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?

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Last 5 minutes of Grave of the fireflies too

Some already mentioned but the bbc drama years and years was uncomfortable although great. It was slightly too close to the truth on many issues. And I don't want to spoil it but part with Russell tovey stays with me.
And definitely the 80s public safety films

I watch horror on basically a daily basis and the ones that I really can’t shake off are The Visit (with the nappy)... I genuinely vomited. And Would You Rather, it’s on Netflix and (SPOILER) when they hold the mums head underwater who’s child was drowned, it was so psychologically disturbing to me I just couldn’t bear it.

I can watch Hostel, Saw, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, etc no bother. But I wish I’d never seen the above two films. I think some rape scenes are almost necessary (as someone recovering) because people should get a reminder that it really happens. People should be shown the gritty horrid reality many of us have had, it almost honours victims in a way, for me. That the writers believe it really happens.

Another one here for Slumdog Millionaire as well with the boys eyes, broke my heart because I know things like that aren’t made up. Honourable mention to Mother with Jennifer Lawrence when the crowd takes the baby

I got told the plot of A Serbian Film (which is worse than even described here) and I refuse to ever lay eyes on it.

@HopeClearwater

I’m assuming that most of the posters on this thread are female. Rape scenes come up again and again. Who’s writing and directing this stuff? Men or women? I bet I can guess.

Yes. Don’t know why it’s just accepted as the done thing to include them really. Why are we conditioned to accept them as par for the course in a film.

Keith Chegwin with his dick out on naked jungle.

I've been reminded of many I'd forgotten on this thread!

Handmaids tale - all of it
Inglorious bastards jewhunter scene - the tension is unbearable
The candyman- long forgotten! I would still not be able to look in the mirror and say candyman 5 times!
12 years a slave

I think the worst has to be the boy in the striped pyjamas

Mostly scene of unnecessary cruelty from one human to another. Gore I'm not bothered by, it's the psychological torture

@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.

Yes I was going to say that one. Not much disturbs me but I wish I hadn't seen that.

The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds, where the Jew Hunter SS officer is questioning the French farmer with the Jewish family hiding under the floor boards beneath them. I couldn't watch but also couldn't look away. Or breathe!

This^^

@beansonbread, god that was awful. By far the worse thing I've seen. It played on my mind for days

Just remembered
George Galloway pretending to be a car on celebrity big brother

The scene in hateful 8 where samuel L Jackson is graphically describing the rape of someone's son. I am usually unfazed by films and TV but that scene made me feel sick to my stomach and still makes me feel sick now.

@Needcoffeecoffeecoffee omg the cat with Rula Lenska. Soooooooooooo cringey

@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? This film absolutely horrified me. When she goes to the house later in the film I was actually screaming.

I don't watch this sort of thing generally- I abandon ship once I get a whiff of nastiness afoot. Real life is harrowing enough without witnessing it in my free time.

My worst bits would be the bit in game of thrones where the guy gets his tongue cut out (I refused to watch any more of it after that) and a bit in Gotham where Fish gets caught by black market organ traffickers and removes her own eyeball with a spoon before stamping on it (again, the last bit I watched).

City of God where a boy of about 5 is crying and then gets shot in the foot. It's horrific, particularly because it depicts real life in favelas.

I can't remember the film, some rubbish 'shocking' 90s comedy (the Howard Stern one?) there's a scene where he and his wife are discussing their real miscarriage, and the comedian starts making lots of unrepeatable jokes about it, I could barely believe what I was seeing, abysmally bad.

Can't actually remember scenes as I think I blocked a lot of it out but 'The last king of Scotland' was traumatic as was 'hotel Rwanda'

The beginning of the second season of the Handmaids Tale, when they are all led into an arena and there is a long row of nooses and they all think they are about to get hung, the music etc just made that scene so terrifying!

The scene where king alaer is killed in vikings.

@astraea Agree with this one! And Kate Bush singing in the background. Chilling.

I saw a documentary on Bergen-Belsen a few weeks ago.

American History X - kerb scene.
Sorry if mentioned before , hrtft.

Accused traumatised me for a long time. Not so much the actual rape, although awful, but the man who stood on the sidelines cheering the rapist.

Artax drowning in The Neverending Story. Never recovered.