For me it will always be the nuclear attack scene in THE DAY AFTER (1983) :buggedout: :buggedout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8l5xznESLc&lc=UgyBJh-Utk1coeHClp14AaABAg
Six and a half minutes of sheer terror.
The interrogation scene in GORKY PARK (1984)
When William Hurt pulls the victim's head out of the box: :buggedout: :buggedout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC75HMMmpL4
The rape scene in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) is waaay to prolonged. Overall the movie is just one big piece of s**t.
Much of COME AND SEE (1985) is extremely hard to watch, but unlike the film above, it's an excellent work. Highly recommended.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 14, 2025, 09:37:27 AMThe rape scene in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) is waaay to prolonged. Overall the movie is just one big piece of s**t.
Much of COME AND SEE (1985) is extremely hard to watch, but unlike the film above, it's an excellent work. Highly recommended.
I couldn't watch all of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and that scene you mentioned is very hard to watch.
COME AND SEE is another one which is upsetting but it is a great film. In full on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjIiApN6cfg&t=8223s
BLOODY MOON, aside from being one of my favourite slashers, has a (non-stock footage) scene that really does look like an actual snake getting its head cut off... - just had a quick search and apparently it was real :(
I HATE the chicken scene in PINK FLAMINGOS---much more disturbing than the dog-s**t scene.
I can't stand animal abuse in any movie, although there are a couple I can forgive in spite of a single scene. I despise CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, though.
I mean imagine the killing of an animal as part of a live theatrical stage performance? at no point in the 20th century would that have ever been considered okay, I'm sure...
yet in cinema it was apparently fine, until compratively recently. :bluesad:
^ Freak shows had 'Geeks' who would bite the heads of chickens or snakes in the 20th century.
(https://i.imgur.com/IhUuFFJ.jpeg) (https://lunapic.com)
yeah that's obviously horrible but slightly different from what I was getting at (i.e. the kill being part of an otherwise regular 'story' or play being performed).
There's no real defense for it. John Waters claims they ate the chickens, which I guess is in itself a satirical commentary on hunting/hunters. I don't know if there's a non-cruel way to kill something in order to eat it, but "quickly" seems less cruel....... :bluesad:
RULES OF THE GAME used to be one of my favorite films and it's still a great film. The hunting party scene is real and is sort of thematically necessary and it's brief/non-graphic. Real French a-holes obviously hunt rabbits and pheasants all the time and presumably these were game meant to be hunted on some rich French a-hole's estate. But Renoir (by all accounts a nice man) chose to organize his actors and film crew to hunt them for his movie, and, I dunno, as a filmmaker I just couldn't do it. Feh on Verite!
Ones from old dinosaur movies where they used two live lizards/gators to fight. Real animals got hurt.