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 LOVED The Storyteller!

I remember watching a fucking disturbing film called Mum and Dad.. It was utterly vile and horrific and actually makes me want to vomit thinking about it.
I can't even remember how I came to watch it, I think it was with someone I was seeing at the time.. That relationship was short lived. Properly messed up film..

Killing Eve when the detective is following her, they go into a club and she then turns to look at him, then stabs him.

Oh. The rape scene in Scum as well.. 😭

@aConcernedPrude

As a child I accidentally watched a scene from 'Soldier, Soldier' where an unexploded hand-grenade landed amongst a group of the troops in the hills. One of the soldiers threw himself on top of it, I remember I didn't understand the logic of it at the time but my mum then explained and I found it so sad and haunting.

I remember watching this too! I must have been about seven.

Theatre of Blood-1970s horror film with Vincent Price. One of the scenes was a victim being drowned in a vat of wine. Awful.

The Boy From Space-1970s children’s educational film, from the ‘Look and Read’ series.The scene where the adult alien chases the kids scared the living daylights out of me.

Masters of the universe movie (he-man). Years ago at the cinema in tunbridge wells when I was a pre teen. These horrible bat like men/creatures whose wings surrounded their prey. Then they sucked them dry and bones fell to the floor!! Haha!

Watership Down cartoon.. blood dripping of white rabbit teeth!

The Evil Dead movie at my friends house when I was a teen. The Forest actually raped a woman!! I mean, come on!!

Nightmare on Elm street.. they wake up from their nightmare. But Freddy is still there. Complete headfuck!

Silent Hill. Just no!! Too gory.

I was horrified by ‘the lonely bones’ which is about child abduction. I didn’t watch it all as I found it terrible. I do t think if it often now, but every now and then the idea of it comes into my mind and upsets me.

I find TV makes a big impression on me and once iVe seen something that upsets me, I can’t get it out of my head and my mind is polluted. I try not to watch 18 films with a violent theme. Often my DH wants to watch something and has to see it alone, as he knows if it won’t be suitable for me.

I left the cinema during ‘Braveheart’ and I felt it was so realistically horrible. Whenever I think something is terrible but also really does/did happen, that’s when I feel upset. I think it was a scene with someone being hung, drawn and quartered.

Doyoumind
Completely agree with Midsommar - very unsettling.

There's a line from It's a Sin, "That's what people will forget, that it was so much fun."

Sorry ‘The Lovely Bones’ not lonely bones!

Many years ago “The Woman in Black” was dramatised for television, there was a scene where the solicitor is lying in bed and a ball bounces across the room. He says “Nathaniel?” and she appears inches from his face screaming. I couldn’t sleep without the lights on for weeks, I was pregnant with DS1 and deeply disturbed by the children dying too.

Strangely I had a flashback of it, when I had a very high temperature with flu about 6 years ago, I thought she was in the bedroom. I would never watch the film.

Agree with Threads and the last episode of Blackadder.

The Brave - Johnny Depp & Marlon Brando film that no one else seems to have seen.

Generally grim premise, but the final scene where he is going down in a big factory elevator definitely haunts me.

And yes to the scene in Spooks and Colin in 'It's a Sin'.

I remember watching V with my mum during the summer holidays. It was the 80s and I was still in primary school. The scene that got me was when one of the aliens picked up a rat, stroked it for a bit and swallowed it whole. Her mouth opens wider than it should in a scary way. It gave me nightmares for weeks.

I am completely ridiculous to be frightened of this as a grown woman, but the scene in The Wizard of Oz where the Wicked Witch of the West is cackling and the awful flying monkey things are flying out of the castle.

Stills makes my heart beat faster today.

I am hopeless at watching movie scenes with violence and will leave the room or cover my eyes and ears.

I also cannot stand animals being hurt or killed.

You’ve reminded me @lovefall of the film Return to Oz, I found the whole film terrifying as a child & had nightmares for months

This is really random and not at all a pivotal scene in the series, but when breaking bad was on I remember a scene where Jesse (a main character) breaks into the house of these drug addicts, possibly to attack them? I don’t remember. But there is a little toddler boy there and he’s been left amongst all the filth just to play around by himself. He sits watching adverts/tv shopping channels because nothing else works on the tv. Of all the stuff that happens on Breaking Bad in the early series that’s the bit I always remember, I always remember Jesse yelling at the mother why don’t you get him some good tv to watch. I don’t know why.

Also, having watched recently with the dc’s, the bit in the His Dark Materials series where Lyra and Roger see each other and run to cuddle each other in their big coats. Again, it’s not actually a particularly important moment, but it’s just that they’re so happy and childlike and have no idea what’s about to happen to them.

Stella Does Tricks, disturbing & depressing.

@Quartz2208

This ages me but Tottie The Story of a Dollshouse a kids programme in the early 1980s which showed a family of dolls living in a dolls house. Until one got melted in front of a fire alive rescuing her son from a fire another doll had caused.

It was brutal and horrible

I didn’t know there was a TV adaptation. The children’s book was disturbing enough. Poor Birdie!

Another children’s book that haunted me was a Worzel Gummidge one. Worzel made friends with a doll called Dolly Clothespeg and she was really sweet, not haughty like Aunt Sally.

But in the end, Worzel goes off with Aunt Sally. Dolly Clothespeg ends up as part of a fair sideshow, having wooden balls thrown at her. She can’t move, but a single tear slides down her cheek.

Mine are more sad unsettling than scary unsettling though - the scariest things I watch are 80s movies, so just don’t really have much in that department!

“Sunset Song” is a bit brutal. The mum kills her 2 babies. The main character is raped in it as well.
I’m never rewatching “Trainspotting.” I don’t want to watch babies suffering even if it’s not real.

@Kerplunkk Return to Oz still freaks me out thinking about it!

Which also reminds me that I still also get freaked out by The Craft (same actress - Fairuza Balk), particularly one scene where she is flying and has the widest, sinister smile/laugh.

Not TV/film, but a book. Is that allowed? Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry. It was harrowing. I've read it years ago, and it still lingers.

The nail gun scene in American Horror Story - Cult.

The little boy with the scalpel in Pet Semetary.

The hobbling scene in Misery, every time the film is on I have to look away. Kathy Bates is chilling.

'This is really random and not at all a pivotal scene in the series, but when breaking bad was on I remember a scene where Jesse (a main character) breaks into the house of these drug addicts, possibly to attack them? I don’t remember. But there is a little toddler boy there and he’s been left amongst all the filth just to play around by himself. He sits watching adverts/tv shopping channels because nothing else works on the tv. Of all the stuff that happens on Breaking Bad in the early series that’s the bit I always remember, I always remember Jesse yelling at the mother why don’t you get him some good tv to watch. I don’t know why.'

The mother crushes the father's head with an ATM, and then passes out. Jesse (who I think was knocked unconscious) wakes up and calls the police, takes the kid and sits him on the porch, and tells him to have a good life. Then you hear the sirens as Jesse runs away. He pretty much saves the kid. I love that episode.