What’s a movie that feels like it was made to punish the audience rather than entertain them?

That is beautiful. Even better if he landed one “F***!” around hour seven.

Funny Games should be the top answer. The entire point of the movie is “so you say you like dark fucked up violent movies, well here ya go I dare you to enjoy this.”

Yeah I think Funny Games was deliberately made for this purpose, the director said as much.

This is literally the best and most true answer. For those that don’t mind spoilers a couple gets house invaded by two complete strangers that you just absolutely loathe as they torture this couple of nice people. Finally after all this torment one of the people break free and gets the climax victory moment where they are able to attack one of the invaders and subdue them and as you watch you go heck yeah kind of like in Get Out when he finally has his moment of killing the evil family… but then suddenly the other invader takes a remote control and just goes wait a moment this shouldn’t have happened and REWINDS TIME and him and his fellow torture partner just get away scot* (whoops my bad!) free and there’s no happy ending. I remember renting this on a first date and we were both just sitting there like what the f did we just see

I thought you meant Funny People by Judd Apatow, and was like “oh sure, right”

Both correct. F***, antichrist was f****** horrible.

Just about everything by Lars feels like this, but Antichrist is the prime example

It's always been interesting to me that JK's father was music director at University of Montana. He was an incredibly sweet, beloved mentor, nothing like JK's character in the film lol. Both of his parents passed away shortly before he won the Oscar, which made it all the more poignant that he said in his speech to "call your parents".

God, I'm not even in music and Whiplash was uncomfortable. JK Simmons is too damn good at playing a controlling, cruel and despicable human being. 

I watched it with a former marching bandmate and we were both having like ‘Nam flashbacks haha

Speaking as a professional muso, I find it amusing that my colleagues are completely divided on Whiplash. Some seem to think it’s a ridiculous exaggeration and unrealistic. And the others are like “oh yeah… I had a conductor exactly like that”. 

I've had some really strict band directors with obvious anger issues in the past. I hated them at times but the results they got were evident. Nothing compared to JK Simmons in that movie though.

mother! is probably a good rec in this regard. The whole concept is to make you feel bad for existing on this planet and using its resources for your personal gain. And even if it's not clear, it still punishes the audience by basically resetting everything and forcing the mother to accept this perpetual circle of despair.

I understand what it was going for, but man I did not like this movie

This and Uncut Gems made me feel so overwhelmed with anxiety. Great filmmaking, uncomfortable experiences.

Such a great answer. mother! Was possibly the most frustrating movie to watch ever just going why isn’t the husband listening to her?!

Arronofsky had practice with Requiem For A Dream which is also quite anxiety inducing.

First movie I thought of when I saw this question That movie was an awful watching experience

I actually didnt know if suffered from an anxiety disorder yet when I went to see this movie and it was very interesting trying to understand what happened in that cinema

Watched it in the theater while dealing with postpartum depression and anxiety. I was closing my eyes and plugging my ears as best as I could at the end because I couldn't watch but I was in the middle of the row and I didn't want to ruin it for anyone else. I cried for 10 minutes in the bathroom before rejoining the group to go grab dinner.

Came here to say Mother!. A friend said, “I don’t want to watch any movies for a while in case it makes me feel like that made me feel.”

That was my first thought too, I went into it blind at the theater, was not expecting that!

Is it a documentary of Buster Bluth's life?

My favorite part of this movie was turning to my wife at the end of the second act and saying "It's only halfway over." I thought she was gonna leave.

I've never hated a movie so much, but I have to begrudgingly respect it for how long it made me think about how much I hated it after. It's an incredible accomplishment in hostile filmmaking. 

This is unironically one of if not my favorite movies, but I do not blame anyone for actively despising it. It has a very specific target audience, and the hilariously mismatched budget : potential market ratio is what makes it really special to me. They spent like $100 million making something just for me and my friends

I’m sorry that’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. The whole sequence after he gets his phone back is pure genius. The call from the UPS guy. The man above the bathtub. The Birthday Boy Stab Man?! That being said, it’s 2 hours and 59 minutes so I get it. But I still love that batshit insane movie got made somehow.

the first 10 minutes I thought "oh shit! this is gonna go on and not offer any satisfying conclusion, what have i done" 😄

I think I was the target audience, this movie really spoke to me, it put some exaggerated mix of several of my fears on screen, I could really identify with Beau. I may rewatch it in a few years.

This was my answer as well. It is 3 hours long but it felt like 10. Just horrible.

I loved this film. It stuck with me for a loooong time afterwards niggling at me to try and pick apart what the hell it was I had watched and why it was all so confusing. I like to think the entire film was from the emotional perspective of Beau. So all of the weird anxiety is literally how he perceives the world. That definitely helped it make sense to me and appreciate it for the absolute artistic masterpiece it is.

My husband described it as "the best movie I hated to watch"

This gets my vote. I can still vividly remember watching this when it first came out. I was a senior with a bunch of friends and we were all pretty hard in the club scene at the time, we were all doing a little experimenting with certain things, and yeah, it was a rough watch.

I really liked π, so I bought Requiem on disc, having not seen it in the theater. I only watched it once, and it sat on my shelf. My brother came out to visit and he wasn't able to join a group of us going to the bar, and he asked if he could watch it. I said, good luck. When I got back from the bar, he handed me the disc and said, "Thank you, and now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill myself."

Haha I was waiting for this movie to come up. Killer soundtrack, though.

Best answer, this movie looks like a huge middle finger to anyone who decides to watch it

Literally designed as a f*** you to anyone who enjoyed the first movie.

That's Lars von Trier in a nutshell. Some day he makes misery and sadness p***. You might have a laugh at The Onion news: ["Denmark introduces harrowing new tourism ads directed by Lars von Trier"](https://youtu.be/ZZfM1lkLuMI?is=jyH4HXEe0Df69OUq).

Melancholia is the most accurate depiction of major depressive disorder that I've ever seen in a film. It really made me feel seen. But it was also brutal and I doubt I could watch it again.

I always point out that there only two movies I have ever sat through the screening of that ended with everyone going home in stunned silence as opposed having casual, light chats afterwards. One is this movie. The other was a Holocaust documentary. And I'm not drawing an equivalency by any means. I'm just saying it left people speechless.

Was gonna say basically any Lars Von Trier film.

I can really only rewatch the first five minutes because it's such a beautiful opening. I think it was during the scene where Charlotte Gainsborough is helping Kirsten Dunst take a bath because she's so depressed that she has no energy or will to do anything that I made a commitment to never watch another Lars von Trier movie.

God I love that movie

I know I’ve seen this movie. Something about a planet? I’m not sure. I can only recall one scene

watched that once when it came out, never again, but I could basically tell you every scene and I will never forget how it made me feel.

Came here for this. I recognize the movie is well made but my god I hated the entire runtime.

My god if stress were a movie. This one had me anxious just about the entire time!

Great performance that I never want to see ever again.

I hate to admit this, but I f****** hated the daughter. Every time she asked for something, it was like nails on a chalkboard. But looking back, I think we were supposed to feel that way, to reflect Rose Byrne’s feelings towards her.

I'm kind of surprised to see this here. I was dreading watching it but forced myself to and there was enough humor to lighten the mood. I'm not saying it was a barrel of monkeys but definitely not as upsetting as I expected.

Watched this one high as hell, and boy, was that a mistake.

Epstein island - the movie.

I usually cite this is my least favorite movie. Not because it's a bad film, but because I would rather watch literally any other movie again

Brutal. (but so good)

I’ll never watch that movie again, once is enough to learn what a powerful yet upsetting movie that is.

Enter the Void is the only film that I couldn't finish and I have watched a lot of films. I watched like maybe half of the movie and it caused me so much anxiety, an existential crisis and terrible motion sickness at the same time. It was painful for my mental health, I would describe it as visual torture. It definitely made me feel the void for days, maybe weeks. It's so mentally and emotionally exhausting, I still think about it all these years later and I feel nauseous. I am not exaggerating. I think Gaspar Noé and Lars von Trier are experts on this type of film.

Jeez, I already forgot that movie existed. And I watched it.

I am almost always disappointed by biopics

I'd add Dancer in the Dark. . . .soooooo depressing.

Breaking the Waves was my vote

That movie has some top tier performances but I will never watch it again. I wouldn't even recommend it to my worst enemy cuz that movie is so unforgivingly brutal.

Had to scroll down farther than I thought I would to find it. Starts with a sucker punch and doesn't quit.

This. Literally punishment.. The first 30 minutes ot Irreversible feature a low-frequency, infrasound noise designed to induce anxiety, nausea, and physical discomfort in the audience. Reports from its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival mentioned audience members walking out, fainting, or vomiting due to the film's extremely graphic, visceral, and disturbing scenes. The movie goes in reverse chronological order similar to the movie Memento. I hear there is also a version that goes in chronological order.

I happened to watch it in the middle of summer when my AC was down, so it seriously felt like I was in hell.

That whole movie is a nightmarish fever dream.

My buddy and I watched this because we both enjoy independent/arthouse style movies and he'd heard it was really interesting. About 8 or 9 minutes in I asked him, "Sean, where is any single physical thing in relation to anything else in this movie?"

This is how I feel about Meet the Parents. I know it’s funny (and I laughed too), but goddamn it makes people like me so uncomfortable that we can’t ever really enjoy it. Same reason I failed twice at watching Beef. They all make me SO uncomfortable.

Speaking of a movie made as an FU to producers.... The Matrix 4

I wouldn’t let him off that easy…

Funniest sex scene in the history of cinema, though! 😂

Jesus, but this is a hard sit. Great movie, but I don't want to watch it again.

Came here to say this one but knew it must have been mentioned. So well done but man, the entire movie is so uncomfortable and the last scene just makes your stomach turn for hours after it ended.

I love a good sad movie, and I've seen nearly every other Ghibli film, but I've never quite worked up to this one. 

I got a lot out of it the second time I watched it. The first was as a kid and the second as a mother. I *might* rewatch in another decade. I did have to make art about it the 2nd time to help myself calm down, so who knows what will happen if I watch it again? A truly brilliant film.

Ken Park is even worse, Larry Clark has some serious problems.

A Serbian Film did not need to exist.

I think Virgin Suicides is much tamer. Great soundtrack too though.

People might be split on this one.

I enjoyed all but 4 seconds of that movie!

135 minute anxiety attack

I couldn’t finish this movie. I was anxious and annoyed and mostly bored. If I wanted that I’d have gone to a family reunion and at least gotten good food

I saw Uncut Gems in the theater and told everyone I knew that tickets should have come with a free Xanax.

With a whimper.

SO well acted and shot, but so, so bleak.

Why are you flanking me?!

Glad to see this movie is still thought about. It was one of my favorites in the year it came out. And remains high on my ***GRAND RANKING OF EVERY MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN*** to this day. In the top 100! Which sounds not great, but I've seen a great deal of movies.

Such a good movie. Impossible to watch again. Can’t even stand to see a clip come up while scrolling Instagram.

i’m laughing it really was but the cinematography was beautifully done. Reminds me of what would’ve happened to Walton Goggins in the hateful 8 if they left him outside.

I didn’t walk out. I just fell asleep.

I love this movie and it’s really a shame what has become of Taylor Sheridan since then (although maybe he’s always been like this and I just didn’t notice).

Gotta disagree with this one. Beautifully acted, fantastic script, stunning cinematography. Just a joy to watch.

I’m kept wanting to watch this film but had the distinct impression it would sit with me for longer than I would care for it to.

Look… I’m not gonna say this movie should’ve won an Oscar… but this was PEAK 90s youth humor… My god we were unbearable children.

I don’t see two LeBarons

He was mostly punishing the producers who were dumb enough to give him that much money. He was giving the rest of us f****** gold.

What’s that sound? It’s my hoooves!!

Daddy would you like some sau-sage!

Such a fantastic movie. I really hated watching Bo Burnham be a villain though. 😅