Movies you are afraid to watch again

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It was a rather awkward remark for me to make, wasn’t it? I just wanted to clarify that he was NOT Catholic, taking a nine-year old to such a violent film.
 
I normally like disturbing movies, but movies like the Fly and Deliverance were just too much for me. They’re both creepy and disgusting, a combination I do not like.
 
The woman in black is pretty creepy. One of the only movies that gets to me
 
Ex Machina was deeply disturbing to me. It was a good movie, but I would not watch it again.

And for some reason the movie Jumanji scared me so much as a kid, I have no desire to see it again… 😂
 
Flowers for Algernon.

Here is the plot:
Based on Daniel Keyes’s novel in which a bakery worker with a low IQ is chosen to take part in a new medical procedure which could turn him into a genius. He is thrilled when he becomes super-intelligent, but he also gains an unwanted knowledge of the harsh realities of the world, losing the childlike innocence which had protected him. Worse, a mouse in the same experiment starts to show signs of decline.

My IQ is not low at all, but I have mild aspergers. Even when I was young, I knew there was something different about me. This movie is excellent, but depressing obviously. The movie one an Academy award.

This movie absolutely terrified me. I was just a kid, but I could not help but feel this was going to be my fate. Decades later, I found out by accident almost [being in the profession] that I had mild aspergers. It is a fact, I found out even later, that, some people have a more difficult time controlling the symptoms later on in life. [muttering all kinds of things when I think people are not around. I could go on, but that isn’t what this thread is about.

So I submit to the thread, that often, the most terrifying of movies, or certainly ones that you would not want to see again, are the ones that have a seed of truth for you in it.

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I’m afraid to watch The Matrix again. When it came out it was in my top 5. I’m not sure that it will hold the test of time.
 
Wow. I was kind of afraid to see it for the first time [and did not] for the same reason. Everyone sitting in their chairs afterward, when the movie was over is very telling. It had to be a terrible terrible thing to witness.

Sometimes when I am doing the passion during the rosary, things get a bit too vivid and I feel almost traumatized afterwards.
 
We saw Passion in the theatre. Maybe it speaks to the part of the country I live in, but as we are walking out, I hear this cowboy looking guy behind me lamenting to his date, “Twent bucks for a damn movie, and it wasn’t even in English!”

I think the point was lost on this fellow.
 
Another: Frenzy (1972). There was a bloodcurdingly explicit scene of sexual violence and murder that deeply upset, revolted, and disturbed me. It was far, far too explicit.
 
I watched it in the cinema with my dad and cried,it was too real,too much like seeing some one I know die.
Some Lents I think about watching it again,but I just can’t .
 
I’m sure there are several films I used to like that I’d be afraid to watch again for the cringe-worthiness alone.
 
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I have the book, Schindler’s List. I started to read it but stopped because I needed my glasses, which I did not have at the time. I could’t enjoy reading without them.

The terrible parts of the story were kind of hard to bear, like when the Nazi official had people over. It seemed he had a habit of beating on his maid whenever he felt like it. (She worked for free as a slave laborer, and he could get away with abusing her.)

Pretty much I would avoid movies that start up the tears. “A Dog’s Tale” is one of them because the dog couldn’t accept that his owner died. I can’t watch movies where the dog dies in the end. “Old Yeller” was one of the movies from way back when.
 
I watched “Jaws” again to see if it would still scare me…It did… 😯 I hadn’t seen it since I was about 12 or so…when it first came out…

The original “Night of the Living Dead” used to give me nightmares…Don’t ask. I was too young to see it when I did.

And no, I don’t go out of my way to watch any scary movies anymore.
 
The Witch - went to see this horror film with my ex-girlfriend, we left pretty scarred as we both hate supernatural horror especially both being Catholics and knowing its reality. The film was later banned in UK cinemas it was so bad
 
Honestly…I can deal with the Exorcist…I think it is interesting…I think it is sorta relaxing compared to

The most terrifying movie I’ve ever seen is “Closer” with Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen. I didn’t really know what it was about when I went with friends years ago. I was squirming in my seat the entire time and felt like a worse person after watching it…it was a weird relationship/cheating movie that made an ill-fated attempt at philosophical discussion.
 
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