10 Films That Want You To HATE Them

6. Mother! (2017)

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A baby's neck snapping before it is devoured by a hungry crowd.

If ever a sentence defined not just the content but the overarching feel of a particular cinematic experience, it was this.

In short, it is the story of how a house-proud woman (J-Law) has her life turned upside down as strange guests turn up at her and her famous husband's secluded country mansion. As the people pile in, things take a turn for the weird and darkness and violence descend upon this once-quiet home.

Darren Aronofsky is not known for mollycoddling his viewers, but Mother! turns it up to 11, intentionally creating a profoundly unsettling experience from the off that only gets unbearably worse and worse the more you realise it's just an overblown retelling of events from The Bible with Lawrence being Mother Earth.

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