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

[CrankyFrankyHoot]

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?

The girl next door
Sorry i watched it
Affected me all week

@ItsmineAllmine

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.

See, to me I'd describe I, Daniel Blake as a lot of things but not making me uncomfortable or disturbing

It’s a really old film but 10 Rillington Place, watched it when I was quite young so possibly disturbed me more but it stuck with me to such an extent that every time I saw Richard Attenborough in anything else I just couldn’t see him as anyone but John Christie and the awful crimes he committed.

And another one mentioned loads here but absolutely has also stuck with me, the curb scene in American History X.

@DorisDay88

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

I've seen this recently but cannot remember anything about it!

@Bellesavage - so glad you put Watership Down. How I cried! I thought it was going to be a nice story but it was awful. I watched it as a child and it affected me my whole life - in a positive way, in that it made me realise the battles all creatures must face to stay alive. I don't think I could bare for my DS(12) to watch it! I don't want to shatter his innocence but then again, having our 2 cats eat mice has probably done that!!

The film No Escape

It’s the many harrowing situations the family find themselves in, how they are desperately trying to save their children, save each other, some of the awful choices they as a family are presented with in the film.

The series Seven Seconds on Netflix

The scene where the cops enter a crack house and find a dead baby. Too late to save the baby, but this bunch of tough guy cops refuse to leave the baby there. The one cop gently holding the baby wrapped in a blanket whilst travelling in the back of the car and looking at its tiny hand that’s peaking out. It was so desperately sad I was in floods of tears.

An episode of Wire in the Blood about a homophobic killer who had devised an instrument of torture. It looked so gruesome that it put me off Val McDermid’s books for life.

Also the Australian film The Reef about a group of friends whose boat capsizes and all but one decide to swim across miles ofopen sea to an island they passed earlier. It’s the fear and desperation rather than gore of which there isn’t that much.

The bunyip song in Dot and the Kangaroo. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. It's on YouTube if anyone's feeling brave...

Pretty much all of Requiem For A Dream. Scarred me for life.

@dorisday88 @justgetthroughtheday I think the film is Ghost Ship from 2002.

Just thought of another one - The Elephant Man! Saw it back in the 80s when I was 5 or 6. Knowing it was based on a true story I was desperately sad at the bullying scenes - I couldn't get it out of my head for a long time.

I hate any traumatic scenes that involve children in films. I don't think it's ethical for child actors to be involved in that.

Escape From Sobibor. I can feel myself tensing and getting upset just thinking about the whole series.

[quote AllAboutHallowsEve]**@dorisday88* @justgetthroughtheday* I think the film is Ghost Ship from 2002.[/quote]
I'm wondering if it's been on gogglebox because the name of the film rings no bells at all and it's just that scene I can picture?

A TV documentary by Terry Pratchett investigating euthanasia.

He and the crew were invited to witness the death of a man in his early sixties who had motor neurone disease at a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland I think. The gentleman himself and his family were incredibly dignified and courageous in a very quiet way. You saw them fly to Switzerland and enjoy a last family meal together with their adult DC the evening before.

His wife didn't agree with his decision, but had steeled herself to support him, as he didn't want to get to the point where he was dependent on anyone, even though she wanted to nurse him. She went alone with him to the clinic, and we saw her sitting with him on the sofa, quietly supporting him and holding his arm as he forced down the bitter liquid that would kill him a few minutes later.

That scene has stayed with me ever since even though the documentary was aired years ago. I was upset for days after watching it. I remember the horror of it - how clinical it was - being horrified and appalled and yet admiring of their incredible courage, especially his wife's. I have often wondered about her since and how she has been.

Richard Armitage snogging Dawn French in the Vicar of Dibley.

The scene in Sons of Anarchy where they burn Tig's daughter alive, Bobby's eye wasn't pleasant either but it didn't haunt me in quite the same way. And the This is England scenes already mentioned, Trev's rape still makes me sob if I think about it too much but that's probably because the circumstances and atmosphere of it were very close to my own rape.

Relatively tame but I hate the Lassie film where the little dog is hit and dies, really distressing.

Don't like anything with animal cruelty and not keen on warhorse either

This is a useful List of things not to see
Boxing Helena was weird
Silence of the lambs
Seven
Last king of Scotland - I was very glad I watched on a plane on a tiny screen but was still disturbed

The Last Joker film. The declining mental health scenes were rather uncomfortable to watch. In fact a handful of people in my sparsely populated screening got up and left.

The film Sleepers when the boys were abused by the guards .

Eden lake.
The whole film gives you a horrible feeling but it becomes unbearable at the end.
It’s their bit at the end that’s the worst.

Magdalene Sisters. It made me feel so panicked and desperate. I almost couldn't bear to watch it and I'll never watch it again, even though I actually think it's a brilliant film.

Those poor poor women. Knowing it happened to so many real women made it worse. Another film about a woman who was forcibly sent to a mental asylum also deeply upset me. It's probably one of my greatest fears, being trapped like that, losing my freedom. I won't watch The Handmaid's Tale, the book was horrible enough.

The wicker man