What film can you physically not bring yourself to watch?

[Dizzybintess]

I am not a big fan of horror films but I can tolerate them with a pillow and someone to hide behind.
I have a few movies I seriously cannot bring myself to even view the trailer of for fear of being scarred for life.
They are in no particular order.
Human Centipede
The shining
And scarface.

What about you guys?

wishful that's called a portmanteau film . Can't stand love actually (thanks a level film study) but I like the old films like that Hammer and Amicus did.
Another one for Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Chick flicks. Why?
Torture horrors.

I have watched it but 28 days later (and the sequel) scared me a lot, the theme music still gives me shivers 😳

Not the Piano....stupid mare I am,The Pianist

I quite like creepy films but don't like films with lots of violence such as Pulp Fiction, Casino, Godfather. The synopsis of Human Centipede was disturbing enough so will not be watching that or similar films ever.

Mind you, I have never made it the whole way through Watership Down or Animal Farm - who decided they were children's films?

That's how long ago I watched it!

Wow, Hedgeh0g, that must have been awful! I can remember being terrified of nuclear armageddon during the Cold War anyway, and the morning after I'd first seen Threads I took the dog for a walk in tears and broke out in a fresh bout of sobbing at every tuft of grass, every bird, every dandelion, absolutely convinced that it was all going to be one enormous radioactive crisp before too much longer. :(

Like others on here I won't watch horror/violent/gory films.

Also I know if something is directed by Tim Burton I probably won't enjoy it. His films are all very similar and just not my cup of tea. Everyone seems to be obsessed with Beetlejuice, I find it unbelievably boring.

Agree Beetlejuice was just daft

I could never watch the Passion of the Christ. I hate seeing people suffering, especially innocent, good people, and when you know it actually happened it is a million times worse.

I refuse to watch any torture porn - Human Centipede, Saw, Hostel etc. I don't understand what's entertaining about watching people get tortured.

I won't watch The Pianist again as I was traumatised the first time round. It's far more distressing than Schindler's List in my view. I have read the book of Sophie's Choice but don't think I could read or watch it again now I have my DD.

I've seen it all. Human centipede (first one wasn't too bad, second omg but the wee dude creeped me out) and I've seen a Serbian film to. Again, not the worst film I've ever seen. That dubious honour goes to a b movie about (horrifically cgi'd) killer wasps.

The film I found difficult to watch was girl with the dragon tattoo (the original one) that rape scene :(
However, i believe it was right to do it so gratuitously. Rape victims don't get to fade to black, and I think it's insulting to what they've been through to do so.

Lol me and my friend tried to have a saw-athon. I think we make it to the 4th film before we had to watch some Disney and tell our parents we loved them lol

*Hedgeh0g Threads is the only film I've ever seen DH cry at. In 20 years.

THE PLAGUE DOGS! Just thinking about it sends me spiralling into doominess.

Also, I love the horror genre, but have no desire to ever watch A Serbian Film, it sounds absolutely revolting, or Cannibal Holocaust, because there's no way I want to watch genuine animal torture for entertainment.

The Purge films. I have an idea of what they are about and that idea terrifies me! Also the Human Centipeed. No thank you!

The Purge is crap. Just pure stupidity.

Romper stamper and clockwork orange for me.

Don't mind horror too much although I tend to be scared for the first hour or so, then end up getting angry and shouting at the TV 'don't go back to the house/investigate the noise/ do some other stupid victim thing'

The Fault in our Stars. Everyone raved about that but DH and I lasted about 15 minutes. The main character's voice and attitude was just too annoying.

Also films with gore. They've mostly all been mentioned here.

I don't watch any horror or torture films. I've never seen Saw etc but I have no wish to.
Deeply miserable depressing things (like Precious, I really wish I hadn't watched it) get in my head and it's all I can think about for ages

Anything more by steven speiberg, they are just so sugery, sickly, stick in the throat vomit inducing.

WhereTheFuck I agree!! I don't want to remind you of anything scary/disturbing but I think my problem is when people 'change' briefly to something hideous then back to normal again. Or when faces are distorted, when they appear where they shouldn't be with no warning like in a window (The Eye) or really quickly (CCTV camera in The Grudge) freaks me the fuck out. I also REALLY hate the tired trope of only one person knows the truth and no one else believes them then they go on the run for whatever reason. Rubbish. And scary.

In Devils Advocate there is a particular black actress that has some super quick, 'did that really happen?' flashes of weird distortion that I still remember vividly and it was prob 20 some years ago. She appeared in Law & Order and I didn't like it. I just googled her and saw the picture! Why?????????? Shit. Madness.

I stopped watching The Orphan at the point where the girl is breaking her own arm in a vice so that she can implicate the Mother in abuse. I have no idea what happens after that as I couldn't bear it. Apparently it's not even that scarey...she just freaked me out!

The Accused.

Can't watch rape scenes in any film, I have to leave the room, but the glee of the men chanting as Jodie Foster is raped is burned onto my memory. I watched it as a teen, NEVER again.

Any supernatural stuff (sixth sense meant 3 weeks of sleeping with the light on. I can just about tolerate Ghostbusters)
Crazy robot stuff (that bit in Robocop where the robot is counting down so the guy puts down the weapon and the robot is still counting down, omg)
Excessive gore
Torture
Scary stuff
Films that go out of their way to make you jump. Just fuck off.
Jaws (scared of sharks)

And last but not least.... The Truman Show. I watched it when I was going through a rough patch and it pushed me over the edge into paranoia. I know it sounds stupid and I actually really like the film, but I think watching it again would be too weird.

I like happy films, dramas, funny films (not many of those), superhero films and fantasy films (lord of the rings). And sci fi so long as it's not too scary.

Romance, action, disaster - not my cup of tea but I'll watch them if dh wants.

There's a french suspense horror film whose title translates to something like "with a friend like Charlie" which absolutely terrified me. I'm not sue what it was about the film but it still gives me the shudders like 15 years later.