Top 20 Movies That Caused People to Walk Out

Sometimes, it's just not worth the wasted time! For this list, we’re looking at movies that audiences just couldn’t sit through, no matter how much they spent on the ticket. Our countdown includes "Caligula", "The Passion of the Christ", "127 Hours" and more! Which of these films had you sprinting for the exit? Let us know in the comments!
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[@WatchMojo]

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[@SidhrtG]

Apocalypto??

[@katherineknapp4370]

NONE BECAUSE I NEVER SEEN THEM AND NOW NEVER WILL! I HAVE HIGH ANIXITY, A WEAK STOMACH, AND I AM A WIMP! THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW WHAT NOT TO WATCH, YOU ROCK!

[@MsAppassionata]

I saw a number of them and none of those made me leave the theater. If you think that “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield” were disturbing (Neither one was to me. I found them boring), don’t EVER watch any of the following: 1)”A Serbian Film” 2) “The Human Centipede” 3) “Basket Case” 4) “Dead Ringers” or 5) “Videodrome” (by the same director David Cronenberg). 6) “Eraserhead”

[@andreking7138]

You should have added “Batman Returns” in the honorable mentions.

[@Ash-qy6hl]

I never walked out of the pulp fiction because I was not old enough but when I did watch it I did not even finish watching it because of the disturbing scene I could not handle it too much nightmares I'm sorry I can not watch it again

[@davidknightx]

The story goes that Stephen King was with his wife for the opening of The Exorcist. When the girl spun her head, he said a woman in the audience stood up, screamed something in Spanish, and ran for the exit. King turned to his wife and said "This movie is going to be huge."

[@scriberothchild5335]

That’s awesome haha

[@noemistephanie93]

Lol

[@pinkjellybean4019]

I watched it was when I was 12 and will never watch it again. I’m 35 and not ashamed to say I’m scared to watch a movie. 🤣 NEVER AGAIN

[@ZeldaSam1]

​@@scriberothchild5335 He was right, just not in the he wanted...

[@pinkjellybean4019]

@Jimmy TwoTimes that is funny. Glad to know I’m not the only one 🙃

[@heck75nj]

I'm not religious but The Passion of the Christ was brutal ..I saw ppl walking out ...sobbing ..covering their eyes ..pretty insane.. I'm surprise they didn't include The Human Centipede in this list..

[@Breexbloodlust]

once was enough for me with passion

[@pokor5791]

Yeah Human Centipede was a rough watch.

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@pokor5791 the baby scene in the second one was tough

[@tiannacarson3076]

Exactly my thought process and for some reason my church thought it was a good idea to play the movie on a bus they rented to go to the sights and sounds theatre for a christian play , I was only 11 when I watched it there and there were many children present … for some reason they decided to scar each and everyone of us for life like we didn’t know how bad it already was

[@tiannacarson3076]

@@pokor5791 I’ve been avoiding those movies ever since the first one came out just by the concept alone , I cannot handle anything that disgusting damn trying to be scary

[@Quarrel47]

Going to save you some time: 20 - Caligula 19 - Fight Club 18 - The Revenant 17 - The Walk 16 - The Tree of Life 15 - The Passion of The Christ 14 - A Clockwork Orange 13 - Pink Flamingos 12 - Swiss Army Man 11 - Antichrist 10 - 127 Hours 09 - Raw 08 - Pulp Fiction 07 - Irreversible 06 - Freaks 05 - Saving Private Ryan 04 - Mother 03 - Cloverfield 02 - The Blair Witch Project 01 - The Exorist

[@MikeWeiner]

Appreciated.

[@baq8680]

Thanks for the list here... but who was the inbred that chose these movies?

[@MsDianagentaToYou]

OMG thank you.

[@I_dont_want_a_stupid_handle]

@jamesrowden303 What drugs are you on?

[@lembas.]

Which movie was the thumbnail to this video?

[@intercat4907]

An older woman I knew walked out of The Color Purple. I thought for years she'd just been shocked. Now I know that the part with her father was her story too. People take so much pain, so many secrets, to their graves.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

I had a friend who owned a movie drive in. He told me that on the first night of showing The Exorcist, about one third of the patrons left before the movie ended. However, once the word got out about how frightening the movie was, by the end of that week, his drive in was full to capacity and they had to turn away a huge number of queued up cars. He ended up extending the showing of the movie to three weeks. The only movie he showed, that attracted the largest number of patrons, was Jaws.

[@velvetbees]

When I was in high school I worked in a theater where the Exorcist was showing for weeks. We took turns working the snack bar or sitting in the theater to be sure everything was okay. After about a month, none of us wanted to sit in a back. "I don't want to watch that stupid movie again!" It stopped being scary and was loud, obnoxious and ridiculous. You could see the special effects. Especially wires used to lift things up or make them move around. We cheered when they stopped showing it.

[@lefantomer]

@@velvetbees I was tempted. In addition to everything you list, I can't stand pea soup.

[@velvetbees]

@@lefantomer That would be a problem 😂.

[@jeanaprewitt9658]

The Exorcist was the only movie I saw grown men get up and walk out of. A LOT of them.

[@lauracook8203]

Uncut version of Deliverance was extremely disturbing, not just due to the humiliation scenes, inbred characters and s.a. but the dynamics of the group after it happened. You, Me and Everyone We know by Amanda January focused on child and adolescent sexuality and even depicted an oral scene between a boy of about 14 and 2 slightly older looking girls who wanted him to judge which one was um.. more skilled. While there was no nudity, violence or even much profanity it was probably the most provocative and bizarre movie I've seen made by an American. On the other hand it was very genuine and dealt with things that do happen and did not seem exploitative.

[@TheCasualSirenEnthusiast]

According to my dad, him and his dad (my grandfather) went to see Saving Private Ryan when it was in theaters. My grandfather had to walk out because it was way too realistic for him. He had PTSD from when he was enlisted in the Vietnam War. My grandfather died almost a year later from lung cancer. R.I.P.

[@carch7243]

So very sorry about your grandfather. My husband was in Vietnam, and while he has repeatedly watched Saving Private Ryan, he absolutely refuses to see any film about the Vietnam war

[@bethy6760]

It was really rough it broke my heart but it was as real as any other movie I have seen if that makes any sense

[@jennitzarojas59]

My dad went to see that movie with his mistress

[@Lumieremakesmusic82]

My dad who was part of the Iraq freedom operation he said he had flash’s backs to when he was in this small village and he had to clean the rubble and as he was lifting up some rubble he saw a mom and a very young girl dead my dad said he never forgot it ever

[@kathear15]

RIP to a true legend.

[@Strongbad700]

#20: Caligula (1979) #19: Fight Club (1999) #18: The Revenant (2015) #17: The Walk (2015) #16: The Tree of Life (2011) #15: The Passion of the Christ (2004) #14: A Clockwork Orange (1971) #13: Pink Flamingos (1972) #12: Swiss Army Man (2016) #11: Antichrist (2009) #10: 127 Hours (2010) #9: Raw (2016) #8: Pulp Fiction (1994) #7: Irréversible (2002) #6: Freaks (1932) #5: Saving Private Ryan (1998) #4: Mother! (2017) #3: Cloverfield (2008) #2: The Blair Witch Project (1999) #1: The Exorcist (1973)

[@Cornhollo26]

Should Lyle, Lyle Crocodile be on this list as a honorable mention. Because I heard a anecdote on the internet that a family left the movie due to it being boring.

[@Cornhollo26]

And Mother! Might be the youngest on the list. Since it only came out five years ago.

[@richardperhai8292]

The Walk in 3D really unnerved me. 70mm film combined with3D was soooo realistic.

[@dimepiecetia]

@@EJY318 I swear, time fly’s

[@007Julie]

@@Cornhollo26I feel sorry for those kids, Lyle is such a cute movie and it has a great message.

[@KS-yh4zx]

I worked at a video rental place with Passion of the Christ came out. A regular scene became some parent bringing the movie up to rent full on lecturing their kid about how important it was to know about the life of Jesus. I'd wait for them to pause and say "Just so you know, this is subtitled." Suddenly Jesus' life story was not so important and they'd get whatever other new thing just came out. I like to imagine I saved at least a few 14 year olds from being traumatized by that.

[@damonzap8659]

My dad told me when he saw Alien in 1979, people were walking out of the theater. Yeah, I was sold. Still today one of my favorite films.

[@qwave1322]

People walked out of Alien 3 when there was the post mortem scene on Newt the little girl. I remember that in the cinema. They are horrible movies but it went to far for people with a child being a victim.

[@deniseeulert2503]

If a movie is so scary that you are scared the second and third time around, watching it through your hands over your face, that's a really good movie.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@deniseeulert2503 Come and see really traumatised me and 3 weeks on, I’m still recovering from the shock. The best war movie ever made

[@kericorley9387]

I have never seen that movie all the way through. Twice I have fallen asleep.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@kericorley9387 I’m literally watching Come and See so drunk right now that my movie thinks I’m about to pass out any minute now. The movie has had to get me onto the bed because it thought I would pass out. I’ve never drunk so much in my life

[@example2844]

I don't understand how someone can walk out of Pulp Fiction, it's too good to miss out on!

[@marcb.cardlab6750]

I hear ya! However, some people just go to the cinema, and choose a film to watch when they get there, without foreknowledge of plot. My dad, a simple and generally ignorant person, walked out of P.F. with my stepmother. Neither could keep up with the time sequence flips; just plain confused them, lol. One of my favorite films ever.

[@rileywhalen6554]

I’m with you. I also looove reservoir dogs too.

[@lexkanyima2195]

​@@marcb.cardlab6750 stupid people are the ones are leaving

[@misjathecinemalover]

All the right opinions!

[@danalantz5191]

I didn't go to see it in the theater but I tried to watch it one time and I got about 15 minutes in. Definitely not my cup of tea.

[@gregorylapointe4157]

How did The Human Centipede not make this list? That's gotta be one of the sickest movies ever made.

[@fake.bananasalt2099]

literally the screen has to be black while the woman narrates the movie💀

[@sweetsummerchild8156]

I think most people knew not to walk into the Human Centipede.

[@sandiwinters1437]

Exactly my question!

[@ayelemensah8816]

But this isn’t just a list of sick movies. Did many people walk out of it? Most of the time if people walk out it’s because they didn’t actually know what to expect.

[@shiro8306]

i think it was banned from cinemas? i could be wrong but that's what i remember hearing. But if it did make it to the cinemas, that should have def been in this list. And if a serbian film made it to the cinemas, that should have also been in this list

[@buckmurdock2025]

I never walked out of a movie. But then, my taste for movies is impeccable.

[@DonnaBessette]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@robins.9700]

I went and saw The Blair Witch Project in theaters. I was one of the people that became physically ill because of the shaky, disorienting effect it had. But I excused myself, threw up, came back, and finished the movie lol

[@c4tpatriotwhitfield647]

My daughters talked me into watching it and I found it horribly boring, left them there and went to the bar, next door, until they were finished. They loved it, lol!

[@silkroadcaravan]

incredibly boring and stupid film

[@MsMuffetsTuffet]

I got a horrible headache from watching it. The movie itself was very underwhelming. B movie material.

[@danielsocia1515]

​@veronicaa.1416it was so boring. I remember feeling so bummed after I finally saw it in theaters. 🤦‍♂️😂

[@fastecp1]

I have never walked out of a movie, But like you, all the shaking made me dizzy, and the movie was crap.

[@bigal1024]

Its amazing that nearly 50 years later no horror film has been able to duplicate the fear the Exorcist gave people. Pretty amazing. Stands the test of time like no other horror film has

[@mpicc4808]

It wasn't that scary.....more comical than scary.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@mpicc4808 that's now though. At the time it was groundbreaking. There had never been a spectacle like it. I think the Omen is scarier and it's just a kid. No special makeup or split pea soup needed.

[@RoninMilli]

Go watch THE DECENT. Im usually never scared of movies. This one made me and everyone I’ve introduced it to jump out of their seats

[@daveonturner8438]

@@RoninMilli You mean The Descent? That movie with the women going underground?

[@RoninMilli]

@@daveonturner8438 yes sorry misspelled 🥴

[@ReaperFerril]

For those who didn't know, the hardcore sex scenes in Caligula were added in by Penthouse magazine's Bob Guccione after the principal photography was finished. McDowell, Mirren, Gielgud, and O'Toole had no idea beforehand that they would end up in an X-rated disaster. That it wasn't really all that good a flick (despite Gore Vidal co-writing it) doesn't really have anything to do with the pornographic nature of much of the flick.

[@danidesip2432]

Never saw the movie, but Caligula was a piece of work. During partys he would INFORM a man that he would bed his wife. Yes his wife would be right next to her husband. There would be consequences for both if they objected.

[@danidesip2432]

what a horrible way to reduce a man's manhood, tell him you're going to rape his wife.

[@LarrySwishamane]

Tbh: never even heard of this dude or this movie til like now o clock. But, if the real Caligula was like that….oh we know exactly what the nature of the film would inevitably have to be.

[@danidesip2432]

@@LarrySwishamane The truth is worst than the fiction. Caligula was a psychopath.

[@MsAppassionata]

@@danidesip2432 In the movie Caligula rapes the bride and fist f*cks the groom. What a charming wedding present! In another scene a man has his testicles cut off and fed to a dog. A real classy film. 😂

[@tiffsaver]

"Salo" by Pier Pasolini was the most disturbing film I've ever seen in my entire life. For gutwrenching subject matter, nothing even comes close.

[@AndyMangele]

Same here!

[@motherreeder1215]

I was going to mention this one too. Should be at the top of the list for sure.

[@FeralDruid510]

i agree. i was expecting it to be #1 and it wasn't even here. I saw it in a theater in NYC and I never saw so many people walking out.

[@aschneitter]

Def should be number 1, most disturbing movie ever. But mojo hardly ever looks beyond American filmmaking

[@ginaginabobeena]

It didn't spend much time in theaters to make the list.

[@Arsenico971]

When The Exorcist came out, I was 8 and my family was living in an apartment building which had a cinema at the ground floor. I remember we could hear the screams of the people in the theater from our house, and several times we also heard ambulance sirens approaching and stopping just below.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I can’t imagine hearing those screams, I hear them in my nightmares of the Normandy scene and it’s haunting enough to make me wake up screaming; I still remember my screams when a huge plane flew over Normandy and I recognised United 93 straight away and it crashed down on the bloodied beach with the United 93 heroes surviving again after Ziad successfully landed it and he was determined to have me back with him but it was impossible to happen because I wasn’t found for 4 days

[@shadowlouise]

@@nicolelawless9942 Excuse me? I don't understand.

[@dannygreen592]

Tf kinda apartment has a cinema under it??

[@dannygreen592]

@@nicolelawless9942 The hell are you on? Were you starting to think about a movie and then started having Vietnam flashbacks?

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@dannygreen592 None do, unless it’s a very rich country or something

[@Quarrel47]

Never heard anyone EVERY walking out of fight club, in fact most people saw it multiple times.

[@Burtonesque413]

Those who saw it multiple times must've been pretty committed, but were certainly among the few. Fight Club was a box office failure, but is of course now a huge cult classic and likley made back plenty of that lost revenue in DVDs/rentals/streaming/cable.

[@dovydasvaiksnys3807]

One of best movies. I've seen it many times too

[@DuleBajic]

Agree! List of films are stupid

[@4saken404]

I mean how can someone buy a ticket for a movie called "Fight Club" and be upset that it has fighting in it?

[@m1bl4n]

@@4saken404 did you watch the video? People were leaving because the story is hella confusing and because it's "dirty". I highly doubt people left because of the violence.

[@markharris5107]

After the Exorcist, the scariest movie I remember from the 70's was The Omen. That one really shook us when I was in college. Remember also that pre-internet, you often didn't understand what was going to happen in a movie. And they didn't show such extensive previews as they do now. So your experience was pretty raw. This is especially true with groundbreaking movies where people haven't seen such scenes before. This was true of Psycho as well.

[@CharlesClemens]

The Omen and Alien made me afraid of the 20th Century Fox start up... LOL

[@wesdoobner7521]

I didn't find the Omen that scary, not as scary as the book. The Amityville Horror was not that good as a movie but it was scarier than the Omen.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Reading Blatty's book, "The Exorcist" was creepy. After seeing "Psycho", I was uneasy in the shower for years...

[@markl2322]

I saw The Omen at an outdoor theater aboard Camp Lejeune, NC when I was in the Marines. We considered it a laugh a minute comedy. Especially the scene where the guy got his head whacked off by the window pane. That's Marines for ya.

[@shadowlouise]

It is so true that all the hype surrounding new films absolutely ruins the experience. It isn't just the internet. Sometimes several cast members would appear on a TV program. After so much was given away, I had no interest in seeing the film. One of my favorite movie experiences was with ET. I knew only 2 things: "You've got to see this movie!" and while waiting in line, "You need your Kleenex." Everything that happened was a wonderful surprise. If there is content that might be upsetting, tell me that. Don't try to draw me in by overselling. Doesn't work for me.

[@KZ1211-t2q]

I don't know if anyone walked out on Schindler's List, but I know it effected everyone deeply and many left the theater crying. It was a great movie that I could never watch again.

[@mylovesongs2429]

Of course, Jewish moviegoers were the ones mostly leaving the theatres. I remember a Jewish girl in high school who ran out of history class crying her eyes out when we watched a movie on The Holocaust back in the 1980's.

[@nicolelawless9942]

Come and See will impact you more emotionally like it did with me. Since then, I’ve had a very close relationship with Florya which Woody hated him for so now Floyra is kicking ass. No one messes with my Floyra

[@frankm7707]

I tried to walk out during the movie “Fifty Shades of Gray “. But it knocked me out and I slept the entire movie 😂

[@Darrylizer1]

That happened to me during The Last Jedi.

[@frankm7707]

@@Darrylizer1 yes, so glad there’s no more after the third one.

[@Wiilike2tube]

I walked out of the midnight premiere of The Last Airbender. M. Night did the entire franchise dirty...it's like he never watched a single episode or even knew of Nickelodeon's existence

[@AngelWingsYT]

Think he admitted he never watched it in full

[@soukeynaadeleseck]

This!!! I walked out too. It was trash!

[@suzybearheart530]

@wiilike2tube - embarrassing story. I went and saw that movie knowing absolutely nothing about the animated series. It just looked like a fun movie. I saw it, enjoyed it, couldn't understand the hate. Years later, I finally watched the animated series and was blown away by how good the series is, and what a terrible, terrible job M. Night did adapting the movie. I'm so embarrassed I ever thought the movie was even okay.

[@lonnierh0dgejr41]

i bought TLA on DVD as soon as it released based on how much i loved the animated series which i watched with my niece. the series is one of the reasons we are so close. we watched the movie together and it didn't take long before we were both outraged at how badly it was done. it's still a talking point on occasion between my niece and i. like the highlander movie that had them as aliens, it's a movie that does not exist.

[@GoRicky15]

I don't think people who weren't there at the time realise how effective the marketing for Blair Witch was. The found footage genre was so new, the actors were unknowns and purposely kept away from the media, and so many people believed it was actually a documentary.

[@danicegewiss862]

I was told it was a documentary. I saw it and thought this is weird. Later I saw the one actress, the one who we saw last in the film, on a magazine cover. She was being interviewed about the movie.

[@francescodarcangeli4197]

The found footage genre was not new, actually, rather it had a revival.

[@kateallen7675]

I grew bored and annoyed in 10 mins and flipped it off, and the " footage genre" was NOT new to anyone who has watched a home video by shaky uncle Bob.

[@debrakish9659]

There was also the website which was brilliantly made to look like all the information of the Blair Witch was real when the entire thing was fabricated. That's really what fueled the belief that it really happened.

[@downsouth420]

They advertised it as a documentary. There was a website made to make it look like actual found footage from a video camera recovered during a search for the missing people. People talked about it and copied it like crazy. The movie turned out to be kind of weak, but it was nothing anyone had seen before, and enjoyed brilliant marketing.

[@TangoSierra888]

The Passion was probably the most physically accurate depiction of crucifixion (which was actually a pretty common practice by the Romans) ever shown.

[@mattz2900]

Underrated comment

[@sterlinglewis5700]

A friend and I saw Clockwork and were absolutely horrified. Then some other friends almost literally dragged us with them to see it; they for the first time, us for the second. My friend and I couldn't believe our reaction: we were in hysterics through nearly the whole thing. The 'Singing in the Rain' sequence made our sides ache with laughter. Our friends though we were perverted nut cases. Kubrick really did a 'number' with this flick, as he did with most of his stuff. All of it is layered.

[@pokor5791]

My mother saw it back in the day and was shocked. I loved it watching it on video. I can never listen to "Singing in the Rain" without the pauses in my head to add Alex's kicks.

[@carch7243]

It's a cult classic

[@ghost84429]

I threw up during the rape scene.

[@dragoncubes1074]

I read the book. That was enough. It was so well written I knew I'd never need to see the movie version.

[@therunawaykid6523]

My favourite Kubrick film is definitely the shining a man’s descent into madness and murder, it’s one hell of a journey and Jack Nicholson plays the caretaker character perfectly

[@jonnycutts5254]

I worked in a cinema for 5 years and the film that caused the most people to walk out was Midsommar! One of my favourite movies but I also don't blame them

[@biltongben]

film traumatized the shit outa me !

[@abc.animal5143]

Ari Aster is a movie genius and makes movies that actually scare me

[@Breexbloodlust]

I love midsommar

[@Slim-Richard]

Interesting. I was on midsommar twice. In my case no walk outs. Most people I’ve seen leaving was on House That Jack Built.

[@ReelNinja1]

I can see that. Watched it once but boy it was tough to get through. Not because of horror….just slow, boring, and awkward. I paid for a movie…not a nap

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

The thing with Caligula is that it was meant to be shocking but without actual real sex. The real sex was added by a movie producer that worked for Penthouse and it was added after the important actors finished their job. This infuriated the director Tinto Brass and the screenwriter Gore Vidal, who asked theri names to be removed

[@tedwojtasik8781]

It was Penthouse founder Bob Guccione who added the footage post-filming. If you remove all the gratuitous scenes it's a pretty decent movie.

[@boxsterman77]

That producer didn't just work for Penthouse; he owned it. Bob Guccione was hoping for some cross-marketing.

[@boxsterman77]

@@tedwojtasik8781 Gosh. That's not how I recall it. But it's been 40 years.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

If I was an actor in the movie I'd be plenty upset. In fact, I'd be upset enough to get with the other actors and seriously discuss suing for defamation. Goddamn, these people have to go home and try to explain that they didn't do a porn film. Quite honestly, any explanation is going to come off pretty thin. People will be like, "So you showed up to work daily on this film for X number of months but you didn't do any porn scenes and were completely unaware that any of it was going on. Sure!!" This is seriously something that could hurt a person's career.

[@pazsion]

id be more mad they faked it, or didnt do it right the whole time 🙄 fake sex is so annoying

[@csulb75]

The film 'The Exorcist' was as true to the novel by William Peter Blatty as any film could be. Both scared the bejeesus out of me. I was 26 years old and had to sleep with the lights on for a week after seeing the movie.

[@jokerinthebronx]

Saw the movie many times. I just finally read the book. Just as terrifying.

[@CashelOConnolly]

It wasn’t true to the book! The ending of the book hints that Regan made the possession up!

[@mattstanford8581]

It wasn't just a novel I was based off a true story you could actually go to the house. All happened to visit the steps that the priest got thrown down it's been a long time I forgot all the details so I don't remember where the location is that.

[@garyeddy8546]

I watched the movie. My friends were freaked out. I thought it was hilarious. Now the sequel with Richard Burton that was a little more intense.

[@Kotka67]

I watched it originally expecting to be creeped out, I left laughing my head off. I haven't bothered watching 'horror' films since...

[@alexm7582]

I saw Swiss Army Man in theaters twice and this one time an old guy walked out immediately. Pretty sure this dude saw the title and thought it was a war film.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

😂😂

[@dafilmqueen556]

Understandable, misunderstandings can make or break anyone. Guess he got broken thinking about war and went disappointed looking elsewhere..

[@Gem00987]

Tbh I knew exactly what it was going to be and I still turned it off after about 10 mins

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@Gem00987 It happened to me during saving private Ryan because I was not ready for the first 27 minutes to be like that and the intense anxiety just kept going because I thought they might not find Ryan on time but the relief I felt when they found him was nothing like it

[@Saveit.]

Twice?😂😂😂😂😂

[@TwiddleJones]

How can you tell if someone is walking out in disgust or going to the toilet?

[@Tamaresque]

They don't come back.

[@glenncoody]

You know they went to the toilet if they return looking flushed. I'll see myself out....

[@machupikachu1085]

@@glenncoody I'm here all week! Try the veal! LOL

[@mylovesongs2429]

@@glenncoody BWAHAHAHA! GO!!!!

[@johnlime1469]

Old films: We have gruesome scenes that you've never seen before. 2010 and onwards: _Bone Tomahawk_

[@bronko7878]

Yep. That one was the goriest Western I've ever seen. Gorier than many horror movies.

[@garethdurham3743]

Yep that one scene, where they split him had me grossed out and still to this day. Great movie though.

[@glackinator_0459]

I was one of the people who couldn’t watch the amputation scene in 127 Hours. I watched it with my family and almost passed out. I have a fear of surgical violence and surgery in general, so stuff like that I just cannot handle

[@maddijasnyy]

Did you not know what the film was about before going in?

[@markalexander3659]

Did you not know that that was going to happen? (since it's based on a well-know true story, I mean)

[@jameslewis7704]

Same but with movie 43. Iykyk

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@jameslewis7704 havent seen it

[@glackinator_0459]

@@maddijasnyy no, it was family movie night and I’d never heard of the movie or the story before

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

I remember watching Saving Private Ryan in History Class, some of the students literally had to leave the classroom because some of them felt sick.

[@Spiralredd]

My history teacher showed us the patriot with mel Gibson. Not nearly as bad but still pretty graphic.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

I saw Glory, Patriot, and Saving Private Ryan in History class. I recall needing a permission slip to watch Glory.

[@lacountess]

My mom had her head in her hands the entire opening scene. At one point I leaned toward her and heard she was cursing the rest of us for taking her to such a movie. 😂

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

I was fine with it(movie) … but its sad that it happened.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

@@lacountess 😂

[@ofskittlez]

I haven't seen Passion of the Christ myself but I have no problem with it in principle. If you're truly a Christian, you should be willing to face the unfiltered reality of the foundation of your faith.

[@smithjarrod3935]

i guess Im not truly christian. there is enough horror in the real world i try to forget so i can sleep at night. Crucifiction was real but still. i cannot dwell on horror

[@robertdaniels9023]

As a veteran I loved Saving Private Ryan. It was a very good movie.

[@jlv61560]

Couldn't agree more -- though I also understood why some of the WW II veterans in the audience had to leave...especially the ones that were there on June 6th 1944.

[@LarrySwishamane]

🫡

[@LarrySwishamane]

I didn’t even recognize Bryan Cranston was in it for almost 20 years ago.

[@carch7243]

Fantastic movie

[@bcaye]

​@@jlv61560, my dad had a friend who was there at Omaha Beach. He would only say "it was brutal".

[@benjaminharman1987]

I was in college working at a movie theater, a huge, 28-screen multiplex, when Fight Club and The Blair Witch Project came out. I don't remember anyone walking out of Fight Club, not once, but I do horribly remember many people at each showing walking out of The Blair Witch Project, as well as viscerally remember the gruesome task of cleaning up all the sick in the theater, between the theater and the bathrooms, and in the bathrooms from audience members who got suddenly and unexpectedly motion sick from The Blair Witch Project and other audience members who then got sick in a chain reaction from seeing, hearing, and/or smelling others get sick. My manager HATED The Blair Witch project for that reason. He said that movie cost the theater more than it made, what with the physical damage to the theaters, having to shut down whole theaters because of the smell until he got professional cleaners in (something that became daily during The Blair Witch's run, especially during the first weeks), having to have extra staff on to deal with all of it (despite him even posting a warning at the ticket counter and telling us to warn anyone buying a ticket to The Blair Witch Project), losing trained staff who quit over having to clean up all the sick or refusing to and so having to recruit and train new staff, and refunding the price of tickets to everyone who got sick and the parties they were with who then had to leave with them. I remember we even started referring to the main theater showing The Blair Witch Project, the theater that my manager tried to contain the lion's share of damage to, as "The Vomitorium" and continued to call it that afterwards because, despite professional cleaners' best efforts, we could all still smell the sick in that theater and no employees would watch a movie in it, even if it was the only one that was showing the movie we wanted to see. That's because once you knew what that smell was underneath all the other smells of popcorn and so forth, you couldn't not smell it. It wasn't subtle. Long after The Blair Witch Project was gone, we still had audience members come out of that theater and being all, "Why does it smell like puke in there?" and then asking for a refund because the smell was unbearable and was making them sick.

[@sydneykendall7125]

Wow. That's not something most people would think about - the damage to a theater and its finances because a movie causes lots of people to vomit every night. Unintended consequences are a bitch. :(

[@angelab2906]

I would've HAD to quit. Unless I wanted to add to the mess!

[@Arsenico971]

Maybe americans are a little too sensitive. I watched this movie twice in Italy and nobody got sick, I know quite a few people who went to watch it and none of them recounted of people getting sick in the theater. This seems like quite a bit of an exageration to me.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Your theater manager should have given out free dramamine to everyone going in. Maybe have some pepto on hand as patrons ran out of the theater. Would a been cheaper than hiring cleanup crews. Oh yeah, quick question; What percentage of a movie are you allowed to see before theater management will refuse to give you a refund?

[@mread958]

That was such a cheesy not scary movie. Couldn't wait to see Blair witch and it was so silly I couldn't understand why people were affected by it. So dumb.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

For me, it was "Food of the Gods"(1976). I was 12, and my dad took me to see it cos it was based on an H. G. Wells story. We walked out when the giant larvae we chewing up Ida Lupino's hands.

[@marksolo7019]

That was a classic.

[@gorrow1990]

Terrifier 2 might be the most recent example of a movie that deeply bothered a significant number of audience members. Admittedly, Allie's bedroom death is incredibly bloody and would have got the film a NC-17 rating if they ever went to the MPAA. But it's too unrealistic to be that shocking for me.

[@paulkolios2540]

I was actually surprised that the unedited version made it to theaters without the NC-17 rating. And yeah that scene with Allie was just messed up as well as with Brooke in the bathroom towards the end. At the same time it doesn't look realistic but it was still gross when I first watched it lol.

[@shannondore]

Her death took forever. I would think in real life someone would die of the pain within a few minutes. But she was alive through the whole thing and Art just kept on and on and she never died. It was brutal! But one of the best kill scenes in the movie.

[@lacountess]

How on earth is The Human Centipede II not on this list? They brought ambulances to movie theatres when it first screened.

[@Breexbloodlust]

right

[@carch7243]

Was that actually in the theaters?

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@carch7243 I think. Not sure. I just got the first 2 on dvd

[@lacountess]

@@carch7243 It was at a film festival. Can't remember which one. Some people did actually get sick. I read it in an article about the festival.

[@TideTurnerEnjoyer]

So true, the entire video I was expecting them to mention atleast part 2 or 3

[@vinniewolbert8076]

The Blair Witch Project was the only movie I went to where people Booed and threw things at the screen when it was over. Not because it was scary but because they thought it sucked. I remember watching people who did not walk out bum-rush the box office demanding a refund. It was quite a scene too see.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

*to

[@richardperhai8292]

My group was so terrified I had to remind them to breathe More than what was happening on screen it was the anticipation of what might happen that freaked most people out. (Same with Paranormal). It's been said that what you DONT see if infinitely scarier than what can be shown.

[@lauraarmstrong6900]

I thought Blair witch was rubbish I was very disappointed

[@markalexander3659]

100% understand. One of the WORST movies I have ever sat through. Some people love it (it's extremely overrated) so I watched the whole thing hoping it would suddenly be great near the end, but nope.

[@lee6198]

I'm one of those that loved Blair Witch. Although I was a little bored the first 15 mins.

[@cuddzilla]

I was 7 when The Exorcist came out. My Mom and her best friend went to see it. They were both COMPLETELY freaked out when they came home. Mom had put a breath mint(Certs) in her mouth on the ride home. When I asked her why her tongue was green, she turned white and we thought she was going to pass out. Good memories.

[@hertechprep]

LOL

[@acasualviewer5861]

I had heard about the Exorcist as a kid and really wanted to watch it. By the time I did see it, I though it was totally overrated and boring. I found the Omen to be much scarier, but that one hasn't aged well either.

[@machupikachu1085]

@@acasualviewer5861 the same thing happened to me with Halloween. I saw it in my 20's. By then, it was a meme of itself. The Exorcist to me, however, still gives me chills.

[@daisysw3147]

My Grandad told my Uncle to turn Saving Private Ryan off - he drove the little landing crafts at Omaha Beach and lived to tell the tale. Whilst he said SPR beach scene was horrendous, it was worse in reality.

[@nicolelawless9942]

Even watching the D-Day scene from this video is very traumatising and even my dad was traumatised

[@nicolelawless9942]

4 months on and I’ve finally watched the movie, I’m glad I watched it but I now suffer nightmares

[@ilonapeterson1573]

The Deer Hunter. My husband had been in VietNam. It was horrific because it was fresh in all our minds and we learned about things our friends went through that we had no idea about. I could never watch it a second time.

[@spikefivefivefive]

The first time I saw the movie "Monster" I borrowed a DVD from the library. It was so intense I had to watch it over three nights because I could only watch so much at a time. I'm not sure if I saw it again after that.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@spikefivefivefive I found my saving private Ryan dvd last night and I was shaking even holding it because I was having flashbacks of the Normandy scene and my nightmares are 10x worse. I still love the movie so much no matter what, I’m dreading what my nightmares will be tonight now and I can already tell it’s going to be intense as hell by the looks of it

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I liked the Deer Hunter but it didn't need to be 3 hours. Way too much filler, chop it down by about half and it would be a much better movie. Start with the bar scenes, I don't need to spend 90+ minutes watching these guys drink.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

@@spikefivefivefive My wife and I pretty much had the same experience.

[@ThePopeOfCats]

You can't detach from your husbands hip for 2 hours and watch it yourself? lol

[@TimHill-n3r]

Some of these films were indeed really hard to watch. I haven't seen all of them, but one, "Irreversible", had two scenes that really shocked me. I found it nearly impossible to believe that anyone could create a scene as horrible as that underpass rape scene, and to this day I wonder how it affected the actors and everyone else in that creation process. The only other scene in any movie I can think of that was that horrifically transfixing was the Russian Rroulette scene in "The Deer Hunter". "Blair Witch" OTOH was literally disappointing. My dad told ghost stories far more interesting, and far more scary. And he assured us they were true.

[@SusanHL]

Completely agree about "Irreversible" - truly horrifying. I haven't seen "Deer Hunter", but probably ought to.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@SusanHL United 93 is a true horror movie and I’ve watched it so many times. I don’t know if it beats saving private Ryan or not but I honestly don’t think so

[@timapple6586]

I was kinda shocked by that French movie with Eva Green where she went full-frontal while having sex with her brother. I'm guessing it would've been rated X in north america at the time - but that was a bunch of decades before GOT.

[@soonersciencenerd383]

some movies were funny- you could obviosly fake.@@SusanHL

[@zeeah4088]

Completely agree with you re Irreversible. I was physically sick for a week after watching it. The Deer Hunter scene is one of cinema's most tense moments imho.

[@Hadouken9000]

In case anyone else was curious: If you adjust for inflation, $7.50 for a movie ticket in 1980 would be the equivalent to paying $29.57 to see a movie today.

[@pb1634]

Yes, going to the movies used to be quite expensive.

[@capesummergirl]

Which is about right. 😂

[@lisah933]

I worked at a theatre in L.A. in the mid 80’s and the tickets were 5.00 for adults and 2.50 for kids and seniors.

[@FionaKelleghan111]

"127 Hours" is one of my favorite movies. The amputation scene is alarming chiefly because of the editing, music, and Franco's expressions. It could have been a gore-fest but there really aren't many scenes with blood. His escape and subsequent events make it all SO worthwhile. Love you, Ralston, you are a hero.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I normally don’t handle blood very well but my god, the blood in saving private Ryan was to much and I’m so glad I watched it. My 2nd favourite war movie after 1917 that was released 4 years ago

[@selfknowledge9560]

Especially the act of cutting the nerves and the sound they used for that made it a perfect horror.

[@prolifico]

For me the most disturbing part was seeing James Franco introduce himself to two young females ..

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

Believe he used a fingernail clipper for the surgery. Maybe not…..it’s been a while.

[@hollyfabiani]

​@@prolificohahaaa true and Everest was a better movie

[@AutisticBearLover]

As someone who is obsessed with bears, “The Revenant” actually did a great job on portraying an actual realistic bear attack. It makes it more interesting and impressive, so I’m one of the people who can sit down fine with that scene. But it’s understandable some can’t, it is pretty graphic. Edit: I found out recently that the producer of the movie actually had interviewed many survivors of bear attacks, so all those attack stories actually helped with making the attack very realistic. Hell a bear expert who ranked it on how realistic it was gave the scene a 10/10. Honestly, I have respect for that producer, very well done indeed.

[@davidharrison3711]

Did you like the movie "Cocaine Bear"?

[@AutisticBearLover]

@@davidharrison3711 I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m sure I will. Even if the whole time I’ll be saying random bear facts about it and saying which is wrong and right, but my husband won’t mind it. From what I’ve seen from clips, the way the bear looks is very accurate to a black bear. Some things are a bit off like when a person is right next to it, it does the constant sniffing. Which they don’t need to do irl, they have an extreme precise sense of smell, so realistically it wouldn’t do that. But they got the look of the bear correct and actually how it scrambled up and down the trees, over all so far there’s some correct and incorrect things about the bear, but then again, it is a horror comedy. So I won’t be too harsh on it at all, but I’ll still be correcting it through out regardless.

[@AutisticBearLover]

@@nomadpurple6154 Honestly I haven’t even watched it. I only watched the bear attack scene and that’s it. I don’t care too much about the movie overall lmao.

[@Necrojack6848]

Bear's are my favourite animal so yeah it was great

[@purselmer5931]

I have a real phobia of bears and could not watch the bear attack scene in "The Revenant." But I went into it knowing that, lol.

[@MichelleHartzPhZ]

I could see how people would walk out of Mother!. As an introvert, I've never had a movie make me more anxious. Usually with horror movies, I recognize the horror, but I can separate the emotions, and it gives me a thrill. But from the beginning of Mother!, the way her home and wishes are violated felt way too real and way too easy to relate to.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Easily one of the worst films I ever watched to me just so pointless and unnecessary after it finished I literally said “what the f did I just watch??? will happily never watch it ever again

[@Cokoshea]

As an introvert myself... I concur. That movie is an introvert's worst nightmare.

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

i distinctly remember saying to my husband as we watched it, if you ever did any of this to me, you be the first dead person in the movie lol i remember wanting to slap that husband and i dont even remember much about it other than feeling undeniably annoyed and upset.... like not fitting in your skin i guess

[@sandrahatherley2184]

Mother was a deep and dark movie.

[@whytebearconcepts]

I walked out of Caligula when I first say it in my late teens, I had taken a date and it was freaking her out. Fast forward 9 years later and that date who became wife #1 rented it so we could see where we left off. 40+ years later it's still pretty hard to watch.

[@joeallen7981]

Shaky-Cam went way too far. It worked in Saving Private Ryan as it conveyed the confusion and chaos of the landing and was little used in the film after that scene. But then Hollywood found it could be used to cover up cr@p special effects and a lack of choreography in fight scenes and suddenly everyone was using it for everything from Cloverfield, to Transformers, and beyond. I am SO glad they got the message and stopped relying on it. I’ll walk out of any movie that relies on shaky cam and demand a refund.

[@nicolelawless9942]

United 93 had incredible shaky camera work by Paul Greengrass when the plane went down very fast and it felt like I was trapped on the hijacked plane. I started having night terrors of the ending and hijacking scene I love

[@Tamaresque]

It was used in the film Balibo which I saw at the theatre, and I hated it. It's not so bad on the small screen.

[@Defqonsigliere]

I'm surprised "The Butterfly Effect" didn't generate the amount of walkouts as I thought it would. We watched the director's cut once with a group of friends, one walked out during the end. (it turned out she had a miscarriage years earlier)

[@HarveyHirdHarmonics]

The director's cut is so much better though. You can feel that's the ending the makers of the movie would have liked to do but the studio probably found it too dark and made them do the kind of happy but meaningless ending we got. But I can see how the director's cut ending can trigger someone.

[@alzo7891]

I saw Marathon Man in a large, full theater. When Laurence Olivier tortures Dustin Hoffman with his dentist's drill, I'd say 1/10th of the audience got up and left. As for me, the only films I ever walked out on were Tommy (before I learned to love Ken Russell) and Casavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (too hard watching people fall apart).

[@bertroost1675]

The amazing thing is they don't really show anything. Only the sound of the drill was enough. 'Woman under the influence' is an amazing movie. Great, great acting.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

I once found myself having to see a German dentist. I couldn’t resist asking him, just before he started “is it safe”? “Oh ja, it’s a normal standard procedure..” Turns out the film hadn’t been shown in Germany

[@Sangreal333]

In 1973, I was in a rock band on the road. We were playing in St. Paul for a few weeks, and a group of club regulars that I'd gotten friendly with, took me to a late showing of The Exorcist. It was Winter and snowing and freezing, but we stood outside the theatre in a long, sell-out line to get in. We were all so excited to see this film, but it was SO shocking and terrifying, that when it ended, we all (20-somethings) fled to one guy's apartment and laid out on the floor awake ALL night with the lights on! That film had an impact y'all can't imagine unless you were there during the premier showings. Nothing like it since, either 😱😱😱

[@israelnevarez3118]

Pulp Fiction making the list is a surprise. Awesome movie. I didn't even know so many didn't like it during it's release.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah I love the film as well I love all the interweaving stories plus the humour is really good - also some iconic lines and scenes

[@BigUriel]

There were an awful lot of pussies going to the theatre in 1994 apparently.

[@EricaMeeee]

The insanely graphic (and sometimes purely unexpected) violence would be my guess. That's what disturbed me.

[@Mertztillithurts]

@@EricaMeeee Insanely graphic? Most of the violence in this movie is implied. We don't actually SEE it. We just know it's happening. Unexpected? Absolutely.

[@Mertztillithurts]

@@therunawaykid6523 I use a few lines from this movie to this day (when appropriate lol). "What ain't no country I ever heard of.... ...in what?" probably my favorite.

[@geekuyl6942]

You forgot Salo from Pierre Paolo Passolini. Try that one. I watched the movie in a movie theater. The room was full, not a seat unoccupied. At the end of the film there were only 8 people out of 700 in the audience.

[@marramvelez]

forgot that one, yes definitely the moste disgusting movie i watched, i was 13

[@Bullman422]

I actually thought Salo would be number one although I did forget about the Exorcist

[@ΚοντάκιοςΆμπραχνοτ]

@@Bullman422 Salo makes Exorcist look like a Disney Movie.

[@Bullman422]

@@ΚοντάκιοςΆμπραχνοτ True

[@DuleBajic]

Finally Pasolini...I love him, I've seen all his movies, but... The most drastic, shocking, exceptionally disturbing film ever, and I've seen at least 5,000 films, To Pasolini's death is still a secret but some say it's because of this movie

[@markalexander3659]

The woman who died watching The Passion of the Christ was later found out to have had a serious (undiagnosed) heart condition and her heart attack had nothing to do with the movie. That's just watch she happened to be doing when she died,

[@TRJ2241987]

I saw 'Bruno' in theaters on a date in 2009, me and my date were both massive fans of Ali G Show/Borat. The theater was packed with families and young kids. It was hilarious watching them all stampede out of the theater within the first 5 minutes. They obviously had no idea what they had walked into!

[@tommikaelsen9149]

I wanna say that the parents would have a right to be mad but then I'm like "You take your kids to the theater and 'Bruno' was the choice?"

[@jessicag4195]

I was full on expecting to see some male nudity after seeing Borat. Bruno was hilarious!

[@blackmaggot5046]

Lol, my ex and I saw that one and the Dictator and were astounded that people brought small children to both movies!

[@borderlineiq]

Both the parents and the theater were to blame. The movie was rated R and had the disclaimer that it had nudity and strong sexual content. Anyone caught unawares would be only because they were in the habit of perpetually disregardsing cinema ratings, i.e., bad parenting. Shame on them.

[@TRJ2241987]

@@borderlineiq I think there were probably a few factors, I think Borat became so mainstream at that time, all the talk show appearances and everything, that a lot of naive people thought it wouldn't be as obscene as it was, and I think most casuals weren't actually familiar with the Bruno character from the Ali G Show (the show itself wasn't nearly as huge as the Borat movie had been) so I think the underestimated how far they were willing to go with the gay shock humor. Also, if you watch the trailer for the movie, it definitely makes it seem way more innocent than the movie actually ends up being. The part where he his pitching his fashion show to a test audience and the camera zooms up his erect penis is definitely the part that cleared the theater. Me and the girl I was with were in fucking tears. It's definitely one of my favorite movies ever, the late 2000s were definitely peak for seeing comedies in theaters, I miss those days. It is definitely crazy that the theater I was at allowed so many small children to get into that movie. I wish I had the video footage of that cinema clearing out

[@LadySilence]

No mention of last house on the left? And using that as the thumbnail is wild

[@scuffedcovers]

I am not easily perturbed by films, but one film that made me feel like walking out was "Pan's Labyrinth". It was the scene where the officer talks to a father and son and the bottle (won't go into detail). After leaving the cinema, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I never thought a film would scar me.

[@teijaflink2226]

I love that movie but I agree that some of the scenes are extremely disturbing and probably the most disturbing her psychopath father, more than the monsters.

[@sevrinaanastasia]

I remember that scene! I thought the movie was quite good at the time but there were some very disturbing scenes and I remember the ending being sad when the little girl dies. So disturbing!

[@Aranelyn]

i have bad memories about that movie as well, but my trauma comes from the monster eating fairies...

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@Aranelyn I’ve been very traumatised by the D-Day scene for almost a week now but I just couldn’t look away

[@LoneStarStinger]

I loved that movie so much.. The character designs were so cool. The eye hand thing and pan.

[@davewelch151]

No surprise that the Exorcist made No1. I saw the movie when it first appeared when I was 17yo. There were nuns at the theatre door, begging us not to enter, this really set the atmosphere. Half way through the show there was a bomb scare and the theatre had to be evacuated. An hour later, we were invited back in to finish the viewing but only three of us took our seats. The movie was worth all the hype, heightened by all the extras. I passed on the bus and walked the 4 miles home, in a total daze. The only movie to come close to this was Carrie, particularly the grave scene at the end.

[@kericorley9387]

I saw it when I was 9 years old. But I watched the news in So California, which had many TV stations. I saw the Vietnam war everyday, watched extreme movies on TV and in the theaters starting at age 5 years. I understood what I was watching and what wasn't real. I was raised tough that way, and I will not change.

[@daviddowsett1658]

I watch it when I was around 10, 40 years ago, my Dad had rented it in the UK before it was band (for 20 odd years in the UK), I loved horror (think Universal 30s films), so took a sick day from school, both parents worked, and watch it on our shiny new top-loaded VHS on my own, on a dark rainy winters days, just to say horrified was an understatement, but I made it to the end. It is now still in my top 5 horror films, with "The Thing" ...

[@therunawaykid6523]

I love 127 hours - sure it’s pretty brutal what the guy has to do to make it out alive from the canyon but the end of the film where he still manages to do all those amazing things with only one arm always gives me tears of joy - it’s so well done

[@sharonpopolow6874]

I really liked that movie. Whenever I hear that one song that goes like, 🎵🎶"It's a lovely day, lovely day,"🎵🎶 I still can't get the image of Ralston in high speed trying to figure out ways to get out of the situation out of my head.

[@Metalheaddude683]

You know, if you watch 127 hours in reverse, it's the uplifting story of a man finding his lost arm in the middle of the desert.

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@Metalheaddude683 well for me I would say it’s worth seeing the pain to see him living his dream in the end heartwarming 😌

[@c4tpatriotwhitfield647]

I saw that too and the real life person had some testicle, that was for damn sure! I could not even begin to imagine!

[@blackmaggot5046]

Haven't seen it yet. He lost one of those also? @@c4tpatriotwhitfield647

[@redpandallyredpandally1319]

Best reaction to a movie for me was after watching The Blair Witch Project. It was nearly when the credits finished and some dude gets behind his gf and shouts in her ear. She let out a blood curdling scream and when she realized it was just him, she went off on him with a glorious beatdown. They did not expect everyone coming out of the theater door laughing their heads off.

[@catherinebronnimann7125]

When the Exorcist came out my mother and my father were both running cinemas. Every time the film showed, they'd be there late cleaning up the vomit. It was always the men, and mostly at the head spin moment, although the needle/injection moment got people going too. Great list, thank you.

[@ocstrangeness]

Good thing they weren't running the 2000 version with the improved spiderwalk scene...Just thinking about that one gives me chills. Sad part is when it came out, I saw it every night for a week straight in a mostly empty theater.

[@1SaG]

Don't forget David Cronenberg's "The Fly". I remember reading stories when it was released about how people had thrown up in the theater and run out in panic. Of course, those stories made me want to watch the movie even more.

[@thegreencat9947]

I sat in the lobby until the screaming stopped.

[@sevrinaanastasia]

Did you ever watch the movie?

[@Chefpavel]

The scene with David Hedison screaming "HELP ME" as the spider approached was electrifying. Haven't seen it since the mid-60s or so.

[@MickeyMacks1]

Oh yea, forgot about that one. The body parts falling off was pretty gross.

[@alfrede.neuman8898]

John Waters previewed Pink Flamingos at a local prison for the inmates. When the "dog poo" scene came up early in the film, all of the inmates knocked over chairs to leave the room. Waters said at the time he knew the film would be a success by the inmates' reaction. He re edited the "dog poo" scene to the last scene of the movie.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Is that REALLY true? Love John but know he did tend to fib a lot in his writings.

[@steveneardley7541]

He did Pink Flamingos long before he did prison work. The movie still makes people get up and leave, decades later. My favorite scene is where the Marbles are licking all the furniture: "Get that furniture sopping wet!"

[@alfrede.neuman8898]

@@RaptorFromWeegee it’s true. He wrote about it in his book, Shock Value A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste.

[@alfrede.neuman8898]

@@steveneardley7541 He previewed PF at a local Prison before releasing it to theaters. He wrote about it in his book Shock Value.

[@TheCombatEditor62]

I can understand why people would have trouble watching the Passion of the Christ, but I personally think that the graphic detail of it is what made it so powerful. It didn't water down the story of Jesus, but instead showed us the full scope of the suffering He endured for us. It really puts the Faith into perspective.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

It was made from scripts of Passion plays. The pope apologized for those since they were only made to stoke anti-semitism in Europe.

[@miningking5958]

To be fair, I think we were all at a weird point in our lives when we first watched Fight Club

[@tmnt10000]

Speak for yourself.

[@qnst406]

No lmfao

[@ruchirpareek]

Apparently not everyone is getting the clever comment. For me personally, certainly weird times...

[@jenhasken]

Didn’t walk out but had an extremely visceral emotional reaction to Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Von Trier is an amazing director, and Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void is like nothing you have ever seen or will see again. Sometimes the directors who stay true to their vision even if it pushes boundaries are some of the best.

[@loganmclarry]

Noe is one of the most underrated directors I know of. Enter the Void was trippy, Climax was crazy, I Stand Alone was weird, and don’t get me started on Irreversible.

[@jenewok]

The Wrestler is an excellent movie!

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@loganmclarry i won't watch irreversible

[@Breexbloodlust]

wrestler was good. Enter the void & climax are on my to do list

[@therunawaykid6523]

I remember when blockbuster held a competition where people voted for there favourite film and then people would get to see the film that had the most votes at the cinema for free but we wouldn’t know which film it would be until we sat down in our seats - of course the winner was the sex and the city film 🤔🤷‍♂️🤨🤨 me and my dad walked out very early into the film which I was very relieved about and happy to do as it would have been so awkward and uncomfortable watching that with my dad there - also had no interest myself in watching it I voted for top gun

[@sydneykendall7125]

I have a strong fear of heights, but I loved "The Walk". I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt did an outstanding acting job. It was quite thrilling. I didn't mind that the palms of my hands were sweating a river during the actual walk, or that I had to wiggle around in my seat a lot. I like to watch people succeed at a challenge that I would never dare take on.

[@cebruthius]

The French accent though... yuck

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

If you don't have "fear of heights", known clinically as heightraphobia, you will AFTER you see this thing. This movies been known to cause audience members to get Arterial Monochromia, an incurable disease. Only doctor ever known to cure it is, Dr. Edward Norton of Oxford & Bensonhurst.

[@evilaelf]

The worst part of that movie was the nail. I have watched the movie several times, but have to cover my eyes for that scene.

[@Hollylivengood]

You should see Man On a Wire. They did their own footage of the walk, and it's very good.

[@Hollylivengood]

@@evilaelf What nail.

[@Destinyatk]

Hollywood has tried but will NEVER outdo THE EXORCIST, PERIOD!!

[@weenington]

i feel like it is also worth mentioning that several of the actors and staff were injured during the shooting of the exorcist as well. Linda Blair was seriously injured during the shooting of the bed scene, and was actually screaming in real pain and begging the production scene to stop in the cut that made the movie.

[@breathedeepnow1]

sorry to hear this

[@tedwojtasik8781]

Fun Fact: All the sex scenes for Caligula, except for the few with McDowell & Mirren were added after the fact and the cast were not aware this happened. At the movie premier several cast members, including Mirren, walked out in disgust as per her own words, "this is not what I was part of." She and the other cast members were not upset about the real sex in the movie, they were upset because they were never told it would be added to the movie later, and also it was so over the top gratuitous it killed the movie and many of the stellar performances.

[@nsrnm9451]

Every trailer for Swiss army man very accurately portrayed exactly the type of movie you were gonna see. If you were expecting anything different you really can't blame anybody but yourself

[@jonmacias499]

But to walk out on it? Ridiculous

[@JustinAnthony-vl2kf]

Antichrist is one of the greatest films ever made about grief and the lasting trauma of losing a child in my opinion. But ya, it does go out of its way to make you feel uncomfortable. The beginning of the film gets me every time... right up there with Pet Sematary.

[@weatherboi]

Thought Shindler's List might be included, but surprised FREAKS was included. To me my heart went out to most of the main characters. But good list all the same.

[@dillongstaff5625]

One film i attended with quite a few walk - outs was Henry : Portrait of a serial killer...each walk out greeted with a round of applause from the rest of the audience!

[@irish66]

Yeh, I was in a film society that showed it, and a few people walked out.

[@MartyPollio]

It basically gave people instructions for being an effective serial killer.

[@bystanderbutch3509]

I noticed Sharknado wasn't on the list. No one would dare walk out on this masterpiece! SHARKNADO!

[@virginia3981]

Honestly i wish i could travel in time and watch "The Exorcist" for the first time. "Rosemary's baby" also scared the shit out of me. I watched both as a teenager in my home, 15 years ago i guess. One of my aunts and her friends left the cinema one time. The movie? "Silence of the lambs"

[@aartadventure]

The tree of life is a good pick. At first I didn't really enjoy it that much, and was bored several times. But for weeks afterwards, I kept reflecting on it and found it carried quite a lingering impact. I now consider it a great movie, and a true piece of art.

[@patcurrie9888]

The main idea was we are a blip in history.

[@useyournoodle100]

A small speck in the Universe.@@patcurrie9888

[@savvysearch]

If you think about horror movies before The Exorcist (1973) and horror movies after, you can see how terrifying it must have been. Every horror afterwards uses so many of the same tropes, the demonic evil little girl with long hair being the most enduring (although Maria Bava got there first with Kill, Baby, Kill).

[@suzicq]

I've never seen it and don't plan to. I did read the book when I was only 14 (unbeknownst to my parents) and was pretty traumatized, which is why I'll not watch it.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@suzicq I’ve heard many things about it, I’m not even sure horror movies person anyway but Saving private Ryan is a true horror movie and so is united 93

[@noeroa]

I’ve never in my life seen so many people leave the movie theater, then when I saw The House That Jack Built by none other than Lars Von Trier, if you ask me, he deserved a second slot in this ranking, because I’ve never struggled so much trying to finish a film.

[@kryw10]

That sounds genuinely bad AND awful.

[@EdDunkle]

I'm afraid to watch that one.

[@Hannah-cf4ev]

Maybe even a third slot for Melancholia!

[@eddyhertens9026]

One of the movies that horrified and impressed me the most was Dalton Trumbo’s “Johnny got his gun”, a true anti-war masterpiece that is very difficult to watch: I first saw it as a 16-year old in school. (The teacher had to pass before a disciplinary committee because several parents complained their children were traumatised and had nightmares afterward: the teacher was rightfully not punished btw) The movie tells the story of a soldier who is horribly mutilated in WW1 (lost arms, legs, eyes, lower jaw, ears but not his genitals. In one scene a nurse who discovers the man (what is left of him) is actually conscious and gives him an off camera hand job. Great cinema but utterly ruthless.

[@scottbuske3920]

We read the book in Social Studies Topics in 1975. Great book.

[@ravenlunatic1177]

Working in the theater for years, one movie that had so many people walk out and demand refunds was not on this list. That was Brüno - Sasha Baron Cohen “Borat” fame. So many people claimed they were grossed out by it. We were accused of being sick people for showing the film🤦🏼‍♀️🙄 I’m 100% surprised that The Human Centipede was not included on this list too.

[@karenduvall1415]

Because it was a limited release in New York without an MPAA rating. It never got a wide theatrical release.

[@bogusmogus9551]

The Human Centipede was a horror comedy

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

I still have a human centipede t shirt. McDonalds in NYC practically threw me out for wearing it. Thats saying a lot. LOL, "feeeeed him!"

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

i still get nauseated when i think about human centipede ugh. i just.... blech

[@ravenlunatic1177]

@@hollyshaw-elliemae Agreed!🤢

[@1foolishcaribou195]

Malcolm McDowell made the list twice, each time as the main character. Caligula and A Clockwork Orange.

[@ML-dl1cp]

Poor Malcolm. I heard him interviewed a few years ago when AFI held a screening of a restored print of A Clockwork Orange. He was in the restroom after the movie and some young hipster came in. Washing their hands side by side, the young guy looked over to Malcolm and said "Hey, you're in the movie!" Malcolm confirmed he was. The young guy said "yeah, you're the old man - the writer!" Ouch.

[@lauverr3808]

"The Blair Witch Project" was amazing. It was one of my favorite horror movies growing up. I also thought it was a little funny that both, "The Passion Of The Christ" and "Antichrist" made it on this list. I guess they cant win no matter which end of the spectrum they're portraying. 🤷‍♀️

[@queenmotherbug]

I didn't walk out during the movie, but Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz, disturbed me greatly, and I considered walking out of the theater.

[@scottfrenz]

Yeah that was a disturbing flick. Todd Solondz other movies are pretty disturbing as well. I really liked his Welcome to the Dollhouse, though. Great flick

[@RubyDaLynx]

I was actually born in 2004 and Passion of the Christ airs in my country every easter ever since. Yes, it was brutal, but Christians should be able to stomach it. It was very biblically accurate.

[@kellygirlaj]

I agree, it is accurate, but seeing it once was enough for me.

[@RubyDaLynx]

@@kellygirlajYeah that's fair

[@dennis2376]

No they should not, if anything they should be sad that the man and to die in such a matter because we could not get are act together. Also, watching it more than once would be little the price paid.

[@philliphopkins6903]

Really!!! Roman crucifixion was nothing like depicted in the film . Gibson took info to satisfy the Catholic church...NOT Roman crucifixion facts.

[@ChicanoPhD]

Lol there is nothing accurate about this silly snuff film. Jesus would not have looked like jim caviezel. And you must have loved the anti-Semitism.

[@wr1120]

The one scene that ever made me walk out and get some fresh air was the scene in Saving Private Ryan in which the German machine gunner who was captured was forced to dig his own grave. Nothing in cinematic history ever got me so far.

[@nicolelawless9942]

The Normandy scene affected me this bad that I had to keep pausing it on KZbin because of how real it was

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@lunarvvolf9606 I felt relieved with Upham finally avenging Melish. I’ve never had such a reaction

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@lunarvvolf9606 I also had to keep pausing the movie when watching it at home recently because it was getting way too much but I pulled through. I hardly said a word for 14 hours straight after watching it and I had a few breakdowns in work privately so no one could see me cry. Having these breakdowns are horrible and I have to have the movie close by or I’d freak out

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@lunarvvolf9606 I will eventually get used to it

[@maestroh2986]

The Blair Witch Project made me physically ill....because I was so upset I paid to see that total waste of time. Also, a surprisingly disturbing film is Erasure Head.

[@acasualviewer5861]

Yeah I found Blair Witch super boring and lame.

[@Akira625]

The most unsettling scene in The Exorcist for me was the one where Regan undergoes a carotid angiography.

[@kyereCat]

So that's what that procedure called. I thought a Spinal tap.

[@karyn1091]

Yes, it's unsettling...even by today's standards. The flashes of the death mask still scare and unerve me, as well as the added scene when Regan spider walks. I'm going to watch some comedy now.

[@markalexander3659]

Yes! lol. The movie itself didn't bother me at all but that one medical scene made me wince

[@deenatodd9585]

The radiologist was played by a real radiologist who was also a serial killer

[@markalexander3659]

@@deenatodd9585 He wasn't a serial killer, but he did kill a guy

[@vixybanker]

When "The Exorcist" was released, I was barely 13. With all the hype, I wanted my dad to take me to see it as I was a horror fan. He posed a challenge. Read the book in one week and we would go. I was Catholic School educated. I would bring the book to school and read it during my lunch break. Then a teacher reported me. So there I was (again) at the principal's office. She called my dad. He asked her if she read the book, he asked her if the book was "proscribed by The Catholic Church", and then he asked if she knew how the story ended. When she replied "no" to all three, he hung up. So, I met the challenge, and saw the film at New York's Zigfield Theatre. Wow!!!

[@fennyellis3366]

My father made me watch it...I was traumatized. I closed my eyes before the end...my father said I missed the best part. To this day, I refer to the movie as, "That which shall not be named."

[@theenglishalpinist5031]

Good Dad.

[@SilentNinja87]

I walked out of “The Mist” with Thomas Jane right at the ending where he kills son and older couple and then the military arrives. It was just too depressing and i literally was depressed for the rest of that evening.

[@Akira625]

Stephen King was reportedly impressed by the ending which was changed from his original novel.

[@carrollpatriot5909]

I also walked out at the ending

[@gspendlove]

Best ending of a movie ever, not counting the ending of Night of the Living Dead.

[@johnmillay6790]

Sounds like you left after the movie ended. That's normal,great ending too

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

I get what you mean… But i thought it was funny 😂. I can see why it could be upsetting. But it was such a twist!

[@rupertbob1463]

I remember when 'The hand that rocks the cradle' was out, reading there were a lot of walk outs - married couples out on dates having panic attacks about the babysitter

[@musaicmixups]

I think William Friedkin's: "The Guardian" (1990), would have a more profound effect on married couples with babies being stolen by the evil baby sitter and fed to a blood thirsty tree.

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

I know someone who was on the visual effects team for Cloverfield. The "found footage" format made their jobs incredibly difficult as they had to match the movement of the CG camera to the real camera. It was a very stressful project for them. I think I was 15 when The Exorcist hit the theatres. Amid all of the reports of people in the audience vomiting and even having heart attacks, my older sister and her boyfriend went to see it with our mother. When the they got home I asked them how it was. My sister said our mom cried through most of the movie. I asked why. My sister said, at one point, a man sitting behind them leaned forward and said "lady, vomit, scream, have a heart attack or something, but stop crying!". My mother said she was crying because of the terrible things they did to that "poor girl" to make the movie. My mother grew up on a farm in World War II and just didn't understand that it was all fake. She thought they actually tortured the girl playing the part! As an adult, I finally saw The Exorcist and thought, "that's it? What was all the fuss about? " Seriously, that movie is pretty tame, dull and boring. In my opinion.

[@michaeladove7269]

They did kind of abuse Linda Blair. When they kept slamming her into the bed, she got hurt and left with a lifelong bad back. A lot of things happened on that set, but you're lucky to not be scared of it. 🤣👍

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@michaeladove7269 All demanding films take something out of the actors. Acting is physically demanding work, you put so much into it and sometimes that means sacrificing a part of yourself to that end. Just look at Shelly Duvall, star of another horror masterpiece. The important thing to remember is that actors and actresses are passionate about their craft in the same sense that professional athletes are about theirs. Physical and emotional injuries are part of the game, theres no getting around that. But its worth it.

[@lindajanes5698]

The Omen was the scariest movie I've EVER seen, before or since! That soundtrack, and the rythmic chanting here and there throughout the movie. Wow!! That being said, it is a great movie; great acting and story. Very well done!!! Driving home, I had to drive down a dark, rather back road to get to my house. Needless to say I put the pedal to the metal that night😅

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

the omen, and amityville horor mixed together for me. i had a recurring nightmare my whole life about that well in the basement and the ahhhhhh ah, ahhhhhhhh ah, sound... and that id go down , and damien pushes me into the well. literally for decades.

[@drewgrows7765]

And you saw The Exorcist?

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@hollyshaw-elliemae I hate nightmares and the D-Day scene nightmare was just incredible to how the hell I survived with the others running behind me and then I did the most heroic thing, pulling the barbed wire fences down; then United 93 was flying over Normandy and I knew that was a bad sign so i stayed in hiding for 4 days

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

Me too. Poltergeist was another one, because I was a kid and seeing kids being terrorized in their beds at night with the serious possibility of being snatched away into some parallel universe that was a spiritual torture-chamber, like a nightmare that you could never wake up from, basically a version of hell. The idea is pretty damn scary for a kid.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

The omen, exorcist and amityville were total turn-ons

[@husbandos1000]

Martyrs by Pascal Laugier was quite hard to watch. I was surprised that it didn’t made to the list.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I was very surprised come and see didn’t either because I’m very traumatised by it and I’ve been shaking all day

[@Mud_AleX]

Bad Mojo has no idea...

[@ajabrams]

You missed Pasolini's SALO and Miike's AUDiTION. I remember several people walking out of the theater when I first saw the latter.

[@joliebokeh1958]

I had no idea that Saló had a theatrical release

[@thestickmanproject2527]

Saving private Ryan, i didn't experience WW2 and I wasn't even born the day it was released. But man, the opening scene was too heavy to watch, your wasn't even born yet but you'll feel the horrors of war

[@nicolelawless9942]

I remember the D-Day scene well and I still have nightmares about it. I’ve not revisited the movie since 3 weeks ago and I always wait until dark to watch it because the experience is more hurryingly intense

[@Vindix007]

The worst scene of Saving Private Ryan is the brutal death of Private Mellish.

[@elisamuels8331]

yeah that one fucked my head up

[@nicolelawless9942]

I kept swearing a lot and screamed “Why didn’t you help him you idiot!” I was traumatised for days after that