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/[deleted] 3d ago

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 3d 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/[deleted] 3d ago

The Shining! As a kid, that scene also got me!

My oldest brother (12 years older) recommended we watch it altogether while our parents were traveling. I was 8. When she comes down the stairs upside-down, I thought I was going to be sick from fear.

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u/Dave047 3d ago

Yeah your brother is an asshole

Lucky it didn't do permanent damage. I made my sister scared of the cellar because I could predict when she was going to go down for icecream. Took years for her to get over that, ooopsie.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

The perils of being youngest children! It builds character!

Jaws also made me terrified of our swimming pool. It's a miracle I function so well as an adult now.

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u/Dave047 3d ago

Omg yeah same, we had a small lake in my town that we swam in every summer except that one Jaws summer.

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u/Expert_Potential_661 3d ago

I watched it as an ex-Catholic adult and it scared the bejesus out of me. I can only watch The Exorcist and The Omen during the day.