Films you will NEVER watch again as too disturbing

[LaurieFairyCake]

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

The Ring

Sinister.
Ethan Hawke is in it (who I usually like) but I couldn't watch it again.
dh watched it a few weeks after I had and even the music freaked me out.

Seven - it still makes me shudder now years later

We need to talk about Kevin with Tilda Swindon and Monster with Charlize Theron. Wonderful performances from the cast but one was very unsettling and one was far too harrowing to watch.

Another vote for Se7en. I pretend not to be but really I am quite vain & it took me a long time to stop thinking about the demise of the vain model.
Also a Life is Beautiful. I saw it Before I became a mother and Ali thought it was extraordinarily beautiful, powerful & moving. I tried to watch it again now that I’m a parent & I managed about 15 mins. I still think it is the most extraordinary portrait of parental love & the lengths we will go to for our children, I just can’t watch it.

Eden Lake stayed with me for days. You can't unsee it and it's impossible to brush off.

Pay It Forward - truly nasty film - what an ending
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - feel like a real fool that I didn't see that ending coming and watched with young DC
The Shining - never managed to sit through it. I get the shivers before the horror even starts

haven't read the whole thread, but just the description of Centipede freaked me out!!

I think the Green Mile is amazing, I have watched it a few times.

Dirty dancing. Can't understand why every one raves about it. It was so dull and slow.

Heavenly creatures, the ending messed me up for days and days.
The ring

@Husky thanks for that - of course it was! Lilya 4 ever - she carved it into a bridge iirc! It broke my heart, and has had a massive effect on the way I view sex workers.

Threads
Blue velvet
Event Horizon

DP would say Hard Candy - I made him go on our 2nd date! There's a castration scene and it's generally a bit too tense.
I second I Am Legend - I nearly walked out of the cinema. It was just so upsetting.
I had to turn Pan's Labyrinth off - the constant atmosphere of violence from the step dad was just too much to bear.
A Japanese Story is a beautiful film but just way too sad to watch again.

Agree with Seven.
I haven't watched the Schindler's List but I'm sure i also would find it disturbing.
From the films that i watched; two comes to mind both of which are featuring Nicole Kidman. The Others and The Panic Room. I wouldn't want to watch them again.
Dd also watched The Boy in Striped Pyjamas in school, from what i heard from dd and what I read about it, it's a disturbing film as well.

I haven't watched it but from what i read about, again, Hunger Games sounds disturbing.

Saving Private Ryan - one scene in particular still haunts me 😕
We Were Soldiers - v graphic injuries, the closest I have come to walking out of a cinema
The Human Centipede - just disgusting.

Another vote for Requiem for a Dream, also the Baby of Macon another Peter Greenaway with a horrible rape scene. The Magdalena Sisters that dp and I switched off part way as it was so depressing.

Didnt find seven scary but didnt like the air freshener bit at all.
Banana
Cos patrick swayze is hot

IPokeBadgers - Saving Private Ryan made me cry so much my friend asked 3 times if we should leave. I was crying quietly, I think she was just worried about the water fountain effect.

Open Water.

Schindler's List
Goodfellas - awesome film but such an air of menace. I was on edge every time Joe Pesci was on screen! Ditto Casino.
American History X
Trainspotting
Just about every Tarantino film I've ever watched.
The Fly
Happiness - I think I got about halfway through this one. Grim, grim, grim. And shit.

I don't mind the supernatural themed horror films that make me jump but can't stomach the really gory ones. I know it's not real of course, but it's like my brain can't detach it from reality well enough. People screaming, squelchy noises, bits flying everywhere, yuck!

Eden Lake was disturbing will never watch it again.

The Last House on the Left. Turned it off at the horrid scene in the film. People will know which bit if they have seen it.

This is England

Hannibal where the pigs eat the man totally put me off my rice pudding.

Greenstreet

Another vote for Threads, I saw it many years ago and swore never yo watch it again but then a couple of years ago I decided to watch it again as it couldn't possibly be as bad as I remembered, it was...

An 80's film called Society. Yuk, gross.
The Exorcist.

I try not to watch horror/graphic films but years ago I made the mistake of watching Chopper with Eric Bana in it (I will watch based on a true story type films if I think they’ll be any good).

There’s a prison fight scene that actually had me retching.

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Agree Eden Lake is v disturbing. Don't think I'd watch it again.

There's another one with an ending that reminds me of Eden Lake...think it was called My Little Eye?

Also The Children (but I'd probably watch that one again tbh!)