Your Most "Haunting" Movies/Books/etc.

[EvanCooper93]

What I mean by haunting is not technically scary. It's like a movie or book that really freaked you out, but you were intrigued by it. I hope I'm making since...
Feel free to explain if you'd like to!

For me: *SPOILERS*

The Virgin Suicides (book and movie)
What's not haunting about this movie/book? It's about 5 sisters who all commit suicide within one year. The only perspective you get are outside sources and you'll never know why the girls killed themselves. One of my favorite movies too!

The Road (book)
A post-apocalyptic world with a man and his son trying to survive. All of the other living people are cannibals. If you've read the book or seen the movie, you'll understand why the cellar scene is so intense.

Anne Frank (book/whole story)
A real girl and her family hiding for their life from the Nazis. When they get caught, it's so devastating and only gets worse.

The Blair Witch Project (movie)
One of the only few movies that have actually freaked me out. It reminds you that there are a lot of things in this world that doesn't meet the eye. A lot of creepy stuff happens out there that we probably don't even know of. (even if this is fake)

[willowsummers]

First off, have you seen The Ice Storm? The book is written by Jeffrey Eugenides' friend and the movie is really good- also pretty haunting.

Movies
Communion - Starring Christopher Walken and based on the book by Whitley Streiber - about a man who can assume nothing else except that he's been abducted by aliens for most of his life

A Beautiful Mind - Starring Russell Crowe and based on the true story of John Nash - a brilliant man with schizophrenia who is able to overcome his illness

Revenge of the Sith - just simply because it is the most awesome movie, visually, that I've ever seen and because for the Star Wars and Sci-fi world, it is epic

The Stepford Wives - based on the book by Ira Levin - about men's control over women and women allowing them to do it

Everything Is Illuminated - starring Elijah Wood and based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer - about a young jewish man who travels to the Ukraine to find out about his heritage

La Dolce Vita - an old Italian movie by Fellini - a young man getting wrapped up in "The Good Life"

Picnic At Hanging Rock - about a group of girls around 1900 in a private school - some of them become missing on a field trip and the rest of the movie is the mystery of what happened to them(You'll love it EvanCooper)

2001 and 2010 - based on the books by Arthur C. Clarke and truly epic. I can say no more.

Silence of the Lambs because it's an important and horrifying movie that you'll never forget

Citizen Kane - directed by Orson Welles - A rich man looking for what he cannot find

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - directed by Steven Spielberg - about aliens contacting us

Henry and June - erotic, powerful and beautiful

Last Year At Marienbad - an old, hard to find movie which is also hard to understand but one you will never forget

Mulholland Drive - David Lynch is a genius

Books

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[drusillacakes]

Requiem for a Dream haunts me to this day. I couldn't look at a TV or a fridge for a week.

[AngelFaith]

Apr 11, 2010 19:27:25 GMT -5 EvanCooper93 said:

The Virgin Suicides (book and movie)
What's not haunting about this movie/book? It's about 5 sisters who all commit suicide within one year. The only perspective you get are outside sources and you'll never know why the girls killed themselves. One of my favorite movies too!

As soon as I saw the name of this thread I thought of The Virgin Suicides. I first saw the movie when I was fourteen and ten years later it has not lost any of it's impact. The book is just as beautiful and haunting.

We Were Soldiers The books is called We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, and both are amazingly brutal, realistic and haunting. I cry from the sheer shock and emotion of the battle scenes, Mel Gibson's performance is amazing and the book is so descriptive that it makes you feel like you are right there in the action.

Thirteen, an amazingly real, gut-wrenching movie portraying teenage life in a brutal and very confronting way. Catherine Hardwick's direction is wonderful and the story is shocking and amazing.

2:37 this is an Australian film which follows one day in the lives of six students which culminates in a suicide in the bathroom of a high school. Each student's story is fascinating and the suicide scene is so confronting that the first time my friends and I saw it, two of us couldn't stop crying after the film ended.

Monster Charlize deserved that Oscar a hundred times over for her amazing portrayal of Aileen Wuernos. I was left speechless by the end of this film, just superb.

The Pact this was the first Jodi Picoult book I ever read and I couldn't put it down. The story is written in the most beautiful narrative and the book leaves such a sad, haunting feeling with you once it's over. Simply amazing.

[whitecandy]

When I was younger, a trilogy of books called The Forbidden Game used to really freak me out. I haven't read them for years, but whenever I see a guy with almost white hair, even now, it gives me the creeps...

The Ring movies are quite haunting to me. When I am watching them, I don't really feel that scared, but afterwards when I am walking round my house or trying to sleep, I keep seeing that girl just standing there *shivers* but I still watch them when they are on the telly as they just intrigue me so much.

[The Girl In Question]

Coincidentally, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is the most haunting book I've ever read. I don't know what category it goes under, but the stories that are in that book will stick with me for life. I found myself disgusted on every possible level, but also intrigued.

It's about seventeen different writers who get an invitation to a "writer's retreat" by a man named Mr. Whittier. When they arrive, they are locked in a room and told that they all have three months to write a story before they're free to leave. As it turns out, the victims are way more frightening than the crazy man who locked them in there.

[Darth Rosie]

Whow, what a great thread!

Requiem for a Dream impressed me immensely and, yes, haunted me.

The silence of the lambs is one of my all time favourites.

And I realize I just have to watch The Virgin Suicides again.

[Tea - Total]

Paranormal activity, god that movie was shockingly scary.(MOVIE)
it, i hate clowns,(book)

[whitecandy]

I finished reading The Road last week, and agree with EvanCooper93 about the cellar scene *shivers* The whole book really affected me, it made me sad and upset, but also made me realise what I have and be hopeful that the scenario in The Road is never to happen in the future.

[The Girl In Question]

Battle Royale (the novel--the movie is not that great) has always had a haunting effect on me, too. That's some really intense stuff, and for it to be happening to a class of 15 year olds...makes the whole thing that more disturbing.