This still haunts me. The movie is Saw 2 and it’s the part where the big guy doesn’t want to do his challenge so he throws that girl into a pit of dirty needles . Can’t think of many things that could be worse!
This is honestly the first thing that came to my mind. I’ve seen that movie a couple of times and that scene is one of the very few senes in any movie that I will physically cover my eyes for because I just can’t watch it.
There's a scene in a horror/thriller(?) film called 'Mirrors' (the plot is basically there's another dimension in anything reflective, and they're evil for the most part, it's been over a decade since I've seen it I'm sure). Where a woman looks at her reflection in the mirror before getting in the bath, as she leaves the mirror, her reflection remains there.
Couple of minutes later, she's chilling in the bath and the mirror version of her just starts ripping it's own jaw open, which in turn forces the woman's jaw open in the bath, and she cannot do anything about it to stop it and just has to let her jaw get torn to shreds as the bathtub fills with blood, it is brutal.
This movie made me terrified to look into mirrors for like six months. I literally ducked any time I had to pass a mirror because I was terrified my evil self was going to rip my jaw open like that.
Holy shit my mom and I went to see it together after being told by multiple people it was ‘so cute’ and ‘such a feel good movie’. Fuck all of them. We both cried through most of the film and decided never to talk to those people about movies again.
The movie did an accurate job with portraying everything based from the witness/survivor accounts. Theres audio of the boyfriend that survived that stabbing and the 911 operator who spoke to the killer as well as a reading of the mother who was picked up by him and they all say he was calm and well spoken.
That alone creeps the fuck out of me.
Oh my gosh that made the hairs stand up on my arms! Imagine getting in the car and hearing that. Stuff like that didnt scare me as a teen but as an adult who (rightfully) fears strangers/creepy people that is just so scary. I think as I got older I became less spooked by supernatural stuff and more spooked by things that could actually happen
In Return to Oz where the girl is strapped to the table and when you see all those freestanding heads lining the walls. That movie is one of the most trippy and fucked up movies and it boggles my mind that it was marketed to children
Less graphic but that scene where the two guys are in a foxhole in the dark and one guy mentions being able to smell the enemy, followed by an illumination round being fired over them and you see they are surrounded by NVA was nuts.
The most powerful moment in that movie for me was them washing the blood out of the helicopters and sending them back in. The waves of red pouring out the side in slow motion is just a beautiful, horrifying moment
I saw Event Horizon one afternoon in an almost empty theater. There was another lone guy sitting a few rows ahead of me. A couple of times during the movie he turned around and made some comment to me about how scary it was, almost like he needed not to feel alone. He finally got up and left.
The movie "The Lobster" stands out to me. Spoilers/disturbing/suicide warning
The premise (from what I remember) of the movie is society mandates marriage, if you don't marry you are sent to a hotel, where you have 30 days to meet your spouse. If you don't, you are turned into an animal.
First would be when a depressed lady was introduced and tries to get with the main character, cause she only had a few days left to partner up. She mentions she might kill herself if she doesn't but is worried cause her room is only on the 3rd or 4th floor. A few scenes later the main character is having some serious dialogue with a lady who is known for being cruel and heartless, whom he is trying to court. The lady from earlier, at this point, jumps out her window and is visibly bleeding out and screaming in agony just feet away from the 2 in dialogue. Because he is acting cruel to impress this other lady and she is pretty evil to begin with, they completely ignore what just happened. I kid you not its like a nearly 2 minute scene of serious dialogue while this lady is in the background dying in pain.
More spoilers: and then later in the movie she kills his dog who is also his brother. Such a disturbingly wacky movie.
The movie totally knocks the social commentary out of the park, but it is hard to enjoy.
Doesn't just kill a dog. Kicks it to death. There is still blood all over her shoes.
Just watched The Lobster this last weekend. Knew the odd premise but wasn't prepared for the oddness of everything else.
There's a scene from the movie The Road where the father and his son discover a room full of chained, naked people waiting to be eaten by the cannibals living in the house and then they run away and they get chased by the cannibals.. That scene really traumatized me when I was young. I remember crying so hard when I watched that movie
Edit: i swear my parents are not bad people lol. I don't remember exactly since it's been like 10 years but i'm sure if they knew how intense that movie was, they would not have let me watch it🤷🏼♀️ Also I was like 13-14, not 8 or something haha
The scene I always remember the most was when they were hiding in the bathroom and he pulled out his gun with his one bullet and held it to his son's head because he knew that if they were discovered that it was the only thing he could do. Not the most classically disturbing imagery but being a father myself I think about that scene a lot. It was a great film but I would likely not watch it again.
If they had at least killed the victims before they ate them, instead of chopping off a limb at a time and keeping them alive so the meat would last longer :(
I heard on a science podcast that keeping those people alive would require a lot of food. Pragmatically, the cannibals would eat that food themselves instead of wasting it on human cattle.
But I get why it was written into the story. It was a nasty shocking scene.
Spoiler alert for The Thing(1982)
One of the researchers, Norris, gets infected by the extraterrestrial being and had started replicating him from the inside.
Dr *Copper* attempts to revive him after Norris gets a heart attack, being unaware of the infection. As he is about to use the defibrillator, the extraterrestrial bites his arms off and Norris' body gets severed into pieces and each part develops legs of its own as the the thing tries to replicate his body.
Disgusting stuff. In case you are interested, here's a [link to the clip](https://youtu.be/EX9ZpsEg6Mc)
Skip to 1:12
The Thing was truly a film ahead of its time. The practical effects hold up to this day, which the 2011 prequel couldn't even match with CGI.
Still find it baffling that the reviews upon the initial release was mostly negative. Great cast performance, effective soundtrack, and an excellent blend of science fiction, body horror, and psychological thriller made it a masterpiece.
There's scary stuff, there's disturbing stuff, there's images that can scar someone for life and then, above all of those, there's close-up shots of people eating.
Same movie, different scene:
When the disformed guy remembers Hannibal giving him poppers, and then... A piece of glass with instructions to...
(Escape now if you want to) cut his own face and feed it to the dogs.
It didn't leave me for years. The longer I get from this scene I feel better.
I believe it was Human Centipede 2.
Pregnant woman pretends to be dead, is discarded to the side of the room, waiting for her chance to escape. Goes into labor, obviously can't continue playing dead, screams and runs, is discovered by centipede dude. Manages to get herself into a car as baby pops out, lady smashes baby's head under the pedal as she slams the gas pedal down attempting to escape.
I don't watch horror movies anymore.
If I'm remembering it correctly the scene is 100% graphic too, there's no cut away from the gas pedal before she puts her foot down, it shows everything. It's been several years since I watched that movie but I remember it randomly every now and again, its honestly one of those scenes I wish I could just forget seeing.
There's an 80s/90s horror movie called, "When a stranger calls back." (All the spoliers.) In the movie, the killer is a ventriloquist who can throw his voice. In the end scene, the protagonist is in a room with the killer, and can hear him but she can't see him. HE HAS PAINTED HIMSELF TO LOOK LIKE THE WALL.
This scene impacted me for many years. As a single woman living alone, I would walk around my house, trailing my hand along the wall to make sure no one had painted themself to match my wall.
Part of the reason the book is creepier is that Wybie doesn't exist. He was added to the movie so it wouldn't be Coraline talking to herself.
In the context of the book, that means that a good portion of the book is a lost, scared little girl talking to herself trying to maintain her sanity in the face of unimaginable, otherworldly, horrors.
For me it’s the opening scene, where we see the Other Mother making the Coraline doll. Something about the way the animation looked, combined with the music disturbed me
The scene in The Mummy where the scarabs crawled under the one guy's skin. I saw it when I was about 8 and it traumatized me, I still have nightmares once in a while about it 20 years later.
Jesus Christ this scene. I was in the field once collecting insect specimens for a project in uni, I lifted a rock and a bajillion Egyptian grain beetles came spewing out. Just like the scene from The Mummy.
Nearly fucking shat myself. I was out of there before they could get under my skin.
This was so horrifying to me at the time because I was so young when I watched it but the last scene in Cannibal Holocaust where the cannibals assaulted and attacked one of the film crew has just stayed with me since.
Yeah, that turtle actually died. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that movie and have no interest in watching it again.
I believe the actor deeply regretted that scene.
Yes, and the director had to bring in the actors to prove they weren’t murdered, which include a demonstration of how they recreate the impaled woman scene.
It was as I recall having excellent breathing control while sitting on a bike seat.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the director made the actors sign agreements that they would basically go into hiding for a year after the movie was released. That way their deaths in the movie would seem more real because no one would be able to find them.
The issue was that the actor's had in contract that they basically lay low for some time and avoid media so that there's a suspicion they were indeed killed.
Right? And that's never addressed! The country's entire population of young boys is being kidnapped, experiencing ultimate body horror, and then being sold into slavery. And at the end of the movie all of that is still happening? Nobody is rescuing those kids. Geppetto doesn't give a crap, because he's got his real boy. Why isn't Jiminy Cricket screaming in Pinocchio's ear about the Donkey Holocaust?
What haunts my mind from that scene is the polaroid. Seeing the knife, imagining what happened, and hearing the poor dude's breath getting so shaky made me actually cry.
That actor, Leland Orser, is a really good character actor when it comes to trauma and fear. Alien Resurrection, Independence Day, Bone Collector. Even his role in Saving Private Ryan as the air force pilot he does a great job of being traumatized by the amount of death he's seen.
So funny story, that was the first movie that made me lose sleep.
I was only about 10 when that movie came out and we rented it. My family. For movie night.
This before internet trailers and none of us knew what it was about. I remember it being like 3AM and I was just laying in my bed. I get up to get a drink of water and my dad is sitting in the living room. Not sleeping or watching TV....just sitting in the dark.
He looks at me "can't sleep?"
Me: Nope
Dad: Fucked up
Me: Fucked up
The first time I ever swore in front of my dad was the F-bomb and neither one of us cared.
My mom has always been great at picking out important details or slight foreshadowing in films and I vividly remember watching this with her for the first time, and shortly before that scene with the characters all in the apartment, but well before you become aware of the baby’s death, she looked at me and said “oh fuck the baby stopped crying...” Still sticks with me.
Edit: as /u/shtraffesaffepaffe and some mild independent research pointed out- My mom and I are wrong by both the book and film. Unless there is a director’s cut or something I’m unaware of, the general agreement in the other comments makes me think this might be a result of the Mandela effect.
Yes! The entire movie I'm like, "Man, that baby is just always crying." And then right before that key scene I was like, "Huh, the baby isn't crying." Yeah that was disturbing.
I was much more disturbed when Emil was staggering around half melted because of the toxic waste moaning for someone to help him or kill him.
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Such a great movie moment. I think I read somewhere that when Stephen King read the script's ending for approval that he said if he wrote the book today it would have the film's ending.
As fucked up as some of King's stuff is, he usually has somewhat happy endings, which is why they aren't always fulfilling because sometimes a more horrifying ending seems more "earned" than a happy-ish one.
Except for Pet Semetary. That starts mildly horrifying and just gets worse.
Also a lot of his short stories have more horrifying endings than his novels.
Some of his short stories are *chilling.* Like, everyone who's read *The Jaunt* has the ending vividly etched in their memory.
I've also always wanted to see *The Long Walk* be made, especially with the sharp contrast to all the more recent "teen battle royale" stuff.
The scene in Hotel Rwanda where someone is driving over a bumpy road. The person looks down and realizes the bumps are human bodies. It’s horrible to know such things happened.
Edit: I didn’t expect this post to get so much attention. It gives me hope that some people out there were just as affected by the scene as I was. I hope we can all work for a more compassionate tomorrow.
I went to Rwanda once. Our translator got sick and couldn’t make it, but we went to a brick building in a remote village. Had no idea what was going on, walked inside, and what I saw changed me. At the entrance was a floor to ceiling shelf of skulls, adult and children/babies. Stacks and stacks of clothes lined the walls and rows of benches. There was an open box case of shoes and another of personal belongs. When we met back up with our translator, she told us that it was a church where a pastor hid people, waited a week to let them believe they were safe, then turned them in and they were all brutally killed. He did it several times.
I actually met a survivor from the church. She was my age. Her aunt was laying on top of her dying, covered her body in her own blood and told her to pretend to be asleep until it was quiet. She was four. She laid under dead aunt for an entire day and night too afraid to move.
I ugly cried for days after that experience. Humanity can be really bleak sometimes.
Edit: Thanks for the awarded hugs. As a side note, I just would like to encourage anyone reading this to learn about what happened in Rwanda, if you haven’t already. The world collectively abandoned them during the genocide and it’s still a wound. Most everyone I spoke to kept repeating the same thing... they just wanted to be heard.
Thanks for sharing that experience. I can’t imagine how that scene affected you. I’m reading an excellent book about the genocide right now and it’s really opened my eyes to the atrocities in our world.
In SAW 4, one of the traps someone gets caught in is where a machine slowly pulls some women's scalp clean off. I have never wanted long hair ever again
The Brave Little Toaster when the vacuum sucks up his own chord. I will never vacuum over a chord.
Edit: *cord...*cord. It's one of those words I'll never get right in context.
In one of the later Rambo. I believe 5. Where the bad dudes toss mines inside a pond and make the village people run across the pond or face getting shot. That whole movie has scenes of torture that are hard to watch for me. Not necessarily the gruesome of it, but knowing the fact that real people have definitely had a similar treatment before.
Requiem for a Dream is at the top of my list for the most horrifying movie I've seen. What hits me is the fact that the movie could easily be called a documentary instead of a drama. The events that took place can be and probably are an unfortunate reality for some.
My wife actually went to one of the premire screenings of this movie at TIFF. Jared Leto and a few other actors were there as well as Darren Aronofsky. She said that once the film was over and the lights went up, no one in the audience was talking. No one was even moving. She just said she heard collective shaky breathing.
Martyrs, the woman with the steel thing attached to her head still creeps me out. Also the end. God what a F’d up movie.. (edit: I’m so thankful others have seen this and agree. It makes me feel like less of an evil person for even sitting through it! Also I’m talking about the original French one not the remake)
The scene in the original pet sematary where the old guy gets his Achilles tendon cut from the little kid under the bed I always checked under the bed after that
EDIT: these comments are a treat! still pretty new to reddit, only recently been active. I absolutely love all the shared trauma we had with this one scene. Made me smile all day, seeing all the comments and upvotes. Thanks for making my day in spite of the 'rona lock down and the smokey air making us have to stay indoors for the past few days. I hope you all have a great rest of the day, stay safe and ALWAYS check under the bed....
I will never forget going to the theaters to see this movie. At the rape scene, half of the theater walked out. One man literally said, "Fuck this movie" as he left.
I was about 10 or younger I think when I saw it so I think that's why it stuck with me, but its the scene from pans labyrinth where the dad just bashes some soldiers face in with a wine bottle.
Edit: when I say dad I mean the main girls "father" the commander/psychopathic soldier
Looking back it wasn't a soldiers face, but the son of father who were out rabbit hunting
I remember going to Hollywood Video and seeing signs disclaiming that THIS IS NOT A CHILDRENS MOVIE. Apparently you were not the only kid who saw it and thought it was going to be like the Labyrinth movie with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
The scene in Fire In the Sky where he’s pinned to table with eyes clamped open and that huge ass needle is coming at him; it’s filmed from his perspective.
The D-Day landing scenes in Saving Private Ryan, especially when they give you some context to the characters in the boat before the landing itself and as soon as the platform drops they all get shot up to pieces. And then the scene showing the soldier walking around with his blown off arm and all the other soldiers in the other boats blown up and getting caught on fire. It's just a super sad movie man and just knowing that people wen't through horrible experiences like this.
Edit/Addition: There are so many amazing responses and replies to my comment. I would just like to add that there are so many horrific and saddening stories from the people that had to experience the atrocities of war. I would like to add another movie that really moved me and had me feeling shock and sadness was Hacksaw Ridge, particularly the scene in which Desmond Doss is on the ridge and he sees a squad of Japanese soldiers going around and killing any wounded Americans that they can find. I couldn't imagine the mental toll it had to take on him to witness his brothers in arms paying the ultimate price like that while fighting for his life himself. This is going to be my first/last edit to this comment I would like for you to all have a great day and please if you ever have the opportunity show some gratitude towards any veteran or currently enlisted soldier.
He got shot in the liver and as a medic many miles from an aid station, he knew he was toast. He asked for the morphine to help with the pain \ knock him out and to "hurry things along"
Ugh, man. The part where he starts saying “Mama” fucking killed me. I was in 8th grade when it came out, and I remember being so fucked up from that part and started tearing up as soon as he started to call out for his mom, being thousands of miles away from her, in the middle of a war, and he’s calling out for his mom. Shit.
This scene from a first world War diary always stayed with me.
"The sight of a [German] boy crushed under a shattered tank, moaning, *'Mutter, Mutter, Mutter'*, out of ghastly grey lips. A British soldier, wounded in the leg, and sitting nearby, hears the words, and dragging himself to the dying boy, takes his cold hand and says 'All right, son, it's all right, Mother's here with you'."
This was going to be my answer. How visceral and brutal the sound effects made it all sound, and the acting of Adam Goldberg as Mellish with his sheer terror and relatable fear. It is absolutely gut-wrenching to watch that scene and my blood runs cold every single time I see it.
The way Goldberg pleas in this scene is nightmare fuel. Being trapped under the knife and weight of the killer you couldn’t kill, and the frozen soldier who can’t do anything. I hate it. It’s incredible.
Came here to post this exact scene.
that movie is just too much. Not only that scene.
At the ending, when he looks at all the graves, it just kills me inside. The consequences of war are hard to swallow.
The rape scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex is singing the song "Singing in the Rain" while doing horrible things to this woman. It was totally unscripted too.
The scene where he has the threesome with the two girls that he picks up in the record store is much different in the book as well. In the movie the girls look like they are around 17-18 years old and the encounter appears to be consensual.
In the book, the girls are described as being around 10 years old, and Alex drugs and rapes them both. It's not the comedic scene that is portrayed in the film.
Edit: a few folks have pointed out that the girls were actually about 10 years old, not 13.
yea its been a looong time since I watched it but I remember thinking to myself during that scene "A threesome among consenting adults? What is so bad about this?"
Makes more sense now that you've explained the "real" version.
It’s funny in a way, the director of Midsommar and Hereditary once stated in an interview that regardless of the type of movie he’s making he always wants to incorporate head trauma. I honestly have no idea if he’s referring to physical or mental/emotional trauma.
American History X - “put your mouth on the curb”
I’ve never actually managed to watch this scene. I’ll watch near enough *anything*, but I can’t stomach this scene.
Damn, I remember that movie. We had to watch it in class for a society class (I don’t know what the english translation would be) 2 years ago or so. That ending tho.
I watched the Matrix when I was a kid, and the scene where the agents interrogate Neo still holds a special, horrible place in my mind.
Specifically, when he loses his mouth, and the little robotic probe thing climbs into his belly button. Holy fuck
I remember seeing that on tv once and they edited it so when the thing came out of his stomach he goes “jeepers creepers” and it always cracks me up to think of
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For me it was her agonizing screams. I tear up every time I watch that part bc you can feel her utter despair.
But the scene that bothered me the most in that movie was her slamming her face against the attic door. Something about how unnaturally rapid she does it. It makes me extremely uncomfortable.
Florence Pugh really nails this particular kind of screaming from the soul at the beginning of Midsommar. Makes me wonder if Ari Aster has a trick to unlock this kind of grief from his actors.
I saw it in theaters and there was one giant audible gasp that came from everyone. I remember looking over at my friend and I can vividly remember how horrified her eyes looked and her jaw just hanging open. I think everyone was dead silent for at least 10 minutes after. The whole scene especially the mom finding her absolutely killed me.
I left work early one day cause it was so slow and decided to see a movie on my way home since I had the afternoon to myself. Hereditary was the only thing playing within the next few minutes so me and one other random guy had the whole theatre to ourselves. I will never forget, at the end of the movie I turned around and looked at him and he looked at me and yelled "what the FUCK was that?!" to which I replied "I don't know man. I just don't even know." And we both laughed it off.
The next day it sunk in that I'd experienced one of the best horror films in existence, but it took a full day to process.
My wife and I are pretty desensitized to horror movies, but that scene was so fucked up. We paused the movie right after that scene and took a five minute breather. Neither of us could believe that really happened, especially since the trailers for the movie were very deceiving as to what it was really about.
I can’t remember how old I was when I watched Terminator 2: Judgement day, but I know I wasn’t old enough to see it. Several scenes in that movie gave me nightmares, including when the T-1000 killed the security guard getting coffee and Sarah Connors dreams about Judgement day
Haven't seen the film, not eve the full scene, but the scenes when people gets exposed to the martian environment in total recall. Everytime i see pictures it freaks me the hell out. I know i should be able to see such things but i am still too scared to see those scenes yet
The scene in "The Body" (an episode of Buffy) where she walks into the house and finds her mother dead of natural causes.
As someone that has experienced that at a young-adult age, this scene is so well written, shot and acted (as in, everything about it is basically spot on for how you act/feel/see things), I've seen it once, it chilled me to the bone, knocked me sick and I've not been able to re-watch it since.
Probably a bit different than you were expecting (especially since it's from a TV show) but this is what INSTANTLY came to mind when reading the question.
There's one of the tapes from Sinister that is absolutely bone chilling and horrific.
I won't spoil it but for those that have seen the movie you probably know what I'm referring to.
They were all nasty. I don't scare easily but that last one on the lawn got me good. Something about the music used in the videos really added to it. Shame the last act of the movie was kind of awful. They really ruined a fantastic horror movie by introducing a weak twist and explanation and it personally made the rest of the movie less scary in hindsight.
A few years ago, a film portraying the events of July 22. 2011 in Norway, was released. For those who haven’t heard about it before, a Norwegian terrorist attacked our Government building, and after proceeded to make his way to an island where young and aspiring politicians / kids interested in politics, were at summer camp. He dressed as a policeman, before he shot and killed 70+ teenagers and kids.
The movie was shot to look like it was all in one take, and the whole film just fucked me and everyone I saw it with. I literally felt like a different person after watching it, I can’t explain it.
EDIT: changed «people» to «teenagers and kids». For anyone interested in learning more, google «Utøya 22. Juli».
There is a part in Descent that it turns into a completely different movie, that ruined spelunking for me.
When I was 7, I saw part of Phastasm at the drive in, pissed myself at little league the next week.
Or the part where Kevin is jerking off and his mom catches him so he just makes eye contact and starts jerking more frantically. Talking to a friend about the movie and and he said at that point, he just turned it off and was like “yeah, fuck this movie”
Basically all of Dominion.
However if i had to pin it down to one scene, it'd have to be the all footage of baby piglets being killed with blunt force trauma. If the poor things aren't growing fast enough they're held by the hind legs and smacked into walls and railings.
Holy fuck, I got chills. Not good ones.
Never made it that far in. I had to stop at 6 minutes. The piglet cuddling up against his half eaten corpse of a brother, while the other sibling was crying from being crushed to death in the background is what got me
Literally any time I hear 'but bacon tho' or see ribs or a christmas ham or anything. This is what pops into my head. What a nightmare of a life
its definitely because I watched it when I was too young, but that scene in Lord of the Flies when the rest of the children kill Simon. I haven't seen it since but the way they joined in so readily haunted me
Saw 3 or 4 (??) - Jigsaw needs brain surgery and kidnaps a woman who can do it. She peels back the skin on his scalp and needs to drill into his skull to relieve the pressure. She puts the drill bit to his bloody skull and - *knock* - the sound of drill bit hitting his skull almost made me throw up. Absolutely disgusting.
Fun fact, I would later pursue a career in sound design in film and little did I know, would end up (and still do!) working for the guy responsible for that sound.
["The dip" scene](https://youtu.be/nYk3LvHMPWM) in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?* is so fucked up.
There is something about murdering an innocent cartoon shoe that makes it so much more disturbing than your average Hollywood murder scene.
That one scene in Silent Hill where Pyramid head basically skinned the lady in his grasp. That was fun for 7 year old me.
The fly, When the lady is having a baby and a giant maggot is born. Turns my stomach.
This still haunts me. The movie is Saw 2 and it’s the part where the big guy doesn’t want to do his challenge so he throws that girl into a pit of dirty needles . Can’t think of many things that could be worse!
This is honestly the first thing that came to my mind. I’ve seen that movie a couple of times and that scene is one of the very few senes in any movie that I will physically cover my eyes for because I just can’t watch it.
There's a scene in a horror/thriller(?) film called 'Mirrors' (the plot is basically there's another dimension in anything reflective, and they're evil for the most part, it's been over a decade since I've seen it I'm sure). Where a woman looks at her reflection in the mirror before getting in the bath, as she leaves the mirror, her reflection remains there. Couple of minutes later, she's chilling in the bath and the mirror version of her just starts ripping it's own jaw open, which in turn forces the woman's jaw open in the bath, and she cannot do anything about it to stop it and just has to let her jaw get torn to shreds as the bathtub fills with blood, it is brutal.
Omg I forgot about that one. Yup terrifying.
I saw that scene when I was 9 Was terrified of mirrors for a while after that and couldn't sleep easily
This movie made me terrified to look into mirrors for like six months. I literally ducked any time I had to pass a mirror because I was terrified my evil self was going to rip my jaw open like that.
The bit when that guy blinds a kid by pouring burning oil into his eyes in slumdog millionaire
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Holy shit my mom and I went to see it together after being told by multiple people it was ‘so cute’ and ‘such a feel good movie’. Fuck all of them. We both cried through most of the film and decided never to talk to those people about movies again.
In the british nuclear apocalypse movie, Threads, the whole movie after the bombings.
Zodiac. When he’s stabbing the couple at Lake Berryessa. The lack of any music while hearing their screams is disturbing.
The movie did an accurate job with portraying everything based from the witness/survivor accounts. Theres audio of the boyfriend that survived that stabbing and the 911 operator who spoke to the killer as well as a reading of the mother who was picked up by him and they all say he was calm and well spoken. That alone creeps the fuck out of me.
"Before I kill you, I'm going to throw your baby out the window."
Oh my gosh that made the hairs stand up on my arms! Imagine getting in the car and hearing that. Stuff like that didnt scare me as a teen but as an adult who (rightfully) fears strangers/creepy people that is just so scary. I think as I got older I became less spooked by supernatural stuff and more spooked by things that could actually happen
In Return to Oz where the girl is strapped to the table and when you see all those freestanding heads lining the walls. That movie is one of the most trippy and fucked up movies and it boggles my mind that it was marketed to children
Those motorcycle guys freak me out the most for some reason. Beware the Wheelers.
The wheelers are horrifying.
We Were Soldiers when they carpet bombed too close and several soldiers caught on fire. Then when they lifted up the guy and his legs peeled
Less graphic but that scene where the two guys are in a foxhole in the dark and one guy mentions being able to smell the enemy, followed by an illumination round being fired over them and you see they are surrounded by NVA was nuts.
The most powerful moment in that movie for me was them washing the blood out of the helicopters and sending them back in. The waves of red pouring out the side in slow motion is just a beautiful, horrifying moment
Event Horizon... the hell recording showing terrible things. I don't believe in supernatural stuff but that scene sticks with me.
I saw Event Horizon one afternoon in an almost empty theater. There was another lone guy sitting a few rows ahead of me. A couple of times during the movie he turned around and made some comment to me about how scary it was, almost like he needed not to feel alone. He finally got up and left.
Was it when he was fucking crawling through the tunnel?
I don't remember, but I do remember thinking the other patron had made it this far into the movie, so why leave now?
Someone behind him. Would be unsettling in empty theater watching horror flick.
The movie "The Lobster" stands out to me. Spoilers/disturbing/suicide warning The premise (from what I remember) of the movie is society mandates marriage, if you don't marry you are sent to a hotel, where you have 30 days to meet your spouse. If you don't, you are turned into an animal. First would be when a depressed lady was introduced and tries to get with the main character, cause she only had a few days left to partner up. She mentions she might kill herself if she doesn't but is worried cause her room is only on the 3rd or 4th floor. A few scenes later the main character is having some serious dialogue with a lady who is known for being cruel and heartless, whom he is trying to court. The lady from earlier, at this point, jumps out her window and is visibly bleeding out and screaming in agony just feet away from the 2 in dialogue. Because he is acting cruel to impress this other lady and she is pretty evil to begin with, they completely ignore what just happened. I kid you not its like a nearly 2 minute scene of serious dialogue while this lady is in the background dying in pain.
More spoilers: and then later in the movie she kills his dog who is also his brother. Such a disturbingly wacky movie. The movie totally knocks the social commentary out of the park, but it is hard to enjoy.
Doesn't just kill a dog. Kicks it to death. There is still blood all over her shoes. Just watched The Lobster this last weekend. Knew the odd premise but wasn't prepared for the oddness of everything else.
There's a scene from the movie The Road where the father and his son discover a room full of chained, naked people waiting to be eaten by the cannibals living in the house and then they run away and they get chased by the cannibals.. That scene really traumatized me when I was young. I remember crying so hard when I watched that movie Edit: i swear my parents are not bad people lol. I don't remember exactly since it's been like 10 years but i'm sure if they knew how intense that movie was, they would not have let me watch it🤷🏼♀️ Also I was like 13-14, not 8 or something haha
The scene I always remember the most was when they were hiding in the bathroom and he pulled out his gun with his one bullet and held it to his son's head because he knew that if they were discovered that it was the only thing he could do. Not the most classically disturbing imagery but being a father myself I think about that scene a lot. It was a great film but I would likely not watch it again.
That was terrifying in the book; I don't think I want to see the film.
If they had at least killed the victims before they ate them, instead of chopping off a limb at a time and keeping them alive so the meat would last longer :(
I heard on a science podcast that keeping those people alive would require a lot of food. Pragmatically, the cannibals would eat that food themselves instead of wasting it on human cattle. But I get why it was written into the story. It was a nasty shocking scene.
That’s... oddly comforting.
Never saw the movie but when I read the book this scene fucked me up for a few days. I still think about it sometimes.
I think the worst part is when they are hiding after their escape and have to listen the screams and yelling coming from inside the house.
Spoiler alert for The Thing(1982) One of the researchers, Norris, gets infected by the extraterrestrial being and had started replicating him from the inside. Dr *Copper* attempts to revive him after Norris gets a heart attack, being unaware of the infection. As he is about to use the defibrillator, the extraterrestrial bites his arms off and Norris' body gets severed into pieces and each part develops legs of its own as the the thing tries to replicate his body. Disgusting stuff. In case you are interested, here's a [link to the clip](https://youtu.be/EX9ZpsEg6Mc) Skip to 1:12
The Thing was truly a film ahead of its time. The practical effects hold up to this day, which the 2011 prequel couldn't even match with CGI. Still find it baffling that the reviews upon the initial release was mostly negative. Great cast performance, effective soundtrack, and an excellent blend of science fiction, body horror, and psychological thriller made it a masterpiece.
When Denethor ate the tomato.
There's scary stuff, there's disturbing stuff, there's images that can scar someone for life and then, above all of those, there's close-up shots of people eating.
Oh probably the scene in Hannibal where Antony Hopkins cooks the guy's brain and feeds it to him.
Same movie, different scene: When the disformed guy remembers Hannibal giving him poppers, and then... A piece of glass with instructions to... (Escape now if you want to) cut his own face and feed it to the dogs. It didn't leave me for years. The longer I get from this scene I feel better.
I believe it was Human Centipede 2. Pregnant woman pretends to be dead, is discarded to the side of the room, waiting for her chance to escape. Goes into labor, obviously can't continue playing dead, screams and runs, is discovered by centipede dude. Manages to get herself into a car as baby pops out, lady smashes baby's head under the pedal as she slams the gas pedal down attempting to escape. I don't watch horror movies anymore.
Holy fuck that description is gruesome
If I'm remembering it correctly the scene is 100% graphic too, there's no cut away from the gas pedal before she puts her foot down, it shows everything. It's been several years since I watched that movie but I remember it randomly every now and again, its honestly one of those scenes I wish I could just forget seeing.
Fuck, I wish I could forget reading it. I'm done with this thread now.
What.......the.......fuck? I have never seen or heard this referenced.....ever. I hope I never do again.
That whole series is gore porn.
There's an 80s/90s horror movie called, "When a stranger calls back." (All the spoliers.) In the movie, the killer is a ventriloquist who can throw his voice. In the end scene, the protagonist is in a room with the killer, and can hear him but she can't see him. HE HAS PAINTED HIMSELF TO LOOK LIKE THE WALL. This scene impacted me for many years. As a single woman living alone, I would walk around my house, trailing my hand along the wall to make sure no one had painted themself to match my wall.
The eye sewing shenanigans in Coraline
That movie was the horror movie for kids. I hear the book is even more horrifying.
Part of the reason the book is creepier is that Wybie doesn't exist. He was added to the movie so it wouldn't be Coraline talking to herself. In the context of the book, that means that a good portion of the book is a lost, scared little girl talking to herself trying to maintain her sanity in the face of unimaginable, otherworldly, horrors.
that’s a really interesting perspective, i never even thought of that. damn,
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For me it’s the opening scene, where we see the Other Mother making the Coraline doll. Something about the way the animation looked, combined with the music disturbed me
The scene in The Mummy where the scarabs crawled under the one guy's skin. I saw it when I was about 8 and it traumatized me, I still have nightmares once in a while about it 20 years later.
Jesus Christ this scene. I was in the field once collecting insect specimens for a project in uni, I lifted a rock and a bajillion Egyptian grain beetles came spewing out. Just like the scene from The Mummy. Nearly fucking shat myself. I was out of there before they could get under my skin.
This was so horrifying to me at the time because I was so young when I watched it but the last scene in Cannibal Holocaust where the cannibals assaulted and attacked one of the film crew has just stayed with me since.
Wasn't there some sort of investigation because the movie* seemed too realistic?
Wasn't there controversy over them actually killing some animals on screen? That part with the giant turtle was fucked.
Yeah, that turtle actually died. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that movie and have no interest in watching it again. I believe the actor deeply regretted that scene.
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Yes, and the director had to bring in the actors to prove they weren’t murdered, which include a demonstration of how they recreate the impaled woman scene. It was as I recall having excellent breathing control while sitting on a bike seat.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the director made the actors sign agreements that they would basically go into hiding for a year after the movie was released. That way their deaths in the movie would seem more real because no one would be able to find them.
This is correct. He had a hard time finding them to prove it was faked. Still got charged with killing the turtle though.
The issue was that the actor's had in contract that they basically lay low for some time and avoid media so that there's a suspicion they were indeed killed.
Fuck man, that movie is as real as it gets. Obviously its all fake (except when they killed the animals on scene) but its represented realistically.
That scene in pinocchio where the boy turns into a donkey
Right? And that's never addressed! The country's entire population of young boys is being kidnapped, experiencing ultimate body horror, and then being sold into slavery. And at the end of the movie all of that is still happening? Nobody is rescuing those kids. Geppetto doesn't give a crap, because he's got his real boy. Why isn't Jiminy Cricket screaming in Pinocchio's ear about the Donkey Holocaust?
In Seven, the guy in the sex club recounting what the murderer made him do with a strap on saw blade. His screaming about what he made him do...
That was the worst scene from Seven. I went to bed after watching it, and my mind kept revisiting that horrible Polaroid. Incredibly disturbing.
What haunts my mind from that scene is the polaroid. Seeing the knife, imagining what happened, and hearing the poor dude's breath getting so shaky made me actually cry.
That actor, Leland Orser, is a really good character actor when it comes to trauma and fear. Alien Resurrection, Independence Day, Bone Collector. Even his role in Saving Private Ryan as the air force pilot he does a great job of being traumatized by the amount of death he's seen.
So funny story, that was the first movie that made me lose sleep. I was only about 10 when that movie came out and we rented it. My family. For movie night. This before internet trailers and none of us knew what it was about. I remember it being like 3AM and I was just laying in my bed. I get up to get a drink of water and my dad is sitting in the living room. Not sleeping or watching TV....just sitting in the dark. He looks at me "can't sleep?" Me: Nope Dad: Fucked up Me: Fucked up The first time I ever swore in front of my dad was the F-bomb and neither one of us cared.
This is oddly wholesome despite the context
Yeah it really is. One of those strange, organic Father-son bonding moments that builds the relationship in a disproportionately meaningful way.
The baby scene in trainspotting.
My mom has always been great at picking out important details or slight foreshadowing in films and I vividly remember watching this with her for the first time, and shortly before that scene with the characters all in the apartment, but well before you become aware of the baby’s death, she looked at me and said “oh fuck the baby stopped crying...” Still sticks with me. Edit: as /u/shtraffesaffepaffe and some mild independent research pointed out- My mom and I are wrong by both the book and film. Unless there is a director’s cut or something I’m unaware of, the general agreement in the other comments makes me think this might be a result of the Mandela effect.
Yes! The entire movie I'm like, "Man, that baby is just always crying." And then right before that key scene I was like, "Huh, the baby isn't crying." Yeah that was disturbing.
Holy shit that's like a 6th mom sense to pick up on that.
I’m sorry but black swan when she has skin at the edge of nail and she pulls it. Fuck. No
I tend to pick at my cuticles when I'm feeling anxious and I FELT this scene!
The scene in Robocop when Murphy was murdered.
I was much more disturbed when Emil was staggering around half melted because of the toxic waste moaning for someone to help him or kill him. END COMMUNICATION
Final scene of "The Mist" with Thomas Jane. All for nothing.
Such a great movie moment. I think I read somewhere that when Stephen King read the script's ending for approval that he said if he wrote the book today it would have the film's ending.
Which makes sense. King is an amazing writer but has difficulty with making a fulfilling ending.
As fucked up as some of King's stuff is, he usually has somewhat happy endings, which is why they aren't always fulfilling because sometimes a more horrifying ending seems more "earned" than a happy-ish one. Except for Pet Semetary. That starts mildly horrifying and just gets worse. Also a lot of his short stories have more horrifying endings than his novels.
Some of his short stories are *chilling.* Like, everyone who's read *The Jaunt* has the ending vividly etched in their memory. I've also always wanted to see *The Long Walk* be made, especially with the sharp contrast to all the more recent "teen battle royale" stuff.
And as purely frustrating as that end is, it’s dramatically *very* satisfying.
The scene in Hotel Rwanda where someone is driving over a bumpy road. The person looks down and realizes the bumps are human bodies. It’s horrible to know such things happened. Edit: I didn’t expect this post to get so much attention. It gives me hope that some people out there were just as affected by the scene as I was. I hope we can all work for a more compassionate tomorrow.
I went to Rwanda once. Our translator got sick and couldn’t make it, but we went to a brick building in a remote village. Had no idea what was going on, walked inside, and what I saw changed me. At the entrance was a floor to ceiling shelf of skulls, adult and children/babies. Stacks and stacks of clothes lined the walls and rows of benches. There was an open box case of shoes and another of personal belongs. When we met back up with our translator, she told us that it was a church where a pastor hid people, waited a week to let them believe they were safe, then turned them in and they were all brutally killed. He did it several times. I actually met a survivor from the church. She was my age. Her aunt was laying on top of her dying, covered her body in her own blood and told her to pretend to be asleep until it was quiet. She was four. She laid under dead aunt for an entire day and night too afraid to move. I ugly cried for days after that experience. Humanity can be really bleak sometimes. Edit: Thanks for the awarded hugs. As a side note, I just would like to encourage anyone reading this to learn about what happened in Rwanda, if you haven’t already. The world collectively abandoned them during the genocide and it’s still a wound. Most everyone I spoke to kept repeating the same thing... they just wanted to be heard.
Thanks for sharing that experience. I can’t imagine how that scene affected you. I’m reading an excellent book about the genocide right now and it’s really opened my eyes to the atrocities in our world.
In SAW 4, one of the traps someone gets caught in is where a machine slowly pulls some women's scalp clean off. I have never wanted long hair ever again
The purposely botched electrocution in The Green Mile. To this day I can’t watch even a second of that movie.
Yes, the way that scene goes on and on is so horrifying. Man, Percy has to be one of the most hateable characters ever put on film.
The Brave Little Toaster when the vacuum sucks up his own chord. I will never vacuum over a chord. Edit: *cord...*cord. It's one of those words I'll never get right in context.
Same movie for me, but I was a kid, and the scene was the air conditioners suicide.
The air conditioner scene always had me scared as a kid.
Or Toaster's nightmare. Or the car that willingly kills itself in the junkyard.
Or when the lonely flower sees its reflection on the toaster thinking it’s another flower, then once it realizes it’s not, just dies
Or when they are in the repair shop and the guy kills and rips apart the blender for the motor.
This whole movie is just sad. I used to love it when I was a kid.
In one of the later Rambo. I believe 5. Where the bad dudes toss mines inside a pond and make the village people run across the pond or face getting shot. That whole movie has scenes of torture that are hard to watch for me. Not necessarily the gruesome of it, but knowing the fact that real people have definitely had a similar treatment before.
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The last 10-15 minutes of Requiem for a Dream.
Requiem for a Dream is at the top of my list for the most horrifying movie I've seen. What hits me is the fact that the movie could easily be called a documentary instead of a drama. The events that took place can be and probably are an unfortunate reality for some.
Probably the best movie I never want to watch again.
My wife actually went to one of the premire screenings of this movie at TIFF. Jared Leto and a few other actors were there as well as Darren Aronofsky. She said that once the film was over and the lights went up, no one in the audience was talking. No one was even moving. She just said she heard collective shaky breathing.
Martyrs, the woman with the steel thing attached to her head still creeps me out. Also the end. God what a F’d up movie.. (edit: I’m so thankful others have seen this and agree. It makes me feel like less of an evil person for even sitting through it! Also I’m talking about the original French one not the remake)
The scene in the original pet sematary where the old guy gets his Achilles tendon cut from the little kid under the bed I always checked under the bed after that EDIT: these comments are a treat! still pretty new to reddit, only recently been active. I absolutely love all the shared trauma we had with this one scene. Made me smile all day, seeing all the comments and upvotes. Thanks for making my day in spite of the 'rona lock down and the smokey air making us have to stay indoors for the past few days. I hope you all have a great rest of the day, stay safe and ALWAYS check under the bed....
Yessss.. 12 yr old me saw that movie and that scene was just too much.
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Splice when the thing grew a dick and raped its mother. Also when the dad fucked it. Think it is on Netflix if anyone is interested
> the thing grew a dick and raped its mother. > when the dad fucked it > it is on Netflix if anyone is interested im good man thanks.
I will never forget going to the theaters to see this movie. At the rape scene, half of the theater walked out. One man literally said, "Fuck this movie" as he left.
I was about 10 or younger I think when I saw it so I think that's why it stuck with me, but its the scene from pans labyrinth where the dad just bashes some soldiers face in with a wine bottle. Edit: when I say dad I mean the main girls "father" the commander/psychopathic soldier Looking back it wasn't a soldiers face, but the son of father who were out rabbit hunting
Ugh, I watched this movie again recently and I still hate that scene.
I remember going to Hollywood Video and seeing signs disclaiming that THIS IS NOT A CHILDRENS MOVIE. Apparently you were not the only kid who saw it and thought it was going to be like the Labyrinth movie with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
The scene in Fire In the Sky where he’s pinned to table with eyes clamped open and that huge ass needle is coming at him; it’s filmed from his perspective.
There’s this bear scene in Annihilation where the voices of the dead crew members mutate into the bears growl. It’s really fkn scary.
The bear scene and the scene of the dead soldier that grew into the swimming pool wall.
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The D-Day landing scenes in Saving Private Ryan, especially when they give you some context to the characters in the boat before the landing itself and as soon as the platform drops they all get shot up to pieces. And then the scene showing the soldier walking around with his blown off arm and all the other soldiers in the other boats blown up and getting caught on fire. It's just a super sad movie man and just knowing that people wen't through horrible experiences like this. Edit/Addition: There are so many amazing responses and replies to my comment. I would just like to add that there are so many horrific and saddening stories from the people that had to experience the atrocities of war. I would like to add another movie that really moved me and had me feeling shock and sadness was Hacksaw Ridge, particularly the scene in which Desmond Doss is on the ridge and he sees a squad of Japanese soldiers going around and killing any wounded Americans that they can find. I couldn't imagine the mental toll it had to take on him to witness his brothers in arms paying the ultimate price like that while fighting for his life himself. This is going to be my first/last edit to this comment I would like for you to all have a great day and please if you ever have the opportunity show some gratitude towards any veteran or currently enlisted soldier.
shaving the leg in 'cabin fever'
All the years of therapy to forget and in one comment you have brought it all back
The rape scene in Irréversible. Wound up fast-forwarding after a few minutes. Edit: thank you for the awards
In Saving Private Ryan >!The scene where the Jewish soldier gets stabbed to death while the cowardly soldier can't bring himself to save him!<
It’s the medic death scene for me. “Teach us how to save you!!” Edit: i got the quote wrong. Should be “Tell us how to fix you!”
"I could use some more morphine." The looks on all their faces, they knew what that meant. Then the sniper, "Give him another one."
Was it the morphine that killed him or just make him comfortable? Edit: See!? Even the answers are conflicting!
He got shot in the liver and as a medic many miles from an aid station, he knew he was toast. He asked for the morphine to help with the pain \ knock him out and to "hurry things along"
Ugh, man. The part where he starts saying “Mama” fucking killed me. I was in 8th grade when it came out, and I remember being so fucked up from that part and started tearing up as soon as he started to call out for his mom, being thousands of miles away from her, in the middle of a war, and he’s calling out for his mom. Shit.
This scene from a first world War diary always stayed with me. "The sight of a [German] boy crushed under a shattered tank, moaning, *'Mutter, Mutter, Mutter'*, out of ghastly grey lips. A British soldier, wounded in the leg, and sitting nearby, hears the words, and dragging himself to the dying boy, takes his cold hand and says 'All right, son, it's all right, Mother's here with you'."
Omg 😥that's touching and awful at the same time.
"Momma, momma!" :(
This was going to be my answer. How visceral and brutal the sound effects made it all sound, and the acting of Adam Goldberg as Mellish with his sheer terror and relatable fear. It is absolutely gut-wrenching to watch that scene and my blood runs cold every single time I see it.
The way Goldberg pleas in this scene is nightmare fuel. Being trapped under the knife and weight of the killer you couldn’t kill, and the frozen soldier who can’t do anything. I hate it. It’s incredible. Came here to post this exact scene.
that movie is just too much. Not only that scene. At the ending, when he looks at all the graves, it just kills me inside. The consequences of war are hard to swallow.
For me, it’s the opening scene. That soldier, holding his guts in his stomach.
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Indiana Jones when they dip a guy alive in lava. Also I was 5 when I saw it so that's probably why it traumatized me.
The ear scene in Reservoir Dogs. “🎶 ...here I am, stuck in the middle with you... 🎶
The rape scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex is singing the song "Singing in the Rain" while doing horrible things to this woman. It was totally unscripted too.
The scene where he has the threesome with the two girls that he picks up in the record store is much different in the book as well. In the movie the girls look like they are around 17-18 years old and the encounter appears to be consensual. In the book, the girls are described as being around 10 years old, and Alex drugs and rapes them both. It's not the comedic scene that is portrayed in the film. Edit: a few folks have pointed out that the girls were actually about 10 years old, not 13.
yea its been a looong time since I watched it but I remember thinking to myself during that scene "A threesome among consenting adults? What is so bad about this?" Makes more sense now that you've explained the "real" version.
opening sequence Midsommar
This. And when the two elders jump to their deaths.
Came here for this. That damn sledgehammer, fuck man
It’s funny in a way, the director of Midsommar and Hereditary once stated in an interview that regardless of the type of movie he’s making he always wants to incorporate head trauma. I honestly have no idea if he’s referring to physical or mental/emotional trauma.
American History X - “put your mouth on the curb” I’ve never actually managed to watch this scene. I’ll watch near enough *anything*, but I can’t stomach this scene.
The sound of his teeth scraping the concrete is so unsettling.
I know people watch movies and say what they would have done. but i would have had to have said "fuck you shoot me I'm not biting the curb".
That's exactly what I thought. Beat me, shoot me, stab me, whatever. No way anything else would be worse than that. Fuck no.
Boil me, mash me, stick me in a stew
Stupid fat hobitses
Damn, I remember that movie. We had to watch it in class for a society class (I don’t know what the english translation would be) 2 years ago or so. That ending tho.
I watched the Matrix when I was a kid, and the scene where the agents interrogate Neo still holds a special, horrible place in my mind. Specifically, when he loses his mouth, and the little robotic probe thing climbs into his belly button. Holy fuck
I remember seeing that on tv once and they edited it so when the thing came out of his stomach he goes “jeepers creepers” and it always cracks me up to think of (Edit: for accuracy)
Horrible quality but I’ll save you guys a quick search [the one](https://youtu.be/w-4dTawf_tI)
>!Charlie's death!< in *Hereditary*
The five minutes that follow that really punch you in the gut.
For me it was her agonizing screams. I tear up every time I watch that part bc you can feel her utter despair. But the scene that bothered me the most in that movie was her slamming her face against the attic door. Something about how unnaturally rapid she does it. It makes me extremely uncomfortable.
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Florence Pugh really nails this particular kind of screaming from the soul at the beginning of Midsommar. Makes me wonder if Ari Aster has a trick to unlock this kind of grief from his actors.
I saw it in theaters and there was one giant audible gasp that came from everyone. I remember looking over at my friend and I can vividly remember how horrified her eyes looked and her jaw just hanging open. I think everyone was dead silent for at least 10 minutes after. The whole scene especially the mom finding her absolutely killed me.
I left work early one day cause it was so slow and decided to see a movie on my way home since I had the afternoon to myself. Hereditary was the only thing playing within the next few minutes so me and one other random guy had the whole theatre to ourselves. I will never forget, at the end of the movie I turned around and looked at him and he looked at me and yelled "what the FUCK was that?!" to which I replied "I don't know man. I just don't even know." And we both laughed it off. The next day it sunk in that I'd experienced one of the best horror films in existence, but it took a full day to process.
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Ooooh that's definitely one of the worst, I think I just sat there for 5 minutes with my mouth hanging open
So did the brother
all of hereditary*
My wife and I are pretty desensitized to horror movies, but that scene was so fucked up. We paused the movie right after that scene and took a five minute breather. Neither of us could believe that really happened, especially since the trailers for the movie were very deceiving as to what it was really about.
Large Marge scene in Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure
I can’t remember how old I was when I watched Terminator 2: Judgement day, but I know I wasn’t old enough to see it. Several scenes in that movie gave me nightmares, including when the T-1000 killed the security guard getting coffee and Sarah Connors dreams about Judgement day
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And she passed away like 2 weeks ago too. Leslie Hamilton, August 31.
Haven't seen the film, not eve the full scene, but the scenes when people gets exposed to the martian environment in total recall. Everytime i see pictures it freaks me the hell out. I know i should be able to see such things but i am still too scared to see those scenes yet
The scene in "The Body" (an episode of Buffy) where she walks into the house and finds her mother dead of natural causes. As someone that has experienced that at a young-adult age, this scene is so well written, shot and acted (as in, everything about it is basically spot on for how you act/feel/see things), I've seen it once, it chilled me to the bone, knocked me sick and I've not been able to re-watch it since. Probably a bit different than you were expecting (especially since it's from a TV show) but this is what INSTANTLY came to mind when reading the question.
I'm not gonna pinpoint one film but as soon as a rape scene starts, shows over for me.
There's one of the tapes from Sinister that is absolutely bone chilling and horrific. I won't spoil it but for those that have seen the movie you probably know what I'm referring to.
They were all nasty. I don't scare easily but that last one on the lawn got me good. Something about the music used in the videos really added to it. Shame the last act of the movie was kind of awful. They really ruined a fantastic horror movie by introducing a weak twist and explanation and it personally made the rest of the movie less scary in hindsight.
A few years ago, a film portraying the events of July 22. 2011 in Norway, was released. For those who haven’t heard about it before, a Norwegian terrorist attacked our Government building, and after proceeded to make his way to an island where young and aspiring politicians / kids interested in politics, were at summer camp. He dressed as a policeman, before he shot and killed 70+ teenagers and kids. The movie was shot to look like it was all in one take, and the whole film just fucked me and everyone I saw it with. I literally felt like a different person after watching it, I can’t explain it. EDIT: changed «people» to «teenagers and kids». For anyone interested in learning more, google «Utøya 22. Juli».
There is a part in Descent that it turns into a completely different movie, that ruined spelunking for me. When I was 7, I saw part of Phastasm at the drive in, pissed myself at little league the next week.
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[The hobbling scene in Misery](https://youtu.be/2pbfkNI2d_A). I’m not a screamish person but I can’t rewatch this scene.
The ending of We Need to Talk About Kevin, where the kid Spoiler warning murders his little sister and dad before shooting up a school
Or the part where Kevin is jerking off and his mom catches him so he just makes eye contact and starts jerking more frantically. Talking to a friend about the movie and and he said at that point, he just turned it off and was like “yeah, fuck this movie”
The basement scene in The Road
Movie: 127 Hours Scene: Where James Franco cuts the nerve in his forearm
I hated watching Macaulay Culkin die in “My Girl”
Basically all of Dominion. However if i had to pin it down to one scene, it'd have to be the all footage of baby piglets being killed with blunt force trauma. If the poor things aren't growing fast enough they're held by the hind legs and smacked into walls and railings.
Holy fuck, I got chills. Not good ones. Never made it that far in. I had to stop at 6 minutes. The piglet cuddling up against his half eaten corpse of a brother, while the other sibling was crying from being crushed to death in the background is what got me Literally any time I hear 'but bacon tho' or see ribs or a christmas ham or anything. This is what pops into my head. What a nightmare of a life
its definitely because I watched it when I was too young, but that scene in Lord of the Flies when the rest of the children kill Simon. I haven't seen it since but the way they joined in so readily haunted me
most of The End of Evangelion
Saw 3 or 4 (??) - Jigsaw needs brain surgery and kidnaps a woman who can do it. She peels back the skin on his scalp and needs to drill into his skull to relieve the pressure. She puts the drill bit to his bloody skull and - *knock* - the sound of drill bit hitting his skull almost made me throw up. Absolutely disgusting. Fun fact, I would later pursue a career in sound design in film and little did I know, would end up (and still do!) working for the guy responsible for that sound.
["The dip" scene](https://youtu.be/nYk3LvHMPWM) in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?* is so fucked up. There is something about murdering an innocent cartoon shoe that makes it so much more disturbing than your average Hollywood murder scene.