{"id":71136,"date":"2025-10-13T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71136\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:42:09","slug":"10-worst-movies-to-watch-while-eating-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71136\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Worst Movies to Watch While Eating, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be nice to have a snack while watching a movie for hopefully obvious reasons. It\u2019s multitasking, in effect, it can help you feel more relaxed, and if the food is good, snacky, addictive, or all of the above, then it can make the movie-watching experience more pleasurable\u2026 though, to some extent, that does also depend on the movie you\u2019ve chosen to watch.<\/p>\n

Enter the following titles, many of them being horror movies or down-and-dirty\/gritty action\/thriller\/sci-fi movies, all of which are best not watched while you’re eating anything. They have intense and sometimes grotesque imagery, and though they’re not all non-stop shocking sights, you’re playing some kind of food and movie-related Russian roulette if you choose to pop things into your mouth (especially substantial or filling things) while these ones are playing on screen.<\/p>\n

10 <\/p>\n

‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ (1988)<\/p>\n

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\n The Salaryman from ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’Image via Kaijyu Theatre<\/p>\n

Tetsuo: The Iron Man<\/a> is ridiculous in how relentless it is, being a body horror movie with a twist, since it\u2019s all very lo-fi and metallic, as the title might lead you to believe. Basically, it follows a guy whose life is falling apart, seeing as more and more of his body is turning to metal, and not in a way that makes him any kind of superhero or anything.<\/p>\n

Also, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is likely to give you a headache, thanks to how loud the score and all the sound effects are, but it\u2019s the combination of gore and hyperactive camerawork that’ll probably make you queasy. It\u2019s not a good movie to watch if you’re squeamish<\/a>, and it\u2019s also best avoided if you have any kind of motion sickness, so best to leave the food in the pantry or fridge until the movie\u2019s over (you don\u2019t have to wait long, at least, since Tetsuo: The Iron Man is under 70 minutes in duration).<\/p>\n

9 <\/p>\n

‘The Substance’ (2024)<\/p>\n

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\n Margaret Qualley as Sue holding a drink inside a strange-looking room while looking stylish in The Substance (2024)Image via Mubi<\/p>\n

There were a good many gruesome and wild movies released in 2024<\/a>, but none pushed things quite as far as The Substance<\/a> (at least out of the ones that were also high-quality). This was almost like an epic body horror movie, playing out over the course of almost 2.5 hours and having a main character going through an immense ordeal, taking a \u201csubstance\u201d that\u2019s supposed to make her look younger, but has some very horrifying consequences.<\/p>\n

Of course they’re horrifying, what with this being a horror movie, but The Substance is also kind of funny and satirical on top of being frequently alarming<\/a>. It\u2019s overwhelming and filling enough on its own. No food needed, especially because anything you do eat during this film \u2013 especially anything that\u2019s caught up in the digestion process in The Substance\u2019s back half \u2013 might not stay down.<\/p>\n

8 <\/p>\n

‘Dead Alive’ (1992)<\/p>\n

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\n Image via\u00a0Trimark Pictures<\/p>\n

You can rely on most zombie movies to have a bit of blood and guts, what with the brains and the eating people and the undead creatures coming apart more easily, but then something like Dead Alive<\/a> really goes the extra mile. This is more violent than the vast majority of zombie movies out there, and though lots of the gross stuff is funny, some of it is genuinely nauseating.<\/p>\n

It even uses food at one point to particularly horrifying effect, because if you\u2019ve seen the custard scene in this, you can\u2019t unsee it; you’re a changed person after that, and a moment of silence for a hypothetical person out there who happened to be eating custard during said scene. Also, this was directed by Peter Jackson<\/a>, about a decade before he went on to do some very famous fantasy movies<\/a> that weren\u2019t really horror (although mildly scary at points), so that\u2019s kind of neat.<\/p>\n

7 <\/p>\n

‘On the Silver Globe’ (1988)<\/p>\n

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There are so many things that can be said about On the Silver Globe, and maybe if it had been completed, there\u2019d be even more to discuss. It was an infamously unfinished film<\/a>, but what was released is still striking and powerful stuff, while also being far from fitting for the faint of heart. It was directed by the same guy who did Possession, after all (Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski), and that one\u2019s also a lot to handle.<\/p>\n

As for On the Silver Globe, it\u2019s kind of an epic, albeit a weird one<\/a>, as it spans a great deal of time and involves humanity trying to establish a new civilization on another planet. Nothing goes to plan, and things devolve over generations, leading to a lot of grim imagery, gruesome violence, and just an overall high level of grit and grime. It\u2019s an exceptional sci-fi movie for sure<\/a>, but also a difficult-to-recommend one.<\/p>\n

6 <\/p>\n

‘Oldboy’ (2003)<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s pretty wild how Oldboy<\/a> has become one of the most popular international movies of the century<\/a> so far, considering how extreme it gets with some of its content. It always has a reason to push boundaries, and there\u2019s not much here that feels like shock value just for the sake of being shocking, but it starts grim and claustrophobic, with a main character imprisoned and going mad for years, and then devolves further from there.<\/p>\n

Beyond some of the gnarly combat and violent imagery, Oldboy is also stomach-churning for how its narrative unfolds.<\/p>\n

When an early scene has him eating a live octopus, you know you’re in for a wild ride. Beyond some of the gnarly combat and violent imagery, Oldboy is also stomach-churning for how its narrative unfolds<\/a>, having a particularly famous (or maybe infamous) final act that hits you with a ton of revelations that are understandably difficult to feel at ease with\u2026 to put it incredibly\/overly mildly.<\/p>\n

5 <\/p>\n

‘The Machine Girl’ (2008)<\/p>\n

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So, Dead Alive had a gross custard scene, and Oldboy had a memorably disturbing scene with a live octopus, and now here\u2019s another gruesome movie that has one of its most alarming scenes involve food: The Machine Girl<\/a>. If you want to continue being a fan of tempura, then it\u2019s advisable not to watch The Machine Girl, because there\u2019s a part here disgusting enough to potentially turn you off that food for life.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s also violent enough that you can\u2019t really describe said scene while keeping things PG, which might make you morbidly curious to watch The Machine Girl\u2026 but you\u2019ve been warned anyway. Elsewhere, it\u2019s also a ridiculously gory body horror movie with blood and body parts spraying and flying around all over the place in every scene or two, but it\u2019s the food-related stuff here that\u2019s probably the hardest to handle.<\/p>\n

4 <\/p>\n

‘The Boxer’s Omen’ (1983)<\/p>\n

Another film where it\u2019s hard to know where to even begin, The Boxer\u2019s Omen is a fantastical horror and martial arts movie<\/a> in one, plus something of a twisted sports film<\/a>, but even that only goes so far. It\u2019s hard to capture how this movie looks and feels with words, and honestly, if there were words to describe it, it\u2019d feel dirty to type and then read those words, so maybe it\u2019s better to just not even try.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got a lot of chaotic action, sure<\/a>, but The Boxer\u2019s Omen is even more concerned with being revolting than entertaining, which is saying a lot, since it\u2019s still pretty damn entertaining. There are sights in this one that can\u2019t be unseen, and just about every new scene has a different thing in it to be disgusted by, making for a relentless watch packed with all sorts of horrors, ultraviolence, and grossout images.<\/p>\n

3 <\/p>\n

‘Raw’ (2016)<\/p>\n

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\n A young woman raising her hand to her bleeding nose in the horror movie Raw (2016)Image via\u00a0Wild Bunch<\/p>\n

The premise of Raw<\/a> already sounds quite alarming, given it\u2019s a very dark coming-of-age sort of story about a teenage girl who\u2019s a vegetarian, tracking the way her life falls apart after she gets a taste for raw meat. Hey, \u201craw\u201d is in the title, so you kind of have to be ready for that, but then it\u2019s the stuff that happens after the inciting incident that proves more unpredictable and disturbing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the story and the sense of things getting worse, sure, but it\u2019s also the detail in Raw that makes it extra horrifying. On paper, some of the stuff that happens here might not sound too much worse than most horror movies, but everything feels more intense, real, and personal here in a way that\u2019s disquieting during the milder moments and genuinely nauseating<\/a> when the film really wants to go for the gut. And the jugular. And your kidney. And then your gut again. One punch after another.<\/p>\n

2 <\/p>\n

‘Cannibal Holocaust’ (1980)<\/p>\n

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\n Robert Kerman and Perry Pirkanen as Professor Harold Monroe and Jack Anders, standing in the woods and recording on a video camera in Cannibal HolocaustImage via United Artists Europa<\/p>\n

There are some things about Cannibal Holocaust that get pretty frequently thrown around, including the notion that it\u2019s one of the more tasteless movies out there<\/a> (if you couldn\u2019t guess from the title alone). And it is tasteless, going further than it needs to in some regards, particularly concerning acts of animal cruelty, but it\u2019s also not just tasteless, as this film does have things to say about the media and treatment of indigenous tribes.<\/p>\n

It’s kind of satirical at times, and also thought-provoking at other points, and then the rest of the time, it\u2019s an assault on the senses and pretty much obscene in its violence<\/a>, both the staged stuff and the animal scenes shot for real. Even those who find themselves able to snack through 99% or more of the horror movies out there might find even a small popcorn to be a bit much when it comes to watching Cannibal Holocaust.<\/p>\n

1 <\/p>\n

‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’ (1989)<\/p>\n

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\n Michael Gambon yells about eating a man while holding cutlery in\u00a0The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her\u00a0Lover.Image via\u00a0Palace Pictures<\/p>\n

In The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover<\/a>, there\u2019s a great deal of in-your-face sexual content<\/a>, tons of food imagery (including some putrid and rotting food), and some infrequent but upsetting violence<\/a>. Sometimes, you get a combination of some or all of the above, and there\u2019s also a true monster of a villain here in case your stomach wasn\u2019t tied up in enough knots \u2013 or put at sufficient unease \u2013 already.<\/p>\n

It’s a movie that throws everything at you, but it throws it all so well, making The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover the rare movie that’ll <\/a>shake pretty much anyone<\/a>, no matter how much one thinks they might’ve seen it all. But it does all this for good reason, and though it\u2019s grotesque, there\u2019s also a ton of beauty to this film and an intelligence with which it tells its messy story, making it maximalist and just a bit of everything all at once in the best of ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can be nice to have a snack while watching a movie for hopefully obvious reasons. It\u2019s multitasking,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-71136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}