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?

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?!

I agree.

@Headoctor

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

Yeah i agree that film was so upsetting 😞

The bear attack scene in revenant is very uncomfortable, it just keeps going. Last time I stumbled on this on TV I thought oh I'll change the channel for 5 min, but was still going when I came back. Actually quite a few terrible scenes in that film around being helpless and watching something terrible happen.

@babbaganoush it made me cry as well. I have no idea why it effected me so much.
Maybe we have got ‘used’ to seeing women being raped on tv. Which frankly is very unsettling if we have

Watched The Nightingale last night and couldn't watch the rape scenes, ended up fast forwarding so no idea how the baby was killed. The rest of the film is superb but definitely won't be watching it again. It's incredibly bleak.

I also remember being really shocked by the scene in Tyrannosaur when he pisses on his wife.

The film Kids.

Watched it when I was about 16 and it took me a long time to get over it. Watched it again as an adult and still as messed up.
Also The Human Centipede, the Exorcist (which I stupidly watched at 16) and the scene in Kill Bill where she casually cuts off Sophie’s arms

14 not 16

The film I, Daniel Blake. Where the struggling young mum suddenly starts cramming food into her starving mouth.
I wept.
The final scene in Cathy come home, when the social worker physically removed her children from her.
Even my ruffti tuffti husband wept.

I nearly mentioned Bangkok Hilton but didn’t think anyone would remember it. That has stuck with me for a long time.

I amazed by the number of people on here (and IRL) who heard about The Human Centipede and thought “Ooh, I want to see that”.

The scene in Last Tango in Paris which was even worse go ding out years later she wasn’t actually prepared for what they did to her

I wouldn't say 'the most uncomfortable' as such but as I watched it last night, it's very fresh in my mind. The trial of the Chicago 7, currently on Netflix. The scene where bobby seal is bound and gagged, I cannot explain how this made me feel last night. I almost told OH to turn it off. Brilliant film and very well acted by all involved but Christ I thought about it all night.

Black Swan, where she pulls a hang nail down. The whole psychological aspect of that film made it a hard watch.

Also, Babadook. My husband and I watched it a few months after becoming parents, still up multiple times a night and utterly sleep deprived. The sheer realism of the sleep deprivation made the horror that much worse!

@Bunnybigears

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.

House Of Wax, starring Paris Hilton? That made me feel so sick and I watched a lot of gross-out horror at that time (can’t stand the genre now). I have no idea why it affected me so much when films like Saw and Hostel didn’t.

I turned Wolf Creek off before the end, couldn’t bear it.

More recently, there is a long sequence in Hereditary, following a shocking event that was nearly unbearable. The tension was incredible, I felt as if I was there, waiting for the same thing as the characters.

Jesus christ, I went to reply here last night but I googled the plot to A Serbian Film and I was shook after it, who the hell would make or watch something like that.

For me - anything with animals being harmed affects me, a recent one was the series Chernobyl. That entire series is unsettling but as an animal lover the bit that stuck with me was when they had to shoot all the contaminated pets, the younger lad comes across the mother and pups and can't bring himself to do it, then when all is done the scene where a massive truck tips all the dead annal bodies into a mass grave to be covered with concrete, the song that plays over this is disturbing.

The Magdalene Sisters - such a great movie but so so sad.

Song for a Raggy Boy - an Irish film about abuse by the catholic priests in a boys school. The rape scene, the scene where two brothers are publically beaten by the priest, and the scene where a boy is beaten to death. The saddest thing about this and the Magdalene Sisters is this kind of stuff actually happened.

The end of Braveheart.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley - fingernail scene and the scene where they shoot they Irishman who refused to say his name in English.

Any sort of rape scene. I can watch tortures in horror movies as I know they are for the most part fictional and dramatised but torturing in more realistic scenarios I can't deal with.

I can't watch the scene in House of Wax either, where the guy is picking off the wax from his friend's face and pulls off skin and flesh.🤢 It was disgusting.

Hereditary didn’t scare me but it made me feel weird, like there’s a constant hum or something you only pick up on an unconscious level? That sounds like waffle, I can’t explain it properly.

Se7en just leaves me feeling gloomy rather than disturbed.

Another one is the Austrian film Funny Games, the whole film is grim but the part where they shot the boy played on my mind for a while.

@TidyDancer

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

That was off-the-chart awful...it actually brought a tear to my eye and it was the death knell for the whole programme after that.

What annoyed me most was that TWD is too chicken for swearing in the script, but that level of visceral violence is ok?

A random one but the first film that disturbed me was Peter Pan. On captain hooks ship where they locked a man into a chest and dropped tiny scorpions in through a hole. The cruelty completely disturbed and upset me, I couldn't bear it. I think that was the first time I realized how cruel humans could be to one another and it burst my childhood idealism bubble.

As an adult mostly rape scenes are what get to me viscerally. Particularly when they seems completely gratuitous. It seems like they're just supplying wank fodder for perverts and I refuse to watch.

Ooh, also Mrs Peregrine's School for Peculiar Youngsters (or similarly titled, can't be bothered to Google). Stealing children's eyes... And the empty sockets of that one possessed kid. Shudders

Oh, and Don't F**k with Cats on Netflix .. I almost had a panic attack. I was expecting it to be quite lighthearted. If you're an animal lover, do not watch. It is horrendous and I didn't sleep for a few nights..

The rape scene in This is England. I've never felt so uncomfortable and repelled watching TV.

And The Human Centipede movie - I've never before felt so disgusted I had to turn a film off, but this did it!

It seems like they're just supplying wank fodder for perverts and I refuse to watch

I agree as I’m sure do a lot of people.