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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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scottishthistle77 · 28/08/2018 00:03

For me it was the film Antichrist. Very disturbing.

Stars Willem Dafoe and starts off with a couple having sex in the shower (and they were actually really having sex, with close ups of penetration, just so there's no doubt). While they are "busy" their young son is killed when he falls out of a window.

The rest of the film is the couple slowly falling apart, the wife going mad and it gets increasingly strange with more and more disturbing sexual violence.

Apparently it got rave reviews at the Cann Film Festival. Confused

Rebecca36 · 28/08/2018 00:18

The Wicker Man

Picklypickles · 28/08/2018 00:42

Hobo with a shotgun, I couldn't watch it all the way through, just horrible. I'm not usually disturbed by many films and love a good horror but I couldn't sit through this.

Grave of the fireflies was wonderful but I can't ever put myself through it again!

daisychain01 · 28/08/2018 02:31

You're lovely xsquared, thanks Flowers

IMHO all these films are either haunting, disturbing or downright vile - the ones with gratuitous violence or cruelty to fellow humans (like the human centipede one, I only know a brief hint of it from a MNer who told me the bare minimum, that was enough) must have been created by some truly evil people. They must have had very damaged childhoods to think that stuff up.

alwaysiero · 28/08/2018 02:40

Earthlings, how anyone can watch that and not feel very deeply affected by it I’ll never understand.

Fatted · 28/08/2018 02:42

I don't know if I'm a bit hard faced, but some of these movies I've watched and didn't think were so bad?! I don't enjoy horror movies as much as I did when I was younger though. Since having kids, I can't stomach them so generally avoid.

There was one I saw called Splice or something similar. It was pretty fucked up and troubled me for days afterwards. And that was pre-kids. I had the misfortune of watching the first 30 mins of Human centipede and quickly realised it was some deviant fetish film so turned off before it got to 'that' stage.

I also watched the Ring the night my granny died and will never, ever, ever watch it again. Even though I did quite like it. Just the idea of watching it again bothers me.

littlebillie · 28/08/2018 03:04

Henry -portrait of a serial killer. It scared me so much I can't think about it now and over 20 years since I saw it

daisychain01 · 28/08/2018 12:21

I'm sure folk will think I'm a complete woose but I found Dual (Stephen Spielberg's first movie, starring Dennis Weaver) truly terrifying.

I think it was that you never got to see the person in the big wagon, and didn't really get to know why the driver was so seething with hatred he pursued Weaver relentlessly. It was a good insight into Road Rage (on steroids!) and stuck with me for ages and ages. I always give way to big trucks and lorries Grin

Needsleepneedsleep · 28/08/2018 16:50

Anything with Gene Wilder in it shudder

expatinspain · 28/08/2018 17:15

Once Were Warriors
Cape Fear
Requiem for a Dream
Silent Hill

washewihersen · 28/08/2018 17:54

Oldboy was quite sickening.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original. I remember it being so realistic it felt like you were actually there.

expatinspain · 28/08/2018 18:29

All of the Saw films and Hostel too.

tenredthings · 28/08/2018 19:31

"Man bites dog " had to leave the cinema it was so disturbing.

Bee182814 · 28/08/2018 19:38

Insidious
Nocturnal animals
Changeling

I am a wimp though and am easily upset by films!

MissTulipan · 02/09/2018 21:25

The Road

Cantthinkofabloodyname · 04/09/2018 23:23

@xsquared your post reminded me of the film Society. Was this the one? If so, it was really odd.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098354/

PurpleNailVarnish · 04/09/2018 23:43

Someone may have said this already but Death and the Maiden.
It has a basis in the events of the Pinochet regime, I watched it years ago and thinking about it still chills me now.

PurpleNailVarnish · 05/09/2018 00:02

I agree with
Threads
The Last King of Scotland
Scum

The one thing I will say in favour of Scum was that if I remember correctly it had some influence on public opinion at the time, which helped to end the Borstal system and changed the way young offenders are treated in the UK.

Jaxtellerswife · 05/09/2018 06:59

@PurpleNailVarnish I'm so curious about Threads but I worry once I watch it, I won't be able to unwatch it

PurpleNailVarnish · 05/09/2018 07:08

Jax I don't know if this would help but I think Threads it still good but it looks a bit dated now. When I watch older programs, which don't have the same production values as current tv shows, it helps me to detach from what I'm watching.

Oliversmumsarmy · 05/09/2018 07:14

For me it is some kids films.

The Wizard of Oz
and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Weird

starkid · 05/09/2018 07:22

Silence of the lambs, the guy with the skin outfit? Very disturbing!

Mrbatmun · 05/09/2018 09:30

I have just read the plot for 'Man Bites Dog' on Wikipedia. What the fuck? What is wrong with people? Sometimes I really hate humans.

ladymarian · 05/09/2018 19:32

The Shining
The Exorcist

I watched the Shining at a sleepover when I was about 14 and it gave me nightmares. Horrific.
First watched the Exorcist when I was in my 20s and I found it truly disturbing and then I read about the supposed curse affecting people connected with the making of the film. Google it. Disturbing

Santaclarita · 06/09/2018 10:05

Saw 4. It's just because of how the last guy dies, I hate it and it makes me feel sick. The others are OK though.