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?

@glasshalfsomething

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

I think I know which one you mean.. It made me cross my legs...

Trainspotting - the scene with the baby. I can watchvit again, espenow that I have my own DC.

My Girl, a friend of mine died when we were about the age they are in the film.

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A scene from a programme called One Summer, which I think I was far too young to watch. Two teenage boys run away from home and end up somewhere in the countryside. I remember there's some kind of car accident and one of the boys is trapped and dies in a burning car. I had nightmares and can still remember them trying to get the door open and the panic as they realised he was trapped.

Bianca giving birth to their stillborn baby in Eastenders. I can remember at the time thinking that must be the worst thing anyone could ever have to do and it stayed with me. Sadly, years later, I had to do it myself and I hope I never have to do anything worse.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - when Cedric's Dad shouts "That's my boy. MY BOY!" and it kills me ever time.

Audition. The scene with the needles. Only time I have ever seen anything in film/TV that made me run to the bathroom.

Aidens suicide in Corrie!

Episode of Luther where the killer is in the attic... still think of that whole scene from time to time.

When Jennifer Melfi is raped in The Sopranos.

An episode of Lewis when a child had cut off their sister’s hands with a paid of dressmaking scissors as they thought they were helping stop scratching.

A very old film about the war when someone was being tortured and had their finger nails ripped out. That was bad enough but, I think, they managed to escape, went over a cliff but were managing to hold on by their fingertips, only for the torturer to stand on their fingers so they had to let go.

Another very old film about vikings. They put a woman’s head through a thing like stocks and pinned her hair (in plaits) to the front so that she couldn’t move. They then took it turns to throw axes at her hair to cut the plaits. I don’t know if she got hit in the face as had to leave the room and that scene still haunts me. I don’t do horror films or anything with suspense these days!

The film "Hostiles" when Rosamund Pike's character is escaping with her young children. Sheer terror.

Oooh and a really really old one, was home and away I think must have been the 90s, and Blake has a girlfriend that has leukaemia, she's dying and wants to sit on the beach to watch the sun come up and she dies there with him, broke my heart I must have not been very old. Always stayed with me.

In one of the episodes of the first series of “Call the Midwife”, when the stories were still from Jennifer Worth’s memoirs, the voice of hit at the end said something like “Mrs Smith’s 9th pregnancy required in her first live baby, as she was able to have a c section on the new NHS”. That storyline was about a lady who had no difficulty in getting pregnant, but whose pelvis was deformed due to childhood polio, and all the previous babies had died in labour.

I watched that as I was feeding my 3 month old dd who’d been delivered by an emcs under GA on the NHS, after I’d haemorrhaged and her heart stopped. The surgeon told me afterwards that there had only a 50/50 chance that either of us would survive, and slimmer that we both would. That CTMW voiceover really resonated.

Gary Lucy's character's rape in Hollyoaks

Just thought of another.. The scene in the hand that rocks the cradle where Rebecca de Mornay rips up the proposal in the bathroom and goes all out psycho with the plunger. Her face gives me the creeps.

The first two to spring to mind are scenes in titanic - the Irish lady telling her little children a story in their bed as the ship sinks (choking up just typing that), and the violin band returning to eachother after saying their farewells (because it actually happened )

From hollyoaks when the lad, whose face I see but name I forget, gets raped in the park. Its caught up with my own trauma and the fact that it can happen to boys.

Also cold feet, the idea that from one moment of happiness the next can be heartbreak

Gus Fring’s death on Breaking Bad was one of the most shocking scenes that I remember, and I rarely remember stuff that I see on TV. Just the way he walked calmly out of the room after the bomb went off. And then you see his face!

@eandz13

The first two to spring to mind are scenes in titanic - the Irish lady telling her little children a story in their bed as the ship sinks (choking up just typing that), and the violin band returning to eachother after saying their farewells (because it actually happened )

Oh gosh the band saying farewell was heartbreaking.

@EnjoyingTheSilence

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

Yes! Horrendous and haunting.

The bit in The Road when they find the house with all the food and the people in the cellar that are obviously being fattened up and the boy doesn't understand why his dad won't stay there and except the food.
All of handmaids tale. Especially the first scene where her daughter is taken.
Ugly crying the whole way through Beloved, but especially the scene where the white soldiers (?) drink her milk, something so utterly inhumane and degrading about that scene. Not sure it made it into the film but in the book it was so haunting.

@Welcometotheterrorzone

The bit in The Road when they find the house with all the food and the people in the cellar that are obviously being fattened up and the boy doesn't understand why his dad won't stay there and except the food. All of handmaids tale. Especially the first scene where her daughter is taken. Ugly crying the whole way through Beloved, but especially the scene where the white soldiers (?) drink her milk, something so utterly inhumane and degrading about that scene. Not sure it made it into the film but in the book it was so haunting.

Agree, and her husband washing his face in the water. Agree about the scenes in the titanic, the examples of bravery.

Showing my age now, but towards the end of "The Deerhunter", when Christopher Walken's character plays Russian Roulette - for real.
Also, most of Shawshank Redemption, and The Sixth Sense.

Amistad. The disposal of the ‘excess cargo’. Something I will never remove from my mind.

Requiem for a dream. The scene where she is selling herself for drugs but tbh the rest of its is very distressing. Also very clever how it runs the story of prescription drugs alongside illegal drugs.

The anal rape in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The male rape episode of Jamie in Outlander.
I could not sleep after watching Blackfish- I had no idea what the film was about when I started watching it.