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 serial killer under the bed and in the loft in Luther. Even now I check under the bed when my husbands out.

The incestuous sex scene in "The Falling". Cringingly shit film throughout and then that just put the tin hat on it - fucking awful to watch.

Gratuitous rape scenes in films are very disturbing. Who knows who could be getting off on them

American History X, the kerb scene.

Also I hate gratuitous rape and sexual abuse scenes and once had a full on shouting match with DH for being 'embarrassing' for saying "I'm not watching this misogynist shit" and walking out of a film.

Glen and Lucielle in TWD

DH and I sat in shocked silence for about 20 minutes and it still sometimes bothers me. Most shocking thing I have ever seen by a mile.

The scene that upset me most was when the man can’t open the pickles in The Pianist. I cried for days.

"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.."

You expected something about a serial killer to be light hearted?

@MissClementine between the people under the floorboards and the mother and her child in the woods when a group of men see them . I stopped watching them and have never gone back to it.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'd only seen the remakes which are just stupid gorefests trying too hard but the original is the something else. The dinner table scene where she is seemingly so trapped and the grandpa and Leatherface...urgh.

It kept popping into my head for weeks afterwards and really dragging me down. I expected it to be scary but it was just so bleak and so different to more modern horror films. No gradual build ups to things and no music prepping you for the jump scares.

I'll never watch it again and I'm still disturbed it even exists!

I have no idea why but the foot cutting bit of hostel bothered me more than any of the other parts, where the ligamanets on the back of the foot were severed. I felt that for a week afterwards, was really weird.

The rape scene in This is England Is very disturbing

I think many women can relate to feeling uncomfortable then scared not knowing how to deal with attention that feels aggressive

And it shows that rape is violent (she isn’t beaten up before as so many rape scenes in films that supports the myth that there is violent rape and none violent rape)

There is a gross scene in the terrifier (well the whole film is gross but this one is particularly bad
There's also a film called W🔺Z (the middle one is meant to be a delta symbol) which is quite disturbing.
I also read the plot for a Serbian film and it's absolutely disgusting, what would possess anyone to write a film like that??!!
The ring freaked me out the first time I saw it when she came out of the TV. I'm over it now (I think lol)

@SinkGirl

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

I remember it

@NRatched that happens in the original pet semetary too it goes through me

I fell asleep somewhere around the beginning of The girl with the Dragon Tattoo and woke up just a couple of seconds before the first rape scene. I screamed the place down to have it turned off.

Apparently it is a good movie, but it put me off watching it.

Maybe I am just an old bore but my friends were recommending things to watch the other day and describing them as really sad and having them in tears. Honestly, things are so shit at the moment, why would I want to pull my MH down any further.

Movies and TV shows that will make me pee my pants in hysterics only please!

There's a scene in the second season of Deadwood where a girl and her brother are killed. She's hit on the head and her skull is broken, and part of the scene is from her perspective after that happens. I can't imagine what it's like for that to happen to you but that scene did it's best to show you. It was just horrendous.

The Last Kingdom is brilliant, but there are some horrific deaths

Halig and the slave ship
Thyra that one devastated me
Uhtred's Viking family
Broccoli

@MostTacticalNameChange

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'd only seen the remakes which are just stupid gorefests trying too hard but the original is the something else. The dinner table scene where she is seemingly so trapped and the grandpa and Leatherface...urgh.

It kept popping into my head for weeks afterwards and really dragging me down. I expected it to be scary but it was just so bleak and so different to more modern horror films. No gradual build ups to things and no music prepping you for the jump scares.

I'll never watch it again and I'm still disturbed it even exists!

That's one of my favourites. It's really a masterpiece.

TLK I cannot watch the scenes where Brida is getting her revenge on her Welsh captor. Was ok with some real gore before that, although found the slave ship and immediate aftermath hard, but for some reason the "does anyone want to buy my dog?" bit I just couldn't sit through. Not sure why.

Agree that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an amazing film. Ofc it's going to be disturbing as per the title but in terms of cinematography and artistic expression it is top notch. Just so, so well done. It's in a class of its own, really. I don't think the people involved knew that what they were doing would work so well, because when you look at how it was made it was a series of ad hoc decisions dictated by budget and circumstances, but Tobe Hooper totally pulled it all together to make it the absolute juggernaut it is.

Oh and just as an aside re Texas Chainsaw, you don't actually see the killings. It's not gore free exactly as there are lots of props etc that are gorey, but you don't see him kill anyone. That's all in your mind. And your mind makes up the gaps very willingly and efficiently because of the situation he's set up. It is totally old school horror and very clever.

@DaftyD

Agree that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an amazing film. Ofc it's going to be disturbing as per the title but in terms of cinematography and artistic expression it is top notch. Just so, so well done. It's in a class of its own, really. I don't think the people involved knew that what they were doing would work so well, because when you look at how it was made it was a series of ad hoc decisions dictated by budget and circumstances, but Tobe Hooper totally pulled it all together to make it the absolute juggernaut it is.

Well said! I agree with every word. I have watched TCM hundreds of times and I STILL find something new or something that catches my attention which I hadn't noticed before. I also find it quite feminist in a way. I love the grit, the dynamics of the two groups and the contrast, the way the Cook just switches...even the little things like the car washer following the Cook like a puppy and the soundtrack being the sounds of a slaughterhouse are all great little touches.

@DaftyD

Oh and just as an aside re Texas Chainsaw, you don't actually see the killings. It's not gore free exactly as there are lots of props etc that are gorey, but you don't see him kill anyone. That's all in your mind. And your mind makes up the gaps very willingly and efficiently because of the situation he's set up. It is totally old school horror and very clever.

Yes, Hooper was going for a rating that would allow younger people to watch it, IIRC.

Coronavirus where lazy and/or disturbed people say:

"let's just do nothing because it only kills our children's grandparents, so let them die."

When we could just do Test and Trace properly and hardly anyone would die.

It makes my skin crawl.