Movies You Should NOT Watch With A Hangover

Picture the scene: There's a long weekend in store, and you always like to let your hair down when they finally come along.  You always say "to hell with the consequences" come Monday. It's a day off after all and you don't want to let it pass without incident. So what do you do when the hangover kicks in? You grab some comfort food, get under a blanket and turn on the telly.

Disaster strikes, however. You forgot to update your payment details on Netflix, and you don't have a TV subscription to fall back on. The only thing you can turn to is this specific list of films that just so happen to be on your hard drive.

These are the worst possible movies to sit through but you're already splayed out on the couch and you're not moving. Hungover or not, you must pick one of them.

Trainspotting

A classic British film that was just this year followed up with a sequel, but it is as bleak as it is funny. The scenes where Renton is trying to get over his heroin addiction are particularly head spinning. At one point a toddler is crawling along the ceiling and turns its head 180 degrees. No thanks.

Inception

Few blockbusters have been quite as mind-bending as this effort from director Christopher Nolan. The thought of someone infiltrating your dreams is a no for me.

Kill Bill

Extremely entertaining and bags of fun, but way too much blood. I’m queasy over here!

Donnie Darko

Imagine having visions of a man in a rabbit suit wherever you go, and that rabbit convinces you to commit crimes. Entering into the mind of someone with a mental illness is a bad idea.

Black Swan

Dark and dramatic, this film looks at the obsessive career of a ballerina who is losing her sanity.

Teeth

The main character has a vagina with incisors that take action when she becomes the object of male violence. No more needs to be said.

The Truman Show

A bit lighter than the rest of this list, but seeing a man’s entire world is a television show will instill you with existential dread.

The Lobster

The description reads, “In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.” Who thought of this?!

Girl, Interrupted

Based on the true story of a writer who spent time at a mental hospital, one of the plot’s keywords on the iMDB page is ‘father daughter incest’. Bit much for a Bank Holiday to be honest.

Food Inc.

A great documentary to watch if you never want to eat ever, ever again. Enjoy that fry up.

The Machinist

A film about an industrial worker who hasn’t slept in a year -- why would I want such a severe reminder of my sleep deprivation?

Enjoy your hangover, everyone.