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?

What Dreams May Come is so depressing.

I cried all the way through The Impossible and kept bursting into tears for hours afterwards.

Glad some others mentioned Eden Lake. That is one film that has stayed with me still

Yes! Eden Lake is terrifying!

When I was a teenager my mother and I watched "The Day They Gave Babies Away" - it was Christmas Eve and we both bawled our eyes out and it took us some time to get back into the spirit of Christmas. It is based on a true story - in the American West both parents die and the oldest child takes his siblings round to other families asking them each to take in one child. It was also Christmas Eve in the movie. Never, ever watch it!

I remember that film. I was just little at the time and my mum thought it would be a good family film for us all to watch. I can recall her cuddling us when it was on and saying things like 'meh bairns, meh bonny bairns'.

Its like the stories she'd make up that always involved us having to go and live in a forest and the logs she'd have to chop to buy a quarter pound of tea, a quarter pound of butter

She was bonkers but she was my mum and there's was nobody like her

Has anyone mentioned Requiem For A Dream yet?

If anyone is planning on watching that one - please don't! I saw it at a cinema screening, and it took me several hours afterwards to shake off the downer it put me on!

Irreversible. Both me and DH took a long time to get over that one

Quadrophenia.

I might be in a minority but all the way through I was and

I've got War Horse on Sky Planner, it's been on there for quite some time, just can't bring myself to watch it. I've also got the book and haven't plucked up the courage to read it, I know I'll sob lots.

The Pursuit Of Happiness, I felt thoroughly depressed afterwards.

Bridge to Taribithia caught me completely off guard. I was expecting a light hearted kids movie and then it socked me right in the gut with no warning. Same with My Girl.

Another one that left me feeling depressed was the little girl in Schindler's List. I think I was hoping expecting him to save her. But I was expecting a sad film.

The last one that left me in stunned silence was Captain Phillips, the Somali pirate movie with Tom Hanks. They made the Somali's too human and to realistic in how they were stopped. I much prefer the senseless bad ass Hollywood tough guys killing everyone in a flurry of cartoonish violence.

I never saw Bridge to Terabithia, but I read the book when I was a kid. I'm just impressed that they didn't change the ending.

Two movies that I actually really liked but which both made me feel wretched afterwards: Brokeback Mountain. I thought it was a great movie, but I was a wreck for days afterwards. The other one was - I think it was called Mrs Brown? About Queen Victoria, with Billy Connolly. I cried after I turned it off, and I was just hopelessly sad for the rest of the day. Even though it wasn't really what I'd call a sad movie.

I didn't read the book, I assumed based on the trailers it would be a similar fantastical, light hearted tale like the Spiderwick Chronicals. Because it was marketed to kids dammit!

Like others, I have to be so careful about what I watch as otherwise it is burned onto my brain. Nightmares and night terrors ensue.

I went to see The Road for my birthday after reading a review which said that the most shocking scene from the book isn't depicted directly in the film. It fucking well is . DH was appalled and it was the most depressing birthday ever.

No one has mentioned 'Into the Wild'. I watched it on recommendation from a trusted friend. She's right, it's a great (documentary) film, but so bloody bleak.

Precious - can't unsee that. Or 7even (watched as a teenager).

DH and I shook and sweated most of the way through The Village, but it's beautifully shot and is less scary in hindsight.
But to be fair I'm too wimpy even to watch the xfiles any more, and I saw every episode multiple times as a teenager.

Changeling with Angelina Jolie was not what I was expecting and - though excellent - based on an awful true story that I wish I hadn't know about.

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Cruikshank - yer re the Ray Winstone film.

I remeber watching itb thinking 'I can't really thinkk of ray winstone in any nice way now'

When they are in hospital and it shows the nappy, the son has been observing averything, hasn't he,andsays something like'Justdon't leave him / Day with the baby' and showing a completely bewiildered mum who has no idea what has been and is happening and how her world is crashing down....

On a different note, I finished reading The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy last night and I sobbed my eyes out. Thought it would be a bit drivelly but it was so sad about an unrequited lovee

Very Bad Things with Cameron Diaz. The horrible helplessness of everything that happened. I felt haunted by it! I guess the clue was in the title.

The Butterfly Effect. Disturbing. Usually I keep films to watch again. I couldn't get shot of that one quick enough!

The Time Traveler's Wife. I was in the early stages of pg with my ds, having recently suffered a mc. I wish I had known what it was about before watching however it would have depressed me at any time I'm sure.

I watched Requiem for a Dream years ago whilst stoned and went to bed so down and thinking there was no point to life at all.

As a child saw Scum, Deliverance and The Plague Dogs. Very much shouldn't have. (70s parenting). All 3 traumatized me.

As an adult, Nil By Mouth, Precious, Children of God. Feel down now, must go and watch Gogglebox.

The Mist - To taken a Stephen King story and make it even more depressing. I'd just had DC2 and was a puddle of tears and snot at the end.

The Woman in Black- shit film but not one to watch when you had your first child 2 weeks before hand and in the throes of PND.

I didn't watch a horror film until DD was 6m old just incase

Human Centipede was just boring.
I don't think I'll ever watch Sophie's Choice.

The shining. Not exactly a relaxing watch also agree with The boy in the striped pajamas was haunting.

On the whole I agree with Cruikshank about powerful films- many of the ones the ones mentioned disturbed me (Lilya 4 ever relentlessly depressing and just when you think it can't get worse for her....it does), but the only one I regret seeing is irreversible. In terms of my mental happiness it was (irreversible). I suppose we all have individual triggers of images prone to disturb.

The Hills Have Eyes was horrible and disturbing and I wouldn't watch it again.

Inside Out left me feeling really depressed for some reason. I expected a happy Pixar film but so many things happened in it that left me feeling strange and down.

I am glad I am not the only one who has to be careful what they Watch as things burn on their brain.... I watched the mummy as an adult and obsessed for weeks about how long it would take people to die..... I know don't watch horrible films and stick with fluffy....