I don't really watch any of those shocking type films. But 2 scenes that were pretty uncomfortable are:
-In This is England a character called Milky gets beaten to death by what was one of his mates. It comes out of nowhere and is awful.
-The arm cutting scene in 127 Hours
Milky didnt die, but yes it was a bad beating and very shocking.
The dinner scene in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The panning shots, the close up's of the eye, the atmosphere, the low budget filming and sound effects, and Marilyn Burns realistic performance. Brilliantly disturbing and memorable scene.
That's one if the first horror films I saw on video..I was born 1969 so was probably only just 12/13 when I saw it. .just remember the meat hook and the grandpa trying to hit her with a hammer. .
Several here I agree with, although many that shock just for the sake of it are just nauseating rather than disturbing, e.g. the end of A Serbian Film.
Cannibal holocaust obviously deserves mention (as others have noted) not just for the genuine scenes of animals being killed and eaten (especially the turtle...ugh) but where the main characters are killed at the end feels equally realistic (to the point where the film's director was taken to court and had to, rather laughably, bring in his cast of actors to prove he hadn't killed them for real!)
Other scenes which have stayed lodged in my memory are the dog transformation scene in The Thing, the Nazis burning a church full of people in Come and See, a human/animal hybrid in a hospital bed in O Lucky Man, the sick mutant baby in Eraserhead, the "belly button" scene in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the uncomfortably long rape scene in Straw Dogs, an eye being sliced by a razor blade in Un Chien Andalou.
And (dis-)honourable mention has to go to Dusan Makavejev's little known and utterly bizarre Sweet Movie, which not only features a scene where a mostly naked woman appears to be attempting to seduce some pre-teen boys but also a stomach-churning debauched dinner party where the guests end up vomiting all over the table, culminating in what can only be described as two guys engaging in a shitting contest.
Several here I agree with, although many that shock just for the sake of it are just nauseating rather than disturbing, e.g. the end of A Serbian Film.
Cannibal holocaust obviously deserves mention (as others have noted) not just for the genuine scenes of animals being killed and eaten (especially the turtle...ugh) but where the main characters are killed at the end feels equally realistic (to the point where the film's director was taken to court and had to, rather laughably, bring in his cast of actors to prove he hadn't killed them for real!)
Other scenes which have stayed lodged in my memory are the dog transformation scene in The Thing, the Nazis burning a church full of people in Come and See, a human/animal hybrid in a hospital bed in O Lucky Man, the sick mutant baby in Eraserhead, the "belly button" scene in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the uncomfortably long rape scene in Straw Dogs, an eye being sliced by a razor blade in Un Chien Andalou.
And (dis-)honourable mention has to go to Dusan Makavejev's little known and utterly bizarre Sweet Movie, which not only features a scene where a mostly naked woman appears to be attempting to seduce some pre-teen boys but also a stomach-churning debauched dinner party where the guests end up vomiting all over the table, culminating in what can only be described as two guys engaging in a shitting contest.
Thanks for bringing back countless disturbing film memories!:D
Eraserhead/Serbian Film I already mentioned - but The Cook The Thief... has many disturbing parts; not least the end where Michael Gambon's character has to eat the man he murdered.
Sweet Movie - the less said about that the better. I will never understand how that ever got accepted for any kind of release.
I've often been tempted to get Cannibal Holocaust on DVD just to see what the fuss is about.
Martyrs has a prolonged torture scene where a woman is repeatedly and graphically beaten by a man. Along with 'Inside', it was part of that French 'no-holds barred' movement which I find utterly vile.
A scene which I saw in a film whose name I don't recall. A youth gets drunk in a nightclub. He starts drop-kicking glasses around while drinking. A bouncer punches him in the stomach and he vomits. The bouncer drags him outside and shoves his head in a bin, yelling, 'There's where you puke, you b**tard!' before throwing him on the ground and repeatedly kicking him, while the youth pleads, 'Stop! Stop!' A sequence a little later shows the youth, black and blue, in a coma in hospital. This shook me up because it looked much rawer and more realistic than most other violent scenes on TV or in films. I saw this on Channel Four, in autumn 1982, soon after the channel began. I think the film may have been made-for-TV, but as I said, I cannot recall its title.
A scene which I saw in a film whose name I don't recall. A youth gets drunk in a nightclub. He starts drop-kicking glasses around while drinking. A bouncer punches him in the stomach and he vomits. The bouncer drags him outside and shoves his head in a bin, yelling, 'There's where you puke, you b**tard!' before throwing him on the ground and repeatedly kicking him, while the youth pleads, 'Stop! Stop!' A sequence a little later shows the youth, black and blue, in a coma in hospital. This shook me up because it looked much rawer and more realistic than most other violent scenes on TV or in films. I saw this on Channel Four, in autumn 1982, soon after the channel began. I think the film may have been made-for-TV, but as I said, I cannot recall its title.
Don't know the film I'm afraid, but most of my childhood nightmares can be attributed to watching late-night Channel 4 experimental 'films' and shockers that I watched without permission.
As a child in the late 80s I remember watching three films which I can't recall the names of.
One was where a young boy wakes up on a sunny morning in an empty house somewhere on the US coast I think, bounds outside to the beach to go looking for his parents or carers. The camera pans away and indeed he does find them, buried in the sand up to their heads near the incoming sea, and very dead. So, so bizarre.
What a vivid description. I tried to identify this film using google (disturbing, I know).
The closest match was Creepshow but I don't think it's the one.
Anyone remember that 80s horror/drama 'Paperhouse'? Almost always shown on Channel 4 (another one!), this was based on a book where a girl dreamed about a house she had drawn, and any changes she made to the drawing appeared in subsequent dreams. There is an awful scene near the end where the girl's father takes her away in the dream, and violently beats her on the chest.
Also, going back to 'This is England', I found the prolonged kissing scene between the boy and teenage girl unsettling. Although in real life I think they were of similar age, it really did look like a woman passionately kissing a small boy.
I must be quite morbid as I want to see a lot of these films now, just out of curiosity!
Although well known now, I've always thought the Scene in Silence of the Lambs where Anthony Hopkins is eating the victim's brains when he is still awake, whilst nonchalantly sipping his chianti, was quite disturbing.
Anthony Hopkins never ate anyones brains 'Silence of
The Lambs'. You are thinking of the scene with Ray Liotta
from 'Hannibal'. Trust me, I just watched the two films!
(Actually I watched the terrible 'Red Dragon' too, but to
make up for that, I also watched the vastly superior film
of 'Manhunter'!)
Anthony Hopkins never ate anyones brains 'Silence of
The Lambs'. You are thinking of the scene with Ray Liotta
from 'Hannibal'. Trust me, I just watched the two films!
I looked it up and you're right, my memory must be playing tricks. Still pretty disturbing nonetheless!
AJonesSCFC wrote:'I looked it up and you're right, my memory must be playing tricks. Still pretty disturbing nonetheless! '
I know the feeling! I wasn't trying to be a smarta*se or anything, but as I said I watched all of the Lecter films just last week (so much for rivetting TV progs eh?) so it was all fresh in my mind! And yes, weirdly disturbing, and effective. More so than the bulk of the slasher type horror films,IMO!
I don't watch a lot of horror films but when I do I can at least think it's not real, no one actually suffered so watching 12 Years A Slave was horrible knowing that the violence that I was watching actually represented the horrific time people had. That film stuck with me for a long time.
From a child angle a couple of personal examples, the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was scary to many sixties/seventies kids.
Also I can remember in the musical Oliver there is an implied scene where Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death. Obviously not on camera but the implication made an impression on me as a kid.
From a child angle a couple of personal examples, the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was scary to many sixties/seventies kids.
Also I can remember in the musical Oliver there is an implied scene where Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death. Obviously not on camera but the implication made an impression on me as a kid.
The child catcher still creeps me out, I used to have nightmares about him when I was a kid. Taught me a valuable lesson about accepting sweets off strangers though
The child catcher still creeps me out, I used to have nightmares about him when I was a kid. Taught me a valuable lesson about accepting sweets off strangers though
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Milky didnt die, but yes it was a bad beating and very shocking.
That's one if the first horror films I saw on video..I was born 1969 so was probably only just 12/13 when I saw it. .just remember the meat hook and the grandpa trying to hit her with a hammer. .
Ha ha. Definitely not...
Wolf creek. .all of it after they have been drugged.
Scum the rape
the sheer nonchalance of any deaths in films based on the Holocaust. .
Cannibal holocaust obviously deserves mention (as others have noted) not just for the genuine scenes of animals being killed and eaten (especially the turtle...ugh) but where the main characters are killed at the end feels equally realistic (to the point where the film's director was taken to court and had to, rather laughably, bring in his cast of actors to prove he hadn't killed them for real!)
Other scenes which have stayed lodged in my memory are the dog transformation scene in The Thing, the Nazis burning a church full of people in Come and See, a human/animal hybrid in a hospital bed in O Lucky Man, the sick mutant baby in Eraserhead, the "belly button" scene in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the uncomfortably long rape scene in Straw Dogs, an eye being sliced by a razor blade in Un Chien Andalou.
And (dis-)honourable mention has to go to Dusan Makavejev's little known and utterly bizarre Sweet Movie, which not only features a scene where a mostly naked woman appears to be attempting to seduce some pre-teen boys but also a stomach-churning debauched dinner party where the guests end up vomiting all over the table, culminating in what can only be described as two guys engaging in a shitting contest.
Eraserhead/Serbian Film I already mentioned - but The Cook The Thief... has many disturbing parts; not least the end where Michael Gambon's character has to eat the man he murdered.
Sweet Movie - the less said about that the better. I will never understand how that ever got accepted for any kind of release.
I've often been tempted to get Cannibal Holocaust on DVD just to see what the fuss is about.
Martyrs has a prolonged torture scene where a woman is repeatedly and graphically beaten by a man. Along with 'Inside', it was part of that French 'no-holds barred' movement which I find utterly vile.
What a vivid description. I tried to identify this film using google (disturbing, I know).
The closest match was Creepshow but I don't think it's the one.
Anyone remember that 80s horror/drama 'Paperhouse'? Almost always shown on Channel 4 (another one!), this was based on a book where a girl dreamed about a house she had drawn, and any changes she made to the drawing appeared in subsequent dreams. There is an awful scene near the end where the girl's father takes her away in the dream, and violently beats her on the chest.
Also, going back to 'This is England', I found the prolonged kissing scene between the boy and teenage girl unsettling. Although in real life I think they were of similar age, it really did look like a woman passionately kissing a small boy.
Although well known now, I've always thought the Scene in Silence of the Lambs where Anthony Hopkins is eating the victim's brains when he is still awake, whilst nonchalantly sipping his chianti, was quite disturbing.
The Lambs'. You are thinking of the scene with Ray Liotta
from 'Hannibal'. Trust me, I just watched the two films!
(Actually I watched the terrible 'Red Dragon' too, but to
make up for that, I also watched the vastly superior film
of 'Manhunter'!)
I looked it up and you're right, my memory must be playing tricks. Still pretty disturbing nonetheless!
Although it was a bit too 'arty' for my liking.
I know the feeling! I wasn't trying to be a smarta*se or anything, but as I said I watched all of the Lecter films just last week (so much for rivetting TV progs eh?) so it was all fresh in my mind! And yes, weirdly disturbing, and effective. More so than the bulk of the slasher type horror films,IMO!
Also I can remember in the musical Oliver there is an implied scene where Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death. Obviously not on camera but the implication made an impression on me as a kid.
Yeah that was horrific - the film stuck in my head for months as it all actually happened.
edit - forgot about the frog mask scene in 'The Abominable Dr Phibes'...
The rape scene in Irreversible was one of the hardest things to sit through.
In the context of a film that was generally humorous, that was actually a pretty grim scene.