# Most disgusting scene you've ever seen - in the sense of physical revulsion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009 "2018-01-06T23:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/61 "2018-01-09T15:15:04Z")
So many of the scenes in The Passion of the Christ. I had to turn away many times. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/62 "2018-01-09T15:38:27Z")
I would really like to un-see Kevin Smith’s _Tusk_. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/63 "2018-01-09T15:41:53Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > I would really like to un-see Kevin Smith’s _Tusk_. I have this on my watch list. Is it the premise that skeeves you (as well it should) or are there actually graphic / gross scenes? Feel free to put specifics in a spoiler box; I’d like to know if I should avoid it. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/64 "2018-01-09T15:50:53Z")
The Arterial Angioplasty scene from The Exorcist [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okd4ISkI8mg) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/65 "2018-01-09T16:00:36Z")
[Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120126/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Documentary. Many scenes of public masochism performances involving genitalia. But the winner is a close-up shot of Bob nailing his penis to a board. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/66 "2018-01-09T16:26:40Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Had to think about this one. Most gross or gory scenes in movies are ultimately too fake for me to suspend my disbelief. But there is one scene I remembered that was not fake. > > At around the 1:30 mark, "a special effects accident caused actress Jean Seberg actually to catch fire in the scene where Joan of Arc is burned. (She [Seberg] sustained only very minor injuries.) " > > That it looks worse than it apparently was in no way removes the horror of it. That director Otto Preminger left it in the film gives it an extra edge of distastefulness. I’m not so sure she is being burned in that scene. From [here](http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2011/03/from-saint-to-sinner-and-backand-forth.html): > [@](#): > > During filming, as smoke and flames began to engulf her, Jean started to scream that she was actually burning. She was quickly rescued and not badly hurt but Preminger, who realized the mishap had been caught on film, was so pleased with “crowd reaction” that he told a reporter he might actually use the footage. She’s not screaming at all and there’s no obvious crowd reaction, so it seems Preminger might have told a reporter that (reporters have been known to make things up) but it doesn’t look like he included it. [quote=“Enola\_Straight, post:64, topic:806009”] The Arterial Angioplasty scene from The Exorcist [/QUOTE] The x-ray tech at 30 seconds was a real x-ray tech…among other things: [http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2017/04/13/did-you-know-theres-a-serial-killer-in-the-exorcist/](http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2017/04/13/did-you-know-theres-a-serial-killer-in-the-exorcist/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/67 "2018-01-09T16:48:09Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > [Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120126/?ref_=nv_sr_1) > > Documentary. > > Many scenes of public masochism performances involving genitalia. > > But the winner is a close-up shot of Bob nailing his penis to a board. > > You’re welcome. I needed some serious brain bleach after watching that movie. For me, it was the scene where his girlfriend stuck a pool ball up his butt. :eek: I thought “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a terrible book. Sorry. I also tried to read “A Wrinkle in Time” when I was a kid, and couldn’t get into it. The same thing happened when I tried to re-read it a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/68 "2018-01-09T16:49:52Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yorick van Wageningen was so disturbed after shooting the rape scene with Rooney Mara, that he spent a whole day locked in his hotel room, crying. This reminds me of something I saw in a documentary about Jodie Foster. After the rape scene on the pinball machine in _The Accused_ the male actors were so upset Jodie went around and comforted them. They couldn’t eat, they couldn’t talk, they could barely function. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/69 "2018-01-09T16:53:34Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > The final scene of _Pink Flamingos_ where Divine eats dog shit. The really unsexy sex scene and the part afterwards where they sucked the sperm out of her vagina with a syringe was pretty damn gross, too. John Waters’s early films are rightly called “trash”. > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > " Eraserhead" made me so sick I had to leave the movie theater. > > I’ve never seen anything on a screen that upset me and made me as sick as that terrible thing he had in that film. I was recently flabbergasted to see Eraserhead show up under “comedy” on FilmStruck. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/70 "2018-01-09T17:03:26Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > This may surprise some people. > > I cannot watch the “strip tease” scene in **True Lies** , where Arnie (husband) uses a tape recorder to encourage Jamie Lee Curtis (wife) to perform for him. For some reason, I find this distasteful, revolting, and just discomforting. This used to be a popular movie for demonstrating laserdiscs and projection TV. I would have to leave the room or walk out of the store if this scene came up. Not the grossest thing ever, but I agree- very distasteful, revolting, and discomforting. Ruins an otherwise pretty decent movie. Props to Jamie Lee Curtis for her crestfallen look at the end of this scene , on the telephone: Harry Tasker: The code name of your assignment will be Boris. And your code name will be…" Helen Tasker: [hopeful] “Natasha?” Harry: “No… Doris.” ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/71 "2018-01-09T17:19:11Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > Stan Brakhage’s classic short film “The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes,” which consists entirely of graphic autopsy footage. It’s quite beautiful in its way, and I liked it the first time I saw it, when I was much younger, but a couple years back I tried to rewatch it and simply could not make it through. Thanks for posting this. I couldn’t remember the name of this film. I thought it was an amazing film and kind of thought everyone should see it (yes, I was younger then too). However, it has stayed with me and still makes me shudder. I don’t think of it as “disgusting” in the sense of the OP, but maybe more terrifying, as in: this is what we are all coming to, the day when no one is in there and the body is just a piece of meat. Knowing that is one thing. Seeing it is altogether another thing. Seeing it “acted” is one thing and seeing the real thing is quite a bit more horrifying. Or it was for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/72 "2018-01-09T17:36:57Z")
Well, if we extend to television and exclude porn, my immediate reaction is Glenn’s death in The Walking Dead. That haunted me, and I still think of it and get sick from time to time. The attachment I had to the character definitely amplified it. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/73 "2018-01-09T17:48:25Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > It is a distasteful scene because of his outright manipulation of her; on the other hand, Jamie Lee is at the peak of her physical attractiveness in that movie–so, um, mixed feelings. Yes, exactly. Arnie is supposed to be deeply in love with his wife, making every effort to save his marriage, and here he is humiliating her and degrading her to the nth degree. I kept expecting her to turn to him and say, “C’mon! I knew it was you!” That would have at least relieved some of my disgust. I’d rather see blood, guts, gore, or puke. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/74 "2018-01-09T19:11:11Z")
For me, it was the scene in **ZODIAC** where he tied the couple at the lake, then stabbed them both repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/75 "2018-01-09T19:34:48Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > I’m not so sure she is being burned in that scene. From [here](http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2011/03/from-saint-to-sinner-and-backand-forth.html): > > She’s not screaming at all and there’s no obvious crowd reaction, so it seems Preminger might have told a reporter that (reporters have been known to make things up) but it doesn’t look like he included it. Not that these are in any way definitive: [http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/362081|362745/Saint-Joan.html](http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/362081%7C362745/Saint-Joan.html) “At least Seberg earned the respect of the cast and crew. But her most trying moment came when she stood on the pyre for the burning-at-the-stake scene. Two hidden gas canisters ignited at the wrong moment, surrounding her with a rush of flame and smoke. “I’m burning!” she cried, yanking her arms free and covering her face as her costume started to burn. The fire was quickly extinguished, and Seberg suffered no significant harm. But it must have seemed like the last exasperating straw to an actress already on the ropes. Preminger was momentarily traumatized as well, but he recovered in time to make sure the mishap had been caught on film. “The camera took four hundred extra feet,” he told a Newsweek journalist, adding that he would “probably use some of it” in the movie. Not surprisingly, he did.” And this: > **[Film director Otto Preminger holding the bandaged hand of actress...](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/film-director-otto-preminger-holding-the-bandaged-hand-of-news-photo/508728920#film-director-otto-preminger-holding-the-bandaged-hand-of-actress-picture-id508728920)** > > Film director Otto Preminger holding the bandaged hand of actress Jean Seberg, following her injury on the set of his film 'Saint Joan', at Shepperton Studios, London, February 22nd 1957. Looking at the clip I posted, it is impossible to tell if she screamed or not because her mouth is not visible and any sound she might have made is not heard. I very much doubt the crowd noise was recorded from the set; more likely it was a stock sound effect dubbed in later. Nor do we see much of the crowd when the flames reach Seberg. And note that in TCM link quoted above, it is footage from the mishap - not the crowd reaction to it - that ended up in the film. Nevertheless, her reaction to the flames is unmistakably horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/76 "2018-01-09T19:48:50Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > I was recently flabbergasted to see Eraserhead show up under “comedy” on FilmStruck. 😕 I suppose it could be, if it was given the Rifftrax treatment. Many years ago, I was at a party where someone put on a VHS tape of “North By Northwest” and we did that to it. 😛 😕 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/77 "2018-01-09T19:58:57Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I thought “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a terrible book. Sorry. > > I also tried to read “A Wrinkle in Time” when I was a kid, and couldn’t get into it. The same thing happened when I tried to re-read it a few years ago. Oopsie! I posted this in the wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/78 "2018-01-09T21:04:11Z")
“Faces of Death” - … the one where they put a monkey into a hole in a table and everyone hits it on the head with spoons until it dies then they eat it’s brains. I read somewhere that scene was fake and I truly hope so. It still haunts me. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/79 "2018-01-09T23:07:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I almost ran out of the room when the documentary Dear Zachary began to reveal that: > > The mother killed herself and Zachary by jumping into water and drowning themselves. I still get angry thinking about it and it has been years. Oh my goodness. I didn’t know anything about the story and that hit me really hard. Yes, I get really angry thinking about that too. > [@nightshadea](#): > > mine was a rather graphic C-section birth scene (it was at an car accident site or something) in the first or second season of ER before Nbc told then to knock it off on the goriness … > > I was fascinated because I was delivered by a C-section and I had never seen one and 2 mom said it was pretty much close to real life as they could get … > > Needless to say I watched the series until Anthony Edwards left … Is it possible you’re thinking of the complicated vaginal birth where the mom ends up bleeding to death, but it was in the hospital? Anthony Edwards tries everything but she dies? My whole reproductive area felt beat up just watching that. That and the Gant scene were the best of ER IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009/80 "2018-01-09T23:31:33Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > For me, it was the scene in **ZODIAC** where he tied the couple at the lake, then stabbed them both repeatedly. This was going to be mine, so I’ll add the family getting raped and murdered scene from **Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-the-sense-of-physical-revulsion/806009.md?page=5)