Movies And TV Shows You Probably Shouldn't Watch If You Have Trypophobia
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Ninja Scroll is an anime that follows the adventures of Jubei Kibagami as he defends the Tokugawa shogunate from the Eight Devils of Kimon. One of those devils, Mushizo, is a creature with a hornet nest on his hunchback.
This character description is enough to gross out people who are afraid of bugs and dense clusters of holes. Thanks, Japan!
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The 1985 B-movie The Stuff is a classic gross-out movie. When a mysterious substance begins oozing out of the ground, people can't stop eating it. The substance takes over their bodies and turns them into mindless zombies; their bodies are literal shells of who they used to be.
At one point, a character named Hobbs (Garrett Morris) reveals he's been taken over by The Stuff and his head breaks apart, exposing a web of sores that birth a torrent of white goo. Yeah, no thanks.
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In the Season 4 premiere of The X-Files, "Herrenvolk," trypophobics are treated to a series of visuals certain to disturb them. Towards the beginning of the episode, a body is discovered that's been ravaged by bee stings. The man lies on the side of the road covered in sores, bumps, and writhing bees. It's mega gross.
Near the end of the episode, Mulder (David Duchovny) is actually chased through a honeycomb, which seems like a bit of a slap in the face to any trypophobics who made it through the first 30 minutes.
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It feels like the entirety of American Horror Story: Cult was written to gross out trypophobics. Ally (Sarah Paulson) is a woman who's terrified of holes. She explains to her therapist the coral in her office is "triggering," and in one of the most affecting scenes in the series, she sees a souffle that bleeds from its holes.
Before there was even a trailer for the season, AHS: Cult was triggering trypophobics with its advertising that portrayed tongues and brains filled with holes. Nope.
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Black Panther may be one of the most important films of the 21st century, but you should probably sit out the viewing experience if you suffer from trypophobia.
The film's much-ballyhooed villain, Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), is one of the best bad guys in the history of Marvel, but his body scarification will make you hurl if you've got a fear of bumps.
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According to Redditor /u/AmondaPls, the character design in Chicken Run was enough to turn them off stop-motion claymation forever. The tight cluster of feathers on each character looks almost exactly like the skin of a strawberry, a naturally occurring trigger of trypophobia.
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Kuso
Photo: Brainfeeder FilmsKuso is easily the grossest movie ever made. Even if you aren't a trypophobic, there's something in the movie that's going to make you rethink what you eat for dinner.
The wild collection of circular pockmarks on the faces of every character feels scientifically designed to ward off trypophobics. If you have a fear of holes or bumps, you'll want to steer clear of this film.
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The last place you'd expect to see a set of triggering, oozing holes is in a DC Comics team-up film. Enter Suicide Squad, a movie about Gotham's worst villains coming together to stop June Moone, a woman who's been possessed by a witch.
The most triggering thing in the movie is the face of Killer Croc, a character who was basically designed to make trypophobics barf.
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Freddy Krueger doesn't just haunt the dreams of the children of Elm Street, he also invades the minds of anyone who's more than a little grossed out by the craters that form in the cheese of a bubbling pizza. Krueger's always looked disgusting, but the peak of his triggering visage comes in the series' third film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
At one point, Freddy appears in the dream of a girl named Taryn, opens up gaping holes on her arms, and injects her with killer blue liquid.
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Coneheads, the 1993 film based on a sketch that first appeared in Season 2 of Saturday Night Live, doesn't exactly seem like the kind of movie that would send trypophobics running for the door. That's exactly why it's so dangerous. Early on in the film, Dan Aykroyd's character, Beldar, attempts to Anglicize himself by getting all of his teeth capped.
The dentist scene in this movie is wildly triggering for anyone with a fear of holes. It's also just gross to look inside Dan Aykroyd's mouth.
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The Shape of Water concerns a mute custodian (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with a fish-man played by Doug Jones. It's a love story that borrows from some of the greatest Universal horror films, and it could be that influence gave director Guillermo del Toro the idea to make the fish-man look so gross.
His whole body basically requires a trypophobia trigger warning.
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Aside from the whole corpse that comes back to life and eats people thing, there's a lot of terrifying stuff in Hellraiser, especially if you have a fear of irregular patterns. Pinhead's segmented face dotted with nails at every cross section is enough to creep out trypophobics, but the addition of the Lament Configuration (the puzzle box that draws Pinhead out of his dimension) could probably drive them insane.
The puzzle box is segmented like a Rubik's Cube, but it also contains a set of geometric designs resembling the cluster of bumps that send trypophobics reaching for their barf bags.
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If you don't think Holes should be on a list of movies that gross out trypophobics, then you clearly don't remember the opening credits well enough.
The film opens with a shot of a desert filled with holes on holes on holes; seriously, it resembles the pods of a lotus flower.
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If you don't suffer from trypophobia, then you're unlikely to know there's an entire segment of the population who can't even look at James Gunn's effortlessly fun film Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2. Redditor /u/TheNameIsWiggles describes the movie as "a nightmare for Trypophobics," as both the character and set design make it almost impossible to watch.
