Most Disturbing Moment In A Film
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For me there would be two:
The ending of "Johnny Got His Gun", where the patient is left in his living death.
The bit in Michael Henke's "Funny Games" where the son of the family is being suffocated in order to encourage his mother to undress. Then again, the bit where the blond "visitor" is asked to make up his mind who to kill while the dark "visitor" is in the kitchen making himself something to eat and all you hear is the shot followed by gasping and sobbing.
If you haven't seen these, neither of them graphic - and I think that's why they are most chilling for me.
The ending of "Johnny Got His Gun", where the patient is left in his living death.
The bit in Michael Henke's "Funny Games" where the son of the family is being suffocated in order to encourage his mother to undress. Then again, the bit where the blond "visitor" is asked to make up his mind who to kill while the dark "visitor" is in the kitchen making himself something to eat and all you hear is the shot followed by gasping and sobbing.
If you haven't seen these, neither of them graphic - and I think that's why they are most chilling for me.
Kingofquestions
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No different to when a man rapes a woman, in my book. Both are equally as disturbing and I don't think it's a good idea to distinguish between the pain that goes through both sexes in such attacks, as if one is any less worthy of our empathy than the other. Saying that, the sex of the viewer probably has some say on the impact on the suffering for the viewer during such differing rape scenes, even if it shouldn't really do so.
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The rape scene in Irreversible anyone ?
You haven't by any chance seen the special edition of RoboCop, have you? The death scene has only a second or two of footage restored, and some alternative angles for shots, but it is a lot more greusome now than it was in 1987, so if you thought the original scene was bad, you probably should avoid the new version.
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I don't like the bit in Annie Hall when Woody Allen boils the lobsters. 
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Yes the stab scene stayed with me for a while
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awful film but in mirrors with keifer sutherland where that woman is having the whole of her jaw ripped open by that monster thing in the...mirror (i think that's how it happened !)
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I can't believe I've actually gone through all 14 pages of this
I don't know if anyone else has seen it, but one of the best films I've ever seen is Modigliani, and it has some scenes which stick with you for a VERY long time.
One I find hard to watch is when everyone's waiting for him at the art competition and he's out getting drunk, get's followed by thieves and beaten up so bad they leave him for dead, whilst his younger self, which he hallucinates, watches on by, humming to himself.
The other one is at the end, where Jeanne says goodbye to her daughter and throws herself out of the window, together with her unborn baby... I've NEVER cried at a film before but I was in hysterics after this.
The Human Centipede looks revolting. It hits home especially hard with me because I live in Spain and used to get massive venomous centipedes in my old house *shudder*
I don't know if anyone else has seen it, but one of the best films I've ever seen is Modigliani, and it has some scenes which stick with you for a VERY long time.
One I find hard to watch is when everyone's waiting for him at the art competition and he's out getting drunk, get's followed by thieves and beaten up so bad they leave him for dead, whilst his younger self, which he hallucinates, watches on by, humming to himself.
The other one is at the end, where Jeanne says goodbye to her daughter and throws herself out of the window, together with her unborn baby... I've NEVER cried at a film before but I was in hysterics after this.
The Human Centipede looks revolting. It hits home especially hard with me because I live in Spain and used to get massive venomous centipedes in my old house *shudder*
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I didn't know what to think about that film. I had zero sympathy for the family due to what the father was up to. Sure, it was sad for the boy....but rather than feel emotional because of what happened to him, I was left muttering "Good, serves you [the family] all right for the awful things you've done!"
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Most of the scenes in 'The Passion of the Christ'. 
Not pleasant, I agree, but I think it's worse in Robocop 2 when they disembowel the bloke that grassed up the dealer.
Again, not at all graphic - all left to the imagination.
I also think that "The Accused" is quite disturbing for the way that some of the witnesses mocked the victim after the incident. That is obviously not quite as grim as some of the films discussed here, I know.
For those of you who think violent movies are really cool and the best, I would urge you to watch "Funny Games". It might make you think... or maybe not... and if not there there's always "8mm"
Again, not at all graphic - all left to the imagination.
I also think that "The Accused" is quite disturbing for the way that some of the witnesses mocked the victim after the incident. That is obviously not quite as grim as some of the films discussed here, I know.
For those of you who think violent movies are really cool and the best, I would urge you to watch "Funny Games". It might make you think... or maybe not... and if not there there's always "8mm"
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actually, now you mention The Shining, I can't watch that film. Saw a clip of Jack Nicholson just staring out of a window for what felt like an hour! Freaked the hell out of me and now I can't watch that or him.
Sorry to bump an old thread, but it made more sense than creating an identical topic 
Anyway, my vote goes to the final scenes in the water from "Titanic", that film is so much more disturbing than any horror film, in my eyes. The shots of those poor, frozen people, floating lifelessly is horrifying, especially the shot of the frozen mother and child
It was on TV last night, it never fails to upset me
Anyway, my vote goes to the final scenes in the water from "Titanic", that film is so much more disturbing than any horror film, in my eyes. The shots of those poor, frozen people, floating lifelessly is horrifying, especially the shot of the frozen mother and child
It was on TV last night, it never fails to upset me
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I agree, psycological thrillers when they play with your mind are so much worse than graphic thrillers in my opinion