Shocking scenes...

[slyc_willie]

Most of 'Saving Private Ryan.' The fact that it is based on things that probably did happen in real life makes it all the more disturbing, especially the scene in the building where one kid begs for his life as another one slides a knife into his heart. And the scene where the boats land on the beach and one soldier gets stuck underwater and we see him drowning in slow motion.

Ditto. Man, I hated that scene in the building . . . and then, moments later, the german soldier calmly walks out, lighting a cigarette, letting the other, terrified GI be. Talk about cold.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I can't watch the newer Punisher movie without skipping over the execution of Frank Castle's wife and son. I just can't watch it.

There are moments from earlier movies, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[slyc_willie]

The scene in Gladiator when Maximus' son gets trampled . . . and then Maximus' discovery of the hanging bodies later . . .

Damn, that got to me.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

One of those stupid teen horor movies. A woman gets paper macheted over her face until her heart explodes. That still bothers me.

The ending of Silent Running was only ever described to me, but it gets to me.

 

[floweringquince]

The big reveal in "The Crying Game."
I did not see it coming *at all.*

The "bamboo cage in the river" scene in "The Deer Hunter." (yuk!)

The "Singing In The Rain" scene in "A Clockwork Orange." A lot more disturbing to me that many other sex-&-violence scences in that movie, and in others.

The homosexual rape scene in "Pulp Fiction." Not so much that it happened in the story, but that it happened on camera.


In James Michener's novel "The Fires Of Spring," he describes an insame woman amusing herself (paraphrasing from memory):

"She captured four or five large black flies and pulled their wings off. Wetting her thumb in her mouth, she drew a circle around them and set a careful watch on her prisoners.

She did nothing until one of the flies ventured across her saliva-drawn boundary, but then she quickly killed it. As each injured fly slowly bumbled outside her ring of circumscription, she killed it. She lay each new victim in a neat line beside the others until she had thus ceremoniously punished all five for their transgression.

Then, one by one, she ate them."

That still shocks me.
(But sometimes I also use it, in those moments when I wonder whether I've gone crazy myself: it's reassuring to remember that I'm nowhere near that bad, and not likely to get that way.)


- Quince

 

[purple_angel]

Actually the whole of Tarintino's movies are shocking! Resevoir Dogs! The dying Tim Roth character still haunts me!

 

[Goldie Munro]

The 'I love the smell of napam in the morning' scene from Apocalypse Now is a shocking scene!!

 

[Misty_Morning]

Well, I saw The Exorcist when I was a kid and just about everything in that movie stuck with me (BTW I would not recommend allowing a 10 year old to watch that movie). But it seemed to come back to me many years later when I was in grad school and I was reading Communication With The Spirit World of God written by Johannes Gerber ( yea...just some light reading ).

There were several times that I had to put the book down and many nights that I had to leave the lights on.

But setting aside "shock" type movies...I would havta say that Schindler's List really moved me...but not what you might think. It was at the end when the survivors and the children of the survivors were placing stones on Schindlers grave that got to me. What can I say...humanity moves me.

 

[slyc_willie]

Well, I saw The Exorcist when I was a kid and just about everything in that movie stuck with me (BTW I would not recommend allowing a 10 year old to watch that movie). But it seemed to come back to me many years later when I was in grad school and I was reading Communication With The Spirit World of God written by Johannes Gerber ( yea...just some light reading ).

There were several times that I had to put the book down and many nights that I had to leave the lights on.

But setting aside "shock" type movies...I would havta say that Schindler's List really moved me...but not what you might think. It was at the end when the survivors and the children of the survivors were placing stones on Schindlers grave that got to me. What can I say...humanity moves me.

It's not shocking, not in the least, but your comment about 'humanity moves me . . .'

One of my favorite movies of all time is Cousins, starring Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini. It's a classic 'chick flick,' but I love it anyway because of the basic message about love.

Anyway, anytime I hear the Love Theme from that movie . . . no matter where I am, what I'm doing . . .

Tears. Instant and unavoidable.

 

[mjl2010]

I don't have a great memory for movies. So I'm not even sure I have the right movie but I'm pretty sure it was "To Kill a Mockingbird." The indian that for so long pretended he was mute, then commented with one word when offered a piece of gum. "Juicyfruit." That got me and I never forgot it. Later when Nicholsons character ended up with a lobotomy and in pity the indian guy put his hand over his mouth and nose to suffocate him. I've never been an advocate of euthenasia but that scene and then the indian breaking out and running away just always stuck with me. I never forgot that and it's been years since I saw that movie.

MJL

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Uggg... the execution gone wrong in A Green Mile. Smoking bodies do it for me

 

[angela146]

I don't have a great memory for movies. So I'm not even sure I have the right movie but I'm pretty sure it was "To Kill a Mockingbird." The indian that for so long pretended he was mute, then commented with one word when offered a piece of gum. "Juicyfruit." That got me and I never forgot it. Later when Nicholsons character ended up with a lobotomy and in pity the indian guy put his hand over his mouth and nose to suffocate him. I've never been an advocate of euthenasia but that scene and then the indian breaking out and running away just always stuck with me. I never forgot that and it's been years since I saw that movie.

MJL

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the movie you are thinking of.

 

[mjl2010]

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the movie you are thinking of.

Yeah you're right. Thanks for jogging the dust in my head. TKAMB was the white lawyer defending the black guy who didn't do the rape. It came back when I read your post. Thanks.

MJL

 

[cloudy]

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the movie you are thinking of.

Believe it or not, Louise Fletcher is my cousin.

Will Sampson played Chief Bromden (he was Creek, from my neck of the woods). He had a couple of other memorable lines...I mostly remember this because of how it rings of the truth of life on the rez (not for everyone, but I've seen my share):

My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why everybody worked on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind and diseased from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him.

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[Seattle Zack]

That "Stuck in the Middle with You" scene from Reservior Dogs. To this day, whenever I hear that song, I see Michael Madsen dancing around before slicing the cop's ear off.

--Zack

 

[S-Des]

Any scenes that involves injections and needles, especially large needles like in Hollow Man. The worst was the movie Requiem for a Dream

Ugh, the infection he had was so nasty it was barely watchable. Usually it's watching kids suffer that makes me squirm. Trainspotting was painful, to imagine the baby suffering like that. Permanent Midnight was creepy too (especially since it was true). Ben Stiller being so high that he didn't notice the baby screaming in agony...it was terrible to think about.

Bastard Out Of Carolina was truly disgusting, with a very graphic rape scene of a 11-12 year old girl (not to mention all the scenes of him beating her). The Accused was utterly disturbing. The image of the cheering crowd and her struggles is impossible to get out of your mind. Graphic violence or horror movies never bothered me except The Thing. I saw it as a kid and it scared the shit out of me.

 

[Frank Noir]

Some of the torture scenes in "American Psycho" (the book) are so graphic they're almost unreadable.

As for movies, the entire "Eraserhead" from start to finish. I've watched a lot of scarier stuff, but this is the only movie that ever ruined a night's sleep for me. The mood is so weird and opressive. When David Lynch sets a mood, he sustains it, never letting it go...

 

[Frank Noir]

The last scene in the orignal verson of The Wicker Man

It was on tv one night, and we randomly zapped in and saw the ending.

Scared the hell out of my wife.

 

[floweringquince]

One of the most disturbing/memorable/arousing/shocking scenes I've ever seen is the opening sequence in "American History X." I find the sex really hot, but the context is so repugnant that I feel - well, dirty, I guess, and I almost never feel dirty in regard to sex - admitting it.

Plenty of other shocking scenes in that movie, too.

- Quince

 

[only_more_so]

Am I so inured to violence that I am not shocked my scenes in movies? Or perhaps it is because I have seen so many that there is little effect on me.

The first movie that scared me was the twilight zone, the episode where there was the demon on the wing. Which is ironic in retrospect since in school I learned aeronautical engineering...

The exorcist really bothered me when I saw it, and I didn't see it until I was in college. The thing the bothered me the most was that I really believed it was possible (religious upbringing and all).

Sure there have been cringe-worthy scenes, but nothing really lasting. If you really want to cringe, look into Korean movies. There was one that involved multiple fishing hooks and... well, I'll leave it at that. Or the Japanese film Audition, quite disturbing.

But the only movie to really move me emotionally, is still Casablanca. I know it sounds lame, but the first time I saw the movie, I nearly cried at the end. If I didn't have so much psychological baggage associated with crying, I likely would have. Even after seeing the movie dozen of times, I still get choked up. It isn't one of those stick in the knife and then twist it endings, but I definitely feel the twist, even if I don't feel the initial plunge of the knife.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

'The Grudge' creeped me out.
That creepy little boy- the part when he opens his mouth and a cat sounding scream comes out.. *shudder* I can't handle it.

The movie 'Ed Gein' was disturbing from start to finish... and in a sick twisted way I almost felt bad for him... but I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to be his friend! lol.

And 'Blow'... its not so much 'shocking' material.. but it left an impression, espeically at the end when he thinks his daughter came to see him in jail. It made me feel bad, but for the daughter. I had no sympathy for him. (But, my dad is a druggie, so I'm sure thats why.)

Anything by John Saul will put scary images in my brain and it freaks me out, lol, usually resulting in a light being left on over night. Not that it's all that scary, but it just.. disturbs my peace of mind I guess.

 

[Remec]

Actually the whole of Tarintino's movies are shocking! Resevoir Dogs! The dying Tim Roth character still haunts me!

The part of "Reservoir Dogs" that sticks with me is when Mr Orange tries to reassure the kidnapped cop by telling him he's a cop as well and is told:

"Yeah, I know. Your name's Freddie something."

 

[TheeGoatPig]

TV, the Twilight Zone, 80 version. There was one eppisode where this normal guy tries to go through his normal day, but the more the day goes on the more the english language morphs until he doesn't understand a single word. At night, when he is completely befuddled, he sits down with his child's Learn to Read book and starts anew. It still freaks the shit out of me sometimes when I don't unstand what someone said right away.

 

[Darklove666]

The ending of Seven. That was one of the first "non-traditional Hollywood ending" flicks I ever saw. Brad Pitt's character pacing and crying in rage..."shudder"

 

[StormRising]

Most of The Crow. All of What Dreams May Come - I cry from beginning to end.

Not film or Literature, but the PC game Phantasmagoria has some really horrific and creepy scenes- the nursery with the crying ghost baby always makes my heart stutter (the baby sounds so damn real) and the rape scene always makes me feel angry, abused, sad as hell and (blushing) a little bit jealous- of that bathroom (it's gorgeous).

Books- my favorite line, ever, from Dick Francis' Straight:

"I inherited my brothers life, and it almost killed me."