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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at CAU chapter.

We all have those movies that traumatized us when we were children. The movies that our parents probably told us not to watch but we watched them anyway. Those movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), when thinking about Freddy Kruger would be the only image in your mind as you are going to sleep. There are many other movies where dying is the greatest fear and there is probably no way to escape it. Because no matter which direction you turn in the movie someone ends up dying!

 

There are three movies that traumatized me when and now that I actually think about it. These movies still scare me to death, these are the movies that I cannot watch by myself. The first movie is Final Destination (2000-2011), Saw (2004-2020) and Dead Silence (2007).

 

Final Destination (2000-2011) 

Every one of the five movies revolves around a little gathering of people who depart. One individual, specifically the hero of each film, has an abrupt hunch and cautions them that they will all bite the dust in a horrendous mass-setback mishap. In the wake of staying away from their prognosticate passings, the survivors are murdered individually in peculiar mishaps brought about by an unknown power. The power made muddled chains of circumstances and logical results, looking like Rube Goldberg machines in their unpredictability, and afterward, read signs sent by another concealed element so as to again deflect their demises.

 

This movie makes my nerves bad, it’s like every little thing matters and seeing the way the people die is just way too gruesome. Final Destination is are good movies overall but I just can’t watch it by myself. I’ll most definitely have nightmares. 

 

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Saw (2004-2020)

The establishment principally spins around John Kramer, additionally called the “Jigsaw Killer” or just “Jigsaw.” He was presented quickly in Saw and created in more detail in Saw II and the consequent movies. Instead of murdering his exploited people inside and out, Jigsaw traps them in circumstances where he calls “tests” or “games” to challenge their will to live through physical or mental torment. He then accepts that on the off chance that they endure, they will be “restored.” Regardless of the way that John was killed in Saw III, the movies keep on concentrating on the after-death impact of the Jigsaw Killer and his understudies by investigating his character by means of flashbacks.

 

This movie is beyond disturbing. Something about inflicting pain on oneself in order to survive. It just sounds ridiculous, my hands are in my face the majority of the time if we are watching this movie together.

 

Dead Silence (2007)

After his significant other meets a shocking end, Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) comes back to their unpleasant old neighborhood of Ravens Fair to disentangle the puzzle of her homicide. Once there, he finds the legend of Mary Shaw (Joan Heney), a killed ventriloquist whose scary nearness despite everything looms over the town. As he urgently burrows for answers, Jamie experiences the revival that took his better half’s life and undermines his own.

 

Now this movie is too scary for me. I really cannot watch it, the scary lady in the movie will rip out your tongue if you scream. It just doesn’t make me want to watch it at all, because if I see her in my dreams, I’m screaming. 

 

These are the movies that I still till this day cannot watch by myself. But other scary movies like Scream, Halloween, Leprechaun and many more scary movies I am capable of watching by myself. Be sure to check out these movies and let us know which movies traumatized you? 

 

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Hey! I am Terri Blige a Senior English Major with a Concentration of Creative Writing at Thee Clark Atlanta University. I am from Connecticut. I am proud to say that I am a writer for HerCampusCAU