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]

Which of these films had you sprinting for the exit? Let us know in the comments!

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[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."

[hecknj]

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..

[gregorylapointe]

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

[intercat]

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.

[GoRicky]

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.

[Quarrel]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[buckmurdock]

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

[TwiddleJones]

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

[Strongbad]

#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)

[damonzap]

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.

[geekuyl]

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.

[KS-yhzx]

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.

[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.

[example]

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

[rupertbob]

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

[Quarrel]

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