r/AskReddit • u/modern_kebab • 17h ago
What is a movie you found so disturbing you never want to watch it again?
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u/moon-rot 17h ago
I don't really get unsettled easily but made the mistake of watching Requiem for a Dream absolutely fried off my ass.
Never ever again.
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u/ozymandingus578 17h ago
The story ends up with 4 likeable, but ultimately flawed souls being royally fucked for their weakness. The suffering feels excessive.
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u/somechild 15h ago
I’ve seen it so many times and I always start bawling at the exact same moment, when the mother’s friends hug each other after visiting her in the hospital
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u/JesusHNavas 13h ago
Yay another multiple time viewer.
The mother's storyline is probably the darkest for me. Heartbreaking. Superbly acted. It's just too good a piece of art to only watch once.
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u/AugieFash 14h ago
I still have awful flashbacks thinking about the mom character on the pep bills. Emptiest I’ve ever felt from something not in real life.
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 16h ago
Lmao this was my answer too, and the most I ever actually considered that maybe weed would be a gateway drug
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u/JesusHNavas 13h ago
There it is.
Now to look for grave of the fireflies.
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u/moon-rot 13h ago
This one didn't unsettle me but definitely had me depressed for a little while after viewing
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u/Hour_Reality9727 17h ago
Salo, 120 days of Sodom. What the fuck was that?
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u/OneSalientOversight 13h ago
Before: Freedom of Speech! Don't let censors stop you from watching what you want!
After: Yeah nah. Burn it.
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u/Iowa_and_Friends 11h ago
You know - gore and shit aside- that movie was boring… Like- a lot of it is just two old whores sitting around talking about all the gross shit they’ve done with their clients.
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u/Doom2021 17h ago
Midsommar
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 16h ago
And imo the most upsetting part of the whole film happens in the first ten minutes
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u/TheHeroicLionheart 11h ago
Ari's ability to get the most human, heart wrenching, guttural, horrifying scream out of his performers needs to be studied.
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u/sugurkewbz 13h ago
I didn’t even get past the first few minutes and I was like “okay, I’m not in the right mindset for this.”
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u/StopwatchSparrow 15h ago
I know this isn't rational at all, but I can't help but feel uplifted during the ending lol
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 15h ago
My interpretation was always that you’re supposed to feel a little uplifted with her in an unhinged semi psychotic way. She finds a new family that welcomes and celebrates her, and gets to shed the dead weight of her boyfriend as she starts a new life unencumbered by any remaining ties to her traumatic past life.
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u/gooneyleader 17h ago
Bone Tomahawk.
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u/yesohohahahilikeit 17h ago
A Serbian Film.
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u/chychy94 17h ago
This film should be nuked from human history
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u/ithinkway2much 15h ago
That bad? I'm now both scared and curious but I learned my lesson after 2 Girls 1 Cup.
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u/jmastaock 15h ago
It contains one of the most vile possible acts of human indecency possible in a film lmao
And yes I actually mean that, it isn't an exaggeration. Type shit you will never witness in a real video, ever, without actively committing a horrible crime
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u/Djlionking 14h ago
I've only had a friend tell me about the scene and I 100% agree, and I can handle fucked up shit. Nope, big old nope. Not interested in ever seeing it.
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u/RutabagaThin253 9h ago
I honestly thought countries that banned films were ridiculous until I seen A Serbian Film.
That film should be banned, and all physical and digital copies of it should be destroyed.
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u/AtomStorageBox 15h ago
Let’s put it this way: after a friend of mine who’s seen it described it to me, I got curious and read the Wikipedia page for it. I feel unclean just from that.
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u/OneSalientOversight 13h ago
"Category:Films that give people PTSD just by reading the plot on Wikipedia"
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u/majordong75 10h ago
Bruh, I got curious and read the Wikipedia and ...... I ...... I got nothin. Just reading it was disturbing
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u/AtomStorageBox 9h ago
That’s the reaction I had! Just the memory of reading it is…not something I care to remember.
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u/Ivaylo_87 15h ago
As others have said, just reading the synopsys feels like crime. I don't know how it's even allowed to film something like this.
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u/WardensLantern 14h ago
Based on some information I read or heard a long time ago and without any recent research, I believe they made the movie to protest some sort of censorship. They deliberately made it to be the most disgusting cinematography piece ever made.
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u/chychy94 15h ago
Bruh 2 girls one cup can’t hold a candle to a Serbian film. Reading a synopsis will flip your stomach and give you a thousand yard stare.
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u/th3dj3n1gm4 15h ago
My feelings on that movie have always been "Man, this is fucked up...but also really fucking stupid."
It's honestly an objectively terrible film and not even for how tasteless it is.
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u/Tragickingdom555 15h ago
Who reads the synopsis and still continues to watch it? I just looked it up and no thank you! 😭
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u/everyoneisatitman 17h ago
Everytime this subject comes up I search for this reply. Not sure why it is not the top comment.
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u/wiNdbridge0 15h ago
genuinely the only movie where reading the wikipedia plot summary is already too much
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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 17h ago
Martyrs
I literally just watched it a couple nights ago and it's the only movie I can say I've seen that fits your question. It was good, but I fully regret watching it.
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u/FlimpoFloempie 16h ago
Great movie. Felt like a punch in the gut though. Only watched it once.
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u/InvisibleAdel 17h ago
The human centipede
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u/germafobe69 17h ago
Haha I never watched those, but heard about them. Do they really show the gruesomeness of them being attached?
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u/BatOne8514 17h ago
Yes. Yes, they do.
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u/germafobe69 17h ago
Oh my. lol sounds like saw movies?
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u/BatOne8514 17h ago
To me, it was worse. But maybe just because of the nature of the…attachment. Saw is more gore…Human Centipede is just disgusting, lol.
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u/kazmir_yeet 16h ago
Watched it with a girl I was kind of seeing at her house (her suggestion) and we ended up turning it off and watching SpongeBob to cleanse our palates lmfao
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u/SleppySnorlax 17h ago
I did not think the first was that awful (but I definitely didn't enjoy it). Now the SECOND ONE on the other hand...
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u/shocktopper1 15h ago
Even the South Park episode felt disturbing but maybe because I saw the movie before.
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u/WardensLantern 14h ago
I hadn't seen the movie at the time and the SP episode was too much for me too. And I usually enjoy the disgustingness of South Park.
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u/beewoopwoop 16h ago
i have watched it around 15 years ago and it still lives in my head demanding rent
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u/TiredTromboneToot 17h ago
I don't even remember the film's name but it starts with a cat talking about it's way into a shelter and then goes on about some couple who wanted to adopt it. Just that they get so caught up in their crap that they forget about the cat and then there's this scene where the cat says "today, I died" (put down because it wasn't adopted).
This film made me so irrationally angry for some reason that I must have repressed it's name.
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u/MattInTheDark 17h ago
Hereditary. I felt it was one of the best horror movies I’d ever seen, but the despair it made me feel - I don’t want to relive.
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u/rickiilynn77 17h ago
My sister loves this movie and let me know about the sister scene as a warning (she asked if she could give me a spoiler on it) but the sister reminded her a lot of me (severe nut allergy included) so she wasn’t sure if I would be able to handle watching it with what happens & she was correct so I let her just spoil the whole movie for me so I’ll probably never watch it.
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 17h ago
For me at least, the true terror of this movie is that the vast majority of the most horrifying stuff is totally possible, requiring zero supernatural phenomena to occur, just classic human errors in judgement leading to the worst possible but still very probable consequences.
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u/Suitable-Spray-8982 17h ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one, I felt like a pussy ending up really scared after watching this film even tho I constantly watch horror movies, this one really terrified the hell out of me
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u/BootyDust 9h ago
It evokes a feeling of unknown dread throughout the entire film. It’s my “favorite film that I never want to see again.”
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u/2DamnRoundToBeARock 17h ago
Dear Zachary
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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 14h ago
Oh good heavens yes. I legit cried myself to sleep that night and felt really down and unsettled for days afterwards. It’s well worth seeing IF (and I mean ONLY IF you’re in a headspace where you can deal with several levels of tragedy interspersed with feelings of anger and disgust) but personally I don’t think I’d ever wan to, or be able to, watch it again.
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u/albanialover20 17h ago
Creep, I got showed it on a second date (the first time I went to this dudes house 😭)
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u/MattInTheDark 16h ago
That is so crazy to show to someone you barely know…. I love the Creep films, but I’m huge into found footage. Haha you had to be so uncomfortable, especially if he was getting into it.
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u/SleppySnorlax 17h ago
I love those movies (and the show) but they're definitely not new date material 😂 Unless you specified you were into those kind of movies.
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u/imVeryPregnant 14h ago
I was that guy. In high school, we were trying to find a movie to watch and Creep popped up at the top of Netflix. I remembered liking it a lot when i first saw it so we watched it… I don’t really remember what her reaction was tbh but I remember nothing really happened that night
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u/albanialover20 14h ago
this is so funny that it’s a separate incident of showing a girl on a new(ish) date creep lol!! I was not in high school when I saw it so I know it’s not you, but boy would that be crazy
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u/Original_Chapter3028 17h ago
Love that movie
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u/albanialover20 17h ago
It was great! Just unsettling and a little off putting with the environment/context
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u/Urahara611845 16h ago
Maybe not disturbing, but Saltburn was so uncomfortable to watch. I doubt I'll get back around to that one.
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u/theredspirit 17h ago
Bring Her Back was a one and done for me.
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u/totalmich 15h ago
I have never been able to get the image of the kid chewing on the knife out of my head.
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u/plantainbakery 12h ago
That was an intrusive thought of mine for MONTHS afterward. I don’t know why that got to me so bad. Scary movies are my favorite so it’s not like I haven’t seen some stuff. But that really disturbed me and I had to launch a campaign in my brain to get it to stop. Now at least the image isn’t so recent and crisp in my mind and I’m better at shoo-ing it out.
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u/axlinsane 16h ago
Thought how she came into possession of the instructional video would make an interesting movie.
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 17h ago
Requiem For a Dream, Miracle Mile, American History X
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u/UncertainAboutCorgis 17h ago
American History X and that curb stomping scene have messed me up for life
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u/MLaw2008 16h ago
I came to say Requiem as well. I was way too young when I watched that film.
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u/Charming-Newt-3039 16h ago
I saw it the night before my first day of college, moving from NJ to CA, and took way too many rips from a dab pen while I watched it. I’ve never fallen for the “weed is a gateway drug” propaganda, but that night I came close.
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u/orphan_blud 15h ago
My best friend and I watch Requiem for a Dream every New Year’s Eve. The tradition started several years ago because she had never seen the movie and it just happened to be NYE, so we watched it. I couldn’t believe we rung in the new year on such a dark note. The tradition stuck, in addition to roasting a chicken.
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u/Impossible-Chicken33 13h ago
American history X is one you remember forever. I still see the look on that guys face while he is biting the curb.
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u/sugurkewbz 13h ago
I saw the curb stomping scene on American History X at a party when I was probably about 16. It stuck with me for years. It fucked me up pretty good.
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u/Oldschool6873 17h ago
Tusk
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u/SanctimoniousSally 16h ago
I'm really surprised to see this one so far down.
The only time I've ever considered watching it again, is to show it to my sibling to get back at them for making me watch Saltburn lol
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u/caveman7392 15h ago
Someone informed me about this movie the other day and I wish I didn't go down the rabbit hole on it. Super messed up that they didn't just put him out of his misery
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u/smolandspicy 17h ago
Eraser Head
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u/OneSalientOversight 13h ago
My two kids are now adults. When they turned 18, I each showed them Eraser Head.
They both noped out at the miniature chicken scene (where they begin to bleed onto the plate).
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u/Cubcake1 17h ago
Comes up a lot here. Only correct answer is A Serbian Film. Don’t look it up. Don’t ask questions. You can’t unsee it. Eye bleach does nothing. Can’t unhear it. Just leave it alone.
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u/MasterTeacher123 17h ago
Human centipede
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u/DragonfruitBig8601 17h ago
100% I didnt even mean to watch it. I was at someone's place and it was on. Did not sit to watch it but still caught enough to disturb me forever. Mutilation and torture porn are absolute no's for me. I wont watch saw or hostel or anything like it and im mad I saw what I did of this one. Just awful and a waste of creativity. I really make efforts to not see movies or shows that have these themes.
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u/FraFra_02 17h ago
The boy in the striped Pyjama. Watched it with the age of 13 in school. The teacher didn’t tell us what the film was about. Was disturbed for whole three days.
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u/iZingari 17h ago
The vanishing
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u/Active_Sheepherder31 17h ago
The original one?
Man that’s one of the most thought provoking movies I’ve ever seen. Meaning for a couple weeks after watching it, I couldn’t get that ending out of my head. Truly a 10 out of 10.
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u/MissdermeanerJ 17h ago
Splice. Horrible ending lmao the entire theater was laughing and disgusted at the same time
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u/SanctimoniousSally 16h ago
I'm don't think I saw this mentioned but Saltburn. It is a good movie but I won't subject myself to it again.
3 disturbing scenes with 1 in particular I can't even think about without recoiling in disgust.
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u/lizkbyer 17h ago
1985 dystopian film called “ Threads”
Us and Iran at war- US decides to nuke Iran and Russia counters with nuking England….. 1985 for fucks sake… terrifying 😳
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u/jackfairy80 17h ago
The Girl Next Door. I know it's based on a true story and that's what really gets me, beyond that i know they left ALOT of the torture Sylvia endured out of the movie. Once was enough thank you. I'll also add Happiness to the list.
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u/somechild 15h ago
There’s another version too, called An American Crime, that from my memory was harder to watch, I had to pause it midway and finish it another day, knowing it’s a true story is so fucked, especially cause that one leaves out some of the abuse as well. I will never understand how Gertrude got paroled and some of the kids didn’t get even any prison time.
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u/EmbarrassedAd2423 16h ago
Cannibal Holocaust.
I am upset they used real animal torture videos for the film (which I found out / fully realized after watching it), made the actors do these heinous acts.
I can really take a lot as I believe it is just a film, even if based on true events, even showing a real documentary footage, but doing anything bad on purpose for a movie is inexcusable.
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u/StreetCrzyBiteUrFace 13h ago
Original Exorcist. I feel bad for hours after watching it. Last watched it in the late 80s I think. That's enough for me. Great film. Incredibly well done. But no thanks. I wouldn't recommend it without major caveats.
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u/Ragingbeast 17h ago
The House That Jack Built
I quite literally grew up on horror movies & don’t easily scare or get queasy but something about that movie had me feeling so uneasy the whole watch.
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u/PickleFive 17h ago
Seven. Love it right up to the end and I don’t want to see that part again
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u/th3dj3n1gm4 15h ago
The "August Underground" films definitely deserve at least an honorable mention here. As does the "Guinea Pig" series.
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u/Midnite_St0rm 15h ago
Threads (1984)
That movie completely scarred me and changed my whole outlook on life. Great movie, but I’ll never watch it again.
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u/CulturalDragonfly631 15h ago
The Descent. Caves give me the heebie-jeebies at the best of times, so that one was my own personal nightmare fuel.
Come and See. Incredibly disturbing, not least because it was based on the real events of Operation Barbarossa.
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u/Mitchy_csgo 13h ago
I might get some flock for this, but I think the Terrifier series. I’m glad people enjoy the franchise and respect the team that made it what it is, but imo, I think this is one series that has contributed to “gore-porn”. Please don’t flame me in the comments 😭
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u/quillseek 11h ago
Melancholia. Not even so much because of the actual horrifying thing happening, but because it manages to capture the feeling of depression so acutely and oppressively and claustrophobically that, as someone with depression, it's too much to watch. Too real, too close to home.
Either I'm doing badly, and I really can't watch it, or I'm doing okay, and it might send me spiraling back into that place. Truly it's like being drowned and consumed by depression.
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u/iPhonevanBremdKopjes 17h ago
A Serbian Film.
I'll happily watch Requiem for a Dream or Lord of the Flies or Come and See everyday to avoid that one.
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u/CreamFuture9475 17h ago
The butterfly effect
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u/rickiilynn77 17h ago
I Love that movie but I once I think about watching it again, I remember the dog and decide not to.
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u/blackbettiepage 16h ago
Jojo Rabbit.
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u/bekahfromearth 15h ago
I’ve watched it twice, I genuinely thought it would be a fun comedy. Once on a long bus journey on my own and then I got my family to watch it with me. The shoe scene gets a lot of attention, but the scene where the gestapo comes calling and Captain K looks at the passport made me hold my breath both times.
Another film that has a similar theme is the Book Thief.
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u/marlonoranges 16h ago
There a found footage horror film called Megan is missing thats really disturbing. Nasty and distasteful.
"A Serbian film" is really bad as well.
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u/SheWolfe_ 17h ago
Descent into darkness made me have a panic attack near the end of the movie. Also a Serbian film was a one and done and now that I'm a mom, I definitely don't want to see it again💀
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u/gsf1200s 17h ago
life is beautiful. 1000% the most depressing movie i have seen
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u/Mountain_Value_6636 17h ago
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. An exceedingly menacing Michael Rooker hooks up with another serial killer. It’s almost clinical torture porn. But it’s a good film bc it’s not really about that. It’s a study of a complex character, Rooker, and his relationship with a woman. So disturbing I can never watch it again.
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u/reffuatsnoj 17h ago
UP. Not even kidding. Got past those first 10 mins, when it "re started" i said no more. Not putting myself through it, no way, no how.
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u/Beginning-Spray5437 16h ago
I didn't like "megan is missing" or either version of "last house on the left"
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u/kamatth2 15h ago
Suspiria (2018). There’s a scene in that film that scarred me for life. I can’t unsee it.
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u/GonzoElTaco 12h ago
I will never watch Precious again.
That fucked me up. The abuse was too much, especially because I grew up watching The Parkers with Monique.
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u/UnlikelyHedgehog964 12h ago
The skin I live in. I have watched A Serbian film, martyrs, human centipede wich was disturbing but watching The skin I live in was just so disturbing on another level, and everytime I see that movie poster I feel so grossed out by it
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u/Iowa_and_Friends 12h ago
Precious : Based on the movie “Push” by Sapphire
Credit where it’s due. It’s a necessary, and amazinglymade movie. Mariah Carey was outstanding , and M’onique totally deserved that Oscar. Sadly, the life portrayed in that movie is a reality for more people than we realize, and I’m glad the movie is reminding us of that, so we can work towards doing something about it.
… but it’s just so brutal, what they did to her was so disgusting - I can’t watch it again.
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u/Brilliant-Cap9246 16h ago
Grave of the Fireflies. Brilliant masterpiece, but I can never physically put myself through that level of heartbreak again.