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Not exactly thinking of scares or murder scenes alone though we can cover that.  Which scenes from movies just made you feel uncomfortable while watching it.

One comes to mind for me in Hellraiser when Frank and Julia have sex right on her wedding dress.  I found this to be the ultimate betrayal of adultery by a character.  Its funny because the blood and guts usually don't come to my mind when people talk about disturbing scenes in the series.  I immediately think of that one. 

The scene in Horror High aka The Twisted Brain where the guinea pig gets beaten to death by the janitor.

The scene in Pet Sematary 2 when that rotten bastard of a father shoots the kid's dog, Zowie. I don't know what breed he was, but he was a georgeous dog.

The electrocution scene in Nightmare Castle when Paul Muller pulls the switch on Barbara Steele and her lover, and the following scene with the removal of their hearts.

The "Monkey's Paw" story in the final segment of the Tales From The Crypt movie from the early 70's.

I could go on, but here's a few good starters!

The ending of Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll/House Of Psychotic Women.  The doctor (the main psycho of the movie) goes into the basement of his office where he keeps the eyeless corpse of his daughter.  He embraces her as the cops close in, and the camera lovingly zooms up to her eye sockets, where maggots are squirming inside.

In Thriller: A Cruel Picture/They Call Her One Eye, the heroine is stabbed in the eyeball by her pimp up close (they used a real corpse) as vitreous humor spurts in the air.  Nasty!

The sh*t eating scene in Salo.  It looks so real.. ugh!!!

The opening scene from Cliffhanger when the chick falls from the wire.

In Faces of Death, when they're at a restaurant and they put a monkey in a cage under the table, with its head sticking up above the table top.  It's frantically turning around and around, making its frantic little monkey noises, and the people take miniature hammers and beat its skull in so they can eat its brains.

On the plus side, at least that scene was fake.  As opposed to the monkey brain eating scene in Cannibal Holocaust.

The skinning alive scene from "Dagon". Boy, that was uncomfortable to watch. That the victim was some venerable actor I had seen in uncountable movies before made it even worse. How did they dare do that to him!!!

This is going to seem silly. The scene in Raising Arizona when Holly Hunter goes so over the top bawling "I love him so much." I've seen that scene a couple dozen times, because I love that film, but that scene always makes me uncomfortable.

Whoa!  I've heard of this movie ( it's an Italian film, I believe) and I haveyet to see it, but that last scene sounds like a real winner....


Dosen't seem nearly as bad as the disemboweliing-enbalming scene from Beyond The Darkness aka Buried Alive. iI won't even watch that one anymore...


There was a Thai movie I'd seen a few years back, where a guy was eating what looked like sh*t off of a plate, as part of a game where he would get a reward for each bigger and "better" thing he did for a worldwide online audience. Talk about real-looking... :buggedout:

At the end of May when Angela Bettis is laying next to her boyfriend of make-shift pieces, the scene is so heart-wrenching and desperate that it really disturbs me. Being akward and backwards myself, this movie always pulls at me.

Also the movie Happiness pretty much disturbed me throughout the whole thing.

There was a scene in Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN where Michael is breaking out of the asylum and is confronted by the old Hispanic janitor who had always been kind to him.  Myers drowns him in a mop sink as the old man pathetically cries "I was always good to you, Mikey!!  I WAS GOOD TO YOU!!!"

Made me shudder.

Most of the movie Caligula but especially the part where he violates the newlyweds. 

The Braveheart disembowelment scene always gets me.  Especially right before when those little people do a mock disembowelment beforehand.

Got a review of that flick under the "Reader Reviews" tab.  It's Spanish and not terribly good but that scene is just nasty without being gory.  Some are more repulsed by the scenes where the gouged eyeballs are carried and dropped in a jar of water (and I used to be) but when you know what real human eyeballs look like these are pretty hokey.

And I totally forgot the scenes in Buio Omega/Beyond The Darkness.  Yucky.. and you actually feel sympathy for the guy when he's gagging on his dinner when thinking about his recent deeds.

I remember that...he's having flashbacks of the hitchhiker he and his servant dismembered and put into the acid bath. You also feel sympathy for him because he's being manipulated by this housekeeper, who drastically alters his life, and stands in the way during his change of heart (in the final over-the-top scene.)  This was a vicious movie no matter how you slice it.

I have always had a squeamish spot about eyeballs...in another movie called Headless Eyes there's a scene where the killer is talking to an old woman who has an eyeball missing, and you see her open socket when she's talking to him. According to the notes about the film, that was a real woman with a real missing eyeball. Good God!

Generally anything with real animals or children being harmed.

The father finding his daughter dead in 7 days

The ending of Eden Lake

When the father sees his son walking with the Mr. Linoge at the end of Storm of the century

Those three made me sick to my stomach and bothered me for days. Storm of the century was the worst. Im not sure why it bothered me as much as it did.

In the movie Felon when Val Kilmer is describing why he is serving so many years in prison. wow. (fantastic movie btw)  :thumbup:

The attack on the Darfuri refugee village in Uwe Boll's Darfur and especially the Janjaweed militiaman dropping the baby on his / her head. In fact: that whole damn film was disturbing ~ it left me shaken and stunned for a long time after that.

In both Badlands and Mad Max 2 where the dogs get shot. :bluesad:

The scene in Blue Velvet where you first meet Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).  The ripping of the blue velvet, the huffing of the gas....it's all creepy as hell.  Its one of those scenes, and one of those superb performances that you never forget.

And THE scene in Irreversable.  Enough said.

Requiem For A Dream when the kid finds out his arm is infected by the dirty needles he was using, and the amputation that followed. If that's not enough to keep you away from drugs, nothing is...

Dances With Wolves when Two-Socks is standing there as the bullets fly by him, and the way he stumbles off as he yelps after getting hit. The last scene of him laying there dying with his head resting on his paws took more than one tissue to get through..

In Escape From Sobibor, all the Nazi death camps scenes especially disturbing was when the naked little child tries to escape...

I'm not sure if any of us mentioned it yet, but the eyeball piercing scene in Lucio Fulci's Zombie was one that probabaly gave some of us a severe blow to our constitutions.... :buggedout:

There's a scene in SWEET MOVIE where a woman does a long erotic striptease for two boys (aged about 8 or 10).  The movie features vomit, feces and other delightful bodily substances, but this was the only scene that disturbed me because it wasn't faked.

The chicken scene in PINK FLAMINGOS was more disturbing to me than Divine's finale, which I found more sad & disgusting than disturbing.

I watched Sweet Movie last year and I've never been the same since. Plus it made me have really wierd dreams after I watched it. Pink Flamingos was pretty off the wall with its ending, but i guess thats John Waters for ya...

Saw the edited scene on TV, but it sure distrubed the hell out of me.  The scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex rapes Alexander's wife while singing in the rain.  I can never hear the song again.

In Paprika, when Paprika is captured and pinned to the ground (Litterly) by Osani.  He puts his hand on her crotch and through her clothes and skin!  He pushes hand through her body, cutting her open in the process, until her reaches the top of her head.  I don't know about everyone else who saw that seen, but I think it was litteral mind rape.  I lent the movie to a friend and he said he had to take a break at the scene to fully recover what he just witnessed.

Is this the movie about the town that worshiped the sea god Dagon and they all started to turn to fish like creatures?  I don't remember the scene.  Oh wait a minute, is the scene in the warehouse where the main character and the older bum are tied up?

Later,

John

Pan's Labyrinth - the thin man scene, and also when the stepfather burns the mandrake root and it makes a little crying noise.

Zodiac - the first murder.  I'll never hear "Hurdy Gurdy Man" again without feeling paranoid.

When James tries to penetrate Rosanna Arquette's leg wound in "Crash"

Hitman - when Olga's character is getting whipped by the Russian; partly because that scene kind of came out of nowhere, partly because of the guy's two cronies just sitting there casually watching it.

And any scene where animals get abused or killed really bothers me; even when it's fake, or even when it's an incredibly stupid movie like Robot Monster.

That's one of my favorite scenes...

Yes, this is the same Dagon, inspired by HP Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth. In Lovecraft's story, Dagon was a great immortal sea creature that provided the struggling town of Innsmouth with rich seafood harvests and pure gold from the bottom of the sea.

In return, he and his "Deep Ones" mated with human females to create a race of hybrid sea creatures who shed their human skin, and would mature into purebred sea creatures and swim back to Dagon's undersea city.   

Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be is based on Dagon. And yeah, the skinning scene HURT to watch.!

I immensely dug Dagon because it truly capture the theme of the Lovecraft's work which I still find to be one of the most frightening stories ever.  I'd have to say many portions of that film were disturbing.  The toilet swirly scene completely grossed me out.

I found the movie Perfect Prey to be really disturbing.  They do something which I haven't seen a lot of films like it do.  They really personalize a victim before they kill them off.  One girl you swear is going to make it out alive but she gets off'd out of nowhere and left on the side of the road. 

The scenes that really disturb me are the ones that reveal the fragility of the human form. I can deal with torture or scenes of explicit gore, but it's when death raises its ugly head in the impartiality of the universe that get me.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is filled with moments like this, but there's one scene in particular that really made my stomach drop. Towards the end the soldiers are making "sticky bombs," oil-drenched socks filled with explosives that they can slap on to tanks. One soldier runs up to a tank, slaps the bomb onto it, and at that very moment the bomb explodes. One second there's a breathing human being, and the next there is only liquid goo.

Another is a death scene in FINAL DESTINATION 2. **SPOILERS** One of the characters has just narrowly avoided death by impalement in a car accident. A piece of metal is sticking out of the head piece of the driver's seat. She is counting her luck when for some reason the airbag of the car goes off. The force of the airbag pushes her head back, which is then immediately impaled on the metal. Instant death.

But for the worst of these is probably the end of AFFLICTION. **SPOILERS** Nick Nolte's character has spent his life being terrorized and brow-beaten by his father, James Coburn. At the end, Nolte finally lets his anger take a hold of him and he hits his aged father in the head. The punch irrepairably damages his father's brain, and the father falls to the floor in a death seizure. Watching Coburn having a death seizure on the floor of a cabin is terrifying.

Why, no, Col. Kurtz, I don't want to make a friend of horror.

Catriona MacColl waking up in her coffin in City of The Living Dead about to be buried alive.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

Also, the scene towards the end, where the German soldier they let go once before
comes back, and during a house-to-house fight, overpowers the one soldier and slowly knives him. The German whispers last rites to him as the knife goes deeper until he dies. All the while, the other American soldier cowers in the corner, too petrified to fight back.

After killing him, the German soldier walks slowly down the steps, wipes off his blade, and leaves the other soldier alone, patting him on the shoulder as he leaves.  Quite disturbing.

Murphy's death in Robocop.  Still one of the most violent scenes ever captured.   Also the guy who drives into toxic waste and comes out all melty.

Yeah, this is the only movie I squirm at because of that scene and and the other animal deaths, especially the turtle Scene were the turtle is cracked open and its legs and head are chopped off for real! SICK!!!!! Apparently the monkey scene had to be shot twice so two monkeys got killed!!!!  :bluesad:

Thought of another one.

The scene in Pan's Labyrinth when the guy gets his face smashed in by the bottle. Its so graphic and violent, it makes me shudder.

Dagon is also honored in the game The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.  There's a misssion called A Shadow Over Hackdirt. In it, a small ruined town in the middle of nowhere is populated by resentful outsiders, whose church has a "Bible Of The Deep Ones" upon it's altar, with ancient runes and English translations of them. If you investigate the dungeons beneath Hackdirt, an awful suprise awaits you...

I didn't like Silent Hill, but that one scene where the big triangle head guy grabs the redheaded lady and pulls all her skin off all at once kind of creeped me out.

Oh yeah.  I remember having to look away at that scene.  That was freaky.

While it doesn't have the same effects on me as the manga did, Uzumaki has a scene where a guy falls and we look at his body, his brains are splattered all over.  More of an eww but creepy none the less.  However the opening of this video (You don't need to watch any further than 18 seconds) on the other hand...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_zoguMAvw

I know it's stupid, but the last ten minutes in The Screaming Skull, to me, it's like going back to Haunted houses (I used to be afraid of them) plus, the Skull in the 300 SL is weird for me. :tongueout:

Oh silly me!  I almost forgot this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw

Yeah. That was nasty! It was the Spanish general who didn't believe the
guy was a hunter. He saw the guns and he beat the one guy to a bloody pulp with the bottle 'cause he thought they were Communist rebels.

Another disturbing part was when the father found the living mandrake root undereath the mother's bed, twisting and screaming screaming and crying it's head off.  That was too weird.

The whole movie itself was really weird too. You wondered whether this little girl was really in another world, or just escaping from all going on around her.


And, let's not forget the baby zombie from 2004's Dawn of The Dead remake...

I'm putting this out there, because only a few of you have seen my movie Us Sinners. But, the final two scenes are both shocking and disturbing, and frankly kick the ass of most of the movies you folks are mentioning.

Us Sinners available at Netflix and I just recently signed a worldwide distribution deal with Hart D. Fisher's American Horrors. :hot:

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Us-Sinners/70123955?trkid=204767 (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Us-Sinners/70123955?trkid=204767)

Another good (and disturbing) scene is from a classic Shaw Brothers film called
Avenging Eagle with Shaw legends Ti Lung and the now deceased Alexander Fu Sheng.

In the film, Ti Lung's character is ordered to kill a pregnant woman, despite his pleas for mercy.   Quite unsettling for a Shaw movie.

Amen!

I saw this on The Dialing for Dollars Movie* when I was about four years old (!) and that scene in the greenhouse haunted me for years.



* During commercial breaks the host would randomly pick a name out of the Birmingham phone book and call 'em up. If they knew the jackpot amount, usually about 25 bucks, they won!

The Christmas themed home invasion scene in August Underground's Penance disturbed me more than anything off of Mordum. The last few scenes of Maniac (1980) were pretty unnerving. But the scene that really blew my mind was that damn phone that started ringing again during the credits of Black Christmas - this was before it became so well known and released on dvd - I didn't know what to expect, and HOLEE-s**t did that freak me out.  :buggedout:

Excellent choice.

The french movie martyrs at the end where the cut her skin off. I watched this a few weeks ago and its still bothering me. And ive seen a hell of alot of gorrie movies.

another scene that disturbed me was the scene on Running scared with paul walker where the kid got kidnapped and killed and the woman did cpr on him and brought him back. the most disturbing part was where she found all those movies the couple had made of previous children. Very disturbing.

The torture scene from the last 10 minutes of Audition where the girl is sawing off the guy's foot with piano wire, and you hear the wire cutting thru the bones. Good Lord!!!  :buggedout:

Not to mention the occasional times that the pycho-b***h gently flicks her fingers against the needles that are holding the guy's eyes open, while she softly speaks to him..  jeez!!!

This, full stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3KV4fLSNoU

Forgot to mention this one... when I was a kid, around 10, somebody had the wonderful idea to show bits of "Robocop" as advertising, because the movie was opening just then. They showed the entire killing of Murphy, and I just stood there open mouthed, literally traumatised.

The transformation scene in: The Beast Within.
I still wince at that one.

Bastard Out Of Carolina in the scenes where the woman's boyfriend would beat her daughter every time she smarted off to him, resulting in the final scene where he beat her and started raping her.

Even more disturbing when her mother finally left her for this guy, citing her own need for love as above that of her own daughter's life and welfare.  I went away from that movie very angry as well  :hatred: