Movie scenes that upset you?

[Trevor]

For me it will always be the nuclear attack scene in THE DAY AFTER (1983)   

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:    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC75HMMmpL4

[RCMerchant]

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.

[Trevor]

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.

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

[zombie no.one]

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 :(

[Rev. Powell]

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.

[zombie no.one]

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. 

[RCMerchant]

^ Freak shows had 'Geeks' who would bite the heads of chickens or snakes in the 20th century.

[zombie no.one]

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).

[M.10rda]

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....... 

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!

[WingedSerpent]

Ones from old dinosaur movies where they used two live lizards/gators to fight. Real animals got hurt.