I don’t think there is a movie fan on the planet that doesn’t have a list like this. Movies that scarred you for life. Most people immediately think of the horror movies that kept them up at night. I’m sure statistically, horror movies make up 90% of the films that send chills up your spine when you think about them. This series was always about more than just horror films. Even Disney movies can have a lasting affect on you for all the wrong reasons. Beyond that, there are also the movies that absolutely disappoint you so much that you can’t bare to watch them again. Movies that literally anger you because you expected so much more.

Combined, this series looked at everything from Spiders to bad sequels.

Check out the entire ‘Movies That Scarred Me For Life’ Series below and be sure to comment. What movies have haunted you?

The Prologue: Polkaroo is scary too!

Black Robe

Arachnophobia

My Life

Event Horizon

Ernest Scared Stupid

Paranormal Activity

Dumb & Dumberer

Gremlins

Hostel

Darkness

The Little Mermaid

The Human Centipede

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Movies that scarred me for life is all about the movies that keep you up at night.  The horrors you just can’t seem to get out of your head.  But beyond the monsters, ghosts, slashers and aliens, there are also the cringe worthy films you wish you never saw.  Movies that made you wish you had the lost two hours of your life back.  There are tons of ways a movie can scar you for life.  This series will look at 12 of my personal favorites.

Hostel

I saw Hostel in theaters hoping to have as much fun as I did watching the original Saw. As a horror fan, I was blown away by the moral themes and awesome twist ending.

Sadly, Saw spawned a number of copies and gore-fests that pleased the hardcore fans of blood baths but not this horror fan.  Saw wowed me because of it’s story.  The ‘torture-porn’ genre emerged. It’s no surprise that a lot of people out there became tired of senseless torture movies.  I did at least but not before I gave them one last chance…

When trailers were released for Hostel, I was queasy and curious like many horror fans out there.  What a messed up concept!?  A horrific place where people pay top dollar to torture tourists from around the world.  It looked like a perfect companion to the Saw franchise if the story held up.  Would the instruments of death be accompanied by interesting characters and big twists?  In a word… No.

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I think that violence in movies with great stories can be tolerated if you love horror films and the story is worth it.  I understand that they aren’t for everyone and films like Hostel certainly push the limits of audiences acceptance.

Hostel scarred me for life because there really was no real reason for the violence.  It was there for merely for shock value.  Somewhere in the middle of the movie, I realized that Hostel wasn’t about morality.  It wasn’t about anything really except trying to gross out audiences as much as possible. (See ‘The Human Centipede‘ for more examples of this.)

Not for me.

The first full torture sequence was chilling and I can admit I was shifting in my seat but for what?  What was the point?  People will argue that Saw is also violence for the sake of violence but I felt that a villain like Jigsaw at least gave us a reason.  A ‘Why?’.

I turned away from ‘Torture Porn’ movies after that.  Perhaps another film like Saw will come around someday. (No, not Saw 2-7 either)

Until then, I’ll stick to ghost stories and thrillers.

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Which movies scarred you?

Movies that scarred me for life is all about the movies that keep you up at night.  The horrors you just can’t seem to get out of your head.  But beyond the monsters, ghosts, slashers and aliens, there are also the cringe worthy films you wish you never saw.  Movies that made you wish you had the lost two hours of your life back.  There are tons of ways a movie can scar you for life.  This series will look at 12 of my personal favorites.

The Human Centipede

AND…  I’VE NEVER SEEN IT!

I’ve always loved horror movies though I’m more a fan of thrillers than gore fests and torture porn.  That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy films like Saw every now and then but The Human Centipede takes gore to a whole new level…  I think.

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A coworker of mine, knowing my love of the horror genre, sent me a link to The Human Centipede’s trailer.  He asked me to take a guess at what the film was about.  97% of the population probably made the same guess that I did.  Giant bug?  I don’t mind creature features.  Maybe this would be a low budget horror film with a massive centipede that crashed through walls and ripped people in half.

I was way off…

It’s about a deranged doctor who surgically attaches 3 people face to butt to form a horrific PEOPLE… PEDE..

That was going to be my second guess!

When it comes to deranged people committing atrocities in movies, most of the scares are in the threat of violence.  A horrible fate awaits innocent people who must escape and we cheer them on while experiencing the thrills along the way.  Torture films these days throw out the threat and then follow through for an entirely different kind of scary.  It works for those who love gore filled movies and even I can admit to liking a select few torture films like Saw and Hostel.

This trailer kick started a conversation amongst my friends that lasted weeks.  How crazy could the movie possibly be when you see the 3 unfortunate souls walking around as one in the trailer!  How does the surgery take place?  What the hell was the director thinking!?

I was stunned when I saw the trailer thinking about all the little reasons why the movie would be 100% disturbing.  Eventually, I made my way over to The Human Centipede’s Wikipedia page to learn more about the story.

That’s when I decided I didn’t really need to see it.  If the trailer grosses me out for all the wrong reasons then why bother right?  Yet, I still have to give director Tom Six credit for creating a film so disturbing that the trailer freaked me out.

I don’t know if I’ll ever have a stomach strong enough to watch people poop in each others’ mouths while an insane doctor laughs.  I’m genuinely concerned for those poor people…  Especially since the actors involved didn’t necessarily know what they were signing up for. (According to wikipedia)

And just when you think it couldn’t possibly get any worse?  Word breaks that a sequel is in the works and rumor is the film centers around a TWELVE-ipede! A film Tom Six promises will be the sickest movie of all time.

Gross.  No thank you.