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?

@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, it’s a masterpiece. DH could never watch it, even knowing that how it’s put together relies more on what you know about things like abbatoirs than actually showing you. He said “It’s soulless!” and I replied “It’s meant to be”

Anything about the holocaust that shows children. To the point that I hate playing hide and seek with my children because it makes me think of those poor families hiding and in absolute terror. Last time I played with my children, my daughter made me hide in a wardrobe with her and she wrapped her hand around my finger and I just sobbed.
Actually, anything involving parents knowing the extreme danger they are facing and having to reassure their babies.
It just breaks my heart.

@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.

My DP was telling me about that , I had never heard of it but he had grown up in a farming community and had been shown it at school.

He found it on you tube and it was horrific. My indefatigable, nothing bothers him DP had to turn it off again. I could see why.

I remember watching The Accused (Jodie Foster) at the cinema. I had to walk out during the rape scene. I was about 17 at the time and found it traumatising

Broccoli?

Father Broccoli

I meant Beocca!

Ring of Bright Water

I saw it when I was around 8, the scene where the hunters killed Midge the otter

Traumatised for life, have never watched it since

“It’s meant to be” grin

Yy @Saucery exactly. I'm so pleased to find other people on here who agree with me about TCM.

Also agree with you @QueenOfPain about the sound effects soundtrack and yes I think it's feminist because we're with the woman all the way. Every man is either a psycho or a fool, and she alone is battling evil and incompetence all the way through, and Hooper just lets her run with it.

Sorry that was to @TheQuietWoman.

I didn't know he was going for a lower rating, that is interesting. Bless him, maybe a bit optimistic.

Ring of Bright Water

I watched (I think it was RoBW) there was a bit where Midge was running along a trench that a man was digging , and he basically sliced him with the spade (thinking Otter=Vermin) then seemed confused that the narrator (or might've been his wife) was upset .
It wasn;t a hunt though or vindictive .

Was there a RoBW 2 ? Or a Midge 2 ?

And Daffy if they had listened to Pam they would never have picked up the hitchhiker OR gone anywhere near the house. She tried to talk Kirk out of it but he knew best.

Yes Hooper thought if they limited the bloodshed they would get a lower rating. It works better I think, leaving so much to the imagination. For a motley crew of amateur and student filmmakers they really created something immense.

@Handsoffisback

What’s that film where the children live in the walls? And the boy has his tongue cut out? That was awful.

I’d really recommend watching the whole ‘Red Riding’ series. It covers child sex abuse, the Yorkshire ripper and other issues of the time (set in late 70s/80s). It is fantastically well written, very interesting but there are some horrible and heartbreaking parts, you have been warned. It’s not done in that weird wank fodder way that other programmes do it though if you know what I mean.

Red Riding was fantastic. You've just reminded me how good it was.

Andrew Garfield was excellent in that.

Midjil the otter had an axe through him I think. As he'd escaped. I went to see his statue in June. But I refuse to watch the film as I know what it will do to me!

Gavin Maxwell was away and his girlfriend had let Midjil roam free... so GM did blame her of course..it was a tragic accident

Ramsay's torture of Theon in GOT.. especially where he fake rescues him just to bring back again
Sleepers the film..knowing it's a true story..

I’ve just read the synopsis for the Serbian film... I think that if I was sick enough to think of things like this, I wouldn’t be wanting to be letting anyone know... and how it got to the point where filmmakers and actors thought - I want to be a part of that... I don’t know.

It concerning, really. Especially as there seems to be a theme of always wanting to be more violent, or more graphic...

12 years a slave is I think the only film I've ever turned off because I couldn't take the violence/torture. Absolutely awful, especially because this actually happened to people.

I don't watch stuff like The human centipede or Saw. I used to love criminal minds but can't watch it anymore since having had DD; I get nightmares from it. I still enjoy it when I'm watching it but I can't sleep after.

Requiem for a dream was an amazing film.

Human Centipede - (I've only watched HC 1 , not 2 and definately not 3)
The worst bit was pulling their teeth out in preparation for surgery .

And the last few minutes .One of them was in a desperate situation with no way out

My abusive ex used to make me watch films such as A Serbian Film, Eden Lake, Martyrs, 70's version of last house on the left, Deliverance, SCUM etc. I became a bit desensitised to it tbh. But the film that stayed with me was the swedish version of a film called Funny Games. If you have a holiday home and a family never ever watch it as you will not recover. And there was a film about domestic violence that absolutely shook me, can't remember it now but the threat and absolute power imbalance was awful to watch (and live)

And Lars Von Triers Antichrist was awful to watch too about parental grief.

Oh god scum rape scene is pretty horrific 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Water ship down.
Rape scene in this is England was so real.
Rape scene in the hills have eyes, that was just crazy!
American history x with the mouth scene...I felt that crack!!

@supercee I’m with you there. I remember watching that as a teenager and the scene has stuck with me ever since.
Probably the first film of a tape scene I ever saw.
I now can no longer watch anything with rape or violence in. It’s seriously traumatised me forever.
If my DH watches anything too graffic with fighting or sexual assault, I have to leave the room, or fast forward, it really makes me super ragey! I can’t even listen to what’s going on.
I am super sensitive with films in this respect.

The first Black Mirror pig episode as already mentioned stayed with me for a while.
Saving Private Ryan-the beginning scene where a poor young soldier has his intestines falling out crying for his mum. I find war films quite disturbing, I think because so much horror happened like this.

Remember watching a horror film (80s?) where someone was trapped under ice and couldn’t escape. Couldn’t watch any more of the film.