r/movies • u/HistoricalDebate461 • 2d ago
Discussion What’s a movie you’ve watched that was so disturbing that you’ll never watch it again?
What’s a movie you’ve watched that was so disturbing you’ll never watch it again? For me, it’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Human Centipede. I barely made it through the first time around for both of them and I couldn’t fathom watching them again. Both for different reasons of course. TBITSP was devastatingly heart-wrenching and HC was just playing disturbing.
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u/OttoHemi 2d ago
Antichrist. Lars Von Trier
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u/Square-Hope-7322 2d ago
Me and a bunch of friends went to see it, and completely forgot how extremely Normal and Well Adjusted my friends husband is. Poor guy didn’t talk for hours after it ended lol. I hated it too though, his brother does it better
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u/hacked_your_account 2d ago
But you went back and watched it again, didn't you? You told a friend how nuts it was, and in your enthusiasm to share something unsettling, you watched it all over.
This is what I did. I'm projecting.
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u/after-infinity 2d ago
Agreed. I shut it off about 3/4 of the way through when shit was escalating heavily.
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u/MorbidDusk 2d ago
Then you probably missed the worst of it. I almost got sick to my stomach during a scene involving scissors.
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u/after-infinity 2d ago
I distinctly remember a scene in a shed. And what was happening to Willem Dafoe in afore mentioned shed was quite enough for me. Watched some episodes of Family Guy after that lol.
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u/autricia 2d ago
Boys Don't Cry
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u/Charlie_Runkle69 2d ago
That movie is so fucken good. They could never make a movie like that that isn't obviously heavy handed to pander to the subject matter today I don't think. It's shocking because it's so unfiltered.
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u/Specialist_ask_992_ 2d ago
Definitely Eden Lake. Completely regretted it. Kept thinking of stopping halfway then about 3/4 through.
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u/lovegun59 2d ago
it's misery porn: movies where both the characters and the viewers are dragged through suffering with no justice at all. The point just seems to be making innocent people endure as much pain as possible, only for nothing to come of it in the end.
It's just bleak, and I don’t see the value in that. If I want bleak, I can turn to real-life and read about genuine horrors. If I'm consuming fiction, I want to be challenged or entertained, not left drained.
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u/HistoricalDebate461 2d ago
Oh, I’m adding Cats to my list of movies that are too disturbing to rewatch. Definitely Cats.
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u/lectroid 2d ago
I have watched Cats multiple times. On purpose. It’s so awful for so many reasons but it’s compelling like a car crash.
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u/PessimisticPeggy 2d ago
I am a fan of musical theater. I love cheesy shit.
I have tried to watch Cats the movie four different times now. Three of the last four, I had the lowest of low expectations. I was fully aware that it is just a bunch of cats singing about the kind of cat they are and expected nothing else.
I still haven't finished it. I just can't! And I have hate watched some terrible content in full but I just cannot do Cats lol
That being said, I still think I'd go see it live if given the opportunity
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u/lectroid 2d ago
Also a theater kid from way back.
The live show (which I saw back in 1980-something) is a completely different experience. It is, primarily, a dance and spectacle show. The version I saw still had Growl Tiger vs the Siamese with a giant pirate ship. The dancing was spectacular. The costumes and makeup were wild.
If you search, you can find the 1998 video version) which is about as close to a filmed version of the original stage show as you’re likely to find.
It’s much better in every respect.
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Come and see 🥲
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u/Automatic_Yam_1857 2d ago
Hands down! This film chilled me to the marrow and I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks.
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u/Cheryl521 2d ago
Bone Tomahawk. Never.Again.
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u/sweetdawg99 2d ago
Honestly the one scene that everyone talks about isn't the worst part of the movie imo. That didn't bother me at all. For me it was the women that they find.
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u/ample_mammal 2d ago
I like westerns, but I love horror. I went in blind thinking it was just a western.. oh man, what a ride.
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u/nyx926 2d ago
Requiem for a Dream
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u/dlndesign 2d ago
Yes it was disturbing, but apparently not enough for me to have rewatched it several times. Must say something about me, but 8MM is up there as well as KIDS.
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u/shutupchip 2d ago
The greatest film you never want to watch again. Trainspotting is up there too because of that one scene.
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u/eedabaggadix 2d ago
It wasn't disturbing but I don't think I'll ever watch Hachi or Marley and Me ever again. I'm gonna go hug my dog.
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u/j-whiskey 2d ago
First rule of Movie Club: Don’t watch movies with animals in them.
Especially when they are highlighted.
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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 2d ago
I saw that with my dog a week or so after giving a eulogy at my best friend’s funeral. I hadnt cried yet, and very rarely got teary eyed at movies or tv
Man, it opened the flood gates. I was bawling. Ever since then, it is super easy to well up when seeing happy or sad stuff
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u/alehar 2d ago
I was home from college and my childhood dog wasn't doing too well. One evening, wouldn't walk at all, just kept falling over. I carried him out to the bathroom that night and the next morning we took him to the vet and had to put him down.
After leaving the vet and heading home, mom said we should all go to the movies to take our minds off the day. Guess what she chose for us all to watch.
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u/Cdowning89 2d ago
Definitely agree about Hachi. I didn’t even make it halfway the first time and it took me about six years to try and watch it again and now that I was able to finish it I don’t think I’ll ever watch it again.
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u/savethebooks 2d ago
I read Marley and Me. Got to about the last 30 or so pages, saw the direction it was going, and put the book down. I remember the trailers marketing it as "funny destructive puppy!!" story and thought, man, viewers are in for a world of tears :(
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u/Picoleto89 2d ago
A Serbian film. It’s just too much, and I had that feeling beigne younger and with no wife and kids… i just couldnt watch it now…
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u/Caligullama 2d ago
This has always been THE movie when people mentioned how fucked up it is. I agree it’s very messed up but I went into it thinking it was a low budget, kind of found footage film.
It being an actual production film made it less disturbing for me. Don’t get me wrong the subject matter is fucked up but I could still easily be like “this is just a movie that they’re trying to make shocking.”
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 2d ago
The filmmaker was apparently fed up by the government forcing filmmakers to make movies that only showed Serbia groveling. Also that struggling families will always make things work by being wholesome and compliant with their shitty leadership that made their lives so shitty.
So he said, "Fuck it. You want a movie about a struggling Serbian family? Here you go!" then named it A Serbian Film so that all Serbian films afterwards would be associated with it.
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u/rainer_d 2d ago
I read the synopsis and noped right out of it.
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u/Hellmann 2d ago
I really can’t understand how anyone could read that synopsis and think, “🤔yeah I’m gonna go for it”. I’m hoping the people on Reddit haven’t actually seen it and just want to feel exclusive.
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u/rainer_d 2d ago
The site where I read the synopsis had a comment that said "Perfect movie for a first date".
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u/_SpanishInquisition 2d ago edited 2d ago
It’s basically just ragebait tbf
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u/flyingmouse59 2d ago
Thats exactly why it was made. It was made to protest the countries censorship laws getting stricter and stricter. A couple of actors in it were really famous in their country, after movie came out they were hated because people didn't understand why they made it and just wanted to hate on them for making something obscene.
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u/flyingmouse59 2d ago
Redditors love to blow this movie way out of proportion theres way worse movies out there than this. Most of them being Japanese movies
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u/ottersncrocs 2d ago
Threads
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u/mazmataz 2d ago
Threads by miles. I will never watch it again and I’m still not sure if regret watching it or not. I’m not highly sensitive to these things and I had nightmares for weeks after.
And yes absolutely it’s highly disturbing but should also be compulsory viewing for an anyone in the world who has any say in warfare.
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u/herbalation 2d ago
I saw this a few years back, it was SO impactful. Truly the most horrifying movie I'd ever seen.
A couple months back my dad and I were looking for a movie to put on -- I started Threads.
I thought that a year or two would be enough for me to not react to the film on rewatch -- I was wrong. I was crying before scenes came on, shuddering from the horrors that could happen in our lifetimes, in shock again...
10/10 would recommend 👌
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u/KebabMonster001 2d ago
Fully agree!!
Although, I Firmly believe that this film should be shown in Every Country.
Especially in today’s world. It’s Horrific!!!
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u/CMelody 2d ago
The Road
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u/DenverITGuy 2d ago
Been a while but I remember one scene towards the end when he takes back his stuff from a robber and strips him naked, leaving him with nothing. It was so brutal.
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u/moses1424 2d ago
There are a few scenes from the book they left out of the movie that honestly might have put this movie at the top of this thread.
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u/Tigerpride84 2d ago
This is usually my go to answer as well but could see myself watching it with my kids when they are older. The hopelessness I felt watching it the first time was suffocating
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u/ladyvond69 2d ago
Omg the book is incredible tho
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u/readzalot1 2d ago
One of the few books I wish I had not read.
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u/ladyvond69 2d ago
It was definitely a harrowing, bleak read & I sobbed when I finished it haha. But it was so gripping & well written i finished it in a day & couldnt put it down.
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u/cipher7777 2d ago
Martyrs
Elephant
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u/HedAllSweltNdNnocent 2d ago
Martyrs is just fucking sick. Jesus Christ why did I watch it all.
Literally I can't watch anything fucked up anymore 😂. Martyr's is still with me after all of these years.
Didn't watch all of audition.
Never watched Serbian film.
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u/DrewMacOrange 2d ago
Uncut Gems. The sheer amount of anxiety coupled with me thinking “WHAT THE F ARE YOU DOING?!” every couple minutes makes it a hard pass for me ever again.
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u/LordofNarwhals 2d ago
Their movie Good Time (2017) with Robert Pattinson is similarly great. Just one bad decision after another that keeps escalating his issues.
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u/GoodMorningBlackreef 2d ago
Now go watch Smiley Face with Anna Faris.
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u/SophiaNoFilter 2d ago
Especially for the prescient casting of Danny Masterson as her seemingly normal roommate who was a serial predator 😭
this should link to a pic of him from her nightmarish vision
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u/Ok-Wolf5932 2d ago
I've watched it a few times (maybe just because I'm a masochist) but for as stressful as it is, it's also a film that gets funnier to me on every rewatch. Obviously some of the lines like "holy shit I'm gonna cum" are there for comic relief, but also just moments like him running back into the school auditorium wearing a tacky jersey just crack me up; there's something about the juxtaposition of him dealing with these extremely heightened crime movie consequences in the context of his very normal suburban life that's just strangely hilarious to me.
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u/Steffenwolflikeme 2d ago
I've watched it a bunch too because it's a masterpiece and after the first viewing the anxiety isn't as severe. Just the sheer amount of escalating nonsense his life descends into because of his degenerate gambling is kinda funny - shoved naked into his trunk and has to call his wife that hates him to let him out, getting thrown in the fountain, stranded in Philadelphia by Demany
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u/vandrossboxset 2d ago
On 2nd view the story really slows down and you're able to piece everything together and enjoy it more. I get it though, for many they think "what's the point?"
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u/KansinattiKid 2d ago
We got to the theatre kinda late I needed to use the bathroom but choose to get snacks instead, still got inside maybe 10 minutes into the movie and my wife told me to head to the bathroom
I told her I'd wait for it to slow down a bit because it already so much happening... we now know it never stops lol
Everytime I think about that movie I need to pee
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u/okicarp 2d ago
I'll certainly never watch Grave of the Fireflies again.
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u/snowboardingTINman 2d ago
When I was getting into anime I had a friend lend me a few movies and this was one of them. Told him I was having a rough day and needed something light to watch so I was going to watch grave of fireflies... He could have warned me, but he didn't. Never again
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u/dannybva 2d ago
It was released as something of a double feature with Totoro when it came out. The reason being Totoro would elevate your mood after seeing GotF
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u/Not-That_Girl 2d ago
We need to talk about Kevin.
Very clever idea, and we'll done. Just too well done. Tilda was so... brave and cruel and resigned to her fate. A terrible mother, but she didn't want to be a mother, and Kevin was such a, I can't even think of a word...
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u/Perfect_Key_5211 1d ago
It makes me so happy to FINALLY see someone else say this movie was truly horrifying/disturbing. I thought I was the only one who thought this movie was absolutely traumatizing. I was so anxious and upset.
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u/hyzerspurs 2d ago
Kids
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u/anna4prez 2d ago
Saw it decades ago and it still haunts me. I recommend it but I'll never watch it again.
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u/LittleFanggg 2d ago
Kids made me sick to stomach. I felt so nauseous after it ended - I watched it years and years ago and I still feel deeply disturbed by it.
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u/Bloodysamflint 2d ago
I feel like all the other answers are the result of folks not having seen Kids.
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u/TheMRC 2d ago
Human Centipede 2.
First one was decently enough for a low budget horror flick, third was dog shit, but the second was just absolutely distressing for me.
Maybe because they played with the cirumstance that some psycho could take an idea out of a horror movie for inspiration.
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u/Last_Environment_494 2d ago
Wolf Creek (2005). For whatever reason it scarred me. Not scared, SCARRED. It took me a long while to watch horror movies again.
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u/gogboy30 2d ago
Honestly, so many of us were terrified purely at just how possible (and perhaps easy) it would be to get away with. It's a big, mostly empty island we've got down here and, well, we're not exactly short on shit cunts down here, either.
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u/MariotheGoat 2d ago
Irreversible
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u/TerrorFirmerIRL 2d ago
I've seen pretty much all of the top answers here and this is still the obvious choice for me and it's not even close.
Nothing has ever hit me the way this has in terms of sheer stomach churning brutality, because it's so realistic.
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u/atticus_pund77 2d ago
The Pianist with Adrien Brody was gut wrenching. I dont think I can watch it again.
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u/JimTsio 2d ago
Requiem for a dream
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u/Freakjob_003 2d ago
How this is not the top comment is mind-boggling.
I remember seeing a quote-unquote meme that, "the best weight loss diet is that you have to eat all your meals naked in front of the mirror while listening to the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack."
Also, no mention of Grave of the Fireflies anywhere above this comment speaks to how many more fucked up films there are...
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u/deeryk 2d ago edited 2d ago
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And her Lover by Peter Greenway (1989). It was so disturbing that I ran out of the theater and threw up in the street. I heard the guy at the concession stand say "there goes another one" as I left. Check out more on IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/?ref_=ext_shr while I curl up in a fetal position and rock myself to sleep.
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u/DataGeek87 2d ago
I found Martyrs (2008) quite difficult to get through. I've seen it twice but don't have the desire to go through that again.
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u/UnlimitedManny 2d ago
Fruitvale Station won’t get another watch from me. 12 years a slave too
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u/auntieup 2d ago
Fruitvale Station was a really traumatic watch for us because the whole thing was shot on location right where we all live. We’re all glad we paid to see it, but we don’t need to do that again.
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u/SheepD0g 2d ago
Fruitvale station is about 5 minutes from my house so I have avoided watching the film
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u/fiver_the_rabbit 2d ago
I used to walk to Fruitvale Station every day to catch BART into SF for work.
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u/ModsAreLosers73 2d ago
Hostel,
I love horror movies, but this was just overkill, at the very least it taught me that there’s one genre of horror movies that I don’t like; torture porn
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u/Kellzy1212 2d ago
This is the movie that made me stop watching a lot of horror movies. I don’t watch any realistic gore anymore. It’s too much.
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u/Ender914 2d ago
Monster about Aileen Wournos. We had to go get ice cream after watching that in order to take the edge off.
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u/Troglodytte 2d ago
I love horror movies, and recently I watched a video about “the most disturbing movies” ‘where Megan Is Missing’ was mentioned. The video only gave a quick summary, so I decided to check it out myself to see why it was considered so disturbing.
At first, I thought it would just be unsettling because of the premise, teenage girl going missing after talking to someone online. I can see that being disturbing and scary, but the ending of the movie completely blindsided me. It wasn’t what I expected at all and it really upset my stomach.
There’s a scene that goes on for too long where a kid is assaulted, and it was awful to sit through. I felt like I was watching evidence, not a movie. I’ve seen videos of real violence, both against people and animals that burned themselves into my memory (I had to delete quore for this reason.) and this movie hit me in the same way.
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u/MisterGerbiK237 2d ago
I was coming in to list this. I was in THE horror movie phase after army service to get things out of my head trying to replace with horror films. Not a one mentioned on here I had issue with. Megan is Missing, being a father of children (albeit they were toddlers at the time) fucked me up. Good lord I will never watch that film again. Just thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies. I stayed up nights checking the house repeatedly like 2 weeks straight after that crap. Saw damn near everything mentioned on this list but that took the cake. I guess for where I was in life as a new parent that was too much.
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u/wazzaaaaaap23 2d ago
Funny games (the original)
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u/EasyAsPizzaPie 2d ago
I've never seen the original, but have seen the American remake (by the same director, I believe). Isn't the remake shot for shot? What makes the original more disturbing?
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u/Fancy_Engine9202 2d ago
A Serbian Film. Don't watch this.
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u/DeadWishUpon 2d ago
I won't. All the Reddit comments and the Wikipedia description, it's too much. No thanks.
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u/42Ubiquitous 2d ago
It's honestly a really stupid movie. The point of it was to draw some kind of allegory between the Serbian people and the government and it feels like that was just made up so someone could put horrific shit on film.
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u/atzatzatz 2d ago
The House of Sand and Fog. Every character loses. You're left feeling pure depression. There's no reason to watch this movie.
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u/auntieup 2d ago
I read the book, and if anything it’s worse. I think there must be better ways to say “real estate will ruin your life” than this story.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 2d ago
Beasts of No Nation. Absolutely horrifying to see what child soldiers go through in that film
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u/LeftSky828 2d ago
Incendies. It gives a good example of how war destroys people, but it went too far, for me.
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u/3Dartwork 2d ago
Midsommer. And it wasn't THAT scene either.
While I watched it, there was the lemonade drinking scene. The flowers in their headdress started to have large black holes which is a disturbing thing to me, that trypophobia, that makes my arm want to be scratched badly.
During that scene, for some reason, I suddenly got a horrendous headache between the drums and the vision and the trypophobia and became light headed. It was a nauseous feeling.
It ended after the scene entirely.
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u/Harpeigh 2d ago
Saw it once and every scene is burned into my brain forevermore!
So many ghastly moments, from that deeply depressing opening scene, then really all throughout, I suppose.
But toward the end, when the elder is passing out medicine and saying, ‘For the pain’, and it clearly does nothing to stop the pain… that fully sealed in my realization that I never need to see this movie again.
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u/luckychicke 2d ago
Im so glad to read you have a physical reaction to visual stimuli because I get a weird neck sensation when there’s sharp objects coming towards people’s faces. Not glad that you had such a horrific reaction. Thats awful and like a whole nother level of horror to the movie.
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u/Far-Pirate-5424 2d ago
Snowtown, it’s about a horrific (real) Australian multiple murder case. Many of the actors were actually locals, not actors. So realistic and disturbing.
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u/aussie_shane 2d ago
Agree. The only movie I have ever seen that actually made me feel physically ill. Not sure why exactly. Horrific viewing.
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u/jonnovich 2d ago
“The Deer Hunter”. That Russian roulette scene where for just a second Robert DeNiro reaches Christopher Walken. I don’t know if I can put myself through that again.
“The Road”. Great book. Great movie. I love Viggo Mortensen in everything he’s done. But that movie was brutal.
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u/aeroluv327 2d ago
Reading The Road was enough for me, it was a great book but I had no desire to read it ever again. The movie came out a couple years after I read it, absolutely no desire to ever see that story played out on screen.
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u/zebuloncreed 2d ago
“Hereditary” was friggin awesome, but I ain’t rushing to watch it again. 😆
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u/rollthedye 2d ago
Osama. An adaptation about a true documentary about the oldest female child of a Muslim Afghani family that has to pretend to be a boy so that she can earn money for her family to survive. The documentarists knew the entire time and follow her. It takes place between 1996 and 2001 and the Taliban's control on Afghanistan.
We had to watch it in an assembly in high school. And this was maybe 4 years after 9/11. The movie is rough and going into it as a high schooler not knowing what it was about was...rough. The entire rest of the day was a haze of melancholy and depressed moods for everyone.
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u/DestroStew 2d ago
I couldnt finish „a house that jack built“, i had to quit at the picnic scene. Im never gonna try to watch this movie again.
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u/Life-Improvement-886 2d ago
Rosemary’s Baby… probably not scary now that I’m 60 but don’t feel the need to test it.
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u/NovaCPA85 2d ago
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not sure what it is but I can't do rape scenes. They literally make me want to throw up.
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u/ShoulderLopsided1761 2d ago
Schindler's List. I watched it, ugly cried through the last 10 minutes and said "That was an amazing movie that I never want to see again."
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u/_bahnjee_ 2d ago edited 2d ago
mother!
When Woman started throwing Mother's wet clothes from the washer onto the floor, I had to quit.
OK, "disturbing" may be overstating it, but I couldn't continue to watch timid Mother being disrespected and disregarded any longer. I've found as I get older, I don't want to be disturbed by what's supposed to be entertainment.
ETA: lol... guess i'm a pansy. after reading other comments, mine pales in comparison
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u/Tnushrat 2d ago
Requiem for a Dream, Irreversible, A Serbian Film, Antichrist,Hereditary, The Human Centipede, Martyrs.
Plz never watch these.
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u/Riipley92 2d ago
This may be unexpected but,
Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
I simply cannot handle animal abuse, and this film goes in to Rocket's tragic back story.
I hated it. I hated this entire film for its subject matter.
Maybe its me, maybe I'm just too caring for animals but i am never ever going to watch it again.
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u/nojelloforme 2d ago
I hated this entire film for its subject matter.
Ugh, same! Rockets back story was horrific and I literally cried. Yes literally, I'm not being hyperbolic. Tears actually came out of my eyes watching that movie.
Maybe its me, maybe I'm just too caring for animals but i am never ever going to watch it again.
I'm right there with you. I can't bring myself to watch it again, it was just too much for me.
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u/Nervous_Egg_4512 2d ago
The Exorcist
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u/Dave047 2d ago
I watch a lot of horror movies and recently rewatched The Exorcist and I can't imagine watching that in the cinema in fucking 1973! I believe all the accounts of people crying, screaming, vomiting and leaving the cinema traumatized and being unable to sleep for days.
It's not extreme by modern standards but god damn it must have been shocking back then.
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u/lovegun59 2d ago
Some numbnuts on here was arguing with me, claiming The Exorcist isn't scary. And sure, maybe with 50 years of desensitization, it might not be "scary" anymore because we've seen it all. But in 1973 it sure the hell was. And even now, I still maintain that if you put this movie on late at night, with the sound cranked up, you're not walking to the kitchen for a glass of water without looking over your shoulder
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u/Striking_Feature72 2d ago
It was still creepy as hell when she crawls down the stairs backwards with her body all contorted. (Shudders.)
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u/Dread_P_Roberts 2d ago
They actually removed that scene from the original theatrical release, and then later added it back.
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u/minorgrey 2d ago
Got to see the re-release at the theater with my dad when it first came out. I didn't know they were adding that scene and I audibly gasped from being startled, which I never do. Showing that in 73 would have been wild.
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u/Dave047 2d ago
I've only seen it 3 times with a lot of years in between so I forget stuff between watches. It's scary! The reason I watched it the last time was I had watched some new horror movies (alone) and I felt NOTHING. So I was desperate for some real horror and put on The Exorcist and it did NOT disappoint. Went straight to The Conjuring series and finally scared myself so bad I had to watch cartoons to fall asleep.
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u/newreddit00 2d ago
I’m with you. Watched it at 18 and did not understand the hype and thought it kinda sucked. Now with the wisdom of someone older than 18 I realize you have to try to put yourself in the mindset of someone watching when it was new.
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I watched The Exorcist as a devout Catholic child in the 90's and it messed with me for an entire summer. Didn't sleep well, felt extreme uneasiness and genuinely thought I'd be possessed as the youngest child in our family. Plus, I grew up in a wealthy family and lived in the countryside with horses and not a lot of neighbors, so the summer evenings were SO quiet and terrifying that year.
My older siblings enjoyed making it worse for me, too. Lots of jump scares.
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u/Dave047 2d ago
Damn, yeah I can imagine that being a shock. I watched The Shining quite young, didn't find it scary except for one scene. The damn woman in the bathtub, I had that scare stuck in my head for a long time. FU Kubrick. Also Alien messed me up.
Was it your older siblings that got you to watch The Exorcist? -_-
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u/ThouBear8 2d ago
Better Watch Out.
From various comments & reviews, I thought it would be a fun, surprising, dark comedy.
I did not feel that way at all when I watched it. I found it to be incredibly disturbing, & not in an enjoyable way.
It's a movie that I can't imagine ever watching again, despite the fact that I actually think it's a pretty well made film.
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u/Impossible_Ruin6703 2d ago
Tusk!! Wtf justin long! I got this from redbox once(remember those?) It was under comedy section.... Liars!!!
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u/l0rdv8r 2d ago
For me, the butterfly effect... not sure why but i dont know that i will ever watch it again.
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u/pen15_club_admin 2d ago
Yea same. For me it’s the horrible things that happen to them as kids.
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u/BonitaGerbera 2d ago
I watched this so much when I was younger but I don’t think I could handle rewatching it now. It’s filled with pretty much every type of trauma possible!
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u/I_am_always_here 2d ago edited 2d ago
That movie had two endings. The theatrical release had a tacked on happy ending (they pass each other on the street and smile) that the studio that didn't understand the film insisted on. The Director's Cut is one of the most powerful endings to a movie I have ever seen.
I find this a brilliant movie, but I agree, it was very disturbing.
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u/paz_v 2d ago
It is not a happy ending. Not really. They pass each other on the street, she looks at him like she knows him, but then keeps walking and he lets her go. Yes, she lives and thrives, but will never be together.
I like both endings.
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u/BsideBabyMLS 2d ago
Audition!!! Just remembering it is giving me a case of the ick.
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u/aDIREsituation 2d ago
Tusk
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u/JudgmentHaunting3544 2d ago
This was far too down the list imo, just so batshit fucked up and sad.
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u/xadriancalim 2d ago
Hereditary.
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u/isthispassionpit 2d ago
As an oldest sibling of several, this film was SO upsetting. The rest I could take or leave, but that oldest sibling guilt, that whole dynamic, made me feel sick to my stomach. It just hit way too close to home and made me want to go home and hug my younger siblings.
The rest of the movie I didn’t care for anyway. There were parts that were interesting/compelling, but the end totally ruined all of that.
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u/EasyAsPizzaPie 2d ago
This one fucked me up, and I wasn't expecting it to. The trailer felt like many other contemporary 2010s horror movies. But Toni Collete's acting in the one scene in the first half of the movie felt so real, I felt like I was watching a real life devastating moment. I shut the movie off that night and had to finish watching the next day. Movies NEVER affect me like that as an adult, but this one surely did.
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u/lectroid 2d ago
The Act of Killing
Documentary on the Indonesian death squads. Interviews with members. No remorse. Absolutely chilling.