Good? Movies that Made you feel Ill

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I'll second Alien (the entire series). All the saliva really does it for me.

I tend to watch movies and then analyze how well they portray the human mind and experience.
My daughter doesn't seem to share my interest in why this character might have taken the actions they did, how anyone has the capacity to do this or that thing yet we don't, ect. ect.

So... a year or so ago I rented SAW and SAW II. Got through them alright and found it an interesting premise on human nature.

SAW III came out in the theaters and I went to see it.

Walked out after the first kidnapping incident where the guy has rings through his ankles, neck, wrists, etc. and has to break free...

Something about it just really turned my stomach and I had to leave.
Guess I had enough of that sort of stuff already?

Like I said, I watched the first two and found some really interesting things in them, but I was feeling physically sick sitting there at SAW III.

Funny thing (or perhaps not!)... there was this young boy in the theater who stayed when I left... he was all of 10 y.o. perhaps?

This is something different but I thought it sorta was related...

I once happened upon a body modification site.
This is where people have plastic pieces embedded underneath their skin to raise bumps and make patterns similar to certain African tribes who practise(d) body mod and sarification.

There was also branding, scarring, piercing of the type you don't normally see out in public, tongue cutting, ear shaping... you get the picture I hope.

It was interesting to see what people will subject their bodies to.
I had also seen prior to this, people who pierce their bodies with large fish hooks and hang from cords attached to them... suspension. Not in person, but on video and on the 'net.

All of this is quite interesting to me in terms of, like I said above, what it must take for a person to put themselves through all that.

But, when I saw a photo of a circumcision (this was basically a man having his already cir'ced penis 'skinned'), I got that sick-to-my-stomach feeling and had to leave the website quickly.

I've seen surgeries up close and personal, seen photos of the steps in the vaginoplasty surgery which is the sex-change surgery for genetic males, and those never bothered me. But the circ stuff just turned my stomach.

So, real-life or movies... I can tolerate quite a bit, I think, but there have been times when something just made me nauseous.

Sorry if this was too far off topic.

One documentary that made me feel ill was Harvest of Despair, about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33. As I was interested in Ukraine at the time, it was interesting, although very sad.

The Stranger Beside Me.

Based on Ted Bundy's killing spree. I enjoyed the movie, but some scenes were a bit...strange, to say the least.

Fear Dot Com.

I advise those who haven't seen it, to stay away from it.

The thing is that many of the scenes passed in horror films today would have been banned outright just a few years back. Some of them are really very nasty yet they get no trouble with the censors.

Saw II (but still watchable), The Descent, I guess Saw 3 & 4 would make me sick if I watched them...


EDIT: forgot to add - The Hills have Eyes (Unrated). That Cancer-head caracter was disgusting. Also Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. 'Nuff said.

In the other thread I mentioned "Jacob's Ladder." I think it fits in this category. The hospital scene in particular got to me. Of course there were a bunch of other random scenes which were downright creepy. I find myself loving that film in a strange way though.

The new Rambo movie was a big splatter fest, but also awesome.

"No Country For Old Men" might fit this category. My hats off to this one for coming up with a truly terrifying bad guy. Chigurh is bad and he knows it. If you displease him the slightest bit, you're dead. Damn, I hope I never run into someone like him.