What films have left a bad taste in your mouth?

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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!

I enjoyed Riot Club but my parents couldn’t watch it at all- could be something to do with the fact I’m a woman at university!

passengers. The male protagonist irrevocably ruins a woman's life just to relieve his own boredom. Bizzarely, she falls in love with him and the whole situation is portrayed as romantic. Gave me the absolute rage!

Hateful 8 is the last film I watched that really unnerved me. The samuel L Jackson character and what he did to the old man's son turned my stomach and I felt grubby and repulsed after giving the film the time of day. I hate Tarentino anyway with his insistence on extensive monologues and ultra violence. He's an insecure misogynist little shite who is desperate to show the world how clever he is.

All Aronofsky's films are onanistic borefests, and 'RFAD' is the worst of the lot.
I didn't like 'Joker' at all, and didn't even think Joaquin Phoenix - of whom I am a fan - was particularly good in it. Far better performances that year.
'Eden Lake' and 'Snowtown' shit me up good and proper. And 'Silence' with Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver. And 'Dancer In The Dark' - I can't even watch people being stoically executed, never mind having to be fixed to a fucking board, first. Grotesque.
The worst is 'The Bicycle Thieves'. The hopelessness of grinding poverty and the need to try and shield our kids from it. The bloke just looks shell-shocked at the end. Can't bear it.

@GodIsAnAstronaut

A Serbian Film.

DH and I watched it once about 2 years ago, and honestly, I still get flashbacks to it from time to time. Absolutely shocking movie.

I have a high tolerance with 'messed up' movies and it takes a lot to get under my skin. But shit. A Serbian Film really takes the fucking cake. I wouldn't ever advise someone to watch it.

I thought about mentioning that one but didn’t want to draw other people’s attention to it! I’ve not seen it but have read about it - and that alone was enough to traumatise me. See also, Cannibal Holocaust.

Lilya 4ever - such a depressing and disturbing film. There's nothing happy in it, just relentlessly grim.

I, Tonya. Completely belittled domestic abuse for laughs.

I went to see The Favourite with my devoutly religious grandma thinking it was just a period drama (we love anything with striking costumes etc).

I thought she was going to choke to death on her Ferraro Rocher

[quote EstuaryBird]**@MellowBird85. I’m sure I know the scene that you’re referring to in Amistad. It sometimes flashes into my mind when I least expect it. Probably the most heartbreaking thing I’ve seen.[/quote]
Yes @EstuaryBird it shook me to my core. Awful

I went to see the favourite with my Dd I wanted to die a death not what I was expecting AT ALL poor grandma though

God yeah ‘bicycle thieves’ and from the same period, Rome, Open City. Grim

Sleepers

Watched it in the 90’s and it still upsets me today

For me, it's mostly films where there's an undercurrent of "lol women are boring nags who stop the poor men from doing what they want, except for this one really hot girl who likes takeout and anal". Anything involving Seth MacFarlane falls into this category, but especially Ted. See also The Hangover.

If we're talking about films that have profoundly disturbed me and left me still thinking about them years later, I would have to go for The Green Mile (for the botched execution scene) and High Plains Drifter (for somebody being beaten to death will bullwhips). I agree that Wolf Creek was nasty, but it was so OTT that I didn't really find it particularly disturbing.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a fantastic film. It is quite feminist and the villain, Leatherface, is one of the most terrified characters in it. It has hardly any blood as Tobe Hooper, the director, was going for a soft certification.

Now one of the newer versions, Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning, left me feeling ill. The torture scenes were prolonged and just too brutal and vicious. Watching a young woman get her teeth pulled out is not what I call entertainment.

Also saw a film set in a rainforest where some students were campaigning and they got captured by a tribe and all got murdered in really horrible and disgusting ways. I think there was cannibalism too. I forget the name of the film but it was so bad I had to switch off at one point and I'm not usually phased by gore.

Wolf creek based on true events hence me being particularly affected

Blair witch

I’ve already mentioned the changling

@EoinMcLovesCakeJumper

For me, it's mostly films where there's an undercurrent of "lol women are boring nags who stop the poor men from doing what they want, except for this one really hot girl who likes takeout and anal". Anything involving Seth MacFarlane falls into this category, but especially Ted. See also The Hangover.

If we're talking about films that have profoundly disturbed me and left me still thinking about them years later, I would have to go for The Green Mile (for the botched execution scene) and High Plains Drifter (for somebody being beaten to death will bullwhips). I agree that Wolf Creek was nasty, but it was so OTT that I didn't really find it particularly disturbing.

I'm told Ted and The Hangover are red flags if a guy says they're his favourite film on OLD.

If a woman tells me she likes them I mentally diagnose internalised misogyny ;)

Big cheesy obnoxious rich Asians or something like that. Horrible.

Mark Wahlberg is a deeply unpleasant man and mediocre actor, and his ongoing attempts to sanitize his past while using Christianity to justify his homophobia and generally right-wing sensibilities, irritate me beyond belief. Men who like 'Ted' are a big red flag for me, too.

I watched The Breakfast Club a few months back with my teenage dds. I told them it was a classic.
Bender is a hateful shit to Claire throughout, assaults her, and she gives him a fucking diamond at the end.
Urgh.
My girls were WTF THIS ISN'T FUNNY. I had to agree with them.

I struggle films with really graphic and lengthy and repeated scenes of extreme violence. DH gets annoyed at how annoyed I get by them but I genuinely don't see the appeal in it as entertainment.,

A film that bothered me hugely when I saw it and still leaves me feeling ugh now if I think of it is Kidulthood. I'm not sure why it bothered me so much but it really did.

I watched exhibit a. 2 days ago and yeah it was disturbing :(

Oh god yeah hateful 8 was an awful film, the scene where he is describing the rape so graphically is sickening