Traumatic movies?

[Green Gaia]

Ok, I let my kids watch a variety of movies that other parents won't let kids who are twice my kids' age watch. My kids love to make up stories and we talk about reality and fiction quite a bit. I'm convinced they know the difference so I let them watch movies that other parents might not. For example, my son's favorite movie is the Lord of the Rings movies, he's 7. My daughter (4) watches them too, (although she can't sit for the whole movies) and thinks the Orcs are hilarious and pretends to be a hobbit.

So, with that background let me tell you what happened today. It's very hot and humid here so after lunch I made the kids come inside and let them watch a movie to cool down. We see that Milo and Otis (which is rated G) is playing On Demand (best thing ever!! after the DVR). So we agree upon that... kitten, puppy, rated G... I thought it would be a perfect afternoon movie. Oh no.. 10 minutes into the movie my daughter is hysterical and crying because the kitten is in a box floating down a river and refuses to watch anymore of "that stupid movie" even though I try to convince it will all be alright in the end, the kitten is just going on an adventure.

I tell you all this to ask the simple question, have you (or someone you've known) ever been traumatized by movie especially one you didn't expect to be upsetting? What was it and why was it upsetting to you? Did you ever watch the movie again and have a different reaction?

 

[standing_alone]

Ha ha, I actually remember being upset by that same part in the movie Milo and Otis, myself, when I was a kid.

I wouldn't say it was traumatic though.

 

[!Fluffy!]

I posted this on another thread, and it was purely an accident so I don't know if it qualifies.

I was visiting my brother's house once and all of us adults were in the kitchen when we heard a scream and a thud... we ran into the living room and his 3 yr old daughter was unconscious in front of the TV. There was an old vampire movie on and we didn't realize it. IIRC the kids had been in there watching cartoons, the older ones were outside playing and had left the TV on. Little Jenn had been down for a nap, got up by herself and saw what was on tv -- boom. It was just too much.

As for me, I can't watch a lot of gore, or slasher type movies. I once saw part of "Last House on the Left" and turned it off... My brother and I started to watch a sort of documentary film called "Mondo Cane(sp?)" and even just the short bit I tolerated haunted me for a long time. I can't stand anything that has rape or child abuse in it.

But movies like Kill Bill and Fargo (remember the chipper?) I have no problem with, and I love South Park (even tho it's a cartoon, it's got some gory stuff). Go figure.

 

[CaptainXeroid]

First, bless her heart and I hope the years of therapy erase the image of a wet :kat:

When I was 14, I watched a Rutger Hauer movie called "The Hitcher" . I had seen Jaws and Friday the 13th, so while I didn't like gory movies, I wasn't traumatized by them. Even though I saw it early in the afternoon, for some reason, I had nightmares about seeing his steely blue eyes pop up in the car in front of me. Come to think about it, other than a couple of gross scenes, The Hitcher isn't gory at all, it just got in my head like few other movies have.:cover:

 

[evearael]

I saw The Gate when I was a little girl and it scared my sister and me half to death. I also saw Heavy Metal, but I was way too young to understand it and I just spent the whole time wondering where she put her clothes.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I tell you all this to ask the simple question, have you (or someone you've known) ever been traumatized by movie especially one you didn't expect to be upsetting? What was it and why was it upsetting to you? Did you ever watch the movie again and have a different reaction?

Seriously, I think that I am permanently scared by Alice in Wonderland.

The TV version of that movie still gives me nightmares.

I don't recall ever passing out though.

 

[Booko]

I tell you all this to ask the simple question, have you (or someone you've known) ever been traumatized by movie especially one you didn't expect to be upsetting? What was it and why was it upsetting to you? Did you ever watch the movie again and have a different reaction?

I remember very clearly being with a friend of mine in the Disney store. My son was fascinated with dinosaurs at the time, so she bought it for him. It was on the shelf right next to Old Yeller. There was nothing to clue anyone in that there might be a problem.

In the first 5 minutes of the movie:

1. Someone was shot on screen.
2. Someone said "God d***."
3. Black women were pictured topless. As a (black) friend of our s remarked "Ah, yes...jungle jugs...")

Needless to say, the movie went back to the Disney store. Along with some comments from me. And a letter to the corporate office.

What the heck were they thinking???

 

[standing_on_one_foot]

When I was little, I watched this scary movie. I don't even remember what it was now. But I left early, which meant I missed out on the ending, so my little mind's imagination went nuts and I couldn't sleep that night and had to sleep with the light on for about a week...

And for some reason the Blob traumatized me, and I never actually saw it But I was like five years old and convinced it was waiting for me under the cars in the garage...I don't know why the garage. It just was.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

When I was little, I watched this scary movie. I don't even remember what it was now. But I left early, which meant I missed out on the ending, so my little mind's imagination went nuts and I couldn't sleep that night and had to sleep with the light on for about a week...

And for some reason the Blob traumatized me, and I never actually saw it But I was like five years old and convinced it was waiting for me under the cars in the garage...I don't know why the garage. It just was.

Perhaps because that's where the cars were?

 

[Sunstone]

Looking back, the only traumatic movies I can remember were two or three from my teen years and each involved graphic violence. I've never been traumatized by a sex scene, I guess.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Looking back, the only traumatic movies I can remember were two or three from my teen years and each involved graphic violence. I've never been traumatized by a sex scene, I guess.

Niether have I.

 

[nutshell]

My kids freaked out with the first Willy Wonka movie. We had to turn it off.

 

[lunamoth]

My kids freaked out with the first Willy Wonka movie. We had to turn it off.

Willy Wonka is a very strange movie.

I was very disturbed by the movie version of the rock opera Tommy. In fact, whenever one of the songs from it (Pinball Wizard) comes on the radio I have to turn the station. I saw this movie as a teen, and I must have been leading a pretty sheltered life because the images from it of child molestation and drug use have haunted me my whole life.

When my older daughter was two, and had not really had much exposure to TV, she had a similar reaction as Maize describes for her daughter in response to an episode of Sagwa. All that happened onscreen was that Sagwa was running and took a tumble in the dust. My daughter was so upset.

 

[standing_on_one_foot]

Perhaps because that's where the cars were?

Mighta been. But no other cars scared me. Just my own, only when in the garage...very odd.

 

[Booko]

And for some reason the Blob traumatized me, and I never actually saw it But I was like five years old and convinced it was waiting for me under the cars in the garage...I don't know why the garage. It just was.

Maybe you thought the oil stains would become 3-D.

 

[cardero]

There are many when I was a child but they were mostly the standards and do not really hold up well today.

My Youth
JAWS ( age 9 I believe, had to sleep with my sister for 3 nights before going back in my own room)
The Exorcist
It’s Alive
The Omen
That Chiller Hand from Chiller Theater (the one that introduced the monster movies with the 6 fingers)

The Teen Years
Pink Flamingo
Eraserhead

The 90’s
Gestapo’s Last Orgy
Blood Sucking Freaks
Love Camp 7
ILSA: She Wolf Of The SS

Recently
The Untold Story
Naked Killer
Red To Kill
Alice (A foreign version of Alice In Wonderland that was both disturbing and upsetting (think ERASERHEAD) and as close to the original book as any other movie produced. It is not a Kid’s story!!

I still try to find those movies that will disturb and traumatize me. It wouldn’t be a movie-going experience unless they left me with some deep impression.

 

[Bastet]

... 10 minutes into the movie my daughter is hysterical and crying because the kitten is in a box floating down a river and refuses to watch anymore of "that stupid movie" even though I try to convince it will all be alright in the end, the kitten is just going on an adventure.

Maybe she was remembering when Sydney "adventured" out the door never to return?

 

[Tigress]

So, with that background let me tell you what happened today. It's very hot and humid here so after lunch I made the kids come inside and let them watch a movie to cool down. We see that Milo and Otis (which is rated G) is playing On Demand (best thing ever!! after the DVR). So we agree upon that... kitten, puppy, rated G... I thought it would be a perfect afternoon movie. Oh no.. 10 minutes into the movie my daughter is hysterical and crying because the kitten is in a box floating down a river and refuses to watch anymore of "that stupid movie" even though I try to convince it will all be alright in the end, the kitten is just going on an adventure.

I tell you all this to ask the simple question, have you (or someone you've known) ever been traumatized by movie especially one you didn't expect to be upsetting? What was it and why was it upsetting to you? Did you ever watch the movie again and have a different reaction?

I cannot watch Milo and Otis without crying, and I'm the same way with Homeward Bound, Old Yeller, etc; as well.--The part in 'The Rage: Carrie 2' where the dog gets run over, it gets to me every time, even though I know it's not real.

 

[Katzpur]

I tell you all this to ask the simple question, have you (or someone you've known) ever been traumatized by movie especially one you didn't expect to be upsetting? What was it and why was it upsetting to you? Did you ever watch the movie again and have a different reaction?

Well, my husband (he's 64 today) tells me that, as a child, "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" gave him nightmares. To this day, he positively hates horror movies of any kind -- which is bad for me, 'cause I love a good scary movie (as long as it's not overly violent and bloody), and have to find someone else to go with me.

For some reason (maybe it was just my frame of mind that night), I found "The Omega Man" with Charleton Heston rather unnerving. I was uncomfortable for quite some time after watching it, and I wasn't a kid at the time.

 

[nutshell]

I was kind of traumatized by the Rocky Horror Picture Show...at least my wife thought so because I started acting and singing like the main transvestite.