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What films have left a bad taste in your mouth?

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GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy · 23/07/2020 09:56

Spoilers, sorry! I just put a film on to procrastinate doing the housework and now im regretting it! It was called Exhibit A, on amazon prime. It was one of those found footage films so I assumed it would be a bit of paranormal silliness, but not at all. Has anyone else seen it? I just found it really really unpleasant and I think anyone who's been through domestic abuse would really struggle to watch it. Particularly horrible when you think of news stories where abusive men have just annihilated their whole family.
What other films just leave you with an unpleasant feeling afterwards? Another for me was one called Megan is Missing. It was about a girl who meets up with a guy online and goes missing. And her friend tries to track her down. It was quite good in a creepy way until the last half hour where theres a really brutal close up rape and bits of torture. Another one I went away from wishing I hadnt bothered!

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MarshaBradyo · 24/07/2020 22:31

Jean yes that was another one here too, it was similar. A bit gross, and weird and with violence. I did watch both to the end but felt off about them after.

OohKittens · 24/07/2020 22:36

@CarrieMoonBeams I also do that, I always check does the dog die in this, plus check common sense media. We were watching the shallows the other week and daughter made me check to see if the seagull would be ok Grin

meow1989 · 24/07/2020 22:44

Apostle - the scene with the machine thing was so awful to watch.

Agree about kingsman. And about films like saw etc - they're just torture porn. I also cant watch things with animals or children harmed or rape.

I watched the beginning of the butterfly effect with the dog before turning off. I cried hysterically and still cant think about it.

Mother!, other than being drivel the bit with the babys neck was horrible.

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CarrieMoonbeams · 24/07/2020 23:30

@OohKittens, aww that's sweet! I've just read someone's summary of that film:

"shark dies, crab dies, seagull lives" 😂

SerenityNowwwww · 24/07/2020 23:32

[quote OohKittens]@CarrieMoonBeams I also do that, I always check does the dog die in this, plus check common sense media. We were watching the shallows the other week and daughter made me check to see if the seagull would be ok Grin[/quote]
We watched jaws with ds when he was younger. Didn’t bother about people getting eaten and bitten in half - but when the dog collar got spat up...

savagebaggagemaster · 24/07/2020 23:37

I've said it on where before and I'll say it again: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer. Watched it at a film society over 20 years ago. Awful awful film. No idea how it was ever funded or given a distribution deal. There is no hope on offer in this film making it particularly hard to watch.

cherrytree63 · 25/07/2020 02:01

Tyrannasaur made me sad for ages.

VetOnCall · 25/07/2020 02:22

Wolf Creek is hideous. I'm not squeamish and I like supernatural type horror films but WC was so awful it made my skin crawl. I think because I've done/do a lot of backpacking, often solo, and it was the thought that there are sick fucks like that out there.

Wasn't a fan of Eden Lake, Last House on the Left or Funny Games either. I read a synopsis of A Serbian Film a while back and that's just a hard no. Not sure if Gerald's Game has been mentioned but it's pretty messed up, as is Antichrist by Lars von Trier, I actually turned it off about 45 minutes in.

Very different film but I found The Green Mile very affecting/upsetting. I often re-watch films but no way with that one, I remember feeling emotionally drained after seeing it. Ditto Dancer in the Dark, Requiem for a Dream, Open Water, Schindler's List and War Horse - just too emotional or too plain depressing.

Bluewavescrashing · 25/07/2020 06:34

I haven't seen many films on this thread, but just reading it gave me a horrendous nightmare last night 😱

mathanxiety · 25/07/2020 06:56

@ShesMadeATwatOfMePam and @cariadlet

YYY to everything you both said about Mrs Doubtfire.

It makes me spit nails but people love it, presumably because it has Robin Williams in it, and also because what's not to love about what is basically drag Hmm and of course the trope of the uptight 'career woman' barely getting through the week in one piece while her children suffer for her choices is one that never gets old, apparently, while the question of whether the children have two functioning parents, or whether the household has two responsible adults living in it goes unasked.

Heygirlheyboy · 25/07/2020 08:55

Mrs Doubtfire definitely reads v differently watching it back.

KittyHawke80 · 25/07/2020 09:00

The book is very different: Anne Fine does quite a good job writing him as an egocentric man-child, while the estranged wife is a sympathetic and long-suffering character.

Heygirlheyboy · 25/07/2020 09:10

And that's how I framed it for my dc while watching it.. They could see that it was wrong.

DianaPrinceRocks · 25/07/2020 09:32

Did anyone else think the Human Centipede would be a bit like the Fly before looking it up 😱.

Lots of great insights here and feeling a bit ashamed at misogynistic stuff I've missed Blush

Fanciedachange1 · 25/07/2020 10:26

I’m another one who doesn’t like films where the animals appear hurt or killed.

There has only been one stand out film that I had to turn off, and I can’t remember the name of it but I’m sure it had something to do with Hannibal?

I remember a scene where two children were hiding in a log cabin from Nazis (i think) and there was a scene implying that they had been found,cooked and eaten.

cariadlet · 25/07/2020 11:29

That could be Child 44. It was set in Soviet Russia and was about a serial killer who killed young boys. As a child, the killer had suffered in the Ukrainian fanime during WW2. It did involve cannibalism but wasn't the torture porn kind of horror film described earlier in the thread.

Collidascope · 25/07/2020 13:02

@Fanciedachange1

I’m another one who doesn’t like films where the animals appear hurt or killed.

There has only been one stand out film that I had to turn off, and I can’t remember the name of it but I’m sure it had something to do with Hannibal?

I remember a scene where two children were hiding in a log cabin from Nazis (i think) and there was a scene implying that they had been found,cooked and eaten.

Hannibal Rising has Hannibal Lector and his little sister hiding in a cabin, and some soldiers find them, and they kill and eat the sister because they're all starving Sad
ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 25/07/2020 13:20

The Celebration (the Danish title Festen)

It’s so uncomfortable because we all know its too often true. The film centres around a wealthy family (I think titled) having a celebration dinner party for the father and the family have a terrible secret that isn’t such a secret. It’s amusing at times too that’s adds to how uncomfortable this film is

Excellent film but very uncomfortable to watch but it’s meant to be

Chamomileteaplease · 25/07/2020 13:32

Wolf of Wall Street - I naively thought this was supposed to be a "good" film and settled down to watch it for the first time recently. In the first few minutes Leonardo Di Caprio was sniffing cocaine off a woman's upended bum. It was just so, so dehumanising and offensive. It made me feel sick. Not violent as such, just so incredibly disrespectful. I turned it off.

Also, any detective programmes nearly always use the murder/rape of a woman as entertainment for us. Why is that? Luther is the worst for this I think.

hopeforlucky3 · 25/07/2020 13:32

Straw Dogs and not technically a film but series - Roots.

NoisyBrain · 25/07/2020 13:57

Another vote for Sin City. The whole thing made me feel queasy.

Also pretty much anything by Tarantino. I hate squelchy violence.

Not RTFT so not sure if anyone has mentioned this one - Happiness by Todd Solondz. I think it was billed as a dark comedy. I stopped watching before the end when it crossed the line into the realm of sick and not remotely funny.

ginginchinchin · 25/07/2020 14:04

American Beauty. Vile film.

GinJeanie · 25/07/2020 14:16

Without doubt, the Dutch (original) version of The Vanishing released in 1988... the ending is truly horrific. There was a duff American remake where the ending was sanitized apparently.
Also, a Japanese film called Nobody Knows about children being abandoned. Very hard to watch... 😪

applemousey · 25/07/2020 14:20

Any rape scenes really effect me. DH isn't bothered by them, that is until he watched the Jamie's rape in outlander. I was a bit pissed off with him considering all the horrific scenes we've sat through over the years.

A film I watched with a boyfriend when I was 17 - Mum and Dad. Utterly disgusting and disturbing.
Also one I can't remember the name of, but an 'aunt' locking two sisters and allowing the rape of the eldest and FGM. Sickening.

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 25/07/2020 14:23

GinJeanie I agree the original version of The Vanishing was very disturbing (much better than the remake)

We have used to happy endings but life isn’t like that