I cringed when
the rebar started flying. I just knew somebody was going to get impaled.
That’s why the Pan’s Labyrinth scene with the bottle was so intense for me. Up to that point I thought I was watching a children’s movie. I had to turn it off for a few minutes in numbness as I comprehended what I’d just seen. Boy, did that look real, and I had zero idea that something like that would happen. I was not prepared at all.
In an earlier episode of Lost from this season:
John Locke has a broken leg and has to get it set, but is in a backwater clinic with minimal supplies. The doctor sets it while he is still conscious and under no pain meds.
Agreed, completely on this scene. I actually just saw Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time a few weeks ago, so I knew it wasn’t a childrens movie, but the bottle scene near the beginning still made me pause for a moment.
It seemed to go on for an inordinate amount of time. :eek:
(Even though it was only a few seconds…)
The tooth extraction scene in Cast Away.
Oh yeah, teeth stuff is awful. There is a scene like that in “Bug.”
If any of you have ever watched the short Cutting Moments, there’s a whole wonderful bathroom scene involving some steel wool that made me cringe.
If we are including real-life moments in sports, then Go For Wand’s breakdown in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff is the worst thing I’ve seen in person. I have yet to watch a replay, and I never expect to.
Up to that point, that race was so good I began applauding the great race that had unfolded up to that point. And then it’s like the crowd noise fell off a cliff.
This, right at about 3:25 of the clip:
It’s from the bus chase scene at the beginning of Jackie Chan’s “Police Story 1”. Double-decker bus screeches to a halt and two guys fall off the top onto the cement.
You think “Wow, I wonder how they made that look so real?”
The bus stopped short so the stuntmen missed their target and what you see is exactly what happened.
You mean like in speed where the bad guy sticks his fingers into someone’s nostrils and lifts up? That was a brutal scene. Pretty much the only thing I remember from the movie.
Twin Peaks-Bob killing Maddie.
For some reason that got me thinking of a clip I once saw of someone cutting their tongue down the middle with a razor. Like a body modification sort of thing.
It was bleeding a LOT, and looked just terrible.
So while that’s not from a movie or TV-show, that’s still my contribution to the thread.
Any time in any show they find someone who buried alive or trapped or whatever (like in a closet, a freezer, a car trunk, a well… I watch too many crime shows) and they determine that the victim tried to scratch his or her way out. Bonus points if they pull bloody bits of fingernail out of the door/wall/coffin lid/whatever.
Is it safe?
God… I can still remember her groom cradling the mare’s head, sobbing “Wanda, Wanda…” over and over. I felt sick, and still do when I think about it.
This is the only answer in my book. Every other scene of pain, torture, etc. goes out the window in comparison. Just an absolutely horrifying scene to watch.
Oh - and the papercut scene from Jackass: The Movie.
The hammer to the toes of “Porter” (Mel Gibson) in Payback.
Anything involving dentistry. Getting me to watch Marathon Man would be like pulling teeth.
There’s a curb stomp (except without a curb) scene in The Sopranos, too. Also hard to watch…though I haven’t seen American History X so I don’t know how it compares.
Onscreen shaving accidents always get to me, but the part in The Wall where Pink is shaving off all his body hair… and a nipple. I almost passed out.