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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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Itwontrainallthetime · 17/10/2020 12:21

I'm not usually affected by films but Eden Lake was really disturbing ,I'd just not long had my little boy and there was lost of things about gangs and stuff in our area at the time so it felt a little to close to home. The Stanley knife scene and the repeat stabbings and then when the woman killed the little lad with the glass. I was in tears.
Also Last House on the left the rape scene , had to turn it off.

Chanjer · 17/10/2020 12:24

Watched requiem for a dream on the biggest TV id ever seen in my life at that time, at the end of a 3 day base, acid and raving session

Hearing that bit of music makes me go a bit weird

latheritup · 17/10/2020 13:07

What is it about Se7en that is so bad? I've seen it mentioned a lot but it just looks like your usual gory film.

AriesTheRam · 17/10/2020 13:10

@latheritup I don't think its that bad,I've certainly seen a lot worse

Delia65 · 17/10/2020 13:38

Men behind the Sun. All based on a true story. Watched it years ago thinking it wouldn't affect me. Still upsets me even now thinking about it.

Sparklesocks · 17/10/2020 13:38

@latheritup

What is it about Se7en that is so bad? I've seen it mentioned a lot but it just looks like your usual gory film.
A lot of people I know were disturbed by the ‘sloth’ reveal, the ‘lust’ scene and the final scene with the realisation of what is in the box.
OohThatCat · 17/10/2020 15:45

[quote Loveletters123]@OohThatCat I always wondered if she kissed him on purpose knowing he would turn into a zombie as revenge for him running away and leaving her to die in the house at the beginning? The bit where he pushes her eyes in is the worst![/quote]
That eye bit I think is what caused me to faint!! It was just so horrible!

Tootletum · 17/10/2020 15:48

The rape scene in frenzy. Its a Hitchcock from the 70s, which makes it even more surprising. The way it is filmed is absolutely sadistic.

Notimeforaname · 17/10/2020 15:50

That scene in The Wind That Shakes The Barley
where the British officer pulls out Teddy's fingernails one by one because he won't give names. Eugh...I can feel it 😫

Dixiechickonhols · 17/10/2020 16:03

4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days. Film abut 2 young women obtaining an illegal abortion for one of them in Romania. Good film but stayed with me.

gingercatsarebest · 17/10/2020 16:04

a film which is totally set in a"coffin" which a man is buried alive in. I forgot what it is called.

gypsywater · 17/10/2020 16:05

"Shuttle" is horrendous. Two girls who are sex trafficked and one ends up in a crate. Absolutely harrowing.

paintedpanda · 17/10/2020 16:09

The scene in Doctor Sleep where they are torturing the baseball player boy. 100% awful. I love the film but that bit makes me feel dreadful every time.

Andante57 · 17/10/2020 16:13

Lives of Others isn’t scary or gory but I found it disturbing seeing how the citizens of East Germany were totally controlled by the Stasi and the methods the Stasi used to force people to spy for them.
Really really grim.

Cauterize · 17/10/2020 16:15

Completely agree re the rape scene in The Accused. I was way too young when I watched that for the first time.

Also very disturbed by the ending in (I think) Dances with Wolves when he was burned at the stake, the killing at the end of Braveheart and the execution scene in The Green Mile.

I cannot cope with rape or torture. Which I why I could never watch Game of Thrones. It absolutely repulses me.

Ajl46 · 17/10/2020 16:15

Spooks series 1, where the novice agent gets her head shoved into a deep fat fryer in a fish and chip shop. It was unexpected and still gives me nightmares!

latheritup · 17/10/2020 16:20

@gingercatsarebest

a film which is totally set in a"coffin" which a man is buried alive in. I forgot what it is called.
It's called Buried. Very sad film!
charliebear78 · 17/10/2020 16:27

The Plague Dogs an animated film based on the book by Richard Adams( Watership Down) I watched it as a child and it really upset me, to the point I still think about it now!!!

I watched Se7en years ago and I don't remember being affected by it.

namechangetheworld · 17/10/2020 16:36

I really love horror and there really isn't much that upsets me, but I needed to look away from these:

The drill hole to the head/boiling water scene in The Loved Ones.
The very prolonged rape scene in Landmine Goes Click.
The brick attack on a pregnant woman's stomach in Proxy.
The hip flask torture scene in Bone Tomahawk.
The brutal beating scenes in Martyrs.
The baby scene in A Serbian Film.
The entire final sequence of Megan Is Missing where a young girl is being buried alive, in real time.

Thisisworsethananticpated · 17/10/2020 16:39

Weirdfan
My ex watched that , I avoid graphic violence but was in the room and was utterly traumatised

I really liked the handmaid tale and I
Am Massively Freaked by violence
I just had to fast forward on one scene

Cattenberg · 17/10/2020 16:47

The hanging scene in 13 Minutes, shown in real time. Horrific.

The scene in Last King of Scotland where James McAvoy is impaled on meat hooks. To be honest, I only saw glimpses of that scene through my fingers.

NastyBlouse · 17/10/2020 16:49

I think this is due to watching it at an impressionable age but there’s a scene in Superman (I think) 3 where the main villain’s sister gets dragged backwards into a giant computer and forcibly turned into some kind of cyborg. It was the usual 80s cheese, dreadful special effects and synthy music but something about it really, really disturbed me.

Standrewsschool · 17/10/2020 17:34

Not as extreme as many listed on here, but there was an episode of Jonathan Creek, where women were disappearing in a house. It was very creepy, and stayed with me for ages.

Mimitoo · 17/10/2020 17:57

@EyeDrops

A farm safety video we were shown in school, about year 6 I think. One kid drowned in a slurry pit, another was suffocated in a grain silo, one got impaled on tractor spikes... Etc. It was very traumatic!

I can't bear anything horror/gore now. Humans being so needlessly cruel and violent to others just deeply upsets me. I can't stomach it as entertainment, even if it's fictional you know things like that do happen. Sad

Yes! I remember those old safety videos. Also remember one about the dangers of drowning (with death standing by the pond).

Any of the story teller episodes- wtf, they were sunday evening viewing too.

All of requium for a dream

The scene in gone, baby, gone where they discover the boy in the paedophile's house and similarly the scene in first series of true detective where they find the boy and the girl.

TheQuietWoman · 17/10/2020 18:03

I concur with the safety videos of the seventies and early eighties being traumatising. The one with the frisbee in the pylon sticks in my head and the Grim Reaper at the pond with Donald Pleasance sounding very sinister, I also seem to remember one where a boy got hit by a train...it was terrible.