# Unexpectedly creepy movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932 "2006-02-04T01:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/1 "2006-02-04T01:18:34Z")
I just finished watching **The Final Countdown** and it was much creepier than I remember. Mind you, it’s not intended that way (I think), it was just my response to the movie, one I didn’t have the first time around. What movies really threw you for a loop and were weirder than you expected? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/2 "2006-02-04T03:06:20Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > What movies really threw you for a loop and were weirder than you expected? I was really, deeply, disturbed by the opening scenes in “The Truman Show.” I mean shaking and nauseated and lightheaded when the narrator was introducing baby Truman. It just horrified me. I think I’m alone in that reaction. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/3 "2006-02-04T03:07:42Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > What movies really threw you for a loop and were weirder than you expected? One hour photo I expected more of some kind of slasher movie, it just turned out to be disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/4 "2006-02-04T03:08:32Z")
**Free Willy** _::shudder::_ ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/5 "2006-02-04T03:24:11Z")
I just saw Oldboy, directed by Chan-wook Park. I thought I was in for a little of the ol’ ultraviolence, but this movie was just sick. sick, sick. I made the mistake of watching it with this guy on our second date. :eek: Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/6 "2006-02-04T03:39:46Z")
Although they’re now a favorite genre, I didn’t even know black comedies existed when I first watched _Serial Mom_ at thirteen or fourteen. It was a rather rude awakening. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/7 "2006-02-04T04:20:33Z")
I remember in 1990 when Misery with James Caan and Kathy Bates came out. IIRC, the trailer that was on TV projected it in a humorous vein, and both I and my girlfriend kept waiting for the punchline. hh ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/8 "2006-02-04T04:51:14Z")
“Funny Games.” Yech. No fun, no games, just 90 minutes of viciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/9 "2006-02-04T05:13:25Z")
Grizzly Man. I was expecting a colorful documentary with a sad ending. What I got was a disturbing look at a guy that was running headlong for self destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/10 "2006-02-04T05:25:23Z")
**Harold and Maude** really crept me out. The plot outline was something like “Harold meets Maude and his life changes.” I did not expect them to have sex. The movie was good if you omit that part from your memory. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/11 "2006-02-04T05:55:06Z")
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Marlon Brando version). That movie opened a whole new perspective on people for me. 28 Days Later was basically the same movie, only with slightly better special effects. I don’t think it worked as well. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/12 "2006-02-04T09:48:48Z")
oh gosh while I liked Chances Are, the whole incestual implications made me go hmm? ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/13 "2006-02-04T13:41:36Z")
Nurse Betty. I was expecting a silly comedy, not a movie with scalpings. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/14 "2006-02-04T17:39:21Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > What movies really threw you for a loop and were weirder than you expected? [Happiness.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/) And I expected it to be pretty weird from the start. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/15 "2006-02-04T19:59:51Z")
Even though it’s totally campy, we just watched **They Live** the other night and that movie is very creepy. All those subliminal messages and camouflaged aliens…I was ooged out and I’ve watched that movie many times. [obligatory movie quote] I’ve come here to chew bubblegum and kick some ass…AND I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLE GUM!!! [/obligatory movie quote] ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/16 "2006-02-04T20:11:14Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > oh gosh while I liked Chances Are, the whole incestual implications made me go hmm? And along those lines, that make-out scene with Marty and his future mom in **Back to the Future** just squicked me out! :eek: Also, I was never able to look at the first two **Star Wars** movies quite the same way again once I found out that Luke and Leia were siblings ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/17 "2006-02-04T20:19:32Z")
The ads for _ **Falling Down** _ made it look like some sort of comedy. I kept waiting for it to be funny. By the time I had become certain that it wasn’t a comedy, or even a black comedy, I didn’t have time to adjust my perspective before things got really serious on the screen. I was kinda pissed because I had been misled resulting in confusion. I’ve seen it since and it is a pretty good movie, but the first time creeped me out in a weird way. I _like_ movies that set you up for a major hit of cognitive dissonance–I _hate_ ad-agency idiots who do. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/18 "2006-02-04T20:21:14Z")
Howard Hawks _Monkey Business_. Cary Grant is a scientist who invents a youth serum. Both he and his wife (Ginger Rogers) overdose on it and regress to childhood. In keeping with Hawks’s more-complex-than-it-looks approach to moviemaking (_Gentlemen Prefer Blonds_, anyone?), the slapstick situations gradually reveal themselves to be a pretty thin mask over the bizarre and disturbing innate-savagery-of-man theme that darkens the picture. For me, at any rate. Also, the unfathomable subtext of the subject of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=356498) recent thread of mine still have me shaking my head. Violently. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/19 "2006-02-04T20:27:35Z")
**Dave** kind of freaked me out, too. OK, the president is incapacitated, and a look-a-like is brought in to fill the gap, and instead of nodding and accepting orders, he just starts making policy without any political experience whatsoever. Cute, right? No, actually that’s pretty screwed up. OK, I liked it a little. It **was** pretty cute. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/20 "2006-02-04T20:40:54Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > **Dave** kind of freaked me out, too. OK, the president is incapacitated, and a look-a-like is brought in to fill the gap, and instead of nodding and accepting orders, he just starts making policy without any political experience whatsoever. Cute, right? > > No, actually that’s pretty screwed up. > > OK, I liked it a little. It **was** pretty cute. Hmm. Well, considering \*Dave \*is roughly a remake of _The Prisoner of Zenda_, it’s odd that there’s no such disconnect in that movie. Maybe we accept the arbitrarity of a monarch’s rule moreso than a president’s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932.md?page=2)