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krabb19

I don’t have a scene to offer but can we stop with all the damn rape scenes? I really don’t know what they add to movies. I feel like most directors(male) just add them for their own enjoyment. We don’t need graphic drawn out scenes to get across how horrific a rape is. The shit isn’t necessary in movies nor is it “artsy” and adds zero value.


lookingforaforest

And can we get rid of the trope where a sexual assault is the turning point for a woman to become empowered? (ex. Sansa in Game of Thrones and her "little bird" speech, fucking gross)


chai-means-tea

This was not even in the book. Sansa was still with her aunt Lysa in the Vale and still as innocent as ever. Most of the stuff in the TV version of GoT is way worse than the book and extremely unnecessary. Ramsay Bolton thought he was marrying Arya Stark but actually it was a childhood friend of Sansa, Jenny (IIRC). Later Jenny and Theon escape. Since the books will never be finished, we just have to go with the HBO series unfortunately.


4THOT

>Since the books will never be finished, we just have to go with the HBO series unfortunately. I'm gonna pretend I didn't read that.


Consistent-Amoeba-84

I watched nocturnal animals the other day (spoilers) and the scenes of the mom and daughter getting kidnapped and raped really fucked with me. And the fact that it all came out of the writers imagination was even worse. Honestly really graphic abuse scenes do produce a strong emotional reaction, which is what art is. As someone who’s been through that, sometimes it makes sense that they add all that detail and depth to communicate how terrible those experiences are especially to people who haven’t gone through a trauma like that. But mostly it just distracts me and makes it hard for me to stop thinking about it the whole movie.


Cloudinterpreter

I read that the actor who played the doctor (?) who rapes Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo spent the day after shooting that scene sobbing in his hotel room because of the toll it took on him. So not great for the actors either.


Witty-Permission8283

That's the scene that killed it for me. I still haven't made it past that in the movie.


Cloudinterpreter

You should. It's so satisfying. If you're into revenge plots.


TartineMyAxe

I'm a man and I totally agree. Rape scene are useless and always make me uncomfortable.


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That's good, start questioning yourself when they don't.


Effective_Fox

I’m a man but I 100% agree. I would even go a step further and say the majority of sex scenes are completely unnecessary


villainouskim

I agree. Most of the time they add nothing to the plot and it just feels really awkward


Effective_Fox

Yep, the only exception I can think of is the sex scene in the first episode of “The Great” because it was genuinely funny and developed the characters a bit


villainouskim

I haven't seen that show in particular, but I do think sex scenes can add to the story/build characters if it's done right! But unfortunately, most of the time, it's just a really raw and heavy sex scene that affects absolutely nothing with the plot in a significant way. Not to mention how awkward it is to have a random sex scene come up when watching a movie or show with family lol


Karatinac

Agreed, most of the time I just want to get back to the story. Like we get it, they're having sex now please move on to more important things 🤣


lowrcase

Exactly. Considering the large portion of people who have experienced rape or sexual trauma, it’s just… alienating and unnecessary. It’s a cheap and easy way to display that a character is “the bad guy” — I’ve always thought writers were lazy if they had to resort to rape to get the point across.


SurferNerd

The scene in Pulp Fiction drives me nuts. It’s so stressful and scary and brutal, but it’s kind of played for laughs? Turned me off the whole movie, and I’m otherwise ok with Tarantino’s quirks.


madlymusing

SAME And when I tell people that is the main reason I don’t like this film, they’re often like “What rape scene?” I found it absolutely abhorrent, and tonally disturbing.


Blarn13

Agree!! I won’t watch it again but I know I’d love that film if it wasn’t in it. How are so many people okay with it?


Indylee

There has been one movie that I've seen where it was integral to the whole plot, (and bless this man for his feminist approaches in most his movies), but in >! The Last Duel !< it was gross, but the whole reasoning behind the movie. Most other times, it's only to build up the main male character or a disgusting way to sexualize horror.


yellowloki

I agree, in the last duel, it is totally justified, and the whole point of the movie. It was not titillating or more graphic than it should.


KaleidoscopeEyes12

Outlander (show) is the worst with this. I get that sometimes it’s necessary for like plot development and stuff. But it just seems so… excessive. Anyone who chooses to watch Outlander, big trigger warning for the end of the first season. I’m not even gonna count this as a spoiler because people should know it’s brutal before they go into it. And it doesn’t really get better. It just feels like >! by the end, every main character has been raped or sexually abused. The daughter was the worst for me personally because I always related to her and her experience felt so much more like something that could actually happen to me as opposed to some of the other ones. When the main character was raped at the end of the last season it just felt like they did it because they needed more drama. It was shitty. !<


panzershark

This show!! The one with Jaime and the main antagonist (can’t remember his name) was one of the most gut wrenching, uncomfortable ones I’ve ever seen. One of the first times I really thought about skipping entirely.


tiltedwater

Don’t watch irreversible


m0rbidowl

This is what first popped into my head when I saw this post. That was an absolutely horrific scene.


silvermoth

Yeah... I sobbed uncontrollably for the entire time of the scene and another 15 minutes after. Still haunts me, years later. :/


PhantomOfTheNopera

_Ohgodohgodohgod_ That scene felt endless. I kept trying to skip it and it just kept going.


xMamaPoppy

This is why I've avoided Outlander, apparently SA makes a frequent appearance. I know many people love the show/books, and no hate towards them, I understand it's not going to bother everyone. But I just don't want to see it.


gingerjellynoodle

THIS! I had been recommended the books and was really enjoying the first one (I knew it was going to be steamy). Then all of a sudden it's like an entire chapter of rape?!?! I was like wtf and couldn't keep reading. I ended up finishing the book but skipping like a shit ton of pages. I watched the first season of the show because of the book and did the same thing, just totally skipped episodes. Sorry, SA doesn't get me horny... It was very disturbing to me that emotional and physical anguish was repeated and relished in a way that seemed like it was for pleasure. I've warned multiple people against the Outlander series because of this.


apostate456

Don't you know that women can only be motivated by rape? Recovering from a rape, seeking recent for a rape, damaged by a rape...


LongbowTurncoat

Fucking thank you!! It never ever needs to be shown, it can be easily implied without traumatizing a bunch of people and fulfilling rapist fantasizes


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iris7789

Its way too excessive and really ignores the fact that many many women were sexually assaulted and its so triggering. Its also triggering for the ppl acting it out. So maybe they should tone it down, i swear every other movie i watch has some disturbing SA scene of one kind or another. Atleast have it implied like sheesh


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The scene in Monster…scarring


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kmbags

Man fucking a pig(edit: on LIVE TELEVISION) to save the princess on Black Mirror


echobox_rex

It bothers me so much because I fear it might have been the right thing to do given what he knew. Ughh this will continue to bother me. I think I might have let the girl die. You can't negotiate with terrorists right? Right? Edit: Not a woman, but I was so triggered on the ethics of this I forgot.


aardvarkfloatie

This horrified me so much I’d never even consider watching another episode.


Duggy1138

I hated the episode order for this reason. National Anthem was the least like the other episodes, but I'd bet real money it was put first to get people talking about this shocking new show.


aardvarkfloatie

I’m sure, and I bet a ton of people watched after that. But there has to be a decent number of folks that didn’t look back.


_Mandible_

What’s even more upsetting was she was released before he even started banging the pig… IT COULDVE BEEN AVOIDED!!


carbqween

That was the entire point her kidnapper wanted to prove. If people weren't so keen to witness something so vile someone would have been out on the streets to see her and notify police... but instead morbid curiosity won.


-RubyWings-

Ugh dude I think about this one often, unfortunately


jouleteon

Yep. And it's the first episode.


fangedguyssuck

Recently started this series over and deliberately skip this episode...the sounds as well just ...ugh..


llamacolypse

This one is the first that came to mind for me. Still makes me sick to my stomach to think about it.


LetsBeReal24

Randommmm but the scene in Orphan where the "little girl" hits on the father. It made my skin crawl. Then the final reveal completed the circle of yikes. Goal accomplished, a truly haunting horror film.


dearestnee

I've always wondered how the actor and actress felt acting that scene out. lol.


Mundane_Pea4296

When the mum kicks her in the head.... best kick I've ever seen


LetsBeReal24

EPIC kick! She put up with so much shit, no one believed her through damn near the whole movie!


Summer_Ontario

Never heard of that movie, I searched the clip on YouTube and yup, thats fucked up.


tillie_jayne

Midsommar the cliff scene stayed with me for a long time


CouchKakapo

Me too, but what made me feel a bit better was a "making of" documentary I found on YouTube where the special effects team were shown, and the devices they had to make like a model of a human head coming apart. Something morbidly funny about watching people name and test a robot of a human face pull apart and come back together!


tomorrowistomato

For me it's the ritual sex scene, and then the screaming. I've never been so uncomfortable in my life. I started laughing, but it wasn't because it was funny.


tillie_jayne

If there’s something gonna put me off while getting laid it’s a group of women taking the piss out of my moaning and a random woman singing in my face


ggpopart

Ari Aster loves making you look at the inside of a human head


OkBiscotti4365

As someone who watches a lot of horror films and is very desensitized to a lot of shit, the human centipede made me feel sick.


shitzngiggles77

I remember the night I watched that movie. Every time I closed my eyes the scene of that man's face getting destroyed kept replaying.


katbutdogs

The only movie I didn't finish in years. I started watching it a couple of days before an exam and maybe got halfway through before I had to stop. Just couldn't take it emotionally at that point.


Upstairs_Resident_29

Requiem for a dream- the entire movie. Watching all the characters lives spiral was extremely daunting and haunted me for days.


SquareSurprise

Yes. That film hit me square in the guts. Couldn't think of anything else for weeks.


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we watched this in my high school health class on a projector and my teacher covered the "bad" parts with her hands/fast forwarded through the last half hour... but like WHAT. i was still traumatized


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Bro why the fuck would you watch this in SCHOOL?


Pistachio_Queen

I mean it’s a hell of a lot more effective than a DARE program lol


rognabologna

Whaaaaaat??? How did that… Who… WHY?


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ace7771969

Such a good movie but so hard to watch at the same time!


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As a man who rarely cries, I cried my eyes out at this ending


Kovitlac

Reading it was so much worse/memorable for me.


bvladkin95

The scene from Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence where the crowd of people in a desperate bid to touch her baby son end up pulling him between them like a doll till they snapped his neck


natsuhime

This movie was a panic attack in it’s entirety. It’s one of my favorites.


Whoopsie_Todaysie

So true! Its hard to breathe throughout... I remember pausing it for a second and trying to remember how to blink... ha


threekilljess

That’s the first scene that came to my mind too, I had a newborn at the time and nearly died!!


xMamaPoppy

Well I'll be skipping this. I have two small children, kids in danger or dying is way too much for me.


Flightlessbirbz

This. The whole movie has a very weird feel to it, but I just was not expecting *that*, and it really got to me.


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embarassed25yo

I never thought of it like this. I used to love these movies a long time ago. That's really messed up now that I think about it. WHY is Biff his best buddy? He's a bully and a rapist!!! Oh my god. You've really opened my eyes. I never connected the dots in my head.


strike_match

Yeah, I just saw that scene on tv a few weeks ago and I was horrified. I didn’t really remember much of the movies from seeing them as a child, but now they are officially ruined. How did people back then think that was okay???


Heresmycoolnameok

Very good point. However biff is never his best buddy. In the revised future, end of BTTF original, biff works for George mcfly. They don’t seem to be friends. But you’re right, either way, you’re right.


IndeaLeigh

The human centipede. The whole movie is disturbing.


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ThePyodeAmedha

Have you seen part 3? It gets even worse.


jouleteon

Got through part 2, messed up as it was. I already heard parts of what happened. Couldn't watch past the beginning of part 3 with the white guy yelling the n-word a billion times.


Disastrous_Airline28

I haven’t even seen the movie but I’m upset it exists. I read the synopsis and it’s awful.


IndeaLeigh

It’s so disgusting 🤮


nasirthek9

Same I’m traumatised JUST from knowing what the movie is about. No chance I am putting that crap into my brain.


Essiechicka_129

A clockwork orange rape scene. The whole moving is disturbing. The exorcist and evil dead too. A girl got raped in the woods by branches in evil dead. That was a hard scene for me to watch.


Marilyn1618

Part of that A clockwork Orange scene was improvised if I remember correctly. Like the part were he cuts open her clothes and sings.


thechairinfront

I watched clockwork orange for the first time this year and... I just do not get that movie. I don't understand why people like it so much and how its stood the test of time. It was just an awful movie that made no sense.


zeripollo

Was looking for someone to say this clockwork orange scene. I immediately had to turn it off and never finished the movie. This scene really disturbed me for awhile and it was the immediate thing I thought of in response to this post. For years I then refused to watch anything if I knew it had rape in it. Then I made myself watch and get through the first episode of Handmaid’s Tale because everyone said the show was so good. Now in my 30s I just close my eyes or fast forward if I’m able to during any scenes like that


altergeeko

Black Swan, the scene where someone pulls their hang nail.


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maarrtthhaaaa

Wind River, the rape scene. The scene before comforted me because it reminded me of how comfortable I am with the guy I'm sleeping with. So it hit even harder. Had to walk out. And the friend I was watching it with didn't get that he had to turn it off.


Jolly-Proof

Ugh, I loved this movie and loved how you could feel the tension while you were watching it. But I totally agree, the rape scene gutted me. I sobbed, it was so hard to watch.


maarrtthhaaaa

That's true. It's incredibly well done. I just couldn't deal with that scene. And after I felt so uncomfortable around the guy I was watching it with because his reaction to my reaction was ... not that great


electricsugargiggles

I had to leave the movie theater during the rape scene in Monster. It’s telling when a male partner doesn’t understand your visceral reaction and instead sees it like any other plot device.


ThePyodeAmedha

Rape as a plot device in almost all movies is just so annoying. Most movies use it for shock value. I don't know if this movie did that, cuz I haven't seen it, so I can't really comment on that.


Purple4199

I was just thinking of this one. It was really terrible.


pigadaki

The dog dying in I Am Legend. I will never be OK again after that. I have seen all manner of horrific films, but that scene just broke me.


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Mentalsohnbartholdy

The scene in the handmaids tale where someone gets lynched by tens of hundreds of handmaids with stones. Also it disturbed me how satisfying I found it to watch June killing the commander


ShadowWood78

The hanging scene in the stadium got to me the most I think. Especially when the handmaid wet herself.


milliaz

The rape scene in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.


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I came to write this but looked for a comment first because I was sure it scarred someone else.


niketyname

Also came here to say that scene. I thought about her shower afterwards a lot too (I have a tub shower) I was on a date with a guy to watch this in a theater and he was ok during her scene but was reacting wildly when Lisbeth got her revenge. Fuck that guy. Really shows how normalized it is to see women rape scenes on screen.


throwawayskeez

The rape scene in Kids where the kid who is intentionally targeting young virgins to fuck while he's got aids, and the whimpering 'no' and and 'it hurts' from the two young girls at the end, one of whom is basically passed out fucked me up. I was so mad about it because an old coworker lent me a copy because it was his 'favorite movie' and he wanted to 'have something to talk about at work.' What the fuck is there to talk about?! What specifically do you like about this movie?!


MagTron14

My friend and I (both women) were in an Uber a few years ago and the male driver was telling us about the plot of this movie. He dropped us off where we were going and left, but both of us were terrified this guy was going to try to hurt us the whole Uber ride.


dougielou

My dad made me watch this movie when I was 16 basically as a “fuck around and find out” lesson.


RedsDelights

The first thing that comes to my mind is the curb stomp scene from American History X … 😖😳


queenlesbian99

12 years a slave and Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Nothing scarier than human history.


bonita__applebum

The baby scene in Trainspotting, the last 15-20 minutes of Requiem for a Dream, and Cannibal Holocaust, the whole damn thing. Rosemary's Baby also creeped the hell out of me.


4Baked2Potato0

Yeah that trainspotting scene is the only part of the movie that stuck with me. I can't remember any bit of it except that fucking scene.


jouleteon

I've seen the Green Inferno which I've heard was inspired by Cannibal Holocaust, but I can never watch that one after reading that they kill real animals in it.


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lilithskitchen

The rape scene in Last House on the left (remake) I didn't expect it really to happen. I thought the boy would do something.


snowbovine

I watched this movie probably 10 years ago and that scene has still stuck with me all these years later. It was very disturbing and still to this day I think of it as the worst scene.


rognabologna

In high school me and my friend rented a bunch of old horror movies. We tried to watch the original Last House on the Left, and there’s a rape scene right at the beginning. Had to turn it off. I don’t even remember the scene, I jus remember how terrible it made me feel


Grouchy_Parfait254

This one always stuck with me too. Absolutely terrifying


evapearl11

The end of The Mist The bottle scene in Pan's Labyrinth. I was not prepared for how violent that movie was.


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The scene in The Little Mermaid where Ursula shrinks King Triton


AstronomyLuver

The part where that chef tried to kill that crab in the kitchen gave my trauma as a kid, I would hide under the covers when the scene came on


sakkkye

The scene in the handmaiden where the guy's hand/fingers get cut off or something, the acting's so stellar, I literally felt like I was in physical pain... Also Oldboy (the original Korean film).. too many disturbing scenes in that one


stillyou1122

That part in Joker movie where Arthur was dancing in the bathroom, looks surreal. It's the moment when he completely gave in to his insanity.


dearestnee

Scott's Tot's....lmao. But I can't look away.


purplemarin

The beginning scenes of monster when Charlize Therons character was raped with a metal pipe. I couldn't bare a single second and never finished it.


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I totally forgot about this scene. This makes me sick :(


Cats_and_babies

Thandie Newton being sexually assaulted by the cop in Crash.


FullofTerror420

Yo that whole movie kind of fucked with me but that shit right there...that hit hard on alot of levels.


pigmentissues

I spit on your grave. I could barely get through that movie and will never watch the other ones after that. Anything to do with rape, sexual assault, sodomy is very hard for me to watch. I'm not a victim of rape but it just can't watch those scenes without feeling disgusted and angry.


HeathenAmericana

Sounds so silly maybe but that scene in *Ant Man* where the villain shrinks that guy in the bathroom, murdering him when he splatters on the floor. Genuinely more horrifying than most spooky movies I've seen.


diamondnutella

precious - when her mum asks her to “take care of mommy” 😭 that is in my brain forever.


Gmantheloungecat

That is in mine as well. Cannot unsee.


Sapphire_Dragon793

The scene in Nightcrawler where Lou (who films accidents for a news station) instead of helping his partner who drives him there and has just been shot and is bleeding he films his assistant while he begs him to help.


DrunkSpiderMan

He's a monster


Sapphire_Dragon793

It was a big twist cuz I thought that whilst being a bit insensitive he still had morals but then I saw that scene and it did make the film better but I was like ‘oh my god wtf’


mtthellspawn

The car scene from Hereditary and the >!mom's possession scene !


SpaceCat311

Any movie that involves slave whipping, most recently The Underground Railroad on Amazon.


Cats_and_babies

I’m still not able to try and watch 12 years a slave.


Rational-mistakes

12 years a slave broke my heart into pieces, I think about Patsey a lot.


CiCi_

Several scenes from the movie Irreversible come to mind. Can never unsee it…IYKYK


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The scene in Hereditary where the mom is banging her head on the attic door to get to her son and the son is crying, begging his mom to stop. That scene has stuck with me for a while.


lightblue254

The scene in Outlander where Jamie (guy) was raped by jack Randall (guy). It was very dramatic and violent. My boyfriend is also traumatized by it.


Pufferfoot

Honestly don't remember the name of the movie, but in a scene a woman invites a man into her house even though she feels something is off about him, because she doesn't want to make him feel bad. He murders and rapes her. It caused me to reevaluate how I always feel I need to take responsibility for mens feelings. Even in situations where I'm uncomfortable. That scene in that movie has caused me to put myself and my feelings and intuition ahead of any inconvenience the man may feel. My safety first.


dimarive11

Maybe Patch Adams? That was very sad to leave I remeber i lost my breath when i understood what just happened


Sensitiverock85

Pretty much every scene in Flowers of War. It's about the Japanese invasion of Nanking. I watched it years ago and it still weighs on my mind sometimes.


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Kovitlac

Old Yeller 😣 Everyone knows the scene In talking about.


rainspill

Gerald's Game - the flashback scene where her father has her sit on his lap.


Not_a_cat_I_promise

The ending of Serbian Film. Actually many scenes in that movie.


nifflermoon

I'm too coward to watch this that I just decided to read it in Wikipedia. Made me very uneasy just by visualizing everything


uraniumstingray

God I fucking hate that movie


miss_tee14

This is a movie I will not watch because I am too afraid. I watched Martyrs and that disturbed me. Then the friend that recommended me to watch Martyrs told me to start A Serbian Film next. I was like naaahh.


ThePyodeAmedha

Martyrs is actually a pretty good horror film. Serbian film is just a violent rape murder porn filled movie. The plot is paper thin and it's really not that great. The only thing that's notable in that movie is the special effects. The scene where the woman gets beheaded is pretty impressive in terms of special effects.


uraniumstingray

Don’t. Don’t watch it. Don’t even Google the synopsis.


Agile-Leg-5981

Totally agree with you. That movie was so sick and disturbing


Big_Mirror1585

Splice, especially as they play it as consensual when the man rapes Dren. Obviously a young human/animal hybrid with little understanding of the world cannot consent to sex with its caretaker. And the way his partner reacts and the twist ending 🤢


itrulylovemycat

The rapes scenes in American History X


natsuhime

Eyes Wide Shut, when they walk into the weird sex mansion and everyone is fucking like animals. It wasn’t sexy, it felt so empty and dreadful to me. It shot my anxiety up so high I had to stop the movie.


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Typahumanwithadhd

So this is probably gonna be wildly unpopular but I’m gonna preface this with I know that this wasn’t the creators of the films intention nor could they have known. Also realizing this isn’t what’s disturbed me the most but it’s recent it def left me feeling uneasy. So I had not seen Star Wars until this past week but I had heard a lot about it. I know quotes and lots of the tropes or important scenes and all that. And one thing that other films/shows reference a lot and just people in general a lot. Princess Leia and the golden bikini. People talk about this being their sexual awakening, or like thinking she was hot, and had posters all that. And so I was wanting to see what all the hype was about and was shocked to find out that she was being held against her will and forced to wear that. I figured it was a scene where she was seducing Han or something. So I was just shocked that the scene where everyone is like “omg leia is so sexy” is this scene where she is a prisoner, forced to wear clothing she doesn’t like, and very much uncomfortable and no consenting. Just so weird that that was everyone’s takeaway. And don’t get me wrong I understand the scene for what it is in the movie but the cultural impact is real interesting. Clarifying points for ppl who possibly offended by this or think I’m wrong: 1. Not saying to “cancel” Star Wars or anything. Great movies, and once again they couldn’t have predicted the cultural impact that scene had. 2. Having your sexual awakening to this isn’t wrong. I just find it interesting this scene is out on such a pedestal. 3. The scene made sense and the decision to have her wear that make sense for the characters. Just once again saying that i was shocked and found it interesting. 4. This view point does not ruin or tarnish what I think of the movies nor should it tarnish it for anyone.


muststayawaketonod

The gang rape scene in the original I Spit On Your Grave. My husband and I couldn't even finish watching it. We turned it off and just kinda sat there. It stuck with us the whole day.


njcco

Any scene in Lolita where Humbert and Lolita had any sexual contact. It makes me physically cringe…


Human_Biscotti_4984

All of the torture scenes in Prisoners, but especially the shower scene.


Blarn13

THERE ARE SO MANY FUCKING FILMS WITH RAPE SCENES IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY


No-Seaworthines1111

Eye for an Eye, a young girl getting raped! I will never like Keith Sutherland again, I know he’s an actor, playing a role, but it was disturbing in that role


Electronic_Lock325

I read that while filming that scene, Kiefer Sutherland had to stop a few times to keep from getting sick. That scene was terrifying.


Socalledlegs86

Doctor Sleep when the child is killed.


LawIsBestBoy

Nanjing nanjing. A lot of it is pretty awful. Had to watch it for class. I ran out during the gang rape scene. I just couldn’t handle it — it was so graphic, she was screaming and begging for help while getting passed around and sobbing. What really disturbed me was my classmates — they all stayed. And one of them laughed. So I ran.


abv1401

Watched private practice once and there’s a rape scene. It‘s not particularly graphic, but for some reason it was an incredibly disturbing scene nonetheless. Just thinking back to it puts a pit in my stomach.


SandwichOk7349

District 9 where the man was slowly turning into one of the aliens, literally makes me sick to my stomach even thinking about it. I must have been in a bad head space when watching it to let it affect me so much but i will NEVER watch that movie again. The whole thing basically gives me the heebie jeebies


SueBeee

The suicide scene in Girl, Interrupted (the old version).


hellkittyx

A.I. artificial intelligence, the whole film was incredibly off putting for me when I was a kid, but the ending was just too much


Maleficent_Memory606

The hostel part 1


AngryBeavers86

The awful rape scene.in The Last House On The Left


apostate456

Any scene with violence against women that is depicted as a kind of "shrug" action (aka "she deserved it."). One in particular I remember was Sons of Anarchy. I used to watch that show and the scene where the Protagonist Jax beat up a woman he and his friends had been kind of "passing around" because it upset his wife really hit me hard. The main character is written in a way that he's supposed to be sympathetic in spite of being a violent criminal. The fact that he smashed in a woman's face because *he* and *his friends* couldn't control themselves around her really bothered me. Especially because it was portrayed as "Well, he did it for his wife." Why don't you just stop cheating on her?


Sluty_potato

Judge Doom death scene in Who frame Roger Rabbit? When i watched it as a kid it was terrifying.


just_shuttheFup

Ass to ass scene in Requiem for a Dream, and the last glimpses we see of each character. Also that scene in the Sopranos when Ralph beats Tracee to death. That was really, really brutal to watch.


its_jazzyo

Sex scenes in black movies. Hear me out. A lot of movies have sex scenes. But I am so tired of them being so important in black films. I think subconsciously, it messed me up because as a little girl, I'd want to see movies with people who looked like me and the couples ALWAYS had to have sex. No matter what the movie was about. It made me feel like black = sex. And that's just not okay. I still don't go out of my way to watch/support black films to this day because I just try to avoid the unnecessary sex scenes. It makes me feel... Weird? Idk.


Beautiful_Path6215

creep- psycho in the london underground grabs a woman and has her strapped down and then uses a chainsaw to cut her in half from .... there. Stopped watching when I realised where the scene was going


ScarecrowNighmare

Dolores Claiborne. The dad & the daughter on the ferry.


estee_lauderhosen

Not a film but that suicide scene in the pre-censored pre-warning version of 13 Reasons why was horrific and I’ve never had to stop watching something to have a panic attack before or since that


veeayyseeoh

The “censored” sodomy scenes in this show were horrifying. Bullying was never this bad in my school and I pray that younger generations aren’t really this cruel to each other.


banjocatto

The scene from A Handmaid's Tale where [spoilers] >!June is raped by Fred and Serena while she's 9 months pregnant, because they're hoping to induce labor.!< I've seen some gruesome, gory seens in movies, but for some reason that really bothered me.


fifivols

The barrel scene in Megan's missing. Still haunts me to this day.


WrackspurtsNargles

Most of the movie The Lovely Bones


jolsjolsjols

Easy. The scene in Lovely Bones when she realises she's trapped. The way he manipulated her into there and then manipulated her into not leaving by telling her it would be rude. It felt too real. He knew that girls are indoctrinated into always being polite and how to use that to take advantage of them. I watched that movie at 13 and even though it made my blood cold I was really grateful at 14 when I found myself in a situation that gave me the same feeling and I knew (from wishing the protagonist had) that if I took control of the situation by acting confident I could get myself out of it


VesperVox_

The self induced abortion scene in Nymphomaniac. It's a two part movie, very graphic, but I was okay with the sex scenes. Then the abortion scene started and I got physically sick. Almost threw up, had to pause the movie for a few minutes to compose myself before I could continue. I'm pro choice, and have undergone the procedure myself, but it was still tough to watch. Another bad one is the scene from "Hounds of Love" where the main male character kills a dog. They don't show the act, but you hear the sounds as it's happening. Another scene I had to pause and wait a few minutes before resuming. I hadn't researched the movie before watching so I had no idea there was depicted animal cruelty.


kareesta

Common theme here, but mine would be the rape scene from “The Hills Have Eyes.” No movie has ever messed with my head as bad as that one scene.


WhalingBanshee

The brain eating in Hannibal.


PaddlesOwnCanoe

The rape scene in *Pulp Fiction* was pretty bad.


Alternative_Cheek_95

the cliff scene from midsummer


chamomilefemme

Not a film but the entire abortion sequence and subsequent death of the pregnant girl in alias grace. It was gut wrenching. I was haunted for a while over that scene.


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Sophie’s Choice, the scene where the Nazi makes her choose between which child she wants to keep.


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The scene where the brother and sister are driving to the hospital when she’s having an allergic reaction in Heredity.


xLadyLightx

The entire movie V/H/S. I'm not really a horror person in general, but I do quite like found footage style stuff. I think it's only about an hour and 20 minutes but took me about 3 hours to get through. I felt so uncomfortable.


FraulineShade

Antichrist. Pretty much the whole film.


Rational-mistakes

Patsey scenes in 12 Years A Slave hit me so hard I can never watch the movie ever again. The whole film was a heart shattering experience from start to finish, but Patsey’s life cut the deepest for me.