Movies that made you uncomfortable

Midsommar. And I took my 13 year old niece with me too, thinking it was a horror movie.

S. O. B.

No one needed to see Mary Poppins' titties except for Walt Disney and Carol Burnett.

Requiem for a Dream

When I was TOO little a little girl - my dad was a DJ and had tickets to a big event showing of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” when it first came out - back in the days when you would get a big program. I was too young. The child napper stuff with the kids in the cages SCARED the hell out of me - my poor mom and dad - they thought they were doing something so special for me!

When a Stranger Calls. I was a teenage babysitter at the time. Never again after seeing this movie.

Paths of Glory - yet I continue to watch it from time to time . The last scene where the German lady is singing what I think is a lullaby and the soldiers start crying …. When they were first hooting and hollering when she came onstage .

As I get older, the horrors of war haunt me. We see bombs exploding on CNN. Seeing these soldiers dying in the trenches is gut wrenching i

Uncomfortable? I guess the Larry Clark film Kids because it was so real. It was almost like watching a documentary.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest really changed my life. I never forgot to never be like Nurse Ratched in my work with the demented.

I read Requiem For A Dream. It was hard to get thru and by that time I didn’t want/need to see the movie.

The Killing Fields. What a great movie, but disturbing. That ending made me cry like a baby. I've only watched it twice, but I'll never forget it.

There is a movie I have been trying to re-discover for like half of my life now. There is a scene in the film where an entire family is gunned down by which seems like the Colombian cartel or something. It is graphic as fuck. I mean the entire family, ma, pa, the kids, and their kids kids. It’s like some apartment in which I would just assume is New York City. I saw this movie on cable at 10 and have not been able to find it since. When I talk about it no one knows what film this could be.

he stole my milk

"We Need to Talk about Kevin"

The Exorcist

Avigdor wait!

Jaws.

Under The Skin. The family being washed to see, leaving the baby is something I can never forget. And not in a good way. May Jonathan Glazer never know joy. Seriously. It’s really upsetting and unnecessary to the plot.

The Wicker Man. Didn’t see it til 2017. Didn’t know what was coming. And I was hysterical at the end.

I’m a pussy. I know. But cruelty is just not a thing I enjoy watching. Except here.

Come and See, the most intense World War II film ever. I watched it for a film class in college and couldn't get it out of my mind for days.

R7. Reminded you of your life running the streets, Teafake?

Straw Dogs. Completely anxiety inducing.

Manchester By the Sea

I’m a just say this to the rest of DL and all the lurkers. Even if you recognize I’m neurotic as fuck, yea I’m a cray magucker, don’t yall see it’s a motherfucking pattern. They come on thread and then say some shit for a desired response. They like this arguing shit. Time after time. Every single time. Even when I don’t respond multiple comments will be made for me to engage their foolishness. Every fucking time on every thread. 😂

House of Sand and Fog

OPEN YOUR MAIL!

What is a "magucker"?

R24. It's the sock puppet troll's new "jive." Just ignore it and it will slither away.

Uncut Gems, and I’ve only seen the trailer. I thought it was a documentary about the uncircumcised.

R24 mere typo. Mafucker* should read. You know the g is right next to F on the qwerty lol.

Somebody else on this thread is thirsty as fuck today. Good lord.

The Last House on the Left (2009)

Funny Games (2007)

"Oh, stewardess, I speak Jive!"

Gone Baby Gone

Nell

Lucy’s Mame

Every Lars von Trier film.

The Deer Hunter. Watched it once, will never watch it again but I recommend it to others.

All David Lynch movies. Dreadful images.

In The Bedroom (2001)

Being Julia.

EVERY Al Pacino film since the year 2000 because how can such a brilliant actor make such crap so consistently for 25 years.

The movie didn't make me uncomfortable but the audience reaction did...

Fatal Attraction: The audience rooted for Michael Douglas' character to kill Alex. Alex was overly obsessed with the guy but there was no recognition that he treated her like crap after screwing her and threw her aside like garbage.

I'm not defending Alex but the guy was no saint int situation. I've always thought the movie should have ended with Anne Archer shooting Alex and then turning to her husband to tell him that she wanted a divorce and to get the hell out.

AMERICAN HISTORY X

Precious

Documentary which is called Pretty Woman. Lady not so pretty and don't get the Money.

R39 Because he cheated on his wife. He wasn’t a fucking sociopath. They had every right to cheer for her psychotic ass being killed. She boiled a fucking bunny and then shows up at their home. I haven’t seen it in a while but didn’t she also pick the daughter up from school in one scene. That bitch knew he was married. Remember in the beginning her hoe asks him, “Are you discreet” 😆 ol thot ass. G was brilliant in that film. I don’t know how she lost the Oscar but I was 1 yrs old so I don’t know what else was out.

She lost to Cher.

R43 Ohhh for Moonlighting. I have seen that. 🤔. Nah, G gave a better performance in FA.

R45. Yes...Cher and Bruce Willis shared real chemistry in "Moonlighting."

^^^For R44

OP-talk about gruesome-Sally Field 1 hour pilot for the “Flying Nun” -scary

An actual Bard grad would never make that dumb mistake.

Breaking the Waves. I had to watch it in the university theater with my film appreciation class. I would have left the theater if I could have.

Ooos my bad, Moonstruck 😆. And I meant Moonstruck. I’ve seen it. I guess just conflating 80s media names lol.

Dear Zachary, a documentary about a man murdered by his ex girlfriend. Watched it without knowing any specifics of the matter. Devastating.

The Glenn Close Movie Collection.

At least she’s consistent. Every movie she makes is a piece of shit.

Happiness was incredibly uncomfortable to watch. The scene where the kid asks his dad if he wants to fuck him...yikes. I was hiding under my chair by that point.

Titicut Follies

Boogie Nights was so hard to watch. Something about the drug use had me on edge the entire time and each of the subplot back stories were just so horribly disturbing in their own way.

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Liza in anything is already too much but to make her play disfigured as well!

Sister Act II - Back in da Maguckin Habit

Ishtar

Hereditary. Fuck, I wish I had never seen it. I’m scarred for life.

Also, The Wizard of Oz. Those horrific flying monkeys and creepy munchkins. Once again I wish I’d never seen it. I did like Toto.

[quote]The audience rooted for Michael Douglas' character to kill Alex. Alex was overly obsessed with the guy but there was no recognition that he treated her like crap after screwing her and threw her aside like garbage.

This take is so TikTok 2024. Fucking ridiculous.

I walked out of David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future after about half an hour.

It was gruesome, boring, and just not pleasant to watch.

R60 I will never get the "Alex was the real victim" faux feminist take. 1st off SHE FUCKING KNEW the guy was married. He told her so plainly and she went all in anyway. He never promised her anything and told her the next day there was 0 possibility of anything deeper happening.

That said, Dan WAS still a cheating snake, so he wasn't a victim either and in the end his wife is more than entitled to divorce his ass if she saw fit. The only victims were her and their little girl....and the cute bunny.

Also while Anne Archer characters IS entitled to divorce Dan's ass, she is also entitled to forgive him and continue their marriage. It's her power to decide whether she wants to defend/keep her family together over an infidelity or not. The only thing I would change slightly in the end is a bigger hint that what they just went through MIGHT be unsurvivable...leaving the ending more ambiguous as to if the couple will make it.

At the screening when the lights came up. Dead silence. Audience got up and walked out .

Poor Things. If she had the mind of a child, and couldn’t consent, every time they had sex with her they raped her. Nice.

R61, Crimes of the Future was my favorite movie of that year and saw it in theaters twice and twice at home!

R65 sort of similar to "Big" which belongs here for the same reason. The sex scene still skeeves me out.

[quote]Uncomfortable? I guess the Larry Clark film Kids because it was so real. It was almost like watching a documentary,'

I remember the guy that played Casper had a sad life and ending.

He was the product of a one-night stand, while his mother was vacationing in Europe.

So, he never knew who his father was, which was something that bothered and haunted him forever.

Thus, he had a troubled childhood and became estranged from his mom.

After KIDS became a surprise hit and earned him acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award, he sunk deeper and deeper into depression in the ensuing years, because he had no father to share his joy/success with.

Even after he got married, things did not improve and he ended up hanging himself at age 25.

I'm several years younger and I remember being devastated when he died, because I thought he was so cool and sexy in KIDS.

He really deserved an Oscar nomination that year.

Apocalypse Now.

R11 An entire family is slaughtered in Thomas Jane's "The Punisher," but not in an apartment.

a fierce and troubling film

John Travolta as the villain

Any Henry Jaglom movie!

Me and, no doubt, many others:

Jonathan Glazer's "Birth," with Nicole Kidman

Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Killing of a Sacred Deer," with Nicole Kidman

"Reality," the Reality Winner story

Johnny Handsome.

You should get out more, r60. Many people have felt sympathy towards Alex in the decades since the movie was released. It's no more of a ticky-tock take than wondering why Rose didn't share that door with Jack. The youths aren't responsible for EVERY opinion you hate.

The 1973 horror flick Whatever Did You Perform on Poor Aunt Irma? with Helen Lawson.

R75 That was a piece of shit. (Shelley Winters was pretty good in it, though).

The Piano Teacher. Saw this at a small art house in Manhattan. A lot of older ladies who lunch in the crowd. By the end of the showing there were only a handful of people left in the theater. It was awesome.

R40 Nailed it! Both are unwatchable a second time.

Someone above said all David Lynch movies. I kind of agree, though I don't find some of them as much disturbing as just bizarre and sometimes sort of "WTF is happening?"

That said, Blue Velvet really got me, and not in a good way. It was actually sickening to watch, not enjoyable in the least. I couldn't get through more than about the first half.

A Spanish film called The Coffee Table has to be my top pick. A decapitated baby is key to the plot. I've never squirmed so hard.

Bad Boy Bubby is another. Oh boy. It's a lot.This is on Tubi if you're curious but be warned, it contains incest and animal cruelty.

Angst is one of the most disturbing movies about a serial killer. It has a cinema verite feeling that is just nauseating when he slowly kills his victims.

A Serbian Film. I can't believe I watched this. It builds so dreadfully to the conclusion. I was exhausted after seeing it.

I have to include the Terrifier movies. I find them sickening. I know the violence is supposed to be so over the top that it's funny (In A Violent Manner handles this better) but it's just an exercise in cruelty.

"My Dinner With Andre"

R39, What was completely ignored was the fact that Alex was pregnant when murdered. THAT was cheered.

In Cold Blood - original film with Robert Blake . Attempts to humanize the killers, portraying them in a multi dimensional light.

I always recall, don’t know why, a comment made by Blake , that they killed the teenage daughter, and it was for “ a few half dollar Kennedy coins.”

I think of that whenever I see a Kennedy half dollar , I’m weird I know

Eastern Promises.

I get really anxious when I see my own blood because a part of me thinks I'm dying. I had a hard time watching the straight-razor fight in the spa because I kept imagining what it would be like to be attacked with a straight-razor. I feel a cold chill right now just thinking about it.

I saw Behind the Candelabra at the cinema and fainted during the surgery scene. Had to see it again at home on DVD. I seem to remember feeling sick at the plastic surgery scene in Ash Wednesday - the Elizabeth Taylor film. I have a low tolerance for surgery scenes. The one in All That Jazz is pretty gross too.

So you weren't a fan of Nip/Tuck, r85?

I couldn't watch the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs and had to walk out, telling my boyfriend I'd be out in the lobby.

The chainsaw scene in Scarface...they didn't even show what was happening, but trust me, you knew.

40 Days and 40 Nights. Josh Hartnett gets raped by an ex-girlfriend at the end but everyone acts like he’s the bad guy for having sex with another woman. It’s fucking weird and gross.

[Quote] [R60] I will never get the "Alex was the real victim" faux feminist take.

Come on. This is the same generation that thinks Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears are martyrs, Pam Anderson is a thespian, and the Menendez greedy goobers are innocent.

Beitney ^^^

Goddamit Britney

I cannot wait for Gen Z to turn on Britney. It will happen to all the "victims" that they champion.

R90 Tbh the "Alex is a poor misunderstood feminist icon" idea was a thing back when it came out too.

And that evil stepsister Paris Hilton.

Se7en. That Goop box!

Poor Things. I watched a woman with the mentality of a baby get repeatedly raped when she couldn’t give consent.

[quote] Happiness was incredibly uncomfortable to watch. The scene where the kid asks his dad if he wants to fuck him...yikes. I was hiding under my chair by that point.

I first saw that movie on cable in late 90s and I remember thinking WTF by the end of that. But, it had some funny moments.

Thank you, r94. For some reason people on DL pretend that zoomers on tiktok are the first people to feel sorry for Alex and it's just an extension of their awful, weak culture.

I think it's pretty easy to feel sorry for her. She doesn't become unsympathetic until she takes the kid imo.

R99 I am R94 and I don't feel a bit sorry for her, other than for whatever it is that happened to her that made her so fucked up. She knew she was sleeping with a married man with a child. She sealed her fate

Another vote for Breaking The Waves - deeply disturbing

Dancer in the Dark also had me almost looking away from the movie screen

The Accused - the rape scene is brutal to sit through. Made my stomach hurt and wanting to vomit

I walked out of Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom. Totally disgusting to me.

[quote]R9: I read Requiem For A Dream. It was hard to get thru

One understands why.

The Accused - the rape scene

I actually find that scene hot so I can't watch it again as there must be something wrong with me.

Existenz. It wasn't a bad movie but it's not for someone with a weak stomach.

R102, I also was let down by "Salò." Obviously we think alike.

All that opportunity missed. Joylessly unerotic, moralistic. Lo sterco.

And, worst, a huge waste of 18 paid-for child actors locked away in Emilia-Romagna with the kind of indifferent parents who would let them be cast in the first place.

"Streetwise," a documentary about kids living on the street in Seattle. It was heartbreaking how they'd been thrown away by their parents and society, and in spite of it all they held each other up as best as they could.

"Sorcerer," the William Friedkin remake of "The Wages of Fear." A bunch of criminals are thrown together in the jungle and have to transport a huge cargo of nitroglycerine through the worst conditions imaginable. It was just so unbearably tense for so long that I felt I'd been through the wringer when it was over.

R107, I love both The Wages of Fear and Sorcerer. I think the former is ultimately the superior movie but Sorcerer is very good. Friedkin excels at suspense, he really knows how to make you feel tense and anxious.

R11- Sounds like Gloria- 1980-

R109 Could be...

“Mildred PIERCE”!

R64 : That was a good movie.

Wolf of Wall Street, specifically the part where Leo is talking about the different tiers of prostitute. When he gets to the cheapest variety, he shows a bored woman getting mechanically fucked on a desk while a group of mediocre bros wait in line to use her next. It was so fucking dark and ugly. That movie is just a celebration of disgusting behavior.

R104 two of the rapists were kinda hot but the brutality was so awful it killed all their looks. Did you just like seeing the nice asses fucking a woman held down on a pinball machine override the disgusting context. Get help. Fast.

The Accused is such a shitty movie. It's Lifetime material. I thought Jodie Foster was horrible, whatever accent she was going for didn't work. And let's not even get started on the "sexy" dance she did at the bar.

R155 The Accused is a terrible movie. Ben as. Teen I saw nothing special about Jodie’s performance. I am guessing it was considered “brave” for an A lister to pretend to get gang raped on screen so they rewarded her for that.

R116, i agree. Seriously, that movie belongs on Lifetime.

Eve's Bayou.

The air of mystery in this movie was very unsettling to me. The voodoo curse was presented in such a way that it almost could've been a coincidence that it worked. It doesn't give you any answers. Both the father and daughter's version of events seem very plausible to me. So you never know what to believe about anyone or anything.

I have seen stuff on TV that made me uncomfortable. The melting the guy through the bathtub scene in season 1 of Breaking Bad took me three sittings to get through. There are some things in Game of Thrones where I covered my eyes and never did watch even on rewatches.

Yes Voodoo movies are uncomfortable making. Another one is The Skeleton Key.

R59, you beat me to it. Hereditary is creepy.

Mother! (2017)

Just watched Serpico. Great movie. Makes me uncomfortable that things for truly good cops within police departments probably aren't that much better than they were back then.

R116 Jodie was great in the film. She was more like Z list when she did the film, just coming out of Yale, and having to rebuild her career. She’s gone on record as saying she was going to go back and get her masters if the Accused sank like a stone. She won for three reasons. Overcoming Hinckley, a child actress making good on all her early promise, and her gritty performance.

Jodie's performance is nothing special. It's fine but it's not like it elevates the movie to something special.

Midnight Cowboy

A Clockwork Orange

Luna starring Jill Clayburgh

The House That Jack Built

Luna and all the mother and son incest pictures: Savage Grace, Murmur of the Heart, etc. Yuck.

I agree with Midsommar.

But my parents really fucked up when they took me (at 7 years old) to see a double feature of The Man Who Fell To Earth and Walkabout.

Scared the living shit out of me. I was somewhat scarred for years by seeing those two movies at such a young age.

R125 actors win all the time for so so films. But The Accused is the type of film that, while it has the feel of sort of a Lifetime movie, unfortunately we don’t see at theaters anymore. A prolonged gang rape on a pinball machine? You don’t see anyone taking risks like that in films now. I’ll take the Accused, and its better, than 99 percent of theatrical films released nowadays. Jodie had the narrative that year plain and simple.

[quote] She knew she was sleeping with a married man with a child. She sealed her fate

That's some black and white frau-think (about Alex in Fatal Attraction) .

The Accused didn't hit me the first two times I watched it. Then for some reason it really struck me on the third watch.

Jodie's wig, on The Accused, was horrible.

R131, that is true. All Hollywood movies are "by the numbers" now. Can you imagine the likes of The Godfather 1 and 2, Taxi Driver, Network, etc. being made today? It's unthinkable. And those movies were hits!

Jody and Kelly scissored through the entire shoot.

Good for them.

Deliverance

I couldn't take Michael Haneke's Funny Games (and never tried to watch the US version). Authentic and realistic murderer / serial killer films like Henry are too much for me.

Knowing what Funny Games is about kept me away from it.

Another Haneke discomfort is Cache aka Hidden where a man cuts his throat and a chicken gets beheaded.

Old Boy

The Naked Lunch and the talking asshole typewriter.

Brightburn.

This was really evil and scary. Very disturbing.

Threads.

The best dystopian movie ever made. Watched this in a theatre and when it ended people stayed in their seats. Shocked.

I believe the movie I'm considering is either Trainspotting OR The Basketball Diaries. I remember watching a film around that time that had so many scenes of people doing heroin that it almost made me sick. But I haven't seen either movie since they came out, so I'm not sure which it was.

I just remember thinking "Enough. We get it"

Oooh, I forgot "Angel Heart" did a number on me. That fucking scene b/t Rourke and his DAUGHTER? Bonet KNEW that would get her fired.

Also how sleazy/hot was Rourke?

R146, Bonet's hairy pits are probably what pushed Cosby over the edge. You just know he was fantasizing about her until that point.

Oldboy

I saw the orignal South Korean movie on Sundance or IFC many years ago. It is disturbed me. I did watch the American remake after a friend mentioned that it was a changed a bit from the original.

Misery

Leaving Las Vegas.

Threads

Crash and seeing car crash injured people having sex in cars.

[R11]: Sounds like you’re describing what happens to little Natalie Portman’s family near the beginning of “The Professional.” The rest of her family, including small children, is hunted down in their apartment and shot to death.

Taxi Driver. Seeing Jodi as a young prostitute is just weird. And that scene where Marty is in the cab with De Niro talking about how his wife is fucking a black man (he used the n word) and he wants to kill her is chilling. A great movie though!

Frenzy.

R154 the long slow dance scene with Harvey Kietel is pretty disturbing. I've read it made him really uncomfortable filming.

[quote]I think it's pretty easy to feel sorry for her. She doesn't become unsympathetic until she takes the kid imo.

R99 And when she boils the bunny!

LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR. The final scene scarred me for life.

R156, it is. It's disturbing on many levels. And the way Keitel talks about Iris with Travis is so disgusting. Taxi Driver is a very disturbing movie. If you have a 4k player, I highly recommend getting the 4k edition of Taxi Driver, it looks much better than even the bluray did. It really is (pardon the cliche) like watching a very different movie for the very first time. Also, let's all admit that Travis taking Betsy to the porn movie was hilarious.

Taxi Driver has brilliant acting and it is true art. Art tends to make people uncomfortable, I have seen it once and that was enough. It’s one of those movies where you appreciate its value it cinema history but didn’t necessarily enjoy it,

I actually find Raging Bull even more uncomfortable than Taxi Driver. There is a shot where Jake is sitting in the house while Vicki walks up the stairs (I believe this is after they have a massive physical fight). It's one of the creepiest things--maybe THE creepiest--I have ever seen on screen.

[quote] Frenzy.

I found it uncomfortable because the rape scene is so ridiculous. I kept thinking "am I supposed to laugh here?".

I found Travis taking Betsy to the porn movie as though they were going to When Harry Met Sally as the first clue of his disconnection from regular society

R163, I think my first clue was how he kept trying to talk to the cashier at the porn theatre even though she was clearly not interested.

R162 No, you're supposed to cringe at the absurdity of murder.

R165, maybe I should give it a second chance. I loved Alfred Hitchock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour but I'm justnot big into his movies minus The Birds and Vertigo

I was a young gayling (probably too young) when I saw "The Boys in the Band." Very uncomfortable and gave me nightmares about growing up gay.

"Saturday Night Fever." Disco-loving 12-year-old me begged my folks to take me. They did.

They shouldn't have. Waaaaaay grittier than I was expecting.

R168, I watched it on dvd with my family, including my 80 year old grandmother. Oops/

R168 It really is. I watched it for the first time in my 20s. Not what I expected.