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What's the most uncomfortable movie or TV scene you've ever seen?

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CrankyFrankyHoot · 16/10/2020 18:06

Uncomfortable can mean anything, scary, sad, creepy, gory etc...

I was just watching AHS this afternoon, the Cult season and there is a scene with a nail gun (if you've seen it you'll know!).

I am really not a squeamish person but this scene just made me go cold, I was about to fast forward it before it finished.

It wasn't even the most gruesome thing I've seen on TV/a movie before but the whole idea just made me feel really uncomfortable and like I was really horrible for watching it if that makes sense?

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Chienloup · 17/10/2020 01:46

Irreversible - as a pp said, there is a very long intense rape scene.
Agree with Boys Don't Cry.
Audition is the most horrific thing I have ever seen, pretty much all of it.

Alcoholulater · 17/10/2020 01:52

It would be interesting to know the ages of people who have posted on here as there are a lot of the same scenes mentioned.

I have seen many of the films/scenes talked about here and while they have been shocking to watch at the time they haven't stayed with me in the same way 2 particular scenes have.

I wonder if what is shocking to some have any correlation to age?

The 2 scenes for me are the kerb scene in American History X and the greenhouse scene in Scum.

purpleme12 · 17/10/2020 01:53

Or maybe just people haven't seen all the films to compare

purpleme12 · 17/10/2020 02:00

I just looked up Audition
These people who make up these things really have some sick minds

Poulter · 17/10/2020 02:35

The torture scene in Pan’s Labrynth. I felt so sorry for him and nearly cry every time

This. Absolutely ruined the film for me.

The older I get the less I can deal with gratuitous violence and disturbing films. Hated The Joker, didn't think it was brilliant, just unpleasant. Just went to see Saint Maud as friend booked it. Loathed that too. Yet raved about by critics. Yuk.

LeahDownTheLane · 17/10/2020 03:06

Glens death in the walking dead, genuinely felt it for a long time after. Think the writers seriously crossed the line on that one.

LunaNorth · 17/10/2020 03:09

The murder of the little boy in Dr Sleep. It was so awful. We had to fast forward it.

ShelbyCherryBlossom · 17/10/2020 04:49

I just looked up The Human Centipede, that was a mistake. I feel physically sick and slightly traumatised.

StayCool · 17/10/2020 05:33

I'll never watch Amistad or Schindlers List again. Great films but too much trauma.

And Watership Down, enough said.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 17/10/2020 07:19

@Alcoholulater

It would be interesting to know the ages of people who have posted on here as there are a lot of the same scenes mentioned.

I have seen many of the films/scenes talked about here and while they have been shocking to watch at the time they haven't stayed with me in the same way 2 particular scenes have.

I wonder if what is shocking to some have any correlation to age?

The 2 scenes for me are the kerb scene in American History X and the greenhouse scene in Scum.

@Alcoholulater I'm 48 and I roll my eyes at people (gogglebox mostly) who gasp and hide behind fingers, but the kerb scene in American History X haunts my dreams decades later.

MisiSam · 17/10/2020 07:30

There is a film called. Gardens in the night, its a very good film but its heartbreaking, a little girl is kidnapped on her way home from school and then is kept as a sex slave it's so sad, there is a scene where she's taken to a motel room and a man turns up and she is so scared it's horrible.

DorisDay88 · 17/10/2020 07:31

I don't know what the film was called and I was so horrified that I didn't continue watching it but wish I had now because that scene still haunts me.
It was set on a huge passenger ship around about the Titanic era. There were all these well dressed passengers on the top deck enjoying the sea air when this massive cable snapped off the ship and severed through everyone's head or waist . It was filmed in slow motion I think which made it horrifyingly effective

DorisDay88 · 17/10/2020 07:33

@ifiwasascent

The lovely bones when she went down into the underground murder den- maybe because I was younger but that always stayed with me and then later in the film when the dad starts helping the murderer build the next trap for his other daughter. gives me chills

Definitely- I've read the book twice and got the audiobook- that part in the film made me want to scream at her don't go down there

cinnabarmoth · 17/10/2020 07:33

The anal rape scene in Irreversible. It goes on for so long too, I had to fast forward in the end because I found it unbearable, but I think the point of it is to make you uncomfortable and somehow complicit by watching it.

I found Wolf Creek very uncomfortable too. I am not a massive fan of that kind of horror anyway, but I was heavily pregnant and had a really visceral reaction to it.

ItsmineAllmine · 17/10/2020 07:50

Like another poster, it was the rape scene in This is England 90 that has stayed with me, when the girl is raped in the caravan. There's sonething about it that's just so utterly dark and depressing.

The one film that has stayed with me more than anything though is I, Daniel Blake. Surprised it's not been mentioned yet. So as not to spoil it for others, there's a scene in a food bank with is just so completely sad and awful that it makes me cry just thinking about it. It's disturbing in a different way to many of the other films/scenes already mentioned.

Littlebendytoe · 17/10/2020 07:56

Se7en. Came out of that at the cinema and we didn't speak all the way home. Brilliant though.

And Wolf Creek. I've never been able to watch it again since the first time, very disturbing.

AWaspOnAWindowReturns · 17/10/2020 07:57

The kerb scene in American History X
The Perfectionist (the whole film)
The hammer scene in Misery

year5teacher · 17/10/2020 07:59

Grave of the fireflies.

Harrysblondie · 17/10/2020 08:01

@Clovertoast

The rape scene in This is England. It's so real, raw and horrifying.

That scene was very raw and disturbed me. Also the later scene when one of the girls take drugs at a festival and is raped by two men in a caravan whilst she was out of it.

The rape scene in scum, I knew some one in a young offenders prison at the time.

The entity

In fact any sexual assault scenes. They are awful. I was watching outlander and there was an awful rape in that that just came out of the blue and wasn’t in line with the tone of the show up to that point. Was literally watching it at 2pm with a cup of tea and cake not expecting it! Awful.

MisiSam · 17/10/2020 08:07

@dorisday88 thats ghost ship, I used to love that film as a teen! That scene is horrible though.

nevernotstruggling · 17/10/2020 08:17

I am very disturbed by the human centipede abs I would never watch it. The dvd cover was quite enough. I darnt google. If someone could post that it was all fine at the end that would help!

American history kerb for sure wish I'd never seen that.

Hostel made me mentally ill for ages as did blood diamond.

Most of this is england is very disturbing but I loved it as a piece of social history it's very good.

cushioncovers · 17/10/2020 08:20

Glens death in the walking dead, genuinely felt it for a long time after. Think the writers seriously crossed the line on that one.

Agree

wellerhugs5 · 17/10/2020 08:23

@TidyDancer

When Glenn met Lucille in The Walking Dead. I still don't think I'm over it tbh.

This is the one that jumped into my mind also. Horrific. (Negan is now one of my favourites in the show!)

VenusStarr · 17/10/2020 08:27

The film Get Out really disturbed me, stayed with me for days.

Alcoholulater · 17/10/2020 08:58

@Doingtheboxerbeat I did exactly that (eye-roll) last night when watching last week's Gogglebox. They were watching episode 2 of Ratched and all of them were just about hyperventilating whilst looking through their fingers in terror. They must be told to ham it up surely.

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