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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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wildcherries · 23/07/2020 11:05

Tom shortarse twatface Cruise Such an accurate description.

EllaAlright · 23/07/2020 11:07

Has anyone seen ‘cruel summer’ with Danny Miller in? I think the cinematography is meant to be great, but not sure how much actual violence is in it?

fairydustandpixies · 23/07/2020 11:07

The Human Centipede.

@RhianFuckingMorris Cynthia Payne became a great friend of mine in her later years before she passed. Wow, what a woman! She definitely wasn't a victim, she was utterly incredible.

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SerenityNowwwww · 23/07/2020 11:09

@Itsarattrap

Whiplash. Brilliant but a really uncomfortable watch.
I loved that film. You knew the ending...

knew (just trying something out here)

SerenityNowwwww · 23/07/2020 11:09

nah didn't work

houmousexpert · 23/07/2020 11:14

@AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter

Most films by stanley kubrick- yeah yeah, he's a "genius" whatever etc but he's also a misogynistic prick whose female roles are always portrayed as hapless victims.

Torture films like SAW etc - I love supernatural /stalker horror movies because they are tense and exciting but I truly dont get the appeal of just seeing someone being hacked up and dismembered into bits and/or tortured for the entire film. Why do people enjoy this?

Human centipede- Nuff said.

Dancer in the dark- most depressing film I think Ive ever seen

The stoning of Soraya M- based on a true story and made me literally want to vomit it was so horrific

Anything directed by Lars Von Trier - similar to stanley kubrick- just a load of wannabe artsy misogynistic bollocks

@alexis, Dancer in the Dark left me completely traumatised!
Harriedharriet · 23/07/2020 11:19

I refuse to watch anything that uses rape and sexual violence as story telling angle anymore. It is such a lazy way to show "strength" and "arch" of a character. The shock factor is gone as it has been so over used. If they really want to shock they need to show men being raped.

Anything by Martin Scorcese. I hate his films. Women are treated in the most appaling way by him. Either beaten wives, golddigging complicit partners, rape victims, screaming witches, screaming witches, back up for the male leads. I hate his films. Really hate them.

catlovingdoctor · 23/07/2020 11:20

The Riot Club- about a load of privileged Oxford students getting together in an exclusive club. In one scene they smash up a man's pub and beat him to a pulp. Just stayed with me for a while, it was horrible.

Mrsjayy · 23/07/2020 11:23

Over privileged student club you would never see that in real life Wink

Toilenstripes · 23/07/2020 11:23

Pulp Fiction

Toilenstripes · 23/07/2020 11:24

The Angry Inch

OrangeGinLemonFanta · 23/07/2020 11:28

Dogville. That was a Lars Von Trier film, he's already been mentioned. I won't be watching anything else he's made. I felt grubby even the next day, went to see a repeat showing of Amelie to shake off the horribleness.

Tbh there's a reason I'm so fond of superhero and sci-fi films.

bendmeoverbackwards · 23/07/2020 11:31

JoJo Rabbit.

I just didn't get the rave reviews. Really inappropriate topic for a film and left me feeling very uncomfortable.

PerkingFaintly · 23/07/2020 11:31

@Mrsjayy

That film was called crash and google tells me it was 2004 i think I'm losing track of time
From your previous post I recognised another film called Crash from 1996.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)

That one didn't have Thandie Newton, though.

Collidascope · 23/07/2020 11:32

As other have said, The Human Centipede, the Saw films (I think it wasn't just the torture porn, it was the self-righteousness of it: 'these people are bad so it's sort of okay to watch them being hacked to bits'), Wolf Creek (turned off after 15 minutes) and Requiem for a Dream was really grim.

A Clockwork Orange

Pretty Woman. I watched this once when I was about 12 and just hated it. Just the fact of this woman being bought. Bleugh.

SauvignonBlanketyBlank · 23/07/2020 11:33

@MellowBird85 we like that type of horror but I get what you mean

Enb76 · 23/07/2020 11:36

I refuse to watch anything that uses rape and sexual violence as story telling angle anymore.

^ this

also, I cannot be bothered with sex scenes, if i have the option to fast forward through them I do. I find the suggestion of sex far more sexy than the visual aid of some moaning bodies writhing together.

AuntieDolly · 23/07/2020 11:36

Requiem for a Dream was my first thought too!

HellnoH20 · 23/07/2020 11:38

I spit on your grave, seriously would not recommend.

There was also a film I watched in around 2012 it was on tv, have no idea of the name but it had an awfully graphic rape scene of a teenager by a Middle Aged man and his family that the girl had met in the woods near her house. The girl was left for dead whilst the man and his family befriended the girls family and stayed the night in their outhouse. Can’t remember what happened after that but it was an awful film

BarbiesWorld · 23/07/2020 11:42

I think it's called Red Sparrow, with Jennifer Lawrence.

Watched it on my own when DH was out one night and was still awake and upset when he got home.

hellsbellsmelons · 23/07/2020 11:43

The Entity - stayed with me for a long time!
Silence of the Lambs - great film but I had nightmares for weeks.
Se7en - again, great film but horrible ending that shocked me.
The Omen films -
The Woman in Black - they are children and another horrible ending.

Oxyiz · 23/07/2020 11:44

So many famous directors are misogynist men unfortunately. I don't think there's any escaping sexism in Hollywood in our lifetimes.

I enjoy a lot of Scorcese and Kubrick films in spite of it but am uncomfortably aware of it throughout.

In Scorcese films the women are often totally vacuous characters who could be often removed from the plot without making any difference. Its like he just doesn't see them as people or understand how they can have personalities.

Kubrick was better I think, he gave them personalities and characters and plot, but he was much worse in the way he treated actresses. He nearly drove Shelly Duval to a breakdown in The Shining and I think it shows in the film.

EllaAlright · 23/07/2020 11:46

@HellnoH20

I spit on your grave, seriously would not recommend.

There was also a film I watched in around 2012 it was on tv, have no idea of the name but it had an awfully graphic rape scene of a teenager by a Middle Aged man and his family that the girl had met in the woods near her house. The girl was left for dead whilst the man and his family befriended the girls family and stayed the night in their outhouse. Can’t remember what happened after that but it was an awful film

Last house on the left? Sounds very similar.
Patbutcherismyhero · 23/07/2020 11:46

I spit on your grave was particularly bad. There's a sequel which isn't much better.

Anything with small children being possessed or becoming evil. Ouija was very unsettling.

IveSeenThings · 23/07/2020 11:47

Jack Reacher films. Tom shortarse twatface Cruise as Jack Reacher? Just no

So glad this was said @TheCanyon Grin
All kinds of wrong!

I rewatched Back to the Future a while back and the attempted rape just was horrible, and I haven't let the children watch it. It just seemed to go on far too long, and was completely unnecessary.