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?

A particularly risque episode of Little Britain (I think). My then fiance and I were watching it with my mother and her new partner. The phrase "drink from the fairy cup" came up. My mother, whose hearing is poor, asked my fiance to repeat what had been just said. He went bright red and was unable to tell her. Instead her partner repeated it loud and clearly for her (not understanding it), so she turned once more to my poor fiance and asked him to explain to her what it meant!

The torture scene in the Last King of Scotland -watched it in LA and a guy in the cinema actually passed out it was so graphic

Another one for Eden Lake, that film left me cold🤢

Frankly, anyone who writes this stuff and anyone who knowingly watches it.

Oh, I hated it when.... like you didn't know, at least in principle, what was about to happen.

However, I am beyond surprise at the human condition.

@FourPlasticRings

I don't watch this sort of thing generally- I abandon ship once I get a whiff of nastiness afoot. Real life is harrowing enough without witnessing it in my free time.

My worst bits would be the bit in game of thrones where the guy gets his tongue cut out (I refused to watch any more of it after that) and a bit in Gotham where Fish gets caught by black market organ traffickers and removes her own eyeball with a spoon before stamping on it (again, the last bit I watched).

GoT? I got torn a second one, on MN, a few months ago for questioning why so much of the 'drive the plot forward' action was at best 'disgusting' to witness, at most (and usually) misogyny writ large?

MN strongly disagreed with me, cos it was telly, wasn't it? What was wrong with me?

And you know what? My TV is on- and GoT is immolating someone.

Casual TV.

I’m going to second Eraserhead, the “baby” scene has stayed with me for over 30 years and makes me wish brain bleach actually existed.

Bathroom rape scene in 13 reasons why. I had to turn my iPad off and just sit quietly for a while.
The boy In the striped pyjamas. Horrific.

There was a film where everyone was turned into wax figures but they were still alive inside, I cant remember what it was called, gave me nightmares for weeks.

12 year a slave - when the female is whipped. I was lucky enough to go to the premier of that film and bawled the way through it

I don't know if anyone remembers this: Bangkok Hilton. It was a tv series about women on the death row for snuggling drugs. There was one scene with a young woman and her brother about to be executed by firing squad and just before she wets herself. As an child it really upset me a lot.

Whistleblower. Will never recover from that

There was one scene with a young woman and her brother about to be executed by firing squad and just before she wets herself. As an child it really upset me a lot.

It's awful and so sad to think it actually happens

I have never watched A Serbian Film but my friend was saying she had heard about it and it was meant to be sick etc so I read the synopsis on rotton toms. Honestly, it is a movie I will never allow in my house and I think it is one of the very few things I would consider leaving DP over if I found out he had watched it. Disgusting.

The Girl Next Door is the worst movie I have ever seen. I accidentally watched it as it came up as a reccomened watch on Netflix about 10 years ago and I thought it was going to be the comedy with the same name. By the time I realised it wasn't I was alrwsdy scarred and was waiting for the happy ending that never fucking came.

Probably Bad Boy Bubby shagging his mum

Nikhedonia to this day I think about that scene from Bangkok Hilton...it's devastating

Se7en.. everything.... was screaming in my sleep for days after. Never forgotten any of it

I've just read the plot for "A Serbian Film" WTAF. I don't even have words. Why would anyone want to produce a film like that?! Why would anyone want to watch it?!

@alltoomuchrightnow me too. It was so disturbing for me watching that as a young teen.

The drowning of Eden and the boy in Handmaid's Tale was one of the most upsetting things I've seen

I still remember a film I saw when I was about 14, a man being chased around some woods by a gang. Eventually they caught up with him and put him in a barrel of tar, then they put feathers all over him and carried on persecuting him. I suppose the feathers and their behaviour reminded me of a cat playing with a mouse that you knew would get killed. Very disturbing. I don't even know what the film was!

The scene in (I think?) The Butterfly Effect with the dog in the bag, I can't even bring myself to write any more detail than that. I don't watch horror or violent films generally and that was unexpected and never left me

I can watch virtually anything and remain un-sickened. I do agree with PP about the public information films though - they terrified me as a child, particularly 'Play Safe' (the pylons). The AIDS adverts scared me too, the classic 'Don't die of ignorance' with the gravestone and another where two people were in bed, shagging and their faces kept changing.

There was a scene in 'Little Boy Blue' that was really harrowing, Rhys was in his bed, with his Everton duvet and his mother went to touch him. Thing was, she couldn't lay a finger on him as it would be 'tampering with evidence'. The attending policewoman had to threaten arrest to get her to stop. His poor mother was distraught and this actually happened in RL - imagine that, it makes me cry just thinking about that scene.

Titus, directed by Julie Taymore in 1999. There's a scene after Lavinia is raped and it really disturbed me in a way no other scene in a film has.

@AllAboutHallowsEve

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...

I thought I was going mad and had imagined this! Looking it up on YouTube, I see that there are lots of comments from people around my age with similarly ruined childhoods though... that piano lick is absolutely terrifying.

I agree with lots of previously mentioned films, but for the sake of throwing something new into the mix, a Polish film called The Plagues of Breslau (currently on Netflix) messed with my head for a while after I saw it. It has some similarities with Se7en and Messiah but I won't be forgetting the scene with the two horses for a long time.

The botched execution scene from The Green Mile.

Pretty much all of Dancer in the Dark, but especially the last 20 minutes.

And the bit in The Last Kingdom where Aethelwold is blinded with a hot poker. Eye stuff makes me feel very queasy anyway but this was especially graphic. Thanks, btw, to everyone who's given me due warning about Slumdog Millionaire - I shan't be watching that now.

@beansonbread

The bathroom rape scene in 13 Reasons Why absolutely shocked me to my core. Just when you think it’s going to stop it just continues. I had to pause the episode after that scene to collect myself and have the strength to keep going.

I came on to say this. Not much shocks me but it brought me to tears and I had to turn it off during the middle of that scene. I still haven’t finished that episode, I got my husband to tell me what had happened before starting the next series. Absolutely harrowing.