Recently a Reddit thread asked users, “What movie fucked you up mentally?”
Soon, the thread gained a ton of comments as people told what movies left them feeling messed up. Here are the best responses:
1.
The Blair Witch Project
Artisan Entertainment
“I watched it in my early teens with no concept of what documentary or found footage was. In my mind it was all real and the last scene was golden.”
—brownleatherchair8
2.
Fire in the Sky
Paramount
“I saw this when I was 8 or 9. I walked into my aunt’s room during the operating scene and everything about it it plus the aliens freaked me out.”
—dilerium_3
3.
Human Centipede
Six Entertainment / Via Six Entertainment
4.
Schindler’s List
Universal Pictures
“Great movie, but it’s disturbing to know it actually happened and wasn’t just a screenplay.”
—fishfrynye
5.
Jaws
Universal Pictures
“It took my 10-year-old self quite a while to get back in the water.”
—I_hate_traveling
6.
Flowers in the Attic
New World Pictures
“I was paranoid of my mother poisoning me growing up. It was some fucked up shit.”
—TheOxProject
7.
A Serbian Film
Jinga Films
“The ending was so fucked. The last 30 seconds it was like a kick to the gut after already being beat up.”
—ricosuave3355
8.
Good Will Hunting
Miramax
“The part where Sean explains to Will that although he knows almost everything, he will never know what it’s like to look in the eye’s of your best friend as he’s dying in war or what it’s like to lose a wife to cancer.”
—donutshopsss
9.
Saving Private Ryan
DreamWorks
“I turned on the TV and thought it was a Disney movie so I watched it. But holy crap, my tiny brain wasn’t ready for that trauma.”
—Alpha-Alex
10.
Hotel Rwanda
MGM Distribution Co
“I remember watching it as a freshman at high school. I realized the world wasn’t even close to the way I thought it was.”
—tb_gooner12
11.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Paramount
“I grew up in a very similar situation with my family and so this movie scared the shit out of me.”
—6thstairdown
12.
The Fourth Kind
Universal Pictures
“For weeks after watching this, it seemed like I would always wake up at exactly 3:33 A.M. and I was deathly afraid to be outside at night.”
—SoggyNothing
13.
Return to Oz
Buena Vista Distribution
“This movie is targeted at children and it starts with Dorothy getting electroshocks in an asylum because no one believe in her stories about Oz.”
—inckorrect
14.
Requiem for a Dream
Artisan Entertainment
“I still get bothered thinking about some of the scenes in that.”
—TrexDyno
15.
Hereditary
A24
“It had me sleeping with the light on for a while.”
—FultonHomes
16.
The Green Mile
Warner Bros.
“The execution without a soaked sponge still haunts me.”
—purplegeog
17.
Dead Poets Society
Buena Vista Pictures
“It starts with such a hopeful tone and just completely punches the viewer in the face with reality.”
—Pilmenji
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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