Most Disturbing Moment In A Film

Saw that 3 days ago and it is still with me. The problem is it is well made and you feel emotions for some of the characters. So much better than August or the torture porn crass stuff. I am not sure if I am glad it was made or not. Christ. Just writing this has brought some of it back. My advice is don't watch it. Those that did watched it so you don't have to. Hope the guy that made it uses his talent to make something this emotionally powerful for the mainstream. That would be special.
 
Personally to find a film scene 'disturbing', it has to grip me psychologically. Recently I watched Ken Russell's The Devils yet again, and I am still disturbed by the scene in which Vanessa Redgrave's Sister Jeanne character is given an enema as the climax to her first public 'exorcism'.

The shots of the men's leering faces as they hold her legs apart, bearing down between them with the giant syringe, intercut with close-ups of her very real looking-and-sounding anguish, make it an extremely uncomfortable experience. Without wishing to cause offence to any real-life victims, I imagine it comes pretty close to what a gang-rape can look and feel like.

I think it's so cleverly done as it's the climax to a scene that starts out fairly quietly and goes on for quite a while drawing you in, then all this hell breaks loose. In amongst all this there's also a lot of absurdist and incongruous comedy going on, heightening the disturbing tone of hysteria.

I find it pretty amazing that scenes like this (and many others throughout the film) were filmed as long ago as 1970, and wonder how much of a smack in the face they must have been to cinema audiences at the time.
 
I agree some of the scenes in Irreversible are impossible to watch.

I recently watched the DVD of 'The Passenger' with Jack Nicholson and Maria ('Last Tango..') Schneider. It is a good seventies existentialist movie but looks a little dated. I re-watched it later with the cinematographers commentary on. I was disturbed by his revelation about the firing squad scene.
 
The meathook scene in Make them die slowly(Cannibal Ferox).

The scene in Human Centipede where the guy has to do a number 2,just gross.

The movie The Entity,the whole movie is very disturbing as is the soundtrack,one of the few movies to really scare me.
 
Nope, it;s about "a couple in their 30's maybe early 40's go to a beach and meet some young chavs. They get into a fight and end up running away. The chavs are on drugs and pursue them and torture them. The parents end up involved too."

:)
 
The only scene that ever disturbed me was in Cannibal Holocaust, the scene where they cut up the turtle. Far worse than any prosthetic penis removal (which was also in the same film) :)
 
I watched a movie once that was set during the war, WW2 I think. A rather naive young American soldier, befriended a little dog and they had a lovely relationship thing going on. When his squadron moved out, he was told that he could not take it. They all got on the army trucks and the dog was there in the mud and the rain, whining and looking at him, one of the laRAB on board said, "go on then call him", he did so, and the little dog took off running towarRAB the truck tail wagging furiously, the guy who had said "call him" shot the little dog. It was horrible and I will never forget it. :cry: Though I do not remember the name of the movie. :rolleyes:
 
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