What is the most Shocking Scene?

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In some of these examples the director wanted to depict reality without glamourising it or sanitising it or understating it. Irreversible is an example. Even in the Death Wish film, the dreadfulness of the rape is crucial to the character and story because it is what motivates what follows.

Of all the video nasties, I think Last House on the Left is the one with most artistic merit because the director shows some of the banality of evil.
 
I'm glad to say after reading this lot, that my scene is tame by comparision. I'd never watch many of the films listed here. Mine comes from Final Destination 3, its the sunbed deaths. I had no idea that was coming, and it went on and on. I could not stop thinking about that for ages!! I've always hated sunbeRAB anyway, but that put the tin hat on it :D
 
What is the most Shocking Scene you've ever seen in a movie?

One thats made you turn away in horror or made you question humanity?

For me one of them would be the film Irreversible, with one of the most prolonged and graphic rape scenes.

Anyone else?
 
The original Fly with Vincent Price.

The part when the 'Fly' with the scientists head gets caught by a spider. Gives me the shivers every time.
 
The first thing that ever shocked me in a film was the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - I was five years old at the time and utterly terrified.

The Poseidon Adventure I watched that film back in 72 on a Saturday morning on the huge wide screen at the Opera House. I virtually had the place to myself. I hadn't a clue what the movie was about so from the moment the wave appeared and ship turned over I was in shock for the rest of the movie - a true rollercoaster - unforgettable.

Salvador The exploitive rape and murder scene. which for some reason I still find deeply disturbing even thinking about it today.

Leon A couple of classic scenes from this marvellous movie left me pretty shocked - When Oldman's DEA team shoot up the apartment including the kiRAB was pretty intense including Leon's demise at the end.
 
That would be Bud Dwyer, (info on bud) Long story short he was a state treasurer who got caught taking kick backs and decided to call a press conference, where he preceded to shoot himself in the head, all recorded of course! My first gore viewing was bud. Not really all that gory but not bad.

The clip can be found on Ogrish
 
The turtle scene from Cannibal Holocaust has to be the lowest any film maker has ever gone in staging death for entertainment.

Real life animal mutilation seemed to be a requirement in those dodgy 70's and 80's films but CH really goes too far.

The scene is missing on the UK version.

Regarding staged brutality with actors:

If you want to see a rape scene that goes too far then you need to see Death Wish 2 in its uncut format.

Always cut on video ,tv and dvd (even on R1) the uncut version available outside the UK on R2 and R4 is perhaps the most gratuitous and prolonged rape scene on film.

Although its not quite as unpleasant as certain bits of I Spit on Your Grave,on the whole ,DW2 just goes on and on.

As for the lowest of the low:
There is a series of films called Traces of Death.
Unlike the famous Faces of Death that featured a lot of staged and fake footage,TOD is all real death scenes from accidents and other sources.

Volume 1 was banned by the BBFC so I bough the set out of curiosity.
One sequence is of a local council meeting in the US ,where one of the councillors decided to commit suicide during the filmed meeting by shooting himself in the mouth.

Footage shows the death from multiple angles thanks to cameras from different local channels and its extremely messy and shows that the same thing faked on movies is quite different.
That one scene stopped me in my tracks.
Commercial exploitation of someone's death is terrible and I've not been able to watch any further volumes--probably never will.

Traces of Death makes you question humanity in all sorts of ways,including "why on earth am I watching this"?
 
Funny Games

The last hour of the film is the most shocking, gut wrenching, uncomfortable, unthinkable peice of film I have ever seen.


Basically, a pair of psychos take a mother father and child hostage in their holiday home, and tell them that within the next 12 hours, they will all be dead.
They then proceed to humiliate and later murder the whole family.


Watched it on Film Four years ago and made me feel a sickness in my stomach every time I have seen it since.

Ive seen a lot of films that have been mentioned, like Cannibal Holocaust and they ARE shocking viewing....but this is the main film that springs to mind for me.

Gutted to hear they are making a US remake :rolleyes:


A shocking scene I can rememeber seeing when I was little was the barbed wire scene from Cyborg.
 
Don't wanna spoil anything for those who haven't seen, so without saying too much:

The Ring - the ending. Didn't see it coming, I mean Holy Shit.

The Descent - the death of one of them, you'll know which one I mean. Happens early on.

The Departed - Leonardo Di Caprio, Act III. That is all.
 
Cannibal Holocaust- the video tape of the people in the jungle, was probably the most shocking thing in a film I'd ever watched- I felt sick afterwarRAB


The kerb scene in American History X was also pretty bad aswell
 
It wasn't disturbing at all. The woman was enjoying it because she was moaning with pleasure. Funny scene and we all laughed aloud.
 
Jodie foster getting ganged raped on the pinball table in the accused shocked me years ago when i watched it! i saw deliverance the other day was not expecting that rape to happen at all!!
 
As others have said - the kerb scene in American History X. That bit just makes my stomach churn, saying that though it is one of my favourite films of all time and Edward Norton is a legend in it.
 
Men behind The Sun is a catalogue of graphic violence and nastiness detailing the real happenings in a Japanese concentration camp where medical experiments were carried out on the Chinese.

The "cat" scene is real and is another example of real life animal killings that featured in 70's and 80's films of a certain type.

For that scene alone it would be censored in the UK,although any kind of release is highly unlikely
 
Shocking scenes for me were

Boys Don't Cry - The rape scene, (i have experienced this so watching it on the screens didn't really help) but what really shocked me was the fac that it was displayed on the screens

Don't laugh but Dumbo - with the pink elephants after dumbo get's drunk, the scenes still haunt me to this day

there are quite a few i could name, Saw 3 is one aswell... but generally some films can go a little OTT
 
I've watched many of the films that you've mentioned (all the uncut versions that were out in the 70's and 80's) and have to agree that with all the technology and intellect in the world, there's few modern films that come close.

I spit on your grave
House on the left (some of us thought this was so bad that it was a snuff movie)
Suspiria (the music alone is yet to be beaten in this movie, let alone the shocks)
The Witch (was another name before they re-released and cut it)
The Exorcist
The Sentinel (scary as hell)
Carrie ( that last scene had everyone jumping out of their seats)
Scum (the rape scene)
Zombies Dawn of the Dead (tense, but perhaps not as shocking)

They were all shocking in there own way because they set the path for later shockers like Misery, Malcolm X, Irreversible, Kill Bill, etc.

Some of the war movies are shocking as well, but don't want to go on and on. Perhaps other fms can name some.

That all said, I think that the 70's definitely had a shock factor of it's own that is difficult to capture on film these days. They set the precedent that modern film makers are trying to capture. And whilst I agree that the shock factors may be firmly in place, the atmosphere and the differentiation is just not there.

But then maybe I've just seen it all before. :)
 
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