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It's a brilliant movie, but one you really only want to see once.
I don't.
Why would you feed your mind those violent, dark, horrific images?
You really want that stuff in your mind, or anyone else's mind? Are you sick? Why do you want to disturb this woman's mind by exposing her to images of the worst things a person can do to another person? WHY? Are you a psychopath trying to "punish" her for some imagined sin?
I don't need to have nightmare fuel in my head. I've been through enough bad shit in reality to mess me up, and I haven't witnessed any murders.
What you watch influences you for good or ill. I am not saying you should only watch light Disney movies. But it would help to watch positive or funny movies instead.
If you watch something violent, how about a war movie that's NOT fiction, about how evil comes to be accepted, even compelled conformist normal behavior by normal people following orders, and maybe LEARN something about how to not have it happen in the future?
How about "Schindler's List" or "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"???
my take on it as well.
My mind is a sick and twisted place all by itself. It never fails to scare the holy living shit out of me on a regular basis. I don't need to be adding to my nightmares.
And in truth, I never really got over the trauma I experienced as a child when I saw "Lassie Come Home". I absolutely loved animals as a child...still do.
The idea of a poor doggy being lost and alone just ripped my heart to shreds when I was a kid. My parents were at a loss as to how to comfort me. It didn't matter that it was "only a movie". I knew that somewhere in the world, that movie reflected real life and I couldn't stand it. Still makes me cry to this day.
anyway, I can't tolerate anything suspenseful or bloody or scary. They make me physically ill.
Disney movies can be traumatic too. Hell, when I was a toddler, two or three, I saw The Blob and the Incredible Shrinking Man and Mothra, and I got the shit scared out of me, because I was entirely too young to see them. Those were very mild by today's standards. If I'd been older, they wouldn't have been traumatic.
Alfred Hitchcock knew how to produce suspense without showing blood.
Also, I don't understand why overwhelming numbers of TV shows and movies are about stalking women and violence against women. Does this tell men that it's OK to commit violence against women, or is it a reflection of the social attitude that it's OK to commit violence against women? Or is it both??
I say that condoning violence against men and children is wrong as well.
My daughter made me watch some movies that she likes. I guess she was hoping I would get something out of them. I didn't. I watched Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill 2 (I think).
I remember nothing about them. Stylized, abstracted blood spatters & violence in Kill Bill just baffled me.
She also made me watch Dude Where's My Car? and Beavis and Butthead Do America. I got a lot more out of those two movies. 
I made her watch The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam, which is my favorite movie of all time. More info: www.greatomar.com
movies (for me) didn't have blood or overt violence in it.
It was the original "When a Stranger Calls".
Like you said, the same old stalking-the-defenseless-female plot...
but the tension builds and builds and finally the cops call the babysitter and tell her "He's calling from inside the house".
OMG. Just typing that out gave me the chills!!!
Anyway, I saw "Pulp Fiction" also, and totally didn't get it. The appeal of it, I mean.
I'm probably a little too literal for some of the really deep stuff... 
Even though the violence is more implied than graphic, it's still very disturbing to watch.
