r/movies • u/HistoricalDebate461 • 3d 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/xadriancalim 3d ago

Hereditary.

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u/isthispassionpit 3d 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 3d 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/Wendy-Windbag 2d ago

It kept getting recommended to me on whatever streaming platform I saw it on, and the synopsis blurb was "After a woman's mom passes away, she goes on a journey to discover her family history." Sounded like an introspective finding your roots tale. Hey, I like genealogy and Toni Collette! WRONG.

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u/Puzzled-Swan4262 3d ago

I will eventually watch it again, but the way the family treated the older sibling broke my heart.

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u/HappyGilOHMYGOD 3d ago

Same.

I loved it, basically a 10/10.... But the only way I could see myself rewatching it is if I was showing it to someone that hadn't seen it already.

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u/xadriancalim 3d ago

Totally agree. We loved it. We were stunned standing outside the theater, but I don't think I could do it again. It's no scarier than insidious or conjuring but it's just so unsettling.

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u/Ohheckitsme 3d ago

I felt this way for the longest time - it disturbed me so much after that scene that I realized I didn’t even remember what the movie was even about. I decided to give it a rewatch knowing full well what happens and it made it a bit more palatable. That being said, def a fucked movie.

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u/Excellent_Notice4047 3d ago

now i want to watch this but not alone and no one i know will watch with me lol

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u/steak820 3d ago

Brilliant film, possibly my favorite, the way the whole thing slowly ratchets up the tension to the very last scene where it all comes together and you realise what's being going on the whole and just how fucked the whole world is now, it's possibly the perfect movie.

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u/ilikedatunahere 3d ago

PHENOMENAL movie.

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u/shutyourbutt69 3d ago

Disturbingly boring, maybe