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Post by beren44 on Apr 29, 2017 0:45:12 GMT
I think mine would have to be, 'House of Sand and Fog'. About 10 of us wisely crashed out all over the living room of my friend's house after a New Year's Eve party, years ago, and we all nursed our hangovers with a big breakfast of mimosas and omelettes (she is an awesome cook!) and a couple of movies. None of us knew what the premise was. DANG! By the time it was done, we all just kinda sat and stared at one another...that movie went from bright to dim to dark to black to the void! It was relentless.
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Post by bigvanray on Apr 29, 2017 3:55:41 GMT
The Exorcist
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Post by Jemma Simmons on Apr 29, 2017 16:04:52 GMT
Ugh. I wish I hadn't seen that one! It was incredibly well crafted, but too much for me. I saw Requium for a Dream. Also too disturbing for me. |
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Post by ayanami on Apr 29, 2017 16:35:12 GMT
Event Horizon.
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Post by aquaangel on Apr 29, 2017 17:51:43 GMT
The remake of that one movie where the family's RV got stranded where there was a canabilistic family. Can't recall the title. I think it had Emilie DeRavin in it. The scene where she got assaulted by the scary looking version of the deformed Goonies character (sorry, can't remember his name) was pretty brutally dark. I don't like movies about cannibals in the first place. I wish I hadn't watched that one.
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Post by ayanami on Apr 29, 2017 17:58:58 GMT
The remake of that one movie where the family's RV got stranded where there was a canabilistic family. Can't recall the title. I think it had Emilie DeRavin in it. The scene where she got assaulted by the scary looking version of the deformed Goonies character (sorry, can't remember his name) was pretry brutally dark. I don't like movies about cannibals in the first place. I wish I hadn't watched that one. I think that's The Hills Have Eyes. |
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Post by beren44 on Apr 29, 2017 18:04:40 GMT
Ugh. I wish I hadn't seen that one! It was incredibly well crafted, but too much for me. I saw Requium for a Dream. Also too disturbing for me. Yes. That was another Jennifer Connelly film that was very, very dark. |
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Apr 30, 2017 1:57:15 GMT
It's hard for me to say. My version of 'dark' is somewhat different than the average version.
I have a really hard time watching certain types of scenes in movies so I've always been cautious about choosing new movies to watch. The Parent Guides from the site that shall not be named are my friend.
However I can think of 3 instances (that I haven't repressed the memory of) when I was sufficiently traumatized by a movie.
1) One time, I turned the TV on but couldn't find the remote. Unfortunately, the movie 'Scarface' was on at the part where Pacino is strung up and the guy is threatening to cut his hands off with a chainsaw. My ears were not covered hard enough nor my eyes shut enough to prevent me from getting over that scene as soon as I finally found the remote. It was stuck in my head for nearly three days.
2) The end of 'What Lies Beneath'. I never found it so easy to really dislike a scene with Harrison Ford. (And, also, still trying to forgive CG for that).
3) Speaking of CG, a very helicopter related scene with him in 'We Were Soldiers'. I don't know what was more traumatizing for me: that fact that it was him, or the fact that he was playing a real guy who really died like that.
Sorry if none of these meet the requirements for being considered 'dark'. I was just going by scenes I remember being extremely negatively effected by.
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Post by aquaangel on Apr 30, 2017 4:58:40 GMT
caseyrook AKA Mechelle, I had WLB in mind too, but didn't remember enough about it to describe what disturbed me. Another one I found disturbing: Serpent and the rainbow (or whatever that was called). I couldn't even watch without fast forwarding/changing the channel until a certain scene had passed. The scene where they have Bill Pullman tied to a chair in his underwear and are torturing him ... That disturbed me for a long time after seeing it. More: the original version of the movie where the guy calls the babysitter and says "have you checked on the children?" Or something to that effect. Any other day I could remember the name of that movie, but it's escaping me today. Dead Silence is also pretty creepy. Those dang dolls are scary enough on their own lol. But the old lady was creepy too.
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Post by aquaangel on Apr 30, 2017 5:06:42 GMT
The remake of that one movie where the family's RV got stranded where there was a canabilistic family. Can't recall the title. I think it had Emilie DeRavin in it. The scene where she got assaulted by the scary looking version of the deformed Goonies character (sorry, can't remember his name) was pretry brutally dark. I don't like movies about cannibals in the first place. I wish I hadn't watched that one. I think that's The Hills Have Eyes. That's it, thanks.  |
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Post by Hari Seldon on Apr 30, 2017 7:24:59 GMT
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Post by sigasahab on Apr 30, 2017 8:27:28 GMT
I guess Irréversible (2002) and Martyrs (2008), both French. The first was an unpleasant watch but has some cinematic redeeming features. The second is one of the few films I'd un-watch if I could. There's others but I wouldn't want to mention them to anybody who was lucky enough not to have heard of them.
I love most types of film but, in general, I watch films to be entertained so I rarely pick anything that I'm pretty sure is going to depress me. |
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Post by TommyWizard on Apr 30, 2017 11:04:08 GMT
I have a special place in my mind for The Divide (2011) a movie directed by a french but shot in Canada with american actors.
It was creepy, disturbing, suffocating and want-to-make-you-shoot-yourself-as-hell.
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Apr 30, 2017 18:43:39 GMT
Oh! I just thought of something.
The original film 'M*A*S*H' starring Donald Sutherland and others.
That movie, though being a comedy of sorts, got really dark.
Just look at the beginning sequence:
Sure this isn't what you would call 'scary' but it does give you that feeling that something isn't right.
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Post by aquaangel on May 1, 2017 2:06:53 GMT
Another one I thought of: Something I saw around Halloween on Netflix. It was an anthology movie that had horror stories for pretty much every holiday. The Easter one was particularly disturbing. The last scene weirded me out for days.
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