"What Kind Of Mind Makes This Stuff Up?" 24 Movies That Were So Absurd They Made People Up And Leave The Theater

Whether it's a horror movie oregon a psychological thriller, the level of disturbing, unsettling, oregon wholly bonkers that a movie tin scope is each implicit the place. While immoderate radical tin grip watching films specified arsenic Hereditary or Midsommar each the mode through, others find themselves tapping retired agelong earlier the credits roll. These kinds of movies aren’t for the faint of heart, and sometimes, you find retired whether you're a portion of the archetypal oregon the 2nd radical the hard way: paying for a summons lone to marque it done the archetypal fractional hr earlier fleeing the theater.

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1. "THE ABSOLUTE WORST, frightening movie is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. I was truthful traumatized, I near quickly. The astir violent, unhinged movie I ever tried to watch. I was younger then, truthful I thought I was being dramatic. I tried to ticker it now, aforesaid reaction! What benignant of caput thinks this worldly up?"

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—Female, 50, CA

2. "Walked retired of Hostel. Not a fearfulness fan, not definite wherefore I went. Got to the portion with the chick's oculus and the dude with the chainsaw, and I noped retired of there. I was 19 oregon truthful astatine the time."

3. "Mine was Saw III. If I callback correctly, it was the opening crippled and the feline had to propulsion the rings retired of his body. I fto retired a 'fuck this' erstwhile helium got to his Achilles tendons and walked retired to the screams."

4. "Cape Fear. Good gosh, that look biting country did it for me."

5. "Midsommar. Had to locomotion retired aft THAT scene…I aboriginal watched it astatine home, though. Great movie, top-notch acting, and it’s inactive haunting me, LOL."

6. "When I was 12 years old, I walked retired of The Blair Witch Project astatine the country wherever they recovered the lingua wrong the balled up map. After I stopped hyperventilating, I walked backmost successful determination similar a gangsta."

7. "I walked retired of Mother! erstwhile that came retired a mates of years agone due to the fact that I ended up having a panic onslaught successful the last 3rd portion of the movie. I did yet spell backmost successful to decorativeness the movie, but that enactment country was truthful akin to nightmares I've had that I couldn't archer whether oregon not I was really awake."

8. "I was 5 years aged erstwhile Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade came out. My dada took maine to spot it successful the theaters, past had to locomotion maine retired of the theatre due to the fact that I was crying and screaming adjacent the extremity erstwhile the Nazi 'chose poorly.' Still 1 of the top scares ever for me."

9. "Well, I ran retired of the archetypal Creepshow. I was 10–12 connected a subject basal successful Germany, successful a tiny theater. Shouldn't person been determination anyway, but that happening they kept successful the container nether the stairs successful the movie gave maine nightmares for weeks. I ran retired crying, LOL."

10. "I was astir 6 years aged erstwhile I ran retired of the cinema successful tears acknowledgment to that picnic country successful Antz. Thank deity I didn't enactment aboriginal for Stallone's decapitated caput talking. How that movie was for kids is beyond me."

11. "I was ace into fearfulness arsenic a kid (still am), and The Ring was ever 1 of the astir talked-about fearfulness movies. Finally saw they were showing it connected TV 1 day. I was beyond excited! Couldn't adjacent get past the opening country with the miss successful the closet."

12. "Pulp Fiction. Bad vibes each around, but particularly the astonishment SA scene. Disgusting movie TBH."

13. "I couldn't ticker The Exorcist rerelease successful theaters. It freaked maine retired excessively much, and I kept cussing and jumping up. After the 4th time, I conscionable near 'cause I was fucking up the movie for different people."

14. "Actually ran retired of Audition astatine the assemblage movie nine screening. The archetypal fractional of that movie is simply a borderline romantic comedy. The last 3rd is horrifying and precise intense. 'You can’t spell anyplace without feet, tin you?'"

15. "When I was young (around 7, I think?), my grandparents took maine to spot Nanny McPhee. Now, yes, this is simply a kids' film. But that country wherever the babe is recovered successful a cooking crockery genuinely disturbed me. Haven't watched it again to this day."

16. "I came back, but I had to measurement retired of Pan's Labyrinth during this scene: 🖐🏻👁👁🖐🏻."

17. "After 10 minutes of One Battle After Another, I was done. It was gross and ridiculous."

18. "The Devils (1971). I loved Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, truthful I thought, What could spell wrong? Yuck! The astir disturbing unit I'd ever seen and 1 of astir 3 movies I ever walked retired of."

19. "The lone movie I've ever walked retired connected was Borat. I can't get down 'comedy' that's built astir putting non-consenting radical successful wildly uncomfortable situations wherever they're acceptable up to beryllium humiliated, adjacent if those radical person immoderate superior issues. It conscionable seems fundamentally unethical to me."

20. "Return to Oz. The Wheelers frightened the implicit bejeesus retired of me."

21. "The Hills Have Eyes. Absolutely horrible, and I emotion scary movies. When the rape country started, I astir threw up, and we walked out."

22. "The Lobster. It had truthful galore disgusting scenes. I cognize it was expected to beryllium satirical, but it was truthful gross that I didn’t spot immoderate wit oregon irony successful it."

23. "Pink Flamingos. So disgusting."

24. And finally, "Argylle! It was similar 2 antithetic movies. Halfway done there's that infinitesimal wherever they uncover the twist, and my hubby and I looked astatine each different and went 'Well...that's unfortunate,' and left."

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