# Movie scenes that made you cover your eyes (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604 "2010-04-10T01:43:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/41 "2010-04-10T23:58:24Z")
[Looking for Mr. Goodbar spoiler, my version] Before that final shot, Keaton’s character is brutally assaulted. The scene is **extremely** intense, and was almost unbearable to watch. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/42 "2010-04-11T01:38:55Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Not to mention MutantBoy getting run over by the car of his confederate, and becoming salsa on the windshield. No problem with that scene. I think it’s because it was so far into the grotesque that it didn’t seem real. Therefore, not as icky as the hand thing. Obviously, YMMV and all that. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/43 "2010-04-11T02:06:25Z")
The rape scene from **Irreversible**. That remains the only scene in any movie that I’ve ever seen that I had to turn off. I could never sit through that scene again. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/44 "2010-04-11T02:27:34Z")
_Watchmen_ - The hands being sawed off scene. Saw it coming and without even thinking about it closed my eyes for several seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/45 "2010-04-11T03:29:09Z")
I don’t do barf well. So, Mr. Creosote from \*Meaning of Life \*is right out. So is the pie-eating contest in _Stand By Me_. ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/46 "2010-04-11T07:31:06Z")
> [@Elyanna](#): > > Pan’s Labyrinth. The bottle-stabbing scene. Ugh. Yeah, this one. I watched the rest of that movie from another room after that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/47 "2010-04-11T19:34:39Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever actually covered my eyes while watching a movie, I usually just leave the room instead. Any movie with a rape scene, for instance, usually has me suddenly finding an excuse to be somewhere else. When I was a kid I always had to leave whenever Judge Doom takes off his sunglasses in **Who Framed Roger Rabbit?** God, those bulging eyes. _Shudders_ I also have to leave whenever I see the scene in **Return of the King** where Gollum dumps their food and blames Sam, and Frodo sends him home. That’s for a very different reason, though (in that it makes me so angry that I always want to yell at my TV screen). I do agree with whoever mentioned the jaw-and-curb scene in **American History X**. I handle the rape scene better than that one (and as I mentioned above, I HATE rape scenes). Actually I lied, I did cover my eyes for something, but it was for a TV show, not a movie. When I was little, I always hid my face whenever the aliens (the ones that go “yip yip yip”) appeared on **Sesame Street**. They scared the crap out of me for some reason. Actually, I still think they’re a little freaky-looking. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/48 "2010-04-11T19:40:25Z")
The **American History X** scene for me, too. I shrieked too. It’s so horribly real, yet unthinkable. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/49 "2010-04-11T22:19:17Z")
Sorry, but for a lot of these scenes, my reaction was “Oh, wow, cool!”, which depending on the situation, might be followed by, “Can we wind that back and see it again?” I loved the “cable scene” at the beginning of _Ghost Ship_, as well as the exploding head scene from David Cronenburg’s _Scanners_. I did find Hostel II a bit unsettling, but more for the idea behind it than anything else, that people would pay to torture someone else just for kicks. Real life is far worse than anything you could see in a movie. The hostage beheading videos, people jumping out of the windows at the WTC on 9/11 were far worse than anything a movie maker could come up with. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/50 "2010-04-12T01:07:00Z")
I don’t really turn away from scenes, I’m as likely to be saying ‘that’s not real blood, it’s not even a realistic fake,’ having said that, the slow death scene in Saving Private Ryan noted above was the one that stuck with me. If I’d been a participant in all the violence in that movie, I imagine that’s the event I’d still see in my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/51 "2010-04-12T01:09:58Z")
Probably every third-or-so scene of _Return to Oz_. Boy, the Disney Channel sure knew how to pick 'em back when I was a kid. :eek: > [@Landshark](#): > > _Watchmen_ - The hands being sawed off scene. Saw it coming and without even thinking about it closed my eyes for several seconds. The same scene in the graphic novel was better…if you don’t like saws. They use an arc welder. And don’t bother cutting the guy out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Liddle\_Lamsy\_Divey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Liddle\_Lamsy\_Divey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liddle_Lamsy_Divey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604/52 "2010-04-12T02:59:12Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > There is only one scene in my \*entire history of movie watching \*that I would not be able to view again (can’t believe it’s not yet been mentioned). > > It’s in American History X. One dude forces another dude to…ack, I can’t even bear to describe it. Let’s just say it involves a jaw and a curb and leave it at that. I came in here to say this. I couldn’t watch that part, and turned the channel during the scene in the drugstore. That’s one movie I really would rather not watch again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-made-you-cover-your-eyes-spoilers/535604.md?page=2)