What films do you wish you HADN'T seen?

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I have to say, I wish I'd never watched The Shining (at a sleepover when I was 14). It scared the pants off me!

Anyone else?

Mulholland DrIve
El Topo
Saw
Bridget Jones Diary

A film called 187. It's a true story starring Samuel L Jackson. He plays a school teacher attacked by a pupil. He is nearly stabbed to death. He relocates and works in a gang ridden school in LA where it's worse than ever. It's sad and has an unhappy ending. I won't spoil it just in case anyone wants to watch it. It's on YouTube. Brilliant but unsettling film.

'Seeking a friend for the end of the world' filled me with deep sadness and unease.

Ring
The grudge
Invidious
The conjuring
IT
Candyman
Nightmare on elm St
Paranormal Activity

Basically any ghosty supernaturally type horror film. They get in my head and I have horrific nightmares. DP was on nights last week and I saw the trailer for a film I think is called lights out on TV and it scared the shit out of me. It's only the past couple of years I've accepted I just don't like these types of films so dont watch them.

The fly
Batman returns
The thing
Basically anything even slightly dark/horror related.

2001: a space odyssey.

I don't have the words.

Saw - visited a friend who suggested cinema, I had no idea what film was about, I was desperate to leave but too embarrassed so I had to shut my eyes for most of the film.

Les Miserables - saw at the cinema with DH, surrounded by people who seemed to know all the lyrics. I was so bored and it went on forever. At least at the theatre it would have had an interval/ chance to purchase wine.

Pulp Fiction. What a load of crap.

Event Horizon

Man Bites Dog, C'est arrivé près de chez vous, 1992... shudders

I second Se7en. Had nightmares for weeks and I still feel a bit shaky thinking about it - about 20 years later. Have been much more careful about what I watch since then - I really can't take it. Scary is ok, but torture - no thanks.

Several for different reasons:

Cannibal Holocaust rented by friends at uni when we went round for a movie night as it had just been unbanned. One thought it would be a cheesy bad horror movie - how wrong they were. It was a horrible disturbing and unpleasant movie and none of us knew how to respond to it at all.

Inception over hyped and dull. And I love the actors so was gutted but I just wasn't interested in it

Wolf Creek admittedly didn't watch it all. I can't watch suffering or gratuitous abuse so this went against everything.

Hostel 2 the gratuitous suffering again. I don't get the point or who derives any enjoyment or pleasure or how any film like this could formulate meaningful discussion.

Marley and me

Came on to say the Snowtown Murders also what the fuck was that? First time a movie left me feeling completely depressed.

YY to Eden lake also, the director did a fantastic job of portraying every middle class couples worst nightmare!

Yabu about interstella though, he wasnt behind the bookcase. (Spoiler alert) Future humans found a way to travel back in time and could only communicate through gravity, so the corridors behind the bookcase were a visual representation of time so he could find the right past to speak with his daughter. Or something like that, I've watched it 3 times and dont fully understand it still. Also is has Matthew McConnaughey in it , so is amazing by default.

Sorry for your loss though

Requiem for a Dream

Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me at the time.

The Revenant honestly the most boring film I have ever seen ever.

The Seasoning House

It was so distressing. Absolutely nothing shocks me but that really did.

The Last King of Scotland- gratuitously graphic violence
Les Miserables- the most boring three hours of my life

Nightmare on Elm Street.

I think I was 13/14. Was terrified to sleep for ages.

Also Candyman. Similar age.

Put me off horror films for years.

Jaws. I was far too young to see it and now cannot even go into a swimming pool without that bloody music starting in my head. And I love swimming too

The Impossible. Brilliant film but I found it exhaustingly harrowing. It affected me for a long time afterwards.

The Mist.

Stephen Kings BOOK ends with a message of hope.

The film takes that hope away.

Bloody horrible

the ring (original) I watched all 3 back to back when I was 16 and I still fear sadako coming out the TV... I didn't sleep well for months. I watched the American remake years later and it actually eased my fear slightly as sumara was not nearly as terrifying!

I have only seen clips of human centipede, and that was enough to traumatise me for life.

cement garden... weird, incestuous, pointless and ultimately quite boring. waste of my time!

Oh yeah, Requim for a Dream. What a load of rubbish!

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