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What film can you physically not bring yourself to watch?

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Dizzybintess · 30/05/2016 22:21

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?

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SkyWasMadeOfAmethyst · 05/06/2016 22:25

Not Charlie! Harry! With a friend like Harry. weeps

Baconyum · 05/06/2016 22:41

Devils advocate I would class as more thriller than horror but there are horror archetypes used. It's thought provoking.

I wonder if the difficulties some posters have with some films are that they're provoking thoughts they'd rather not confront (which is perfectly ok in terms of you're looking to be entertained not educated).

Like the pianist, schindlers list, Sophie's choice, threads, the accused, precious et al

The purge tries to be a bit like that 'what if the wannabe vigilantes were indulged?'but I agree the writing isn't quite up to scratch to meet the ideological attempt.

Supermam · 05/06/2016 22:56

Agree with FlemCandango, the French film, Irreversible, is horrendous. I had to watch it for a Film Studies A level and walked out of the class during a rape scene, having endured other horrible scenes. The unit was " Shocking Cinema" and it certainly was!

Keletubbie · 05/06/2016 22:57

I watched Hostel in an Eastern European hostel after taking drugs.

Nope nope nope.

Seen most of these but cannot get through The Witches. 8 yr old DD loved it.

winkywinkola · 05/06/2016 23:00

Sophie's Choice.

YabuDabbaDoo · 05/06/2016 23:07

I like horror and have a strong stomach but half an hour into "Hostel" my fellow horror-buff and I looked at each other and agreed that we had to turn it off before we threw up.

I thought the Human Centipede was stupid. Like the Shining though.

Gems16 · 05/06/2016 23:09

Have never seen the exorcist and never will, I don't even allow a copy of it 2 be kept in the house!

unicornsfartrainbows · 05/06/2016 23:26

Deliverance

YabuDabbaDoo · 05/06/2016 23:26

Ooh I've just remembered that Inland Empire (David Lynch) there is a SPOLIERS!!! scene in the middle when Laura Dern's character starts freaking out and asking what the hell is going on... She acted it so brilliantly that I felt like the fabric of reality was unraveling and I had to turn it off.

Also a little-known film with Julianne Moore called "Safe" about a 1980s woman who has (undiagnosed) chemical sensitivity syndrome - there are some terrifying moments in that - no gore, but the horror of a person who is terribly ill but not taken seriously by anyone.

jadzy73 · 05/06/2016 23:32

I cannot unsee The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It's awful and had I known what it was about I'd never have watched it. I've just read the plot for Sophie's Choice and I'll avoid that too... I was subjected to 1984 in school after reading the book which was even more bloody depressing when you're an angst ridden teen! I avoid most horrors coz they're cheesy and stupid but one film I can't stand is Open Water. It's shite! Nowt happens - they tread water for a bit then it ends - bloody pointless! Bah!

GuinefortGrey · 05/06/2016 23:34

Nope to all horror, supernatural and slasher movies

27 hours - true story of trapped man who hacks his own arm off Confused

World Trade Centre or any 9/11 based films.

Any film that I know in advance doesn't have a happy ending. Damn you Marley & Me!

NoahVale · 05/06/2016 23:55

SAw
Texas chainsaw massacre

BananaThePoet · 06/06/2016 00:14

I will never understand why anyone wants to watch gory films or films that depict suffering and torture. I know people do and I know they are normal people but I can't work out how anyone can be entertained by another person's suffering even if it is pretend. I can't even watch non-horror films if they are 'entertainment' and based on or about real people who were killed or injured or hurt in real events.
The closest I can get to watching stuff like that are detective and crime tv but not if they are based on real cases or real criminals/victims.

Baconyum · 06/06/2016 01:44

Many law and order and csi episodes are based in reality - generally the more outlandish ones, criminal minds too I think

applesvpears · 06/06/2016 03:02

Eraser head is the only one I can think of that disturbs me so I wouldn't want to watch it. Not so keen on the exorcist either.

I have seen loads of rubbish films too that I wouldn't watch again.

InionEile · 06/06/2016 03:15

Hunger, the film by Steve McQueen with Michael Fassbender playing Bobby Sands. It hits too close to home and I just couldn't sit through it without getting incredibly upset. I watched about 5 minutes of the beginning where a guy is being taken into prison and just couldn't deal with it anymore.

I've seen Hostel and a few other gory horror films and usually watch the bad bits through my fingers but most of the time it doesn't get to me too much because I know it's made up and intended to shock. Anything based on real human suffering is much more upsetting to me.

PollyCoddle · 06/06/2016 05:01

Event Horizon - I watched half of it on my own in a hotel room once and was completely terrified for weeks after. A friend had the same, but he kept watching in the hope it would have a happy ending, so he was even more traumatised.

Rainbunny · 06/06/2016 05:56

I thought of another one, apologies if pp's have already mentioned it: Watership Down. The most heartbreaking, traumatic movie that I'm still trying to get over since seeing it aged 6.

Lillabet · 06/06/2016 08:26

Event Horizon - terrifies me, watched it once and even now at least 12 years later I still can't!
Mirror/window based horror, so candyman is a no no!
To be honest, anything but the horror because I have an over active imagination.
King Kong - the cruelty of taking a magnificent beast from its natural habitat and then killing it when it didn't behave how you wanted it to just breaks my heart and makes me angry. I had to come home from a friend's house at the age of six because I was so distressed by the Fay Wray version!
ET, Bambi, the Fox and the Hound; they're just too sad.
Trainspotting since having children, the baby is horrendous.

Polska03 · 06/06/2016 09:58

Donnie Darko. WTAF....Angry

theredjellybean · 06/06/2016 10:09

anything with any supernatural stuff, any horror/slasher/gore...

and JAWS...watched it as young teen and took me 30 odd yrs to get to point when can swim in sea again...much to my family's hilarity.

stupidly watched bit of trailer for The Shallows last week...ahhhhh....no no no no

infact nothing with sharks, or killer wales or being stranded in the sea.

Nothing with truamatic mothering scenes such as Sophie's choice

I also cannot stomach romantic rubbish...

so basically i watch feel good comedy ! fave film is The Boat that Rocked

Enb76 · 06/06/2016 10:11

Happy Gilmore and its ilk

icepop9000 · 06/06/2016 12:30

I must be a freak as have watched every film that you all can't stomach!!
Love a good creep and gross put film....

Squaddielife · 06/06/2016 14:30

The Pianist :( I walked out half way through it and spent the 2nd half of the film crying upstairs. Had a blazing row with DH as he said I'd be ok watching it. That and the boy in the striped pyjamas - traumatised.
Won't watch hostel / human centipede / watership down / warhorse.
Still remember being scared out of my wits watching The Entity - based on a true story!?!

GoudyStout · 06/06/2016 16:05

Watched The Pianist with DS1 because he was studying it for English at school and he wanted some extra input. God, it was harrowing.

DS2 is currently doing The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. He's on his own with that one .