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

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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?

momb agree with Inside Out. It hit a nerve here too, not because I'm a Joy, but how we become driven by different emotions. All the mother's were incarnations of sadness and driven by sadness, even though she seemed okay. I know how she feels.

Yes!!!
City Of Angels.
I watched it for the first time at Uni. I felt utterly overwhelmed with sadness and was depressed for ages afterwards.
I suspect I was already low underneath it all-there was an awful lot going on my life and I thought I was fine with it all-but it took me years to be able to openly say that I watched a film, felt totally desolate afterwards and was sent home on compassionate leave 2 weeks later and diagnosed with depression.
I guess it was just an emotional film and I was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.

I cant think of any I regret watching except in a 'that film was rubbish why did I sit through it' kind of way

Watership Down never fails to bring on the tears, Bicentennial Man is a really sad film and the ending of Planes, Trains and Automobiles has been known to make me cry.

'Blair Witch Project'...completely freaked me out, I couldn't go in, or even near any woods for years!

'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', hollywood version. Brilliant film, loved it, but the psychopathic family member in his cellar...so well acted, but left me very shocked for a long time as just how two faced someone could be...all charm to the outside world and so utterly evil in private.

'V for Vendetta', again an amazing film, but unnervingly, depressingly believable. Didn't make me feel hopeful about my/our future, though the film had a good ending.

Not a film, but documentary on youtube 'Conspiracy of Silence' about an FBI case from the 90s....I actually wished I'd never been born after seeing that!

thefutureofpolitics Watership Down has a happy/sad ending, where the black rabbit takes Hazel away and he's ready to go. I think it's a lovely ending, but it makes me cry. DD has it on DVD.

Dead Man's Shoes, the Shane Meadows film. It's horrific. Cried buckets.

Also Dreams of a Life, a documentary about Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who died in her flat in London on Christmas Eve 2003 and wasn't found until 2006.

A horror film form the 1980's called Creep Show, one scene it it is burned into my mind and I have never watched a horror movie again.
The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover: made me throw up, and I refused to watch anything by Peter Greenaway ever again.
Clockwork Orange: made me very upset and I wish I had never seen it.
Ditto the Green Mile.
I would never watch American Psycho: the book upset me so much that I destroyed it.

Regarding books: I love John Steinbeck but cannot have The Grapes of Wrath in the house because I find it so depressing and sad.

Yes thedudesmummy The cook the thief his wife etc, just the thought makes me gag. but it wa a good film tho! (but horrible too)

I liked the afterlife scenes in the lovely bones

The Changeling. I think it was because it was based on a true story, and I found it really upsetting. Wish I had never watched it, and I think of it often.

I could not watch The Lovely Bones, Mrs. I tried but I was a mess. My little girl! Because she did not know she was going to die, sometimes I worry that she didn't know, IYKWIM? I know she did and does, but well, that film was too much for me.

I could never watch City of Angels now. I did when it came back but just reading its title here, I remember when Seth took the little girl and she asked if her Mommy could come and he said no. And the girl said, 'But she won't understand.' And he replied, 'She will. Someday.' I'm actually crying now just reading that.

I can't watch sad films at all, tbh. There was one on late, I don't know what it was, but it was about this pathetic man, addicted to sex and wrecking his life with it. And he didn't even have a dead child. I started choking with sobs and wishing we were all dead for all the suffering in the world and turned it off. It was so miserable.

Oranges and Sunshine, so very harrowing, I read the book first several years before, totally heartbreaking, I had never heard of the Child Migrants or the Child Migrant Trust before then.

Silence of the Lambs still scares me now, I must have seen it 20 or 30 times but the hairs on the back of my neck still stand up at times.

Leaving Last Vegas......grim film... :(

And YY, to Peter Greenaway. Something is fundamentally wrong with that man. He's fucking sick. I was taken to see The Cook et al on a date. Neither of us knew what it was about. I walked out of there to be sick in the lav. Horrible. What gets into peoples' heads to create such stuff?

I saw The Outsiders with Matt Dillon when I was 13 and it took me weeks to get over it. The Killing Fields and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were also very upsetting but I'm glad I watched them. I don't know if anyone mentioned Once were Warriors but it might be the saddest film I ever watched. I bought a copy of it about 2 years ago but I'm not brave enough to actually re-watch it.
Someone earlier on the thread mentioned a scene in American History X that traumatised them and that's one I also wish I hadn't seen. It's a powerful film though.

Cheating a bit here as I have never seen a film that affected me that deeply but agree with theDudesmummy about the American Psycho book. I found it utterly disgusting and it is the only book that I have physically destroyed rather than just give it away to a charity shop. It was just unutterable depravity.
I have never seen the Human Centipede films but was curious and just read the Wiki description - DO NOT DO THIS! What the hell goes through people's minds? I can be having a completely normal day and then I will think about this film and spend the next 10-15 mins feeling sick!

Blue Jasmine - the trailer said it was funny! I watched it on a plane on a work trip and was raging when it finished. Misogynist, depressing bullshit. Woody Allen can fuck right off, I'm never watching him again. And my mum thought the same!

I love Silence of the Lambs though, although I don't look at the horrible bits, to see a victim try and take control was brilliant. And it's about a woman and her work, very few films are. I love when she gets in the basement and she knows she has to find him and she shouts to Catherine "FBI, you're safe!" knowing she has this awful dangerous task ahead.

Threads - it was on Tv in the 80s and my dad told me off for walking out when it was on, I was 12! Not sure what good watching terrified people peeing in the road was supposed to do me.

I can see that, Mrs. I got to where she realised she was dead and was screaming with it and I had to turn it off. I just thought, 'OMG! OMG! Does mine knows she's dead?! Oh no!' And it was too much for me. You're six years further on than I am, too, so maybe things will be different for me later on.

Like you, I had read the book before she died. Couldn't read it now.

Bathshebadarkstone Watership Down really is a lovely film and I don't know if this is really embarrassing but I love the song Bright Eyes!

I love this version!

The references to Peter Greenaway upthread..I watched The Cook, The Thief etc. I don't remember finding it especially disturbing, despite the subject matter, but The Baby of Macon...

Horrible, horrible, horrible. Never, ever anyone see it. Honestly. Really, really grim and vile ending.

Oh, Afterlife was an amazing series. I saw it before Aillidh died. Those two were brilliant. Ghost Whisperer is shite. Sea of Souls is incredible, too.