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?

[quote MichonnesBBF]@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.🤢🤮🤢🤮[/quote]
You are braver than me! Horrific right?

I agree with some of the previous posts but another that no one has mentioned is the film Under Her Skin. The whole thing is disturbing. And Midsommar, which is also disturbing from start to end.

The super fast ageing scene at the end of Indiana Jones when he drinks from the wrong cup. I was only a kid and it terrified me.

Also a scene from neighbours (though no one remembers it) when one of the teenage girls loses her small white dog at the beach and it turns up dead. I'm sure it drowned. Again, this would have been mid to late eighties as I was only young.

@JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon I am going to find and buy it, thank you for letting me know! I had no idea it was a book and I have sketchy memories of the details at best because I was probably a bit too young to watch it, but I just remember the beginning, the end, and that it was utterly gripping.

YY The Deer Hunter - basically everything set in Vietnam is fooking terminally traumatising

Goodnight Mister Tom where William is locked in the cupboard with the baby who dies. Sobbed my eyes out .

The rape scene in The Accused. I remember my Dad telling me not to watch it, but I did, and wished for years I could wipe that scene from my mind.
That scene in Sophie's Choice. I cried for an hour after watching it.

The episode of Inside No 9 with Sheridan Smith, so clever and sad.

As PP’s have said - Threads & Schindler’s List, but my main one is The Royle Family - The Queen of Sheba episode where they are all running down the hospital corridor while ‘Scarlet Ribbons’ is playing, just before Nanna’s passing. Gets me Every. Single. Time. 😭😭😭

@TheCatsHaveEyes I think I was about 10 or 11 when I watched threads for the first time. I was terrified, after that I was so afraid of a nuclear bomb happening. I was reading about it only yesterday and how it’s never shown. I often wonder if it was worse at the time because for some reason a nuclear attack seemed possible? Whereas now I don’t think it’s something we think about

Angela's Ashes where the babies die one by one and they haven't any money for the doctor/funerals. One baby after another and a feckless husband. Then later, where she has to prostitute herself to keep a roof over the children's heads.

Oh and mud bound recently. The lynching scene.

Been mentioned but American History X - the pavement scene.

Just finished watching House of Cards and keep thinking about one of the characters' death - Tom Hammerschmidt - yes there was a dog involved

Rachel’s death in Cold Feet . I remember driving to work the next day feeling bereaved all over again . ( my boyfriend died in a car accident ).

The end of United 93. I've never willed people to get into a cockpit so badly.

Hank's death in Breaking Bad.

@Marimaur

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)

I saw that film fairly recently and I know exactly which bit you mean, it was horrific.

An old film, Soldier Blue which has a horrible scene where US soldiers are massacring a Native American camp and an officer shoots a little boy in the back and a women is being raped by soldiers and one of them slices off her breast. I saw this film in 1970/71 and this scene has stayed with me ever since.

Yy to Luther, had to sleep with the lights on a few times while watching that season!

A clip from the Xfiles from years ago (that I was made to watch by a parent) where this alien monster thing is in the bath or comes out in the shower head and eats the human, I was quite young when I watched it & still get a bit nervous in water when it’s not completely transparent to this day

Sophie's Choice. I can't
even think about having to make that decision even though my kids are adults now.

My brother was an extra in Threads, but I can't bring myself to watch it.

The gang rape scene from The Accused. Horrible and harrowing

“And now imagine she’s white.”

Still takes my breath away, it was a moment in my life I realised I was possibly racist without even knowing it.

Just googled and it was Lucy Robinson's dog Basil. I was only 5

The most disturbing thing I’ve ever watched was something on Twitter that was allegedly the US politician John Podesta and he’s in a room with a small boy child singing in his face and the child seems as if they’re being forced to sing too to ‘Somebody that I used to know’ by Goyte (I think)
it was tied into a conspiracy theory type thing but it’s stayed with me & I still can’t listen to that song without feeling overcome

The deer hunter, that film haunted me for a long while, one scene in particular i wish i had mind bleach

This is england as PP have mentioned

Game of thrones, The Red Wedding i think, i was heavily pregnant at the time...awful

@Derrymum123 agree. I have never seen such relentless poverty and misery. All those children sleeping on a pile of coats on a metal bed frame. And so many people did actually live like that.