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?

I agree with all those who have mentioned Trev's rape in This Is England, but also in Thid id England 90 when Lol's sister gets gang raped while taking drugs with those guys in the caravan. For some reason the way the guy with glasses unlaced her trainers as she was drugged up really stayed with me.
Also did anyone watch the 2 part drama Ellen on channel 4 a few years ago, about a young girl who was basically neglected by her mum and preyed on by the mum's dodgy male friends? The scene at the end, where Ellen thinks she is going to a party with the guy she likes and walks into a flat to find all the mum's friends there and its quite obvious they are going to assault her. I'm not one of those shout at the tv types but I vividly remember saying "Oh fuck off" when I realised what was happening

TheQuietWoman it was a good film underrated I think. Are you named after the film The Quiet Man? One of my late mother's favourite films.

In the basketball diaries with a very young leonardo Di caprio, he's a heroin addict and he's begging his mom to let him into her apartment. Just heartbreaking and so hard to watch

Watching Emily in Paris last night, with my 97 year old, mother in law. She had dementia and drifts in and out of comprehension when films are on. Quite enjoying the programme, light hearted, but of fun. Then comes a scene with Emily kept awake with the noise of her fishy neighbour shagging Emily's best mate. She gave us a really disgusting look. Awkward, but funny

What’s disturbing is how by reading this thread you realise many horrific films are actually out there. Depressing really.

I can’t watch them - once seen, never forgotten.

The end of the Last King of Scotland.

Forrest Whitaker's performance is immense, it is an amazing film, but... ARGH. No, could never watch it again.

Came on to say those rape and torture scenes from the end of series 1 of Outlander. Totally put me off the whole thing and I couldn’t relax into series 2. I can’t deal with any kind of horror films at all though! I can’t forget things and end up not sleeping for weeks!

I had a restaurant meal that involved chicken glazed in honey, just before going into the cinema to see "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her lover." That turned out to be a bad meal choice.

(The movie features "the cook" roasting "the lover" whole and serving him up to "the thief" who is forced at gunpoint by "his wife" to start eating. You literally see him put his fork into the belly and cutting bits off with a knife and eating them.)

Rape scenes are very disturbing

I almost threw up when I was watching the rape scene in The Last House On The Left. It was so real and it really freaked me out. But it's a great movie. I think the rape scene was necessary as it justified what the dad did to the visitors when he realised it was then that had raped and shot his daughter.

Also, the scariest thing about IT part2 was the opening scene with the two gay men and the homophobic fuckers that single them out. It took my breath away in a bad way ..... you just know that there are real people out there that are just as bad. And the poor victims :(

I hated the whole concept of Candyman too. I have no idea why as I love scary films in every type but the wasps, the legends about Cabrini Green and the Decapitated Rottweiler just freaked me out and made me feel like my body was resonating at the wrong frequency. Misty bizarre reaction I've ever had about a movie.

I know these scenes are hard to watch but it really is a testament to the incredibly gifted actors that manage to pull off such a harrowing scene.

The Accused Jodie Foster gang rape. I can just about type the words. So real and so disturbing.

Nocturnal Animals gave me the chills. You don't actually see anything, and it's a story within a story, but there's something about the intensity of the scenes that really creeped me out. Plus the movie has kind of a weird, detached ending that leaves you wondering.

Proper graphic violence doesn't bother me an awful lot in films. I guess because your brain tells you it's fake.

12 Years a Slave - absolutely sickening what man can do to another without conscience

Cold In July, that video scene has really stuck with me - far more disturbing than I was expecting.

I have been wanting to watch This Is England for ages but haven’t for the reasons mentioned here. I saw Irreversible in a mostly empty cinema before having to walk home from the train station by myself... big error.

The bathroom rape scene in 13 Reasons Why absolutely shocked me to my core. Just when you think it’s going to stop it just continues. I had to pause the episode after that scene to collect myself and have the strength to keep going.

@supercee - I was just going to say the same thing - it was a long time ago but the scene on the pinball machine was dreadful - there possibly will have been worse but at the time I found it one of those I had to hide my eyes and fingers in ears

Oh & @paisley256 - I think I am talking about the same thing as you

Also No Child of Mine with a young Brooke Kinsella. I remember being in high school at the time and it was in the papers due to Brooke being 12 at the time of filming the awful scenes.

True story of her being sexually abused by her mum and her friends, then pimped out by her dad then abused in her care home. Literally let down horrifically but everyone who was supposed to care for her.

Such a hard watch, especially as it was based on a real life person.

12 years a slave- so many horrific scenes

The pianist- when the nazis drop the elderly man in a wheelchair over the balcony. I can't watch it.

The stoning of [name I can't remember] - the stoning scene was graphic and went on for ages. I had to leave the room until it finished.

The scene in A Time To Kill where the two rapists decide to rape a little girl. The dialogue between them is horrible. Stayed with me.

I haven't seen most of these (in fact, any of these I think... except maybe bits of the farm safety one ). I'm not massively into visual media and I'm a wimp.

Torchwood: Children of Earth really got to me. Major spoilers for a ten-year-old show coming up. Not Ianto's death, that was sad and whatnot but the sort of thing to be expected. Not even Peter Capaldi's offstage shooting of his family, heartwrenching and ultimately unnecessary though it was.

The bit that has made me Never Want To Watch It Ever Again was where Jack has worked out how to stop the predators and watches his daughter's young son die doing it. Then at the end one of the characters says "okay, let her in" - because the child's mother has been just outside the door the whole time.

It does make me wonder what type of person the writer of a lot of these films is like in real life. It wouldn't occur to me to remotely imagine horrific scenes of decapitation, rape, child rape etc. Are they all sickos?

Most of love actually

Hunan centipede when he defecates in her mouth. Never gotten over that.

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