I tend to skip even the mentions of over the top nonsense films and tv. So I have nothing to add. But I'll read along.
Twisted
tv show life GIFGiphy"Round the Twist."
1BoiledCabbage
"I was just talking about this show with my sister to confirm it wasn't just some childhood fever dream. That creepy lemon tree fox with its glassy eyes has stuck with me ever since."
verfemen
Henry
"An older movie called Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It’s an early role for Michael Rooker as Henry. It’s so freaking chilling. It’s not the most graphic or gory, but the violence is so casual. There is a family annihilation scene that I still can’t get out of my head and I haven’t seen it in 20 years. The fact that the main characters are watching their own crime on a camcorder they stole from the family is just somehow so much worse."
Nerdfatha
On VHS
I watched The Faces of Death on VHS when I was just a kid and some of that mess really scarred me for a long time."
redditclark
"Traces of Death was another I watched a bunch of times. It had some really good Death Metal playing during the scenes and a narrator that would make really stupid jokes like 'Oh I bet that hurt' when a guy falls to his death."
Keiths_skin_tag
“high tension”
"I watched a French film called Irreversible when I was doing a project on sub-sonic frequency and it's effect on human emotions. Even without the sub bass, that movie is f**ked up."
jbramm-audio
"So the tone thing is true? I remember reading somewhere back in the day they use a tone that can give people vertigo, but then I couldn't find that info again!"
Scampipants
"I got super high and went to watch a French horror movie called 'high tension' - was so glad when the girl I was with wanted to leave like 20 minutes in. Never watched the rest of it. And I’ve watched a ton of horror flicks since I was a little kid."
TheForce_v_Triforce
Tusk
Animation Illustration GIF by Flat-icons.comGiphy"The movie where the guy gets kidnapped and turned into a walrus."
Strange_Phrase_784
"Yeah, that's Tusk, and it definitely is."
Rockxzzy
Who thinks up these stories? Like what kind of depraved mind... nevermind. I don't want to know.
Deep End
black mirror GIF by NETFLIXGiphy"Black Mirror: National Anthem. That show doesn’t even give you a chance to dip your foot into the pool, just launches you into the deep end on the very first episode."
ItStillIsntLupus
Poughkeepsie
"The Poughkeepsie Tapes It’s a Mockumentary about a serial killer who films all his murders on VHS tapes and you know it’s fake, but it feels too real and the thought the someone out there actually does this is what makes it so terrifying. If you have the chance please check it out."
GameBoy42069420
Shock Value
"The Human Centipede. Some things just don’t need to be seen."
2UnrequitedDreams
"I think the first movie was well done for the subject matter. The second one isn't really worth it, not even to watch it for curiosity shake. It was like they were only doing the movie to see how far they can push limits on violence and shock value. The story wasn't even that great. I never saw the 3rd one but heard it was pretty bad. Not sure about the gore or shock value but just downright stupid."
rpgmomma8404
Inappropriate
"Idk the name, but my dad made me watch it at an excessively inappropriate age. What I remember is POWs being kept in a cage 99% underwater. Sometimes they would dunk the cage just for fun. They would pull out POWs and have them play Russian roulette. One guy lost but the hole in his head didn't kill him. Yeah. Forget that."
100LittleButterflies
Evil Gross
devil satan GIFGiphy"I Saw The Devil. It's a good film. It's just insanely violent and gory."
Lordof_NOTHING
Zach
"Dear Zachary."
Kitchen-Magnet
"Hands down one of my favorite documentaries, but it hit me like a dump truck full of cinder blocks. I couldn't stop sobbing. The grief and loss that family must feel is immeasurable. The way the story was told, however, was hauntingly beautiful."
idied4beauty
"I randomly thought about 'Dear Zachary' today, and my heart continues to break for the grandparents. I think of them from time to time and hope they’re doing okay."
Ewstefania
No thank you...
"Hereditary. There’s no sexual violence, just a lot of shocking things at once and really good acting. It got under my skin and I slept with a light on for three months. No thank you. I don’t need to see that again."
Kat82292
"Toni Collette f**king killed it in that movie."
aj_ramone
Samuel the Great
"For me, personally, it's Unthinkable. It's not as extreme as some of these other films listed here, but for me, it's Samuel L. Jackson's character, an interrogator for the US government. In his personal life, he appears to be a sane, normal, almost boring family man. But the things he does in service to the country are obscene. And it's how dispassionately he does them--only business, never personal--that is the real horror, even when it involves kids."
Devi1_May_Cry
Too Young
"Back in the 2000s when series were starting to become mainstream there was this show on cosmetic surgeons called nip tuck. It was pretty fu**ked up from the beginning but as seasons went on it reached depths of problematic and f**ked up stuff. It's probably not the most horrifying show but it was kind of casual in all of the problematic scenarios and situations. I was too young for this."
vademecum976
Erase It
brad pitt art GIF by hoppipGiphy"Couple for me: Irreversible for a couple of infamous moments, and Eraserhead, which made me feel strangely nauseous afterwards."
Itrieddamnit
"I definitely got that weird feeling after watching Eraserhead + Come and See. I kinda just sat and looked at my reflection in my laptop screen, trying to digest what I just watched."
kazoogod420
Viva France
"A French film called Inside. It's about a woman who's pregnant, the day before she's going to get induced for labor, and a crazy woman shows up at her house and tries with varying levels of success throughout the movie to cut the baby out of her. Extremely gory, very f**ked up, and actually a good story with some pretty interesting things that happen."
Beginning-Bed9364
With Dad
"1922. It was one of the last movies I watched with my Dad, who was a big movie buff. It was in between chemo and radiation. I hadn't even thought he had stayed awake through the whole thing because it had been a rough night before. But after it was over, my Dad looked at me and said 'What the hell was that!? That was f**ked from start to finish!'"
Kenaussian53
That Movie
Nervous Women GIF by Worcester WarriorsGiphy"Requiem For a Dream is the first thing that came to mind."
UusiSisu
So here is a list "no thanks" movies and shows I'll be glad to skip.
Redditor cracc-n-cheesewanted to let us all know what films and shows to avoid. So they asked:
"What show/movie was very hyped up but ended up being freaking awful?"
I don't want to be mean but... I'm not understanding all of this "Avengers" Madness. It's all fine. But revolutionary? Meh.
PJ
"Percy Jackson movies completely failed to resemble the books whatsoever. I'm waiting on the remake, might've been pushed or trashed since covid tho not sure." ~ Ajx4
percy jackson pen GIF by 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentGiphySo FOWL!
"Artemis Fowl. Waited for a movie ever since I read the books as a 4th grader. Imagine having your hopes up for years, only for that shit to come out." ~ ZenithBeats211
"When the movie was announced, I got super excited. It was the PERFECT plot for a movie series and was incredibly unique."
"I was a little sad that the movie didn't get made like ten years ago so Artemis could be played by Asa Butterfield, but at least it was finally being adapted.That movie was so freaking awful. It mashed the first two books together and erased everything aside from the character's names."
"None of it was good. And man, I respect Judi Dench, but her casting made no sense. Root should have been played by someone like Sylvester Stallone or Ron Perlman, but instead they chose her and completely steamrolled Holly's entire character motivation (not to mention her tacky accent). I hope it gets the Percy Jackson and Golden Compass treatment and gets a TV show made out of it because it was a truly incredible young adult series." ~ PlasmaPizzaSticks
Summer '99
"A lot of the things being mentioned here weren’t THAT hyped before they were released. If you were alive in the summer of 1999, there was absolutely no escaping the hype for Wild, Wild West. Will Smith was coming off Independence Day and Men in Black and had owned the 4th of July weekend for the last couple years. The movie was everywhere. Constant ads on TV, fast food tie ins, anything you can imagine. Then the movie came out." ~ wagnersbamfart
“money tornado”
"That awful Dark Tower movie. I'm still pissed." ~ Spazic77
“'Movie.' Lol. Not only did they try to squeeze the entire seven+ book epic story into a single movie, they only kept a run time of 95 minutes. And PG-13 at that! There were so many little tidbits that I wanted to be excited about."
"It’s like they took the series of books, ripped the spines off and threw all the loose leaf pages into one of the 'money tornado' things at a casino. Then they had someone go in and grab as many pages as they could in thirty seconds. Then threw half of that away. Then they had an AI program read the pages and spit out a screenplay of what it thinks the story is." ~ DistinctFailure
Forgettable
"I Am Number Four. Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay were producers but the movie was totally forgettable. https://screenrant.com/i-am-number-four-2-alex-pettyfer-update/" ~ Hannibal254
GiphyI've watched nothing listed thus far. And that was it by choice. Clearly I make sound choices.
Downhill...
"Everything after season 1 of Heroes." ~ HairHeel
"I still vividly remember s01e17, the company man, was one of my favorite episodes of TV at the time. Sadly everything went downhill from the anti climatic fist fight at the end of the season." ~ ForsakenDragonfruit4
hayden panettiere heroes GIFGiphyDisaster...
"Eragon. Can't believe no one has mentioned it yet." ~ FreshMarvin
"Every time one of these questions comes up, I check to make sure that Eragon is named. I'm still salty about it all these years later." ~ -Pimparoo
"I had forgotten the horrors of that unbelievable disaster. But Tim Burton's Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children also SUUUCKED!!! it could have been his LOTR, had he not fucked it up royally." ~ 19senzafine81
Hairball...
"Cats. We all knew it was gonna be shit though, that's exactly why it was hyped." ~ long-haired-yahoo
"Why Cats was even worse than you thought: https://youtu.be/i3aK-EK5V2k - I’d rather watch this video pointing out how awful it was than watch even 3 minutes of the movie itself." ~ NakedT
"I will never understand how 'Cats' ever became popular in the first place. Saw it on Broadway, it f**king sucks." ~ No-Confusion1544
Jammed
"Space jam 2. I was legit excited about it for years before it came out. I still haven’t even seen the 2nd half of it." ~ TruckSpirited3226
"When they were expanding beyond Looney Tunes to freaking include dc, Game of Thrones, classic movies, I thought hot damn this’ll be insane, but it was just cheap Halloween costumes on extras. How do you mess up that much potential. Looney tunes are cool, but even they could not save this." ~ KentuckyFriedEel
Where's Jared?
"Suicide Squad." ~ magiccupcake
"Was going to say this as well. Particularly how much they promoted Jared Leto and he spent all of 5 mins on screen. THE Suicide Squad, though, is a fantastic movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it." ~ adios-*itchachos
Amanda Waller GIF by The Suicide SquadGiphyMaybe we should remake the bad stuff the right way. We certainly have a wealth of places to start.
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