What films have left a bad taste in your mouth?

[GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy]

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!

A Clockwork Orange - i know its supposed to be a masterpiece but it is awful

Tommy - very disturbing, particularly the baked bean scene

Wizard of Oz (although I think that's just me). It terrifies me, i cannot watch it at all.

Mum and Dad is hideous! Utterly vile. I don't mind horror and gore but there were bits in that they were just sickening. Sexualisation of such brutal violence and abuse. Just gross.

I agree with lots of these (and quite a few I won't be watching). Two that I couldn't watch to the end, the Magdalena Sisters, which was unrelentingly brutal and grim and Nocturnal Animals which I could see the rape and murder coming and just didn't want to watch.

I agree with Requiem for a Dream, there's a particularly horrible scene I think people are referring to. The Accused is hard to watch, I agree.

I do like psychological horrors, actually, so I'm not especially wimpy. I remember the Changeling, that banging of the bathtub the Wicker Man, and Se7en have shocking endings, but I would say they are effective rather than leave a bad taste.

@IntermittentParps
We sat through Midsommar a few weeks ago and it is one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen. Nothing like the Wicker Man, which is the reason we watched it in the first place. We had wanted to see it at the cinema but (thankfully) we weren't able to get there. It's drawn out, utterly horrific in parts, and just plain weird. I still feel physically sick thinking about some scenes - and it takes a lot to shock me.

Heavenly Creatures. Specifically where the mother is bludgeoned to death by her daughter.

Blue Velvet - understandable really because I don't like much by David Lynch. Find his style unpleasant.

Serenity in Jaws I think it wasn't the collar but the stick the dog had been chasing that was left floating in the water. Quite a poignant moment....and your family was not alone. Pippin I think has a grave that people can visit and pay their respects.

Thanks Sedentary. I don't mind 'unsettling' (in fact I like films like that), but 'horrific' in a way that makes people feel physically sick is a different matter...

Think I might give it a miss!

The film Mother with Jennifer Lawrence

It’s like an abstract Dark story of Mother Earth / god etc. It has some really weird gross parts and is just completely weird. Not my cup of tea at all

The Quiet Man. Such a gorgeous, sumptuous film that put Ireland on the map...I remember reading that the likes of Spielberg and Michael Jackson were huge fans. BUT, the part where Mary Kate Dannagher is dragged through the village and the fields is horrendous. It has not aged well, to put it mildly.

I can't watch horror films. I can't stand seeing torture on screen.

The Road haunted me for a while after watching it.
Precious was heart breaking. I stupidly watched it without knowing what it was about.

@Mrsjayy

Oh god Kids was horrible to watch I think I switched it off. There was another film in the 90s where people got off watching or being in car crashes i am sure thandie newton was in it horrid and i have blanked out the name of it !

Crash

Whatsnewpussyhat, it's weird because before I had children I had no problem watching horror but now I find it excruciating. I like ghost films like The Woman in Black (not the abomination with that prat Radcliffe..the original) and the BBC a Ghost Story for Christmas, but that's about it. No gore. Can't stand gore and torture whereas before I would watch them and find them entertaining at times.🥴

This has already been discussed here, but:

That's not THAT Crash. The one with Thandie Newton is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film) about car-jackings among other things.

The 'people got off watching or being in car crashes' Crash is a David Cronenberg film, based on a JG Ballard book. Thandie Newton is not in that one.

Just googled the Serbian film as if never heard of it. Only ready the synopsis and WTAF. Who would put themselves through watching something like that?!

Here's me being disturbed by the Joker.

Whoever mentioned that they had started Uncut Gems but not finished it - finish it! I mentioned it as an uncomfortable watch earlier in the thread purely because it is so stressful, not because of the content, it’s really not a gory/scary film, but because of what’s happening to the main character. The last half hour or so I was completely glued to the screen and having to remind myself to breathe.

Adam Sandler films really aren’t my thing (apart from Happy Gilmore which might be my ultimate guilty pleasure!) but Uncut Gems made me see him in a whole other light.

Crimes of passion directed by Ken Russell starring Kathleen Turner. Very unpleasant film and another example of a misogynist pervert hiding behind art and creativity to expose himself on a grand scale. I find Russell, Tarantino and those of their ilk who seek to indulge their dark side and shock rather than entertain, a destructive and not a creative influence.

The worst thing about wolf of wall Street is that Leo's character rapes Margot Robbie at the end but the way it's done is appalling like she deserved it.

@icebearforpresident

That was me!

I will watch the rest of Uncut Gems, cos i was genuinely really enjoying. I'll probably watch it tonight, actually.

The only other AS film I've enjoyed was The Wedding Singer, so i'm not usually a fan of his. But UG obviously stretched him as an actor.

A film called Doomsday that we saw in the cinema about 13 years ago. It's about a killer virus.... don't watch if Covid makes you nervous!

Not sure if I've ever got over the images of the cannibals burning and eating Sean Pertwee alive.

IHeartSusanDey

I know what you mean. In my teens I was an avid reader of horror fiction. Watched all the oldies like nightmare on elm st etc.
I think as an adult, when 'death' became a bit more real and I realised people do actually do horrific things to others I just don't need the violent imagery stuck in my head.
I also suffer from very lucid dreams and things like that stick in my head for a long time after watching.

Surprised more people haven't mentioned The Road. Its a brilliant film but I couldn't watch it again post-DC.

Can anyone tell me what is so bad about Joker?! I'm going to see it with 15yo DS this week 😫

somewhere The Road is extremely bleak but I’ve read the book so it didn’t seem as
Bad as the book

excelled The Joker is just a very phycological in depth character study , I didn’t find it disturbing. It’s just very deep ...
Great piece of film making and Very well deserved Oscar for Joaquim

Thanks @LovelyWeekAway

I actually thought DS had already seen it with friends, but he hadn't. A colleague warned me earlier this week that it will be awkward. I'm dreading it now, to be honest!

London to Brighton, about a young girl who gets into prostitution, was very hard to watch and left me feeling really unsettled.

I didn't find the joker so bad, I think I had read so much about it being awful that I thought it would be so much worse. Plus Joaquin Phoenix just blew me away in it.