
Welcome to the final Question of the Day for this week. Today's question comes from rochey_1 who asks
"Most disturbing moment in a Movie or TV show....This is the kind of moment that made you really uncomfortable....or your skin crawl?"
Wow, so many to choose from, especially as I'm a huge horror fan. Here are some that I considered.
Head Turning Sex on True Blood
Thanksgiving scene on Dexter with John Lithgow
The whole movie Threads
Castration Scene in Hard Candy
The Foot/Wire Scene in Audition
Rape Scene in Irreversible
Pretty much the whole of the movie Salo
The eye scene in Hostal
But the one that cringed and squirmed the most at was during the original rape scene in I Spit on Your Grave. It's truly one of the most horrific scenes I've ever seen.
The film was named in 2010 one of TIME's Top 10 Ridiculously Violent Movies
From wiki.
Many nations, such as the Republic of Ireland, Norway, Iceland, and West Germany, banned the film altogether, claiming that it "glorified violence against women". Canada initially banned the film, but in the 1990s decided to allow its individual provinces to decide whether to permit its release. Since 1998, some provinces (such as Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Quebec) have released the film, with a rating that reflects its content.
The censored American version of the film was released in Australia in 1982 with an R 18+ rating. In 1987 the film survived an appeal to ban it. It continued to be sold until 1997, when another reclassification caused its ban in Australia. In 2004 the full uncut version was awarded an R 18+, lifting the seven-year ban. The Office of Film and Literature Classification justified this decision by reasoning that castration is not sexual violence (Australian censorship law forbids the release of films that depict scenes of sexual violence as acceptable or justified).[4]
In the United Kingdom, the film was branded a "video nasty". It appeared on the Director of Public Prosecutions's list of prosecutable films until 2001, when a heavily-cut version of was released with an 18 certificate. This British cut version was released on DVD in New Zealand in 2001, with an R18 rating.
So what about you? What are some of the most disturbing scenes that you've seen on TV or at the Movies.
Have a great weekend everyone.
You can see previous Questions of the Day here.
The entire movie, "The Good Son". Sociopathic Macauley Culkin traumatized me entirely too much, and I can't watch that movie to this day.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Powder freaks me out for some reason.
Hostel maybe.
ReplyDeleteThat one with Willem Dafoe in the woods too. It's name deserts me.
Also the r*£e scene in The Last Door on the Left. Not fun to watch.
I'm sure Saw has had a few too as well :P
I'm a horror movie fan too. I watch a lot of them. Sat through all the Saws easily. But to be honest, the scene in 127 hours where James Franco cuts his arm off really made my guts backflip...It's so realisitc. You can almost feel the pain.
ReplyDeleteTrue Bloods head turning sex scene was a tad disturbing xD
ReplyDeleteYeah, totally agree. Antichrist was a very disturbing movie especially the scene between Dafoe's character and his wife getting it on in the woods. Gomorra also would be on my list.
ReplyDeleteTV Show: The scene in the Fringe episode 'Reciprocity' when Peter takes a meat cleaver to a shifter's whole hand. I mean, the camera is RIGHT THERE and the sound of it sounds so real. That made me squirm more than the Gravedigger's head blowing up on Bones the night before.
ReplyDeleteMovie: The ending scene of Silent Hill with all the barbed wire still freaks me out to this day. Where Alessa completely obliterates Cristobella with it. *shudders*
Yes! The finger chopping. I was shocked.
ReplyDeleteThe hide and seek game in The Good Son freaked me out and don't get me started on The Exorcist.
ReplyDeleteIT is scary too.
if Shelob from the LOTR doesn't put the fear of creepy crawlies into you i don't know what does.
That's my list so far.
Exorcist ripoff is my idea for that one.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Fringe a disturbing show in the long run anyway?
ReplyDeleteAny scene that makes me want to grab a bucket. The Walking Dead zombie neck-eating (poor Amy). Same show, the scene where they spread zombie guts all over themselves. Gag!! Slumdog Millionaire, the kid jumps into the slop under the outhouse. Sorry everyone--hope you weren't eating just now.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Wallace's death scene in Braveheart - I still can't watch that again. To me, the IMPLICATION of what is going on off-camera is enough to make my stomach churn.
ReplyDeleteAntichrist was very disturbing. Couldn´t decide if I hated it or it was a masterpiece. It had plenty of uncomfortable scenes.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to watch a disturbing film you can watch anything Lars Von Trier made.....they are all disturbing.
Dexter season 2 finale - Rita in the bathtub, Harrison (is that the kids name?) sitting in her blood.
ReplyDeleteI am not the biggest Dexter fan, but that was messed up.
I meant season 4.
ReplyDeleteClockwork Orange is one, disturbing movie. Brilliantly directed and performed, but extremely violent and disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThe eye sqishing scene in Kill Bill vol 2
ReplyDeleteThe Bite-the-Curb scene in American History X. Didn't show the corpse graphically but the sound was so disturbing I had to turn away my head since I didn't have time to take off my earphones :(
ReplyDeleteTo this day skip these minutes when rewatching
The Movie, "The Fourth Kind" when the guy kills his family, and then himself, and the movie cuts back and forth between real dash-cam footage of what was being portrayed in the movie. It blurs out the exact moment of death, but it is very disturbing.
ReplyDeleteYeah I almost forgot that one, it was bad, I had the same reaction, and I have to mute it every time.
ReplyDeleteto be honest the bone melting powder from concentrate and ask again made me squirm a whole lot more than the shapeshifter cleaving :B
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am twisted, but I found that scene incredibly fun and shocking than disturbing in a bad way...
ReplyDelete1. One that still makes me hug myself and shiver in discomfort whenever I see it is Requiem For a Dream. When we see Jared Leto's infected track marks in his arm.... ewwwww... Just shook thinking of it!
ReplyDelete2. One of the last scenes in French film called "Fat Girl". The movie follows a 12-year old girl who is jealous of her older sister and wants to lose her virginity. IT completely captured the mindset of a preteen with no thought of consequences and the last scene at the truck stop is amazingly disturbing. Her mom and sister get killed and she gets raped, but when she talks to the police she says its all fine .... Everything is good in her warped mind, because she finally lost her virginity..... WOW!
3. A movie in the the early 90s (I think) called "KIDS". It follows a group of young teens as they try to pass the time on any given day. One's goal is to have as many virgins as he can... The final scene where Telly is raping an Chloe Sevigny's unconscious character who we just found out has AIDS. It feels liek it goes on for a second short of forever.... Poetic justice in the end maybe, but so disturbing!
4. Theres a scene in Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer where Henry and his partner are watching a video of their latest kill. The viewer watches it over their shoulder on the TV screen like watching a home movie. You see the entire act, but feel the Henry watching it... and when it ends he want sot watch it again. Twisted!!
5. Love me some Edward Norton, but the curb stomp in American History X still revolts me!
The entire movie Hard Candy. Ok, the castration scene is the worst bit... but the entire movie disturbs me. It's very well acted, but wow....
Honorable mention to every scene of any David Lynch film... most notably Eraserhead.
Requiem for a Dream and Train Spotting. Such disturbing content. I still squirm when I think about them.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, maybe not so much visually horrifying, but a large portion of the Grey's Season 6 finale made me ridiculously nervous/uncomfortable. Though incredibly moving/wonderful television, it was actually quite disturbing content-wise.
Despite many of the incredibly disturbing scenes on these lists, I still think the "unseen" but implied horrors disturb me the most!
ReplyDeleteI agree that scene was so gruesomely realistic. There are a ton of gore-horor movies based on Japanese movies or manga or torture that have many disturbing scenes, but I think I have a different mindset going in so they do not affect me as much. But cutting off your own arm with a dull knife.......
ReplyDeleteI agree with people about Hard Candy and The Good Son but for me the most disturbing moments came from the movie The American Crime when Gertrude (played by Katherine Keener) is forcing 14-year old Sylvia (played by Ellen Page) to force a glass coke bottle up herself and also when Sylvia has "I'm a prostitute" branded on her stomach. Oh yeah and when the neighbor kids are kicking her around and torturing her because they thought it was the cool thing to do. That entire movie disturbed me...and the worse part of it all is that it's a true story.
ReplyDeleteI was familiar with the story so it did not shock me, but a very disturbing scene. If I had been surprised by it it would have made my top list for sure! Terrible that is is l ltrue too....
ReplyDeleteThe scene in Saw II where the girl is in the thing of needles. I already can't stand needles and watching them go into ppl, but that scene is just so quirm-worthy
ReplyDeleteTV: Any time Bob appeared on screen in Twin Peaks. Freaked me the hell out.
ReplyDeleteMovie: There's a few, but one that sticks in my memory at the moment is the Victor scene in Se7en (the Sloth victim).
oz when Schillinger sends to Beecher his child´´s hand
ReplyDeleteThe one where the woman comes home on their anniversary and touches her husband, he turns to ashes and his head falls off. Okay, that was actually funny. I guess the bugs coming out of dead people in the last episode.
ReplyDeletenot being one for horror movies, just the trailer for human centipede was enough to scar my brain for ever!!!
ReplyDeletevery very disturbing movie concept
I don't get easily disturbed anymore, but 'Our Town' (2.24) episode of the X-Files was horrifying. It involves murdered corpses being chopped up and fed to pigs at the local meat processing plant and in turn fed to the public, most of who belong to a tribal cult that ritualistically kills people. I was never happier to call myself a vegetarian than I was then.
ReplyDelete"Requiem for a Dream" was pretty messed up, that's the one movie that I've had to pause and come back to in order to gather myself. I'm not a fan of scenes where anything intravenous goes on, so this movie was gag-inducing.
ReplyDeleteAs a female, anything with rape scenes really disturb me, particularly when they're drawn own and brutal like "The Last House on the Left".
And I've not seen it, as I know it would mess me up, but "The Human Centipede" sounds like a bad idea from start to finish, so...
I'll have to go with the scene in the original I Spit On Your Grave where the woman takes the knife and cuts off the man's...well...you know...
ReplyDeleteWhen freddie died in skins.
ReplyDeleteok i have watched a lot of horror and shit but that was brutal.
"Supernatural" has several eps/moments that fit this for me:
ReplyDeleteThe Magnificent Seven--That poor guy being forced to drink drain cleaner and dying as his wife watches in horror.Quite possibly the single most disturbing and disgusting death I've ever
seen on a tv show EVER! I have NEVER been able to re-watch that episode after my first
viewing.
Two more episodes that I can't remember the name of ,but they both involved torture.
One where Dean quite GLEEFULLY tortures Allistair.His whole attitude and the fact of Dean
being one of the shows good guys and a generally "moral" character makes this especially
upsetting
Another similar one (or possibly from the same episode?)involved the same thing
being done to Lillith by another male character.This one wasn't just upsetting for the actual
torture itself,since most of it actually happens off-camera,but the woman was unmistakably
NUDE during the entire thing,her only covering being strategically-placed wide straps.It added
an humiliation factor that cranked the horror factor up to another level and made it even more
shocking than it already was.And something about the sounds of her screams capped it
all off in an indescribably chilling way.
Pretty much all of the episodes of the show that involve children in some way(which would
be about 2/3s of them)are also pretty disturbing to me,such as the lake scene in "Dead In
The Water" and particularly the pool scene in "Playthings"not to mention the boys narrowly
escaping the fire and Mary's death in the pilot.Jessica's death scene in that episode was
pretty horrifying as well.
Dean's death scene in the S4 finale was both nasty and poignant.Being torn apart by
invisible Hell-hounds,and the fact that we can still hear them despite not being able to see
them,and Sam's emotional reaction to the whole situation,made for something that was
deeply frightening,gut-wrenching,sad and surreal all at the same time.Of course,his
"resurrection" right after that was an even scarier moment for me!Being buried alive is
a weird phobia of mine,so that whole sequence of him busting his way out of that coffin,
ESPECIALLY the shot of his hand coming through the ground,was like seeing a replay of my
own worst nightmares!
DAMN!That is one f***ed-up show!