# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/61 "2008-07-31T00:20:54Z")
**Jackass 2:** A sock, a snake and a member. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/62 "2008-07-31T00:55:02Z")
[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] Ah yes, I agree, the comedies I think of as “New York Neurotic” (whether set in NY or not). As **BrotherCadfael** says _Fraiser_ is a good example, and (for me at least) I’d add: Seinfeld, Mad About You, (much of) Friends, Will & Grace… the list extends ad squirmeam. ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/63 "2008-07-31T00:57:29Z")
[QUOTE=jackdavinci] It was more… visceral? lol I can’t even recall the scene you mentioned. But imagine I was able to easily play it off as acting, whereas the wrestling scene was, you know, actually happening. I also get very squeed by characters on the verge of being ‘caught’ or embarrassed. Much more so than characters in danger of or encountering physical harm. [/QUOTE] Yes! just remember the squirm scene in Poison Ivy where the daughter walks in on her Dad and Ivy (Drew Barrymore) doing the nasty. I was almost embarrassed for them. A girlfriend recently saw Mamma Mia! and told me that she cringed all the way through it (I didn’t want to tell anyone in case I get yelled at - you know, not liking this movie apparently is like kicking puppies). ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/64 "2008-07-31T01:36:25Z")
I find myself unreasonably annoyed by movies where a character is pretending to be two different people, and then gets in a situation where he has to change back and forth really quickly (like _Mrs. Doubtfire_). ---
**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 31, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/65 "2008-07-31T02:44:08Z")
Odd, how Robin Williams keeps showing up here. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/66 "2008-07-31T02:57:43Z")
“The Deer Hunter.” Sure there’s blood and guts. There’s something transcendent about that movie, though. While “Requiem for a Dream” was hard to watch, I cared far more about the characters in “The Deer Hunter.” Maybe it’s because I was younger and more impressionable, but it just rips your heart out. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/67 "2008-07-31T03:19:26Z")
Saw and Saw II – don’t remember particular scenes, but I decided I don’t like the genre in general. Hostel – especially the drill scene, and the eyeball scenes. If you saw the movie, you know exactly what I’m talking about. If you didn’t see it, you probably don’t want to know what I’m talking about. The ring – the weird crawling thing she did; it had exactly the effect on me that they were aiming for. S^G ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/68 "2008-07-31T03:34:35Z")
[QUOTE=FinnAgain] +1 The most awesomely amazing movie that I will never watch again, under any circumstances. [/QUOTE] This is how I felt about _Pan’s Labyrinth._ I had to leave the theater twice. I am incredibly oversensitive to torture scenes or even implied torture in movies, they make me feel nauseated and shaky and sick to my stomach and I have to run away. I can’t just accept that it’s not real, because torture is real, goddamn it, it happens to people all the time, it’s happening now somewhere. So normally I wouldn’t even bother, but I’d just finished a course on the Spanish Civil War and I was curious. I am not afraid of ‘‘fantastical horror’’ so none of the creatures scared me, I just didn’t know there was going to be so much reality in that movie. I am a big fan of the director, had seen _Cronos_ already and I’m really glad I saw it because it was a masterpiece. But very disturbing. I’ve seen movies that made me uncomfortable/leave the room and stuff, but only one movie was ever actually traumatic to watch, and that’s _Oldboy_. As in, whenever I think about it, I have flashbacks of seeing it and being horrified by it all over again. I normally wouldn’t have even tolerated the torture, but I saw it with friends who insisted it was a great film. The problem with _Oldboy_ is there’s no warning whatsoever. The twist happens so unexpectedly and so violently that there was never any point at which I could say, ‘‘I’m starting to get uncomfortable now,’’ and leave. Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/69 "2008-07-31T03:57:31Z")
I know this isn’t a movie but…I can’t watch **Everybody Loves Raymond** with my parents. There’s waaaaaay too much sexual innuendo or even just frank sex talk between Ray and Deb for me to watch it comfortably with my folks. I know it’s “married people sex talk” but that probably makes it worse for me because my parents are married people too. Ick! ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/70 "2008-07-31T15:31:22Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Nader] The last 20 minutes of **Audition** [/QUOTE] +1 I love horror and I love Asian movies but I’ll never watch \*that \* again. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/71 "2008-07-31T16:38:21Z")
I just watched **young people fucking** and that has some squirm worthy moments. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/72 "2008-07-31T16:55:34Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] 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. [/QUOTE] The dream scene where the horse gets cut up into sections by the blades makes me sick. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/73 "2008-07-31T17:39:18Z")
[QUOTE=Satellite^Guy] The ring – the weird crawling thing she did; it had exactly the effect on me that they were aiming for. [/QUOTE] The thing from _The Ring_ that squicked me out and still does to this day is the clawing at the well and the fingernails tearing off. I have a HUGE issue with fingernails bending backward (I actually have goosebumps and am making an involuntary strange face just typing this) _Blue Velvet_ was very squirmy for many reasons, in many parts. I think I was squirmy for parts of _Pan’s Labyrinth_, but I watched it on DVD at my house with a friend and was fairly drunk at the time so I don’t remember much of it. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/74 "2008-07-31T17:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Except in Coen Brothers movies. They do “awkward” very well, so I squirm a little bit but enjoy it nonetheless. [/QUOTE] Yeh, I love love love _Miller’s Crossing_, but the scene in the woods with Bernie Bernbaum and Tom Regan has me squirming every time. I can’t watch it. And in _Barton Fink_, before I ever knew the true nature of John Goodman’s character, just his presence in the room with Barton made me squirm with fear. My hindbrain knew that no good was going to come of him, I guess. The Coen Bros. know their stuff. ---
**Author:** ![tripletaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tripletaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripletaker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/75 "2008-07-31T18:09:12Z")
[_Un chien andalou_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. I had to watch this several times in several film classes. The part in question is the slicing of the eyeball - it’s like a guy’s reaction to a kick in the balls, except for male and female! The end of _Schindler’s List_ where he wishes he could have done more to save lives. Also agree with _Breaking the Waves_. What a frustrating film. In general, I squirm when a film shows a lot of sex. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/76 "2008-07-31T18:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] The dream scene where the horse gets cut up into sections by the blades makes me sick. :eek: [/QUOTE] I’d heard about that and expected to be squicked out, but I think the fact that everything was still working (lungs expanding, heart pumping) as if the horse weren’t separated into eight pieces kind of overwhelmed the squick with a sort of fascination. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/77 "2008-07-31T23:14:59Z")
[QUOTE=Simmerdown] American History X - the curb scene. [/QUOTE] Watched it again. Still don’t get why people think it’s worse than most of the mindless killing in movies. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/78 "2008-08-01T01:03:01Z")
[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] Or, indeed, _any_ Ken Russell flick. I have yet to watch a KR movie which didn’t squick me the fuck out. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/79 "2008-08-01T01:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=DellieM] 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 [/QUOTE] _That’s_ what made you squirm? For me it was:The wife’ vengence when she presents the Thief with her lover’s roasted body to force hiim to eat it and tells him to start with the penis.Jeepers! For me, unwrapping the baby in _Eraserhead_. ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191/80 "2008-08-01T02:20:46Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] This is how I felt about _Pan’s Labyrinth._ I had to leave the theater twice. I am incredibly oversensitive to torture scenes or even implied torture in movies, they make me feel nauseated and shaky and sick to my stomach and I have to run away. I can’t just accept that it’s not real, because torture is real, goddamn it, it happens to people all the time, it’s happening now somewhere. [/QUOTE] I feel the same way, although I saw Pan’s Labyrinth and the torture in that movie for some reason didn’t bother me because I can’t even remember it. 😕 But for the same reason I’ve stayed away from the Hostel movies. I know I’ll be squicked out by anything in those movies so I refuse to watch them. I squirmed in all the Saw movies even though I love them: [spoiler]Saw: He cuts off his foot. I CANNOT watch that scene even though it’s done off-screen. Saw II: The beginning where he sticks the knife in his eye, even though he doesn’t go fully through with it. Then later when the girl is thrown in the pit of needles. Needles don’t bother me as a whole but the idea of a pit of needles like that makes me shiver uncontrollably. Saw III: The skull drilling scene. Even though it’s really unrealistic I had to cover my eyes. Saw IV: The scene where the scalp is partially pulled off. Ugh.[/spoiler] The weird thing is that I just saw Funny Games yesterday, and I really enjoyed it and there wasn’t any uncomfortable part of it for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-made-you-squirm/458191.md?page=5)