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Films you will NEVER watch again as too disturbing

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LaurieFairyCake · 03/01/2018 07:17

I have a looooong list:

The Green Mile
Schindler's list
Atonement
The Colour Purple
History of Violence
American History X
Seven

All horror films - accidentally watched a Centipede one and was horribly disturbed

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Rainbowmother · 04/01/2018 21:00

Is it quirky chick?! I'll google now although bit scared. I hate anything violent or graphic. Honestly I feel my stomach turn recalling it. How on earth were they allowed to film such horrible stuff with children 😥

CauliflowerBalti · 04/01/2018 21:19

Dumbo. Baby Mine. Utterly bloody harrowing.

The Babadook is absolutely brilliant imo but I found it very very disturbing and extremely upsetting, and heart sobbed my way through the last third. I wouldn’t rush to watch it again.

leftwiththedognow · 04/01/2018 21:20

Robocop - the '20 seconds to comply' bit is so frightening because it just feels it could actually be true in our lifetime.

I wont watch anything gore but I do love scary films.

Rainbowmother · 04/01/2018 21:21

Quirkychik that must be it!

Thank you for putting a name to it.

I can't believe it was this big success mainstream film. In my mind it was a much older creepy film that everyone would think was gross.

Honestly the rape scenes were just gross and surely traumatic for the child actors

Fintress · 04/01/2018 21:24

It has been mentioned a few times - Wolf Creek. I had to put it off it was too real.

Dizzybacon · 04/01/2018 21:27

Not sure you can class this a film. I inadvertently watched a short clip of Animal Farm as a child. Was being nosey seeing what my brother had on his VCR. I grew up on a farm, I always try and forget about it

hudyerwheesht · 04/01/2018 21:37

A pp has already mentioned these exact 2:
The mist - DS was the same age as the boy in it. I actually had a massive argument the next day with DH for recommending it.
The boy in the striped pyjamas- literally had no idea about the ending. Had to come on here to be talked down.

Unfortunately I saw American History X before that scene was removed - not that there weren't several other awful scenes.

I do find that I don't have the emotional strength to handle harrowing scenes since becoming a mum.

hudyerwheesht · 04/01/2018 21:40

rainbowmother I know, I saw that when I was only about 18 and I thought even then it was too graphic- especially as Nick Noltes character is describing it so no need to actually show it.

Lambside · 04/01/2018 22:09

Rita, Sue and Bob Too. I had seen this years ago and remembered it as fun and a laugh. Got the DVD and in the cold light of a 2017 day and following the Rotherham grooming scandal found it hideous and very very sad.
Blue Velvet.

Rainbowmother · 04/01/2018 22:10

Hudyer I was probably 15 when I saw it and shocked and disgusted but it's a new level since becoming a Mum.

I might look up the child actors to see if they've had anything to say on it with hindsight.

JUST HORRENDOUS!

BarrackerBarmer · 04/01/2018 23:11

No one has mentioned 'India's Daughter' yet. The documentary about the girl who was gang raped and thrown off a bus in Delhi, who died a few days later, after bravely describing her attackers. The event started the wave of women's rights protests a couple of years ago.
I howled with grief and impotent rage. The lawyer who defended the rapists was inhuman. The defendants were interviewed too. I wanted to smash the world into pieces by the time it was through.

colouringinagain · 04/01/2018 23:15

Saw Se7en at the cinema. Horrific. Still makes me feel sick to my stomach and it was a looong time ago now.

Don't dare even read about The Serbian Film!

HappyHedgehog247 · 04/01/2018 23:17

The boy in the striped pajamas. I knew the subject matter but thought it had a happy ending. Was so shocked. Haunts me at times.

SlightlyJaded · 05/01/2018 00:08

Some of these are on my 'favourite films list' Blush. I think it's like a PP said - I like to feel overwhelmed by what I've watched in one way or another.

Love:
Requiem for a Dream
Nil by Mouth
American History X
The Last King of Scotland
Never Let me Go

All of these were hard to watch and upset me at points,, but made me feel something which is good, and stayed with me. I find it difficult/impossible to watch any kind of child/baby suffering and wouldn't give things like a Human Centipede/Serbian Film the time of day. They are made solely to cause repulsion and have nothing to say. I get the Political reference of A Serbian Film, but think it was just an excuse to make something shocking and controversial.

Horrors don't really scare me, but for some reason I was scared after watching Communion. I think because if you are abducted by aliens, you really are fucked Grin

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Tantpoke · 05/01/2018 01:16

Bad Boy Bubba - weirdest most disturbing film I've ever seen
Wolf Creek - couldnt finish it gave me nightmares for weeks, years.
Atonement - just disturbing, sad, haunting
Seven - disturbing

Bizarrely I liked 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (the original 70's version) although I only watched it in the last couple of years because I found the idea of it so disturbing.

There are more but I just cant think of them right now.

Tantpoke · 05/01/2018 01:32

Man Bites Dog - also disturbing

quirkychick · 05/01/2018 07:04

I saw Prince of Tides at the cinema. The scene is very disturbing and the whole film leads up to it, as you know the consequences of the trauma has massively affected the characters. I had kind of blotted it out, and had to Google to check it was that.

Nil by Mouth, yy very depressing. Isn't it based on a true story.

Straw Dogs too.

cheshiremama89 · 05/01/2018 07:08

@quirkychick @Purplerain101 Mother! Has a very clever plot twist which I think "allows" the film to push through boundaries.

I'd watch it ...unless you are pregnant Confused

DH didn't speak for a while after it

mrsgumpy · 05/01/2018 07:13

Bambi

HoppingPavlova · 05/01/2018 07:49

Wolf Creek
Because it happens. I don’t think people understand just how often. I don’t think people realise just how many shit-crazy people live in situations and can’t even be detected by aerial surveillance in Australia (due to being in vast remote areas) or are shielded from it due to the bush. I don’t think people realise how many people just go ‘missing’ in Australia. Because bodies don’t turn up there is theoretically no crime though, and even in extremely rare cases where people have escaped situations police have never been able to find where they were held or a captor and so nothing can even be proved. I’m from Australia and have travelled a few areas not even considered remote as such (still have to travel with petrol though) and have easily gone for 7/8 odd hours without passing another car on some stretches and trust me there are some right odd people out there.

The Ring was another one I found disturbing but not until after the fact. I would be concentrating on something at work or would be doing something mundane otherwise and an image from the movie would just pop into my mind. Took about a decade for it to fully stop.

Have not watched A Serbian Film or Human Centipede but think perhaps the creators should be institutionalised as it’s just not normal to have such sick content come up in your imagination, it’s just not.

Piggywaspushed · 05/01/2018 08:01

I pondered this and thought there aren't nay , simply because I always research a film before I watch it and generally don't watch many 18s (just not my genre) I have been haunted by some violent films such as La Haine, but have watched it many times.

But then a PP mentioned Rita Sue and Bob Too and Blue Velvet in the same post. I saw them when I was quite young and would never watch them again. I remember them as sordid and creepy.

The guy who was in Rita I still can't look at or watch in anything!

I also wouldn't watch Hostel or Texas Chainsaw Massacre again because torture porn really doesn't appeal! I wasn't disturbed though, just a bit dumbfounded.

candlefloozy · 05/01/2018 08:06

Wolf creek. Still makes me feel
Horrible to this day

OhHolyJesus · 05/01/2018 08:10

Don't look now

X

SlightlyJaded · 05/01/2018 12:51

quirky - I think Gary Oldman said that Nil By Mouth wasn't a retelling of a specific story but a drawing on lots of characters he knew growing up.

It's very bleak but beautifully acted with brilliantly comedic moments. I love it.

quirkychick · 05/01/2018 13:28

slightly I agree beautifully acted, but very bleak.

Oh, yes, Rita, Sue and Bob too, very creepy

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