The most disturbing scene in cinema's history
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The most disturbing scene in cinema's history
I've heard people say that Reservoir Dog's ear-cutting scene and American History X's curb-biting scene was disturbing, but it was actually not that bad in my opinion. To me, Requeim for a Dream's injection scene was more disturbing.
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The films that vividly and graphically show children getting murdered I find pretty disturbing:
-The young boy who has his throat slit in the film "In A Glass Cage"
-The child that is butchered in "Men Behind the Sun"
-The boy that has his head cracked open and repeatedly smashed onto the corner of a wall in "1900"
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-The young boy who has his throat slit in the film "In A Glass Cage"
-The child that is butchered in "Men Behind the Sun"
-The boy that has his head cracked open and repeatedly smashed onto the corner of a wall in "1900"
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Either the nudity in About Schmidt or the naked dance in Silence of the Lambs.
I have had nightmares about both.
Either the nudity in About Schmidt or the naked dance in Silence of the Lambs.
I have had nightmares about both.
look away, look away!!
why DOES this woman take her clothes off at the drop of the hat?
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Originally posted by Giles
why DOES this woman take her clothes off at the drop of the hat?
why DOES this woman take her clothes off at the drop of the hat?
As for most disturbing, I don't know, everyone's trying to one-up one another. But let me throw a nod to the past and Bunuel and Dali and a scene involving a razor and an eye in Un Chien Andalou.
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Originally posted by sundog
As for most disturbing, I don't know, everyone's trying to one-up one another. But let me throw a nod to the past and Bunuel and Dali and a scene involving a razor and an eye in Un Chien Andalou.
As for most disturbing, I don't know, everyone's trying to one-up one another. But let me throw a nod to the past and Bunuel and Dali and a scene involving a razor and an eye in Un Chien Andalou.
I also found the end of Dancer in The Dark to be very disturbing & upsetting, messed me up for days.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Take your pick as to which scene.
Also, the sloth scene in Seven is unsettling.
Also, the sloth scene in Seven is unsettling.
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Damn, didnt think of Audition til now, too intense, another Miike shocker is a scene from Ichii the Killer when 2 corrupt cops hold a hooker's nipple on a table and slide a razor blade across the table and cut it off, I wasn expecting it and had to turn my head. Ichii has more than a few scenes like this.
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Watching the horror flick Shattered Dead. The scene near the end when... (spoiler contains a scene from film and mature content)
I was completly shocked and had to watch it three more times to be sure I saw what I thought I saw. I can honestly say I've never seen anything like that in a non porn movie. So to say I was surprised is a understatment. You have to love independent horror movies...
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I was completly shocked and had to watch it three more times to be sure I saw what I thought I saw. I can honestly say I've never seen anything like that in a non porn movie. So to say I was surprised is a understatment. You have to love independent horror movies...
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A lot of scenes in Requiem For a Dream. I will also say that beginning battle in Gangs of New York where a guy has some of his face ripped off from inside his mouth. It was just a brief flash, but enough to let you know what he saw.
While not disturbing, but just wrong..
While I do not know the movie, I remember seeing a film where a couple is kissing each other, and then through some sort of freak time riff they wind up with their faces melded together. Anyone else seen this film?
While not disturbing, but just wrong..
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While I do not know the movie, I remember seeing a film where a couple is kissing each other, and then through some sort of freak time riff they wind up with their faces melded together. Anyone else seen this film?
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Originally posted by ncmojo
The Ray Liota - Anthony Hopkins scene at the end of Hannibal was pretty disturbing... pretty great, but pretty disturbing.
The Ray Liota - Anthony Hopkins scene at the end of Hannibal was pretty disturbing... pretty great, but pretty disturbing.
My other pick would be the chainsaw scene from Scarface.
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For fiction, my vote's for Un Chien Andalou. I dreamed about it years later.
Runner up is Se7en.
Nonfiction disturbs me more. The German businessman who still has a map of Auschwitz on the wall of his office in Shoah, or the slow pan across the square from the train station to the concentration camp (which no one "knew about"). The doctor explaining that the young man will be on crutches by the time he's fifty if he does the knee surgery in Hoop Dreams.
Runner up is Se7en.
Nonfiction disturbs me more. The German businessman who still has a map of Auschwitz on the wall of his office in Shoah, or the slow pan across the square from the train station to the concentration camp (which no one "knew about"). The doctor explaining that the young man will be on crutches by the time he's fifty if he does the knee surgery in Hoop Dreams.
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Re: The most disturbing scene in cinema's history
Originally posted by jhoon
I've heard people say that Reservoir Dog's ear-cutting scene and American History X's curb-biting scene was disturbing, but it was actually not that bad in my opinion. To me, Requeim for a Dream's injection scene was more disturbing.
I've heard people say that Reservoir Dog's ear-cutting scene and American History X's curb-biting scene was disturbing, but it was actually not that bad in my opinion. To me, Requeim for a Dream's injection scene was more disturbing.
the american history X one? defintley.
whats the seven sloth scene and the audition one? (use spoilers for others i suppose...but i want to know)
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The first murder in "Suspiria"
The eels in "The Tin Drum" (Uggg)
The child murder in "Man Bites Dog"
The ending of "Spoorloos" (the original ending)
The bone saw in "Audition"
The impalement scene in "Cannibal Holocaust"
The eels in "The Tin Drum" (Uggg)
The child murder in "Man Bites Dog"
The ending of "Spoorloos" (the original ending)
The bone saw in "Audition"
The impalement scene in "Cannibal Holocaust"
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Originally posted by Hiro11
The first murder in "Suspiria"
The ending of "Spoorloos" (the original ending)
The first murder in "Suspiria"
The ending of "Spoorloos" (the original ending)
I agree 100%
Not as much for visually disturbing content, but for the psychology behind the scene. The question kept popping in my head during the film, "would I take the pill or not." In all honesty I probably would have and, well I was shocked by the ending ....
That is when you know you have a winner of a film!
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Dennis Hopper completely naked in "Carried Away."
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The eye piercing scene in 'Zombie' is pretty gut-wrenching...
Seconds for Requiem for a Dream - the injection/sex party/electrode montage.
I always wince when Mel gets gutted in Braveheart and also when the throats get slit...
Seconds for Requiem for a Dream - the injection/sex party/electrode montage.
I always wince when Mel gets gutted in Braveheart and also when the throats get slit...