Most Traumatic Scene

[Zapranoth]

Ah, the worst scene.  I know what mine was.

Saving Private Ryan.   The scene in which the American soldier fights the German (the one who got spared earlier) and the German overpowers him and knifes him, while shushing him... like he was his dad trying to comfort him while putting him to bed.   That... was unbearable.  I don't ever want to see that again.

To a lesser degree, much of "Pulp Fiction" built up a great intensity and drama that made me squirm in my seat while still having to watch.    Most of that movie has a waiting for the next shoe to fall feel to it, coupled with a callous violence and black humor, that no other movie that I've seen quite hits.

Edit:  Good to see you back, Susan.

[RCMerchant]

The chase through the woods scene in the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Fulci's GATES of HELL,with the buried alive scene (Tarintino MUST have seen this film).
In the EXORCIST,Regan is in the hospital and they got that big X-RAY machine making a huge racket over her-you can see her screaming in fear,but can't hear it because of that scary ass machine.I guess hospitals creep me out all around...
NOSFERATU poping siff outta his coffin .
The end of the HAUNTING,when a figure jumps out in front of Elenor's car.
Bud Dreyers filmed suicide on the news jolted the p**s outta me.
When iwas a kid, I would watch the news with my dad,and Manson was on trial.My dad usta say "If your not good,Charlie will come and get you."THAT usta scare me.Meanold drunk!

[trekgeezer]

Probably the most intense reaction I ever had to a movie was the scene in Alien when Yaphet Koto knocks Ian Holmes head off with the fire extinguisher. I almost came out of my seat and did actually yell "Holy s**t!" in the theater.

I saw it with a group of friends at the midnight showing in the Cinema 150. The movie was so intense that I guess by the time this scene came out of left field I was already pretty revved up.

When the guys were crossing the moors in American Werewolf, would have to be another I remember well.

As far as traumatic, the movie Requiem for a Dream has to be the most depressing and traumatic movie I've ever seen. Especially toward the end, I found some of the Jennifer Connelly scenes very disturbing.

[loyal1]

You know what I found traumatic and disturbing (reminded me when you mentioned Requim for a Dream) was the movie Irreversible...2 scenes...spoiler of course....when he beashes the guys head in with the fire extinguisher.  You literally see his face denting in even while dark in the club and the sound is disturbing as well.  How much hate that man felt and you understand why later.  The other was the rape scene which lasted quite a long time...no cuts just one long rape scene until he was finished sodomising this poor girl.

On another note...The Last House on the Left has some traumatic scenes, and no one (including myself in previous post) has mentioned Marathon Man.  Iz is zsafe? .  That got a reaction out of me for sure!

[RCMerchant]

Believe it or not...when I was a kid< isaw (uncut!) the BRAIN that WOULDN"T DIE on UHF,and when the monster smashes outta the closet and bites the docs face-YOW!!!
Even farther back...the begining of a SHOCK theatre type of show, where they had random clips of various cheezy monsters-one was of Vampira staggering towards the screen,hands out streched...from-gasp-PLAN ! (I'm so ashamed...)
When the old lady finds the guy laying on the floor with his eyes poked out in the BIRDS gave me ajolt as a boy too!
The rape scene in I SPIT on YOUR GRAVE was really quite disturbing.

[RCMerchant]

Believe it or not...when I was a kid< isaw (uncut!) the BRAIN that WOULDN"T DIE on UHF,and when the monster smashes outta the closet and bites the docs face-YOW!!!
Even farther back...the begining of a SHOCK theatre type of show, where they had random clips of various cheezy monsters-one was of Vampira staggering towards the screen,hands out streched...from-gasp-PLAN ! (I'm so ashamed...)
When the old lady finds the guy laying on the floor with his eyes poked out in the BIRDS gave me ajolt as a boy too!
The rape scene in I SPIT on YOUR GRAVE was really quite disturbing.

[akiratubo]

The only scene that's ever really disturbed me long-term is the kennel scene in John Carpenter's The Thing.

I wouldn't sleep with my dogs for a long, long time.

Even more than the unknown, familiar things becoming monstrous or horrifying is the true epitome of fright for me.  You can retreat or hide from the unknown but, when even your safe place becomes a nightmare, what can you do?

The ending of the Fly II (1989) also disturbed me a lot more than it should have.  When I saw Bartok get turned into a stunt man wearing a latex monster suit, I couldn't sleep for days ... and I still have trouble watching it, dammit.

[ulthar]

RCMerchant Wrote:
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> The rape scene in I SPIT on YOUR GRAVE was really
> quite disturbing.

I find ALL rape scenes very disturbing.  That's one thing I will probably NEVER feel 'comfortable' watching in a movie.  Even the hospital almost rape in KILL BILL had me squirming a bit.

[Zapranoth]

That scene was awesome.  Down to the grimy, extremely used-appearing little canister of faux Vaseline in Buck's hand.    It's all in the disturbing ltitle details, to me.   Besides, he got what was he had comin'.

[loyal1]

The rape scene in Irreversible was so disturbing for me that I had to get up and leave the theatre until it was over...and I have seen the Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, and Kill Bill.  It was by far the most uncomfortable for me.  I didn't have to fast forward or leave the other movies during those scenes, but for this one...it was too much for me.

[dean]

Lynch films tend to have a traumatic feel to them at times.  I don't get disturbed easy, but some parts of Blue Velvet had me thinking 'god that's freaky'.

Rape scenes are always nasty to watch.  I haven't seen Irreversible but I've been meaning to for some reason.  Didn't know that scene was in it though...  I did however watch Mysterious Skin the other day and that movie had a very disturbing feel to it for most of the film. Especially with a scene involving a shampoo container.  Ewwwww gross...

Only problem with that film was that it seemed like they chose the subject matter [pedophilia and homosexual prostitution] just for the fact that they wanted something controversial and it seemed kinda pretentious at times.  But it's not something you sit and watch with your family [unless you have one crazy family...]

Otherwise, some horror films used to get to me [in that fun way], but more for the jump scares more than the prolonging traumatic moments.  Although when I was younger [much much younger] I used to have a habit of closing my bedroom's cupboard doors at night because of the possibility of Gremlin infestation [from the movie Gremlins that is.]  Not really because I'm scared, but I just didn't like the idea of having them watching me sleep.  

No that's not weird at all...

But yeah, I tend to get disturbed by the dregs of society such as the fact that rape or incest in some anime films is meant to be fun theme that is accepted.  Sure I still watch anime which includes that considering everything, but it's more disturbing having the thought that this is meant to be fun rather than wrong.  Exploitation like that is just plain wrong and you just wonder about the people who make them adn their mentality.

[akiratubo]

dean Wrote:
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> But yeah, I tend to get disturbed by the dregs of
> society such as the fact that rape or incest in
> some anime films is meant to be fun theme that is
> accepted.

It used to be perfectly acceptable in Japan for mothers to have sex with their sons, or for brothers and sisters to have sex.  I never looked into the acceptability of father-daughter sex but I assume it was the same.  Incest would, in theory, keep sons away from whores and daughters away from unacceptable men.  (And keep wives and husbands from straying outside the family, too.)  So there is a definite cultural difference, there.

[dean]

akiratubo Wrote:
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> It used to be perfectly acceptable in Japan for
> mothers to have sex with their sons, or for
> brothers and sisters to have sex.  I never looked
> into the acceptability of father-daughter sex but
> I assume it was the same.  Incest would, in
> theory, keep sons away from whores and daughters
> away from unacceptable men.  (And keep wives and
> husbands from straying outside the family, too.)
> So there is a definite cultural difference, there.


Yup cultural difference for sure.  But it still can be pretty odd to watch...

[BoyScoutKevin]

Since no one seems to have yet posted it, and since it is a fairly short poem, here is Randall Jarrell's "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."

I discovered this one, when I was in college, so that would be the early '70's, but it still remains one of my favorite poems, because the punch it has.

From my mother's sleep, I fell into the state.
And I huddled in its belly, till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and nightmare fighters.
When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

[Susan]

Neville Wrote:
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> BTW, Susan, that scene (woman, lipstick, Nick Cage
> & Laura Dern) is from David Lynch's "Wild at
> heart". Lynch is not a horror director, but when
> he wants to he can be really scary.

Ah yes - thats it. It obviously wasn't a scary movie but it had it's creepy moments of just creepiness. Wasn't there a film with Marty McFly where he had roaches in his underwear? god..sometimes non-horror movies are far more disturbing...