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Scenes in media that affected you, the person, in a negative way for a extended period of time.
Cooties (2014): The way the zombie virus is spread is through contaminates chicken nuggets. In the scene where a kid bites the nugget, green ooze can be seen coming from the nugget. When I saw this, it made me so violently ill. It was so bad I couldnt eat chicken for months because I would think of this scene and throw up.
Borrasca (2015): The ending of the story involves an incestual prison encampment of female slaves from a town in the middle of nowhere. During the ending, the story describes how the funny best friend of the main character gets brutually paralysed by the father of the main character. The description was excruciantingly haunting that I totaled 9 1/4 hrs of sleep for a whole week because of how graphic the ending was.
I eventually got lasik eye surgery, but I credit this scene which I saw as a child for making me wait as long as I did. Best believe I didn't miss a single eye drop dose.
My bedroom was at the end of a long hallway, I cannot tell you how often I stared at said hallway from my bed, afraid a lady would crawl towards me 😢 It took literal years to get over that xD
If it makes you feel better, she'd definitely not take such cheap bait. She'd wait for you to finally stop looking down the hallway after like 15 minutes. You'd hear the unsettling gurgles coming from your bed, look into the sheets, and BAM
Looking back at it this is actually kinda funny, no? Imagine the ghost just thinking of the most convoluted ways to surprise her victim. 'hmmm, via the ceiling? nonono, too obvious. I know! I will sneak under his duvet and get him that way!'
My neighbors house caught on fire due to faulty wiring, and the firefighters told the whole neighborhood to check the crawlspace & ceiling for fires. All I could picture was that creepy boy in the ceiling and I almost cried while checking. I think I’d rather just burn down the house.
Brooo my sisters both had long black hair and night terrors so they would sometimes just stand by the bed at 3 AM and my mom would just ignore them so theyd go to me
Both me and my brother were so scarred from that movie
Thanks to Final Destination 2, i am absolutly terrified of driving behind a truck transporting logs. I'll just stay several meters behind when we're at a stopped, or just change lane and going full speed just to be sure i'm way ahead of this motherfucker.
One time I was on a road trip and I passed by fourteen logging trucks in the same area. I was certain the universe was trying to murder me via log-to-the-face. Turns out I was just near a sawmill, but oh man, did I have a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel for a while after.
The opening scene of The Descent had a driver get impaled by metal poles through the windshield. I still change lanes any time a truck has anything strapped down like that. Doesn’t have to be logs.
These movies made me avoid driving behind trucks, tanning beds, and roller coasters 😂 the only reason I haven’t avoided flying is because I had already done it once or twice before and wasn’t so scared.
I don't drive behind trucks carrying anything that isn't fully enclosed if I can help it. Between Final Destination and the brick thing, y'know. And the brick one was real.
If it makes anyone feel better, when they did it as a practical effect, the logs didn't bounce in the slightest and they couldn't get the achieved effect at all. They had to use CGI to get the desired bounce and force.
So you will never get a log through the windshield if this happens. A wrapped car though, maybe, but that's just as bad as anything else falling into the road.
7 year old me literally pissed himself crying when a beetle migration passed my granddads house. 7 years old and I thought flesh eating beetles just....roamed around.
Flesh eating beetles do exist but they feed on decaying animal flesh, skin, hair, feathers and cartilage. They do not attack or kill living humans or live animals.
If it makes you feel better, I was 4-5 when the 100yr anniversary of Jack the Ripper’s murders came around & I legit thought he was just roaming around too
I thought these were real beetles when I was a kid. It scared me out of ever wanting to visit Egypt. Even when I saw other bugs I was scared on squashing them and them crawling up my skin.
Not long after seeing this movie my brother found a beautiful massive moth and put it on my hand. I was fascinated and loved it. I asked him why it was "vibrating" and he said "that's what they do before they burrow into your skin". I think i killed the poor thing and now I am terrified of moths forever
the plague of madness - Primal: in this image it just looks like a standard zombie virus but if you were to watch the epsiode (S1 Ep 7 for you interested) it's pretty disturbing to watch the symptoms take effect on this previously peaceful dinosaur, I first saw this in a clip on tiktok and it genuinely had me disturbed for like a week
The sound effect of the sauropod, while it been burned alive & rotten alive in the same time at the end, is haunting. Incredible visceral and out of this world scream of pure pain, confusion and agony.
The reaction of the two protagonists, both shocked and silent was a great touch too.
The way they look at the scene in horror and unable too move, mimick the spectator reaction.
Primal is the epithomy of "holy shit this is brutal and brillant!" animation.
There are a couple of scenes from scandinavian book-series-turned-anime The Moomins.
In the show we follow a family of so called 'moomin-trolls' and their friends living life in Moomin Valley.
There are two characters that show up in this show though, that scared the absolute living shit out of me as a kid (and still makes me uneasy as an adult); The Groke, and the The lady of the cold.
The Groke is the more infamous one; she is permanently cold, growls and roams around the valley in a very lonely existance. This scene depicts a nightmare the titular character Moomin has about the Groke, and it scarred me for years along with her other appearances.
The lady of the cold is more unnerving than terrifying but still nightmare-inducing, as she comes off as more malicious than the Groke.
Oh, the Lady of the Cold is ABSOLUTELY more malicious than the Groke. The Groke is just cold and lonely, sure, she's so cold she puts out fires through contract, but there's no malice there, at worst sadness.
The Lady? She actively hunts down My to freeze her.
When I was a kid, there was a puppet animation version of the Moomin trolls, and I was absolutely terrified of both the Groke and the Lady of the Cold. I think I still have an old LP with the audio story too, and there's just something about how the story is told, that still sends chills down my back.
I was also left freaked out by those tiny ghost thingies & their plant-based cousins from that episode where the Moomins' home is surrounded by a jungle
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The Substance- the shrimp eating scene. It’s a body horror movie that primarily focuses on that but that scene of Dennis Quaid viscerally eating shrimp cocktail almost gave me misophonia for eating. I didn’t touch shrimp for some time after
Eating shrimp is underselling it. You watch Quaid absolutely HOUSE a comically large portion of shrimp cocktail, occasionally in slow motion, as the scene cuts back and forth between the characters and extreme closeups of his fingers and mouth for like 2 minutes. And if the visual wasn’t enough, the audio sounds as though the mic was in the shrimp. Truly a hair-raising experience in a theatre with Dolby Atmos blaring.
It does such a good job of showcasing how disgusting and uncomfortable people like Quaids character are. I was also feeling it when he was in the bathroom and it was just a fish eye lens close up of his face while he talked.
This episode of Ren & Stimpy, "Ren's Tootache", i cringe HARD even as i'm typing rn, the way Ren pulling his rotten nerves. This scene evoke something visceral within my bones i cannot describe it.
I had nightmares because a friend showed me this when we were like 12. There was this one scene where the eye ball of one of the animals gets pulled out and only dangles by the optical nerve. I think the animal falls down some kind of cliff or something? Still can remember that scene 18 years later.
I still vividly remember the scene where the moose cuts his throat while shaving, and still think about every time I shave. It's left a lasting impression on me decades later.
Is this the same movie with the double toothed dog puppet? That fucker startled me when I watched it. I can’t recall if it was a cat jump scare like Aliens or if I wasn’t paying attention.
I honestly didn't even care that much about the supernatural aspects of the movie that followed because that scene was such a gut wrench. Nothing was more brutal than seeing her brother drive home in shocked silence and just laying awake in bed, then hearing her mom shrieking when she found the body.
That shriek is one of the most brilliant moments in that movie. I’ve heard the shriek of a mother who’s just found out their child is dead. It’s something you’ll hope you’ll never hear, but if you do, you won’t forget it.
As the older brother is driving, the sister is having trouble breathing because of an anaphylactic reaction she’s having because she ate some cake at a party he took her to, that he shouldn’t have taken her to, and she was allergic to something in the cake. I don’t remember what, peanuts I think? Anyway as she’s gasping for air and the brother is speeding to get her help, she sticks her head out of the car window and her head hits a telephone pole and she dies. In the movie it really feels like it comes out of nowhere and it’s quite a shock to the system!
Honestly it KILLED me how realistic of a response that was to trauma like that. V much the human instinct to ignore something and hope it goes away or stops being real when you're in shock. I do think that the mother screaming in the scene following could have been cut short to be a little more poignant, though.
Literally was talking to a friend about it yesterday, but over time that story has fallen off from my favorite nosleep stories. To give credit where it's due the author is talented but the ending just goes way too far. Which is a shame because the entire story leading up to the ending was really good. Also we don't talk about Borrasca V
Since you used a Creepcast thumbnail I'm assuming you're somewhat familiar with them, if you want a better nosleep story I recommend Penpal, Left Right Game or Feed the Pig
I never got the hype for Borrasca, as soon as the twist was revealed I lost all interest. It just felt contrived and idiotic and like it was leaning into sexual violence for shock value without actually engaging with the real horror of such a serious subject deserves.
The effects were so gut-churning, his scream so heartbreaking, I was screwed up for days.
Until my partner was making breakfast and made a joke like "Look! I'm The Mountain!" as she cracked the eggs. That snapped me out of it for some reason.
The final scene of Bugonia really fucked me up to the point where I literally could not sleep for a few nights afterwards. It just seemed so unfair and terrifying. The scene of the dead wedding party in particular sticks with me. My wife and I were relatively new brides when we saw the film.
I think that visceral reaction to film really colored my interpretation of it to the point where I have a very different interpretation than most. Most people seek to interpret the end of the film as an objective assessment that humans are not worth saving but I really see it differently. The alien who chooses to kill all of humanity is a rich CEO who had a fair hand in all of the world’s problems. It’s about how the rich cause all of these issues and then pretend it’s everyone else’s fault and let them pay the price for it.
I'd argue your interpretation is one of the better ones. You have the rich powerful aliens who do not take responsibility for their actions, blame every one else and get away scott free. Seemed pretty straightforward to me
For me it was the scene where he goes to rescue his mother and gives her the "cure". That was just so messed up. Everyone except his poor cousin were such dicks.
Funnily enough, you actually came to the intended interpretation that the original film this movie was based off of was trying to invoke (it's a remake of a Korean black comedy film. You are not meant to sympathize with the alien ceo at all in that movie)
My ex-wife once told me she hates people Vomiting in TV and Movies because its always played for laughs. Since then anytime I see someone puke on screen I find myself thinking "was that REALLY necessary? Its so gross."
Edit: My go to for the concept is the family guy scene with the ipecac, because how is that funny?
I think it was done well in Queen's Gambit. In one of the scenes heavily drunk Beth vomits into her trophy cup (sort of by accident). She is on a downward spiral and while it's possible that they shot this scene for laughs (I didn't find it funny but tragic) I find some nice symbolism there
Anime watcher here, I usually see vomit in media as a rainbow or shining bright liquid after the character gets wasted on alcohol so I guess it doesn't gross me out as much.
Same!! I have to close my eyes and cover my ears for those scenes. But I can tolerate it when it’s a cartoon, or when it’s obviously over the top fake - my first thought is that scene in Hot Tub Time Machine where it sprays out like a firehose. But anything even partially realistic, I can’t deal. And I hate it.
One vomit scene that has haunted me forever is that bus scene in the movie The Perfection.
I don’t have an example to offer, but OP YOU ARE NOT ALONE ABOUT COOTIES. I watched that movie a few months ago for the first time and still am wary about chicken nuggets. Even seeing that screenshot made me shiver.
A vague soviet cartoon based on a folk tale about a mouse who gifted his eyes to two blind big animals and then they betrayed him because “we don’t need you”. It was VERY disturbingly animated while being totally SFW, i felt sick and horrible after i watched it.
I remember watching a French animated short called "Julien" when I was a kid. It was about a poor boy who gets mistreated by everyone. At some point he has to steal food but the shop owner catches him and cuts of his hand, then later he writes Santa to give him a new hand and Santa laughs at him and gives him a hook. Absolutely horrifying, and sometimes I wonder if I imagined it because I can't find trace of it anywhere.
Men in Black 1 & 2. The main antagonist aliens were so scary to me that I had nightmares days after watching each of them. I can still vividly remember the imagined roach monsters face in the shadows of my bedroom when I was 6.
I was scared of the bug guy too when I was a kid. Especially when he was wearing his human suit. Everything about him when he was wearing his human suit freaked me out so badly. The sexy plant lady from the sequel wasn't as scary to me but maybe it's because I wasn't as little when I saw it so I didn't get the full creepy effect
The scene where Mr Bean destroys the 'Whistler's Mother' painting. The way the music gets high and anxious then he uses chemicals and her face starts bubbling...shudders. Also the face he drew on her scared me too as a kid, something about a cartoony head on a realistic body freaked me out. My family always thought I was overreacting
Not the tissue part, but it’s crazy to know I’m not alone in the replacement drawing freaking me out. I think it reminded me of the alien Mr. Burns episode of The Simpsons.
The scene in Nope where the crowd is eaten by Jean Jacket and you see them still alive and screaming inside it. Still fucks me up even thinking about it.
One of the most horrific scenes that is not just brutality. The cramped space. The screams, the unknowable nature of the creature. Everything about that scene is absolutely blood curdling
not to mention they don't even get to die until the blood rain house scene, which is after dark. angel and em hear the distant screaming, a crunch, silence, and then the bloody torrent starts. they were like that for hours .....
eta: i've seen ppl theorize the people were sucked up purely to serve as an enema/lubricant to get the fake horse out, or that they/jj's big meal triggered the regurgitation, or that it was a display of dominance, for a few. all make sense and are horrifying. kinda plays into the theme of wild animals bein unpredictable.
plus the people gagging in there.. there's also noticeably less screams between when they first get sucked up and when jj makes it rain.. HORRIFYING movie but god it is so good
At about 7 years old, I watch the opening beach landing scenes in Saving Private Ryan through the gap in the lounge room door - my mum and sister (who would have only been 11!!!) were watching it as part of her history homework. I kept seeing the soldier on fire, running past another soldier holding his intestines in his hands, in my mind for years afterwards.
As a teenager, I watched the Animatrix. One segment of that shows the first wars between humans and machines. It shows a scene of a human inside a mech suit, which is first cut open by the machines, then the human physically ripped out, his arms and legs being left behind as they are strapped into the suit. The way he screams, and the sounds of his dismemberment…………..
I never learned how to swim. I avoid the beach as much as possible. I don't like wading into water that goes beyond my hips. Whenever I take a shower, I always keep my eyes open because if I let water cover me with my eyes closed that goddamn shark will get me.
I just remembered now how swimming lessons would zap my 5 year old brain, thinking a shark was gonna come out of that huge grate at the end of the pool (a large filter I suppose) and telling myself how irrational this was so I could keep swimming.
Face/Off. Not the bit where he takes his face/off, but when they throw him in jail with magnetic boots. Scared the shit out of 8 year old me for some reason.
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The mother all bandaged up in Grave of the Fireflies. One scene she’s drawn like an anime character and couple of scenes later, realistic bandages wet with blood and puss with just her eyes, nose and mouth visible.
There was a mister bean movie where the guy sneezed on a super expensive painting and tried to fix it with tissue paper, then continued to fuck the painting up even more every time he tried to fix his mistake.
For some reason, that scene made me hate tissue paper for the rest of my life, I literally feel gross even just seeing it. Especially if crumpled or ripped. Then that discomfort spread to crumpled, wet and ripped paper in general, not just tissue. Then THAT spread to anything dangly or flimsy at all, like if a thread is hanging off my clothes or just deadass SCARVES
Watched the movie as a kid and I hated being away from my parents afterwards. They told me it couldn't impersonate cats. So I just always held one of ours for awhile to feel safe.
It's crazy how bad the ending of Borrasca was fumbled man, I remember reading the whole thing right before the reveal came out and it was so good, and then it fell off even worse than Game of Thrones. I don't think I've ever seen a bigger literary fumble, and I love Stephen King books
"Babe 2: Pig in the City"
Last year I was watching the film with my wife. It had been many years since I’d last seen it. Then the dog in the wheelchair appeared. I reacted almost instantly: I went pale and said, ‘There was something wrong with that dog.’ My mind had completely erased the memory of THAT scene from when I saw it as a child.
Spoiler: During a chase involving a lorry, the dog got caught up in the incident and was involved in a horrific accident, appearing to be dead for a few minutes. He then came round, but the scene of the accident was so graphic that just thinking about it still sends shivers down my spine.
Face bugs in Assassin’s Creed Rogue genuinely gave me goosebumps and nightmares. I don’t have nightmares about it anymore but it just gave me goosebumps again.
Creepcast with wendigoon and meat canyon read it, they do skem joking around and bits while reading sometimes but they read a bunch of stories around the internet.
One of my favorite podcasts. There is also an audio drama about it too
The sewer rain hole scene with Pennywise and Georgie.
First of all, i HATE to see little ki ds of any age to get hurt or die in a any way in fiction and irl. But because of him, i got a slight sewer phobia and everytime i see a sewer rain old, i got the compulsive move to get far from it.
Also, even if there is a like a coin near the hole, i will not even try to grab it.
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The entirety of Scooby doo zombie island. When I saw it as a kid I was expecting the usual caliber of “scary” and this movie rocked my world. Had nightmares for months.
I wish that I could load up more gifs in the comments since there are like so many scenes back when that really screwed me up but I will try list up the top tier by starting with the earliest example.
The Grooke from the Moomins, this was from a Moomin series from a Polish company that was made before the anime series came out, and I always loved that show by how charming it was. But then this episode "The Winter Bonefire" where we are introduced to The Groke, a creature that was just so cold that she needed to practically sit on the bonfire in order to warm herself up. But as a kid, an toddler even, I was just frozen stiff as I saw The Groke slide on that frozen water that I ended up having nightmares for years to come.
So you can imagine how happy I was when I watched the anime years later and saw that I was not the only one who had the exact nightmare where I was being chased by The Groke but I just couldn't run fast as if I was walking through tar or something.
The Dinner Scene from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. Even as a kid, I already knew that everything that happened in TV shows or movies was made up and all pretend but that didn't mean that the efforts to make scenes so grossed out and disgusting that you can't help but to feel your stomach turn. I was thinking of the "Kali Ma" scene first but that one scared me a lot but it was the dinner scene that won. Even if my family told me that the stuff the characters ate where just custard inside the beetles and the "chilled monkey brain" were just frozen raspberry sorbet (I always loved how the guy announced it) but still the effort that they made it look so real made me so violently ill.
On a side note, IS it true that there are some cut content from the movie where the characters reveals that the whole dinner scene was just a ploy to scare away any outsides by eating the grossest things imaginable?
The Pie Eating Contest from Stand by Me. Not only do I consider this movie based on Stephen King's novella "The Body" to be one of the best Stephen King movies to me personally, but it also have one of THE most grossest scene ever made.
Basically at camp fire, one of the boys tells a fictional story about a fat kid who decides to enact revenge on his bullies by attending an annual pie eating contest but not before drinking a entire bottle of castor oil and once he had eaten enough... Well, you can see for yourself.
Needless to say, it took me a few years to brave myself to watch the movie again since that scene really made me gag and really felt my stomach squirm and twist. But hey, at least it helped me to steel for "that" scene in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life".
Candyman... Just Candyman. This may sound silly, since the movie may not hold up to some but whenever I think of great modern gothic horror, Candyman still remains as peak example but I digress. I will admit that the whole movie messed me up may be silly, and it still is, but I wish that I could explain in details why for years to come after I saw the movie, I was terrified that I would look at any reflections of myself, whether it be on a mirror, TV scene or even windows, I would accidentally mutter or even THINK the name Candyman five times and would see him there with hook ready.
Transporter accident in the 1st Star Trek film. The actor and sound designer went way too hard on that scream and I was far too young to be hearing / seeing that.
The tanning bed scene in Final Destination. I still have a lot of trouble with scenes where people are trapped and burning. Same with that scene in Sweeney Todd and the ending of the The Menu.
Another Creepcast example:
Usually the stories they read I find interesting and cool but never really that scary.
Then I listened to them cover the whistler at 3:03 am and for the longest time I was so fucking scared of leaving the curtains that are open right in front of my bed. Now that im typing this that fear is slowly resurfacing :)
I took my girlfriend to see Jackass Best & Last at this theater you can order meals at. We ordered a salad to split. Then the 'human pretzel' scene happened and...she didn't actually throw up but she got pretty damn close. She hasn't been able to order food at that theater since even though it's been several months. She's able to laugh about how long this 'trauma' has affected her at least
Steven Soderbergh, the renowned filmmaker watched Matango) (1963) as a child and got really terrified, which is about a parasitic fungus that turns humans into waking fungi. And he wanted to remake the movie himself nonetheless.
I saw The Ring when I was 13, and I couldn't sleep well for a month. It didn't help that in my room in front of my bed was a small 90s tv with its own inbuild vhs port thing.
My Girl (1991) The male mc was stung to death by a hive of bees and 3 year old me was traumatized and had such a severe phobia until I received literal years of therapy. If I saw one, I ran back inside. I was almost hit by a car because a yellow jacket flew too close to me and i ran away from it (into a busy street)
The scene in Mirrors (2008) where the woman's reflection rips her own jaw off, causing the real woman to also get her jaw ripped off, made me scared to look at my own reflection for a few weeks.
this has stuck with me for years ever since I was a kid. Basically, the evil man was doing cruel experiments on this mutated creature. The cruelest thing it did was keep it alive. The creature was mercy killed by the protagonist.
At the end of the movie, the evil guy gets turned into a creature himself, and is subjected to the same fate as the first creature. He’s kept alive, assuredly in pain, in a cage. Left to only be let out into a pile of hay to eat disgusting slop, kept alive to be observed by his former scientist colleagues.
The picture doesn’t do it justice. The scene is DISTURBING
I remember seeing Spirited Away when I was like 6. I wasn't a cowardly kid by any means but the scene where Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs drove me to tears. I had nightmares for months and looked at all food with suspicion. Funnily enough I saw Coraline earlier and wasn't that freaked out
The grudge 2, the shower scene. The main cast is getting stalked by a black haired ghost. A blonde haired girl went to take a shower and suddenly noticed black hair going down the drain. I saw this movie when i was 13, i didnt dare to close my eyes in the shower for the next 2 years the scene in question starts around 7:00
Child me who was way too young for horror saw the trailer for “The Bye Bye Man.” Stupid fucking name aside, child me was terrified by the idea of a monster who got closer the more you spoke and thought about him. There were many sleepless nights filled with thoughts of, “Don’t say it don’t think it don’t say it don’t think it don’t say it don’t think it.”
Multiple scenes in Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Mainly the thing I find really disturbing and unsettling about the film is how matter of fact, blunt and casual the villains are towards their victims in it.
Like they truly see their victims as playthings and think they have the right to do whatever they want to them. There's a long dialogue scene in the film where they discuss this amongst themselves.
Just really gross, it reminds me of how people talk in porn communities.
The trailer assault scene in Hills Have Eyes. It's not that the scene itself was particularly traumatizing, it just hit me at the wrong time - a few nights after a particularly nasty sleep paralysis episode when I could swear a sleep paralysis demon was sitting in my chair just watching me (not) sleep until the morning.
After that one-two punch combo, I wouldn't sleep without a pillow or a cover over my head for a few years because the idea that someone could just be standing by my bedside watching me sleep when I thought it already happened to me felt horrifying.
Granted, I was in my early teens and didn't understand what sleep paralysis was. As far as I was aware, I just found out demons exist and are stalking me a few nights ago.
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