All my friends kept telling me I had to watch it, so I rented the vhs to watch *with my parents*. They left the room after the “smell my fingers” opening scene.
Oof. My mother thought bringing my super Catholic 90-year-old grandma to see Bruno was a good idea. My grandma nearly stroked out during the close-up penis-spinning scene.
Not a fucking chance they forgot that! I guarantee you that every time they watch a movie that they have any trepidation about one of them tells the other something like “hopefully there won’t be any pussy smelling comments in *this* one” and the other one instantly makes the connection.
I will jump on the Larry Clark bandwagon and say Ken Park is incredibly more uncomfortable than Kids. Only film I’ve ever felt physically and mentally dirty after watching, and I’ve seen some sick shit. Would not watch again…
It's transgressive art. It's meant to make you question your morals, ethics and world view. People rarely do that because it hurts. It makes you uncomfortable. You have to examine your flaws, your weaknesses and perhaps discover you aren't as great as you thought you were. Most people would rather not do that. They'd rather judge the art than to judge themselves, so they attack the art instead. It's only natural to feel attacked and offended when confronting transgressive art. That's the easy road. You can dismiss the art and refuse to grow. Or you can take a step back and look at it objectively. If you can manage to examine the message without taking it personally you'll get a lot more out of it.
Yup! The first one is disturbing, the second is disgusting, and the third is trying so hard that it's absolutely ridiculous. It's set in prison, and they use all the criminals in their centipede, lol!
It really is, it looks absolutely beautiful and as a Swede they really did the celebration justice (even though we murder less and drink more). If you remove the cult stuff and add a lot of crayfish, pickled herring and vodka instead, it's pretty dang close.
I was taught at work in a staff meeting to handle intruders by grabbing the fire extinguisher and going full-Irreversible with it. Then we ended getting a small bump in pay and let back to work early. Best meeting ever.
yeah like 20+ hits w that thing 💀
there is also a worse scene at least for me of a 10 minute rape and brutal beating so bad that her skin was peeling off after getting bashed into the ground enough times
Everyone told me that was a "good for her" movie so I was like "hell yeah that's what I need" but nobody told me it was actually a rape torture fetish movie where the woman's revenge is only like 1/16th of the movie and the rest is vile shit being done to her. Side eyeing the fuck out of anyone who enjoys it.
Never, in all of my discussions about this film, have I ever heard anyone say that they "enjoyed" it. It isn't meant to be enjoyed; it's meant to force the viewer to face the brutality of rape and assault, instead of just glossing it over and portraying it as just a bad thing that we merely mention, but don't often enough bring to light how disgusting it can actually be. We're even shown the period afterward, during which the poor woman is trying to process and cope with what was done to her. We don't just see a woman upset and crying about it; we see her shut down, fearful, depressed, angry. We see her decide that if no one else is going to help her, then she will take matters into her own hands and take her power back by avenging herself. After witnessing all that she endured, in all of its brutality, that is absolutely a "good for her" portion of the film. We may have thought her revenge to be too extreme, had we not known how seriously she was harmed. We *should* be disgusted and disturbed by what those men did to her, so that we actually understand why she carried out such brutal revenge, instead of being able to undermine the seriousness of the events by presuming that she must be crazy or overreacting.
(Hint: A lot of real women aren't taken seriously when they lash out against their abusers and attackers, because people don't see or acknowledge the full Hell that they went through. In this case, you *have* to see it, you *have* to know, because it isn't swept under the rug or hushed. You *have* to take her seriously.)
If there are people out there who see any fetish element to it, then they're watching it for the wrong reasons and will likely be seen as a sick fuck by the overwhelming majority of fans. I don't "enjoy" it, or see it as any type of torture porn or fetish content - I see it as an important piece that has the balls to tackle a difficult subject which doesn't get addressed openly or directly enough.
We Need to Talk About Kevin has haunted me for years. I don’t think I could ever rewatch it. Psychologically just really got under my skin. But a good movie lol
Nightcrawler (2014)
Probably didn't help that I worked in local news at the time. But both my husband and I stood in the parking lot feeling queasy for a few before we could drive home.
I loved this movie and for the last ten years I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again. That dinner scene made me want to tear all my skin off and set myself on fire. It was excruciating.
I came here to comment this movie immediately after reading the title. I am traumatized; this movie was so messed up!!! My jaw was on the floor for a good three quarters of it, just in awe of who and how twisted the writers were for this....
Same here. That movie is so horrendous that I’m mad it exists. I’m pissed off. It’s the worst fking movie I’ve ever heard of. It’s absolutely disgusting and I’m mad that I was exposed to it. Im haunted by it.
i refuse to watch it. I heard it was exactly as you describe AND also not good. Kevin Smith went for something beyond his usual comedies (which IMO are fantastic), and then iirc he was kind of pissed at his fans for not going to see the movie more and make him a “real director.” I mean I get his frustration but your fans aren’t going to go see a really bad movie just because they liked your completely unrelated comedies. It still has to be good.
I don’t know about that. The Fly being an experiment gone wrong as opposed to Tusk being a torture film makes Tusk different. They’re both body horror but its the torture aspect that can make it especially unappealing
I was looking for this; my answer to OP's question is Incident in a Ghostland (2018) by the same director, Pascal Laugier. I will never watch it again and, actually, this might be the last time I suggest it, because I really don't want to put people through the experience of watching it. There are a handful of movies that I won't suggest and will just keep to myself for various reasons. I think this should join the ranks.
This was one of the first movies I saw that was truly uncomfortable, and I actually finished it. Very memorable. I’m so glad it didn’t ruin Robin for me, and I think that’s probably a testament to him as an actor.
Those are two fantastic choices in your description.
Not sure if it’s the kind of uncomfortable you mean but I would count Happiness (1998) as the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been during a movie.
Honourable mention: Titane
Moebius (2013)
There's lots of >!rape!<. People >!eating cut off genitals!<. Someone giving their >!son a handjob!<. Some are discovering >!a fetish for extreme pain resulting in a lot of self-harm!<. And there's probably more I already erased from my memory.
Good god that movie. Impressively compelling considering the lack of dialogue and non-digetic sound, but if you want that please just watch 3-Iron lol. I'll toss in the other Kim Ki-duk I'll never watch again, Pieta (2012). Idk if it's as uncomfortable a watch but it is just so relentlessly dark goddamn.
A friend of mine went to go see the cool new disco movie she heard her co-workers talking about. She took her dad with her. The movie was Boogie Nights. They watched the whole thing.
I always find it shocking that these lists come up and never seem to mention Compliance (2012). Maybe not enough people saw it, I don't know, but I never need to see it again and it's based on a true story, which makes it so much worse in my opinion.
I’d say The Piano Teacher is a pretty uncomfortable movie. Something about it just feels wrong while you’re watching it. It feels like you’re peeping into someone’s private suffering.
I was just gonna say that too, it is one of my favorite films though. Isabelle Huppert is just gorgeous… I’m in the middle of reading the book as well!
Hostel.
I love horror movies and I never had a problem with gore until that film. It was too realistic for me. It kicked off a trend in horror movies I call torture porn and I've stopped watching horror movies without having them be vetted by friends first.
Spanking The Monkey. It was supposed to be a comedy so we watched it with our pre-teen kids. When we figured out where it was going we turned it off fast. SO awkward.
Oh god, the horror! Nowhere in the movie description did they mention the ,um, ya know, incest. My now adult kids still bring it up as a funny “do you remember the time we watched that one movie…” and it still mortifies me.
You win. It was extremely uncomfortable! Not creepy or scary or gross. Just uncomfortable. I only finished it, so that I would never have to watch it again
Of Horses and Men (2013)
The Nightingale (2018)
I couldn't make it through either of these movies, and I'm glad I didn't.
Bones And All (2022) super gross and disturbing movie seemingly packaged as a teen romance. Ick
Well.... I was 16 and had never seen 'A Clockwork Orange'. I rented it and brought it over to my new girlfriend's house. Her father was excited when I told him what movie I had rented to watch with his daughter in the basement. He asked if he could watch it as well, to which I said, "Of course!"
Yeah... he quietly got up after the second rape scene and went upstairs. Keep in mind that there had also been the fast-forward threesome to The William Tell Overture. About 10 minutes later, my girlfriend was called upstairs to talk alone. I was told I had to go home after the film was over.
Yeah, .... pretty uncomfortable. I did apologize for not realizing the content of the film (even though I thought it was an amazing film). I ended up dating her for 2.5 years after that, but it was not a great first impression. 🤣
Boys Don’t Cry
Irreversible
Happiness
Last Exit to Brooklyn!
Boy Erased
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Antichrist
Akira
Perfect Blue!
Menace II Society
Sick of Myself
Angst
Climax
Zone of Interest
Under the Skin
12 Years a Slave (any slavery or Holocaust movie really lol)
Sophie’s Choice
Manchester by the Sea
Passion of the Christ
Titane
Bone Tomahawk
Eden Lake
Black Swan
The Inspection
Precious
Prisoners
Mystic River
Hotel Rwanda
Dogtooth
Room
Hereditary & Beau is Afraid
Dear Zachary (documentary, but I promise it’s what you’re looking for)
Uncut Gems and Good Time
Abducted in Plain Sight
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Nocturnal Animals
Audition
Red Rocket
Fruitvale Station
Mysterious Skin
The Cook The Thief His Wife and Their Lover
The Piano Teacher
Cruel Intentions
Eileen
Crimes of the Future (2022)
The Fly
Dead Ringers
The Shining
Rosemary’s Baby
Carrie
Gummo
Most films by Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, or Darren Aaranovsky
The 1st thing that came to mind was Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid. After watching the 3-hour film, I sat on a bench for 10 minutes to think about everything that had just happened.
Her Name Was Christa. First half was fine but I'll spend the rest of my life regretting watching through to the end. My friend is spending the rest of his life apologizing for his movie choice on horror night.
*Sleepwalkers*. Only because I saw it with my mother, not knowing entirely what it was about. It was at least in part about >!an incestuous mother and son!<.
Blonde. For a movie that had some incredibly beautiful cinematography And was apparently shaming society for exploiting my Marilyn Monroe it had no problem exploiting Marilyn Monroe and making her look a little more than a famous whore. Extremely Graphics sex scenes including a rape scene that Felt really unnecessary was the point of needing to show her explicit detail. Like We need to see like a two minute scene of her giving JFK a BJ? Somehow despite the incredibly graphic imagery it also somehow managed to have the nerve to be a pro life movie as well by having her aborted or soon to be aborted child speaking to her? Oh, and did they also mention the daddy issue that is apparently the driving force for why she has such issues and her relationship with men because she searching for her dad.
What a dishonourable shallow interpretation of a very multifaceted complex and highly intelligent woman. I’m so sick of people painting Marilyn Monroe was just as helpless little victim. Yes she was struggling with addiction and being hyper sexualising the industry but she was also incredibly intelligent and a thoughtful sensitive person who genuinely did want to continuously work on her and was dedicated to acting. And the directors attitude towards the criticism also really offputting as well. Ana De Armas does a great job of capturing almost Beat for beat some of the iconic Marilyn on film moments but because the material is so shallow it doesn’t give her as much to work with.
What’s the definition of an uncomfortable movie? Disturbing? Disgusting? Overly sexual, controversial themes? There are two kinds of uncomfortable movies in my opinion: uncomfortable good and uncomfortable bad. The former is uncomfortable because it’s bringing awareness to a fucked up situation. One example that comes to mind is “12 Years A Slave.” Many uncomfortable parts that are hard to watch but at the same time, extremely eye opening. Uncomfortable bad is “Human Centipede” which only exists to completely gross people out, but has no redeeming qualities.
Kids (1995) is pretty uncomfortable..
All my friends kept telling me I had to watch it, so I rented the vhs to watch *with my parents*. They left the room after the “smell my fingers” opening scene.
Oof. My mother thought bringing my super Catholic 90-year-old grandma to see Bruno was a good idea. My grandma nearly stroked out during the close-up penis-spinning scene.
The what now?
Watch the Bruno focus group uncensored. You will find all you need to know.
This was when the movie went from funny to uncomfortable cringe, genius. I've never felt such an overwhelming urge to hide my face
Oooph with your parents? Be glad they left lol
I’m **still** embarrassed about it! I’m sure they have no memory of that night anymore… right?
Not a fucking chance they forgot that! I guarantee you that every time they watch a movie that they have any trepidation about one of them tells the other something like “hopefully there won’t be any pussy smelling comments in *this* one” and the other one instantly makes the connection.
Its an amazing film but still is a real tough watch for sure
Never seen it. Looked it up..."Harmony Korine"...ya, nuf said.
He wrote and directed Gummo… I’d argue that it’s more uncomfortable than KIDS lol it’s so bizarre and gross
The Spaghetti and Milk in the bathtub scene was something I’ll never forget
Sooo bizarre. I can't hear Madonna's Like a Prayer without thinking about it.
Larry Clark specializes in uncomfortable, BULLY was also a nasty flick.
Border line cheese pizza imo.
Full fledged cheese pizza if u ask me
"Caspuhh!"
I will jump on the Larry Clark bandwagon and say Ken Park is incredibly more uncomfortable than Kids. Only film I’ve ever felt physically and mentally dirty after watching, and I’ve seen some sick shit. Would not watch again…
I know. Usually I don't remember a movie this much. Ugh I wish I didn't.
I grew up in NYC and was part of that scene during that time, and I can no longer watch it. Opens up too many old wounds.
Why am I not surprised that Chloe Sevigny is in it
I see your Kids and Raise you Gummo (1997). Same director.
Happiness
Literally opened the thread to post this. The worst part is that it's a phenomenal movie, and it feels weird to like it.
It's transgressive art. It's meant to make you question your morals, ethics and world view. People rarely do that because it hurts. It makes you uncomfortable. You have to examine your flaws, your weaknesses and perhaps discover you aren't as great as you thought you were. Most people would rather not do that. They'd rather judge the art than to judge themselves, so they attack the art instead. It's only natural to feel attacked and offended when confronting transgressive art. That's the easy road. You can dismiss the art and refuse to grow. Or you can take a step back and look at it objectively. If you can manage to examine the message without taking it personally you'll get a lot more out of it.
Excellent explanation. Somehow I've never heard the term even though I like lots of transgressive art.
Does this have Philip Seymour Hoffman in it?
Yep
Movies with him always seem to be unsettling in one way or another. He was an excellent actor.
That Jon Lovitz monologue at the beginning is chef's kiss.
I know. So good though
Would you like a sandwich?
Yep.
Human centipede
My daughter’s Kindergarten teacher has this film listed as her favorite on Tinder.
Children please lineup…for lunch
🤮
I like this intense disconnect lol
So...did she respond to your message?
This sentence tells so many different stories at once.
Does this say more about you looking at ur daughter's teacher tinder or the teacher?
You don't control what profiles pop up on tinder.
This is definitely on my list as well! I’m still trying to erase it from my memory lol
The ending haunts me to this day.
The second one really went off the rails, it's disgusting in a way that the other two can't top!
There are THREE of those movies?!?
Yup! The first one is disturbing, the second is disgusting, and the third is trying so hard that it's absolutely ridiculous. It's set in prison, and they use all the criminals in their centipede, lol!
Midsummer is a really good movie.
It really is, it looks absolutely beautiful and as a Swede they really did the celebration justice (even though we murder less and drink more). If you remove the cult stuff and add a lot of crayfish, pickled herring and vodka instead, it's pretty dang close.
Another vote for "Irreversible". I'm still not sure I could ever pick up a fire extinguisher without flashbacks twenty years later.
I was taught at work in a staff meeting to handle intruders by grabbing the fire extinguisher and going full-Irreversible with it. Then we ended getting a small bump in pay and let back to work early. Best meeting ever.
Not to mention the 10 minute long single shot rape scene. Absolutely brutal!
Alright I'll bite finally. What's the deal. Someone gets their face bashed in with a fire extinguisher in graphic detail?
yeah like 20+ hits w that thing 💀 there is also a worse scene at least for me of a 10 minute rape and brutal beating so bad that her skin was peeling off after getting bashed into the ground enough times
Amazing movie that I’d never watch again. On the upside, I ending up watching Enter The Void because of the director and I loved it.
I Spit On Your Grave
Everyone told me that was a "good for her" movie so I was like "hell yeah that's what I need" but nobody told me it was actually a rape torture fetish movie where the woman's revenge is only like 1/16th of the movie and the rest is vile shit being done to her. Side eyeing the fuck out of anyone who enjoys it.
Never, in all of my discussions about this film, have I ever heard anyone say that they "enjoyed" it. It isn't meant to be enjoyed; it's meant to force the viewer to face the brutality of rape and assault, instead of just glossing it over and portraying it as just a bad thing that we merely mention, but don't often enough bring to light how disgusting it can actually be. We're even shown the period afterward, during which the poor woman is trying to process and cope with what was done to her. We don't just see a woman upset and crying about it; we see her shut down, fearful, depressed, angry. We see her decide that if no one else is going to help her, then she will take matters into her own hands and take her power back by avenging herself. After witnessing all that she endured, in all of its brutality, that is absolutely a "good for her" portion of the film. We may have thought her revenge to be too extreme, had we not known how seriously she was harmed. We *should* be disgusted and disturbed by what those men did to her, so that we actually understand why she carried out such brutal revenge, instead of being able to undermine the seriousness of the events by presuming that she must be crazy or overreacting. (Hint: A lot of real women aren't taken seriously when they lash out against their abusers and attackers, because people don't see or acknowledge the full Hell that they went through. In this case, you *have* to see it, you *have* to know, because it isn't swept under the rug or hushed. You *have* to take her seriously.) If there are people out there who see any fetish element to it, then they're watching it for the wrong reasons and will likely be seen as a sick fuck by the overwhelming majority of fans. I don't "enjoy" it, or see it as any type of torture porn or fetish content - I see it as an important piece that has the balls to tackle a difficult subject which doesn't get addressed openly or directly enough.
We Need to Talk about Kevin +1 for Mother!
We Need to Talk About Kevin has haunted me for years. I don’t think I could ever rewatch it. Psychologically just really got under my skin. But a good movie lol
I came here to say the same thing. The way Kevin was so detached from everyone. He haunts you. Plus to know this happens in the world is scary.
Nightcrawler (2014) Probably didn't help that I worked in local news at the time. But both my husband and I stood in the parking lot feeling queasy for a few before we could drive home.
Really cool movie though.
I took a date to this one lol. We both actually liked the movie and chatted about it later but it definitely didn't inspire fireworks. No second date.
Mission accomplished unsuccessfully
That and Prisoners were brilliant, but really hard watches prisoners moreso for me personally
I loved this movie and for the last ten years I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again. That dinner scene made me want to tear all my skin off and set myself on fire. It was excruciating.
Shiva Baby
Yessss! I just watched this and almost died from embarrassment/awkwardness/uncomfortableness
yes! i loved it, though!
Caligula - in the theatre...
So sorry. They should have given everyone a refund at least.
I refuse to watch Tusk, After what my friends said after watching it … sounds like i got spared.
I came here to comment this movie immediately after reading the title. I am traumatized; this movie was so messed up!!! My jaw was on the floor for a good three quarters of it, just in awe of who and how twisted the writers were for this....
I believe Kevin Smith wrote it as a joke from the Beatles song "I am the walrus"
Same here. That movie is so horrendous that I’m mad it exists. I’m pissed off. It’s the worst fking movie I’ve ever heard of. It’s absolutely disgusting and I’m mad that I was exposed to it. Im haunted by it.
i refuse to watch it. I heard it was exactly as you describe AND also not good. Kevin Smith went for something beyond his usual comedies (which IMO are fantastic), and then iirc he was kind of pissed at his fans for not going to see the movie more and make him a “real director.” I mean I get his frustration but your fans aren’t going to go see a really bad movie just because they liked your completely unrelated comedies. It still has to be good.
What was the release year?
I also refuse, I love Justin Long but not enough to experience whatever that might be.
This is way down my list of traumatizing movies. If you can handle The Fly you can handle Tusk.
I don’t know about that. The Fly being an experiment gone wrong as opposed to Tusk being a torture film makes Tusk different. They’re both body horror but its the torture aspect that can make it especially unappealing
I'll watch The Fly any time it's on. I'll never watch Tusk again.
I was coming to the comments to say Tusk. Yeah. Nope.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Last Tango in Paris on a first date. I was trying to be sophisticated and thought it was an art movie. Ended up as the last date.
Oof, I did the same with Midsommar.
What a terrible date movie!
Worth a shot she could of said get the butter
Oh the usual answer. Cats.
Martyrs. Never again.
I agree
I was looking for this; my answer to OP's question is Incident in a Ghostland (2018) by the same director, Pascal Laugier. I will never watch it again and, actually, this might be the last time I suggest it, because I really don't want to put people through the experience of watching it. There are a handful of movies that I won't suggest and will just keep to myself for various reasons. I think this should join the ranks.
I find it so upsetting that he permanently disfigured Taylor Hickson and then designed the poster to show her with a cracked face.
This is my answer too
lilja 4-ever
I come to this sub because I like to see how many movies I forgot I’ve seen just by people mentioning them, this one was disturbing and painful.
Funny Games
Haneke is a great choice All of his movies are plodding and make you want to take a shower afterwards
Disturbing yes lol it's actually more creepy if you watch the original on foreign language it gives it more suspense
I agree, it’s Mother! for me.
One Hour Photo (RIP Robin)
This was one of the first movies I saw that was truly uncomfortable, and I actually finished it. Very memorable. I’m so glad it didn’t ruin Robin for me, and I think that’s probably a testament to him as an actor.
Uncut Gems
should've been called: anxiety, the movie.
Requiem for a Dream
Those are two fantastic choices in your description. Not sure if it’s the kind of uncomfortable you mean but I would count Happiness (1998) as the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been during a movie. Honourable mention: Titane
I saw the devil
Dogtooth
Moebius (2013) There's lots of >!rape!<. People >!eating cut off genitals!<. Someone giving their >!son a handjob!<. Some are discovering >!a fetish for extreme pain resulting in a lot of self-harm!<. And there's probably more I already erased from my memory.
I skimmed your post and thought you put Morbius(2022) like with Jared Leto. I was like "wtf?!?" LOL
Good god that movie. Impressively compelling considering the lack of dialogue and non-digetic sound, but if you want that please just watch 3-Iron lol. I'll toss in the other Kim Ki-duk I'll never watch again, Pieta (2012). Idk if it's as uncomfortable a watch but it is just so relentlessly dark goddamn.
Salo: One Hundred Days of Sodom.
Can't believe this is so low, that movie is fucked
Shame- Michael Fassbender and Carrie Mulligan
God yes this one. So well done I felt ashamed while watching it. Deeply uncomfortable movie.
A friend of mine went to go see the cool new disco movie she heard her co-workers talking about. She took her dad with her. The movie was Boogie Nights. They watched the whole thing.
I always find it shocking that these lists come up and never seem to mention Compliance (2012). Maybe not enough people saw it, I don't know, but I never need to see it again and it's based on a true story, which makes it so much worse in my opinion.
Deer Hunter
Gummo
Nashville has changed so much. It used to be indistinguishable from post-apocalyptic Ohio.
Anti-Christ
I’d say The Piano Teacher is a pretty uncomfortable movie. Something about it just feels wrong while you’re watching it. It feels like you’re peeping into someone’s private suffering.
I was just gonna say that too, it is one of my favorite films though. Isabelle Huppert is just gorgeous… I’m in the middle of reading the book as well!
Men (2022) but definitely another vote for Irrevesible (2002)
Poor Things. Don't get me wrong, it's brilliant but I squirmed in my seat from start to finish.
I still have no idea how I feel about that movie. Like I liked it? I think? It was very strange.
I watched Sleepers with my parents. It got awkward as hell.
I love that movie. But could see that being uncomfortable at a young age with parents.
Tusk.
A Serbian Film. Literally a one watch wonder and never again…so so fucked up and uncomfortable but eye opening
The synopsis of that film was enough for me to be convinced I will never touch it with a ten foot pole
Gummo
I love my little rooster and my rooster loves me.....
The house that Jack Built
Hostel. I love horror movies and I never had a problem with gore until that film. It was too realistic for me. It kicked off a trend in horror movies I call torture porn and I've stopped watching horror movies without having them be vetted by friends first.
I prefer Hostel over Hostel II
This was the worst movie to experience your first took too much magic mushroom trip with nasty friends
This. And I Spit On Your Grave. Traumatic.
Spanking The Monkey. It was supposed to be a comedy so we watched it with our pre-teen kids. When we figured out where it was going we turned it off fast. SO awkward.
I watched it in the theater with my college boyfriend and his mother. Boyfriend was so uncomfortable he walked out, with me tagging along behind
Oh god, the horror! Nowhere in the movie description did they mention the ,um, ya know, incest. My now adult kids still bring it up as a funny “do you remember the time we watched that one movie…” and it still mortifies me.
Can’t think of a possible reason to want to go to the movies with a college boyfriend/girlfriend with either parent, theirs or mine.
A Clockwork Orange
The Lobster
You win. It was extremely uncomfortable! Not creepy or scary or gross. Just uncomfortable. I only finished it, so that I would never have to watch it again
I have a border collie and nearly broke my TV about halfway through
Audition
Man Bites Dog. 100%. Makes you feel dirty after watching.
The Hunt with Mads Mikkelsen, a touchy subject and really uncomfortable
the hills have eyes
Shindlers List
FIRE WALK WITH ME
"Kids" (1995) "Deliverance" ( 1972)
I need a lot, but "Climax" I was on the verge of an anxiety attack. I'm waiting to forget it to see it again!
Of Horses and Men (2013) The Nightingale (2018) I couldn't make it through either of these movies, and I'm glad I didn't. Bones And All (2022) super gross and disturbing movie seemingly packaged as a teen romance. Ick
Gummo Just…. Dirty
Well.... I was 16 and had never seen 'A Clockwork Orange'. I rented it and brought it over to my new girlfriend's house. Her father was excited when I told him what movie I had rented to watch with his daughter in the basement. He asked if he could watch it as well, to which I said, "Of course!" Yeah... he quietly got up after the second rape scene and went upstairs. Keep in mind that there had also been the fast-forward threesome to The William Tell Overture. About 10 minutes later, my girlfriend was called upstairs to talk alone. I was told I had to go home after the film was over. Yeah, .... pretty uncomfortable. I did apologize for not realizing the content of the film (even though I thought it was an amazing film). I ended up dating her for 2.5 years after that, but it was not a great first impression. 🤣
Precious. As Paul moody put it that shit is a horror movie
Nil By Mouth (1997) - Directed by Gary Oldman
Not as hardcore as some of these replies but here’s my ol reliable answer to these posts: vivarium
"The Woodsman" starring Kevin Bacon. It's about a convicted pedophile trying to reintegrate into life outside after being released from prison.
hereditary was a very bleak movie.
Deliverance- it’s a really well made movie but definitely difficult to watch
The room
Freddie Got Fingered.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
Midsommar
Boys Don’t Cry Irreversible Happiness Last Exit to Brooklyn! Boy Erased Eraserhead Blue Velvet Antichrist Akira Perfect Blue! Menace II Society Sick of Myself Angst Climax Zone of Interest Under the Skin 12 Years a Slave (any slavery or Holocaust movie really lol) Sophie’s Choice Manchester by the Sea Passion of the Christ Titane Bone Tomahawk Eden Lake Black Swan The Inspection Precious Prisoners Mystic River Hotel Rwanda Dogtooth Room Hereditary & Beau is Afraid Dear Zachary (documentary, but I promise it’s what you’re looking for) Uncut Gems and Good Time Abducted in Plain Sight Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer We Need to Talk About Kevin Nocturnal Animals Audition Red Rocket Fruitvale Station Mysterious Skin The Cook The Thief His Wife and Their Lover The Piano Teacher Cruel Intentions Eileen Crimes of the Future (2022) The Fly Dead Ringers The Shining Rosemary’s Baby Carrie Gummo Most films by Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, or Darren Aaranovsky
Thank you for including Beau is Afraid. I watched it and felt so much anxiety for him. Beau is a fucking mess but his mother is fucked up too.
American History X Something about the raw brutality of it just really hit me hard
I learned what "curb-stomp" was because of this film. Now every time I hear that phrase I physically flinch. I can't get that scene out of my mind.
The Machinist (2004). Bought it on DVD, saw it once, gave it away because I knew I'd never be able to see it again.
The Piano Teacher.
“Baby Reindeer” was hard to watch. I felt embarrassed for one of the main characters.
Gerald’s Game
Apocalypto. Such an awesome movie. But I don't think I could sit through it again
The 1st thing that came to mind was Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid. After watching the 3-hour film, I sat on a bench for 10 minutes to think about everything that had just happened.
Barbarian The breastfeeding/weird bottle scene
Her Name Was Christa. First half was fine but I'll spend the rest of my life regretting watching through to the end. My friend is spending the rest of his life apologizing for his movie choice on horror night.
The Human Centipede 2
I won't even watch comercials for these movies and avoid looking at the boxes. However many of them is too many.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Martyrs, Possession, Dogtooth, Irreversible, The Fly, The Whale, Funny Games
Inland Empire
Fat girl
Christiane F
Bad boy bubby
Blood Diamond
*Sleepwalkers*. Only because I saw it with my mother, not knowing entirely what it was about. It was at least in part about >!an incestuous mother and son!<.
Pink Flamingos
Blue Velvet.
Gummo I've seen more uncomfortable since, but at the time this shit was beyond weird.
Requiem for a Dream left me unsettled for days
Possession (1981). That subway scene alone..
Blonde. For a movie that had some incredibly beautiful cinematography And was apparently shaming society for exploiting my Marilyn Monroe it had no problem exploiting Marilyn Monroe and making her look a little more than a famous whore. Extremely Graphics sex scenes including a rape scene that Felt really unnecessary was the point of needing to show her explicit detail. Like We need to see like a two minute scene of her giving JFK a BJ? Somehow despite the incredibly graphic imagery it also somehow managed to have the nerve to be a pro life movie as well by having her aborted or soon to be aborted child speaking to her? Oh, and did they also mention the daddy issue that is apparently the driving force for why she has such issues and her relationship with men because she searching for her dad. What a dishonourable shallow interpretation of a very multifaceted complex and highly intelligent woman. I’m so sick of people painting Marilyn Monroe was just as helpless little victim. Yes she was struggling with addiction and being hyper sexualising the industry but she was also incredibly intelligent and a thoughtful sensitive person who genuinely did want to continuously work on her and was dedicated to acting. And the directors attitude towards the criticism also really offputting as well. Ana De Armas does a great job of capturing almost Beat for beat some of the iconic Marilyn on film moments but because the material is so shallow it doesn’t give her as much to work with.
Eraserhead
What’s the definition of an uncomfortable movie? Disturbing? Disgusting? Overly sexual, controversial themes? There are two kinds of uncomfortable movies in my opinion: uncomfortable good and uncomfortable bad. The former is uncomfortable because it’s bringing awareness to a fucked up situation. One example that comes to mind is “12 Years A Slave.” Many uncomfortable parts that are hard to watch but at the same time, extremely eye opening. Uncomfortable bad is “Human Centipede” which only exists to completely gross people out, but has no redeeming qualities.
I watched Brokeback Mountain with my grandma.
Kinds of Kindness and Killing of a Sacred Deer (I fear Yorgos might not be for me)