10 More Horror Movies So Sad You Can Only Watch Them Once
One viewing of these horror movies is enough for a lifetime.
Not every great movie is something you can sit down and watch again and again, and that's totally fine - sometimes films are heavy enough that they can only be experienced every couple of years at most.
But sometimes a film proves such an emotionally, viscerally jolting sit that a single viewing is enough for life, and the prospect of voluntarily watching it a second or third time seems totally out of the question.
This is surely never more common than in the horror genre, which can strike such a brutal nerve with audiences, conjuring up a vision so sad, depressing, and soul-destroying, that it's tough for audiences to go back there emotionally.
And so, as a sequel to our prior article on the subject, here are 10 more horror movies that leave such a bruising impact on the viewer's psyche that there's neither no need nor desire to see them again.
Their imagery and themes leave such a deep impression that you'll vividly remember them years, perhaps even decades later, and even though you might consider them great cinema, the desire to revisit them might be non-existent...
10. Train To Busan
It's admittedly pretty rare for zombie films to fully engage all the emotions, and to take one look at South Korean horror Train to Busan, you probably wouldn't assume it to be one of the most wrenchingly sad entries into the genre ever made.
Much as the film is packed with gory action, it's fundamentally about a father, Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), trying to protect his estranged daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an), in the midst of an undead apocalypse.
It might sound like standard fare for the genre, but Train to Busan is a film that creeps up on viewers emotionally.
Seok-woo isn't exactly the most likeable of protagonists to begin with, and it's only over the course of the movie, while stepping up and acting as protector to his daughter, that he wins the audience over.
That it takes a zombie outbreak for Seok-woo to become the father he needed to be is a depressing revelation in itself, but the climax is very likely to leave you wiping floods of tears away.
Given that we as horror fans have something of a collective fatigue with zombie fare, it's uncommon for any modern entries to induce such feelings.
But at the same time, because this isn't a strictly "fun" zombie movie, you might not be compelled to revisit it much, if at all.