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 love Once Upon A Time In America but after the first watching, I now always fast forward the Noodles-on-Deborah rape scene.

I also can't watch Tessio getting taken off to get shot or Sonny being murdered in The Godfather, or the announcement of Henry's death in MASH. Actually I won't even watch the episode. Can't bear it.

We watched The Killing Fields at the weekend. DP mentioned it to his DF who mentioned that that's the film he never wants to see again. Nor needs to, it struck him very vividly.

Not a film but a Youtube clip of a footballer breaking his leg during a match and you can see the bone. I nearly fainted when I saw it and it honesty traumatised me to years.

I found many scenes in Little Miss Sunshine hilarious, but also deeply uncomfortable, especially the end. Still cringe...and laugh

Now you've said that newlabelwriter Jon Jones breaking his toe in a UFC fight got me like that, still makes me feel funny to think about it, and he just carried on! (not envy)

Not a film but the Station Club nightclub fire video. Illegal pyrotechnics from the bands performance caused the entire building to burn down in less than 5 minutes and the whole thing is inadvertently caught on camera by a local news cameraman. I think over 100 people died. You can hear the people trapped inside burning to death and it's the worst thing I've ever seen.

Personally I don't watch/enjoy horror movies, it's a genre I stay away from.

It's interesting that so many of the scenes listed regarding rape. It's really hard to avoid rape scenes, as it seems to be a plot element in so many stories. To be honest these have no effect on me. Working in the legal area, I know all too well that the "worst part" is in fact in the days, weeks, years afterwards (be it reporting, legal, medical exams, life impact, ... that's a long journey etc.) ... Now that journey is something that is not well represented in TV/movie. I guess because it is longer, more difficult to represent and perhaps not so interesting for many viewers.

Nil by mouth

You know the scene

Yy, Nil by Mouth, I had blotted that out. I won't be watching that again.

@Weirdfan

Worryingly blessedhope Mike Leigh's Naked is one of my favourite films ever, not sure what that says about me!

Mine too! Some of the monologues are just amazing. Any coveting of someone else’s clothes gets a muttered “Can I try your coat on, Johnny?” in our house The Yuppie scenes are a bit dated, but the desperation of rented housing and homelessness are still so relevant today.

I havent watched it in years and actually searched my new fire stick for it the other day (DH asked me for an obscure film to see if he could catch it out I think ) and it's on there. DH is on nights this week so I know what I'll be watching once DD is in bed

@Pickledonionsfortea

Spooks - the deep fat fryer episode, must be about 20 years ago.

Agree, it was horrific.

I used to enjoy Sons of Anarchy, and it wasn’t until I had a baby I really realised what effed up nonsense it was. Couldn’t stomach the mindless violence after that, and didn’t get to the end. Peg Bundy offing her daughter in law with an ice pick to the head was a gruesome lowlight that still makes me feel ill.

Wish I could watch Breaking Bad, but the scenes early on with the bath turned my stomach so much I couldn’t ever face the rest. Also coincided with first having kids!

Just remembered - the film Misery where she smashes the bones in his leg/foot so he can't run away, he screams in agony then she says "just one more" and does the other leg/foot as well.

I think I was about 8-10 when I saw that!

All the possession scenes in The Exorcist.
I do like the film though.

Laura's murder on the rail tracks in Fire Walk With Me (still my favourite film though) / Laura's rapes by Bob/her dad

Most of The Constant Gardener, especially at the end when he's waiting to be killed . Just such an upsetting film
Much of The Railway Man..can't bear torture scenes and knowing it happened

Just googled and The C. Gardener is also a true story :(

The road safety advert with the little dead girl appearing wherever the guy looked.

The part in A Field in England where he walks out the tent. I can’t say why it’s unsettling but it was the most unsettling scene I’ve ever watched.

We watched The Killing Fields at the weekend. DP mentioned it to his DF who mentioned that that's the film he never wants to see again. Nor needs to, it struck him very vividly

I still remember that really vividly from when it first came out.

@GregoryFluff

Extended rape scene in the tunnel in the French film Irreversible, extremely disturbing, as was much of it tbh

100% this. I literally had nightmares following that subway scene. It was just so REAL.

Bird Box! Probably one of best films I have watched but I was on edge the entire time and it was such a relief when it finished. Glad I watched it but will never watch again.

I also struggle to watch any films where I know people will be brutalised even if it is integral to the story.

I just didn't get the fuss with Bird Box. The scene of the first suicide in the hospital was un-nerving but after that, I found it really meh.

The Endless.

There's a man stuck in a ten second time loop which ends in his violent death. From the style of his clothes, he's probably been there for a century.

A drama called sex traffic about two sisters from Moldova trafficked across Europe and forced into prostitution it made me so upset and angry. Must have been years ago that I watched it and it's stuck in my head.

Remember watching the film candy man as a kid and being really disturbed by it.

Also various scenes in Seven, deliverance and the film 8mm.

Mine have mostly been mentioned....Spooks, Saving Private Ryan, Seven....... but also I'd add the scene in Downton Abbey when Sybil dies in childbirth which I hadn't seen coming and made me cry my eyes out as it was so distressing, and also a programme I watched on bbc a couple of years ago called 'murdered for being different' (I think) which was the true story of a couple of goth kids who were attacked and one died. That was harrowing and heartbreaking as they were just teenagers who simply didn't deserve what happened to them

A drama called sex traffic about two sisters from Moldova trafficked across Europe and forced into prostitution it made me so upset and angry. Must have been years ago that I watched it and it's stuck in my head.

God yes, I remember that. With John Sim in it? It upset me for ages.