun burst himself) and the man dies screaming in agony, while Klaus begs Karl (being unaware that he is dead) to finish him off. Upon realizing that Karl is dead, Klaus goes mad and runs headlong into the American fire.”

This one “memorable scene” haunted me for months.

When I saw Midnight Express, and the one of the prisoners had befriended a cat. He used to feed the cat and the cat would hang around, like his friend. Then the guards hung the cat one day, to punish him. Seeing the cat hanging there, knowing that it suffered because of it’s friendship with the prisoner, was very sad to me.

@jca . . . ohhh biiilllyyy!!!