The Beast Within: I saw it only once, back in the '80s horror movie craze. The torturous transformation of the horrified teen boy into the same kind of monstrous beast that his "father" was (raped his mother in the woods after killing her boyfriend, if memory serves)....deeply bothered me.
Friday the 13th (original): the Elephant Man bag on Jason's head; his coming up out of the lake at the end...
Altered States: The idea that a person could get in one of those isolation tanks that were briefly popular in the late '70s-'early '80s and regress so deeply into himself in the liquid blackness that he'd emerge an Australopithecus (or whatever that thing was): profoundly disturbing.
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