# Movies that made you squirm **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191 "2008-07-30T02:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/21 "2008-07-30T12:46:46Z")
[QUOTE=jackdavinci] Ack! We need more than a list. What were the sqeeish parts? For me - Borat - naked wrestling scene Teen Movie (not sure of title) - everyone from the neighborhood walking into the girls bedroom while she is masturbating [/QUOTE] okay - sorry fair call. Hard Candy - she pretends to castrate a man on a belief that he’s an internet stalker of young girls - that scene was hard to watch especially with the terror on the victim’s face. Sleepers - the whole ‘ownership’ attitude of the guards when they sodomize the kids in their ‘care’ Happiness - this movie was pitched as a comedy drama with a father teaching his son how to masterbate, a father who’s a child molester and rapes a friend of his son - wrong on all levels Kids - watching children rape children isn’t just confronting and an ‘arthouse reflection of real life’; it’s almost an indulgence of the film-maker’s own fantasies The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - very strange movie, the erk factor being when the lover and the wife are hiding in the maggotty meat van outside the restaurant. A meat van crawling with green, slimy rotted meat, maggots and all manner of vomit inducing things The Ice Storm - not just a snapshot on a couple of ‘average 70s families’ but a whole lot of lies, swinging between couples and OMG, you just knew that that boy was going to die at the end for no good reason after the ice storm hit. Big time squirm. But for you the Borat wrestling scene? I found the whole retarded brother raping the prostitute sister far worse! “But one day, he break outta the cage, and he get the ginnie” (But for women, a pair of hairy balls on one’s chin probably isn’t unheard of!) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/22 "2008-07-30T12:51:09Z")
Squirm for whatever reason, eh? There’s a particular setup common in American sitcoms where embarrassment (usually due to misunderstanding) is supposed to be funny, but all it does to me is leave me awkward and slightly embarrassed myself. Except in Coen Brothers movies. They do “awkward” very well, so I squirm a little bit but enjoy it nonetheless. In particular, the “Marriott” scene in Fargo. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/23 "2008-07-30T12:53:54Z")
I squirm uncomfortably in any movie that has a character making some embarrassing speech to another character. I feel all of the physical reactions of being really embarrassed myself. I am, of course, drawing a blank on any titles right now. Usually it’s fluffy romantic comedies with scenes like that in them. ---
**Author:** ![MrBelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MrBelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBelding)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/24 "2008-07-30T12:58:24Z")
This doesn’t really count in movies and I may not be squirming for the same reasons as many of you, but Steve Carrell in The Office does this to me. Some of his speeches and comments are so off the wall or inappropriate that I just can’t help but squirm and think “oh my god, did he say that?” ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/25 "2008-07-30T13:11:25Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Squirm for whatever reason, eh? There’s a particular setup common in American sitcoms where embarrassment (usually due to misunderstanding) is supposed to be funny, but all it does to me is leave me awkward and slightly embarrassed myself. [/QUOTE] Really?? Me too! I end up crying through shows that are supposed to be funny, because I feel so bad for the person(s) getting embarassed. Anything that has eyeball stuff makes me squirm. ANYTHING! Even seeing someone put in contacts. I can watch people getting dismembered or blown up, but eyes make me shudder. Also, anything that has bad things happening to kids. Rape, murder, disease, you name it. I have a really hard time watching stuff like that, mostly because I have a very high suspension of disbelief, so it ends up seeming far too real and making me squirm. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/26 "2008-07-30T13:23:43Z")
_Rubber Johnny_. It’s a short film but the “child” in it just sets off my creepy meter big time. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/27 "2008-07-30T13:36:17Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Squirm for whatever reason, eh? There’s a particular setup common in American sitcoms where embarrassment (usually due to misunderstanding) is supposed to be funny, but all it does to me is leave me awkward and slightly embarrassed myself. [/QUOTE] _Fraiser_ is a great example of this… it is well-written and very funny, but I frequently just can’t sit through it… ---
**Author:** ![mudkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mudkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mudkicker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/28 "2008-07-30T13:46:53Z")
_The Accused_. Great film, but I can’t watch it again because of the graphic rape scene. Makes me want to cry and/or smash things. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/29 "2008-07-30T14:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Maybe that’s it. Doesn’t he see Reese’s face on his wife or something? I don’t know. It was all so squirmy. [/QUOTE] Yes . . . Reese had already had an affair with another teacher, Broderick’s friend, who got fired when the principal found out. I got the impression Broderick wasn’t exactly lusting after Reese; rather, he was **scared shitless** of having to work with her as faculty advisor to the student-body president and being exposed to the constant temptation; also she kinda squicked him out. That was why he talked the popular, dumb, good-hearted football hero into running against her. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/30 "2008-07-30T14:42:27Z")
_Requiem for a Dream_ made me feel like I needed a shower after watching it. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/31 "2008-07-30T16:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=MrBelding] This doesn’t really count in movies and I may not be squirming for the same reasons as many of you, but Steve Carrell in The Office does this to me. Some of his speeches and comments are so off the wall or inappropriate that I just can’t help but squirm and think “oh my god, did he say that?” [/QUOTE] You’d like Reno 911 too then! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/32 "2008-07-30T16:37:17Z")
The Cell. The scene where the boy (the murderer in his memory) is about to get hit with an iron, I believe? I turned it off. Both times I tried to watch it. And there’s a hazy memory about the boy’s father trying to get him to have sex with the mother? Can’t watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/33 "2008-07-30T16:37:26Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I got the impression Broderick wasn’t exactly lusting after Reese; rather, he was **scared shitless** of having to work with her as faculty advisor to the student-body president and being exposed to the constant temptation; also she kinda squicked him out. [/QUOTE] Actually I think he simultaneously lusted after her AND loathed her. There are a few little clues, like his secret stash of cheerleader porn and the little interlude with her face popping up on his wife that hint at that. He almost certainly would never have acted on it ( he did intensely dislike her and had his own warped, self-deceiving sense of propriety ), but IMO there was a spark of sexual attraction that added to his overall confusion and misery. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/34 "2008-07-30T16:53:22Z")
The zipper scene in _There’s Something About Mary_! The wife seemed to find that one funny, though. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/35 "2008-07-30T17:08:32Z")
American History X - the curb scene. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/36 "2008-07-30T18:35:31Z")
The last 20 minutes of **Audition** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/37 "2008-07-30T18:47:37Z")
Blood Simple. Great movie, but there’s that window sill scene. It’s bad enough when the guy’s hand gets pinned to the window sill with a knife. It’s far worse when he pulls it out. Slooooooowly. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/38 "2008-07-30T18:52:22Z")
David Lynch’s _Lost Highway_ where that guy falls face-forward into the corner of a thin glass coffee table. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/39 "2008-07-30T18:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Tommy. The Tina Turner scene where he becomes a skeleton writhing with snakes, but some more so the end where his parents come back and find Tina shaking and her mouth all funny from all the drugs. Uncle Ernie who molested him. Cousin Kevin who ironed him and waterborded him amoung other things. I could go on… [/QUOTE] I saw that movie when I was seven years old. I’m still afraid of Tina Turner. She still turns me on too, but I’m still scared. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/40 "2008-07-30T19:03:16Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Cousin Kevin who ironed him and waterborded him amoung other things. I could go on… [/QUOTE] Slight nitpick, but he didn’t waterboard him. He turned on the bath, held his head under, and started to laugh. And the bit with Uncle Ernie was creepy, but at the same time funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191.md?page=3)