22 Movies That Got Too Real for People to Keep Watching
‘Hey, it’s a cartoon, and it has bunnies. Oh dear God…’
Ever since they 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.
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In an effort to narrow it down further, Elixir_Jx asked r/AskReddit, “What film is so brutal to watch you had to stop watching it?”
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Trauma
Lone Survivor
The Road
Precious
The Invisible Man
Green Room
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