# Most disturbing death scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061 "2001-08-06T02:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061/222 "2024-09-20T14:16:15Z")
Seeing a lab rat convulse then die in “Andromeda Strain”. ETA: Footage of buddy drowning in “The Stuntman” ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061/223 "2024-09-20T14:42:57Z")
**Under the Skin** (2013) has a memorable scene on a rocky isolated beach. There are a couple of rough water drownings and an assault on an exhausted swimmer, but the most disturbing aspect is that the lead character (Scarlett Johansson as an empathy impaired… alien?) completely ignores a screaming infant whose parents have just drowned and who is almost certain to tumble into the water or die of exposure. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061/224 "2024-09-21T16:12:55Z")
Couple more I could scare up - The various slow, sadistic deaths in “Rituals”. Was quite blown away when first seeing Gomer in “Full Metal Jacket” picking off gunnery sergeant R. Lee Ermey, and then taking the rifle on himself. An old John getting a telephone reciever rammed down his throat by prostitute Jon Voight in “Midnight Cowboy”. Buddy getting burned to death by turning on a ceiling lightbulb that was injected with some sort flammable accelerant in the “The Longest Yard”. Buddies geting picked off at the end of “Easy Rider” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061/225 "2024-09-21T17:34:55Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Seeing a lab rat convulse then die in “Andromeda Strain”. I agree, but wasn’t it a lab monkey? ---
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Ah, you’re so right. From cite “[effects - Did they torture and kill a monkey during the filming of Andromeda Strain? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange](https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/110281/did-they-torture-and-kill-a-monkey-during-the-filming-of-andromeda-strain)” > [@](#): > > The monkey was “killed” by being placed in a large set filled with carbon dioxide. When the monkey’s cage, which contained oxygen, was opened the animal was rendered unconscious by the CO2. An assistant director was off camera and brought a breathing apparatus to the monkey, who recovered immediately. ---
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The rat dies just before the rhesus: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jkidzp1mlW4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Andromeda Strain (1971) - Animal Testing Scene (6/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkidzp1mlW4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061.md?page=11)