most upsetting scene in a movie

OMG!!! I'd forgotten about this film - waaaay bizarre! I went with a friend as we were at a loss one evening and that was all that was showing at our local filmhouse...went along expecting, I don't know, a romantic drama-type film and was totally dumbstruck! It was incredibly well done but it left me feeling rather queasy and on edge. :(
 
Movies do have some really awful stuff in them, don't they?

I agree that anything with a rape scene is very hard to watch and it really neeRAB to be justified in the context of the movie to allow such a scene to be shown (e.g The Accused, Boys Don't Cry, Monster.)

Scenes of torture and mutilation are always hard to stomach - the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wolf Creek, Funny Games etc.

Gory scenes in horror movies have been done to death (excuse the pun) but I was very disturbed when I first saw John Carpenter's remake of The Thing.

But some things are disturbing because they're just unremittingly evil. Earlier in the thread someone mentioned Come and See. The scene where the boy witnesses a group of Nazis setting fire to a church full of people is really horrific.
 
i don't know if anyone's mentioned it already but the rape scene in Irreversible is very uncomfortable and upsetting to watch.

as are many scenes from requiem for a dream.
 
I don't know how many poeple have seen this film but i hated every single moment of Hostel, there are just too many grossing out points of that movie to mention.....
 
The Jewish Soldier killed very slowly by the German Soldier (makes me feel uncomfortable just typing about it)

The end of Bicenteneial Man
 
It has to be Wolf Creek for me. I haven't had much experience watching disturbing, gory films but i watched this one and it was absolutely horrific!! Some of it really made me cry, it was so graphical and realistic. When they were getting tortured, it was the most horrific scenes i have ever seen, i stuck through the whole film but i will never watch it again, absolutely horrific! Once was definetly enough!
 
agree 100%

on another level i quite enjoyed silence of the lambs (except for the gore) but found the seque (hannibal) unwatchable
 
Spoiler-laden thread! Had to be careful reading this one!

I guess scenes can be upsetting because of graphic violence or emotionally upsetting because they are sad.

Being as tough and desensitized as I now am :cool: I have to think back to seeing films as kid I was probably too young for to remember being upset.

So a very upsetting scene is the one at the end of Jaws when sharkey hops up onto the boat and Quint slides screaming into the um jaws of the shark. Hes stuck upto his waist screaming and yelling desperately then the most upsetting bit....jaws clamp down and he spews blood out of his mouth.

I still can't swim in the sea of even a swimming pool to this day without fearing a shark is right behind me and coming to get me.

Also theres a scene early on in Robocop where the newly designed machine is being shown out to the board of the company. "You have ten seconRAB to comply..." says the machine and counts down while everyone goes mental. Then it pumps the guy full of lead.

Someone mentioned the horsey dieing in the swamp in Neverending story. Yes, that was too too sad! Poor horsey.
 
Ichi the Killer is a step up from Audition in terms of violence.

There's a nasty scene in The Isle. Someone swallows a fish hook on a line and then decides to pull it back up again. :D
 
I agree with those who've said that this is proving to be a list of what not to watch!! :eek: I am very easily disturbed! I can remember after seeing Heavenly Creatures, me and my friend had to sit and have a drink before we went home, as we were so shaken up. I've never wanted to see it since.

I was a bit like that after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me too.

I think most of what has been mentioned has been more shocking and unsettling than upsetting though. I agree re. films like Dumbo when his mum is taken away, Bambi looking for his mum, the death in Beaches, etc
 
Um... don't remember the name. It's the one with the two psycho girls who kill the mother with the brick in the stocking. It stars Kate Winslet.

It's so painful to watch and you keep visualizing the scene in your head for hours.
 
Ive seen this film (butterfly effect) twice once on DVD, this had a sad ending
The 2nd time on TV, this had a happy ending :confused:
Someone told me there is also another ending ?


Original "the fly" ending, creeped me out big time :o
 
I have to go with Wolf Creek 'Head on a Stick', cetrainly the first film to leave an impression silimar to Se7en's ending. I'd add all of Battle Royale, once you get the premise of the film and immerse yourself into being one of the charatures it's disturbing all the way through.
 
I was disturbed by the 'head on a stick' scene in Wolf Creek but I think the rape scene in it was far worse, that curly haired girl is a good actor. Just a really unpleasant movie.
 
When Hillary dies in beaches!

When they are at the beach & wind benetah my wings starts playing - you just loose it! Only seen it last week for first time. Don't think i'll ever be able to listen to that song again!:(
 
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