10 Movies Audiences Couldn't Handle
6. Presence
Pushing boundaries is always a part of horror and thriller movies. The point is to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, for them to be uncomfortable and uncertain of what's going to come next, though sometimes they are pushed from the edge of their seats off it altogether and out of the cinema.
This was the case with Stephen Soderbergh's 2025 outing, Presence. Haunted house movies may be nothing new, but here Soderbergh told the story from the perspective of the house itself, and offered a new angle on this type of story.
The result was an incredibly tense 85 minutes that critics loved, but that some audience members found too much to take. Multiple people walked out of the screening at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, unable to handle the sheer intensity it offered. Even Lucy Liu struggled with watching it back, and she was the star of the show.
As is the case with a few of the entries on this list, such walk-outs were probably viewed as a job well done for the creative minds behind the film.