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!

Scum. Still makes me queasy thinking about it almost 40 years on.

Coffin rock was a foul film that i watched as a teenager babysitting one night and its stuck with me.

'Kidulthood' is totally revolting, I agree. From the classroom beating to the boys sniggering about the smell of vaginas. Especially since Noel Clarke always looks really grubby. Yuck.

Definitely’Wolf Creek’. It’s just unremittingly savage.

Another vote for Aaronofsky films. I’m afraid I just find them both laugh out loud ridiculous as well as ugly and misogynistic.

‘Brimstone’ with Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce starts out bleak and just becomes ever more soul-destroying with each episode. I think it’s a good film but one of the most gruelling watches I’ve ever experienced.

‘Bone Tomahawk’, I burst into tears after seeing ‘that’ scene.

‘Snow town’, again, early scenes are just horrible, and you know it’s only to get worse. I couldn’t watch after about 30 minutes and had to switch off.

@Patbutcherismyhero Green Inferno? That film made me uncomfortable too.

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!

I’ve just read about A Serbian Film on Wikipedia. What the actual fuck?? I’m shocked beyond words and am amazed it was ever in circulation.

I've also just read up on A Serbian Film and really wish I hadn't.

@Butterer

Irreversible (2002 French film)

That's the one I came to post. Horrific.

And American History X. Yes, there is redemption, but I absolutely cannot stomach the violence and hate.

@CarrotCakeCrumbs I enjoyed would you rather, although I remember texting my mum and saying I feel like their must be something wrong with me to enjoy because it was pretty horrific, I think I enjoyed that the story had a bit more originality.

I will forever be disturbed by the original wicker man.

I remember a film I watched (or rather sneakily watched) whilst my dad was watching when I was a child, no idea what it was but it was based around slavery and they tied a man to a tree and whipped him (I also remember barns and such like being on fire) I know nothing else about it but I’ll never forget it.

The kerb scene in American History X

I’ve never been able to get past the first 10 mins of human centipede and had to stop saw at 2 or 3.

Hostel is terrifying.

I’ve always been of the opinion that film makers/script writers should be investigated in some way because to be able to think some of these things up is disturbing and surely not right?

How the hell can A Serbian film ever be ok to make? It’s just pornography and how can it be legal.
I really wonder what the personal circumstances/damage/fetishes are of someone who writes, produces or directs shit like that. Urgh humanity is horrible sometimes

A pp mentioned how if they really wanted to shock then make rape scenes would be viewed as more horrific....having watched the scene in thirteen reasons why I can confirm that the thought of it disturbed me for a very very long time and makes me feel utterly sick to my stomach, more so than the scene in last house on the left.

Yes this is why I think too @Namechangex10000

I’ve always been of the opinion that film makers/script writers should be investigated in some way because to be able to think some of these things up is disturbing and surely not right?

I don't think a majority of you are the target audience and saying people should be investigated is insane. A Serbian film whilst horrible is based on life at the time in Serbia so the director had something in mind when making it

A documentarys tend to stump me

Dear Zachary (wont spoil it!)

Dreams of a life. This genuinely changed part of my outlook on life, its about Joyce Vincent who died aged 38 and sadly wasnt discovered for a long time. It discusses her life, and how a woman who was well loved, could disappear without a ripple with interviews with people close to her who didnt register that the person found after so long, might be the joyce they considered a friend.

It was always keep with me that she had wrapped presents under the christmas tree, and had presents to give others. She clearly had those relationships, a presumable there were people who gave those gifts/ had gifts from her or had gifts waiting for her that then never raised the alarm that she never recieved them.

I’d like to see ‘Dreams of a Life’ and thank you for mentioning it - I’m a bit of a Steven Wilson fan and his album ‘Hand Cannot Erase’ is based on Joyce Carol Vincent’s story and as a result, I’ve always wanted to know more about her.

I agree re dreams of a life. Was very poignant and sad how such a beautiful well liked woman could lay undiscovered for what 4 years? She had a good job, she had friends, she had wrapped presents for her family, her bills mustnt have been paid for years and yet not one person raised the alarm that she was missing. Is the most baffling thing ever.

Oh and re: dreams of a life the footage at the end where she is at that event is it nelson mandela or something and you see her clapping in the crowd happy and normal and it just beggars belief what would happen to her.

I've been busy Googling lots of these and I would hate to see these films. Serbian film, what the actual???
I've remembered another one that stayed with me for ages, Passion of the Christ, horrendous brutality. I had to stop it for a breather, but I did watch it all.
I can't bear too much brutality and can't stand creepy like the Ring. That ruined scary for me😵

I'm not tough enough to watch nearly half of the films mentioned. Basic Instinct was uncomfortable, there was a not particularly consentual scene between the "hero" and his girlfriend, that was purely for the entertainment of the viewer. I always thought it was sold as a strong women film but really made for men, by men.

Oh another - This is England. (spoilers) Only saw it once, years ago, but remember when the young black guy starts chatting about his happy home life and family, and you see the other guy get more and more enraged before beating the shit out of him... Not comfortable viewing.

I can’t remember the name but I watched a random Netflix film.

It was Chinese or Japanese, about a young girl (around 6)who is abducted on her way to school, and the worst happens.
The first ten minutes there’s a scene ( I can’t bring myself to even describe it)
I made myself watch the rest to see if the family got justice, the poor girl ended up with a colostomy bag.
It broke my heart, never again!

Oh yes re This is England, very hard watching.

My Best Friend's Wedding and Love, Actually for the latent misogyny.

Not so much a bad taste but I just can't watch anything involving cruelty to animals or the Holocaust. Even Charlotte's Web messed me up.

The Company of Men - two guys have a bet that they can make a blind girl fall in love with them, just distasteful.