What Is The Most Disturbing Scene From A Movie Ever?

Sam_Lowry · 03-03-2002, 08:04 AM

I would have to say the scene with the instruments in Dead Ringers.

NoOneHere · 03-03-2002, 09:44 AM

Last scene in Blair Witch

orko007 · 03-03-2002, 11:31 AM

Yeah the last scene in Blair Witch whilst it was on at the cinema.

Lord Crumb · 03-03-2002, 12:58 PM

BLAIR WITCH?!?!?!?
Oh, come on...there's a LOT worse than that.
Personally, a scenes that disturbed me was:
KILLING ZOE
***SPOILER***
When the security guard gets caught in the explosion, and is sitting there burning to death, pleading for his life, afterwhich one of the bank robbers shoots him in the head.
I HATED that scene. It was almost as bad as the scene in RESERVOIR DOGS with the cop.

werther · 03-03-2002, 01:48 PM

And don´t forget the end in SEVEN. Ithink this was really harsh.

manigrasso · 03-03-2002, 02:22 PM

Though I ultimately didn't like the movie, I thought the "bite the pavement" scene in American History X was kind of creepy.

I squirmed a lot during the "drug the family" scene in Happiness, too.

...then there's The Accused...

What's funny is the movies & genres that specialize in making you uncomfortable usually don't faze me.

There are to scenes that freaked me out because I didn't notice the freakiness the first time I saw them. The movies are The Virgi Suicides & Carrie

SPOILERS!!!

I mentioned The Virgin Suicides recently. At the end of the movie where the four sisters kill themselves, one of them is hanging in the basement where, a year earlier, a party was thrown for the youngest sister, Cecilia. Cecilia already tried to kill herself once, and the party was supposed to be a way for her to meet other people her own age. During the party, Cecilia went upstairs and threw herself on the iron gate, impaling herself. At the end of the movie, in the basement, we see that all the party decorations are still up. The balloons are deflated, and things are in disarray, but nobody thought to take down the decorations from the first suicide, almost a year earlier.

In Carrie, near the end, Carrie gets home after the Prom Night From Hell. She's in shock, covered in blood, and searching for her momma. What she doesn't know is that her momma has truly gone off the deep end. The camera is following Carrie, framing her back, as she walks from one room which is dark, to the bathroom to wash up. When she turns on the ligh in the bathroom, we're still in the dark room, I think it's her bedroom. The light from the bathrooms shines through the gap in the door, ansd we can see Carrie's Mom, Piper Laurie, on the other side, with a look on her face like an old Death Masque. It's disturbing enough as it is, but since I didn't notice it the first time, I was wholly unprepared for it. You know when you see a horror movie twice, you always assume you'll be OK, because you know where the scary shit exists? That was me...until that scene.

newt · 03-03-2002, 03:00 PM

For me it's the car scene in maniac. If you've seen it, you know what I mean!

Porkchop · 03-03-2002, 03:25 PM

Sorry, Crumb, I gotta give a third vote for the end of Blair Witch. That haunted me for days.

I'll also throw in another scene from Seven: the Sloth victim waking up. Disturbing in so many ways.

IKEA_boy · 03-03-2002, 03:48 PM

not to be a jackass but:
http://www.dvdfile.com/interactive/f...7&highlight=it

continue to discuss

THXHEYNOW · 03-03-2002, 03:53 PM

Definatly cutting the ear off in Reservoir Dogs is got to be up there.

Volcane666 · 03-03-2002, 03:58 PM

The opening scene in Goodfellas (that is later repeated) where Joe Pesci just chops/slices the guy in the trunk of the car makes me cringe.....

kimfair · 03-03-2002, 04:00 PM

I really have a hard time believing ANYONE found ANYTHING disturbing or scary in Blair Witch. I walked out of the theatre convinced that they spent $21,000 of the $22,000 budget on the camera! While I have never seen Salo (said to be the most disturbing film of all time) my vote goes to the movie Bloodsucking Freaks, in it's entirety. While I love blood, gore, and guts in a movie, the fact that this movie seemed just an excuse for torturing women onscreen still leaves me a bit squeamish.:barf:
Also any real-life surgery films. (I work in the medical industry, and I still can't stand these things), maybe it's because I know the other stuff is fake?

THXHEYNOW · 03-03-2002, 04:03 PM

OK literally when Blair Witch ended i was in a packed theatre and everyone was booing and throwing there stuff at the screen. ANd this was at a fairly new good town Sony theatre. I also felt ripped off by that movie and ending. Leave the imagination stuff like that on PBS or somethin. I just wanted to see 2 seconds of a white sheet and I whould have been happy.

J.P. Morgan · 03-03-2002, 04:43 PM

Fictional scenes don't really bother me nor do medical procedures. I've watched open heart surgery instructional video while eating dinner but I will admit to finding "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" a bit excessive.

The really disturbing footage is of real life. What mankind has been able to inflict upon itself is beyond belief. Ask any German citizen that saw the films the Allies played in their theaters after WW II. Some still believe the footage is fake. It's certainly easier to think so than confront what Hitler actually did. And he's only 1 in a long line of madmen dating back thousands of years and probably extending into the future as well. Hopefully we can overcome this sooner rather than later.

a.bunker · 03-03-2002, 06:13 PM

I don't know about you guys but THE SCENE from Deliverance pretty much wiped out any chance of me going rafting any time soon.

Sebastian DVDzine.de · 03-03-2002, 07:00 PM

And my award for the most disturbing movie goes to...: Ring from director Dong-bin Kim. If you don't know the movie yet wait for the remake comming to u.s. screens this year. But I strongly request to go and see the original, if you can get the korean special edition dvd wich features english subs.

Well and Abre los Ojos was quite disturbing, and yes I have seen the Cruise/Cruz/Crowe remake, and it sucked big time... bored me to death... sorry...

cheers

Sebastian

Porkchop · 03-03-2002, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kimfair
I really have a hard time believing ANYONE found ANYTHING disturbing or scary in Blair Witch.

And yet three people have come on here to say they did.
This is an old debate, and one we shouldn't get into again. But I'll just point you to Rotten Tomatoes, as I am fond of doing.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1088399/

And that previous thread about "squeamish" scenes isn't really the same thing. I'd say a scene that is particularly graphic can make me squeamish, but I wouldn't find it "disturbing". (The scene in the recent Black Hawk Down comes to mind where they're trying to dig out the guy's leg artery or whatever. Made me pretty squeamish, but didn't disturb me.)

And I can't believe I didn't think of THE SCENE from Deliverance. That's the mother of all disturbing scenes.

SolidSnakeASS · 03-03-2002, 07:15 PM

Ass to Ass in Requiem For A Dream. :barf:

Sid · 03-03-2002, 07:20 PM

Those people throwing up their guts (literally, they were throwing up guts) in Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead.

Come to think of it, any death from a Fulci film deserves a mention

Marq · 03-03-2002, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by THXHEYNOW
OK literally when Blair Witch ended i was in a packed theatre and everyone was booing and throwing there stuff at the screen. ANd this was at a fairly new good town Sony theatre. I also felt ripped off by that movie and ending. Leave the imagination stuff like that on PBS or somethin. I just wanted to see 2 seconds of a white sheet and I whould have been happy.

Huh?
So you're saying there should be no imaginatio in fim? No originality? On brainless blockbustes, or what? I don't understand your logic here. You're saying that the only outlet for "imagination stuff" should be PBS?
This is a very weird coment.

Sartori · 03-03-2002, 08:07 PM

ALL of Cronenberg's Videodrome freaked me out. I went to sleep, disturbed for the rest of the night after watching that movie.

But, I did find Blair Witch to be genuinely creepy. I don't get why some people troll that movie so much.:p

Lord Crumb · 03-03-2002, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SolidSnakeASS
Ass to Ass in Requiem For A Dream. :barf:

*shudder*
TOTALLY agree...
That turned me off of sex for a couple of days...

Damian · 03-03-2002, 09:07 PM

I was always creeped out by the woman that was kept in the back bedroom in the first Pet Semetary. Those scenes always gave me chills.

Pollux7777 · 03-03-2002, 09:08 PM

During the final battle in Saving Private Ryan, when those two guys are fighting hand to hand in that little room.
The part where the nazi slowly plunges that knife into the other guys chest. Ughh...
Something about that scene just freaks me out. I actually tuned away from the screen when I saw it in the theater.
Blade slowly sinking in... deeper....deeper...:barf:

007eleven · 03-03-2002, 09:25 PM

If the word we're going for here is "disturbing," then my vote is for the brain-eating scene in Hannibal. That bothered me for days.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · 03-03-2002, 10:31 PM

This was mentioned in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode guide, but even before I read it, I felt the same way so it counts:

Mitchell - Joe Don Baker and Linda Evans are in bed (That is disturbing enough) then Evans reaches for a bottle of baby oil, and proceeds to rub it all over Baker's back :barf:

Others include:

The Blair Witch Project - Count another vote for the ending. It was just too disturbing.

Seven - Towards the end, as Brad Pitt is backing from the box, there is a one frame still black & white shot of Gwyneth Paltrow's face that flashes on the screen.

Wild Things - Kevin Bacon turns around in the shower and... :barf:

Ringmaster - The fact that I actually paid to see this!

Lord Crumb · 03-03-2002, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Wild Things - Kevin Bacon turns around in the shower and... :barf:

How homophobic of you...

Quote:

Originally posted by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Ringmaster - The fact that I actually paid to see this! [/b]

I agree there. In fact, I didn't even pay for it...but I still wasted an hour and a half of my life watching it.

Sam_Lowry · 03-04-2002, 12:00 AM

Blair Witch Project scared me half to death. Couldn't sleep for 2 days. True story.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · 03-04-2002, 12:05 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Lord Crumb
[b]

How homophobic of you...

No, its just flat-out disturbing

Volcane666 · 03-04-2002, 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Damian
I was always creeped out by the woman that was kept in the back bedroom in the first Pet Semetary. Those scenes always gave me chills.

Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me..... a long lost image that chilled me to the bone when I first (and last) saw it all those years ago....arghhh it's now been resurected.

THAT spine, THAT face......argh!

Sleep....how I shall miss it!

Sam_Lowry · 03-04-2002, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Volcane666

Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me..... a long lost image that chilled me to the bone when I first (and last) saw it all those years ago....arghhh it's now been resurected.

THAT spine, THAT face......argh!

Sleep....how I shall miss it!

I need to get that movie. Oh yeah, suprised nobody mentioned the "squeal like a piggy scene" from Deliverance. Wasn't disturbed by it though.

03-03-2002, 08:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sam_Lowry Actor Join Date: Feb 2002	What Is The Most Disturbing Scene From A Movie Ever? I would have to say the scene with the instruments in Dead Ringers.

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NoOneHere Actor Join Date: Mar 2002	Last scene in Blair Witch __________________ "They took the Bar, the whole f**ckin bar!"

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orko007 Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: AUSTRALIA	Yeah the last scene in Blair Witch whilst it was on at the cinema. __________________ BLU-RAY THE CHOICE OF THE NEXT GENERATION!

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Lord Crumb Actor Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Hiding behind my friggin' couch after watching "THE EYE".	BLAIR WITCH?!?!?!? Oh, come on...there's a LOT worse than that. Personally, a scenes that disturbed me was: KILLING ZOE *SPOILER* When the security guard gets caught in the explosion, and is sitting there burning to death, pleading for his life, afterwhich one of the bank robbers shoots him in the head. I HATED that scene. It was almost as bad as the scene in RESERVOIR DOGS with the cop. __________________ Lord Crumb There's a radio in my fingernail...CAR!

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werther Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany	And don´t forget the end in SEVEN. Ithink this was really harsh. __________________ Movielovers are very sick people My DVD Collection

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manigrasso Forum Sage Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ	Though I ultimately didn't like the movie, I thought the "bite the pavement" scene in American History X was kind of creepy. I squirmed a lot during the "drug the family" scene in Happiness, too. ...then there's The Accused... What's funny is the movies & genres that specialize in making you uncomfortable usually don't faze me. There are to scenes that freaked me out because I didn't notice the freakiness the first time I saw them. The movies are The Virgi Suicides & Carrie SPOILERS!!! I mentioned The Virgin Suicides recently. At the end of the movie where the four sisters kill themselves, one of them is hanging in the basement where, a year earlier, a party was thrown for the youngest sister, Cecilia. Cecilia already tried to kill herself once, and the party was supposed to be a way for her to meet other people her own age. During the party, Cecilia went upstairs and threw herself on the iron gate, impaling herself. At the end of the movie, in the basement, we see that all the party decorations are still up. The balloons are deflated, and things are in disarray, but nobody thought to take down the decorations from the first suicide, almost a year earlier. In Carrie, near the end, Carrie gets home after the Prom Night From Hell. She's in shock, covered in blood, and searching for her momma. What she doesn't know is that her momma has truly gone off the deep end. The camera is following Carrie, framing her back, as she walks from one room which is dark, to the bathroom to wash up. When she turns on the ligh in the bathroom, we're still in the dark room, I think it's her bedroom. The light from the bathrooms shines through the gap in the door, ansd we can see Carrie's Mom, Piper Laurie, on the other side, with a look on her face like an old Death Masque. It's disturbing enough as it is, but since I didn't notice it the first time, I was wholly unprepared for it. You know when you see a horror movie twice, you always assume you'll be OK, because you know where the scary shit exists? That was me...until that scene. __________________ manigrasso I used to have a little cropped mustache and wear brown shirts with swastika armbands. Then I read about this guy named "Hitler." Man, was my face red! No wonder why Inga was the only girl who'd go to Prom with me!

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newt Actor Join Date: Sep 2000	For me it's the car scene in maniac. If you've seen it, you know what I mean!

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Porkchop Actor Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Sorry, Crumb, I gotta give a third vote for the end of Blair Witch. That haunted me for days. I'll also throw in another scene from Seven: the Sloth victim waking up. Disturbing in so many ways.

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IKEA_boy Director Emeritus ~~Persista~~ Persistent Student Join Date: Oct 2001	not to be a jackass but: http://www.dvdfile.com/interactive/f...7&highlight=it continue to discuss

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THXHEYNOW Actor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Oceanside Long Island, New York	Definatly cutting the ear off in Reservoir Dogs is got to be up there.

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Volcane666 Actor Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.K.	The opening scene in Goodfellas (that is later repeated) where Joe Pesci just chops/slices the guy in the trunk of the car makes me cringe..... __________________ ------------------------------------------------ "The biggest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist!"

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kimfair No World Series Ring Since... Last night! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Boston,MA USA	I really have a hard time believing ANYONE found ANYTHING disturbing or scary in Blair Witch. I walked out of the theatre convinced that they spent $21,000 of the $22,000 budget on the camera! While I have never seen Salo (said to be the most disturbing film of all time) my vote goes to the movie Bloodsucking Freaks, in it's entirety. While I love blood, gore, and guts in a movie, the fact that this movie seemed just an excuse for torturing women onscreen still leaves me a bit squeamish.:barf: Also any real-life surgery films. (I work in the medical industry, and I still can't stand these things), maybe it's because I know the other stuff is fake? __________________ Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce Kimfair's CD List

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THXHEYNOW Actor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Oceanside Long Island, New York	OK literally when Blair Witch ended i was in a packed theatre and everyone was booing and throwing there stuff at the screen. ANd this was at a fairly new good town Sony theatre. I also felt ripped off by that movie and ending. Leave the imagination stuff like that on PBS or somethin. I just wanted to see 2 seconds of a white sheet and I whould have been happy.

03-03-2002, 04:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
J.P. Morgan Actor Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Norfolk VA	Fictional scenes don't really bother me nor do medical procedures. I've watched open heart surgery instructional video while eating dinner but I will admit to finding "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" a bit excessive. The really disturbing footage is of real life. What mankind has been able to inflict upon itself is beyond belief. Ask any German citizen that saw the films the Allies played in their theaters after WW II. Some still believe the footage is fake. It's certainly easier to think so than confront what Hitler actually did. And he's only 1 in a long line of madmen dating back thousands of years and probably extending into the future as well. Hopefully we can overcome this sooner rather than later. __________________ "Be excellent to each other and party on dudes!" LOTR IS MY 300TH DVD!

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a.bunker Actor Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Northeast US	I don't know about you guys but THE SCENE from Deliverance pretty much wiped out any chance of me going rafting any time soon. __________________ "I'm so hungry I could eat a sandwich from a gas station." -Clark W. Griswold

03-03-2002, 07:00 PM	#16 (permalink)
Sebastian DVDzine.de Supporting Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany	And my award for the most disturbing movie goes to...: Ring from director Dong-bin Kim. If you don't know the movie yet wait for the remake comming to u.s. screens this year. But I strongly request to go and see the original, if you can get the korean special edition dvd wich features english subs. Well and Abre los Ojos was quite disturbing, and yes I have seen the Cruise/Cruz/Crowe remake, and it sucked big time... bored me to death... sorry... cheers Sebastian

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SolidSnakeASS Actor Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Winterpeg, Manitobaugh, Canada	Ass to Ass in Requiem For A Dream. :barf:

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Sid Actor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Antioch, California, U.S.A.	Those people throwing up their guts (literally, they were throwing up guts) in Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead. Come to think of it, any death from a Fulci film deserves a mention

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Sartori Actor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Blythewood, SC	ALL of Cronenberg's Videodrome freaked me out. I went to sleep, disturbed for the rest of the night after watching that movie. But, I did find Blair Witch to be genuinely creepy. I don't get why some people troll that movie so much.:p

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Damian My dad can beat up your dad. Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Mississippi	I was always creeped out by the woman that was kept in the back bedroom in the first Pet Semetary. Those scenes always gave me chills. __________________ "How do you stop an exploding man?"

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Pollux7777 Actor Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: St. Paul, MN	During the final battle in Saving Private Ryan, when those two guys are fighting hand to hand in that little room. The part where the nazi slowly plunges that knife into the other guys chest. Ughh... Something about that scene just freaks me out. I actually tuned away from the screen when I saw it in the theater. Blade slowly sinking in... deeper....deeper...:barf: __________________ If you ever fall off the Sears tower just go real limp because then you'll look like a dummy and people might try to catch you because, hey, free dummy My DVD Collection

03-03-2002, 09:25 PM	#25 (permalink)
007eleven Actor Join Date: Jul 2001	If the word we're going for here is "disturbing," then my vote is for the brain-eating scene in Hannibal. That bothered me for days.

03-03-2002, 10:31 PM	#26 (permalink)
Grand Admiral Thrawn Actor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ohio	This was mentioned in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode guide, but even before I read it, I felt the same way so it counts: Mitchell - Joe Don Baker and Linda Evans are in bed (That is disturbing enough) then Evans reaches for a bottle of baby oil, and proceeds to rub it all over Baker's back :barf: Others include: The Blair Witch Project - Count another vote for the ending. It was just too disturbing. Seven - Towards the end, as Brad Pitt is backing from the box, there is a one frame still black & white shot of Gwyneth Paltrow's face that flashes on the screen. Wild Things - Kevin Bacon turns around in the shower and... :barf: Ringmaster - The fact that I actually paid to see this! __________________ Mrs. Peacock was a MAN?!?! At my signal, unleash hell

03-04-2002, 12:00 AM	#28 (permalink)
Sam_Lowry Actor Join Date: Feb 2002	Blair Witch Project scared me half to death. Couldn't sleep for 2 days. True story.

03-04-2002, 12:05 AM	#29 (permalink)
Grand Admiral Thrawn Actor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ohio	[quote]Originally posted by Lord Crumb [b] How homophobic of you... No, its just flat-out disturbing __________________ Mrs. Peacock was a MAN?!?! At my signal, unleash hell