What is the most Shocking Scene?

I so agree re American History X - without a doubt a fantastic film - cuts to the quick and stays with you for sometime - brilliant.
Irreversable has been mentioned several times as well - I acually rented this because of the notes on this forum and I have to say it was tough to watch - really tough - but excellent in many ways - I thought about it often for days.
Finally though I wanted to say I think the film that really did effect me in a way no other ever has is Funny Games - spooked the hell out of me it really did and I hope never to see it again!
 
That reminded me of the scene at the end of John Waters Pink Flamingos where Divine actually genuinely eats dog shit.
All real-no faking.

Although he never swallows it.

The film remains banned uncut in the UK.

What a surprise
 
Talking of scum, where the ginger hair kid who got raped in aformentioned scene (cant for the hell of me remember the name now) slits his wrists, that is a bit squirmy for me too.

Also, I downloaded a Guinea Pig film a while back, and that was horrible. Remember me and freinRAB watching it and we didnt get a quarter through!
 
I didn't find Hostel disturbing as it was very hard to care about the characters.

Has anyone here seen any of the Guinea Pig films? They're Japanese and are kind of the horror/torture equivelent of Dogma films in that they all share the same basic theme and set-ups.
A woman (or robot-woman, or mermaid...), is taken and imprisoned. You don't find out anything much about the victim or the torturer, you see the woman being snatched and restrained and then after about 10 mins he begins to chop her up.
This is the one I watched recently;

http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0161635/

The effects range from not convincing to very convincing.

The shot of him sawing through her wrist and pulling at the gristle was one of the most disturbing shots I've seen because it looked so real.

They get low scores on IMDB because alot of people don't appreciate that they're actually art-house films and others give them low scores because they're freaked out (and leave comments about how disgusting they are).

This one is a weird film because once the girl is finally dead you start seeing things through HIS eyes and you start appreciating the beauty of his "displays".

OK, so they're not going to be for everyone...
 
Looking through this thread I suppose it could be unfair to comment on stuff thats never been or likely to be available in the UK ,at least uncut.

Nekromantik,Traces of Death,Caanibal Holocaust all have graphic stuff that would never gt past the BBFC,so those stuck viewing UK material are perhaps unaware of whats out there
 
Canibal Holocaust is in our local Blockbuster. Don't know if it's the cut version though - it was pretty extreme! Similar to but pre-dating Blair Witch Project.
 
Ah yes. I watched Scum properly at the weekend, that scene really did shock me. Speaking of Scum, Someone told me that the one they saw was a bit different to mine? Was there two made?
 
The scene in Reservoir Dogs when the ear was cut off. It was the scene leading up to that was weird (shocking might not be the right word) Stealers Wheel's Stuck in the Middle with You will be forever associated with that scene!
 
Hahaha! Me too! I ended up tracking a DVD copy of it down years later because it stuck in my head from when I was a kid. It's a film that holRAB up alot better than alot cheap exploitation actioners because it largely stayed away from the clothing and trenRAB of the time and it has a pleasing nastiness about it.

Which is more memorable though? The barbed wire scene or the cruxifiction scene?
 
War films, such as the opening sequence from Saving Private Ryan, were pretty shocking.

I think what shocked me more (in a film) was the scene from Trainspotting, involving the (dead) baby when it was crawling on the ceiling, during Renton's cold-turkey time.

Although going offtopic slightly, I reckon we've become a bit blase about shocking movies, compared to what has been shown on the news over the last few years, since 9/11. For instance, even though I could quite happily sit through scenes involving beheadings in movies (circa, French Revolution etc) I don't think anyone could do the same with real-life beheadings such as that of Ken Bigley.

Anyway, let's get back on-topic :)
 
It was made as a PLAY FOR TODAY by the BBC in 1977.

They decided it was too violent and banned it.

So with largely the same cast the story was remade into a cinema film in 1979.

The cinema film had lots of uses of the F word which the BBC version did not.
On the whole ,the BBC version is a bit tame once you have watched the cinema film.

Incidentally,when C4 first showed Scum in 1983 it was one of the rare occasions when they cut a film.
Both the rape and suicide scenes were edited.

But its been shown quite a few times uncut since then.

The BBC finally showed their version around 1990.

The currently available dvd has both versions aswell as commentaries from those concerned.
 
Strangely out of all the more modern horror films that have been made recently, this one got to me.

Not because of the acting or even the horror.

It was like you mentioned, the reality that this probably does happen. The thought of that terrified me as I thought of all the missing people and this film sort of made me think this could possible have been the outcome for some of them. You only have to think about Russian and Romanian gangs and the mind boggles. :eek:
 
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