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?

Where did you find it?

I've been looking for it for ages!

I got it on DVD from (I think) CEX reasonably recently.

I think I must have a cold, dark stone for a heart because it's nowhere near my most memorable

And also the 'perfect penny killed my husband' moment at the dinner table.

Can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet - I’m hoping it’s because none of you have seen it

Law Abiding Citizen. The beginning. I was once in a mental health session with a child who had experienced trauma and they were telling me there was this film that they kept having nightmares about and they hadn’t watched past the beginning… I finished the kid’s sentence because I KNEW it was that one.

Others that I think about a lot and it pisses me off:

• Doctor Sleep when it shows he left the kid to die next to his dead mom - I stopped watching. Wtf?

• the scene in fantastic beasts when they kill the muggle baby

• the scene in Line of Duty when the new officer gets pushed out of the hospital window

• lady on the titanic tucking her kids in when the ship is going down

Every 1970s child safety advert. The ones where some cockney kid was about to climb an electric pylon or go for swim in the canal. They should bring them back. Bloody terrified me.

@Yutes I still have nightmares about hedgehog man

I came onto the thread to say Sarah's parachute death in Hollyoaks. It was harrowing to watch and affected me for weeks afterwards. The scene at the end where the police inform Mike of his daughter's death and he just crumbles.

The x files where the man can squeeze through tiny spaces and the CSI I Am NoOne (Ian Moone) who hides under victims beds, CSI was based on real life crimes.

The rape scene on Martina Cole's TV drama The Take.

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

@Libraryghost

Every 1970s child safety advert. The ones where some cockney kid was about to climb an electric pylon or go for swim in the canal. They should bring them back. Bloody terrified me.

They showed us one at school called Building Sites Bite. Horrific at age 7. Also a similar one about not playing on railways.

A TV series from the 90's called Jake's progress. It was written by Alan Bleasdale and starred Robert Lindsay and Julie Walters. It's not so much a moment, but the whole storyline...and the end... I watched it as a teen and loved it, but I watched it again recently as a parent and it's had a bit more of an impact. If you've seen it, you'll understand what I mean. And if you haven't, try do so.

Jeremy Irvine drowning in the swimming pool in Grange Hill - scarred me as a kid.

The Green Mile with the execution, and then the obvious death scene from My Girl. Oh the bite the curb scene from American history X

No 9 with Sheridan Smith for me as well. Can't quite put my finger on why but it was so eerie - really stayed with me for ages. Fantastic acting.

@TheVolturi

There is a film that I have not watched, but just reading about it has affected me badly, The Human Centipede 🤢

A colleague at work told me about this film. I've never seen it and never will but thinking about what she said about it really distresses me.

Also:

The original 60's Star Trek episode with Charlie X who blanks out the crew member's faces for laughing. Totally traumatised kiddie me.

@5128gap scary as hell weren’t they! I NEVER swam in public water because I still have that image of the grim reaper and Alec Guinness’s scary voice warning me. Just as I started to get over them the AIDS advert came out and I had to worry about dying of ignorance as well as being electrocuted, drowned, snatched by strangers, ran over, etc etc...

@LyraSilvertongueBelacqua

Gary Lucy's character's rape in Hollyoaks

I remember this stayed with me for ages.

The film Irreversible. A horrific scene where a man's face gets caved in with a fire extinguisher and another where Monica Belluci's character gets raped. I was in the cinema and wrapped my head in a scarf with fingers in my ears. It lasted for ages. I had no idea what the film was about. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise.

Clockwork orange still freaks me out.
Also, cybil dying in downtown abbey.

Nerdy contribution - when David Tennant says "I don't want to go" at the end of his Dr Who stint. It's not gruesome, but none of us want people to go. It's just so poignant.

For squeamish, the curb stomping scene in American History X still makes me shudder.

@Libraryghost

Blackadder the final scene during the last series WW1 - when they going over the top. Nothing and I mean nothing brought home the horror of war to me like that scene did.

Agreed

@Kiki275

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

Oh God yes this. I still remember it vividly all these years later.

Aaaand: 60's/70's Dctor Who monsters The Sea Devils.

Didn't paddle for years after that.

Come to think of it the original Cybermen scared me rigid and the Autons were fairly WTF? too. I couldn't walk past a shop window with dummies without giving them side-eye for a very long time after that...

12 years a slave where she gets lashed beyond belief.. I watched it between my fingers. Horrific.

@Brendabigbaps

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

Worst thing in Eastenders was what Denise's psychopath ex did to his ex wife.