Hideously Unpleasant Movie Scenes

[Recurring Villain]

I couldn't think of a more suitable thread topic or forum to post this in, but I just had to share it. It's a scene from a cult B-Movie 'The Toxic Avenger'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2jhq_-EoY

Isn't that just an absolutely horrendous thing to screen? There's no point to it, there's no way people are like that and it's just thoroughly abominable in every conceivable way. And guess what - This is a thread for you to post scenes from movies that make you go "oh Christ alive that's terrible".

[Jemble Fred]

Courtesy of the SOTCAA channel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYRHoQP75-g

I never thought I'd hate that film more! This just reminds me of how much I despised Glitter long before there was any talk of him being less than sexually respectable.

[Artemis]

Bloody hell, why are you doing this to us?! Don't you realise I'll now feel compelled to watch all these videos and immediately regret doing so? You bastard. The 'video nasties' thread was bad enough.

My contribution: that bit from American History X. It's quite awful when a scene not only horrifies you but also introduces you to a new way of putting an end to somebody. *shiver*

[ThickAndCreamy]

Isn't that just an absolutely horrendous thing to screen? There's no point to it, there's no way people are like that and it's just thoroughly abominable in every conceivable way. And guess what - This is a thread for you to post scenes from movies that make you go "oh Christ alive that's terrible".

It's the Toxic Avenger, about a nerd who gets covered in toxic waste and turns into the worlds shittest superhero. In that context I found the scene pretty hilarious as it's so absurd, surprisingly upbeat and completely unrelatable. It's just fantastically ridiculous.

It just takes the idea of a gory superhero movie to it's logical conclusion, a moralless fantasy world that is enough entrenched in reality to make it slightly relatable, but absurd enough to make it still seem distant enough to laugh at.

_{I think I even had a wank to the Toxic Avenger film before, which shows how much it is like porn. Relatable, in a very detached sense of the word.}

[Jemble Fred]

Yes, if that's your introduction to Troma movies, and it's shaken you up... what lies beyond may make you blind.

[jutl]

Last scene in Postcards from the Edge.

[Nelson Swillie]

Terror Firmer remains the biggest pile of fucking toss I've ever seen. "Wow, aren't we shocking!" No, not really. Just extremely tedious.

[Custard]

The sledgehammer scene in Misery.

No, i'm certainly not posting a video link, you nutbars :(

[Nelson Swillie]

The cat and rats scene from Men Behind the Sun (1987).

[NoSleep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2jhq_-EoY
There's no point to it, there's no way people are like that and it's just thoroughly abominable in every conceivable way.

Of course there's a point to it. It's a homage to Roger Corman's Death Race 2000.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLYEbkykCI

[Steve Lampkins]

The sledgehammer scene in Misery.

I used to wonder what all the fuss was about.

But later I realised I must have only seen the cut TV versions.

[QDRPHNC]

Brad Pitt's assorted knifeplay in Inglorious Basterds.

The papercut bit in Jackass.

[NoSleep]

The baseball bat scene in Casino is pretty grim.

One I remember from seeing decades ago is a Cornell Wilde vehicle entitled The Naked Prey during which a man is covered in wet clay then slow roasted on a spit over a fire.

[Niall Quim]

I find it hard to watch when they pass the bowl around in Bad Taste, more so than any of the gorey scenes. Same thing with Braindead, fine with all the blood but the part with the custard...

[eluc55]

The various torture scenes in the excellent Swimming with Sharks.

Spoiler alert

Papercuts on the tongue, vinegar and bleach.

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Either scene in the frankly horrific Irreversible.




For sheer pointless ghastliness, Salo.

"Mange, mange"

EDIT: Not that I mind pointless ghastliness. The films real crime is how surprisingly dull it is.

[SavageHedgehog]

The chicken house scene in The Exterminator. The scene where the pervy senator attacks a hooker with a soldering iron isn't too lovely either. Than there's the infamous decapitation... not the most uplifting of films.

[Cerys]

The only scene I can think of that has ever made me look away was the cot death scene in Trainspotting.  Mild by comparison, yet - no.

[NoSleep]

The scene, in Intruder, where the camera follows the victim's POV as their eye is led toward impalement on an invoice spike is unbearable; I think all who were watching with me also had to turn away from the screen.

[Emma Raducanu]

The chicken beheading scene in Cache. Seeing the chicken jumping round without a head has haunted me ever since. The next day I took the dvd to a charity shop and the old lady accepted it with great excitment.

[El Unicornio, mang]

there's no way people are like that

That's not really true.

The bit in Irreversible where the guy gets his face caved in with a fire extinguisher is pretty horrible.

Also, there's a bit in a film about Afghanistan (might be Osama) where you briefly see a woman being buried up to her neck, ready to be stoned to death, then it cuts away and you don't see any more apart from the occasional shot of her in the background struggling. Something about relegating her suffering to a brief moment in the film is more disturbing than if they'd dwelt on the killing.

Another foreign film which I can't remember the name of, think it's about civil war in Italy or something, and there's one bit where it abruptly cuts to a scene of a soldier raping a milk maid, then it cuts away and nothing more is said about it. Found that pretty unpleasant.

[Phil_A]

I'm think I'm fairly desensitised to screen gore now, but some of the nastiest bits in the recent Pirahna 3D actually made me feel slightly ill. One bit in particular, when

Spoiler alert

that girl gets her hair caught in the propellor of a boat, causing the flesh to get ripped off her skull

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- makes me wince just thinking about it. And I really didn't need to see

Spoiler alert

two fish fighting over Jerry O'Connell's severed penis, and then one of them eating it and then coughing it up again.

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I actually turned to my friend at that point and said, "Did we really just see that?"

[QDRPHNC]

What about that bit in Un Chien Andalou, the eye slice? That was great.

Also, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, where he inserts the big rusty metal rod into his own thigh.

Also, Man Bites Dog, the rape scene. Not even the gory aftermath, just the scene itself. It captures that banality of evil, whoever said that.

[Mister Six]

The baseball bat scene in Casino is pretty grim.

I found the head-in-a-vice bit harder to watch.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Blue Velvet. Dennis Hopper. Isabella Rosselini. A gas mask. An understandably freaked Kyle McLachlan.

That is all.

[NoSleep]

I found the head-in-a-vice bit harder to watch.

And yet I had forgotten that scene.

[JPA]

There's a rape scene in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that I found pretty hard to watch. I knew that it was going to crop up at some point though as Kermode pointed it out in his review, and said that it was something that other write-ups hadn't really mentioned.

[Serge]

The baseball bat scene in Casino is pretty grim.

I have to go along with this over the vice scene - although I seem to remember reading that the vice scene was hacked to pieces by censors. But the baseball bat scene is one of the very few times I've actually sat in a cinema thinking, "I wish this would stop." - it seems to go on forever. And then

Spoiler alert

they get buried alive!

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- EEGAH!

Not a single scene, but the last half an hour of 'Lilya 4-Ever' is the most unpleasant 30 minutes of cinema I've ever sat through. The movie builds to this point, layering misery upon misery, but when it gets to the point where you can see what's coming and Lilya can't, and then having to watch it - even the director said he could only feel a millionth of what agony a girl in that situation would be going through.

[alan nagsworth]

The aforementioned rod-leg-insertion scene from Tetsuo: The Iron Man is massively disturbing. It's not so bad when it's silent but the exaggerated sound of the squishing muscle and flesh and the fetishist retching in pain is something else entirely. That said, I find the quick close up shot of him grinding the ribbed metal rod between his teeth equally, if not more, disturbing.

In Miike Takashi's made-for-American-TV shit-fest contribution to the Masters Of Horror series (I forget the title but it was some awful prostitute/abortion tosh) the whole terribly-acted farce was punctuated deliberately with a truly horrific torture scene involving very long pins under fingernails and into the very top/bottom of the gums, pinning the mouth open somethin' rotten. You see pretty much everything including the poor girl pissing herself all over the floor. It was almost unwatchable; every part of me recoiled and retracted in horror. It shits all over the torture scene in Audition, which I still find timid and wonder what all the fuss was about. But then Audition is a superb film and this one was one of the worst films I've ever seen.

[jutl]

that banality of evil, whoever said that.

Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem.

[Ignatius_S]

....In Miike Takashi's made-for-American-TV shit-fest contribution to the Masters Of Horror series (I forget the title but it was some awful prostitute/abortion tosh) the whole terribly-acted farce was punctuated deliberately with a truly horrific torture scene involving very long pins under fingernails and into the very top/bottom of the gums, pinning the mouth open somethin' rotten. You see pretty much everything including the poor girl pissing herself all over the floor. It was almost unwatchable; every part of me recoiled and retracted in horror. It shits all over the torture scene in Audition, which I still find timid and wonder what all the fuss was about. But then Audition is a superb film and this one was one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Ah, Imprint - awful.