Truly disturbing scenes 18+

Hagar · 23-03-2006 10:06pm #1

Both myself and Mrs. Hagar enjoy horror movies. I don't think there has been a mainstream horror out for years that we haven't watched. recently we were talking about the scariest most disturbing scenes in various movies. Helga's nomination,the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is edge of the seat for her but does nothing for me. Not scary or disturbing at all. My most cringeworthy scene doesn't come from a horror movie at all but from Dune. The scene where the baddie pulls out the servant's "heart plug" and watches him die is the worst for me. Imagine the horror of living with a heart plug and your life being at someone's whim! Now that is horror.

Not confined by any means to the most graphic. What scenes/movies would scare you most?

TerrorFirmer · 23-03-2006 10:26pm

Any scene in Cannibal Holocaust where the cannibals dismember the film crew in graphic detail. Sometimes it looks so real it's actually hard to believe its not real! :eek:

There are loads of gorier films out there but only a very select few that genuinely disturb me....

**Timbuk2** · 23-03-2006 10:42pm

That last graphical film I saw was Final Destination 3

The sunbeds... :rolleyes:

Hugh Hefner · 23-03-2006 11:33pm

The "Baby wants to ****! Baby wants to **** Blue Velvet!" scene in Blue Velvet.

Necronomicon · 23-03-2006 11:38pm

The video-taped children scene in Lady Vengeance was pretty intense. Didn't really 'disturb' me as such, but definately one of the most recent examples.
The tree-rape scene in Evil Dead was, er...bizarre........Apparently people were up in arms over that at the time it was released.

As for pure gore, still waiting for Hostel. Then I'll probably post in this thread again!

BrenC · 23-03-2006 11:49pm

hmm I don't really get disturbed from seeing that kind of stuff, But I was just watching From Dusk till Dawn earlier and that was very gory. Pretty good film imo, just very fun.

peckerhead · 23-03-2006 11:53pm

Laurence Olivier's head as he asks Dustin Hoffman 'Is it safe?'...:eek:
Linda Blair's first conversation with the priest in The Exorcist...:eek:
Some scenes from the original Hellraiser (before seeing the OTT sequels, after which I found Pinhead quite endearing...)

Juggalo · 24-03-2006 12:41am

The rape scene in the tunnel in Irreversibile, and also the gay night club scene.

The chisel to the teeth in Last house on the Left.

Guy:Incognito · 24-03-2006 1:39am

the guy being made bite the kerb and Ed Norton stamping on his head in American History X. You can just about hear is teeth scraping on the concrete. that noise really gets to me.

county · 24-03-2006 1:42am

BrenC wrote:

hmm I don't really get disturbed from seeing that kind of stuff, But I was just watching From Dusk till Dawn earlier and that was very gory. Pretty good film imo, just very fun.

thats a class film,is it still banned in ireland?

fade2black · 24-03-2006 1:44am

Robocop when Murphy gets killed. I just can't watch that.

kc66 · 24-03-2006 1:48am

county wrote:

thats a class film,is it still banned in ireland?

It was on TV recently.

Basq · 24-03-2006 1:50am

county wrote:

thats a class film,is it still banned in ireland?

Nope.. available in your local HMV. But get the 2 disc-er DVD with the brillant documentary 'Full Tilt Boogie' (especially the opening which is just fantastic)

As for truly disturbing scenes: what springs to mind right now is the fire extinguisher scene in 'Irreversible', the final few scenes in 'Society' and in 'Hostel' (SPOILERS)..

eye hanging / being cut out of it's socket, and the slicing of achilles

Sm0ke · 24-03-2006 1:51am

Stekelly wrote:

the guy being made bite the kerb and Ed Norton stamping on his head in American History X. You can just about hear is teeth scraping on the concrete. that noise really gets to me.

good choice

id have to say the seen in "day of the dead" near the end where they rip some guys chest open from his ribcage and then tear his head off, u can hear his vocal chord tear, makes me shudder thinking about it

fade2black · 24-03-2006 1:53am

basquille wrote:

Nope.. available in your local HMV. But get the 2 disc-er DVD with the brillant documentary 'Full Tilt Boogie' (especially the opening which is just fantastic)

As for truly disturbing scenes: what springs to mind right now is the fire extinguisher scene in 'Irreversible', the final few scenes in 'Society' and in 'Hostel' (SPOILERS)..
eye hanging / being cut out of it's socket, and the slicing of achilles

Also features George Clooney talking about Waterford Crystal. (Not sure why that's relevant but hey)

Basq · 24-03-2006 2:27am

fade2black wrote:

Also features George Clooney talking about Waterford Crystal. (Not sure why that's relevant but hey)

Yep, remember that also.. but that opening is just so worth seeing!

Here it is on YouTube (almost 3 minutes long but very cool!)

Amalgam · 24-03-2006 2:50am

Downfall, when Magda Goebbels puts the kids, 'to sleep'. Very disturbing. The sound of the glass breaking under the tongue.. I felt quite queasy after seeing it.

The Equalizer · 24-03-2006 3:02am

AKA Switchblade Romance!! The climax of this twisted little gem shocked the beejesus outta me!! What an angle..

cyrus the virus · 24-03-2006 3:52am

Braindead and Bad Taste (Both by Peter Jackson) were good.

the_syco · 24-03-2006 3:59am

Hostel is actually the only horror movie I've seen in quite a number of years that I've squirmed at some parts, and didn't laugh at, at all.

As for Final Destination 3, I would have laughed through the entire movie, but I was in the cinema, so I didn't. Dusk till Dawn, I laughed at a good few bits, the Land of the Dead was funny, and I don't know which is funnier: the Excorcist, or Scary Movie, tbh.

Oh, and I had to pause Bas Taste, as my sides were starting to hurt from laughing so much (aside from the bit where

the little dude pukes green stuff into a bowl which everyone then drinks from

.

Pigman II · 24-03-2006 12:26pm

There was a scene in SAW with a clockwork head-vice that either (i don't recall which) blows your head up or rips your skull and jaw apart if you don't deactivate it in time. Now they didn't actually show it in action on the prisoner but the build up was to it was quite disturbing I thought.

Otherwise there was nothing of note in that film.

madrab · 24-03-2006 12:35pm

yeah switchblade romance had a good few squeemish moments

the mothers throat being cut & especially the angle grinder "moment"

Lindaloo · 24-03-2006 12:42pm

Stekelly wrote:

the guy being made bite the kerb and Ed Norton stamping on his head in American History X. You can just about hear is teeth scraping on the concrete. that noise really gets to me.

I can't watch it, have to turn it off for that scene or look away with hands over my ears, this and the scene from Platoon where Kevin Dillon smashes the Vietnamese guys head with the butt of his gun.

Two of my fav movies but 2 of the worst scenes in all of the movies I've ever seen.

ixoy · 24-03-2006 12:46pm

In addition to ones already mentioned, gotta add that injection scene in "Requiem for a Dream". You could just see everyone squirming in their seats in the cinema.

fishfoodie · 24-03-2006 12:55pm

From end to end one scene after another.

The fact that unlike hannibal this guy actually existed makes it all the more disturbing.

All this plus being Stephen Rea's best role.

Joeface · 24-03-2006 1:08pm

Not a Horror , but Casino ...where Joe Pesci bother gets beat in to death in front of him ...found that quite disturbing I have to say

delly · 24-03-2006 1:11pm

Wolf Creek has some gory scenes (

'head on a stick' is bad

), but the film is very disturbing when taken as a whole.

shroomfox · 24-03-2006 1:18pm

What does George Clooney say about Waterford Crystal? I'm in work and can't listen to stuff.

Noelie · 24-03-2006 1:19pm

I wouldn't call Hostel a horror, its not an edge of your seat movie. The violence is very graphic, but there's not really anything that makes you jump out of shock.

MR DAZ · 24-03-2006 1:24pm

Wrong Turn - Its a classic i think..some very grusome scenes in it...

Running Bing · 24-03-2006 3:15pm

The eye gouging(sp?) scene from thriller(they call her one eye). The guy uses a real corpse(although this is disputed im not buying for a second that its prostethic) it is sick.

Pesci murder scene in casino is incredibly disturbing

The scene in downfall where the german soldier(Not sure what his name is now) pulls the grenade pins under the table.

In the original night of the living dead where the *spoiler* child kills her mother with the trowel.

The rape scene or the abortion scene from cannibal holocaust

All those scenes were immensely disturbing for me but without doubt the most disturbing scene I have ever saw is the pressure chamber scene from tf mous men behind the sun.*Spoiler* basically a guy is put into a pressure chamber and the pressure is turned up until the he ****s his guts out. You see his intestines coming out through his anus along with a copious amount of excretia. It is very graphic.

jdwals · 24-03-2006 3:50pm

I laugh at it now because I think the little Alien running across the table looks so funny but when I saw it first the chestbuster scene from Alien was very scary.

The Equalizer · 24-03-2006 8:31pm

Then of course there's always "that" scene in Carpenter's re-make of The Thing!! Y'know the one?.. I gotta say,although it's dated now,I first saw The Blair Witch Project at about 1 in the morning in Virgin cinema a month or so b4 it was released and not much was known about it! I worked there at the time and they held staff screenings for us!! I went with my good friend Mary Jane and it got me and shredded my nerves and stayed in my head for ages,but unfortunately it really has dated!!

humanji · 25-03-2006 12:36am

I have to agree with two of the previous posts here:

From Stekelly, "BITE THE KERB" will always haunt me!

and from Lindaloo, that scene in Platoon is still hard for me to watch.

It's weird actually that the actually horror movies that are trying to be gory just don't bother me. Hostel is very gory, but I still just thought it was pap, and it had no effect on me. But scenes like the one in Platoon really mess me up.

I'd ad myself, the scene in Apocalypse Now where a real bull or buffalo of some other cow like creature, is macheted to death. It's horrific, yet you can't stop watching it.

Rhyme · 25-03-2006 12:51am

Amalgam wrote:

Downfall, when Magda Goebbels puts the kids, 'to sleep'. Very disturbing. The sound of the glass breaking under the tongue.. I felt quite queasy after seeing it.

That really got me too... i felt sick watching that. Powerful movie.

the_syco · 25-03-2006 1:12am

The only other movie that was "creepy" was the one which was set in WW2, on the German side, within some bunker. Was a bit freaky. Forget the name, but in the end I think

only 2 got out, one of which commited suicide by running at the enemy(I think)

.

Basq · 25-03-2006 1:15am

Wasn't that 'The Bunker'... or was it 'Deathwatch'?

I remember both being somewhat similar.. think you're referring to 'Deathwatch' though!

BopNiblets · 25-03-2006 3:41am

Some scenes in Oldboy, or some of the plot devices weirded me out.

And some in Total Recall!

Ruu_Old · 25-03-2006 6:13am

This one is kind of freaky only because it was Robin Williams playing a creepy photo clerk in One Hour Photo, where he was dreaming and blood flowing out his eyes.

lodgepole · 25-03-2006 2:31pm

I recently watched Men Behind the Sun and there were a few bits in it that really made me squirm.

1) The cat being torn apart by the rats. I hate cats with a passion but that scene was brutal.

2) The rats that ate the cat being set on fire and running down the corridor. The screeching and the fact that the film makers had set fire to a load of real rats freaked me out.

3) The bit outside when the woman's new born baby is thrown onto the ground and the guard kicks snow over it, killing it. That was grim.

Dudess · 25-03-2006 4:28pm

jomanji wrote:

It's weird actually that the actually horror movies that are trying to be gory just don't bother me. Hostel is very gory, but I still just thought it was pap, and it had no effect on me. But scenes like the one in Platoon really mess me up.

Couldn't agree more. A lot of the time, gory blood 'n' guts scenes that are trying to shock are really just silly. Subtle horror, real-life situations and political stuff are always far, far more disturbing. The sex show part at the end of Requiem for a Dream will stay with me forever. As someone else mentioned, Lawrence Olivier, the ageing Nazi, torturing Dustin Hoffman with dental instruments in Marathon Man *shiver*. Christiane F features probably the most disturbing overdose/withdrawal scene of all heroin films. Unwatchable. Threads, the nuclear holocaust movie - terrifying. Check out threads on heroin movies and Threads on this forum.

LundiMardi · 26-03-2006 12:25am

i only saw it once when it was released, but there's a scene in Saving Private Ryan where two soldiers were fighting and the were both struggling with a knife, in the end one of them died slowly as the other stuck the knife slowly into his throat, as i said i only saw it once so it's very vague.....

In trainspotting where the baby dies in the cot and the camera slowly moves to angle where you can see the baby, i couldn't look the first time i saw it.

Oldboy - pulling teeth is not something i want to see!

The eye gouging scene in 28 Days Later

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - pretty much every ****ing scene, easily the most depressing ****ed up film i've seen, and something i hopefully will never see again!. The fact that it's based on a real person is even more disturbing:(

xzanti · 26-03-2006 11:29am

The "Kerbing" scene in American History X turned my stomach... As for Hostel.. Some disgusting scenes but over all I thought it was a load of sh*te.. More soft porn than anything else, if I wanted to see porn I could have stayed home on gone online and saved myself 20 quid :rolleyes:

26-03-2006 1:13pm

The crow attack in the Omen II is well scary with the tunes blaring

Shivers has a lot of crazy moments

A scene in southern comfort where their gutting a real pig when its alive and all the intestines are falling out when the pig is squealing

The Crying game when he realises yer one is a bloke!

and the very last scene in planet of the apes (original) scary in a different way because its true and perhaps imminent!!

Sunn · 26-03-2006 1:44pm

I'm useless at watching high gore levels in films..

in day of the dead where they have to cut the guys arm off and burn it to stop the bleeding..

i can barely watch the trailer for "switch blade romance" without squirming in my seat..

in fact i'm all weak and squirmy thinking about it

pbsuxok1znja4r · 26-03-2006 2:36pm

Yeah the death-struggle scene in SPR is very, very disturbing. I think the thing with horror films is that because they send so much time trying to be scary, you are less able to suspend your disbelief when the scary parts come, hence making them less realistic and less scary. The SPR scene was so damn horrific in part because of the realism and factual nature of much of the film. If films opted for a less-is-more approach and tried to craft just a few or one momumentally terrifying or disturbing moment (a lá Don't Look Now), they could be a lot more effective and ultimately; watchable.
It's a vicious cycle; films try to up the ante re: gore and fear for today's "de-sensitized" viewers, but defeat their own end in doing so.
I haven't seen Hostel and don't really plan on doing so.

Basq · 26-03-2006 2:37pm

Sunn wrote:

i can barely watch the trailer for "switch blade romance" without squirming in my seat..

Gave that to my girlfriend to watch.. she said she got about 4 seconds into it and the music scared her..

.. i then realised she was listening to the music for the film studio that produced it!

Oh, how i laughed!

Crash · 27-03-2006 9:51pm

The scene in the omen where your wan hangs herself - something always disturbs the crap out of me in that bit...

daveg · 28-03-2006 10:17am

Can't believe no one mentioned Audition. That and Irreversible for me. The rape and fire extinguisher scene..

Hagar · 28-03-2006 10:19am

What about the scene in "What lies beneath" Michelle Pffeiffer(sp) is being drowned in a bathtub, paralysed but fully concious? Shudder.

pbsuxok1znja4r · 28-03-2006 10:46am

daveg wrote:

Can't believe no one mentioned Audition. That and Irreversible for me. The rape and fire extinguisher scene..

I remember the first time I saw the fire extinguisher scene from Irréversible. My friend just found the clip on some site and we both though it was real footage of some fight in a club...My friend (normally a filthy purveyor of all things sick and disturbed) was so shocked and disturbed that he refused to even go back to that site for weeks. It was pretty horrifying. Later we found out it was from a film though...then I bought the film

Truly disturbing scenes 18+

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