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Which film do you wish you hadn't seen (not because it was crap)

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GiganticusBottomus · 27/10/2011 09:44

I saw Fennel posted on the 'we need to talk about Kevin' thread saying she's just seen the film and wished she hadn't

I really wish I hadn't seen 'Seven' I found it really disturbing.

Any other films you recommend avoiding?

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crazynannawitchbitch · 29/10/2011 23:31

I honestly,really wouldn't advise you to,LaFilleSurLePont Sad
It seriously messed with my head. I know it was fiction,but knowing that shit really does go on...jeez,it shook me up. Sad Give it a miss,I reckon.

PoppyDoolally · 30/10/2011 21:16

Josie - do not watch. It is appalling. I cried so hard it was just terrible. Great acting, yes. But something you really do not want to see.

I would second requiem for a dream. Just got more and more depressing. When the film ended my DH and I just sat there. Wanting to jump in front of a train.

PoppyDoolally · 30/10/2011 21:17

Sorry that was message for josierosie re irreversible. Not a film called Josie! Blush

thenightsky · 30/10/2011 21:21

Candyman (don't say his name 4 times)

noyouhavehadawee · 30/10/2011 21:23

jaws and psycho whoch made me a bit shitty about having a shower.

helpmabob · 30/10/2011 21:24

Sophie's Choice - haunts me forever

Conkertree · 30/10/2011 21:32

The Lovely Bones is the one I never want to see again.

Tigerbomb · 30/10/2011 21:38

another vote for Jaws. I am still wary when I am in the swimming pool [hblush]

I am very shallow. I do not watch thought provoking or horror films. I just want to be entertained and feel good after. I usually have to stick with kids films [hgrin]

arwen1506 · 30/10/2011 21:39

Salo is one of the wrongest films I have ever seen, banned for many years in the uk. Requiem for a dream I thought was well made but just when you thought it couldn't great any worse plunges to new depths. Irreversible was messed up too.

GHAHSTLYGHOULYpants · 30/10/2011 21:48

requiem for a dream- i loved it but it was so traumatic

the road- i want to watch it, but can't bring myself to do so

the exorcist- the horror that has stayed with me, saw it when i was 16, am 34 now and the thought of it still scares me shitless

the exorcism of emily rose- why the hell did i watch that given my terrified response to the exorcist?! idiot that i am.

frutilla · 30/10/2011 21:51

Creep, The Saw, The Cube.

thenightsky · 30/10/2011 22:01

yes to Creep

gaelicsheep · 30/10/2011 22:11

Hannibal - that scene where the guy is unknowingly eating his own brain. Totally daft yet it really haunts me

The Godfather - that horse's head.

Not a film, but so many of the Tudors episodes with the horrific torture methods. The recent one where on guy got a red hot poker shoved up his rear end - I cannot get that out of my head.

I am much much more sensitive to most things now that I've had children. I can't watch horror films at all any more.

KellyKettle · 31/10/2011 09:17

Oh God, Saw is horrible. I don't even know why I watched it. The end scene where you think he's in a room with a dead body but it's really the man who's been setting up all the horrible deaths pretending to be dead. Terrifying.

bigfatgypsy · 05/11/2011 08:29

Another vote for American History X. Although it's actually one of my favourite films but that scene really traumatised me. Even though you don't actually see anything, the sound and images you imagine are horrific. I've watched it a few times but I have to ff that bit.

I don't mind horror stuff at all, and I enjoy things like Seven because I seem to be able to detach them from reality. The ones that disturb me are anything that show historic violence or torture - I had to stop watching Last of the Mohicans years ago because I just couldn't bear the thought of what they did to each other. Same with Braveheart, and often anything to do with war. I had to build myself up for years before I could watch Saving Private Ryan.

Horror stuff is ok but anything that plays with your imagination can terrify me - Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity freaked me out much more than other graphic stuff.

Oh and the first film I saw that traumatised me for life was The Accused Sad when I was about 16. That's one I wish I could un-see, along with the rape scene in the recent This is England series. I find rape extremely difficult to watch.

BelfastBloke · 05/11/2011 08:51

I wish I hadn't watched the video of Colonel Gadaffi's last moments.

I know what a complete bastard he was, but mob violence forcussed on one man is a really disturbing thing.

lotuseener · 05/11/2011 09:24

Gone Baby Gone is the only film I can think of that still disturbs me. I still think about it and it has been maybe 2 years since I've seen it. All of the lying and manipulating the mother did to cover up what happened when her daughter went missing and how she didn't give a shit when she was returned to her, and especially that paedophile family and what happened to that little boy that Casey Affleck's character found in their house. Most upsetting film.

MillieMummy · 05/11/2011 09:31

GB - I am with you on 'Seven'. I think it was the most horrible thing I have ever seen and for years I couldn't forget the images.

TBH now I completely avoid films with anything disturbing in because of 'Seven' - my poor DH has to wait for me to go out before he can watch anything like that.

overthehillmum · 06/11/2011 09:39

Hostel, I was depressed for ages afterwards when random scenes popped into my head...... Dead set, the zombie big brother tv series, had night mares for weeks, especially after reading up about a scientist that said an epidemic like zombies could be possible by crossing rabies with chickenpox (I can't remember the exact phrase but it scared the he'll out of me)

AlfieandAnnieRose · 06/11/2011 10:27

Would like to add 'Splice'. Some truly awful mind-boggling scenes where the man has sex with the girl alien. I wish i could remove those images from my mind as it was just WRONG! And the end bit where the man alien says to the women 'I want to be inside you' [shudder]. Watched it with friends otherwise i would have turned it off. Awful awful movie.

Tortington · 06/11/2011 10:34

the entity,.

becuase it graphic sexual violence against a women by an 'entity'

and when i was younger 'based on a true story' was something i believed

AmberLeaf · 06/11/2011 11:01

Irreversible comes tops.

Someone mentioned the Nick Cage snuff one? 35mm or was it 8mm? disturbing and I couldnt watch it to the end.

An english film, road to Brighton? something Brighton anyway, about a prositute and runaway young girl. just not nice.

28 days later scared me for a long time.

Sixth sense had me scared to even put a flannel over my face in the bath without wondering who or what was behind me

2wwmadness · 06/11/2011 11:16

The scene un this is England where re tapes his daughter. I was in a hotel and couldn't work the telly quick enough to turn over/off. I can't think about it without feeling sick. Amazing acting. Truly awful scene

bigfatgypsy · 06/11/2011 14:43

What about Seven Pounds the Will Smith film? I watched that knowing that it was upsetting but not really knowing what it was about. I still wasn't sure what made it so upsetting until right near the end when it suddenly hit me like a brick Sad

If you've not seen it it's a good film but NOT one that will leave you in any way happy by the end.

brighthair · 21/11/2011 02:19

The ring
Not long after my horse was put down, and the horse jumping off the ferry had me crying. I just found the whole film disturbing - I can do gore and blood but not stuff that messes with your head