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Ever regret watching a film because it just made you feel so shit?

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sliceofsoup · 09/10/2015 20:34

Just finished watching Philomena. Bawling. DH looking at me funny.

I wish I hadn't watched it at all, because now I am sad, and angry at the injustice of it all.

Felt similar after watching The Help.

Any one else get like this?

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CleverPlansAndSecretTricks · 10/10/2015 18:16

Oh yes, and Watership Down. Totally traumatised me as a small child.

Upwiththisiwillnotput · 10/10/2015 18:17

When the wind blows. I grew up in the 80s and the threat of nuclear war hung over us like .. Well like a mushroom cloud. The fact that its a cartoon makes it more disturbing I think.

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 10/10/2015 18:22

Has everyone seen Max & Mary?

Beautiful film but it'll fuck you up for life.

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 10/10/2015 18:22

Mary & Max, sorry...

MissMarpleCat · 10/10/2015 18:22

Upwiththis I remember that, chilling.
Also a programme I watched in the 80's about nuclear war called 'Threads' absolutely terrified me and gave me many sleepless nights.

blueandgreendots · 10/10/2015 18:45

Irreversible - dear lord that rape scene went on forever.

Human Centipede - I didn't know what it was really about and was in the cinema, several people walked out. I'll never watch that again, horrible.

Whoever mentioned King Girl up thread that jogged a very old memory that me and all the girls in my drama GCSE class auditioned to be in it! None of us got a part though Grin

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 18:50

Bach yes....it is an immense skill to make a genuinely scary horror film, and TCM is one of only a handful to achieve it. And it has almost no gore!!

And to the OP who hated Deep Blue Sea and Con Air, they are my guiltiest pleasures!! Love them! On the DVD for Deep Blue Sea, Samuel L Jackson does the commentary, but as soon as his character gets it, he ups and leaves!!! I always think that is hilarious!!

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 10/10/2015 18:50

Wouldn't go as far as to regret watching but
Marley and me.
Stepmom
Dumbo.

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 18:52

Dots so it existed!!!! Sorry you didn't get a part!!

Applesauce29 · 10/10/2015 18:53

The boy in the striped pyjamas

We need to talk about Kevin

BathshebaDarkstone · 10/10/2015 18:55

Tiredemma my aunt took me to see Precious, knowing my background she should have known better. I was in a state for weeks.

SladeGreen · 10/10/2015 18:58

Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I went to see it on a first date (we both liked horror films), and oh my god I have never felt so uncomfortable in my life. It wasn't enjoyable at all, it just made us both sick.

We didn't arrange a second date after that. I think we were both too traumatised...either that, or the fact I later saw him kissing a man in a bar Confused Grin

cruikshank · 10/10/2015 18:59

TwllBach and twoboystwogirls, I agree with both of you about Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I think it is an absolutely amazing film and can watch it again and again. It's definitely not just a classic horror - it's a classic film full stop. Marilyn Burns's screaming is one of the most powerful sounds ever heard on film.

Did either of you see Mark Gatiss's History of Horror series? It's been on a couple of times and is well worth searching out, because he really knows his stuff. On one of the episodes he interviews Tobe Hooper and I was amazed because he's this really softly-spoken (and not in a creepy way) gentle sort of guy - but, my God, he committed a nightmare to celluloid in that movie.

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 19:09

Slade...the film is MEANT to be unsettling, but it achieves that with next to no gore, amateur actors and a crew made up of friends of the director! Can you see how fantastic that is?

It was definitely your date who was the main problem though...ewww!!!! ShockGrin

Cruik thanks for the info....definitely going to check that out. Tone Hooper is fab in interviews...IIRC he got the idea for TCM when standing in a long, exasperating queue of people doing Christmas shopping, and spying a shelf filled with chainsaws.

cruikshank · 10/10/2015 19:20

but it achieves that with next to no gore, amateur actors and a crew made up of friends of the director

Yy! And a tiny tiny budget. Just goes to show that if you have a properly creative mind and the vision to carry it through, then anything is possible.

Love the anecdote about Xmas shopping! In the Mark Gatiss interview I saw, he said that he figured that everyone pretty much hated him by the end of filming because they really were spending all day in a house with rancid chicken bones and bits of decomposing birds and all that nasty shit etc ... and the temperature was insanely hot, and they couldn't afford aircon.

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 19:30

YYCruik....the temperature during the dinner scene reached 110 and more....I guess that is over 40 in our language??Smile

I remember my big sister renting this video back in 83/84....the era of the video nasties. My parents both worked so she was in charge, (big mistake) so I saw this when I was 10 or 11. I wasn't scarred for life before anyone suggests it....in fact, I forgot about it until ten or so years ago when I watched it one night on Ch 4 and loved it.

SladeGreen · 10/10/2015 20:01

twoboystwogirls cruikshank
Whoops, I should have mentioned that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre I saw with my date was the remake, not the original! I love the original 1974 film, btw Smile

CaptainHammer · 10/10/2015 20:15

I haven't read all the comments so may have been said already but I've watched Bicentennial Man and Of Mice and Men once, never again! Far too sad.

fuzzpig · 10/10/2015 20:22

The Orphanage (del Toro I think)

The ending, oh god the ending. :( :( :(

SevenSeconds · 10/10/2015 20:38

I'm not keen on horror films, but I like sad films - I enjoy having a good cry over a film or book.

But there is a scene in Last King of Scotland which has stayed with me. And not in a good way.

notheroldie · 10/10/2015 21:35

American Psycho.
with Christian Bale. My ex read the book and wouldn't let me read it so I started to watch it. It was horrific.
I can't watch CBale in anything now because he was so vile and it was so gruesome

cruikshank · 10/10/2015 21:37

fuzzpig, agree about The Orphanage. It was the flashback bit, you know, where she realises what has happened (trying not to give too much away) that really got me. I can sit through horror after horror but that was completely different - it was emotionally visceral.

twoboystwogirls, I didn't see TCM until I was an adult, and actually yes of course it builds up a real pitch of terror but like you say you don't really see all that much at all - couldn't understand why it was banned.

SladeGreen, I haven't seen the remake or any of the spin-offs.

notheroldie · 10/10/2015 21:39

another one 'The Orphan'.
made my ds switch it off even tho he was talking me through the grizzly bits.

notheroldie · 10/10/2015 21:45

two things I sobbed through
The Dollmaker with jane Fonda
and a channel 4 documentary about 20 years ago about the abandoned baby girls in orphanages in China. SOOOO depressing that was.

fuzzpig · 10/10/2015 22:02

Yes same here cruik it was the fact that it wasn't actually 'horror' related at all that shocked me so much, I just wasn't expecting it.