TV or film moment that haunts you? *SPOILERS for various films and TV programmes* Title edited by MNHQ

[JEdgarHoover]

I just watched the parachute death from Hollyoaks. I’ve never watched Hollyoaks, but oh my god, it was so haunting. I felt terrified.

I’m not sure I recommend anyone watching it! The only other times I’ve really been affected by tv was on This is England the tv series - the rape by the stepfather and then the crack orgy for the young girl with all the skanky men. Both made me feel really ill.

The only other tv that gets to me is Futurama at the end of Jurassic Bark - the dog WAITED 😭

Anything that you couldn’t watch again/haunted you?

I'm with you on Thus is England. Not a program I could ever rewatch.

This doesn't haunt me but I remember watching Pop Idol and being modified at Darius Danesh singing Brittany's hit me baby. We popped it on you tube to show our son and my cheeks were burning with embarrassment for him. Same on those occasions when they shown it on TV complication shows. Its awful.

I’m going to have to hunt that down @PJsEveryday. I wonder what happened to Darius?

I don't know but he seemed to do OK on the musicals circuit. He changed his surname I think but now sure what too. I'll need to Google

This is a really good thread idea.
I hope it fills up
This Is England. Oh, my, goodness...
I agree with the above but there were so many other subtle, nuanced moments that were beautiful, but heart breaking. Vicky McClure is a GOD in this.
On a trivial note, the last scene in The Ring, ( Japanese version) is perfectly horrific. Never seen anything like it.

Where the mother is finding homes for her children in 'who will love my children' and the whole of the 'boy whose skin fell off'

quite recently i watched the aftermath and i cant stop thinking about it

I was coming on to say the rape scene in This is England.

Sophie’s Choice.
And bits out of films with scenes of sadistic cruelty. I will never watch such things any more, since bits of films I saw decades ago still haunt me.

All of ‘Come And See’

I haven't seen any of the ones PPs have mentioned.

For me it's the scene in Titanic where the mum in steerage settles her children to sleep in bed & tells them a story saying that more lifeboats will come for them soon. Knowing full well they are all going to die.

I purposely don't watch TV or films if others have said they make them cry. Life is sad enough. I watch TV to cheer me up.

The scene in the pianist where he buys one piece of fudge and cuts it in five as they wait for the train and its the last few moments they spend together

All episodes of 'Duty Free' it was awful

Recently watched 'threads' thinking it couldn't possibly be as chilling and haunting as everyone makes out... It is.
Completely soul destroyingly horrific and endless utter misery I thought there might be a glimmer of some kind of hope at the end but no just more crushing darkness.
Never again.

The botched execution on The Green Mile was bloody awful.

Also remember being really distressed as a child at the end of Edward Scissorhands when he gets left to live alone in the castle.

It's a sin the Welsh character I sobbed I felt actually heartbreak got him and his poor mum.

Enduring Love - the balloon crash scene & where they find one of the passengers

This Is England, like PPs

American History X - the kerb scene

Pretty much all of Requiem For A Dream

Watership Down

Threads

Colin's death in It's A Sin

Neighbours where the ?19year old one of stone fishes cousins or something, dies of a brain haemorrhage sitting out in the street in a street party and the camera pans back as no one noticed he had died.

Threads.

Just all of it. Ive only ever watched it once in my early 20's and afterwards I was scared to go into our dark bedroom. It's horrific and gave me the jitters for ages. It's the fact that being an early 80s baby this was all a very real possibility. And guess still lcould be.

I'd also ad When the Wind Blows. That's even worse because it's so beautiful as it's a cartoon. Then BAM.

@VeganVeal

All episodes of 'Duty Free' it was awful

😂😂😂😂😂

Agree with the Hollyoaks parachute jump. Saw it when was first on..wasnt expecting it to be quite like that..at all. The music...way the camera stayed with her during it. Horrible

@Bells3032

The scene in the pianist where he buys one piece of fudge and cuts it in five as they wait for the train and its the last few moments they spend together

Yes!

Sons of Anarchy, when Opie looks at Jax one last time before he dies 😞

Schindler's List. All of it basically, but especially seeing the little girl in her red coat dead on the wheelbarrow.
Beaches, when Barbara Hershey dies.
Philadelphia, at the end when Tom Hanks dies, there's footage of him as a child and Bruce Springsteen music plays.

I know all these moments are coming, but can't help sobbing EVERY TIME.

@TheCatsHaveEyes

Recently watched 'threads' thinking it couldn't possibly be as chilling and haunting as everyone makes out... It is. Completely soul destroyingly horrific and endless utter misery I thought there might be a glimmer of some kind of hope at the end but no just more crushing darkness. Never again.

Yes, that too. I watched it in the 80s and had to go out to front door to see if everything was OK.

Katherine Howards execution in the Tudors.

The Magdelen (sp?) Sisters.

Tbh Ive seen photos on twitter that haunt me.