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

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JEdgarHoover · 21/08/2021 17:02

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?

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Cashewcookie · 21/08/2021 23:18

The Kite Runner.
When the little boy turns up with tea for his employer.
Couldn’t watch any further.

Maskless · 21/08/2021 23:19

The bit in Cabaret when the Hitler youth sings Tomorrow Belongs to Me and everyone in the beer garden joining in and ending with a Nazi salute. Shivers up my spine, goosebumps all over, every single time.

Itawapuddytat · 21/08/2021 23:22

[quote Maskless]The bit in Cabaret when the Hitler youth sings Tomorrow Belongs to Me and everyone in the beer garden joining in and ending with a Nazi salute. Shivers up my spine, goosebumps all over, every single time.

[/quote] Yes, I remember that scene well. All up joining in and doing the Nazi salute, with the exception of one old man, who keeps sitting down, looking down and shaking his head with sadness. He HAD BEEN there, he knows what's coming and how bad it will be and how it will end.
Elderflower14 · 21/08/2021 23:23

Forgot to add a TV drama called This Little Life about a prematurely born little boy... Terribly sad and brought back memories of losing ds1 at two hours old... 😢 😢 😢

BrilloPaddy · 21/08/2021 23:26

If a show/film says it contains distressing scenes, I just turn over nowadays.

I went to see The Ring at the cinema with a friend. She hadn't really explained what it was about, and I was feeling a bit delicate at the time due to some family issues and ill health. By the time it ended, I thought I was going to be sick and could barely drive home. DH took one look at me and thought I'd written the car off. It wasn't even that scary (though I'm still shocked it was a 15 certificate) but it just got right inside my head and stayed there. It was weeks before I could sleep properly.

Zhampagne · 21/08/2021 23:28

There was a TV drama of Boudicca about twenty years ago with Alex Kingston. There was an absolutely brutal scene where Boudicca is sentenced to a flogging and her daughters to be raped. I have never forgotten the daughters tied down and the queue of soldiers waiting to take their turn. Absolutely horrifying.

Freddofrog12 · 21/08/2021 23:29

Orphan when she puts the makeup on., a film called mother the ending is horrifying and kill bill with the eyeball scene. Never again

Clearthinking · 21/08/2021 23:35

Film called the lovely bones. When the little girl gets captured by the horrible neighbour bloke in the field, down the hole into a shed and he stands in the way and just smiles. Chills me. She was trapped no way out poor little girl vs bigger stronger man

Zeev · 21/08/2021 23:39

1970's version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The scene with the little dog.

Thirtyrock39 · 21/08/2021 23:41

@labtest57

Years ago I watched a two part miniseries called I Know my First Name is Steven. It was the true story of a seven year old boy abducted and held captive for 7 years. I was absolutely haunted by it, and over 30 years later still think about it. Fiction wise, the death scene at the beginning of Cliffhanger, Damon's death in Brookside, the end scene in The Champ, and The Body episode of Buffy
I remember 'I know my first name is Stephen' I watched it when I was about 13 at the start of the summer holidays and it really stuck in my mind all summer. One of the most haunting things I've seen recently is the trailer for the documentary about the cruise ship that had a covid outbreak right at the start of the pandemic - it's got clips of everyone on board just enjoying a cruise going to exercise classes, having meals etc and then suddenly cuts to a hand held camera of people in hazmat suits- it's so haunting !! It made me think about the videos people mist have on phones and stuff from when things started to get weird eg there must be video clips where there's someone in the background wearing a face mask when they really weren't a normal thing to see here
TheMamaYo · 21/08/2021 23:42

@Athenajm80 It was very well written, and really made me question a lot of things. So interesting what you said, and I can imagine not a lot of people would want to come forward and admit to having those kind of thoughts, either.

grapewine · 21/08/2021 23:49

Kids.

Mummyoflittledragon · 21/08/2021 23:50

I vividly remember one of the hammer house of horror from when I was a primary school kid and allowed to stay up late one night. What were my parents thinking? These are listed as certificate 15?

I loved tales of the unexpected, someone mentioned them as being scary. I was obvs prepped for them from my cert 15 movie as they weren’t scary to me.

MobyDicksTinyCanoe · 21/08/2021 23:51

The death scene in cucumber.

Bloodypunkrockers · 21/08/2021 23:51

A film based on the true story of Irena Sendler with Anna Paquin

There's a scene where she is being interrogated by the gestapo and her screams wee so haunting and disturbing

Also a scene for a documentary the Holocaust. It was film of a mother being booted towards a truck while her toddler is trying to catch up with her. Heartbreaking

I also agree with all the posters who have mentioned the 12 Days of Christine. I don't think I'm able to watch it again. It was perfect but I'm welling up just thinking about it

7thSojourn · 21/08/2021 23:52

Not a moment as such but the entire series.. A show called 'Six Feet Under' It was about a family that owned a funeral home, It dealt with a different death each episode. Lots of moments stick out, It isn't gory, but it is sad. Made me think about life and the people in my life. Never cried so much at my tv before!

grapewine · 21/08/2021 23:54

Years ago I watched a two part miniseries called I Know my First Name is Steven. It was the true story of a seven year old boy abducted and held captive for 7 years. I was absolutely haunted by it, and over 30 years later still think about it.

And this. I've never forgotten it. It was based on true events, and I still get the rage when I think about it.

It ended tragically for Steven, and his family experienced even more awfulness through his brother Cory Staynor (I won't mention it here, but it was widely publicised and is easily found online).

BastardsDigest · 21/08/2021 23:57

Oooh! There’s a Tales of the Unexpected That stays with me, the one where all the guests in the B&B are murdered and stuffed… I remember going to the Isle of White and thinking it was eerily like that episode and being terrified that was my fate.

More recently, quite a few episodes of inside no.9 get under my skin. But that’s part of it’s charm and genius.

SemperIdem · 22/08/2021 00:02

Black Swan - the scene where Natalie Portman’s character peeled her finger like a banana will haunt me for the rest of my life

Molehillfromamountain · 22/08/2021 00:03

Manchester By The Sea, pretty much the whole film. I was really haunted by this film. Sad

FMSucks · 22/08/2021 00:04

The Killing of a Sacred Deer - I was scarred for life after watching it!

DumbestBlonde · 22/08/2021 00:05

@Yutes

Dead Man’s Shoes. It’s brilliant but such a hard watch.
I have seen this a couple of times,; brilliantly played by Paddy Consadine. The scene at the end as he camera draws away from the top of the hill. The "castle" there used to have a zoo, as you can tell - as he meets his end in a small enclosure - which we visited several times. It is not too far from me and stands empty now, and I often drive up there for the views out over Matlock Bath and the wider Peak District - but find the spot sooo chilling - mainly due to that film.

The castle, in it's dark mystery dominates the skyline above the Derwent valley.

TV or film moment that haunts you? *SPOILERS for various films and TV programmes* Title edited by MNHQ
Couldhavebeenme3 · 22/08/2021 00:06

@Kiki275

Spooks where the young female agent has her hand & face deep fried. Years later I still think of it.
Fuck me yes. I'd only just turned it on to see what all the hype was, and BAM, that scene. Chilled me to the bone, turned it off and never watched another episode.

Steel Magnolias, all of it

The railway children, 'Daddy, oh my daddy'

Wishingwell75 · 22/08/2021 00:09

@iklboo - yep you're correct on every one, I was going to comment the same films/TV.
Requiem for a Dream gives me the heebie geebies now, years later!
@veganveal you are so wrong about Duty Free, it's an absolute bloody classic, it's sitcom class personified! To ease you out of the horrific misconception you're stuck on I am going to do you a solid gold favour and send you the complete series - on VHS! 😁
No, it probably was a bit shit, was it the same holiday or did they keep going back to the same place- that's what I can't remember.

Cattenberg · 22/08/2021 00:14

I couldn’t watch the final scenes of Let Him Have It. I had to leave the house and go for a walk. It really upset me.

My friend wanted us to see a German film called 13 Minutes, about an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. The torture scenes were bad enough, but there’s also a hanging scene, shown in real time, that’s absolutely horrific.

Also another German film, Downfall.