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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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Overmylimit · 26/07/2020 00:12

@DCIRozHuntley I can imagine watching that with your Nanna would not be fun, much like the time I went to see "Unfaithful" with my Mum GrinBlush

bringbacksideburns · 26/07/2020 00:17

Looking for Mr Goodbar.
The ending was so sudden it really shocked and unnerved me.

Nil by Mouth remains one of the most depressing films i have ever seen in my life.

Clawdy · 26/07/2020 08:41

The Passage. Malcolm McDowell plays a sadistic Nazi officer, and there's a torture scene in it that I've never forgotten. It made me feel sick, and to this day, I find myself unable to like Malcolm M in anything!

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Lelophants · 26/07/2020 08:59

Anything with extreme sexual violence that seems gratuitous. Yuck.

quirkychick · 26/07/2020 09:24

I had forgotten Nil by Mouth, I think I had blanked it out.

CruCru · 26/07/2020 09:56

I recently watched 365 days (Polish film about an Italian gangster who kidnaps a woman and says that he is going to hold her prisoner for a year until she falls in love with him). The thing is, if she’d actually been frightened of him, it would have been quite a different film but all she does is get him to buy her stuff and walk around wearing not very much.

airforsharon · 26/07/2020 14:15

Sadism/torture/animal cruelty I try to avoid so there are many films mentioned here i've deliberately not seen. But I can second Nil By Mouth - i love Kathy Burke and watch anything she's in or directs but NBM is hard, possibly because the setting & characters are pretty mundane so the brutality really jarrs.

Sophiafour · 26/07/2020 14:42

Se7en
Requiem for a Dream
Breaking the Waves
Mona Lisa (though I was a very naive 18 year old when I saw it, I doubt it would shock me as much now)
One particular sequence in Rob Roy

charlJ · 26/07/2020 15:21

Tyrannosaur is a harrowing film, relentlessly grim about domestic violence with Olivia Coleman and directed by Paddy Constantine, I am pretty desensitised to more extreme movies but this film still stays with me. Also the tv series This is England.

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Louise91417 · 26/07/2020 21:17

A clockwork orange...watched it years ago and the thought of it still haunts me..

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