Disturbing movie scenes/footage

[greyscarf]

Or most of American Psycho?

"I just had to KILL a lot of PEOPLE!" For whatever reason, I'm compelled to quote this whenever American Psycho is mentioned.

OT: Basically anything done by Pekinpah will stay with you for a long time. I watched the original Straw Dogs two years ago because I had seen some of his other films like The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. I thought I was prepared. . . until we got to the rape scene. In the middle of it I looked over to my husband, who had seen it before, and said, "You could have warned me." He replied, "Yeah, I think I blocked this part out."

Also, the torture scenes in Marathon Man. It's one of my favorite films; I've watched it multiple times. But when I get to the torture scenes, I just can't watch them.

But I feel like these examples are a little lacking since the disturbing factor is pretty overt, whereas the OP posted something that was a little more sinister and quiet. I'll have to see of I can think of something similar.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The "toe hammering" scene from Payback.

You don't even get to see anything graphic, but the way it's implied still makes you curl your toes.

 

[Saladfork]

As someone who has actually seen A Serbian Film, I can tell you all that it's not really all that disturbing. The movie establishes pretty quickly that the entire world is pretty fucked up, so the things that seem disturbing on their own, particularily newborn porn, don't seem particularily out of the norm when taken with everything else. I believe there's a TVTrope for this called 'audience induced apathy'.

Now, if there was a movie that didn't have all the other shit, but did have any one of A Serbian Film's infamous scenes, it would probably have had a much bigger impact, like if the scene with

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The girl who had her teeth pulled out with pliers and then forced to blow a guy on camera before preumably being killed (I don't remember if they showed her getting killed on-screen)

were put into a Star Wars movie or something.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

In MovieBob's review of Killing Them Softly he makes a note of Ray Liotta (for reasons I won't spoil) taking "one of the most uncomfortably realistic beat-downs ever captured on film."
That's no joke.
It was pretty rough.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

The Divide
The whole damned movie

 

[Fractral]

Ah, I got one. Remember Life of Brian? Great film, wonderful humour, something for the whole family to enjoy.
Then two-thirds in BAM, nude scene... I would never have guessed that first time watching. Not exactly disturbing but at least unexpected.

Wait- there's a nude scene in life of brian? Really? I watched it when I was 6, I can't remember it being anything but a fun family film. Although it did have the word shit in it, but then I didn't learn what that meant for another 5 years or so.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Fishhooks go into lots of places where fishhooks don't belong.

Was it Ichi The Killer?

 

[NecroNinja]

Great call with the mention of Super. That is the epitome of disturbing. What makes it so horrible is that it is uncomfortably grounded in reality, which is unusual for superhero/vigilante stories. So what you're left with is literally just a man with serious mental difficulties struggle to function in a dark world. That is disturbing.

There is a movie called Tideland, made by one of the Monty Python gang; Terry Gilliam. Now this may suffer from the same problem as 'A Serbian Film' (although I cannot stress how different those two films are) in that there is such a dark undercurrent running throughout, that nothing particularly stands out, as every situation is a dark and horrible one. In Tideland, we follow a very young girl as she gets on with her incredibly miserable life. I won't spoil it by detailing quite how terrible her life is, but suffice it to say that no one would want it. The movie is shot in an almost fairytale style, as we literally view life as the little girl sees it. But as you can imagine, the world can be a horrible place, and she is faced with some nasty stuff.

If I were to choose one part that made me feel genuinely uncomfortable (which is very hard to do), I'd have to mention a relationship that she forges with an older boy (with severe learning difficulties) who lives nearby. They become friends and eventually the older boy suggests some sort of sexual activity, I can't remember specifics, but I remember feeling incredibly uncomfortable. Like I said, it is shown through a child's eyes, and neither of them really understand what sex is, so neither is necessarily in the wrong, but nonetheless, it just didn't sit right with me. Funnily enough, it ends up being a very enjoyable and oddly sweet movie.

 

[EHKOS]

Most kid's movies really, I mean, this should prolly not have been in Toy Story:

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[revjor]

Visitor Q was pretty cool and stuff. I know it was pretty fucked, but I rather enjoyed it.

I'd say The Audition was pretty messed up, and there's another Japanese gore/horror that I sadly cannot remember the title of where

(spoilers are rather unpleasant)

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Fishhooks go into lots of places where fishhooks don't belong. And by that, I mean someone's ladybits and someone's throat.

ugh Audition. that movie wrecked me

 

[Frezzato]

Actually, she get's shot in the head...

I mean like half her face is just gone!

Well that's unexpected.

Still though just from reading the plot(I obviously haven't seen it)it seems as though the rape is never addressed and is just glossed over like it nearly always is.It happens,it's forgotten about a few minutes later.Sure she dies in the end but that seems like it's more of a result of the fact that she's masquerading as a superhero rather than as punishment for being a bad person

Actually, TheNaut is completely off-base. I don't know why the hell he's claiming Ilsa Fisher gets shot at the end of the film, because she doesn't. She and Vince Vaughan get married, Owen Wilson gets together with Rachel Whatserface, and they all drive off into the sunset to go crash a wedding together.

The really bad thing is that Vaughan actually breaks up with Fisher earlier during the film over how uncomfortable he feels with the relationship, only to get back with her off-screen for reasons that are never really made clear to the audience.

I believe they're talking about the movie Super, not Wedding Crashers.

Speaking of Super, you learn something weirdly disturbing if you watch the DVD with the director's commentary on:

Spoiler: About the director...

He says that in real life, God spoke to him. So Frank Darbo's (Rainn Wilson's character) hallucinations are based on what director James Gunn actually experienced.

 

[bossfight1]

The bit in Prometheus where...

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the girl gets her stomach sliced open and the alien baby is pulled out of her. I'm not one to get sick during movies, but that bit nearly broke my streak.

 

[TotallyNotABot]

No mention of Eraserhead? Really? Reaaaaaaaaaaaally?

That whole goddamn movie is disturbing.

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Captcha: I'm sorry. Not unfitting.

 

[Quaxar]

Ah, I got one. Remember Life of Brian? Great film, wonderful humour, something for the whole family to enjoy.
Then two-thirds in BAM, nude scene... I would never have guessed that first time watching. Not exactly disturbing but at least unexpected.

Wait- there's a nude scene in life of brian? Really? I watched it when I was 6, I can't remember it being anything but a fun family film. Although it did have the word shit in it, but then I didn't learn what that meant for another 5 years or so.

I didn't either the first time, I only noticed when I saw it again a few years later. But it's right there, both Brian himself and Judith in <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#8._Full_Frontal_Nudity>full frontal nudity:
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Although, come to think of it, it may be possible that first time watching it was in some lower grade in school and we might have jumped the scene entirely.

 

[BrionJames]

You guys remember Forest Gump, right? The scene were Jenny sneaks into his dorm room and has sex with him. How would people feel if the sexes were reversed? A male sneaking into a girl's dormitory to have sex with a mentally handicapped girl would be really creepy. This has already been mentioned before but after hearing it from the guys at RLM, it kind of stuck in my craw.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

In The Crazies (the remake)

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when the guy is in the funeral home and finds a man with his "X"'s stitched into his eyes and another guy W? his mouth sown shut, followed by the electric bone saw bit... Ick.

Also the bit towards the start of Dredd where a man is reduced to a screaming jack-o-lantern.

And, looking at you guys who have seen all these weird ass Japanese and what not films... Well, how? How could you do that?

 

[revjor]

If that disturbs you then never ever watch "Happiness". It's sort of like American Beauty if every character was horrible and Kevin Spacey's character...

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raped little boys. and many many other terrible things

 

[revjor]

You guys remember Forest Gump, right? The scene were Jenny sneaks into his dorm room and has sex with him. How would people feel if the sexes were reversed? A male sneaking into a girl's dormitory to have sex with a mentally handicapped girl would be really creepy. This has already been mentioned before but after hearing it from the guys at RLM, it kind of stuck in my craw.

It's not creepy at all. He travels to visit her and she sneaks him into her dormroom.("I think I ruined your roomate's bathrobe") It's only weird because it's very weird situation for him as a character and he shows it. At that point his only experience with sex was listening to his mom and his army mates fucking with him. But really it's just a mentally handicapped person losing their virginity to their childhood love. Akwardness is to be expected.