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cherrypepsi17

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I have only ever turned one film off in my entire life. For some reason i couldnt take the violence .... and im not squimish normally when it comes to films. BUT 'Driller Killer' was unwatchable for me. I saw the first half an hour, felt sick and turned it off.
 
That was pretty bad :)

Try Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. There's an almost unwatchable scene with a killer, a child, a rope and a chair. I watched it on my own and cried. I have two young children. It was the most difficult scene I've ever had to watch. Well, chosen to watch.

Gore is always watchable, but children suffering is tricky. Especially when it's done so effectively.
 
Eye-ball slitting in Un chien andalou (surrealist film co-written by Dali). Had to watch it at school.

Ewww................

We saw that in College too and it was very disturbing indeed.

I recently saw House Of Wax...caught it about half way, out of bordem. The death scenes in that film are the sickest thing I have seen in a while, there's just no need for it sometimes. :eek:

Also, recently saw Bent with Clive Owen and Ian McKellen about Nazi treatment of gays (...and people in general). Sick people they were! :(
 
Yes, that scene in Misery is just horrible. French and Saunders did a really good piss-take of it as well.

Also - The scene in Platoon where they interrogate the villagers, kill the girl's mother and make the guy jump around before bashing his head in. I found that to be really upsetting, probably because stuff like that actually happened and is still happening today, in Iraq.
 
I'll have to see these notorious movies like Wolf Creek, Irreversible and Ichi the Killer.

A few moments that disturbed me. That German film where a lot of the violence takes place off camera but you can hear it. Tough to deal with.

Saving Private Ryan opening of course.

Schindler's List. That time when they have to go into the shower naked and they're all screamin...only for the water to come on much to their relief. Awful...
 
Hows about the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce Willis discovers what Zed and the gang are really up to in the basement room....cripes. Poor Marsellus. Put me right off my Doritos did that scene.
 
Absolutely. One of the few films I nearly felt like turning off as it was so incredibly realistic.

Also the opening murder in Irreversible.

The ending of Casino made me queasy the first time I saw it, where Nicki takes a walk in a cornfield.

The opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan was very powerful on first viewing, an absolute assault on the senses.

The Passion of the Christ, featuring horrendous violence that no human being could ever withstand (I know, that's the point, but still a wee bit too much for my liking).

The final scenes of Requiem for a Dream.
 
Have to agree with the murder scene in 'Heavenly Creatures', and the rape in 'The Hills Have Eyes'.

The scene with the series of different clients in 'Lilya-4-Ever' is distressing as it's filmed from the angle of the girl looking up at them on top of her, and there was some 80s Platoon-type war film with Michael J. Fox where they rape a Vietnamese woman then she gets shot while crossing a bridge.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one still traumatised by a bunny cartoon! The bit with the ghostly retelling of how the warren got gassed and all the bunnies had red eyes literally haunted me for years! :cry:

Also Se7en creeped me out when you briefly see the polaroid of the

strap-on phallus blade

that the guy was forced to wear and use on a prostitute. Urgh - what kind of brain thinks that stuff up?

Sin City was a foul outrage from start to finish. Where do I start? The physical and sexual abuse? Nobody questioning the allegedly MUTUAL love affair between an ageing cop and a child? All women being sex workers of some kind? I have never hated a film and all who helped to make it so much in my entire life.

:mad:
 
there is another scene in robocop where the bad guys are shooting of the cops arms and legs. Also, when the chemicals spill and the one quy just melts. Even though he's a bad guy and deserves it it's disgusting.
 
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