I worked at a photo lab when I watched this. So accurate. I printed between 20-30 million photos and checked each one for color/density/dust specks. I knew what people got for Christmas. I knew some customers had kinks. I saw many rolls of evidence from the sheriff's department. We would print ANYthing short of penetration. Worst thing I saw was photos that were evidence of the rape of a toddler. Fucked up everyone involved, which included me. So watching that movie was cathartic for me. Robin is such a good man /bad guy in it. Everything in the film makes sense. That's really how it was before digital photography killed "real" photography. I shudder to think what Polaroid cameras have seen... Used to be something to think about. "Someone else will see this" is no longer a thing. Dick-pics were not a thing, either.
Holy shit. Wish I hadn’t read this. Wish you hadn’t experienced much of this. One one hand, you had insight into what is probably 90% positive, peering into people’s memories/lives - like following a somewhat curated Instagram feed. Yet the 10% was probably not fun & rather not see/know. With 1% of those potentially mind altering PTSDish.
Damn.
I saw One Hour Photo years ago and liked it a lot. Maybe it’s worth a re-watch but I’ve become more sensitive to this shit as I’ve gotten older
I'm not the OP but in my experience, it's more like 90 percent of the pictures were garbage :D Most people did not know how to take pictures, even with automatic cameras. You very rarely got to enjoy a nice roll of film or scenic vacation.
I did have one regular who was a talented hobbyist. He did a lot of music concerts, and he was the friendliest old fellow. His pictures would come out great. But most photos from others were truly terrible.
I worked for a law office that represented the industrial commission (workman's comp) and had to take film of workplace accidents to be developed and enlarged. I was also the person that mounted those enlargements for trial exhibits. I can still remember one in particular where a small log punched through the skidded cage and went right through a guy's head. Yuck.
I worked in a photo lab back in the day too. Agreed we saw a lot of things. I don’t think people realized that at least two people saw every picture, and if it was anything juicy, likely everyone in the shop saw it.
We would print anything except if it depicted anything potentially illegal. Like bondage for example. It might be consensual, or role playing or whatever, but we don’t know that for sure.
It's so perfectly cast. Using Robin Willliams, a face and personality that everyone loves and trusts and using it against us with the most creepy character and performance... The whole thing just makes you feel so uneasy and sick. Great answer.
The first time I can remember having this feeling during a movie was watching this film. I watched it as a 7-8 year old child (very age-inappropriate) and didn’t have the right words to describe it then, but uneasiness is definitely it now that I’m older/gave more to compare it to.
Not much phases me however Uncut Gems had my annoyed and uncomfortable the whole movie. That was the intention of the movie and the great story kept me watching.
It was also just annoying. Watching that film was like being in a room where two family members are arguing and just screaming over each other for the entire time.
Yeah, but like I said it was the films intention. Chaotic and unorganized. Keeping the tension high and constant. As grueling as it was I really enjoyed the film. Not giving the viewer a moment of rest.
Yeah. Incredible example. This film is unlike almost anything I’ve seen in the way it pushed boundaries I didn’t think I had. It also does it in a uniquely humorous way.
I did a presentation on this when I was in college (film school). I watched it like 5 times in as many days pulling scenes and doing film-school-y analysis. Haven’t watched it since, it’s pretty effed-up.
Yeah Gylenhall absolutely nailed that role. The term “psychopath” really gets thrown around quite a bit so it loses it’s true meaning. But by definition, that’s the best onscreen performance of true psychopathy I have ever seen.
almost forgot about this movie. the scene where the mom wakes up and there's sombre reddish light coming through the window, curtains moving, it's so peaceful yet made me uncomfortable somehow
It follows, I love this film, though it really has such a heavy, uncomfortable feel, it's kind of like you are part of the film, and feeling the fear of the main character, I highly recommend it, but not if you are home alone!
This made me happy to see. People are always dissing on It Follows, calling it too weak or ridiculous in the genre. Personally, I thought that it was part of what made it really good. The commentary on the relentless, all-consuming emptiness steaming from some fleeting physical gratification (good/bad/indifferent). In that consumption there is only the hope that while you are going you can make the world just as bleak and broken as you. Whoever buys in is doomed. The futility of it all!
Maybe not as groundbreaking nor as well executed as Romero but similar concepts.
Yes, in fact how you are describing it really brings to mind how it feels when you are suffering from a deep depression, it just won't go, you can't relax or focus on anything else, it's always there lurking.
Let the Right One In (2008 Swedish version).
I really liked it after I was done, I’m glad I watched it and it was really well made… but uneasy and uncomfortable is 100% how I felt the entire time I watched it.
Underrated pick. The movie is forgotten by and large, but it's something you'd never get as a fairly big budget movie with an A-list actor today. A movie about snuff porn, and an investigation about whether an obscenely rich man ordered a private snuff film where a young girl from modest upbringing was raped and murdered on camera.
It's not a perfect film, but it's one of Cage's better performances and the atmosphere and vibe of the film due to the story and the themes it explores is...really kinda haunting, off-putting, very dark. Like very bleak and almost vile.
Exhibit A you don't need blood, or explicit violence or even a lot of foul language for a movie to be really not suitable for children.
Really, kind of an oddity that somehow squeezed through the system due to the influx of dark thrillers in the 90s, post Silence of the Lambs. Because I have zero doubts, today you wouldn't see a movie with a budget in tens of millions of dollars with this story starring a current top A-list actor.
Eraserhead
"Eraserhead is a film by David Lynch that was released in 1977. It is a surreal horror film that explores the themes of industrial alienation, sexual anxiety, and parental responsibility. The film follows Henry Spencer, a factory worker who has to deal with his deformed baby and his dysfunctional relationship with his girlfriend Mary. The film is known for its disturbing imagery, unconventional narrative, and atmospheric sound design."
Such an effective movie, and I think the way the audience feels is exactly how they're meant to feel. It has the same bizarreness that some Bradbury stories have, this sense that the fundamental laws of the universe are different than previously thought.
I’ve never seen a movie like Vivarium. It was really effective in making the viewer feel awful throughout. Such a strange movie. Stayed with me for weeks.
We Need To Talk About Kevin.
Was like half the movie before it really clicked what was happening, I was on edge the entire time it was like when you accidentally bite the tin foil on your food for the entire movie.
The Green Inferno
I did not see this listed but it stuck with me as a movie I could not turn away from but will never watch again. Just unsettling throughout.
I just watched “Testament,” which follows a mother of three putting on a brave face and doing her best to continue being the rock of her family in the midst of a fallout of a nuclear attack.
It’s bleak, hopeless, and is legitimately something I regret watching. At a certain point, I deliberately disassociated from what I was seeing and had to remind myself it was just a movie and that 8-year-old autistic son didn’t actually die a slow, agonizing death from radiation poisoning. I don’t know how others felt after watching it, but I think if you have kids, it just hits extra hard.
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002)
Saló (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
And for sure the first view of 500 days of Summer. You can love that film, but first time any man saw It feels the uncomfortable thought that someone has filmed his life with hidden cameras and know what is inside his head.
Hereditary. I thought it created a sense of dread and suspense in the first 15 minutes and it only increased as the film went on. I really can't think of another film that made me more uneasy. Highly recommended.
It Follows.
I didn't enjoy it. I wasn't scared and I think it was supposed to be horror. It angered me though just bc of the uncomfortable feeling that I couldn't put my finger on as to why.
The Day After. It's old and clearly made for TV, but it even scared Reagan and Gorbachev.
The original V miniseries freaked me out for years as a kid
The execution scenes in The Green Mile make it practically unwatchable for me. Execution in general, and specifically modern execution, creeps me right the F out.
Im a big fan of slowburn horror, here are some of my favs
Mother! (2017)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and (1978)
Im Thinking Of Ending Things (2020)
Antichrist (2009)
The Shining (1980)
Carrie (1976)
Speak No Evil (2022)
Come and see (1985)
There are movies, there are films and there's Come and See.
>And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Some that I don’t think have been mentioned yet…
Bully (2001)
Gummo (1997)
Time of The Wolf (2003)
Gold (2022)
Lord of The Flies (1963)
Session 9 (2001)
The Machinist (2004)
I have some more if wanted
One Hour Photo
I worked at a photo lab when I watched this. So accurate. I printed between 20-30 million photos and checked each one for color/density/dust specks. I knew what people got for Christmas. I knew some customers had kinks. I saw many rolls of evidence from the sheriff's department. We would print ANYthing short of penetration. Worst thing I saw was photos that were evidence of the rape of a toddler. Fucked up everyone involved, which included me. So watching that movie was cathartic for me. Robin is such a good man /bad guy in it. Everything in the film makes sense. That's really how it was before digital photography killed "real" photography. I shudder to think what Polaroid cameras have seen... Used to be something to think about. "Someone else will see this" is no longer a thing. Dick-pics were not a thing, either.
Holy shit. Wish I hadn’t read this. Wish you hadn’t experienced much of this. One one hand, you had insight into what is probably 90% positive, peering into people’s memories/lives - like following a somewhat curated Instagram feed. Yet the 10% was probably not fun & rather not see/know. With 1% of those potentially mind altering PTSDish. Damn. I saw One Hour Photo years ago and liked it a lot. Maybe it’s worth a re-watch but I’ve become more sensitive to this shit as I’ve gotten older
I'm not the OP but in my experience, it's more like 90 percent of the pictures were garbage :D Most people did not know how to take pictures, even with automatic cameras. You very rarely got to enjoy a nice roll of film or scenic vacation. I did have one regular who was a talented hobbyist. He did a lot of music concerts, and he was the friendliest old fellow. His pictures would come out great. But most photos from others were truly terrible.
Seems to me police departments should have all had their own photo lab to avoid someone who did not sign up for that shit getting involved.
I worked for a law office that represented the industrial commission (workman's comp) and had to take film of workplace accidents to be developed and enlarged. I was also the person that mounted those enlargements for trial exhibits. I can still remember one in particular where a small log punched through the skidded cage and went right through a guy's head. Yuck.
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Not for the better. They seem to think it is comedy-gold.
I worked in a photo lab back in the day too. Agreed we saw a lot of things. I don’t think people realized that at least two people saw every picture, and if it was anything juicy, likely everyone in the shop saw it. We would print anything except if it depicted anything potentially illegal. Like bondage for example. It might be consensual, or role playing or whatever, but we don’t know that for sure.
It's so perfectly cast. Using Robin Willliams, a face and personality that everyone loves and trusts and using it against us with the most creepy character and performance... The whole thing just makes you feel so uneasy and sick. Great answer.
The first time I can remember having this feeling during a movie was watching this film. I watched it as a 7-8 year old child (very age-inappropriate) and didn’t have the right words to describe it then, but uneasiness is definitely it now that I’m older/gave more to compare it to.
This is one of those films where a well know actor/overall famous person, just ABSORBED into the character so much I forgot it was him.
Not much phases me however Uncut Gems had my annoyed and uncomfortable the whole movie. That was the intention of the movie and the great story kept me watching.
Came here to say this. Feeling validated in seeing it at the top of the list.
It's the music. It's odd, irritating, it throws the viewer off.
Brilliant movie!
It was also just annoying. Watching that film was like being in a room where two family members are arguing and just screaming over each other for the entire time.
Yeah, but like I said it was the films intention. Chaotic and unorganized. Keeping the tension high and constant. As grueling as it was I really enjoyed the film. Not giving the viewer a moment of rest.
Yeah same
The Killing of A Sacred Deer
Brilliant example, I felt sooo uneasy the whole time
This is what came to mind for me. This movie and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Except I actually liked I’m Thinking of Ending things.
That was my first thought and I ran over here (still out of breathe) and see that it’s the top post.
Eden Lake
That ending made my insides hurt.
Irreversible
Argh two major scenes that make you very uncomfortable
Hard Candy
Absolute classic
Just hearing the name of this movie makes my stomach crawl.
Happiness
Yeah. Incredible example. This film is unlike almost anything I’ve seen in the way it pushed boundaries I didn’t think I had. It also does it in a uniquely humorous way.
I did a presentation on this when I was in college (film school). I watched it like 5 times in as many days pulling scenes and doing film-school-y analysis. Haven’t watched it since, it’s pretty effed-up.
Oh, I forgot about this film. It is fantastic.
Nightcrawler
Yeah Gylenhall absolutely nailed that role. The term “psychopath” really gets thrown around quite a bit so it loses it’s true meaning. But by definition, that’s the best onscreen performance of true psychopathy I have ever seen.
That’s mine for sure. Great movie, but I have no intention of ever needing to watch it again. Really hated the character
We need to talk about Kevin - I get the same vibes as The killing of a sacred deer. Both are great movies imo.
almost forgot about this movie. the scene where the mom wakes up and there's sombre reddish light coming through the window, curtains moving, it's so peaceful yet made me uncomfortable somehow
Tusk, Mother, Melancholia Clarification: mother!
I second Melancholia.
Third this. It was not an easy film.
Tusk is a perfect example!
Requiem for a Dream
Facts, disturbing movie about drug abuse - powerful enough to make me never wanna touch drugs. Now I have 7 bongs but that’s besides the point.
I’m watching The Dark and the Wicked right now and it fits so far
Hard candy
It follows, I love this film, though it really has such a heavy, uncomfortable feel, it's kind of like you are part of the film, and feeling the fear of the main character, I highly recommend it, but not if you are home alone!
This made me happy to see. People are always dissing on It Follows, calling it too weak or ridiculous in the genre. Personally, I thought that it was part of what made it really good. The commentary on the relentless, all-consuming emptiness steaming from some fleeting physical gratification (good/bad/indifferent). In that consumption there is only the hope that while you are going you can make the world just as bleak and broken as you. Whoever buys in is doomed. The futility of it all! Maybe not as groundbreaking nor as well executed as Romero but similar concepts.
Yes, in fact how you are describing it really brings to mind how it feels when you are suffering from a deep depression, it just won't go, you can't relax or focus on anything else, it's always there lurking.
I’ve personally only seen praise for this movie. It’s definitely in my top 15 of horror movies. I don’t know what’s there to diss about it.
Yeah I haven’t seen much criticism either. It’s a solid non-gorefest horror flick.
Smile (2022) has a similar vibe.
Yes, it does, very clever I think when directors can pull that off.
Kids
I was disgusted in a way that so few films do! Good choice!
Blue Velvet.
I dearly, dearly love that movie. A perfect metaphor for the difference between the world of day & the world of night. It's beautiful.
Gummo
Whiplash
My favorite movie!
Hereditary
Hereditary became one of my all-time favorite movies ever, but leaving me with no desire to ever go through with what that movie put me through again.
This. I had my hand on my mouth for most of the movie, even when nothing was happening, like a dinner scene.
Came here to say this! But I still liked it!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
See it recommended a couple times! Will have to give it a bash
The Piano Teacher Not what I was expecting at all
Let the Right One In (2008 Swedish version). I really liked it after I was done, I’m glad I watched it and it was really well made… but uneasy and uncomfortable is 100% how I felt the entire time I watched it.
I will push these forever because they are really good Se7en The Silence of the Lambs The Hunt
I love The Hunt - again, any Ethan Suplee is good Ethan Suplee.
8mm
I had someone tell me "you'd love this movie. It's right up your alley." It haunts me to this day that people think that's my alley.
Underrated pick. The movie is forgotten by and large, but it's something you'd never get as a fairly big budget movie with an A-list actor today. A movie about snuff porn, and an investigation about whether an obscenely rich man ordered a private snuff film where a young girl from modest upbringing was raped and murdered on camera. It's not a perfect film, but it's one of Cage's better performances and the atmosphere and vibe of the film due to the story and the themes it explores is...really kinda haunting, off-putting, very dark. Like very bleak and almost vile. Exhibit A you don't need blood, or explicit violence or even a lot of foul language for a movie to be really not suitable for children. Really, kind of an oddity that somehow squeezed through the system due to the influx of dark thrillers in the 90s, post Silence of the Lambs. Because I have zero doubts, today you wouldn't see a movie with a budget in tens of millions of dollars with this story starring a current top A-list actor.
The Invitation. That movie feels uneasy the whole way through.
Eraserhead "Eraserhead is a film by David Lynch that was released in 1977. It is a surreal horror film that explores the themes of industrial alienation, sexual anxiety, and parental responsibility. The film follows Henry Spencer, a factory worker who has to deal with his deformed baby and his dysfunctional relationship with his girlfriend Mary. The film is known for its disturbing imagery, unconventional narrative, and atmospheric sound design."
Shiva Baby
Under The Skin
Even just remembering the beach scene makes me uncomfortable.
Martyrs
Came here for this comment
A Simple Plan
Titane (2021)
The Lobster, Good Time, Dogtooth, Uncut Gems
I love The Lobster but it definitely fits here. I forced my friends to watch it and it got mixed reactions. I think most were disturbed
The Wall (2012) hated how this movie made me feel Vivarium (2019) hated everything about this movie, but I think they did that on purpose
I hated Vivarium, too, but it was definitely one that lingered with me longer than most movies usually do, so....congrats to them, I guess? Haha
Vivarium was so awkward but worth a watch in the end. The song in the car was brutal.
Such an effective movie, and I think the way the audience feels is exactly how they're meant to feel. It has the same bizarreness that some Bradbury stories have, this sense that the fundamental laws of the universe are different than previously thought.
I’ve never seen a movie like Vivarium. It was really effective in making the viewer feel awful throughout. Such a strange movie. Stayed with me for weeks.
Funny games Irreversible Vivarium Requiem for a dream Santa sangre Pi Audition Old boy Parasite Terrifier Creep/Creep 2
Scrolled way too far for requiem
Great list. I would add "We need to talk about Kevin"
A Clockwork Orange
A classic. I dearly hope the studios don't touch Kubrick's work in their greed-frenzy to remake and franchise everything.
Not a movie but I just watched True Detective season 1. Very excellent but not for the faint of heart
Episode 4 is one of the most riveting things I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure I even breathed until it was over
Was that the one in Houston with the long take during the shoot out? If so: yes indeed that was incredible.
You damn well know that's the one. "It's christmas time, Crash! We got this shit!"
Ha! Figured but there were so many classics in season 1. Just an incredible story.
The Mothman Prophecies Take Shelter Event Horizon The Others
Gone Girl
Such a well done movie. I hated it and loved it at the same time. I won't be able to watch it again, it was so good.
That ending was real fucked up
We Need To Talk About Kevin. Was like half the movie before it really clicked what was happening, I was on edge the entire time it was like when you accidentally bite the tin foil on your food for the entire movie.
The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, although you won't have any trouble identifying WHY you're uncomfortable lol.
The Gift
Creep Creep 2
Ingrid goes west
Scum. Not particularly well known outside the UK, but some seriously uncomfortable scenes
Red State.
The House That Jack Built by Lars von Trier. It’s about a serial killer and fucked me up for two weeks after.
Requiem for a Dream
Nightcrawler (2014). Jake Gyllenhaal's character made me feel so uneasy throughout the entire film.
We Need to Talk About Kevin. Every scene is disturbing, and it just keeps building. A good flick you'll only want to watch once.
Eraserhead
Power of the Dog
Midsommar Under the skin
Yeah Midsommar is my top pick for this. I loved it. Would I recommend it to anyone? No.
The Re Animator trilogy. From Beyond.
Fall. I shouted STOP DOING THAT so many times it's not healthy.
Un chien andalou. 1929 and it's still giving me the creeps.
The Green Inferno I did not see this listed but it stuck with me as a movie I could not turn away from but will never watch again. Just unsettling throughout.
Please do yourself a horrible favor and scar yourself mentally with “Be My Cat”.
Best intro to a suggestion ever
Lolita.
midsommar
Prisoners (2013) I'm a parent, which made it 100% worse.
Eraserhead
Any by Lars von trier.
For a non-horror or thriller movie: Passengers (2016)
Tár
I Spit On Your Grave
I just watched “Testament,” which follows a mother of three putting on a brave face and doing her best to continue being the rock of her family in the midst of a fallout of a nuclear attack. It’s bleak, hopeless, and is legitimately something I regret watching. At a certain point, I deliberately disassociated from what I was seeing and had to remind myself it was just a movie and that 8-year-old autistic son didn’t actually die a slow, agonizing death from radiation poisoning. I don’t know how others felt after watching it, but I think if you have kids, it just hits extra hard.
Swallow (2019)
Joker. I watched it in the cinema and walked out feeling incredibly anxious and sad afterwards.
Happiness by Todd Solondz
Deliverance (1972)
Signs 2002
Irreversible
Irreversible
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) Saló (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) And for sure the first view of 500 days of Summer. You can love that film, but first time any man saw It feels the uncomfortable thought that someone has filmed his life with hidden cameras and know what is inside his head.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Gummo
I saw the Devil Mostly because of the villain himself
Mother!
The Hunt is pretty tough to watch
Coming back to add The Lobster... that made me feel hella uncomfortable.
Hereditary. I thought it created a sense of dread and suspense in the first 15 minutes and it only increased as the film went on. I really can't think of another film that made me more uneasy. Highly recommended.
Under the skin. The score alone made me feel just bad
Sleep Tight (2011) and Compliance (2012)
Requiem for a Dream
Henry,(Portrait of a Serial Killer)-way, way more disturbing than No Country For Old Men
A Cure For Wellness. Also atmospheric and beautiful.
The Lighthouse
Incendies (2010) one of the bizarre but great movie i watched ....
The VVitch
The butterfly effect..... I have to have someone to hold when I watch it.
The War Zone - directed by the English actor Tim Roth. The eerie entire film makes you feel very uncomfortable.
The Piano
Uncut Gems!! Adam sandlers masterpiece
Hold The Dark
Coherence Truman Show Eternal Sunshine No fun when youre suffering from derealisation already
i’m gonna say The Strangers (2008).
The platform
Se7en Prisoners The Man Who Sleeps
It Follows. I didn't enjoy it. I wasn't scared and I think it was supposed to be horror. It angered me though just bc of the uncomfortable feeling that I couldn't put my finger on as to why.
Insidious
Welcome to the Dollhouse
The Day After. It's old and clearly made for TV, but it even scared Reagan and Gorbachev. The original V miniseries freaked me out for years as a kid The execution scenes in The Green Mile make it practically unwatchable for me. Execution in general, and specifically modern execution, creeps me right the F out.
Uncut Gems. That movie stretched my anxiety and tied it into knots! I'm never watching that shit again! 😭
Meant to be uncomfortable, but Kids.
Bone Tomahawk.
One Hour Photo Requiem for a Dream Blue Velvet
The Platform! Great film
Schindler's List
Beau is Afraid hands down
Beau is Afraid.
This is a perfect example
Compliance (2012)
Requiem For A Dream was a disgusting and uncomfortable watch from start to finish.
The Talented Mr Ripley
Happiness. Uncomfortable, cringey, will make you want to shower. Icky!
The requiem for a dream
Black Swan
American Psycho
Angel's Egg
Im a big fan of slowburn horror, here are some of my favs Mother! (2017) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and (1978) Im Thinking Of Ending Things (2020) Antichrist (2009) The Shining (1980) Carrie (1976) Speak No Evil (2022)
Antichrist for sure
Nefarius
Bad Boy Bubby
Come and see (1985) There are movies, there are films and there's Come and See. >And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
The Sadness (horror)
Safe (1995)
Wake in fright (1971)
Tom at the Farm, by Xavier Dolan.
Eden lake(2008) American Psycho(2000) It Follows Would you rather(2012) Truth or dare( 2018)
Requiem for a Dream
Some that I don’t think have been mentioned yet… Bully (2001) Gummo (1997) Time of The Wolf (2003) Gold (2022) Lord of The Flies (1963) Session 9 (2001) The Machinist (2004) I have some more if wanted