Most disturbing movie scene
 

What do you feel is the most disturbing movie scene you can recall? Whether it is disgusting humor, graphic violence, or horror it doesn't matter. Something that when you saw it for the first time, you almost had to avert your eyes, or just felt like throwing up. And still gives you that feeling whenever you think about it or see it.

Mine is the curb scene in American History X I have a hard time even thinking about that scene. Just gives me the shivers.

The arm amputation in "Requiem for a Dream"? That topped the driill scene in "Pi".

I avoid horror flicks in general...

The entirety of <b>8mm</b>.

That, or perhaps the end sequence leading up to and including the execution of John Doe in <b>Se7en</b>. It's not so much what you see, it's what you don't see (but know is there). My imagination ran wild and it made me ill.

Of course, there's the rape scene in <b>Deliverance</b> as well. Ooooooooooooooooooo-weeeee!

American Psycho - the whole thing.

The ear cutting scene in Resevoir Dogs.

Rosie O'Donnell in a leather-dominatrix outfit in "Exit to Eden."

I have a very high threshold for shock.
 

The scene from "The world according to Garp", where the woman shoots Garp at the end. I know it is just a story, but even just the thought that there are actually people out there who are THAT insecure and self-compelled to commit such an act against any of us, is enough to make me never want to watch that sort of thing for "entertainment", ever again. I am a big fan of happy, and humorous endings>

:)

heres a couple.

unbreakable when samuel l jacksons character falls down the stairs. i have broken many bones in my life and the sound effects there make me cringe. great movie though.

mary shelleys frankenstein. not an especially good movie. but the part after kenneth branagh reanimates helena bonham carter and she breaks a lit lantern over her head. that scene gave me nightmares.

~james

In Pulp Fiction, when J Travolta turns around in the car and fires his gun and spreads chunks of skull across the backseat... that was gruesome.

I saw that movie in a theater, with my mom sitting next to me. She is very accident-prone, and also rather easily-injured (no broken bones I can think of, but if she, e.g. bumps her elbow against a table corner, she bleeds like a stuck pig).

You pretty much knew he was gonna fall down those stairs, and for those whole 30 seconds leading up to it, she was just freakin' out.. she grabbed by arm as hard as she could and kept making those teeth-sucking sounds.. then when he actually fell, she just couldn't watch. That is probably her worst nightmare.

So my mom feels your pain. :-)

The only time I can ever remember physically gagging during a movie was in Van Wilder, when they were eating the pastries.

Re: Most disturbing movie scene
 

When I saw the title of the thread that was what I IMMEDIATELY thought of, also.

I, on the other hand, liked American Psycho.

Admittedly, I'm probably the only woman in America who did.

Read the book when it first came out. Thought it was brilliant, and recognized that most of the people protesting it hadn't bothered to read it.

There's a coupla scenes in Fight Club that were pretty icky too ... not as extreme as the AHX stomping, though.

The scene in Cinderella where the prince puts the glass slipper on her foot and rescues her from her misery and takes her off in his carriage to the castle and they get married and live happily ever after. Disgusting.

I just saw that this weekend for the first time. That's what got me thinking about this. It grossed me out, but I couldn't stop laughing, I have a mean streak, especially toward assholes.

That's also brings up a point, I think Van Wilder is one movie that impressed me. I had heard how disgusting it was, and just automaticly assumed Van was a dipshit and the whole point of the movie was to show this clown blowing his college career. I was wrong. :)

Payback - When the smack his feet with the hammer OWWWWWWWWWWW.

World according to garp was a great book, though i've read a few by the author, who's name has since escaped my memory, and they all involved prostitutes and bears.

John Irving.

Stop lying...you probably had a woody the whole time.

Bizarre moments:

--Pulp Fiction: the rape scene, the adrenaline shot
--Misery: where Kathy Bates destroys James Caan's ankles
--It's not a movie, but the first episode of "ER" this season, where Paul McCrane's arm gets whacked off by the propeller blade.

Cam, I agree with the AHX one. That son of a bitch deserved it though. :)

Gah! I forgot all about that one... I cringed when I read it.

I had this edition of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack where the tracks were interspersed with comments from Tarantino about why he picked particular songs, how they fit in with the scene, etc.

For that scene, the music that's playing (I forget the name of it) was his second choice. He originally wanted "My Sharona", because, as he put it, "it has a nice sodomy beat to it" (at which point he starts enunciating the beat.. "buh-da-buh-da-BUM-da-BUM-da"...)

He said The Knack turned him down, though, because that was their one big hit and they didn't want it ruined forever (and Steeler's Wheel no doubt feels the same way in hindsight about "Stuck in the Middle with You").

Didn't she saw off his foot and cauterize the stump with a blowtorch in the book?

Tob, the song during the rape is "Comanche" by the Revels. I don't think "My Sharona" would have really fit with the rest of the music in the movie, given the bluesy-soul tone overall.

Yeah, QT also said that he was glad in the end it didn't work out, because Comanche was a better fit.

The most disturbing movie scene I ever saw was from the movie Hannibal.

I have a cast iron stomach and have only vomitted a handful of times in the past 10 years.

When Hannibal removed Ray Liotta's scull cap and cut a section off from his brain while he was sitting at the dinner table, I had to leave the theater. That was the the most disturbing thing I ever saw.

If you're going to shoot, stab, or set fire to someone in a movie , I'm game. Cutting someone's brain out while they are still alive , that's too much. And eating the brain as a snack on the plane, barf!

Yeah Exit to Eden was horrifying, because the original book (which I read during a phase of "I like Anne Rice, why don't I read everything she's published?") deserves better. No, it's not a fabulous book, but it deserves better than that movie.

I could deal with the rape scene, but I remember the shot REALLY squicked me.

Even worse, I saw it at The Ritz (an artsy-foreign film theater in Philadelphia)..... and.. I came out.. somewhat subdued as I tried to absorb it all... and... BOOM! I met the eyes of an econ professor from the college I worked at!! It was soooo weird seeing such a nasty movie and then knowing I saw it with this guy who was always so reserved and professional. (He probably the same about me!)


I don't watch a lot of "shocking" films generally.. my tastes run toward comedy (tho I don't mind a bit of "low" humor). The one movie I watched that REALLY gave me the willies was Quills. I couldn't sleep one night and I had this disk but I hadn't watched it yet, and Michael Caine really creeped me out. I think I would have been OK if I hadn't been watching at 2 AM.

I really LOVE your style! This really ROCKS!!

;)

You just stole my heart with that very comment, but I won't say just exactly how and why (not to be an asshole). :)

If I'm keeping up with the rest of the posts hereabouts correctly, I presume that was related to excessive alchohol consumption rather than observation of an icky thing ...

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The most disturbing movie scene I ever saw was from the movie Hannibal.

I wasn't too bothered by that. I have a MUCH higher squick threshhold than most females. Higher than a lot of males of my acquaintance too ...

However, I was ready for that one. I knew what was coming.

I read the book as soon as it was published. The book is much more extensively descriptive of that particular scene. I will take it as a given that you don't want to borrow it.

I liked the original ending much better.

Thought of another one ...
 

Videodrome
You know that scene where you think James Woods' character is hallucinating and he sticks the pistol into his stomach (talk about the ulimate in concealed weapons, eh gang?)

That was disturbing.

Oh, and pretty much anything involving a full-body burn. definite grossout. Like when the probie fireman gets it in Backdraft. The guy through the Porsche I thought was neat, but then we don't have any emotional attachment to his "character".

What about the rape scene in "Clockwork Orange"? That to me was slighly beyond hair curlingly shocking. And again for the very same reason as at the ending of "Garp". It does give me chills just to think about it even though they are just stories. OOH!

:o

when I read Sycs comment... I don't think I read the book.

I didn't read the book...although if what Tob says is true, it sounds worse than the movie...though that's nothing to sneeze at.

Oh my fk'n God-
 

How I love lousy reviews..

:)

Lilo and Stitch-
 

I still can't get the voice of the mad scientist out of my head. I know someone very much that at work and last night he had his hands wrapped around my throught. After all, it is one of many Romanian ways of humor. He doesn't know it but I wasn't just pretending to be frightened and stunned by his actions. Who knows what they were thinking when they casted the "Lou Albino" sound-a-like? Just kidding, loved every minute of it.:)

Clockwork orange full stop, how did i forget that!

Fight Club
 

Mine has got to be one of 2 scenes in Fight Club:

Tyler Durden kisses the Ed Norton character's hand and pours lye onto it, leaving a kiss shaped scar. That was hard to watch.

Tyler and the Ed Norton character raid the dumpster behind a medical clinic, taking large transparent bags of fat gleaned from liposuction. As if that isn't bad enough, one of the bags of fat breaks and dumps all over them. They even made it in this strange pink/salmon color. I don't know if that stuff actually comes out that color, but either way the color adds to the gross effect.

~Case

Ughh....you people make me squeamish....
The first nastiness that I can remember is seven. All of the killings are particularly horrific. Sloth and Lust are the two that come to mind. Damn.

Sloth was the only one that got me.

By the time we made it to lust, I knew it was going to be icky.

Interesting title as well-
 

The lead character is tortured and rehabilitated for his crimes by being forced to listen to loud classical music while restrained, and also receives eyedrops every five or so seconds (water torture). He is released, subjected to fits and spasms of culture shock and then happens across the doorstep of some of his old victims who take him in and soon have their revenge upon the criminal. What can I say? Malcolm McDowell is still one of my most favorite actors for roles such as this one, not that I will ever watch it again if I can help it.

A personal note- I do not recommend this movie to anyone even if slightly curious, it really will leave you feeling ill for at least a couple of days if not longer- I only admire the actor for assuming such a pioneering role in this particular historic niche within the genre of "shock" film entertainment. To me the films did seem a little more entertaining with the arrival of others such as "Friday the 13th", "Halloween", and especially "Hellraiser".

Honestly cannot think of a sicker movie, period.

:p

Yes, bits of it are ugly. Other bits are brutal.

And that wasn't water torture, incidentally, that was saline drops put into his dry oh dry glazzies so they wouldn't crisp up and fall out when Alex was viddying the cinnies.

But A Clockwork Orange is an amazing film based on an equally amazing book. It's real horrorshow. (which means good, not icky or dripping with blood.)

But it's not a film that can even unreasonably be compared to slasher/spatter/horror films that you mention.

That's the filmic equivalent of comparing the storytelling and art of the cistine chapel, with a comic book. Yeah. They're both composed of pictures that tell a story, but one's high art, the other's low entertainment.

Lissen here droog ...

Kubrick was a genius who vizzied.

Burgess was a story teller beyond compare, but none of his other works really reached the genius of A Clockwork Orange (which you have to read with the original ending, not the ending that appeared in the better known american edition of the book).

Yes, I used the word genius twice. I honestly couldn't find a better synonym.

There a lot of strong social commentary in them thar reels, and looking back at the film, the vision of the future was more right than wrong. (I'm glad he was wrong about the plastic minidresses. I would look bloody awful in a plastic minidress).

Appypollylogies accepted.

I'm off to listen to the glorius ninth.

I suppose it would have made a difference to have read the book before watching the movie. And yes, it's been such a long time since I have cared to try to recall the plot- I still stand by my own account of the film and how it made me feel at the time I saw it. With the exception of the account of the water torture scene, of course and honestly don't think very much of Kubric's films as a collective whole. I'll agree that he seemed to have an incredible view of the future, and in his own unique way helped to make some of his ideas a reality. They say that life imitates art and I have seen it for myself enough times to make we want to destroy some of my own work. In case you were wondering what it is I'm not too crazy about in term's of his films- too abstract for my taste. I KNOW that I myself would not look very attractive in a plastic mini dress.:)

Kubrick
 

I admit i a matter of personal taste. even I don't like everything he did ... Hell. I just checked imdb.com and found out that I haven't seen everything he did. There are a cluster of (probably pretty bad B-grade) movies he directed in the '50s.

Barry Lyndon was terribly boring and entirely too long, but I still appreciated some of the directorial niceties of the film (particularly the hommage to artwork of the period ... each scene begins with a recreation of some famous period piece.

2001 was also fairly boring and very long, but it managed to be cool. After all, it had spaceships. :alien: Also, that film was groundbreaking in terms of both special effects films and science fiction films. SF grw up in 1968 ... the focus was crisp, the plot was complex, and you couldn't see the wires on the spaceships.

Dr. Strangelove Is about as funny a movie as I've ever seen. And a delightful anti-war film (which was a recurring theme in his work). I do wonder if Peter Sellars was paid separately for each role?

The Shining was the scariest movie i've ever seen. I've always enjoyed horror genre films. I like 'em. I laugh at a lot of them. This was different. It was also NOT Stephen King's Shining (I saw the movie first and still think it's scarier than the book)

Full Metal Jacket is pretty close to being my favorite movie of all time. (Favorite-favorite movie is The Great Escape) incredibly powerful, and fantastic adaptation of the book, the writer of which was one of the writers of the film.

I haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut and I don't know if I actually intend to or not. I realy don't like Nicole Kidman, and on that basis, probably won't see it. Okay, if I'm home and there's nothing else on and it comes on HBO ... but I won't rent it or anything ... well unless I'm with someone who really wants to see it and we can't find anything else ...

I'm not trying here to convince anybody who doesn't like Kubrick that they should ... but I just wanted to get this said.

Re: Kubrick
 

Wolf, you said it very well. Dr.Strangelove is an all time favorite of mine I have sometimes made a few alusions to in a couple of my best selling horror stories. "The Shining", is as timeless to me as the very air I breathe (even when chain smoking), and "Full Metal Jacket" is simply unforgetable- I don't believe I will ever grow tired of watching that one!:)

Re: Kubrick
 

If you never see another Kubrick film in your entire life, see "Paths of Glory". It's hardly a pretty bad B-grade movie.

"The Killing" is also excellent. Hey, see that too.

"Spartacus" is pretty decent, though different. He only directed about 2/3 of it, and you can tell. But I enjoy it anyway.

Re: Re: Kubrick
 

Dave, do you know if by chance he also directed that old movie "Straw Dogs", in which Dustin Hoffman filled the lead? It too was a pretty decent B grade movie in my book. Very suspensefull, mostly a sort of "who or what is beyond the outside of our front door" thriller. I wouldn't mind watching that one again.

He did not.

Straw Dogs was done by Sam Peckinpah.

Dude, next time that reality ring comes around you might just think about grabbing it.

'Tis odd; he doesn't look that out of touch.

...assuming that's the music legend himself.

Hey? Where'd it go? Remember the "preperation" scene just before that hot date in "Something About Mary"? Most pleasently disturbing indeed.;)

bizarre moments
 

Bizarre moments:

--Pulp Fiction: the rape scene, the adrenaline shot

*Oh hell yeah! Don't remember the rape scene (guess I'll get to revisit it while watching our DVD copy of it), but that adrenaline shot...*SHIVERS*. Another bizarre rape scene was in "What's Love Got To Do With It", because it was so quick and extremely violent!

--Misery: where Kathy Bates destroys James Caan's ankles

*Yeah, that *was* pretty fucked up.

--It's not a movie, but the first episode of "ER" this season, where Paul McCrane's arm gets whacked off by the propeller blade.

*ARGH! That was such a shocker (since I hadn't read up on the spoilers on the ER newsgroup on Usenet), so I had no idea that was coming. Gyah!!!!

:eek:

Some others:

*Many moments from various horror flicks like The Exorcist, The Omen, Amityville Horror. As a rule, I try to stay away from most horror films (I'm such a chicken!).

I should have mentioned this, much more priorly-
 

Of the "diary" pictures. I swapped places, several times with the stage performer. I am the one who is wearing the white outfit, and also the one standing sideways and holding his arms up high and shirtless. I actually had very small nipples at the time but thanks to a tube of my mother's lip stick at the time...and for the tattoos around the left wrist I used an eye pencil. Just telling it like it is. I was sure to forget to mention it once again anyway. Please feel free to have fun with this information as you see fit. There are no dummies here, although it is something of an acceptable open channel to discuss such things. If you don't believe me, then perhaps you may have noticed that there haven't been any outside questions at all as to the otherwise questionable reality I only know as truth. Whenever I am wrong I tend to over apologize before re-wording my posts. I am hardly ever wrong about anyhing I care to share with you, but sometimes the memories of the work I have actually performed are, I hope somewhat understandibly fuzzy after all- I volunteered to be driven crazy to produce such an enormous volume of works by so many names. My needs are met by the sweat of my brow to this day. I cannot be bought. I cannot be played. I am keeping what is mine on BOTH sides of the spectrum of reality. I am so tired from all of the ignorance I have volunteered to suffer. I'd really love to leave a joke that would have all of the members of this forum fighting for breath, right now it seems that I am just too tired to want to laugh myself.

Re: bizarre moments
 

Jed and the gimp and Bruce Willis in the pawn shop? I guess Marcelis was there too, but not really...

Re: Most disturbing movie scene
 

[quote]Originally posted by Cam
[b]What do you feel is the most disturbing movie scene you can recall? Whether it is disgusting humor, graphic violence, or horror it doesn't matter. Something that when you saw it for the first time, you almost had to avert your eyes, or just felt like throwing up. And still gives you that feeling whenever you think about it or see it.

For some reason I don't really understand (because there's lots more graphic and awful stuff on the movie screens these days), my most disturbing scene is from the film "Never Give A Inch" (now retitled to match the book from which it was made, Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion"). There is a scene when one of the logging family members is trapped underwater by a log, and his brother tries to buddy breathe with him until the water rises enough to float the log off of him. The brother who is pinned finds humor in having to "kiss" his brother through this predicament, and begins to make goofy faces, finally breaking out in laughter...underwater. And he drowns.

It is a very disturbing scene in so many ways. Anyone else seen this very fine and often overlooked Paul Newman film?

Yes, absolutely, one of the nastiest scenes ever. The whole thing being prefaced with the beatings as Malcolm McDowell performs an apocalyptic version of "Singing in the Rain" is absolutely chilling; really throws one off kilter emotionally.

For those who enjoyed the film at all on any level, you simply must read the book as it much more fully fleshes out the real meaning of what is going on...namely, is it right to commit atrocities in order to prevent them?

The Deep-
 

This was always another one of those movies that kept me on the edge of my seat, even though I already knew the outcome(s) in advance. The scenes that depicted the agony of others fighting for life and for air while under water was a most effective spine tingler.

I was eight when I saw "Jaws" for the very first time. I remember it was a very long time before I ever went swimming again, even in the baby pool.:)