Has anyone ever .......

[chappie]

......... watched a film that has had a long-lasting impact on them?

As a teenager I saw The Exorcist. It scared the living daylights out of me (it did plenty of others too). For a long time afterwards, I convinced myself I was gonna get possessed .........

Several years on, my sister and her young family (children who should not have been watching it as they were too young) watched it on video. The youngsters were laughing at it - they didn't see the scary side of it at all.

Even after 30 years, I still felt uncomfortable watching it.

[gonzo00]

schindlers list
the documentary "the boy whose skin fell off"....can't even listen to that queen song they used anymore:(

[Bathsheba]

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned- Deerhunter, Don't Look Now, Midnight Express, Dr Zhivago.
But Bridges of Madison County- no matter how many times I watch that, Meryl never gets out of that truck at the traffic lights + runs to Clint, silly woman! xx

[tigerlily11]

The third Omen film, where the women are killing their own babies. At one point one of the mothers puts a red hot clothes iron on her babies face. It made me feel ill and I got up and walked out. Since then I haven't watched any of those films and I avoid films where children and animals are in any danger, even though I know its fictional.

[Marijn]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers .... Donald Sutherland again

[Jillius]

The Exorcist didn't really scare me but I remember hiring a video in about 1983 and it was about some clowns and the freaks from the circus freak show. They kidnapped some young girls and chopped them up in an underground cellar. Years later I found out, allegedly, that the film had been made abroad and the killings had actually taken place. Horrendous. To this day I hate anything to do with circus's.

[Awoo]

sesame street
bob the builder
charlotte web
guess whos comin to dinner

[Jillius]

gonzo, I cried at that documentary too. What a wonderful person Johnny was. He had a sense of humour to the end. I howled at his funeral when they played Queens Don't stop me now.