Worst scenes in a film
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Worst scenes in a film
Three off the top of my head, that made me uncomfortable for different reasons...
The gang rape scene in 'Death Wish 2' which had to be heavily cut before it could get a release. The edited version was bad enough though.
The scene in 'Casino" where the gangsters are beaten half to death and then buried alive. Pure look away stuff.
The scene where they open the cocoon in, erm, "Cocoon'. I was only a child when I saw it, but it upset me so much, I've avoided ever seeing it again since.
Have people got others that have "stayed" with them?
Don't post clips, if the scene is particularly shocking. It'll save the MODS a job.
The gang rape scene in 'Death Wish 2' which had to be heavily cut before it could get a release. The edited version was bad enough though.
The scene in 'Casino" where the gangsters are beaten half to death and then buried alive. Pure look away stuff.
The scene where they open the cocoon in, erm, "Cocoon'. I was only a child when I saw it, but it upset me so much, I've avoided ever seeing it again since.
Have people got others that have "stayed" with them?
Don't post clips, if the scene is particularly shocking. It'll save the MODS a job.
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Strange that you've posted this when I was having a similar discussion with friends this morning.
Rape scenes are shocking, I think directors really like them, probably call it art. Here's 2 shockers:
Straw Dogs
A Clockwork Orange.
Rape scenes are shocking, I think directors really like them, probably call it art. Here's 2 shockers:
Straw Dogs
A Clockwork Orange.
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The exorcist ... far too many to mention
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Boatshed Bill beat me to it with them two. I don’t watch prison dramas as they usually bring male rape into the story. Even Shawshank, without showing, brought it into the storyline.
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Michael Winner directed the one I mentioned in 'Death Wish 2' which rather says it all.boatshed bill wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:44 pmStrange that you've posted this when I was having a similar discussion with friends this morning.
Rape scenes are shocking, I think directors really like them, probably call it art. Here's 2 shockers:
Straw Dogs
A Clockwork Orange.
I wonder if he said to the actress playing the victim "calm down dear, it's only a rape scene!"
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The shower scene in the original psycho movie
The scene in the original alien movie when it pops out of John Hurt’s stomach
The scene in the original alien movie when it pops out of John Hurt’s stomach
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"Put your mouth on the curb"
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I've not seen Shawshank Redemption. I actually had no idea what it was about.Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:51 pmBoatshed Bill beat me to it with them two. I don’t watch prison dramas as they usually bring male rape into the story. Even Shawshank, without showing, brought it into the storyline.
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The opening scenes of Romper Stomper
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obviously the swear filter doesn't like the word of the film title
just think of the tune we hate Leeds S--M
just think of the tune we hate Leeds S--M
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This is the one that came to mind for me. Horrendous.
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Not seen that film but it sounds like it may be similar to the scene
in The Sopranos in the Italian restaurant featuring a mouth, a marble top
table and a foot.
Didn't look good.
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Yeah, +1 to the bite the curb scene. Shot in black and white, near naked skinhead with a swastika tattoo with a smile on his face as he gets arrested. Very chilling. Its a really good film though. Ethan Suplee plays the big fat racist but is a really funny actor in Mallrats and My Name Is Earl, and I think it's John Connor from Terminator 2 that is the younger brother.
The Alien bursting out of John Hurt would've been good to see 'live' at a cinema in 1979. I didn't watch it until 20 years after it came out, I knew what was going to happen, and it was still ferkin horrible.
The Alien bursting out of John Hurt would've been good to see 'live' at a cinema in 1979. I didn't watch it until 20 years after it came out, I knew what was going to happen, and it was still ferkin horrible.
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Stoic
Mens prison, broom handle.
Plus a few more scenes..
Not a movie I've revisited.
Mens prison, broom handle.
Plus a few more scenes..
Not a movie I've revisited.
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Midnight express
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The scene in The Fly when Goldblum has vomited onto that fellas ankle and kind of plays with it as it's melting, really turned my stomach. I find the old 'special effects' as we called them then (latex, prosthetics etc) to be a lot more disturbing than modern CGI
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Misery always makes me cringe with the ankle scene.
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the entire godfather part 3.
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Any police academy film
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and the chicken scene in pink flamingos. and the dog shiit scene.
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The scene where the girls nails break in Stir of Echoes
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Remember I had a TV in my room when I was fairly young and one night this came on. I was only just old enough to know what was being represented and it absolutely terrified me.
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The Butcher of a captive scene in “Bone Tomahawk” where the captors split the cowboy whilst he’s upside down 🫣. The screams and sounds of bone crunching was awful!!.
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The rest of the film is too ******* boring for words. That's the highlight.distortiondave wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:27 pm
The Alien bursting out of John Hurt would've been good to see 'live' at a cinema in 1979. I didn't watch it until 20 years after it came out, I knew what was going to happen, and it was still ferkin horrible.
I'll pick:-
1. The bits in some bond films when they force the title of the film jarringly into the script.
2. The parts of any film where George Clooney appears on the screen
3. Films where the male lead forces himself onto somebody (usually just to kiss them), and rather than tell him to **** off, spit at him, knee him in the balls etc, they do a wriggle of "get off me" and then meekly surrender.
4. The script in blackhawk down, although I've never been unfortunate enough to see the whole thing.
5. The scene where holly golightly chucks cat out of the taxi in the rain. Even though I know that she will later go and rescue it.
6. The sections in love actually with the irritating American woman who has the needy brother. It needs a cut with her removed.
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But the very worst was in a documentary on fgm, years ago, when they showed some poor African child being tied to two posts, and then stopped the pictures but left her screaming running as she was savagely assaulted. That was totally horrific. How the **** could anybody allow or actively encourage that to their own daughter?
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I felt uneasy at many of the torture scenes in Hostel. Alien didn’t bother me one bit tbh.
Quite often the most shocking scenes involve an element of mental imagery for me, where the pain inflicted is inferred and not necessarily shown.
Quite often the most shocking scenes involve an element of mental imagery for me, where the pain inflicted is inferred and not necessarily shown.
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good films where george clooney appears on screen:
from dusk till dawn
the thin red line
o brother where art thou
syriana
michael clayton
burn after reading
fantastic mr fox (obviously in disguise)
gravity
from dusk till dawn
the thin red line
o brother where art thou
syriana
michael clayton
burn after reading
fantastic mr fox (obviously in disguise)
gravity
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A Serbian Film
The final scene is honestly vile. Watched a lot of films over the years and never seen anything like it. Have never watched it again and never will.
The final scene is honestly vile. Watched a lot of films over the years and never seen anything like it. Have never watched it again and never will.
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The first one that upset me was the scene in "The Railway Children" where the cross-country runner is lying in the tunnel with his bloodied leg on the track and the train approaching. (I wasn't very old!)
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George Clooney is excellent in From Dusk Til Dawn.
I wasn't a big fan of the dry execution in Green Mile.
I wasn't a big fan of the dry execution in Green Mile.
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The ears being sliced off scene in Reservoir Dogsis quite a worst scene.
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Some scenes that scared me as a kid
The underwater corpse in Jaws
The Library Ghost in Ghostbusters
A spider coming out a corpse in Arachnophobia
A POV shot of the Zombies busting into an elevator in Dawn of the Dead
The underwater corpse in Jaws
The Library Ghost in Ghostbusters
A spider coming out a corpse in Arachnophobia
A POV shot of the Zombies busting into an elevator in Dawn of the Dead
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…and Sarah Connors skeleton holding onto the chain link fence in T2
… oh and when the T1000 mimics the fat security guard and pierces him between the eyes with his finger.
… oh and when the T1000 mimics the fat security guard and pierces him between the eyes with his finger.
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I grew up on Mortal Kombat so violence and gore doesn't often shock me too much (some of the scenes mentioned in this thread seem comically tame to me, no offence), but one scene that I find genuinely disturbing is the ending sequence of Mother (2017). Spoiler ahead. This is a mainstream film with a mainstream director (Darren Aronofsky), and a mainstream cast (Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Barden, Micelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris). In the ending sequence, the infant baby of Jennifer Lawrence's character is snatched by a weird, cult-like possessed mob (don't ask), paraded over their heads as though being conveyed to some sacrificial ritual altar, its neck is broken in the process (it dies), the baby is cannibalised, then when fighting her way through the crowd to get to her baby, Jennifer Lawrence is brutally beaten, violently kicked and punched in the head numerous times, stomped in the abdomen, and in the process partially stripped, and it's clearly enhanced with CGI to make it seem more real. It's honestly horrible. I hated that film. The 'mainstreamness' of it didn't prepare me for that ending.
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By the way the film is highly allegorical; nothing in it is to be taken as literal or real as such, but that doesn't stop it from being really disturbing on an immediate and superficial level.
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For me, pretty much the entire second half of ‘Threads’.
Or the reference to the Katyn Massacre in ‘Come and See’.
Or the reference to the Katyn Massacre in ‘Come and See’.
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Read the book ,that will really freak you outStayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 9:12 pmMisery always makes me cringe with the ankle scene.
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Eli Wallach (Tuko?) sat in his bath in one or other spaghetti western is one thing I'd love to unsee personally.
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John Wayne: Truly this man was the Son of Gawd.
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Bambi.....when his Mum is killed, I still remember the tears and that must have been about 65 years ago.
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I spit on your grave (2010) when the girl hangs up the guy naked then goes to work on his privates with a pair of snips.
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When Daniel gets his leg sweeped in the All Valley & can’t continue….. oh wait.
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I think the first time I was taken to the pictures was for Sleeping Beauty and the evil fairy/ Maleficent, scared me to death.
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I remember watching Threads as a young kid (to the point that I know who I was with and where, when we watched it) and it scared me - I’ve never watched it since but keep meaning to.Massivefloodlights wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 7:13 amFor me, pretty much the entire second half of ‘Threads’.
Or the reference to the Katyn Massacre in ‘Come and See’.
I suspect it probably looks very tame now but the whole premise that a nuclear attack could happen was frightening to a young lad.
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Sophie's Choice. Didn't scare me but upset me. Any parent who has seen it will know what I mean.
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I watched it a couple of months ago and it is still a very dark and disturbing view of the country after nuclear attack. The hopelessness is the overwhelming factor of this movie.DCWat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 10:56 amI remember watching Threads as a young kid (to the point that I know who I was with and where, when we watched it) and it scared me - I’ve never watched it since but keep meaning to.
I suspect it probably looks very tame now but the whole premise that a nuclear attack could happen was frightening to a young lad.
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The closing scenes of The Borderlands.
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I jumped out of my chair while watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre,brilliant film.
As a kid The Twilight Zone episode 'Terror at 20 000 feet' kept me away from the curtains for a very long time.
As a kid The Twilight Zone episode 'Terror at 20 000 feet' kept me away from the curtains for a very long time.