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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."

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..

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

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.

#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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It wasn’t on this list, but I feel deserved a mention, Requiem for a Dream. That movie was pretty traumatic to watch and hard to forget.

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.

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.

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

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

I walked out of Titanic when it hit the iceberg and sank. I didn't see that coming at all. What a crappy ending.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

Great video. No mention of Deliverance, or the Human Centipede. Just as well.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Exorcist was rated 18+ here in Australia, my cousin and I bluffed our way into the theatre at 16...we both survived.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There are only two situations in which I would walk out of a theater and immediately request a refund…,One being if an animal is being deliberately hurt for shock value. Secondly, when the Director insist on having the camera jerking around so much that you could barely keep track of what’s going on. It’s extremely annoying and will certainly make me not want to watch the movie its entirety.

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

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.

You're a true professional in your field.

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.

"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.

The only movie I ever walked out of was Marathon Man. I detest horror films and assumed a Dustin Hoffman film would be fine. Then they put in that dentist scene.

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

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

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

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.

I definitely agree with Clockwork Orange and The Exorcist. A few other contenders| Casualties of War; The Accused; The Entity; Hotel Rwanda; Alive; Damned River

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

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.

I’m surprised “Blue Velvet” didn’t make the list. When I saw it in a theater in ‘86, at least a third of the audience had left by the end.

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.

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.

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

I can't believe that the movie "Kids" wasn't number 1 on this list.

much as i love it (creepy though Erik is in it), the 1925 Phantom of the Opera deserves a mention. it's nothing to watch today, but back when it first screened, supposedly, not only did some people leave, people screamed, some even fainted when the Phantom is first unmasked. And the effort and pain Lon Cheney went to to pull off the look of his skull-looking deformity is incredible. Tape, cotton balls in his mouth, and (yeowch!) piano wire - up his nose. in a time with very limited special effects, that movie was something else

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

The Revenant is based of a mountain man named Hugh Glass who along with his hunting party his throat was slashed open by the bear and was left to die by his party (after they wrapped him up) but he overcame it all and lived and survived by crawling through the uncharted land

I walked out before the movies started. The theater showed a cartoon with a nifty jingle telling me they were selling popcorn, candy and soda pop in the lobby.

Putting "The Passion of the Christ" in the same basket as the other films is absolutely unfair. It's actually quite suspicious...

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.

My wife hated working in a local movie theater when Stigmata hit the box office. She told me about how every showing she would get complaints and walk outs to people screaming at her over the portrayal of the Catholic church.

Leo's acting in the bear scene scared the heck out of me. I had not been that scared since Jaws.

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😅

The only reason to walk out of The Blair Witch Project is because of how absolutely terrible it is. I have never understood why people like it so much. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just don’t think its good. And I am very much in the minority.

"The Sound of Music" scared the heck out of me.

Pretty good selection. As a teenager, I saw The Exorcist in a cineman in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in late 1973. It was very disturbing to me and lots of others. I left before the end, visiting the bathroom while waiting for my brother to come out (he stayed to the end). In the men's bathroom I saw teenage girl looking totally distressed and very upset. Seemed unaware of where she was. Many others were in the lobby. This film spooked me for months.

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,

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.

Thanks for the good tip! I have to watch "Freaks"!

The British film "Tales from the Crypt" from 1972 when I was 10 years old. My 15-year-old friend got me in as my legal guardian. Also 'Frogs' w Ray Milland... the tarantulas.

I've heard lots of stories from veterans crying and having visceral PTSD reactions to Saving Private Ryan, and it often makes me wonder if we should really show the horrors of war to everyday man. Most would never want to put their loved ones in harm's way, never mind have them receive the same trauma they have without ever setting foot on the battlefield. That being said, it was incredibly well-made, realistic, and truly showed how much was sacrificed for our freedom.

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

Ok I’m adding my own here cause I loved it. I’m a massive psychological thriller fan. The more thought provoking and disturbing the better. I’m 52 and was on a date at the theatre when Silence of the lambs debuted. Omg! You have to remember… for the time it was one of the first realistic psychical horror that pushed the boundaries of that genre. Literally people were so horrified they were walking out .. I witnessed them leaving … and as much as I loved it, I was almost close behind them at the door. I couldn’t sleep for two weeks after seeing it but had this morbid love for it at the same time. It is now one of my favourites and set the stage for my love of the mentally macabre.

The Passion of the Christ was the hardest one for me to watch. I still don't even plan on seeing it again. It hurt in ways I didn't know I could be hurt

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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 😱😱😱

Surprised Psycho isn't on the list. That shower scene scared the crap out of me as a kid and could not take showers (baths only) until my late teens. I heard many ran for the exits when it was first released.

I think that sausage party should be on here because I heard parents took their kids to it thinking it was a children's movie and were running for the doors once it started

You failed to list the main contender for first place. Ridley Scott's Alien had the public and reporters running from the theatresback in 1979.

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"

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.

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.

The one movie that I walked out from was footloose. Coming from a very religious family and seeing John Lithgow at the pulpit brought back so many bad memories I had to run out, probably scared the girl I was with to death.

I ran out of a theater once during a movie until I realized it was my home theater......

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.

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.

Two movies that I walked out of: "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS," (1975) and "Caligula" (1979). They were both movies that aired during my college years. My college roommate and I were curious about them, and walked out of both of them.

A bunch of my fellow employees and I had a “Cloverfield Exodus” after our post- Xmas staff party to see Cloverfield. It was memorable.

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!

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).

"Mother!" was too brutal for words. Great example of a director wanting to torture their audience.

I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying at the veteran that for 70 years is suffering from trauma he "doesn't want to bring home to his family". 🤧😭 Also, my response to the "found footage" style of film-making- "Please, stop..."

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.

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.

And the one movie I came closest to walking out of didn't even make the list - Pans Labyrinth!! It was the scene when someone's face was bashed in with a bottle...people around us were also covering their faces and moaning.....

Bruno was one that I saw the most people walk out of. When his mini me swung around and said BRUNO at the camera the rest of the theater cleared out leaving myself, our group of friends and about 4 other people in the theater

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