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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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MydogWillow · 21/08/2021 21:33

@CathyorClaire

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...

Agreed. Fine with the Daleks though!
Dueatchristmas · 21/08/2021 21:34

@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?

Before I even opened the thread I was going to say that the Hollyoaks parachute death is also the TV scene that haunts me!
thenightsky · 21/08/2021 21:35

@MydogWillow

A scene from Gunpowder on TV (with Kit Harington) where a female character was crushed to death under boards with weights added, shortly followed by a scene showing young male character being hung, drawn and quartered. I walked out of our lounge. Really disturbing scenes. I even wrote to the BBC with a complaint as it was barely after the watershed.....
Yes, I remember that with horror too.
Bellringer · 21/08/2021 21:35

Jude the obscure when the children die
Frances when she is 'cured'
Silence of

colouringindoors · 21/08/2021 21:36

The Spooks scene still hugely disturbs me.

The torture in Game of Thrones - can't remember the guys name. Tortured by another man for weeks inc castration.

Most of the film Se7en.

Dd says Bobby's torture by Ward in Shield

thenightsky · 21/08/2021 21:37

Anne Boleyn's execution in Wolf Hall. Her shaking and trembling was so real, my heart was in my mouth praying for her to be saved, despite me knowing the reality.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 21/08/2021 21:37

@ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule

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 Sad

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.

The book of The Sculptress is brilliant, by Minette Walters.

Really gruesome

Dueatchristmas · 21/08/2021 21:38

The rape scene in the toilets in 13 reasons why is traumatising and also another that sticks with me is from being about 9 or 10 years old and a girl fell out the window on Grange Hill.

MichonnesBBF · 21/08/2021 21:39

@TheVolturi: Oh my goodness I had the misfortune of watching this when I was younger, wish I had left the room but I didn't want to be seen as soft with my friends (we all knew it had been banned in a lot of countries and a friend managed to get a pirate copy I think, so a sleep over it was thinking we were doing something really rebellious)
Nope not rebellious, just plain stupid...it was a horrendous film that was just so disgusting and disturbing in equal measures....
I have always wondered how the actors really felt about being a part of it, it could not of been pleasant to film for all those hours in that position.🤢🤮🤢🤮

Snorkelface · 21/08/2021 21:41

Kes

I literally can't talk about it all. I can't even look at the poster/DVD cover.

Crunchymum · 21/08/2021 21:42

I wasn't too fond of Wolf Creek. It was pretty grim.

Have watched it twice though Confused

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 21/08/2021 21:44

@NameChanged15729 I'm so glad you posted that. We were going to watch that but not now! Thank you.

HeartshapedFox · 21/08/2021 21:44

12 years a slave. Just horrifying, I thought about it for a long time afterwards.

Pan’s Labyrinth - the real horror of the resistance guy’s fingers after being tortured, and the imagined horror of the ending, so sad.

Inside Number Nine, but NOT the Sheridan Smith episode - the episode with Helen mcrory called The Harrowing. “It’s like giving birth, but in reverse” Shock

user1464279374 · 21/08/2021 21:44

This is a fun thread to get involved in at nearly 10pm haha.

Trainspotting and the baby like lots of people have mentioned - horrific.

All of Dancer in the Dark but especially the ending.

All of Funny Games (both versions).

Breaking The Waves.

The final shot in Goodnight Mommy (and a lot of what comes before tbh...).

The final scene in Kill List.

Popfan · 21/08/2021 21:45

@HummingBeeBox just reading that has haunted me! Shock haven't seen it but that is AWFUL, hits my absolute worst fears! I think I'm going to stop reading this thread now!!

Pebbledashery · 21/08/2021 21:47

@Crunchymum

I wasn't too fond of Wolf Creek. It was pretty grim.

Have watched it twice though Confused

Super super super grim. Just remembering bits from it now...
CathyorClaire · 21/08/2021 21:47

Agreed. Fine with the Daleks though!

Oh, yes all the time they can't climb stairs Grin

Marimaur · 21/08/2021 21:48

Mother! (The Javier Bardem/Jennifer Lawrence movie)
There's a horrible horrible scene with a baby that really upset me at the time, and had flashbacks of during a spell of bad postpartum anxiety. I'm not usually upset by films but this scene was extremely shocking/unexpected (if you've scene the movie you probably can guess which bit)

Marimaur · 21/08/2021 21:49

Seen* Hmm

ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule · 21/08/2021 21:50

@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.
Oh god yes! The 80s one where the girl burns her hand picking up a sparkler! I was really small when that used to be on TV, and I would run upstairs and hide behind the bed as soon as it came on because the girl's scream TERRIFIED me! Sparklers still put me on edge!
marchez · 21/08/2021 21:51

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MrsMaizel · 21/08/2021 21:51

The very last episode of Six Feet Under when you see all the characters die in the future . Unexpected and so so sad.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 21/08/2021 21:51

@Dueatchristmas

The rape scene in the toilets in 13 reasons why is traumatising and also another that sticks with me is from being about 9 or 10 years old and a girl fell out the window on Grange Hill.
I remember that Grange Hill moment..I think the actress who played her died from falling off a balcony
catfunk · 21/08/2021 21:53

Remember years ago when a nurse called ray in ER lost his legs. He had gone missing after a demonstration with Neela and returned a few episodes later. You don't know he was an amputee until he wheels the rest of his body around the door. It was very hard hitting.

MaxNormal · 21/08/2021 21:53

@Marimaur it was an excellent but very unsettling film and I know exactly the scene you mean - for any new parent that would be a mindfuck.

I remember my stomach being in knots after watching Once Were Warriors and the rape scene. Also the rape scenes in Immortal Beloved, and This is England.
Just not a fan of rape scenes generally really.

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