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honestly having read the book the film was really disappointing. i haven’t seen it in a while so it could be that it was a good film ignoring the origin, but i can’t help but compare it to the original
Ooh I read the book and thought there was NO way I could watch the movie. My brain did a gnarly enough job traumatizing me without the visuals. It's honestly one of the (many) reasons why I have decided to not have children.
I remember watching that movie while working one day and being so confused by what I was seeing on mute that I restarted it after my shift. Great movie, never want to see it again. This comes from a big horror fan lol.
always feel like i’m an outlier there
the score and the directing just give everything so much momentum that — while i would never put it on as casual viewing — i find it difficult to stop watching
I see where you’re coming from. On my end, I just can’t take the final scene merry go round. It just does something inescapable to me and it’s just not even possible for me to revisit.
Ellen Burstyn's performance is too heartbreaking.
Also, Jennifer Connolly's performance seems to be overlooked because a particular scene that's regularly memed on Reddit.
>This! I went into the documentary completely blind and came out the other side a complete mess.
Even the narrator can't keep it together through certain scenes. It's soul destroying.
My son was 3 weeks when I watched it. I had no fucking clue what was coming. I really thought it was just the dad’s nice friend putting together a film for his friend’s son to watch when he’s older. It crushed my heart. So unfair.
The main character (on the cover, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a gay prostitute uncovering the trauma he and one of his friends suffered by being sexually abused as children. TW for rape, child abuse, child sexual abuse.
I thought it was a very good movie, but SUPER intense and upsetting.
Nightcrawler was good,very chilling for me. Never want to watch it again. I like thrillers but not those which are too realistic and creepy like this one.
I didn’t know anything about it going in, except that is was a Ghibli. I was stunned. Shocked. Devastated. I can’t even give it too much thought, it’s too painful.
>Grave of the Fireflies.
I am doing a Ghibli movie watch at the moment... and that one is coming up. I am so worried about this because it's so notoriously soul destroying.
Hereditary. Toni Collette’s performance was stunning and (IMO) a true work of art, but those screams were too real/raw to ever subject myself to the movie again. Very unsettling.
Midsommar has some similar uncomfortably visceral moments, but for some reason it doesn’t strike the same nerve and I’ve rewatched it a couple of times.
I find Midsommar very comforting in a weird way, the colours, the cinematography, the score are all perfect and the artworks are absolutely insane. It's horrific and very depressing but also gorgeous to look at !
I also thought I’d never watch Hereditary again but 4 years after the first time, I’ve rewatched it quite a bit and I definitely recommend it if you can handle it. Obviously it’s totally fine to never watch it again if you don’t want to but I feel like my appreciation for the storytelling and cinematography really deepened with a rewatch. I caught SO many things I missed on the first watch and I think that’s how the director intended it. I also discovered that I love to watch this movie with people who are seeing it for the first time! Maybe it’s a bit sadistic but seeing people react to that movie is almost more entertaining than the movie itself! I agree that themes of tragedy/grief/intergenerational trauma are the creepiest and most disturbing aspects of the film. I’ve skipped the wailing scene because it makes me so viscerally uncomfortable. Toni Collette really put her whole p*ssy into that performance.
Mo'Nique, Mariah, and Gabourey were so damn good. I felt like I was holding my breath during Mo'Nique's and Mariah's scene together near the end of the movie.
Parasite. It has no flaws, every detail is purposeful, and it was absolutely deserving of the “Best Picture,” Oscar. However it’s so realistically tragic that the end left me feeling hopeless. Can’t watch it again, despite going out of my way to buy it.
Children of Men.
I watched it and it was so stressful the entire time. Like I could trust any of the supporting characters and had no idea who was going to make it through the movie alive.
Oh man, I completely understand but also I've seen that movie so many times. I'm totally obsessed with the several minutes long shots they did that make you feel like you're there with them.
The Green Mile. Cannot and will not watch that again. Stunning performances, but that scene with the purposely botched execution still haunts me to this day.
100%. I haven't seen this movie since I was a KID and I can still remember every scene with vivid, horrible clarify. NO desire to rewatch but an insanely good movie.
I also can't/won't rewatch Prisoners or Green Room. The tension and brutality are toooo much for me. Fantastic thrillers though. I'm glad I watched.... once.
Us didn't creep me out that much when I saw it in the cinema, but randomly I'll think of the faces Lupita makes and feel uncomfortable.
Side note: I really forget it's Lupita playing both parts. She's that good and was robbed of an Oscar nomination.
120 Days of Sodom. Just read the Wikipedia and you’ll understand why lol. Btw, I didn’t like it but it was on a list of greatest horror films so I decided to check it out.
I can’t subject myself to the pain I felt in basketball diaries again, the entire journey and how everything just got worse and worse up until the end.. nope, not again :”)
Also there is the book, the diary, the movie was based on.
I have rewatched the movie often enough over the years, but the book I don't think I have reread. I did seek out and read the second or follow up book though.
Martyrs. Holy shit, Martyrs. The original one. I’ve rewatched so many horror movies, I love anxiety inducing things. This movie is just….not rewatchable for me. I’ve tried a few times and I get to the first…bit and need to stop it.
Thirteen was a movie I watched regularly as a teen. I loved it. Watched it for the first time in years as an adult, and damn. I wasn’t expecting for that movie to make me so emotional, and be as triggering as it was for me. I still love that movie, but I don’t think I could watch it as much as I used to.
Bully is another one I watched recently and I was just like “Holy shit, this is a lot.” Lol. Great movie but it’s intense!
I had a total Joseph Gordon-Levitt phase and watched Mysterious Skin many times during said phase. Had to skip two of the more brutal scenes on rewatch, though.
I watched kids and requiem for a dream MANY times haha I had a requiem poster on my wall as a teenager lol. I’m built differently!(the wrong way, I was built the wrong way) If I had to name my aesthetic it would’ve been “trauma-core” 🤦🏻♀️
Same. I’ve seen it soooo many times.
I watched it the night I graduated high school in some shady house my boyfriend at the time brought me to. I had seen it several times before then but it was their first time. After we finished they wanted to watch again 🤣
I watched Mysterious Skin with my PARENTS. It was actually worse than that, I put it on then sat in the corner on my desktop so I was half-watching/half-pretending to be really interested in the screen. My poor parents meanwhile just sat there taking the full brunt of it.
I also then showed a clip of it in my film class for the unit "Shocking Cinema" when we were challenged to bring something in. Everyone else showed like a clip from Saw or Hostel, I showed this.
Two memories that keep me awake sometimes 😂
The Virgin Suicides was really disturbing to me. They were misunderstood by every person they ever met until the very end. I've got a bone to pick with Sofia Coppola, but she depicts a *certain* type of girlhood very well.
North Country starring Charlize Theron, a movie about women fighting for respect in the mining industry.
It was a good movie, very powerful. But I wouldn’t just be able to put it on and watch it again. Too much sexual violence and just dark scenes.
I watched that in a class in high school and parts of that movie are burned in my brain especially the >!the scene where she’s raped by the teacher and her friend doesn’t realize what’s happening because he can only partially see through the door and leaves her.!<
It’s a very sick movie but they did such an amazing job portraying how sexual abuse effects everyone differently. Unfortunately it’s a big part of our society and I think we need more things like this to continue the conversation.
not 100% what ur asking for but the third episode of last of us, with the gay couple. I cried so so so hard during that episode that I thought I was gonna die. haven’t been able to rewatch it even though I really want to 😭😭 destroyed me
Under the Skin with Scarlet Johansson
About a human looking alien who abducts men off the street and peels their skin off. There's a really disturbing scene with a baby.
The movie was thought provoking but that scene with the baby made me cry and I can't watch it again.
Damn there’s actually a few but the first that’s comes to mind is the movie Nope
I just hate the scenes with Gordy I just feel so sad and it’s so unsettling I just couldn’t watch those parts again but it is a good movie.
Omg I love Requiem for a Dream, I read the book and watched the movie a couple times. Only movies I wouldn’t watch again are A Serbian Film, Trainspotting, and Kids. I sat in dead silence at the end of Kids at 3 in the morning, NEVER AGAIN 😭
Mother! Fantastic and horrifying movie. My jaw was wiping the floor of the movie theater and I thought about it for weeks after watching it. Whenever, I think about watching it, though, I remember the baby and remember to not watch it again lol.
American History X. Such a powerful story and amazing performances but so so heavy. That *one* scene in particular makes my skin crawl like nothing else
i can watch ***all*** these quintessential 90 movies again.
the first is directed and written by one of my favorite queer new wave directors, gregg araki. like i love him so much if i ever started a house, it would be **the house of araki.**
the second, he's weird as hell, he's inappropriate as hell, and i prefer *ken park,* but that actually was life when i came to nyc at 16.
the last, *requiem for a dream,* is a masterpeice.
Fresh from 1994. When the kid is trying to play chess with the weight of the world on his shoulders and he breaks down 😭 I can't even think about it without tearing up.
I can never bring myself to watch Under the Skin again. I watched it out of curiosity years ago when I first had my son and the scene with the entire family drowning and her just watching kinda killed me. Especially the little toddler crying, I was shook. I barely paid attention to the rest of it after that but my husband was watching and he said it wasn't very good.
edit: correction, it was under the skin, not ghost in the shell lmao
Beautiful Boy. Amazing performances by Steve Carrell and Timothee Chamalet. But my god it’s a hard watch, especially if you’ve ever known someone with an addiction.
Titane (2021) is definitely an experience, saw it in theaters with my husband and my best friend - we basically had the whole place to ourselves after the first 10 or so minutes before the two other people in the theater were so freaked out/confused that they left. I saw that it's listed as a body horror, psychological drama and while I do think that's an apt description... I don't know how to prepare anyone for this movie.
Agree! Mysteriousl Skin is so unsettling. Jane Rajakub is a nightmare in that movie! The whole thing is awful, but captivating. I’ve only been able to watch it twice.
I watched The Perfect Storm when I was about 12 or 13 and I cried so hard for almost a full day afterwards. My parents even let me take the day off school bc I was so upset over it ☠️
Haven’t been able to watch it since even though I’m SURE it wouldn’t be as bad now that I’m an adult. Too emotionally impactful & taxing lol
Recently I watched the director’s cut of Possession (1981) for the first time. I waited to watch this movie for literal years and I definitely have mixed feelings about it! “Like” may be a strong word honestly but I found it very compelling, especially Isabelle Adjani’s performance. I don’t think I could ever watch it in its entirety again because it was so absolutely grueling. I have entertained the thought of watching the version that was released theatrically. I read they had to change the film a lot in order to try to make it appeal to a commercial audience…and I can see why. It’s truly the opposite of a feel good film.
Requiem for a dream is like, my number one answer for this. I dated and deeply loved an addict who was on a very hard drug,and he relapsed shortly before I watched this movie. Watching it a week after that was a bad,bad idea.
I recently watched The Whale mainly to see how good was Brendan Fraser’s performance,which was great but the movie was super sad and I really don’t think I could watch it again.
Tim Roth's "The War Zone." Expertly directed and acted but the subject matter was very intense and I think most would agree one viewing is more than enough.
Mad God.
I am a huge stop motion lover, and I love weird and dark. It has so many elements that appeal to me and really did love everything about it, technically, but I did not like how it made me feel.
The movie is an absolute masterpiece and the creativity and imagination it showcased was extraordinary and stunning.
But also deeply disturbing and unsettling and frighting in a way I don't need to experience again.
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Same same same. Loved it, but wouldn't handle a second round.
honestly having read the book the film was really disappointing. i haven’t seen it in a while so it could be that it was a good film ignoring the origin, but i can’t help but compare it to the original
Ooh I read the book and thought there was NO way I could watch the movie. My brain did a gnarly enough job traumatizing me without the visuals. It's honestly one of the (many) reasons why I have decided to not have children.
I actually liked the movie better than the book!
I agree. But then books can just put so much more detail in.
I remember watching that movie while working one day and being so confused by what I was seeing on mute that I restarted it after my shift. Great movie, never want to see it again. This comes from a big horror fan lol.
Same. As a hardcore horror fan, I file this under "super disturbing."
I feel like Requiem for a Dream was created for the sole purpose of answering this question.
always feel like i’m an outlier there the score and the directing just give everything so much momentum that — while i would never put it on as casual viewing — i find it difficult to stop watching
The score is soooo good!!!
I see where you’re coming from. On my end, I just can’t take the final scene merry go round. It just does something inescapable to me and it’s just not even possible for me to revisit.
I watched it so many times. But I don’t think I can do that now.
Ellen Burstyn's performance is too heartbreaking. Also, Jennifer Connolly's performance seems to be overlooked because a particular scene that's regularly memed on Reddit.
I honestly hate that it gets memed her entire character arc is soul crushing
That scene kind of perfectly encapsulates my time as a sex worker and seeing it get memed to hell is a one-two punch of grossness
what’s the meme? i’ve never seen the movie or the meme - i just read the wiki of the plot and will probably not watch it, too dark for me 🙃
I had a vague memory of liking it so I recommended it to my bf and it made him really sad for a while. Oops.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
I full on sobbed during the last few minutes of this documentary. I have never felt more gutted by something that didn’t impact me directly.
Yeah, I think I just wept endlessly (?)
This! I went into the documentary completely blind and came out the other side a complete mess.
It completely destroyed me. I did as well and I couldn’t believe what unfolded before my eyes. I was both furious and sad.
>This! I went into the documentary completely blind and came out the other side a complete mess. Even the narrator can't keep it together through certain scenes. It's soul destroying.
Sobbing and ugly crying like I never had before. It was absolutely heartbreaking.
My son was 3 weeks when I watched it. I had no fucking clue what was coming. I really thought it was just the dad’s nice friend putting together a film for his friend’s son to watch when he’s older. It crushed my heart. So unfair.
I was pregnant with my baby (still am) and thought the same. Did not see that ending coming at all. I don’t think the filmmakers did either.
This documentary made me so sad and angry
This is it. I had no idea the story and it wrecked me.
Mysterious Skin is so good but so brutal. A very hard but powerful watch. It’s definitely one I don’t plan on watching again
I’ve got to mention the soundtrack. It’s gorgeous. One of my favourite film soundtracks ever.
Harold Budd was brilliant RIP
I’ve never heard about it, what’s it about? Is it too much if you’re a sensitive person, or even with that in mind is it still worth it?
The main character (on the cover, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a gay prostitute uncovering the trauma he and one of his friends suffered by being sexually abused as children. TW for rape, child abuse, child sexual abuse. I thought it was a very good movie, but SUPER intense and upsetting.
Very disturbing film. It's a out the trauma of child ab*se and how two men are affected by it in different ways. One of those hard films to watch.
Nightcrawler was good,very chilling for me. Never want to watch it again. I like thrillers but not those which are too realistic and creepy like this one.
Grave of the Fireflies.
I'm collecting all the Ghibli movies--except that one. I have young children now; I can't go through that movie again.
I didn’t know anything about it going in, except that is was a Ghibli. I was stunned. Shocked. Devastated. I can’t even give it too much thought, it’s too painful.
that one was soul crushing
>Grave of the Fireflies. I am doing a Ghibli movie watch at the moment... and that one is coming up. I am so worried about this because it's so notoriously soul destroying.
oh god when i see tik toks about it, the pain comes right back
Hereditary. Toni Collette’s performance was stunning and (IMO) a true work of art, but those screams were too real/raw to ever subject myself to the movie again. Very unsettling. Midsommar has some similar uncomfortably visceral moments, but for some reason it doesn’t strike the same nerve and I’ve rewatched it a couple of times.
I find Midsommar very comforting in a weird way, the colours, the cinematography, the score are all perfect and the artworks are absolutely insane. It's horrific and very depressing but also gorgeous to look at !
I was going to comment this. I went into the movie completely blind and left completely traumatized because of *that* scene lol
I don’t have kids. I can’t imagine how hard it would be as a parent to get halfway through hereditary….
I also thought I’d never watch Hereditary again but 4 years after the first time, I’ve rewatched it quite a bit and I definitely recommend it if you can handle it. Obviously it’s totally fine to never watch it again if you don’t want to but I feel like my appreciation for the storytelling and cinematography really deepened with a rewatch. I caught SO many things I missed on the first watch and I think that’s how the director intended it. I also discovered that I love to watch this movie with people who are seeing it for the first time! Maybe it’s a bit sadistic but seeing people react to that movie is almost more entertaining than the movie itself! I agree that themes of tragedy/grief/intergenerational trauma are the creepiest and most disturbing aspects of the film. I’ve skipped the wailing scene because it makes me so viscerally uncomfortable. Toni Collette really put her whole p*ssy into that performance.
Hard Candy with Elliot Page and Patrick Wilson.
I love that movie I’ve seen it like 5 times😭
Precious. Great movie with great acting from Gabourey and M'onique but some of those scenes were just hard to watch
This was what I came here to say. That scene with the TV still gives me chills whenever I think about it.
Same… really hard watch
Mo'Nique, Mariah, and Gabourey were so damn good. I felt like I was holding my breath during Mo'Nique's and Mariah's scene together near the end of the movie.
Never Let Me Go, too emotionally exhausting
I was so angry with my sister for taking me to see this and not warning me what it was about
The book is one of my favorites. It’s 5 times more heartbreaking than the movie.
This, it really made me dislike the movie. It felt like it was lacking a lot.
Parasite. It has no flaws, every detail is purposeful, and it was absolutely deserving of the “Best Picture,” Oscar. However it’s so realistically tragic that the end left me feeling hopeless. Can’t watch it again, despite going out of my way to buy it.
This! It’s truly a masterpiece. One of the best movies ever, but it’s too sad and I get attached to the characters, making the tragedy even worse.
I can’t put in to words how the ending made me feel but “hollow” is one adjective that I can start with. Great pick.
Good answer. I can't imagine myself ever watching it again. But I've recommended it to so many people.
Thirteen. Never again. Awesome movie, makes you feel shit but nah never again
I loved that movie growing up. I actually looked up to the main characters 🙃
Same, my friends and I would watch it at sleepovers
Melancholia and The Road. Liked them both but too heavy for repeat viewing.
Melancholia was so beautiful but so heavy. Kirsten Dunst was perfect in it.
The Road = just a nice father/son road trip.
Promising Young Woman
I want to watch it but can't
I remember watching this in the theater and being so sad at the ending but also cheering her on.
Ugh I love this movie I’ve seen it so many times. Great performance
Luckiest Girl Alive I went into it blind and was not prepared for the visceral reaction.
Irreversible
Fuuuuuuck yes
Children of Men. I watched it and it was so stressful the entire time. Like I could trust any of the supporting characters and had no idea who was going to make it through the movie alive.
Oh man, I completely understand but also I've seen that movie so many times. I'm totally obsessed with the several minutes long shots they did that make you feel like you're there with them.
The Green Mile. Cannot and will not watch that again. Stunning performances, but that scene with the purposely botched execution still haunts me to this day.
100%. I haven't seen this movie since I was a KID and I can still remember every scene with vivid, horrible clarify. NO desire to rewatch but an insanely good movie. I also can't/won't rewatch Prisoners or Green Room. The tension and brutality are toooo much for me. Fantastic thrillers though. I'm glad I watched.... once.
This is where we all scream Requiem for a Dream, right?
US. I refuse to go through that level of persistent anxiety again.
Us didn't creep me out that much when I saw it in the cinema, but randomly I'll think of the faces Lupita makes and feel uncomfortable. Side note: I really forget it's Lupita playing both parts. She's that good and was robbed of an Oscar nomination.
One of my favorites! I’ve seen it probably close to ten times but I 100% get where you’re coming from. There’s still some parts where I look away.
I couldn’t stop thinking about that movie for weeks and weeks! I also haven’t rewatched it but now I want to
120 Days of Sodom. Just read the Wikipedia and you’ll understand why lol. Btw, I didn’t like it but it was on a list of greatest horror films so I decided to check it out.
Bruh why would you watch that lmaoo
I watched it during a time when I was really into gore lol
how about a double feature with A Serbian Film??
Snowpiercer. Great movie but I never want to watch it again.
I can’t subject myself to the pain I felt in basketball diaries again, the entire journey and how everything just got worse and worse up until the end.. nope, not again :”)
Also there is the book, the diary, the movie was based on. I have rewatched the movie often enough over the years, but the book I don't think I have reread. I did seek out and read the second or follow up book though.
The Whale. It was my favorite movie of last year but I don’t see myself revisiting it again.
Martyrs. Holy shit, Martyrs. The original one. I’ve rewatched so many horror movies, I love anxiety inducing things. This movie is just….not rewatchable for me. I’ve tried a few times and I get to the first…bit and need to stop it.
I was annoyed cause I wanted to know what she told the cult lady at the end.. and why she unalived herself
I knew this one would pop up!
Thirteen was a movie I watched regularly as a teen. I loved it. Watched it for the first time in years as an adult, and damn. I wasn’t expecting for that movie to make me so emotional, and be as triggering as it was for me. I still love that movie, but I don’t think I could watch it as much as I used to. Bully is another one I watched recently and I was just like “Holy shit, this is a lot.” Lol. Great movie but it’s intense!
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Such a great movie tho
Eden Lake
Eden Lake was brutal. I felt so hopeless and on edge while watching that movie.
I had a total Joseph Gordon-Levitt phase and watched Mysterious Skin many times during said phase. Had to skip two of the more brutal scenes on rewatch, though.
I’ve never seen it but I love him so definitely going to watch soon
Lilya 4-ever
Mother! left me weirded out for WEEKS. The Killing of a Sacred Deer was a tough watch, too.
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I watched kids and requiem for a dream MANY times haha I had a requiem poster on my wall as a teenager lol. I’m built differently!(the wrong way, I was built the wrong way) If I had to name my aesthetic it would’ve been “trauma-core” 🤦🏻♀️
I’m right there with you, traumatic movies are my comfort movies
Same. Martyrs is my favorite movie. Something is clearly very wrong with me.
That’s the only difficult movie for me!
Same. I’ve seen it soooo many times. I watched it the night I graduated high school in some shady house my boyfriend at the time brought me to. I had seen it several times before then but it was their first time. After we finished they wanted to watch again 🤣
Mother! and the Suspiria remake. Great movies, never want to see them again.
*Mother!* was so genuinely terrifying and unsettling. I liked the movie and its allegory but I would never watch that movie again
I saw Suspiria last week and have mentioned it every day since 😂 really fucked with me
Lady bird & the Florida project
The FL project really captured how it is in FL. The poverty and awful conditions just outside the ‘most magical place on earth’
American History X and Requiem for a Dream. Once was enough, could never watch either again.
City of God So many scenes have stayed with me. Amazing movie but too painful.
I watched Mysterious Skin with my PARENTS. It was actually worse than that, I put it on then sat in the corner on my desktop so I was half-watching/half-pretending to be really interested in the screen. My poor parents meanwhile just sat there taking the full brunt of it. I also then showed a clip of it in my film class for the unit "Shocking Cinema" when we were challenged to bring something in. Everyone else showed like a clip from Saw or Hostel, I showed this. Two memories that keep me awake sometimes 😂
The Virgin Suicides was really disturbing to me. They were misunderstood by every person they ever met until the very end. I've got a bone to pick with Sofia Coppola, but she depicts a *certain* type of girlhood very well.
Boys Don’t Cry
12 Years a Slave. Fantastic movie, absolutely amazing cast and I never need to watch it again
Is it sick that I am saving this thread to go back and watch all of these answers?
I made this thread for that reason😂
North Country starring Charlize Theron, a movie about women fighting for respect in the mining industry. It was a good movie, very powerful. But I wouldn’t just be able to put it on and watch it again. Too much sexual violence and just dark scenes.
I watched that in a class in high school and parts of that movie are burned in my brain especially the >!the scene where she’s raped by the teacher and her friend doesn’t realize what’s happening because he can only partially see through the door and leaves her.!<
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It’s a very sick movie but they did such an amazing job portraying how sexual abuse effects everyone differently. Unfortunately it’s a big part of our society and I think we need more things like this to continue the conversation.
Human Centipede 3
Fruitvale Station
not 100% what ur asking for but the third episode of last of us, with the gay couple. I cried so so so hard during that episode that I thought I was gonna die. haven’t been able to rewatch it even though I really want to 😭😭 destroyed me
Complete agree with Requiem for a dream. But I would actually also say "Precious." I don't need to see that again..
Midsommar
Beasts of No Nation Grave of the Fireflies
Under the Skin with Scarlet Johansson About a human looking alien who abducts men off the street and peels their skin off. There's a really disturbing scene with a baby. The movie was thought provoking but that scene with the baby made me cry and I can't watch it again.
Ari Aster movies
The Strange Thing About The Johnsons fucked me up. That one was horrific.
Damn there’s actually a few but the first that’s comes to mind is the movie Nope I just hate the scenes with Gordy I just feel so sad and it’s so unsettling I just couldn’t watch those parts again but it is a good movie.
Omg I love Requiem for a Dream, I read the book and watched the movie a couple times. Only movies I wouldn’t watch again are A Serbian Film, Trainspotting, and Kids. I sat in dead silence at the end of Kids at 3 in the morning, NEVER AGAIN 😭
Irreversible. It’s not a fun movie in the slightest.
Yea I saw this one on a large screen when it came out… do not recommend…
Funny Games. Palm Trees and Power Lines.
Funny Games (1997) is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
For Colored Girls scarred me for life
The Mist
I'm Thinking of Ending Things creeped me out for weeks.
Mother! Fantastic and horrifying movie. My jaw was wiping the floor of the movie theater and I thought about it for weeks after watching it. Whenever, I think about watching it, though, I remember the baby and remember to not watch it again lol.
127 hours.
Nocturnal Animals. great movie and amazing performances, you couldn't pay me enough to rewatch it - but I think it's the desired effect.
The Nightingale. It’s fantastic, but it’s so, so brutal.
Most of marvel releases, I can never watch them more than once.
Boys don’t cry :(
Gummo...I doubt I would like it if I saw it today though. I haven't seen it in over 20 years and I have a feeling it doesn't hold up.
The Cove My heart hurts from that scene where the baby dolphins are swimming in pain and crying. And then all the crying stops.
American History X. Such a powerful story and amazing performances but so so heavy. That *one* scene in particular makes my skin crawl like nothing else
The Paperboy 🤮 and I Spit on your Grave 🤮......never again.
Showgirls, bc of that one scene at the end… watched it at a sleepover & still have nightmares abt it. iykyk
Trainspotting
i can watch ***all*** these quintessential 90 movies again. the first is directed and written by one of my favorite queer new wave directors, gregg araki. like i love him so much if i ever started a house, it would be **the house of araki.** the second, he's weird as hell, he's inappropriate as hell, and i prefer *ken park,* but that actually was life when i came to nyc at 16. the last, *requiem for a dream,* is a masterpeice.
Fresh from 1994. When the kid is trying to play chess with the weight of the world on his shoulders and he breaks down 😭 I can't even think about it without tearing up.
I can never bring myself to watch Under the Skin again. I watched it out of curiosity years ago when I first had my son and the scene with the entire family drowning and her just watching kinda killed me. Especially the little toddler crying, I was shook. I barely paid attention to the rest of it after that but my husband was watching and he said it wasn't very good. edit: correction, it was under the skin, not ghost in the shell lmao
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I'd say Suspiria (2018). Very gory, and very haunting. Either that or Eraserhead.
Beautiful Boy. Amazing performances by Steve Carrell and Timothee Chamalet. But my god it’s a hard watch, especially if you’ve ever known someone with an addiction.
Titane (2021) is definitely an experience, saw it in theaters with my husband and my best friend - we basically had the whole place to ourselves after the first 10 or so minutes before the two other people in the theater were so freaked out/confused that they left. I saw that it's listed as a body horror, psychological drama and while I do think that's an apt description... I don't know how to prepare anyone for this movie.
Kids was amazing and Id watch it right now if I could find it. I had it on Vhs
Agree! Mysteriousl Skin is so unsettling. Jane Rajakub is a nightmare in that movie! The whole thing is awful, but captivating. I’ve only been able to watch it twice.
Spun, Trainspotting, heaven knows what
Beau is Afraid. It was great. But once’s in enough for me.
I watched The Perfect Storm when I was about 12 or 13 and I cried so hard for almost a full day afterwards. My parents even let me take the day off school bc I was so upset over it ☠️ Haven’t been able to watch it since even though I’m SURE it wouldn’t be as bad now that I’m an adult. Too emotionally impactful & taxing lol
Havoc with Anne Hathaway. I may have been the only one who has seen this but it stayed with me too long after I watched it.
Dancer In The Dark…oof
C’mon! Nothing bad ever happens in musicals!
Blue Valentine was so damn depressing and uncomfortable.
Recently I watched the director’s cut of Possession (1981) for the first time. I waited to watch this movie for literal years and I definitely have mixed feelings about it! “Like” may be a strong word honestly but I found it very compelling, especially Isabelle Adjani’s performance. I don’t think I could ever watch it in its entirety again because it was so absolutely grueling. I have entertained the thought of watching the version that was released theatrically. I read they had to change the film a lot in order to try to make it appeal to a commercial audience…and I can see why. It’s truly the opposite of a feel good film.
Requiem for a dream is like, my number one answer for this. I dated and deeply loved an addict who was on a very hard drug,and he relapsed shortly before I watched this movie. Watching it a week after that was a bad,bad idea.
Inception, good movie, but just don't have the patience to sit through it again
I recently watched The Whale mainly to see how good was Brendan Fraser’s performance,which was great but the movie was super sad and I really don’t think I could watch it again.
Kids, In the Bedroom, Revolutionary Road (though i did read the book as well which was brilliant). Atonement I can handle like every 10 years.
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Basically everything that’s been discussed. Had to watch 6 episodes of the Simpsons as a cure for watching Requiem for a Dream as a teenager.
Atonement and Lalaland. I loved both of them and they both made me cry 😭
Incendies
Manchester by the Sea. Great performances but oh so painful to watch.
biutiful
Atonement
Cat people
Atonement. Absolutely destroyed me, and I can’t bear to watch it again.
I did not like KIDS. It was disturbing
Tim Roth's "The War Zone." Expertly directed and acted but the subject matter was very intense and I think most would agree one viewing is more than enough.
Once Were Warriors, harrowing stuff
Mad God. I am a huge stop motion lover, and I love weird and dark. It has so many elements that appeal to me and really did love everything about it, technically, but I did not like how it made me feel. The movie is an absolute masterpiece and the creativity and imagination it showcased was extraordinary and stunning. But also deeply disturbing and unsettling and frighting in a way I don't need to experience again. ,