Most disturbing sequence in a film?

[Khephra]

I'm going with the rape scene in "Vulgar" just because it's so unexpected.

[listenup]

1. There are so many, and they depend on the unexpected

If I'm watching a movie that is a great drama that has a twist - it's disturbing.

I don't watch slasher/scary films. I never have. I have other interests.

[Narraback]

2. I never saw that but the "curb" scene in American History X...

was very disturbing to me.

[LearnedHand]

6. Oh, me, too!

I forgot about that one!

[DS1]

19. something about the way his front teeth are glistening in the light

and scraping against the concrete make you imagine your teeth going through that. :shudder:

[BurtWorm]

3. You just reminded me that "Kids" has a disturbing ending

and that is a disturbing scene, also a rape, of an HIV-infected girl while she's passed out at a party.

[MnFats]

36. and another larry clark film, "Bully."

which is pretty much disturbing throughout. aimless kids in affluent Florida decide to do away with one of their crowd, who bullies the hell out of his life-long friend. also, there is a truly disturbing rape scene in which the buy (the bully) can't get off unless he's watching a crude gay porn film.

best/worst line: "The hitman needs a ride."

the murder scene is truly awful, long and graphic.

worst of all, it's based on a true story....

[LearnedHand]

4. Several!

The rape scene in the remake of "Cape Fear." Remember what he did to her cheek?

The refrigerator scene in "Minority Report." (Love the film, but I retch every time I see that scene!)

The scene in "Silence of the Lambs" where we first see Buffalo Bill -- he's dressing up to go out somewhere and stands in front of the mirror with his privates tucked in his legs. He's trying to look like a woman.

The scene in "The Ring" with the girl and the television (ugh! Kept me up all night!!!)

The scene in "Paris Trout" where Dennis What's-his-name (you know, from "Apocalypse Now" and "Blue Velvet") rapes his wife with a coke bottle.

(Um, is there a pattern here?)

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

7. That would be Dennis Hopper... n/t

JB

[LearnedHand]

9. Yup. Would be.

Thanks. :hi:

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

20. Interestingly, Hopper rapes with scissors in Blue Velvet...

I'm detecting a theme here with Mr. Hopper...hmmmmm.

JB

[eileen from OH]

28. Ooooh. ..

The Cape Fear one was awful. In fact I found the whole movie to be entirely too intense (and I'm a pretty hardy soul).

Mine is the hand on the windowsill in Blood Simple, which is one terrific/scary movie.

eileen from OH

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

5. The psychotic dinner scene with "grandpa" - Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Weird, creepy, and disturbing...frankly, this whole movie is just plain disturbing. Best horror film in the past 30 years, bar none.

JB

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Most of the recent Japanese film

"Audition"

I couldn't finish it.

[LearnedHand]

10. I've not heard of that one?!?

What kind of film is it (plotwise, that is)?

[DS1]

8. Alien - Chest Burster

Especially the first time you see it, only works if it isn't spoiled for you by some asshat that posts spoilers.

Doh! :evilgrin:

[PDittie]

23. Yep; when John Hurt starts choking on his pasta

and then the alien pops out.

And scoots off.

Fucked me completely up (and I was stone-cold sober).

[Waistdeep]

11. Un Chien Andalou

the surrealist classic by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel (1928). The movie has a scene where a girl's eyeball is graphically sliced with a razor. Pretty memorable.

[LearnedHand]

15. Speaking of eyeballs,

what about that scene in "Clockwork Orange" where they held open his eyelids to make him watch the films? Not particularly graphic, but extremely disturbing.

On edit: Welcome to DU, waistdeep! :hi:

[opiate69]

21. speaking of eyeballs redux

The "vice" scene in Casino... whoa... also, just recently I saw Ghost Ship. Overall a pretty standard horror flick, but the opening sequence was incredibly disturbing.

[DS1]

27. speaking of Casino

watching your brother get beat close to death and thrown in a ditch to be buried alive, all the while knowing you're next.

Freaks me out to no end.

[MercutioATC]

54. Not as graphic, but totally unlike the rest of the film...

The "eyes gushing blood" scene in "One Hour Photo" was totally unexpected.

[SOteric]

12. The most disturbing thing I've seen in film was a TV show.

In "Homicide: Life on the Streets," Andre Brauer plays a cop who talks with, listens to, holds the hand of a man who's been cut in half by a subway train while workers undertake to free him...which will cause his immediate death.

The normalcy of it all, the suddeness of it, the random nature. It was a very disturbing thing and I've never completely forgotten it.

[MnFats]

33. agreed!The whole 'subway accident' episode ...

a masterpiece....in the end, the guy makes a racist statement and we're left to decide on our own if the guy is really a racist or so ginned up with fear and pain that he is spewing epithets...

now that you mention it, that whole series was great, and Andre Braugher .... that role was perfect for him....in fact, i am now reminded of another Andre Braugher scene...his character is talking to , I think, a 12-year-old who's going to an adult prison for murder...the kid is in a chair and Braugher leans over and says "it's not my habit to give advice to 12-year-old killers. but when you get in there...don't say anything...to anybody...don't take anything...from anybody....(and so on). it's chilling.

[LearnedHand]

13. Hey, khephra...

...thanks for the sig line (love the ol man in black)! RIP, Johnny.

[Khephra]

39. Thanks! He's the Man!

:-)

[DS1]

14. Shallow Grave

Hammering out the teeth.

[kskiska]

16. Marathon Man

When they drill that guy's teeth.

Also, there's a German movie called "Funny Games" that's disturbing all the way through. It's about a family that's terrorized by two guys at a lakeside vacation area. Their dog is shot, their kid is shot, the neighbors are dead (unbeknownst to them), and these guys are doing it all for fun.

[LearnedHand]

18. Oh, I think I've seen that!

Oh, wait. The film I saw might have been Swedish or somehting else, not German. But if it's the same film, it is INCREDIBLY disturbing.

And have you seen "Breaking the Waves"? The woman't behavior (sleeping with men because the act of doing that might heal her husband's head injury) is very disturbing.

[DS1]

22. the keywords are

"Is it safe?"

Marathon Man, a classic with Dustin Hoffman.

Believe it or not, Straw Dogs, also with Dustin Hoffman was banned in most of Europe for being too violent, but now if you look back on it, you'd laugh and wonder how it ever got beyond a PG-13. Times have changed.

[kskiska]

26. I'll look for it. Thanks.

I saw Funny Games on the shelf at the library today but couldn't bring myself to watch it again.

[wtmusic]

17. Blue Velvet

1 part Dennis Hopper, 1 part Isabella Rosselini, I blue velvet bathrobe, 1 pair scissors, 50lb tank of oxygen. Mix thoroughly. Add depravity to taste. Yum!

[eileen from OH]

30. I really hated

that movie. Depravity can be fun, but Dumb Depravity is sickening.

eileen from OH

[wtmusic]

34. what would you classify as 'dumb' depravity?

[eileen from OH]

41. Depravity that

is blatantly calculated to make the audience flinch. The "hmm, what could we stick in here to make people reallly uncomfortable" stuff. When something happens in a movie that is so bad that you are taken out of that world and notice it, it's dumb in my book. And that's what happened to me. My reaction became more important than what was happening in the story. It's not just a scene necessarily. Anymore, special effects can do that. When you the special effects become NOTICEABLE, when they don't enhance the film but overwhelm it, then I think a filmmaker has failed.

If that makes sense!

eileen from OH

[wtmusic]

46. Yeah, that makes sense

It's a very personal thing. I thought the famous 'Mommy' scene was terrific. I found out later that Rosselini nearly bailed on the project after Hopper made some sick jokes on the set, and that during the filming of that scene she was scared to death. That comes through, and that's what I like about it.

Other parts of the film where David Lynch is examining his navel...well, that's when I go get popcorn.

[gp]

24. Requiem For A Dream

certainly the last 15 minutes of it.

[dolo amber]

25. Vulgar

That was the first thing that came to mind when I clicked the thread, but I thought, "Nah, I doubt anyone else has really seen it, so I'll go with the American History X curb thing"...then lo, what is the first 2 things I see?? You wacky DU kids are so cool...:D

:yourock:

[Khephra]

42. Doesn't that just hit you SO?

I admit that I was male raped, so it had a different perspective on my end.

[DS1]

29. Jacob's Ladder

Hospital scene, gurney is being dragged through a vision of hell, running over body parts, with mutated forms wailing against chain-linked fences.

[leftofthedial]

62. great movie

nasty, nasty scene

descent into hell

[eileen from OH]

31. Forget "scenes", I've got two entire. . .

movies I've walked out on.

One was The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. The steamy hot sex scenes didn't make up for all the other shit I just HATED.

Second one was Angel Heart.

eileen from OH

[LearnedHand]

37. Oooh, I LOVED "Angel Heart"!

I'd forgotten that one, also! Rourke is in a new film: "Matchstick Men." I haven't seen it, but I'm dying to.

[BurtWorm]

32. Ear violence in Reservoir Dogs

and the adrenalin shot in Pulp Fiction.

[LearnedHand]

38. Yep. Those are tops!

n/t

[DS1]

44. Amazing how imagination can make a scene

seem worse than if it were shown graphically, eh?

[BurtWorm]

45. I hear, so to speak

Tarentino wanted to show the ear being sliced off and got talked out of it. Is that apocryphal?

[BurtWorm]

35. Eels in the horse head in Tin Drum

and the making of body secretion soup. For some reason, I found Tin Drum to be one of the most difficult movies to sit through. I found the whole thing thoroughly unpleasant. Which I think was the point.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

40. Dog poop eating scene in Pink Flamingos...ugh.

And, to think that all those tourists in NYC flocking to see the Broadway production of Hairspray are going to see a musical created by the demented (but stylish) mind of John Waters.

JB

[opiate69]

50. Pink Flamingos...

Hell, that movie was almost nothing but shocking scenes.. the chicken scene, the "artificial insemination" scene.. twisted movie...

[FredScuttle]

43. Linda Blair, ahem, "abusing" herself in the Exorcist

That's a tough scene to endure.

Other than that, I'd say anytime Harvey Keitel flops his johnson out onscreen. Sheath your sword, Harv!

[flamingyouth]

47. Priest with head turned around

That just gives me chills to this day...

[BurtWorm]

48. Fun with a garden trowel

in Night of the Living Dead.

[Robb]

49. The ENTIRE SECOND HALF of

"Requiem for a Dream".

I was disturbed for a week. It still haunts me. Must-see film, but man....eek.

[Khephra]

51. As a recovering alchy

I cant see that movie. I've tried, but it just makes me want to kill myself for what I did to others while I was drinking.

[dutchdemocrat]

52. The scene in the rotting meat truck

in the Cook the Thief....

Peter Greenaway.

[Anus Retainus]

53. Irreversible

<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Irreversible-1120933/>

I am by far not squeamish, but the initial beating of the rapist in this film is very, very, hard to watch.

There is supposed to be a special effects documentary on the DVD on how they did it, but I couldn't find it. Seeing how they did it would certainly ease my mind's nightmares.

[Lindsey]

55. The Pianist with Adrian Brody

The scene when the family is trying to decide what the hell to do and it shows the nazis in an apt. across the street dump a man in a wheelchair over the balcony to his death. The Pianist is the most disturbing film I've ever seen....and I've seen A LOT of movies.

[Wonk]

56. Non-fiction and recent? Has to be this one, starring Brian Douglas Wells,

may he rest in peace.

[Old and In the Way]

57. Hannibal Lector

Dining on Ray Liotta's brain...while he's still alive and talking....that was it for me.

[Fight_n_back]

58. Trainspotting

when they find the baby..

It took me three months to get that picture out of my head.

[MoonGod]

59. Holy Smoke and The Shining...

... first 2 that popped into my head that weren't already mentioned...

The bathtub sequence from The Shining. Lots of disturbing scenes in that movie, actually, but that's the one that came to mind.

The sex scene from Holy Smoke.

[psychopomp]

64. You, too?

That bathtub scene got to me too. I used to watch all kinds of splatter flicks but none were scarey like that scene from The Shining.

Other fiction? Last Exit to Brooklyn. Non-fiction? Night and Fog. If anybody knows that movie, let me know 'cause it's an old one.

[MoonGod]

67. Yeah...

... the Shining is one of very few movies ever to leave me with nightmares... maybe the only one.

Of course, I probably wasn't much older than 10 when I saw it... but I saw lots of other movies around the same age like a couple of the F13s, Elm Street, Halloween, etc. etc.

I'm wondering if anybody here can relate to my squeamishness regarding the sex scene in Holy Smoke, though. It was pure psychological torment for me.

[FloridaJudy]

60. The scene in *The Green Mile*

When the slimy little cretin screws up the Cajun's execution. I'm used to wading through blood and guts in hospitals, but that one almost made me toss my cookies.

[DoNotRefill]

61. The Toxic Avenger and Eraserhead....

The scene in TA where the kid's head is run over shocked the hell out of me. The unwrapping of the baby in EH was pretty disturbing.

Of course, I disturb pretty easily.... ;-)

[Waistdeep]

65. Eraserhead

Eraserhead is probably the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. 25 years later and I still can hear the bleat of the "baby".

[Swede]

63. The daughter in the closet in "The Ring"

really sent a sent a jolt up my way.

[Spirochete]

66. Xtro

where the guy cracks open the snake eggs and eats them. erk.

[Dogmudgeon]

68. The Eye in "The Andalusian Dog"

Don't give it away, but if you've seen it, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

--bkl

[VOX]

69. Michael Moore's "Roger and Me" -- the Rabbit Lady...

What she does is sudden, swift, without emotion, and Mike's camera doesn't flinch one bit. I like Michael Moore, but I felt that this scene was abruptly forced into the viewer's face, and I didn't appreciate it.

[mitchum]

70. "I Spit On Your Grave" the whole wretched movie

ditto for "Patch Adams"

[NashVegas]

71. Monkeys in Wizard of Oz

When they are running out of the great hall and get lifted up by the flying monkeys.

Most scary and disturbing scene in the history of cinema.

[kutastha]

72. Magic and Serpent and the Rainbow

I was five when I saw Magic and can still remember the creepy ventriloquist's dummy killing people.

And in Serpent and the Rainbow, the hammer meeting nail meeting testicle scene certainly made me jump.

[opiate69]

73. I just remembered

The baby scene in Trainspotting... F-ed up, man.