johnnysd

Going away from horror, I would make a vote for the ending of the Warren Beatty "Heaven Can Wait". Profoundly bothers me every time I think about it.

In the other direction, "Field of Dreams" especially a first time viewing can just be brutal and linger for far too long.

Josh-da-man

Crumb and American Movie.

Crumb because R. Crumb's family is so fucked up. His kids seem well-adjusted, but his brothers seem really pathetic. (I think his brother Charles committed suicide a while back).

American Movie because the two guys trying to make the movie remind me of the weirdos, burnouts, and losers I went to high school with. Not too bright, lots of ambition, and zero ability to make their dreams reality.

writer106

A movie has never haunted me. But I know several people who have wished they hadn't seen certain horror films. Years ago, a few of my relatives on my dad's side of the family said that they wished they never saw The Exorcist. Last year, I was visiting with a maternal cousin and her husband. Her husband was telling me about how he lived down the street from a theater as a kid with his family. He was 13 when The Exorcist was in theaters. He and his brother went to see at night. When they got out of the theaters, they ran home. He hasn't seen that movie ever again.

Charlie Goose

The original version of The Lord of the Flies.

GatorDeb

This thread backfired, now I have a bunch of these ordered at the library

Nick Danger

I was going to say Crumb too. First we see R. Crumb, and he's a whackjob. Then we see his brothers, and he's pretty damn sane in comparison.

Michael Corvin

Hannibal. Totally forgettable movie but the scene at the dinner table with Ray Liotta at the end still bothers me.

Noonan

Good call for this thread since the movie wasn't very good. Definitely one I could have gone without ever seeing.

Sweet Baby James

Hunger--- a Criterion blind buy that was most unpleasant to watch(great movie though).

RichC2

I enjoyed that movie and that scene was one of the best "reaction" moments I've ever seen in a theater, laughed til it hurt (turns out that was more or less the reaction they were going for too, so, woo.)

Jeraden

The very end of The Martyrs still bothers me, that's about the only movie I can think of.

hasslein

The Hillbilly scene in Deliverance... Probably the only time I've had difficulty convincing myself it was only a movie...

johnnysd

Deliverance would be solidly NC-17 if submitted to the ratings board today.

thebunk

Ok for me, though not sure if I regret any of them but they still haunted me, big time.

- Miracle Mile: The ending
- Jaws: Duh
- Saving Private Ryan: Knife scene and first 15 mins
- Mulholand Drive: Many scenes though the "restaurant scene" steals the cake
- Twin Peaks The Series: Bob and the couches. You who have seen it know what I mean. Plus countless other scenes such as the last 20 mins of the finale.
- Creepshow: The story with the swimmers stuck on a raft in the lake. Pretty much that whole story as growing up, we would spend every weekend at my family's cottage which is on a lake. Fuck!
- Funny Games: I never saw the original but the end scene with Naomi Watts, ugh. Total helplessness.
- Cache: Actually a great film but the whole movie was just totally creepy and has made me feel someone could be watching your every move and that person may be from your past and while you have forgot about them, they have not forgotten about you.

Those are just off the top of my head, but I cosign many already noted here for sure.

Michael Corvin

As a kid no movie freaked me out more than Gremlins. I was certain those fuckers lived under my bed and were going to fuck my shit up after midnight.

How is that supposed to be played for a laugh? Serving one his own brain and slowly losing coherence because of missing brain is just demented. It also has enough of a root in reality to make it that much worse.

My Other Self

Antichrist

Not so much as haunting, but the ending had me grossed out long after I had finished watching it.

I walked out of Evil Dead (2013) after seeing the dead animals. It bothered me.

Traxan

"Ichi the Killer". Made me hate Japan for a while.

Troy Stiffler

I can't explain how strange I felt after watching Brazil when I was 15-or-so. So many new feelings.

I'm glad I watch it and have watched it many times since.

The first time I watched it, it was on Sci-Fi channel, and it was the director's cut.

Norm de Plume

I don't think any fiction film has ever elicited that kind of response from me.

Dr. DVD

What exactly happened in that scene? I've seen the movie but didn't see much other than a kid on the beach.

Trevor

iirc, the horror of it is just . It was such a bleak scene, stuck with more than anything else in the very fine film.

Mike86

I like a lot of horror films and franchises but I've always found the Hellraiser films incredibly creepy and to this day I really don't care to watch them. The Candyman films I can't really watch either.

SuckaMC

It was... grrrrr.

Michael Corvin

Candyman is a good one. I'll add (to a lesser extent) In the Mouth of Madness and Event Horizon.

digidoh

That was Creepshow 2.

The stuff that bothered me seems mild compared to the descriptions here, but my excuse is: I saw them when I was young.

Wait Until Dark (1967)—Found it very unnerving how Audrey Hepburn was so helpless.

The Legend of Lizzie Borden—a 1975 TV movie with Elizabeth Montgomery. Very graphic at the time, considering it was broadcast television (ABC). "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"