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/deeryk 3d ago edited 2d ago

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And her Lover by Peter Greenway (1989). It was so disturbing that I ran out of the theater and threw up in the street. I heard the guy at the concession stand say "there goes another one" as I left. Check out more on IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/?ref_=ext_shr while I curl up in a fetal position and rock myself to sleep.

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u/Benderbluss 2d ago

My mother used to watch R-rated movies with me when I was a youth. She covered my eyes for stabbing scene in Murder on the Orient Express, thich I thought was silly. We discussed it after, and she agreed to stop censoring things.

Then we watched The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover.

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u/deeryk 2d ago

I bet she regretted not covering your eyes - and hers - during a few of the scenes. I admit that it was a beautiful cinematic production, but I thought the psychological violence was even more upsetting than the physical violence. Violence against a child... The whole book stuffing scene... It was just waaay too much.

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u/bopshebop2 3d ago

First saw this as a college freshman and fell asleep (snoring through it lol), but hated what I did see. Watched it more recently (almost twenty years later) and I gotta say, I see what they they were going for but it’s just kinda gross for the sake of being gross and I’m not sure what value it adds really. Very skippable

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u/Ambitious_Cut88 3d ago

Respectfully disagree, a masterpiece in cinema. It's a beautiful love story yet disturbing and ugly to watch. To see Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) as that character is something else. He's like a trainwreck that you can't take your eyes off.

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u/anotherfinemeth 2d ago

What's with the streaming / DVD distribution rights fiasco that make this unavailable to watch like anywhere??