What Is The Most Disturbing Scene From A Movie Ever?

[Annatar]

Hmmm,

I thought some of the scenes in Shindler's List were rather disturbing, simply because, they were events that you knew actually happened.

Awful!

[seezar]

Anyone see the german film Funny Games? now that movie has quite a few disturbing scenes

I guarantee you this film will be quick to be added towards the top of your disturbing films list upon viewing.

[Skip McCoy]

Originally posted by seezar
Anyone see the german film Funny Games? now that movie has quite a few disturbing scenes

Yeah, that movie is pretty messed up.





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all broken bones make it an uncomfortable view to say the least.

[jazz]

but that scene in predator where one of the soldiers discovers the skinned human bodies was pretty disturbing... :barf:

[jazz]

Something that's always creeped me out is the scene in Superman III where that woman gets pulled in by the big computer and it makes her into a robot. Creepy!

i haven't seen that movie since i was a kid, but i do remember that particular scene creeping me out a bit.

[aintnosin]

Greedo shoots first.

Now that's disturbing!

[lbrown]

The most disturbing scene ever has got to be in Apocalypse Now when the bull is being hacked with an ax.

[Matthew Forke]

Hmm... I don't see any votes for:

1) The first murder in Brian De Palma's suspense classic "SISTERS"... Ouch. Definitely not a polite region for a guy to get stabbed (think real hard...)

2) The opening murder in "SUSPIRIA"... I couldn't sleep the entire night after watching this movie, and it took me a year before I could actually sit down in front of it again. Something about that music.

3) the BBC-TV movie "THREADS"... A shame this is not available on DVD in R1, although it's not a movie I can watch casually on a Saturday afternoon. Good for group viewing with plenty of alcohol handy. The best of the early-80s nuclear war films.

[Morticia]

Originally posted by tvboy
It wasn't Boyd's double that I was talking about.
...It seems to be the filmmaker's way of recognizing the seriousness of the incident while maintaining the flow of action.

Hmmm...any backup on this?
I only say because imdb says, (Ben-Hur 1959)

The chariot race segment was directed by legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt. One of Canutt's sons doubled for Charlton Heston. During one of the crashes, in which Judah Ben-Hur's horses jump over a crashed chariot, the younger Canutt was thrown from his chariot onto the tongue of his chariot. He managed to climb back into his chariot and bring it back under control (his only injury was a cut on the chin). The sequence looked so good that it was included in the film, with a close-up of Heston climbing back into the chariot. The cut on Canutt Jr's chin was the only injury in the incredibly dangerous sequence.

Ben-Hur 1925 -

The first attempt to film the chariot race was on a set in Rome, but there were problems with shadows and the racetrack surface. Then one of the chariots' wheels came apart and the stuntman driving it was thrown in the air and killed.

But anyway -- my vote goes to just about anything in a Cronenberg film (especially Dead Ringers). I know it's been said before, but yipes!!

[PolloDiablo]

The Blair Witch Project - I know alot of people don't like this movie but the ending freaked me out pretty good.

Requiem For a Dream - The whole damn movie was pretty disturbing, but the last 30 minutes or so especially. The first time I saw it I sat on the couch for 10 minutes afterwards just staring at the screen, trying to come to terms with the fucked up scenarios that had just unfolded before me.

Cannibal Ferox - 70's cannibal gore fest that had real footage of animals being killed/tortured, really really disturbing stuff, made me loose any respect I might have had for the movie.

Trainspotting - Dead baby scene

Jacob's Ladder - Theres alot, but the one that really stands out for me is the part where their pushing him through the hospital on the gurney and you see all the screwed up shit around him.

Dancer in The Dark - The whole movie is a pretty big downer but the end screwed me up for days

Suspiria - The scene when the girls stuck in the room of coiled up razor wire, I'm kind of clausterphobic so that thought of being stuck and not able to get out like that freaked me out.

Any movie that shows someone cutting themselves or being cut upclose, I can handle alot but for some reason that stuff turns my stomach.

[JeffHanawalt]

My vote for most disturbing is all of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.
Good movie, but it was just too much to a guy who watches
films for entertainment and escape. I was bummed out for
a couple of days after watching it.

The hobbling scene in MISERY always makes me cringe.

The baby in the crib in TRAINSPOTTING is one of the most
horrific scenes in any film.

Derek getting raped in the shower in AMERICAN HISTORY X
isn't alot of fun either.

[Willh51]

Exorcist...
Texas Chainsaw...
I remember the cut throat in Halloween scared the ish outta me
That part in We Were Soldiers where the guys face falls off

[mtcarmel00]

Well I didn't really have one, until this last week, when I watched The Rules of Attraction. Now I have one. The scene where a character commits suicide, and you actually see the razorblade cut the wrist, and then you have to watch her die for a few minutes. I was very close to passing out. I had to ask my friend to get me some water because I knew I would pass out if I moved. I guess I learned that I have a very weak stomach when it comes to watching people killing themselves.

[bgbohemian217]

Saw someone mentioned the stabbing scene in Saving Private Ryan... I usually don't ever cringe at things in movies, but that definely made me. Also, there's this one scene in From Hell, when Jack the Ripper just cuts a prostitute's throat, and you see the blade cut and the blood just spill out..... good movie, but I gripped my arm rest when I saw that.
I vote for The Blair Witch Project too.... mainly because for some bizarre reason I've had a life-long fear of being lost in the woods. That movie just terrifies me.

[DVDgod237]

Seeing Ellen Burstyn getting all the needles at the end of Requiem. And that is the only time when two chicks going up against a dildo (the ass to ass scene) won't give anyone a boner.

[Monrozombi]

Blair Witch - the ending freaked me out, couldn't sleep for 2 days, even w/ the lights on, and the scene where they find the stickfigures hanging in the woods, don't know why, just freakin scared me shitless

Fulci's Zombie - where the zombie pulls the lady out of the closet and in the process impales her eye on a zagged piece of wood, and breaks it off in her eye as she continues to scream uch:

[lowriderboy]

Anyone here seen that Japanese film "Tetsuo"?? I hear its pretty hard to watch.

[incubus0]

Originally posted by TONY MONTANA
My vote goes to the dead baby scene in Trainspotting, ...

Couldn't believe this made it to the second page. By far the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on film.

Also...

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Freddy Got Fingered - The umbilical cord scene. If it was funny I wouldn't have minded so much, but you just had to ask yourself, "What the hell is he thinking?" And later knowing that in the final scene they used real elephant sperm . . .

Caligula - The whole scene with the punishment for the drunken guard. I cringe just thinking about it.

[prof.fate]

-Practically every minute of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me, but imparticular the hanging of the girl on the meat hook (God, you can just feet that), and continuing on as Leatherface carves up her boyfriend. It gives me nightmares.

-For those of you with arachnophobia like me, the "Help Me"
scene at the end of The Fly, and any scene in The Incredible Shrinking Man as he battles the spider ( I can't watch these!)

....and just to be a wise ass, any movie that says "Starring Jim Carrey!!!!!"

Have a great day everyone.

Chris

[spot778]

Crumb: His family, jesus they were creepy.

The Osbournes: Frightning !

Blair Witch: Final scene, something about seeing the guy facing the corner.

[electricsheep22]

I don't know if I'm desensetized or just weird but I don't find John Waters' early films "disturbing" at all. I think they're all really funny, happy movies...Pink Flamingos is just so absurd and hilarious how can you feel nasty about it? I mean, sure if sex with chickens and incest were presented in some drama it could potentially be disturbing, but Pink Flamingos...I don't know, it just has this really funny, Alice in Wonderland-type feeling, where you're just staring at all of these bizarre filthy people and none of it is serious at all...it's just a very very funny movie to me. People take it so seriously, it's pathetic. That's like watching a Laurel and Hardy film and getting upset that they trip and hit eachother (like when Dana in Ghost World says "Why does the fat one always have to be so mean to the skinny one?")

[jdurg]

Originally posted by electricsheep22
I don't know if I'm desensetized or just weird but I don't find John Waters' early films "disturbing" at all. I think they're all really funny, happy movies...Pink Flamingos is just so absurd and hilarious how can you feel nasty about it? I mean, sure if sex with chickens and incest were presented in some drama it could potentially be disturbing, but Pink Flamingos...I don't know, it just has this really funny, Alice in Wonderland-type feeling, where you're just staring at all of these bizarre filthy people and none of it is serious at all...it's just a very very funny movie to me. People take it so seriously, it's pathetic. That's like watching a Laurel and Hardy film and getting upset that they trip and hit eachother (like when Dana in Ghost World says "Why does the fat one always have to be so mean to the skinny one?")

Well you'd have to admit that upon first viewing, and without any real prior knowledge of the film, Pink Flamingos can be a bit "shocking." When I first saw the movie I really had no idea what to expect, and was thusly grossed out by many of the scenes in the movie. It wasn't until I forced some other friends of mine to view the movie (and then laugh at their horrified faces) that I was able to see a great deal of humor in it.

[electricsheep22]

You're right; I had a lot of prior knowledge about the film the first time I saw it, so I wasn't really shocked at all. I agree that a lot of the fun in the movie is watching it with other people and seeing how they react. So much fun.

[Brad Vautrinot]

I've seen 95 percent of the movies mentioned here and generally agree with everyone. I've watched a ton of movies in my life but I have to say that the most disturbing rape scene ever filmed is the one in Irreversible. It's the most brutal one ever filmed.

Also, in the same movie, there is the most horrific killing that I've ever seen filmed - bar none.

For anyone with a multi-region DVD player and a very strong stomach, rent or buy this movie and I think you'll agree.

[MJZ]

Originally posted by Willh51
That part in We Were Soldiers where the guys face falls off

I can't recall this but, when does it happen?

[cherno]

For me:
Most pschologically disturbing was the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan. Was the first time I almost couldn't stand to stay in the theater.

The bite the curb scene from American History X was alse very schocking.

In the "Worst Scene that scared me as a kid" category - The clown under the bed from Poltergeist. (Clowns freak me out now)

[Damian]

Originally posted by MJZ

That part in We Were Soldiers where the guys face falls off

I don't remember a guys facing falling off but I do remember

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the guy that got napalmed, his skin was pulled from the bone of his legs as one of the medics tried to remove his pants

[ufbrad23]

I agree with a lot of these, especially Requiem For a Dream, Seven, Blair Witch ending. I wanted to add 2 more. Both of them were in "Twilight Zone: The Movie".

The first one is the segment with the kid who lives with the family that is obsessed with cartoons. The shot of his sister without a mouth always freaked me out.

The other one is the "plane" segment. There is that creepy looking thing out on the wing taking out the engines. I can't fly at night anymore without closing the window shade...

[MJZ]

Originally posted by Damian
I don't remember a guys facing falling off but I do remember

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Likewise. Thanks Damian.