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Any scene where somebody's snooping around where they shouldn't be, whether it's somebody's house, some government office, whatever. The higher the likelihood that they'll be caught, the more stressful it is for me. Happens every time.

 

[HermesPan]

Cannibal Holocaust
A Serbian Film
Salo

 

[CrankyJay]

Requiem for a dream...

Yep, came to say this...then saw Darren himself posted about WWZ...lol.

 

[Blinck]

Zodiac.

The whole movie is tense, but there is a certain scene that is just absolutely amazing.
This is the movie that made me love David Fincher. Nothing happens in this movie, but you are always on the edge.

Also:

Argo
Cloverfield
Alien

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

Pi was a really stressful movie. The lead actor transmitted his anxiety directly to you.

 

[RSP]

Speed (first time)

 

[Raiden]

This is the most stressfull fucking movie ever. I love it but gooooooood ..

 

[AkuMifune]

127 Hours.

Oldboy, when you have a sense where it's going.

 

[Camp Lo]

Buried, by far.

Yeah, the amount of feels in this movie was overwhelming my first time through.

 

[dan2026]

I must of missed something with Zodiac, because I found it incredibly boring.

That film was almost 3 hours long and nothing really happened for half of it.

 

[Toa TAK]

I get stressed out when I see someone do something horribly embarrassing.

Second-hand embarrassment is fucking awful, and I tend to feel it in crashing waves that make my heart feel like it's being crushed. I think the last movie I watched that triggered it was "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and lord... the lead character is just a mess.

Me watching "The Office" every time Micheal did something.

The last 30 min of TDKR were exhilarating but stressful.

Dear God also this.

 

[GungHo]

Jacob's Ladder

There are moments where you're not sure if he's going crazy or if you are.

 

[dan2026]

Oh shit I just remembered about Transsiberian. I don't think it has been mentioned yet.
Now there is a stressful movie.

 

[msdstc]

Not sure if this was posted yet, but......

Wow this movie... it just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

edit-

also

 

[Professor Chaos]

Not sure if mentioned yet:

Stressful to watch from start to finish. Incredible film though.

 

[rashbeep]

I really, really hated Funny Games US. So that one.

 

[Zampano]

The Descent the thread

X1000 times this

 

[jorgeton]

Has anyone seen I Melt With You, starring The Punisher, Chris Traeger and Ari Gold?

Starts out like The Hangover with a great soundtrack, turns into something incredibly hard to watch. I had to pause it a couple of times to make it through. Just unrelentingly bleak.

 

[Karak]

The Game with Micheal Douglas. Maybe because I was young but I could never fully tell if it was a game until RIGHT at the end.

 

[dan2026]

Not sure if mentioned yet:

Oh it was mentioned.
That is the only decent film I have seen that I would suggest people NOT watch.
I think it is hazardous to your health.

 

[methane47]

One of the last stress filled movies I had seen was Argo, highly recommend it.

lol no... Argo is a cure for insomnia

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Yeah.. I'm not getting how Argo was a stressful movie to watch. I even thought it was too comical and silly at parts.

 

[hal9001]

A clockwork orange (I was really young when i watched this for the first time.Incredible tension watching it especially during ultra-violent scenes)

 

[HeelPower]

one of my darkest movie experiences....ever

 

[MLCodest]

Buried, by far.

The first time and only time I watched that I had to get up and move around to keep calm towards the end.

Also the first time I saw Inception and Saving Private Ryan had me on the edge of my seat a lot.

 

[williamsan]

Fargo. This movie was really stressing to watch, thinking of William H Macy in particular. It was a good movie but I've watched it only the one time.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

Inglorious Basterds does tension pretty well

These two scenes in particular.

 

[Servizio]

I'm hard pressed to think I'd ever want to watch it again.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Nothing recent comes to mind.

When I was a kid, definitely the Disney Alice and Wonderland.

 

[many places]

Running Scared. It literally ratchets up and never stops. Great film. Nobody I know has heard of it though.

I always reccommend this movie to people.

 

[L00P]

Final Destination

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

*Spoilerific if you haven't seen A.I.*

A.I., Artificial Intelligence David waits like 2000 years in basically lock-down, sleep mode, all this time and effort spent to have one day with his mother because he was programmed to love her. Forever. The aliens or future mechs or whatever arrange it. They have their day. Monica dies in her sleep that night. I cry every time. First time I saw it in the theater, I walked out and sat in my truck and cried so hard trying to, through a sob, explain to my date (yeah, my date - slick moves huh?) why that hit me like a freight train. I fucking cry every time.

Yeah. Though I didn't cry myself, I just couldn't get the damn movie out of my mind for 2 weeks. It depressed the hell out of me. Humanity dead, thousands years have pass, it just searching for remnants of their creator. It's only one day and the advance mecha warned David, they gave him his "blue fairy" and mother to bring closure to this journey. It was just a haunting ending.

You see this fleeting happiness, but realize it's all just ending. I felt so hallow when it ended. I ended up warning my sister, some will see it as some type of "happy ending", which I feel would be the luckier ones as you can easily just toss it aside of that is that, or like me, just totally heartbroken by the end; it was the later for her.

 

[kms_md]

one of my darkest movie experiences....ever

This is an excellent choice. I saw it at Sundance and was completely emotionally drained by the end.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Alot of good ones here.

TDK the first time.
the entire second half of the movie.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

People might laugh but TDK the first time.
the entire second half of the movie.

TDK was just straight intense from start to finish for me, I certainly wouldn't laugh. It was really draining, and had such somber feeling throughout it all especially by the end, with good men falling and our hero being hunted and it just ends that way.

The fact that Health gave such eye gluing complete final performance of his career and yet to never see it complete onscreen made it feel all the more haunting.

 

[poppabk]

Mosquito coast - The descent from hope, success and happiness into despair and failure is just too stressful to watch.

Suburbia - just unremittingly bleak and depressing.

 

[rocksteady1983]

Don't think I saw this one mentioned. Full of great stressful/tense moments.

 

[bigmase84]

 

[Mortimer Brewster]

*Spoilerific if you haven't seen A.I.*





Yeah. Though I didn't cry myself, I just couldn't get the damn movie out of my mind for 2 weeks. It depressed the hell out of me. Humanity dead, thousands years have pass, it just searching for remnants of their creator. It's only one day and the advance mecha warned David, they gave him his "blue fairy" and mother to bring closure to this journey. It was just a haunting ending.

You see this fleeting happiness, but realize it's all just ending. I felt so hallow when it ended. I ended up warning my sister, some will see it as some type of "happy ending", which I feel would be the luckier ones as you can easily just toss it aside of that is that, or like me, just totally heartbroken by the end; it was the later for her.

People like to crap all over AI's ending because they claim that Spielberg shoehorned in a happy ending. But when you think of the ending, its tragic and very much in line with what I assume Kubrick would have done with it.

 

[walkmetothelake]

The Snowtown Murders and Downloading Nancy.

 

[hertog]

The Eye, original version.

Fuck that

Spoiler

lift/metro and psychiatrist

scene.

 

[UrbanRats]

The Snowtown Murders and Downloading Nancy.

The

Spoiler

bathtub

scene.. damn.

The Eye, original version.

Fuck that

Spoiler

lift/metro and psychiatrist

scene.

I think the worst (best) scene for me was actually the one at the beginning, when

Spoiler

she just got the new eyes, in the hospital hall.