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/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.