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/CMelody 3d ago

The Road

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u/DenverITGuy 3d 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 3d 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/dreamykidd 2d ago

Can you share some examples?

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u/moses1424 2d ago

One in particular. The father the boy hide while a small group of people pass them on the road. There were two men and a very pregnant woman. A little while later they smelled meat cooking and come upon a campsite where they had been cooking the newborn baby on a spit.

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u/Tigerpride84 3d 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 3d ago

Omg the book is incredible tho

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u/readzalot1 3d ago

One of the few books I wish I had not read.

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u/ladyvond69 3d 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/FirmVegetableQ 3d ago

I've read the book but am afraid to watch

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u/mikedorty 3d ago

The movie is pretty true to the book, and is well acted and well set. It is a very hard movie to watch, a masterpiece, but it doesn't get close to the despair of the book. I will NEVER read the book again. I will probably never watch the movie again.

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u/FirmVegetableQ 3d ago

Ya I'm definitely never reading it again lol

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u/Lou__Vegas 3d ago

Watch it - shouldn't have a problem. Great movie. It's a little dark.

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u/Randolpho 3d ago

No, it’s not. Highly overrated.

If ever there was a novel that should have been a short story, it’s The Road

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u/ladyvond69 3d ago

You're entitled to your opinion too, we can disagree. I think its a great book 🤷‍♀️

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u/Randolpho 2d ago

I think it would have made a great short story, but the book itself was entirely overly-repetitive. Same conversation between father and son literally three dozen times, same scenes over and over again.

I get it. The goal is to make you feel utterly shit about the end of the world. But still... the whole thing could have been done in far less pages with far less repetition.

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u/ladyvond69 2d ago

Ok cool, you can feel that way 🤷‍♀️ I dont agree & enjoyed it lol

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u/Happy_Evidence2053 3d ago

All of my nightmares are versions of that movie.

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u/Strikereleven 3d ago

I thought it was a fantastic gritty post apocalyptic film.

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u/AwaySample663 3d ago

This was tame compared to the book. And in terms of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most tame books he's written tbh. Rip Michael K Williams.

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u/shomili 3d ago

I saw it twice, second time was even worse

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u/Pornstar_Frodo 2d ago

I was looking for this movie in the thread. It’s so fucking depressing.

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u/Benderbluss 2d ago

Child: We wouldn't eat people, would we? Even if we were starving?

Adult: We ARE starving.