What's the most uncomfortable movie or TV scene you've ever seen?

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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?

FlapAttack23
Whistleblower

Yes, I was trying to remember the name of that film. It was a good film, draining, awful subject matter but brilliant.

Then it was ruined for me by the most horrendous rape scene which I don’t think I’ll be able to forget. It was like the film Monster but much worse.

The scene in The Notorious Betty Page when she realises she's been tricked by both the man and woman who picked her up, and something terrible is going to happen..

Why did I read this thread just before going to bed?
I agree with many of the things listed here, and now all those disturbing scenes are back in my head.

The idea of the human centipede is much too much for me. I could never watch anything like that. OTT nasty horror. I don't get the appeal.

@kenzobaby that baywatch scene has given me a lifelong fear of pool drains!!!

Compared to most in this thread its so trival but it really stuck with me, I can't swim over a pool drain!

Been mentored already but the pavement scene in American History X.

Also the bit in Pet Semetary where the wee boy cuts the old man's ankle.

Walking Dead, season 7 episode 1. Horrific.

Actually the whole of season 7 is painful to watch!

@Roomba

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!

Was that the Ten Little Indians one, where the kids were picked off one by one by terrible farmyard accidents? Run over by a tractor, drowning in a slurry pit and so on. Traumatised me for life.

I've watched a lot of disturbing films, but the 11 minute long graphic rape scene in Irreversible is definitely the worst scene I've watched.

It was.called Apaches, I think. The one that upset me the most was the little girl drinking "firewater". And how it took hours later for her to die screaming in agony.

How to get away with murder, when Laurel almost had a miscarriage whilst trapped in an elevator. Horrific

@Seriouslyconfused3

Can’t remember the name but a British film about a couple camping in the woods- they encounter a teenage gang and things get horrific. Scarred me for life

Eden Lake (if noone else has said it). I think its because it is one of those things where you think shit this could actually happen

Don’t know if anyone has mentioned Monica Belluci’s rape scene in Irreversible - and the man getting his face stoved in with a fire hydrant In the same film. I’m not usually affected by things but this stayed with me.

Also the ENTIRE reimagined series of Roots which was a masterpiece and shamefully relegated to BBC 4. It should be compulsory watching over a certain age. Not like the sanitised 12 years a slave which didn’t go far enough to show the horrific conditions black people endured.

Roomba just saw your post - I too have watched a lot of disturbing films and they don’t bother me but I nearly had to leave the room during the rape in Irreversible. I think that confirms it is probably the worst scene out there!

To be fair my dad was a policeman so I grew up watching the safety videos about children bursting into flames in sub stations and drowning in weirs for fun it explains a lot about my character!

The little girl put to death (burning) in GOT

That flaying eagle punishment scene in the Vikings

When the little baby girl is snatched from her mother’s arms and slaughtered on Game of Thrones. You don’t actually see the baby being stabbed thank god, but the camera is on the mother as she watches her baby being murdered. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and it will forever haunt me that scene.

Top of the Lake. The last episode stayed with me too long. Disturbing probably because it happens more than I want to believe.

No country for old men. Never want to watch again.

Any rape scene I find hard to watch. And I stopped watching Outlander because of its gratuitous sexual torturing scenes. So much seems to be about objectifying women for the male audience in these new series rather than a decent story line.

I've just finished Series 4 of '13 Reasons Why'. Loads of you mentioned this and I stuck it out, waiting to find out why. Well, the last episode summed it all up and really hit me hard, was in tears for most of it. It wasn't about the rape(s), depression, anxiety, crap parents, drug/alcohol abuse etc - it was about love. Corny I know. It's still on Netflix - bit of a slow burn (for me) but well worth it.

Just remembered, The Grapes of Wrath. It is such a raw film. The end bit where the girl breast feeds her Grandfather.

@Clovertoast

The rape scene in This is England. It's so real, raw and horrifying.

This, it felt so real. I was an absolute wreck as it brought back so much about my own rape

Why? This thread just highlights the sickest stuff to watch, surely?

The girl next door and the bottle scene.
Curb stomp from American history x.
Most recently the haunting of bly manor and the death of the little boy in the back story.
Not sure what it's called but a film with a young alan Rickman as an interrogator who tortures a woman into a confession that her children's book is actually a pamphlet against the state/dictatorship they live in. Very uncomfortable viewing as it's just them for the whole film.

thegreenlight my Dad was also a policeman - I’m very safety conscious, and very punctual 😂

Several things mentioned on here have stayed with me for a long time after watching them (Threads, Black Mirror etc).

More recently, I was watching Years and Years and there was scene about the plight of refugees which really upset me. It was portrayed very powerfully, and there were similarities with a news story around that time, involving a young child. I found it so upsetting because it's happening to real people, all too frequently.

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

I've never been able to bring myself to watch the film. Shes called Sophie Lancaster and what happened to her was horrific. She was trying to protect her boyfriend and died doing so. I went to school with half the boys who murdered her and grew up playing on the park she was murdered in.

I didnt know her but it still upsets me knowing what happened to her & how frightened her and her boyfriend must of been. One of the murderers
Is due for parole in February 2022.

Not seen the film but even the memories of when it happened are haunting enough, I feel so awful for her poor mum

NiceandCalm was it her grandfather in the film?? It certainly wasn't in the book, it was a starving stranger.