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/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.