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 kerb scene in American History X

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Probably wouldn't bother me now but there's a scene in a Catherine Cookson adaptation where one of the women is whipped, which disturbed me in my early teens.

I don't really go in for gruesomeness on film now. Real life is grim enough.

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, after they’ve lobotomised the Jack Nicholson character. So upsetting.

I’m not going to describe the scene in detail, I’m just going to say Human Centipede. 🤮

There’s a horrible scene in The Changeling where a load of kidnapped boys are being held captive in a cave until the kidnapper chooses one of them to drag out and murder. Bloody hell it haunts me.

Oh - just remembered the blinding scene in Slumdog Millionaire. Just horrible.

Irreversible.

When Bambi's mother gets killed.

Race With the Devil, 1970s film with Peter Fonda. Two couples on holiday witness some a satanic human sacrifice, the satanists spot them and the chase is on. I thought I was going to have a heart attack as every time they thought they'd got away the satanists turned up.

The rape scene in the The Accused is indeed very disturbing but in my view, it is the only film I have ever seen where such a scene was actually necessary to the plot.

Jody Foster's performance would not have been so powerful without it.

Precious - rape and molestation by her own father at various points. Some of it is just implied but it's very uncomfortable to watch.

*mother and father

There is a disturbing scene in A Field In England which I couldn't stop thinking about. A character comes staggering out of a tent after something horrible but unseen happens, the entire film is weird and unsettling

The scene in The Hills have Eyes where one of the ‘baddies’ rapes the girl from Lost. Had to turn it off and refuse to watch any more.

@ChocolateCherrybomb Yes totally agree.

I left the room after a very short smount of The Human Centipede. Very disturbing.

The Magdalene sisters too- where the clearly disabled woman is giving the priest sexual favours- made me ill

@polkadotpjs

There was a crush injury in Casualty of all things once where the guy knew he'd die if the pressure from the crush (in a recycling compactor ) was released. It really bothered me that he was conscious and knew they couldn't help him

I saw a similar Casualty where someone got caught in the sewer somehow and it was raining heavily, the water was rising and the fire brigade couldn’t get there in time to cut them loose so the paramedics just had to sort of sit and be with them while the water got higher and higher. I hate things like that where the person knows they’re going to die and there’s nothing to stop it, harrowing.

@doadeer

12 years a slave. So many scenes. When he is hanging. When the female slave is being whipped was horrifying.

I was so so upset I couldn't stop crying

This and also the rape scene and in Straw Dogs.

The scenes from This is England already mentioned.

The scene from The Exorcist where Regan speaks in the devil's voice and her head spins around.

The scene right at the end of Psycho where Norman's mother is discovered in the armchair.

Great films though.

@rooarsome

The black mirror pig episode

Yes, agree. This was so disturbing.

Also - Eden Lake, already mentioned - the scene where the bully boy put the tyre around other boys head and lit it..Horrific. Also, the stanley knife in Fassbenders mouth scene.

the entirety of Criminal Minds - so much rape and torture and murder of mostly women.

Clockwork Orange - i can't get past the first 5 minutes

Requiem for a dream, the human centipede, hostel. There is a Korean film called Audition that has a graphic torture scene involving eyes in it. A film called Malena where towns women are dragged through the streets and have their heads shaved after being accused of shagging Germans.

A film called Mysterious Skin with Joseph Gordon Levitt. He gets abused by his baseball coach as a child. I saw it as a teen and it has always stayed with me. Really, really unsettling and disturbing.

@ancientgran

Race With the Devil, 1970s film with Peter Fonda. Two couples on holiday witness some a satanic human sacrifice, the satanists spot them and the chase is on. I thought I was going to have a heart attack as every time they thought they'd got away the satanists turned up.

I love this film. I remember watching it back in the seventies or early eighties as a wee kid. I always feel sad for poor Ginger,

hate rapes and torture scenes, but the film 'atm' really freaked me out as you never saw the killer's face as he wore a parka hood and his face was in complete shadow the whole time.
has put me off open car parks at night.