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?

Yes the Pianist is absolutely heartbreaking to watch, i had to watch it in parts as it was just so distressing, God knows how people lived through it.

Also Full Metal Jacket and a film whos name i cant remember with a really young Ray winston in a boys detention centre where a little boy is begging for help and they leave him bleed to death.... truly tragic.

The ending of the comedy series Catastrophe - I really enjoyed all of the series until that point but the idea of a baby alone in the car whilst they may not be able to get back to the shore after swimming out in a riptide still often makes me feel upset.

I'm another one for the rape scene in this is England.. It was abhorrent and very uncomfortable viewing.

@mrsmuddlepies, I immediately thought of Deliverance.

Also, pretty much the whole of Blue Velvet

Sorry another one is Monster... Where Charlize Theron gets violated with a large uncomfortable object.... So so awful.

The main torture scene in Doctor Sleep. That’s the closest I’ve ever been to bursting into tears at the cinema. I thought it was brilliantly acted though, to brilliantly acted, you forget it’s not real for a moment.

The whole of Moonrise Kingdom.

Agree with last ten minutes of a Requiem for a Dream, it's raw and relentless.

In ‘Under the Skin’ Scarlett Johansson is an alien who poses as a human woman to kill human men. There’s a very upsetting scene where a crying baby is left alone on the beach which really shook me.

@I8toys

This is England 86 - characters father rapes her friend.

I was just coming here to say this. It's been years since I watched it and it still gives me the creeps. The way he slaps her face to stop her fighting back. Awful.

@Sparklesocks

In ‘Under the Skin’ Scarlett Johansson is an alien who poses as a human woman to kill human men. There’s a very upsetting scene where a crying baby is left alone on the beach which really shook me.

This! This scene haunted me for weeks

I came onto say Gunpowder but someone’s already mentioned it. All of Gunpowder was horrific.

One that hasn’t yet been mentioned is Sigourney Weaver in Snow White. One of the dwarves falls into a bog and dies. Horrid.

Megan is missing. - about a teenage girl who is kidnapped, tortured via BDSM, raped and then put in a plastic barrel alive and buried.

The girl next door. - A woman forced her children and some others to rape, torture, burn a teenage girl. The woman even mutilates the girl's genitals.

Both are absolutely horrible films, haunted me for months.

All the nasty rape scenes. I mean what’s the point? What do they really add? Who benefits

@sausagerole

The flashback scene in Wind River. It begins so cosy and innocuous and escalates so quickly and dramatically that it's a total shock. I felt so uncomfortable afterwards, I couldn't sleep properly.

This. It was so awful.

Is it American History X where he makes the black guy put his teeth on the edge of the pavement? That was horrific and has stayed with me for 20 years..

Dh watched the last descent a few weeks ago and I couldn't watch it.
It's not scary really or gory at all but the idea of being stuck in such a small space made me feel really uncomfortable.
I've never had such a reaction to watching something as I did that, I think because it's a true story also.

I can't remember the programme but the guy climbing in Yosemite without any gear also made me feel similar.

This Is England, definitely.

Mind you, I nearly shat myself at the final scene in Don't Look Now, even though I realised it was going to be something horrid. It just wasn't the sort of horrid I expected, and it gave me a real shock.

Most of Deliverance, but especially the “squeal like a pig” scene
Kes, when he finds his kestrel has been killed.

The scene from The Exorcist where Regan speaks in the Devil's voice and her head spins round

To stop feeing disturbed by this, you should watch the French & Saunders spoof of it - I can't think of it without laughing!

@LilacSloth I think it was also the fact that she was violated whilst the boyfriend was with her. I'm used to thinking of women alone as vulnerable and so didn't sense the threat at first, but then the fact that she was vulnerable even with him there as the bloodlust grew among the group was just awful.

The This is England rape scene was horrific.

The sewed mouths of the Handmaids in the Handmaids tale, plus the wives holding the maids while they're raped.

I can't watch the Hostel films.

Also the knife in the mouth scene from Dog Soldiers.

@twoforluck

Yes the Pianist is absolutely heartbreaking to watch, i had to watch it in parts as it was just so distressing, God knows how people lived through it.

Also Full Metal Jacket and a film whos name i cant remember with a really young Ray winston in a boys detention centre where a little boy is begging for help and they leave him bleed to death.... truly tragic.

That fillm is called Scum

@ancientgran

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.

Yes ancientgran. It was my dad's favourite and he passed away recently so I thought it would be a nice choice. I also love Maureen O'Hara. 😊

It is an underrated film...I like the end part where you see all the satanists walking towards the motor home and they are all people we have already seen who were just ordinary. And the way the scene inside the van is slow motion chaos and desperation and then film just freezes. It's so good!

Is it American History X where he makes the black guy put his teeth on the edge of the pavement? That was horrific and has stayed with me for 20 years..

Oh God, yes!!

Makes me feel sick just thinking about it.

@TheQuietWoman Broadlands gave me nightmares, and there’s not much that scares me.

i remember just sitting at the end of the movie, trying to get my head round it. horrifying.