It didn’t make me vomit, but the rape scene in Deliverance gives me nightmares (and daymares) for some reason. I can’t watch the film. I guess it’s the combination of the helplessness of the victims and their debasement, the isolated setting, and the total creepiness of the assailants. ::shudder::
Whereas Bruce_Daddy found the scene erotic and hot, I found the first sex scene in Unfaithful insanely disturbing. Apparently as an afterthough, she enjoyed the experience enough to continue to have this guy as a lover, but I found the scene virging way to far on the verge of rape. Especially when he starts telling her “Hit me!” and she starts to struggle…almost as though, if she ever gets caught for her infidelity or feels guilty about it, she can claim “He raped me.” I mean, she struggled, she said no multiple times, and yet, he just kept doing his thing. Really creeped me out (and made me rather uncomfortable, seeing as how I was on a date at the time)
It reminded me too much of the sex scenes from Guts of the Virgin. As if the name wasn’t enough of an indicator that this is a movie noone should ever see, there’s this one horrific sex scene. The virgin of the film is promised she’ll be made a big star if she fucks the photographer, so she agrees, but the entire time, she’s just inching her way along the floor trying to get away from the guy while he just slobbers and grabs all over her. You could tell she didn’t want to do it, but she gave conscent, so I guess that’s supposed to make it okay, but it was just way to horribly uncomfortable and disturbing to watch. The fact there was no music and you could hear every whimper and sound made it even worse.
Niether of these made me vomit, but highly emotionally uncomfortable. One that did give me a bit of the drive heaves though was the infamous pudding scene from Dead Alive/Brain Dead. If you’ve seen it, you’re probably wretching right now.
This is right on. I couldn’t have said it better. Bruce_Daddy, You’re a sick, sick person. Keep up the good work.
The closest I’ve gotten to being made sick from a movie was The Exorcist. And it wasn’t a gross-out scene that did it. It was the scene during which the little girl is taken to the hospital and all of the tests are being performed on her. For some reason the color combination – the surgical green mixed with bile brown just sent my stomach through a few dry heaves.
I honestly forgot about the part in your spoiler box. In hindsight, that may very well be “on the verge of rape” which I find neither erotic and hot. When watching the movie the first time, I didn’t perceive it as rape and therefore it didn’t stay with me, my recollections of all the love scenes were purely consentual.
If that was a rape, I obviously take it back.
[Darth Vader voice] Apology accepted. [/Darth Vader voice]
“The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” was probably the most repellant film experience I have ever had…though I must say the acting was quite good, and Helen Mirren managed to inject an erotic charge at times into what was otherwise the cinematic equivalent of picking maggots out of a gangrenous sore for kicks. I mean, this movie had it all…dog feces, rotting meat, brutal torture (both physical and psychological), murder, cannibalism, graphicly disturbing sex, an air of filth and debasement so pervasive an X rating was almost too good for it.
Now if you’re looking for another really extraordinary example of sex and violence taken to its one-step-removed-from-a-snuff-film extreme, go out and rent yerself “Baise-Moi” (“Fuck Me”), written, directed and acted by some crossover adult movie artists. If you want a rape scene with real penetration, this is your flick. Not to mention perhaps the most disturbing handgun murder scene I’ve ever witnessed.
Now that I think about it, another film, also directed by a woman, had a truly brutal rape/murder scene in it: “Strange Days”. I don’t know how to do the “spoiler” thing, so be warned…
It’s the scene where the guy puts that SQUID thing on both himself and his victim, and uses it to project his view of him raping and strangling her into her mind as he’s doing it. Seriously disturbing. Yet I must say, I thought the movie as a whole was pretty good…not too sci-fi flicks out there even attempt to be smart any more, and this one largely succeeded at both rising above the usual crap found in the genre, and making some good social commentary too. Plus, Angela Bassett was burning hot in her bodyguard getup. RrrrrOWwwwrrr.
Kill Bill Vol. 1 sure made me feel sick. My friends all told me that I had to see it. My boyfriend kept offering to leave because I was so uncomfortable, even though he liked the movie. He thought that the gore was cartoonish, so he didn’t have a problem with it. As for me, the scene that made me want to dart for the doors was:
The shot of the Vaseline before the attempted rape. The biting off of the guys tongue just sealed the deal
Ewww! Is all I can say. I had trouble sleeping that night.
I read once that Woody Allen movies have the record for making people sick at the theatre. Not for content but all the hand-held camera work.
The only movie I can’t stomach watching is “Irreversible.” The rape scene in the movie is absolutely brutal.
Trainspotting. I walked out of that movie thinking…that was well-written, well-acted, and well-directed…and I never want to see it again. It is a testament to the talent of Ewan McGregor that his performance in subsequent roles were overcame my visceral associations and he became reassociated with hottiness instead of nausea.
(I also walked out thinking “so… what is trainspotting???”)
I’m not much for negative physical reactions at the movies, but the rape scene and a couple subsequent scenes in Leaving Las Vegas made me feel physically ill. There are a few other scenes–mostly rape–out there that make me feel, for lack of a better word, icky.
Sometimes my stomach rebels a little bit when I see a particularly gross eating scene. The worms and chop sticks scene in Lost Boys, for example. Devouring human flesh and stuff, however, never bothers me. Eating worms, though . . . now that’s disgusting.
It wasn’t a rape; it wasn’t even close to a rape. No need to take anything back.
I didn’t make it through the chainsaw scene in Scarface. No actual hurling, I just had to leave.
Same here. My curiosity has been more than satisfied. Bleah.
I consider Kingpin to be a good, if gross, comedy (well, it’s the Farrelly Bros., so there you have it), but my friend P. nearly barfed during the flossing scene when Randy Quaid starts
eating the stuff that comes out on his teeth and onto the floss.
Oh god. I saw the title of this thread and thought of this movie and that scene. To make things even worse, I was pregnant at the time, and although I usually have a very strong stomach, I got sick very easily while I was pregnant. I sat through most of the scene feeling sicker and sicker and knowing what was going to happen, but once people actually started eating the eclairs I ran out of the room hoping I’d make it to the bathroom in time. Yargh. We never finished watching the movie. From what I remember about the beginning of the movie, though, I don’t think I missed much.
Any movie with a rape scene has made me feel ill. I don’t watch them anymore. I find no value in showing a rape in a movie; in fact, it seems to me that showing it is one way of normalizing it. If you’ve seen enough movies, you pretty much know when a rape scene is coming in the next movie you watch, and a lot of people have seen so many that they don’t flinch anymore. And rape is something that I feel should make us all flinch, always.
Now, I admit, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, but as I recall, she says “No” a couple of times, he says “Hit me,” she continues to hit him, and he continues to have sex with her. Now, in my personal opinion:
Woman saying no + struggling + continuation of sexual act = rape.
She never really concented, and that made the whole damn thing incredibly awkward for me, and in my mind, did border on rape. Just because she looked back fondly on the occurrance and decided to keep with it doesn’t mean that if she had gone home, then gone to the cops and claimed he raped her, that she wouldn’t have had a case. I admit, the rest of the movie was really fucking hot, but that scene really creeped the fuck out of me.
I’m usually not one to get affected by gross stuff in films, but I was hiding my face in the couch. Just thinking about that scene makes my skin crawl. The last scene (I saw the unrated cut) with Jennifer Connelly doing what she had to to get her fix was pretty uncomfortable to watch as well.
No… I don’t think that was it. I only saw this once (it kind of hit me hard, but didn’t make me physically ill), but from what I recall, she seemed turned on, but started feeling guilt about what she was doing (they had already been kissing and etc. by then). So, to make her feel more comfortable, he tells her to hit him. She hits him really softly and he makes her do it harder until she actually is struggling. But as we come to learn later on, that’s what turns her on (the rough stuff). There is a similar, completely consensual scene later in the film.
Now, for the topic. Reservoir Dogs, when the guy is just bleeding and bleeding everywhere… I kind of started feeling woozy myself. I’ve never actually vomited from watching a movie.