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Films that made you physically ill after watching

I dunno, reading over some of the responses, I’ve never found myself physically drained from a movie. Like, gory special effects never make me sick or anything like that, I suppose because in the back of my mind, you know, movie magic, sparkle sparkle. Mentally drained? Certainly, plenty of times; most notably when I was, god, 14 or 15 and realized in watching ‘Gimme Shelter’ that I’d just watched someone die. But physically ill? Unless the film makes a concerted effort to punch me in the perception (like ‘La Region Centrale,’ which I mentioned earlier), I can’t think of any that have ever accomplished that.

Lucas Granero

about 3 years ago

Yeah,
definitive some Haneke.
Maybe “Benny’s Video” or “Cache”
“The Seventh Continent” is also too way disturbing.

WhenI watch one of his films, always wait like two or more months after watching another one.
My mind needs to break.

Nathan M.

about 3 years ago

Has anyone mentioned “Matriesse”? Yeah, watching someone get their penis nailed to a board sort of made me sick. And that’s not the only vomit inducing moment.

Austin Glidden

about 3 years ago

I’m really good with disturbing and controversial films. But as I’m sue most of you understand, you can’t avoid that sick feeling in your stomach during some films. These are some of them, in my case:

Irreversible – I love this film, but the first time I saw the fire hydrant scene and the rape scene, it got me.
I Stand Alone – Pregnant lady…
Salo – All of it, haha
Man Bites Dog – The first time I watched it the opening scene got me.

All of these are fantastic films, just not for the faint of heart.

Drew Gregory

about 3 years ago

I would like to add I saw Salo about a month ago, but still tonight while eating bread I got nauseous because for some reason I thought of the nails.

Drew Gregory

about 3 years ago

DP

Carter Smith

about 3 years ago

Clean, Shaven didn’t make me feel good.

House of Pleasur​e

about 3 years ago

Blood of the Beasts – Franju
Irreversible – Noe … fucked with my senses

Miasma

about 3 years ago

Crash (the bad one)

vladdyt​rout

about 3 years ago

“Biodome” and “Son-in-Law.” Seriously, no joke.

I forgot “Window Water Baby Moving” by Brakhage.

And now I wish it had stayed forgotten. Oh god.

Shotzi

about 3 years ago

Son-in-Law is great.

pranaya

about 3 years ago

Irreversible by Gaspar Noe.

Michael Furman

about 3 years ago

I am no prude, but I the sex and nudity in “Fat Girl” made me feel gross and nauseous. On the other hand, I had no problem with “Window Water Baby Moving,” but I really love Brakhage.

I also got kind of sea-sick as a teenager seeing “Titanic” in the theater. I also found the movie “God Made Man” to be sickening. Ugh…

Michael Furman:

I love Brakhage too, but seeing a giant vagina pulse out soupy blood before pushing a screaming purple hobgoblin in a manner reminiscient of a football being shoved through a pinhole in a rubber sheet — well, at least, seeing it projected onto the interior of a barn? That was the only time I ever hated my film professor in art school, if only momentarily.

The John is John

about 3 years ago

Gummo. The spaghetti eating made my skin crawl.

witkacy

about 3 years ago

@Sensational – That is one of the funniest damned comments I’ve seen on this site—and it’s an exact description of the film! Window Water Baby Moving is where Brakhage gets a bit too hippy-dippy for me. I mean, damn: ordinary childbirth is really too quotidian to mystify. (Note that the birth in Children of Men is an efx milestone.) Now, Cronenberg’s The Brood, with its parthenogenetic birth sequence—that’s a mystification of birth, right there!

Francis​co J. Torres

about 3 years ago

Old Boy

witkacy

about 3 years ago

Thinking of Cronenberg, he’s managed to leave people queasy a bunch of times, as for instance in The FlyVideodrome is full of gross-outs; and there’s “the special” in the Chinese restaurant in eXistenz

akira

about 3 years ago

Night And Fog (1955)

Hearts And Minds (1974)

Melissa Miranda

about 3 years ago

Trainspotting when the baby crawls on the ceiling.

john L

about 3 years ago

science of sleep.

really creeped me out for days the more I kept thinking about how bernal’s character was two steps away from going crazier. and how gondry reveled in it.

mario anima

about 3 years ago

i’ll go the obvious route. irreversible impacted me pretty heavily. i wanted to do nothing more than hug my wife for a month after watching it. great film, but it really f-ed me up.

Anna

about 3 years ago

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

anathem​adeligh​t

about 3 years ago

For me it’s usually really easy to dissociate myself from whatever I’m watching, but the first act of HUNGER is so realistic and so incredibly disgusting that I have to leave the room after the first 15 minutes or so. I suppose it’s the mark of an incredibly well made film, but the moment I start to cotton onto exactly what’s covering the walls in the prison cells, I swear a part of me dies a little.

Ben St. John

about 3 years ago

CALIGULA. Not just because much of the movie is thinly veiled hardcore pornography, but because it’s also a real horrible piece of film in general. Though the second time I watched it I mostly just laughed. Great movie to watch with friends who have never seen it!

Scott

about 3 years ago

how about the end of Pink Flamingos? i saw it in a theater and the audience stayed absolutely still in a stunned silence for about a minute after the lights came on. i can’t think of it without gagging a little.

Jacob Ross

almost 3 years ago

Atonement.

deckard croix

almost 3 years ago

Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme. I was ill for weeks afterwards.

sebasti​an james

almost 3 years ago

Carlos Reygada’s “Battle in Heaven” one of the grossest scenes ever…. two fatties going at it….no offense to fatties but that scene in particular, just made me sick…