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I wish I never watched this film

posted 9 years ago by jamezism
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I always thought I was pretty tolerant of scary movies and could watch anything without it really bothering me. This movie was suggested to me by netflix to rent and I watched it on blu ray by myself knowing nothing going in. I was extremely disturbed by the ending, and even months after watching it I am still disturbed by it and hate thinking about it. I'm also reminded of it by small things like turning on a lighter. Whenever I think about it I get extremely anxious, scared, depressed and disturbed again. I think there should be some kind of warning about this movie but I know something like that would be ridiculous to implement. I suppose I'm wondering if anyone can help me get over this movie. Maybe I need to talk to a shrink.

[–] Ginobili20 (40) 5 years ago

A little dramatic. I tjought rex hoffman was a dumbass

[–] dratsab (52) a year ago

Have you seen Eden Lake? I feel like it also has an ending that sticks with you, but I don't want to say more than that for spoiler reasons.

[–] TheArgentinian (7106) 2 months ago

This is why the film is a success (and I don't mean in the commercial sense).

[–] aristide (265) a month ago

I saw this film with my girlfriend back when it had its cinema release, and we went in not knowing a thing about it, only that it came highly recommended.
The film finished, we stayed for most of the credits, walked 5 minutes back to my car and it wasn't until we got in the car and my girlfriend said "that was effed" that we both realised that we were kinda stunned and had not spoken a word to each other since the film ended.
Even weeks later we would tell each other how the film was still "getting to us".
Have yet to watch it again.