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

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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?

Agree with alot of those posted already, worst ones for me are American History X and A Serbian Film
One that isnt as nasty but was just pure terror, was an episode of Luther where you see a woman getting in from a night out, having a shower, getting into bed then a man...slowly...slides...out...from...under...the...bed - where he has been all along. Don't think I've ever shrieked so loud at a tv show

There are also a few really gross scenes in Marianne involving teeth

@Standrewsschool

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.

Oh god yes, so much of Jonathan Creek was really scary (well, it was when I watched it as I was much younger) the one where the man is locked in the garage in the skeleton costume is horrible

Oh and that episode of crime scene investigation where that incredibly flexible man hides under peoples beds in a gimp suit. The way he runs out half on his hands and half on his feet is seriously creepy!

The Whistleblower scene where the girl she is trying to rescue is sexually assaulted with a metal pole in front of all the others as punishment both and a warning.
I think what makes it more harrowing is that this probably happens to trafficked girls all the time.

I think it was Luther , there was a woman alone on the top deck of a nightbus , head phones on.
And this bloke slides along the floor ( on a London Bus eurgh ) . A woman in another bus sees it ..........

So, never sit alone on the top deck at night would be good advice !

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I think it was Luther , there was a woman alone on the top deck of a nightbus , head phones on. And this bloke slides along the floor ( on a London Bus eurgh ) . A woman in another bus sees it ..........

So, never sit alone on the top deck at night would be good advice !

Most episodes of Luther are creepy but that one was horrible!

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

Me too!
And I remember thinking I had somehow imagined it or dreamt it and of course had to wait for years until it was back in again to rewatch it. Now I would have been able to look on the tv guide, rewind or pause the tv or google it!!!

@70isaLimitNotaTarget
I love Luther but can't watch the one with the man under the bed or the one with the murderer in the attic 😳
Also when he hides in the student wardrobe. They might well be all one episode. I'm not sure now but Holy christ they terrify me

I stopped watching Casualty after the episode where Dr Adam Trueman's baby drowned after an accident. It felt so unnecessarily bleak and awful, having a baby die like that for so called dramatic effect.

Eraserhead - an old David Lynch movie. Really weird even for him.

Also the scene in train spotting when the baby is crawling through broken glass while they are all on the nod. That really upset me, but it did illustrate the power of drug addiction.

@Alcoholulater I am 40, definitely the kerb scene in American History X is the one that really stands out for me all these years later. I actually left the room and didn't watch the rest. I think Ed Norton is amazing but couldnt bring myself to watch it after that

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

I think it was Luther , there was a woman alone on the top deck of a nightbus , head phones on. And this bloke slides along the floor ( on a London Bus eurgh ) . A woman in another bus sees it ..........

So, never sit alone on the top deck at night would be good advice !

I hate that bus scene.

Sorry pressed post too soon. It creeps me out especially when I think about some of that random night buses I used to get on, on my own and not bat an eyelid about it!

I remember watching American History X when volunteering in SE Asia as a teacher with VSO. It was on a grainy old video cassette, 1999. I too have never forgotten that image....was feeling horrendously homesick and sorry for myself but that put it all in perspective (fictional I know but still..)

I've seen The Human Centipede mentioned a few times....I watched it absolutely trollied one night years ago and thought it was hilarious. Really enjoyed it. Watched it sober too and, not so much.

SaucyHorse - are you thinking about the film based on the life story about Frances Farmer?

'I think it was Luther , there was a woman alone on the top deck of a nightbus , head phones on.
And this bloke slides along the floor ( on a London Bus eurgh ) . A woman in another bus sees it ..........'

That is when I stopped watching Luther - that scene made me really angry. So frightening for women.

@AllAboutHallowsEve that casualty storyline was fecking awful. I think there were a lot of complaints though

@Clovertoast

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

Agree 100%

I went to see Trainspotting at the cinema with a friend of mine who had just (maybe a few weeks before) had an abortion. Catastrophic mistake.

Thirty years ago the BBC dramatised The Woman in Black, there is a scene where the man is in bed and a ball bounces in front of him, he calls out “Nathaniel” and suddenly she is in front of his face screaming at him. I was pregnant at the time and I couldn’t get up at night for a month without the light on. I still think about it and when I had flu a few years ago I thought I could see her in the room when I had a fever. Needless to say I didn’t watch the film when it was remade ☹️

The rape/torture scene at the end of the first season of Outlander really disturbed me. As I get older I really can’t take graphic/rape/torture type scenes at all. Trying to find something you can just relax and watch is getting much harder.

The film ‘Precious’

Had to turn the film off nauseated. Gratuitous rape of a teenage girl by a man in her household. Grunting, sweating vile man with sounds as well. Traumatising and I can’t imagine how survivors of sexual assault could watch it. Horrific. No benefit to including such a scene in any film imo

@BigPlanes that scene in Outlander turned me off the series for good. I watched it in lockdown as a bit of escapism: I wasn’t in the market for shit like that. It was handled so much better in the book with very little gratuity. Shame that the tv producers felt the need to add in that dimension.

American history x.
12 years a slave. Both made me uncomfortable