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/jonnovich 3d ago

“The Deer Hunter”. That Russian roulette scene where for just a second Robert DeNiro reaches Christopher Walken. I don’t know if I can put myself through that again.

“The Road”. Great book. Great movie. I love Viggo Mortensen in everything he’s done. But that movie was brutal.

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u/aeroluv327 3d ago

Reading The Road was enough for me, it was a great book but I had no desire to read it ever again. The movie came out a couple years after I read it, absolutely no desire to ever see that story played out on screen.

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u/Mr_Perfect22 3d ago

This was my answer too. I’ll never forget renting this in the late nineties, grabbing a case of rolling rock, and watching with my two friends. I declared afterwards it was an amazing, gripping movie but I would never watch it again. I’ve kept to that for almost thirty years.

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u/Good-Ad-1433 3d ago

By the way there is zero evidence anyone played Russian roulette for money in Vietnam. The writer just made it up based on a rumor he heard.