Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Sound of Music.
The ring
Yeah, I saw the western version age… 12? Intrusive thoughts for weeks. Dude electrocuting himself in a bathtub was what did it for me for some reason
Western is like 1/20th of quality. Japanese is so so so much more on point. It’s relentless and keeps on coming. It’s not treating you as if you are watching a movie. American version has flashbacks, switching shots to different characters only for them to react. It’s made like a movie. Japanese version is made like you are going to die in 7 days.
Oh oh oh I know this one!
Glory! The civil war film! There’s a scene where a union soldier takes a cannon ball to the head and it explodes in a gory mess. It was during a tour to Gettysburg, and I threw up on the bus after seeing it. Then they brilliantly played the Mel Gibson Patriot movie where a revolutionary also takes a cannon ball to the head, only this time it removes the head in slow motion and more detaches it than blows it to head smoothie
I remember watching the first one in school. That image of the cannon ball to the head was very shocking and it’s practically all I remember about the film.
I was going to ask you what school you went to where they were allowed to show that, but then I remembered my private christian middle school took us all to see the Passion of the Christ at the movie theater for a fucking field trip 😂
It was a public middle school, would you believe! I remember we had to have a permission slip to watch the movie, at least. I had a great time at that school.
It doesn’t really haunt me, but when I was a kid I was up early in the morning and had nothing to do so I turned the TV on. And a black and white movie was showing. And I knew that those are funny. Like Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy. So I laughed my ass off as Miss Marple was horrified watching a woman being choked to death in the next train over.
Anaconda. It’s not that it was a particularly impressive movie but for some reason it intensified my ophidiophobia.
