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

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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?

I saw an award winning documentary called "Grizzley Man", about this guy who lives amongst bears in Alaska and subsequently gets eaten by one......l actually think I have some PTSD from this film. there is a horrifying live sound recording of the guy and his gf being killed - it is the most traumatic thing I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. Do yourself a favor and stay away

The Ring
Nightmare on Elm Street

I refused to watch Seven, Saw and pretty much any horror film for ages - the Ring was an exception and I wish I hadn't. Things that get you in your sleep bother me (perhaps stupidly) because you have no control there.

The Accused was vile.

There are a few books I don't need to read again either (I have a pretty graphic imagination and can't shift a couple of scenes):
The Sett by Sir Ranulph Fiennes - although it is described as a novel, and may well be, it is supposed to be a story by another person - and that person is thanked in the credits/acknowledgements for the book. As fiction it is bad enough, if it is real then it is 100x worse.
The KiteRunner - never again. Not so much the initial rape, but the child abuse of the first boy's son when he's only 4. Ugh
E.V.Thompson's Harvest of the Sun - E.V.Thompson was a policeman in the Drugs and Vice dept, and he has a brutal rape in every book of his I read. This was the worst. It still stays with me now, over 20 years later.
Anything by Karin Slaughter. She is a sick woman.

Thank you for starting this thread - it has warned me off several other films I may not have realised would be so bad.

And in another vein - never watch Seeker - The Dark is Rising; well not if you read the Susan Cooper books and have any fondness for them. It is a travesty, an absolute travesty. :(

Oh - I'd forgotten about irreversible (though it took me years to forget it!) - I watched it in a packed arts cinema and what made it worse was that I had the sense that certain of the audience were enjoying it!

Lassie Come Home. I watched this as a young child in the 70's and it still upsets me.I I sobbed my heart out when the old man's dog got killed. Could never watch it again. The trailer for the remake was shown when I was pregnant for DD. I started crying in the cinema! Damn hormones!

Blue Velvet - Really disturbed me for a long time

Another vote for Funny Games- it made me feel uncomfortable and unsettled for quite a while afterwards, never had a film affect me like that before.

Clockwork Orange

I agree with Seven, it was horrible and also Erasorhead was far too disturbing for my liking

I've got no idea what happens by the end of La Vita e Bella because I just had to turn it off. I knew if I kept watching I would never get it out of my mind.

Also, a book. It's called The People of the Book; one scene depicts a man being tortured during the Inquisition. He is forced to swallow a length of cloth by having it put into his throat then litres of water poured down. They then pull it out bit by bit. God. I couldn't get that out of my head for ages.

oh - the bone collector - that awful film where a new york cabbie is killing people he fetches from the airport. he is the reason we had to take a train in the middle of the night (and then ended up in a cab anyway!!!) terrifying!

Hotel Rwanda, great film, but couldn't watch it again.

There is an episode of the X Files that DH and I wish we'd never seen.It featured a woman trapped in a bed under the floorboards by a member/members of her incestous family.It was so awful I have blanked most of it from my mind.I was unable to eat my dinner after seeing that.

My friend and I went to see a film, can't recall what but it was sold out so watched 28 Days Later like this but behind our hands and halfway down the seat so we couldn't see the screen properly.

Also My Little Eye was an horrific film!! Didn't know what it was going to be about and turned out to be a snuff film style with people been killed upclose to the camera - HORRIFIC!!

I remember that episode vividly and feel the same.

Def another here for Jaws. I'm also I disagreement here with DH's family as they let DS's (3 & 5 ) watch it!!!! Was fucking furious when I found out

The Human Centipede anyone? I'm a horror addict, it takes a LOT to shock/scare me, and even though it's totally ridiculous in essence, a couple of scenes really got into my head. Similarly, the novel 'Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal Johnson severely fucked with my head. Please don't read it unless you have a seriously high tolerance for disturbing things. Still glad I read it though.

The Krays gave me nightmares for a long time, the chelsea dagger smile, the snakes and the blood dripping through the snooker ball nets...........[scared emotioncon]

Also Born on the 4th of July and Jacob's Ladder-very disturbing.

Oh and Creep is another. You will never ever want to fall asleep on an Underground platform late at night again!!

Can't believe noone has mentioned sleepers... Could not now watch that film being the mother of two young boys.

The strangers. Sounds similar to the Eden one people have cited, a young couple being terrorised by other young people for no good reason.

Recently watched cherry tree lane. Utterly horrifying as a very realistic portrayal of what could quite realistically happen to a 'normal' middle class family that encounters grudge gang revenge. Shocking and will stay with me - unfortunately.

Born on the 4th of July

that is a film I will not watch again. I am glad I watched it the first time, but far to harrowing to watch again.