MOVIES I'M TOO SCARED TO WATCH 

If Snoop Dogg says it's bad then there's nothing else to discuss 😔🤚

The moment a man uses "little girl" in an argument.... it's over. He lost.

As a horror lover, and a rape victim, it makes me feel extremely uneasy seeing sexual violence in movies, particularly when it doesn't add anything to the story and is for shock value only. It feels like a such a cheap "thrill", and an incredibly overused one. This video legit made me feel seen and less alone 💞

If anyone has as much morbid curiosity as I do about these movies but won’t watch them, SpookyRice has done summary movies about basically any disturbing film on this list. That way you can get a good vibe without sitting through them 🤙🏻💖

The “horror isn’t for you” comment is so pretentious and annoying. If you like horror movies, you’re a horror fan! You don’t have to like any specific film to call yourself a fan of the genre

I am not ashamed to admit I am scared to watch Cats (2019)

I’m a woman who sometimes likes more extreme/shocking horror, including some of these movies, partly out of pure curiosity over the limits of art, and partly because it helps me deal with some of my anxieties and traumas in a controlled setting. BUT there’s absolutely no reason to say somebody HAS to like these movies or they’re not a real horror fan. Everyone has different boundaries and preferences. It’s fine and healthy to avoid things that make you uncomfortable! Like you said, we all like different things. Gate keeping over who’s a “real” fan of anything is the worst.

If you were wondering, ‘The girl next door’ was based off the case of Sylvia Likens. It’s similar to cases like Junko Furuta and Suzanne Capper, in that she was tortured for an extended period of time, and eventually killed.

“You can have anxiety and be a horror fan.” I’m a horror fan *because* of my anxiety.

Calling you "little girl" was just the perfect combination of creepy and condescending

The only movie I've ever seen where the sexual assault was very graphic and gratuitous but also was very crucial to the whole message and point of the movie was Irreversible. As a gay SA victim, I appreciated the film for putting you in the shoes of the victim and their loved ones, instead of just throwing it in for a graphic reaction. Its a very powerful and super disturbing film, but it has a very strong and important message. Edit: I really enjoyed Antichrist, even though the genital mutilation scenes were very hard to stomach. It's a film with a vague and complex lore around it, and Lars Von Trier always seems to make his films feel like completely different worlds even though they are set in our timeline, on Earth. I feel kinda weird now knowing I have seen every single film on this list minus the last one, the last one was made with zero substance or message it is solely for getting a shocked and repulsive reaction out of it viewers. I actually enjoyed a few of them lol. I can enjoy a disturbing movie as long as I don't find it pointless, or I don't feel as though they are just making a film for shock value. Films like Antichrist, Irreversible, and Salo have scenes where the directors intended to get a visceral and shocked and disgusted response from the viewers but they also have deeper meanings in the film and the graphic scenes progress and push the plot and the ideas the director and film are trying to get across. With Irreversible, I cried watching the scene where Alex is assaulted because it places the audience in her position of powerlessness and shock and pain. Irreversible proves to be both a scathing condemnation of how films have pornographically depicted violence against women and gay men and in turn, how our culture sexualizes women and victim-blames them when they are subjected to cruel acts at the hands of men. Or that's how I interpreted the film personally, and why I do place it very high on my favorite films I've watched. I can't even begin to make an entire commentary on Antichrist or this already massive comment will be even longer, there's so themes and ideas happening in it. It's almost too busy, but somehow it pulls it together into an unforgettable cinema experience, though I could have gone without the scissor scene. (Even though it also has a meaning to tie in with the plot and commentary Von Trier is presenting) One of the main questions Von Trier presents within the film is, "Is there anything more frightening than the idea that mothers may wish to commit infanticide?" That's just one of the many things happening inside that film. Its super deep and analytic almost, that I can completely understand why it is a massively polarizing film and why some people will never like it. Salo is basically a political statement about the power struggle that was happening in Italy during the 1940s. The film explores themes of political corruption, consumerism, authoritarianism, nihilism, morality, capitalism, totalitarianism, sadism, sexuality, and fascism. Once again, another film that can be broken down and studied and interpreted in various ways. TLDR: Basically what I'm saying is that even though these films contain various scenes of SA and graphic violence and subject matter, they aren't meaningless, to me anyways. I found strong messages and themes in all of them, being a SA victim and a gay man, they struck various nerves in me that made me appreciate them, hard to watch as they may be. I'm not advocating them in any way, since I know many people will still be triggered or upset by them and completely respect their opinions and distaste of them, I just wanted to explain their meanings to people who may read this that have no desire whatsoever to watch them. :)

I am a huge gore hound, I've watched horror for the last 30 years. When I was younger I would push to watch extreme horror out just to see how far I could go and curiosity, but as I've gotten older I find I no longer have the stomach for it especially after I became a mother. Everyone is allowed boundaries it doesn't make you less of a fan. Some people don't seem to understand that tastes changes, your boundaries and what you are willing to stomach changes. My husband still watches extreme horror like Serbian movie and Salo but I couldn't watch them, though I Loved movies like Green Inferno, I also loved irreversible, but I also soured on cannibal holocaust once I learned of actual animal cruelty.

I want every movie from now on to be rated by how much Snoop Dogg liked them.

I literally refuse to watch anything with real animal cruelty, people eating feces and extended sexual assault scenes. I can't think of a good reason to have any of that. It just screams "Ooh look how edgy we are."

I won't even watch a movie where they pretend to kill animals, I CANNOT deal with that at all, could never watch it for real! Thanks for the heads up!

I can watch most disturbing, extreme movies but once you have seen it you can't unsee it. You are right your boundaries are for you. That fellow calling you a little girl is pathetic. Just keep doing your thing xxxx

I'm a 50 year old male, with CPTSD, ADHD, and HSP, and I have been a horror fan since grade school. And I have my own boundaries and triggers. Some films, I wish I hadn't seen. Age, gender, has nothing to do with it. I dig your video. Consider me a new fan.

i’m honestly sick of “women being tortured” movies and that being considered must watch horror

As someone who does actually like some of these movies, I think it's so so important to respect people who won't subject themselves to certain things. At the end of the day, being a fan of horror is about enjoying it, and if you force yourself to watch things you hate you're unavoidably going to fall out of love with the genre

Yes Sarah, promote those healthy boundaries boo!! I still remember watching The Hills Have Eyes when I was 12 or so and the severe SA scene traumatized me so much. I’m in my mid-20’s and I still refuse to rewatch that movie.

That guy calling you "vanilla" as he blatantly ignores your boundaries because that's what he thinks bdsm is

As long as you LIKE horror, you’re a horror fan. End of conversation.

This is really refreshing to see. Sometimes I tried to “enjoy” movies that weren’t my thing even though I knew they wouldn’t be before I even watched it just for the sake of the Horror Fan title. Thank you for your awesome perspective on this!

This channel has become my postpartum comfort channel 😭😭 I was even binging videos an hour before I went into labour 🤣🙌

I'm a 53 year old male, love horror but can't watch torture or possession movies anymore. Something about having kids that changes your taste.

This is why I Marie Kondo my movies. I look them up and ask "in the end, will this spark joy?"

You can both love horror and have boundaries, I enjoy a good scary movie but I would still never watch Salo or A Serbian Film, I also hate seeing unnecessary sexual violence

no animal(real) cruelty and no sexual violence. those lines i will not cross

My partner can't watch movies with sexual assault or rape scenes, and since dating them I've noticed just how often sexual assault is used in movies to get a cheap visceral reaction without actually having to write a good plot

That edgy gatekeeper is hilarious. "Look how cool I am for finding animal cruelty, sexual assault, and nauseating violence entertaining!" Was he rejected by his high school crush, so now he wants to prove that he's a tough man for liking gore or what? I always see an overlap between horror gatekeepers and incels... Edit: gore and horror are not the same genre, but some moviemakers pretend they are. The goal of horror is to scare the audience, not to make them rush to the toilet...

Thank you for this. I’m so passionate about horror movies, but i know my boundaries. I absolutely cannot watch rape scenes without bawling my eyes out or going into a panic attack. I want to enjoy the movie not fuck up my mental health.

I'm fed up of wannabe "hardcore horror fans" contest, aka "duh! that wasn't even scary I yawned lol". Entertainment isn't a contest, boundaries are personal and to be taken seriously, and as long as someone enjoy horror movies, whatever subgender it is, they are horror fans. Full stop.

Part of adult hood is knowing your limitations. I can’t watch medical torture or rape and that doesnt make me any less of a horror fan

This is why I love the movie Funny Games. It flips the mirror to the audience and pushed the question "why are you watching this and what are you hoping to see?". Alot of extreme horror fans don't like this movie because it purposely doesn't show alot of gore and doesn't contain any nudity when the female actress is in a comprising situation. It also gets flack for being long and a bit boring, but the whole point is to say "why would you want to see that? Why do you want to see her in this awful situation? Why do you want to see this family suffer? Why are you watching this?". Personally, I think it's one of the best thriller movies I've seen because it actually creeped me out and left me thinking after I turned it off, instead of relying on shock value and cheap jumpscares.

I remember trying to watch The Shining (Kubrick's) and having that feeling of yield and deep evil coming from that hotel. The first time I stopped watching it, I turned off my computer and I left the room (it was dark)... The second time I watched the whole thing, and I loved it... a pure classic!!!

I am absolutely a horror fan partly due to my trauma as a woman, and it has been so incredibly validating and just generally therapeutic. Good for you, setting and keeping boundaries for yourself. That is so admirable.

this video should be called “traumatizing movies that I won’t subject myself to” 😓 I don’t think it’s even a matter of being scared, it’s fair to avoid extremely triggering/graphic content

that rant about gatekeeping was the tea though, gatekeeping in horror is the worst for sure

i just found your channel! as a horror lover who's a woman, i have watched countless horror movies with so much unnecessary sexual violence towards women that gives nothing to the story. i hate that these are male writers, producers, and directors making these films too. i feel like such a big part of the horror genre is men making women even smaller than they are in reality. where as i can see it is horror because that is in fact scary to me as a woman, i don't need scares like that when i am constantly scared that those things are actually going to happen to me and these male directors and writers have no clue how real that fear is to just play with and put on film.

that comment at the start…… every really great cultural thing is almost guaranteed to have shitty gatekeeping fans. Horror, Metal, Sci-fi, Fantasy etc. all have people who say things like this, and that ‘rant’ at the start honestly fits so well with all of this

I'm almost fifty and have been watching horror movies my whole life, and I totally get what you mean. My own personal "line" is incessant cruelty under the pretext of horror. To me, a horror movie should be, you know... SCARY. If it's just watching abuse for 90 minutes then I'm tapping out. If that makes me soft in people's eyes then so be it.

as a person who can't watch certain horror movies/series because of r*pe scenes, this helped me feel less alone; thank you.

I found your rant at the beginning very reassuring. I've been hesitant to call myself a horror fan because I prefer B movies and obscure movies to the jumpscare heavy classics, so thank you for making me feel validated.

I have a hard enough time sitting through animal abuse in movies even when no animals have been harmed. But knowing that a certain movie's abuse was REAL really pisses me off.

I want to be scared, not scarred, when I watch a horror film. I want to be creeped out, but I don’t want to be depressed and a lot of the violence against women and animals in horror films just makes me sad and angry.

Cool video Sarah 🤘🏼 thanks for standing up the the gatekeepers

Sometimes you know something is crap so you pass on it. Rather than trying to unsee it just don’t see it.

There are so many different types of horror and you like what type of horror you like, good for you for standing up for yourself and don't worry about any negative opinions on what horror you personally enjoy

With Cannibal Holocaust, it was hearing that they “de-shelled” a live turtle that had me say NOPE!

I’m 49 and have been a huge horror fan my whole life but I’m not into gore,it’s not for me but classic thrills from horror I LOVE!✌🏼

In "Girl Next Door", in the true crime story, Gertrude was a complete monster to Sylvia.

I loathe horror movies that revel in pain. I despise movies that exist solely for the purpose of disgusting their audience. It’s not hard to cause nausea. Good plot, good acting, good cinematography, and good writing, require talent. Those who have none just go for shock.

It's so odd that i absolutely understand where youre coming from with the "common theme", cause as woman i can't watch brutal SA/kidnap/torture movies anymore. I used to be able to watch them, but now it just gives me major anxiety. Remembering back to having watched megan is missing, the girl next door and irreversible, i just feel sick, because this shit happens in real life too.

Also, The Girl Next Door is *really* not worth it for other reasons than its disturbing content. You see, Jack Ketchum heard the story of Sylvia Likens (the girl who was tortured to death by her caregiver, her kids, and their friends) and thought it would a good story for a novel. He approached Sylvia’s sister, Jenny, to ask her permission to write and publish the novel as long as he changed the names. Jenny said no because she did not want to relive the trauma of watching her sister being tortured and she didn’t want her sister to be remembered in that way. Did Mr. Ketchum respect her wishes? Nope, he went ahead and did it anyway! He also went out of his way to embellish the story to make it even more gruesome and disturbing, going as far as adding a rape scene and molestation subplot that did not happen, purely for shock value. Basically, The Girl Next Door just exploits the very real torture of a very real girl and I regret watching it after learning what I know now.

A friend of mine and me are huge horror fans and we always get together to watch new movies we haven't seen as well as enjoy some of the classics quite regularly. Over the years we've been slowly watching more intense films until we both decided to try and brave Salo. I bought the movie and we were both pretty excited to see just how much we could handle but still haven't gotten the nerve to actually watch it. I bought it almost two years ago lol

Totally! I have a somewhat narrow range of stories. I used to try to endure everything, and also had the revelation that I could still be a fan without watching everything. :)

for anyone who has a morbid fascination with these types of movies but can’t bring themselves to watch them, the channel spooky rice does really good videos summing them up and reviewing them, including a fair amount from this list. he’s also very entertaining and i really recommend his videos!

Gender gatekeeping is present in literally EVERYTHING (e.g., certain music bands, movie film buffs, pro gaming in twitch, especially rock or metal music and like you mention, the horror genre.)

I saw Nekromantik on the night that the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 or 1993. We suffered through this grim and disgusting film and then emerged into a wild party of positivity and cheering with people driving around hollering and horn blaring. It was quite the emotional roller coaster.

Horror for me is watching someone talk with their hands.

Overly and unnecessary gore, r4pe and torture(mostly on kids and animals) is something that i don't like and that doesn't make me less or more of a horror fan, we all have a limit. I love your videos girl keep going♥️

To this day, nothing has scared me more than that one episode of courage the cowardly dog where that guy breaks out of a mental hospital and starts cutting everyone's hair..... I wish I was kidding, I genuinely couldn't sleep and had to talk to someone abt it

HA! I was searching for 2021 horror movie playlist & come across your video and you look too familiar. I have been subscribed to your other channel for a decade & never knew you had this one too!! Yay, have not seen you stroll thru my feed for a long time & glad to see you're still here!

I cannot watch or tolerate seeing sexual or violent abuse to men, women, or children in movies and any form of animal cruelty or abuse. These are my cut offs in a film. If I see it I have to turn it off.

Omggg I watched “the girl next door” (torture version) by accident when I was a kid while trying to find the “the girl next door” (romcom version) and it traumatized me deeply. I still think about it as an adult. I honestly wish I had never seen it or knew of its existence

Horror gatekeeping is so weird like... being scared can be such a personal experience and limits you put on it are so personal how on earth can you tell someone they’re doing it ‘wrong’

in the end, isnt the point of a movie to be in some way entertaining? if a movie leaves me feeling horrible and crosses my boundaries, possibly even going as far as traumatising me, that's not in any way an enjoyable expereince. I want to be scared and freaked out, yes, but why would i force myself to watch something that I might regret watching just to 'earn' a label of fan or whatever

"Little girl"?? Hahaha, F that guy 😄 🤣 😂

There's a whole "iceberg" list of disturbing movies now, most of which you would probably want to avoid watching. "Wendigoon" made a great video on that recently.

You TELL THEM girl! It’s called being a normal person who knows themselves well enough to know your boundaries. It’s called having a healthy psyche.

This was an incredible video. Seriously, huge amount of respect for this. Personally, I have watched every movie you mentioned; I didn't enjoy the majority and the others that I "enjoyed" have been purely because there were watched at a time when I wasn't doing great and for some reason they kept me going. One movie that I'd recommend you steer clear of is Trauma (2017), it's a Chilean movie and has many of the themes discussed in this video. I regret watching it honestly. Take care you wonderful human

Megan is missing is the scariest thing i ever watched as a young adult. That shot ( if you've seen it, you know) that almost put me in tears and no

for those of you who DO want to know more about these movies, i know SpookyRice does awesome breakdowns of super disturbing horror and thriller movies!!! nothing at all wrong with having boundaries. don't subject yourself to things that will ultimately end up hurting your psyche. :(

I saw “I spit on your grave” when I was in high school and I felt so uncomfortable and ended up getting made fun of, a 15 minute rape scene made me more aware of PTSD from films. I think some of these movies are similar to the shock videos of the early days of the internet. Its ok to not be ok with some of these.

Every decade and genre of horror has standouts that are worth watching. Some just go to a darker place than we all would care to travel. A fan just has to appreciate the appeal of horror and the thrill one gets from stepping into the dark. Your list sounded perfectly reasonable to me!

Well said!! Different things affect different people, it's subjective you can't call someone out for making a decision not to see something because it will make them uncomfortable that should be praised more than anything. Better to avoid than to trigger anxiety or uncomfortable emotions some may not deal well with

Antichrist (2009) The Girl Next Door (2007) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Salo 100 Days Of Sodom (1975) Nekromantik (1987) August Underground Mordum (2003) Irreversible (2002) Melancholie Der Engel (2009) All of the movies 😊

I watched almost every one of this movies, i don't recommend it. Specially Irreversible. The year that i watched it i was sexually assaulted and i got a panic attack by watching it. No, no one told me what the movie was about, it was a friend that is a horror fan like me invited me to watch movies and it was even more shocking to watch that scene cause i didnt expected. Im really scared of walking alone in those type of places cause i remember that scene everytime and I don't want that to happen again. I love horror but animal violence and rape are a big no for me, im tired of the multiple sexual assault scenes that are in this genre.

Many movies from this list I wish I didn’t see. It’s like a badge of horror you walk with

The "horror genre" consists of a variety of sub-genres. It includes very different kinds of movies that have nothing in common with each other. "Scary movies" aim to entertain by inducing empathy for characters in frightening situations. "Gory movies", on the other hand, aim to induce disgust and repulsion. "Fear" and "disgust" are two totally different psychological states, yet the ill-defined word "horror" is applied to both.

you are so right about the gatekeeping, let's all enjoy whatever we enjoy. Also I've seen most of theses movies and i could've live my life without traumatizing myself

I can't and refuse to watch movies containing animal abuse or torture, etc. Cannibal Holocaust keeps being suggested to me and I'm like "No. Never." We all have things we don't want to see.

Salò was actually inspired by the 120 days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Every time I hear about this movie people never mention that, and I find this surprising because often people talk about it like "oooh you wanna hear about disturbing stuff?" (Contrary for you, here it's more "here stuff I won't watch" I'm on the same page as you on that), but they don't mention the book which is probably as disturbing, and I find strange that this piece of information is always left out...I mean, the director didn't had this whole idea on his own.

The fact that they actually had the boys on tv doing that was so so so sick. I cried

That is the most important trivia ever. If Snoop said no, it is a pass.

I've seen The Girl Next Door and it's so heartbreaking, it's not even that graphic it's just heartbreaking that it actually happened in real life, I had difficulty sleeping for a few days :(

These videos make me feel better for being a horror fan but not wanting to watch certain movies (the Saw, Terrifier, and Human Centipede movies come to mind first but I'm sure there's more), and being apprehensive about going to a haunt in real life even though I like watching walk throughs. So thank you

I have several I won’t ever watch! But several of my favorites are also some pretty hard hitters too lol so it depends. The story can help to almost make the disturbing aspects tolerable. Some of these movies were discussed in my horror cinema class which was cool

Honestly, "extreme horror" of this type really just feels like stuff made to give neckbeard edgelords something to be elitist about because most people won't actually sit down and watch for long enough to realize all these movies are piles of crap. You're not missing out on much by avoiding these movies.

love how you cleared that person who made that immature comment. who gets upset over the type of horror movies people enjoy.. we have to love horror movies with extreme gore (something that crosses the lines) to be considered a true horror fan? it’s literally not that deep. we’re all just here to enjoy.

The film “”An American Crime” was a film that documented the story of the real girl that the film, “The Girl Next Door” was inspired by. I can’t watch either.

I think I'd be able to watch the stuff in the disturbing iceberg. However, I get easily startled/frightened by loud noises, so I genuinely dislike going into Haunted Attractions. The last time I went into one I think I was just hella bored during a vacation to Mackinac Island.

When Cannibal Holocaust is called “one of the more tame ones” xD

Girl next door is based on the story of Sylvia Likens, Gertrude wasn’t her aunt, she was just a family friend that took her in. I listen to a lot of true crime and this was the only one that really turned my stomach and I couldn’t stop thinking about ...

The Girl Next Door also had another movie based on the same story called An American Crime. I've seen them both, both horrible horrible movies even if they weren't based on actual events. Elliott Page stars in An American Crime as Sylvia Likens, the victim of these events. The fact that Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman who drove the abuse and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, was granted parole and died a free woman shows just how flawed the American "Justice" system is.

Movies like these don't scare, they just make me angry.

This girl is a legend.

I have seen most of these films and I support your sentiments. I’m a middle aged guy and a life-long horror fan and I used to think I had to subject myself to extremes - in film, in literature, and music. I used to like the edges and the uncomfortable places. I outgrew all that. And I have a lot of stuff in my head I can’t get rid of. Don’t ever push yourself into territory you aren’t comfortable with and certainly don’t let anyone gatekeep your decision not to!

Your list is a lot of my personal favorites and must watch’s haha

That fire extinguisher...