Most disturbing scenes in a movie.

I don'tknow the title of the film and didn't see it all the way through - helpful aren't I? (Maybe someone else DOES know....)

Not even sure when it was set - ancient Rome/biblical times...

All I remember is some Emperor type guy and crowRAB watching as criminals or some such were buried in the ground with just their heaRAB sticking out. Some great machine was heading towarRAB them and it had blades that spun around parallell to the ground. When it reached the people buried, it cut the top half of their heaRAB off, much like taking the top off a hard-boiled egg. Horrid.

Anyone know what it was.....?
 
I was going to mention Irreversible. I thought Kill Bill Vol. 1 was a bit over the top.

Evil Dead II, though cheap and tacky still scares me. In the first Evil Dead, a woman was raped by a tree - that was a bit disturbing.
 
There's a couple in Requiem for a dream that're really disturbing.

Drum roll..........Irreversible "rape scene". Just thought i'd get that one in. It's DISTURBING.
 
Yep, didn't find it disturbing though.



Yep, again, didn't find that disturbing at all. The part where the girl starts to cut stuff out of her was quite disturbing though. Bit like the French film In My Skin, the sound effects in that film were disturbing.
 
Many years ago I saw a short Italian (I think) film about a guy who gets stuck in a telephone booth - workmen come to take the booth away on the back of a lorry, with the guy still inside. The end of the movie - well, lets just say that even now, many years later, I still would not step into a telephone booth without jamming the door open!
 
One that was burned into my mind as a child was some Biblical epic where a man was executed by being pulled between two horses, and as he separated at the waist, it showed him being dragged off with the tattered remnants of his clothes dragged over the furrows in a field.

When I think of how much I've forgotten over the years, that image is absolutely and indelibly branded on my psyche.

A more recent one, and this shows how bad my memory is, because I can't remember what it's from (Band of Brothers, Stalingrad, something like that..), but it showed a fight in a house between two soldiers and it descended into a punch up (not sure if they ran out of ammo), and at the end of the fight, the bigger soldier lay on top of the defeated one and told him quietly to shush, and he pushed his knife into him. I think he may have put his quietning finger on his mouth as you would a child.

I'd be grateful if anyone remembers the film and the scene, as I'd like to watch it again.
 
After last nights revelations it has to be An American Crime.Watching all the children in the basement taking turns abusing the girl while the mother casually ignores it.
 
Without doubt, the fire extinguisher & rape scene in Irreversible. Gratuitous doesn't do it justice - made me feel physically ill and took me a while to get out of my head.
I can watch any horror scene, doesn't bother me, it's torture scenes I can't cope with. Like someone's already mentioned - the vice scene in Casino or the ear-cutting in Reservoir Dogs. Horrible.
 
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