Most Disturbing Moment In A Film

The castration scene in "Hard Candy" - I am not at all squeemish usually, so was suprised when I had to run out of the cinema to be physically sick during this scene. Great film though.

Bits of "Stigmata" weren't great - I can't stand actually seeing self-harm in films, like when Glenn Close shows her wrists to Michael Douglas in "Fatal Attraction" and that woman snipping away at something in the kitchen in "Sixth Sense", then she turns around revealing she was cutting open her wrists screaming "look what you made me do!" Nasty stuff!

Also a nasty scene where Ed Norton makes the guy bite the side of the road kerb in "American History X" before stamping on the back of his head.
 
Several that spring immediately to mind have already been mentioned:

- The flagellation and crucifixion scenes in The Passion Of The Christ.
- The rape scene in Boys Don't Cry.
- The miming to Roy Orbinson in Blue Velvet.
- Whilst on the subject of David Lynch, not a film, but many of the BOB scenes from Twin Peaks.
- The kerb stomp from American History X.
- The circumsision (sp?) from Hard Candy.
- The ankle shattering from Misery.

The Green Mile, not for the execution of Del that everyone's mentioned, but for the evil smile on Billy's face after seeing the bodies of the two sisters. What's implied is definitely more disturbing than what's actually seen.

Likewise, The Human Centipede, but for the final scene with the front and the back of the 'centipede' dead, and the poor girl stuck in the middle of them.

Also, one of the later Hellraiser sequels, V or VI (can't remember which but it's subtitled Inferno) that featured hardly any gore and relied on implying the deaths, as well as being more psychological than hammer/slasher. IMO a great sequel to the franchise and the most disturbing.

One that I can't believe hasn't been mentioned yet that haunted me for a long time, is the scene from Jacob's Ladder where the demon surgeon injects Jacob in the centre of his forehead. Terrifying stuff.
 
***Spoiler about the ending in the film Funny Games***




I won't say this is the most disturbing scene, because there are far worse that I've seen, but it was disturbing and was shown on TV yesterday. The film Funny Games was shown on Film Four yesterday (the remade English language version), and right near the end of the film, they're in a boat with the last victim (Naomi Watts's character), with her bound and sat between them on the edge of a sailing boat, and while they're just talking about random stuff, one of the characters just pushes her off the boat to drown without a care or announcement, as if swatting a fly from his face. The scene isn't gory or anything, it's the manner in which she dies that disturbs... as if it were nothing. She even seems resigned to her fate, too, which is awful. Just shows you don't need blood and guts to be disturbing.
 
Sophie's Choice
The scene in The Piano where the dad is hiding the son and tells him it is a game, completely heartbreakingly sad.
The bit in I Am Legend where the dog dies, I can't watch it.
Signs - when they're in the cellar in the dark and another scene when the boy kills the dog.
The Sixth Sense - when the boy goes to the loo late at night and a ghost walks behind him.
Aliens - when they find all the people stored with aliens festering in their stomachs - bleurgh.
The Thing - at the end when the two men are left together.
Alien - when it bursts out of John Hurt's stomach - it was a shocker back in the day ;-)
I know these probably all seem a bit tame but I don't watch gory horror films as a general rule as I find them a bit boring tbh!
 
The scene in Mississippi Burning where the KKK burn the church and a young boy kneels down and prays amoust the chaos. One of the KKK walks up, looks at him for a moment and then takes a step back and kicks him in the head.
 
Watched the August (??????) film last night; not sure what the fuss is about tbh, was full of shots of people threatning to cut people up or making them kiss. It's touted as THE sickest film ever on the ign blog?!?
 
Don't know if its had a mention yet but Grave Of The Fireflies (for the sadness/upsetting imagery side of disturbing) is definitely a moving experience even though its an animated movie it is a really powerful piece.
 
The Excorsist was on last night and I switched off just before the scene where she is stabbing herself with the crucifix.

I can't watch anything with rape, domestic violence or animal cruelty scenes. Shudders.
 
A film I found very disturbing was the Tod Browning film "Freaks" made in 1932. The film itself starred - please excuse me using the term - actual freaks! The director cast people with genuine deformities:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM&feature=related

It was banned in a number of countries for quite some time. Apparently it was not shown in the UK for 30 years.

The original cut was 90 minutes but the released version was 64 mins. Some of the original film is now missing and the final version, released by MGM, had a happy ending. For anyone who is interested there is more about the film at this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks

One particular disturbing scene was the infamous revenge murder by the "Freaks" - part of which you can see here:

For some it may be disturbing - you have been warned. Though not graphic by today's standarRAB but disturbing all the same!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALWUsvL4X4&feature=related

Sadly it is not complete! :D
 
You beat me to it. The only time I have ever heard an entire cinema of people scream in unison. I think it was the fact that it was completely unexpected that did it not to mention the fact that it was so realistic.

The massacre scene in "Happiness" had a similar effect.
 
I was just about to post your first sentence about Sadako. Good job I had a read of the page. :D I've got Ringu on DVD, but I refuse to watch it again as it's so damn chilling. When she climbs out of the well on the TV and starts crawling forwarRAB towarRAB the screen, that's when I'm like "OK, had enough now, please turn it off". And not much scares me.

I've only seen all of The Exorcist once, but I found the whole thing to be utterly disturbing as opposed to scary. Saw it at the cinema back in about 1993 while it was still banned on video. I remember coming out the theatre with that feeling you get when you've seen something really nasty that hasn't scared you, but that's left you really flat and chilled out.
 
I didn't find "Funny Games" that disturbing but I love thrillers/Horrors so they seldom scare me. Real life does:o
After seeing lots of comments about the The Human Centipede I just googled it and who could resist such a synopsis:eek:?

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2010 Dutch horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede.
 
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