Some hard-hitting movies hold our attention for all the wrong reasons. And sometimes, the story’s portrayal, its realism, or the suffering of the characters are just too disturbing for us to ever sit through again. A recent internet survey asked, “What movie is so disturbing you would never watch it again?” Here are the 22 best suggestions:
Precious (2009)
“I thought I was going to vomit while watching it. It’s about a girl who was molested by her own father, with her mother’s help. She was uneducated and had two children (from incest) at 16.”
“Precious was such a good movie, but I will never watch it again because of how much it hurt. Monique (who played the mom) was terrifying.”
“Agreed. I get that it was a deep dramatic role for her, but she played it too well.”
Come and See (1985)
“It is a WWII movie that focuses on a young boy who joins the Soviets to fight the Germans. And the scenes in that movie are so horrific. There is a scene that involves a barn being burned that my mind still flashes to and makes me sick to my stomach.”
“It’s an incredibly accurate portrayal of what went on during WW2 in that area, and that’s what makes it so horrifying.”
Inside / À l’intérieur (2007)
A French horror movie about a car accident that kills a woman’s unborn child. She then goes after the other driver, a pregnant woman. It is MESSED UP.”
“The final frame may be the most morbidly beautiful image I’ve ever seen in a horror film.”
“They should legitimately put up a disclaimer: not to be watched by pregnant women. But it’s rib-tingling for anyone.”
The Girl Next Door (2007)
“This movie turned me into an emotional zombie for days after. It’s amazing, but don’t watch it.”
“The part that really messed me up was learning that it was based on a true story far too closely. The people who committed those horrific acts did not do their time.”
“It’s based on the most disturbing of murders. Those poor girls had to watch all that abuse.”
Girl In The Box (2016)
“It’s the true story of a female hitchhiker who got kidnapped and kept in a box for seven years.”
“Colleen is from my town. She’s been in the news recently because one of her kidnappers (and captors) is up for parole, and she’s justifiably upset.”
“It seriously messed up my view of other humans. They were doing this in broad daylight, yet nobody knew. I started wondering who might have a captive slave in their backyard.”
Deadgirl (2008)
“Some guys find a zombie girl and proceed to continuously have sex with her body. This progresses until one of the guys begins cutting holes into her body as these holes are warmer and cozier, and then he gets infected when she bites him.”
“Honestly, just reading your description has screwed me up.”
Antichrist (2009)
“This is probably the only movie I’ve ever turned off in discomfort, and I have a strong stomach.”
“The fox eating itself really disturbed me, too. It’s just a dark, strange movie.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989)
“It’s seared in my memory. I actually paid to see it. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
“I saw this in my early 20s and came back to it as an older, wiser adult. It’s visually brilliant and emotionally devastating. We now think of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, forgetting how tall and physically imposing he is. And we now think of Helen Mirren as prim and proper, forgetting how excellent her emotional performances are.”
Watership Down (1978)
“It’s a good book with an interesting premise. Why they chose to make an animated film out of it is beyond me. I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was 11. Thanks, Mom.”
“I’ve been meaning to rewatch Watership Down but have not managed to bring myself to it, so… yeah, it traumatized me, I guess.”
Martyrs (2008)
“I don’t know what it is with French movies. They are either feel-good dramedies or completely disturbing horror gore, like Martyrs. There seems to be nothing in between.”
“True. French horrors are messed up. I don’t know what’s going on in that country.”
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
“Nicholas Cage lives in a horrible hotel and actively and purposefully drinks himself to death.”
“To make it even more depressing, the author (of the book it’s based on) shot himself right after selling the movie rights. He was also an alcoholic, and the book was a kind of suicide note.”
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
“It’s about a murder-suicide. Much of the story is told by Zachary’s grandparents, who played nice with the vile piece of trash woman who murdered their only son because they wanted to raise their grandson when she got convicted of murder.”
“It will wreck you. The grandparents are very emotionally honest in the documentary, and it makes the viewer feel very close to their despair.”
Threads (1984)
“I was shown the entire film in school and had vivid nightmares for years. Instead of being paranoid about being vaporized without warning at all times, I started to look into the Cold War as a subject. I’m a bit obsessed now.”
“There is a dirty realism to it, and there is none of that bleak hopefulness that American films inject; this movie sets out to show the futility of nuclear war and doesn’t mess around.”
Salò, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
“I was going to say the same thing. That movie is crazy. Made me sick.”
“I had to sign a waiver at the video store when I rented this in 2009.”
Tusk (2014)
“This genuinely traumatized me. Especially the pool scenes.”
“It still disturbs me that they left him in an enclosure, eating fish. He is still human!! Fix him. Give him a burger, at least!”
Apocalypse Now (1979)
“I know people love it, but the scene where the family is hiding something and so the soldiers kill them all, and the something turns out to be a puppy. I just wanted human existence to be done after that.”
“Apocalypse Now is really intense during some violent moments and doesn’t shy away from the ruthlessness of how some soldiers were when push came to shove.”
Men Behind The Sun (1988)
“This one’s horrifying; the boy’s autopsy scene haunts me to this day.”
“I agree; most of the rest of the films mentioned have the structure of some sort of film. This gives me a degree of emotional separation. Men Behind The Sun feels like a catalog of the deeds of some truly evil and sadistic people.”
We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)
“Yes, but the book was so much worse (if you can believe that). I almost didn’t finish reading it, but I had to find out how it ended.”
“It was like the director wanted every person watching this movie to feel horrible for one and a half hours.”
Hereditary (2018)
“One movie that I will never watch again! When the mother is hitting her head at the door…multiple times…knocking.”
“The floating scene was up there with the head-spinning of the exorcist. Totally unexpected and so horrific, I slapped my hands over my eyes, and I can hardly walk around in the dark anymore because my mind messes with me thinking about those scenes.”
Midsommar (2019)
“I had an anxiety attack watching it. It certainly wasn’t conventionally scary, but the emotional torture the main character goes through broke me down.”
“I watched it with my boyfriend, and the thing that disturbed him the most was the music. It was specifically made to make you feel uncomfortable; together with the whole torture and everything, it gets quite easily into your head without you realizing.”
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
“I never need to watch that depressing movie again. The mother’s character really messed me up and made me terrified of lonely isolation later in life.”
“The mother’s character was definitely the most tragic. Ellen Burstyn is great and played her so well; I have rarely been more uncomfortable watching a movie.”
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
“It was a really great movie until it was awful to watch. It is very slow-moving, but the dialogue is great. However, the ending is very hard to watch.”
“Human beings get stripped naked and hung upside down, legs spread open and graphically hacked through the crotch, and then split in half with entrails and organs spilling out. It looks incredibly realistic, too.”
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