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?

@PamDenick that was The Pianist.

@oohmama I believe that was Dante's Peak.

Threads has never left me in almost 40 years(you can buy the DVD on Amazon)
The mass hanging scene and the pregnant rape in Handmaids tale
Colins death in Its a sin
Afterlife where Ricky Gervais gets high and imagines hes lying in his dead wifes lap while rocket man by Elton John is playing had me sobbing for hours. The scene where you see the dead drug addict in the garage was also so graphic and unexpected it teally shocked me in a way i didnt really think i could be anymore.

Deliverance. Amazing film but don’t think I could watch it again

@Kiki275

Spooks where the young female agent has her hand & face deep fried. Years later I still think of it.

Came on to say this. Was grim

@WetBench

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.

This. Hardest scene in Neighbours ever.

Disclaimer - I have always watched Neighbours and LOVE it

Happy Valley... the young cop getting run over.

Paul Dano's 'remote' torture in 'Looper'.

Pretty much all of 'The Bicycle Thieves'.

Bruce Jones' failed audition in 'The Full Monty'.

Bloke getting boiled in oil in 'The Tudors'. Can't stand historical drama but watched that scene by accident one night. Fucking horrific.

Mare Winningham abandoning her daughter in a park so SS will take care of her and hopefully lift her out of poverty. TV movie.

'No Place Like Home' with Christine Lahti. Starts sad. Doesn't get better.

'One Magic Christmas'. Desperate father at the gas station, trying to sell a gas stove for petrol money. Son sat in the car.

Ageing travelling salesman dying in the Connor kitchen. 'Roseanne'.

I immediately thought of the Green Mile, which another pp has already mentioned, I could never watch that film again, the execution scene was very upsetting.

Yes 100% Sybil’s death in Downton, truly horrendous.

Also agree with whoever said the Japanese version of the ring (obviously more terrifying than horrifying) and the Japanese version of the grudge is also bad too.

Conversationally is it possible to watch holly oaks episodes anywhere (free)?

Soon as I saw this I thought of This is England. Never seen that film again.

Life is beautiful- the ending gets me every time. I have never been able to watch Pans Labyrinth more than once.

The end of the Wicker Man! DH put that on during my first week after having dd and I was very hormonal. It was horrifying!

@Veryverycalmnow

The episode of Inside Number 9 with Sheridan Smith in. I kept thinking about it for ages afterwards.

That is the best episode - so well done

Requiem for a dream - watched at the cinema after a teenage break up. DM turned to me and said thinks could be worse! Watched it with a friend a few years later and struggled to finish it. Incredible soundtrack.

The Night Of - difficult viewing. Riz Ahmed is incredible. Don't want to give anything away so hard to say more!

Tig's daughter being burned to death in Sons of Anarchy. I think I'm pretty hardcore when it comes to nasty things in films but that made me feel sick. I had to go and wake my daughter up to cuddle her after.

I watched a film called Gretna on Netflix few weeks ago.. The creepy allegedly French/Hungarian lady.. When she starts speaking Hungarian in the restaurant when she's stalking the girl.. Don't know why.. But it terrified me.

Watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by mistake once, got sucked in after recognising the actor who played Bishop Brennan in Father Ted 😂. Was absolutely devastated. Not comedy, obv.

Have always been warned about Threads but it isn't easy to find. There is a good podcast, Atomic Hobo, that is working its way through it in four minute stints so I've been listening to that instead.

I'm never watching Threads. It came out when I was 15 and my mum banned me from watching it without hesitation. I didn't even want to.

Lucky. I was forced to watch it in Social Ed (as it was called back then) when I was 14 or 15. I believe my dad went up to the school about it...

Arthur Fowler’s breakdown in Eastenders. It gave me a horrendous recurring nightmare involving an upside down garden fork on his allotment and I can still remember it now, 30+ years later

Yes OP! Jurassic Bark EVERY TIME. We have to skip it. It's somehow worse with the DVD commentary on. I can't bear it

Also agree with PP - the Spooks deep-frying scene!

There was this one-off drama with Pauline Quirk (in the 90s, I think? I feel like I might've made this up now I type it...) about a really gruesome grisly murder, I'm pretty sure it was called The Sculptress? The very final scene when her conviction is finally overturned and she hugs the woman who's fought for her case to be re/examined, she does this look to camera as if to say "Yep, I did it! I murdered them all! Now I'm free!" and it just haunted me so much as a teen.

I just watched the parachute scene on YouTube. Sarah looked much like Keira Knightly

The force feeding scene in Suffragette still haunts me

There’s a scene with Charlize Theron in Monster than still haunts me to this day.