22 Movies That Got Too Real for People to Keep Watching
Ever since they melted that witch, moviegoers have gotten more and more desensitized to violence. It’s hard to trace a map from the blood running down the shower drain in Psycho to, well, any randomly selected frame from the entire Saw franchise, because it happens very gradually, but here we are, 65 years later, and nothing short of Hostel shocks us.
There is, however, an upper limit on what audiences are willing to stomach in this exercise of shock as cinema. It’s hard to say exactly where the line is, but it’s somewhere around Hereditary and definitely well short of Cannibal Holocaust and A Serbian Film.
In an effort to narrow it down further, user Elixir_Jx asked r/AskReddit, “What film is so brutal to watch you had to stop watching it?”
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Letters From Iwo Jima
Hotel Rwanda
The Last House on the Left
I Spit on Your Grave
Trauma
Lone Survivor
The Road
Precious
The Invisible Man
Green Room
Ambulance
Threads
The Aristocrats
Saving Private Ryan
The Impossible
Dead Alive
Grave of the Fireflies
The Girl Next Door
Seven
Tusk
Watership Down
