I’ve said it before, but Requiem for a Dream gets the prize from me. The editting of the final scenes of the movie, the soundtrack, the degredation of the characters…made me nauseous. And somewhat surprised, because while I’ve reacted emotionally to scenes in movies before (including the previously mentioned Leaving Las Vegas), I had never felt ill before.
That was my one and only viewing of that movie, even though I considered it to be a great movie.
I’m with Bruce Daddy. I thought the sex scene in Unfaithful was hot as hell. I didn’t think of it as rape at all. Some people get off on that kind of power struggle. If you interpret it as a rape, I can see where you might be offended. But don’t sit there and say someone else is sick because they thought it was hot.
Just saw “Happiness” for the first time last night. No film has ever made me literally sick, but this one was definetely not for the faint-hearted. I thought it was a good film, but would’t recommend anyone watch it unprepared and just in for an evening of light entertainment.
Probably the closest for me was Last House on the Left. Watching it made me feel dirty and disgusted. No actual vomiting, though.
I never said anyone was sick for finding that scene erotic, I said I found it disturbing because it semed too much like rape to me. I like power struggles as much as the next guy, but still, when a woman says no, you don’t just keep pushing till she says yes. And it doesn’t matter if they were making out beforehand, or if she said no because she was feeling guilty…the fact remains, she said no, struggled, and he kept pushing, and that made me feel awkward. I had no problems with any of the other sex scenes in the movie, and as a whole, found the movie to be really good…that scene just reminded me too much of a rape scene. Again, I compare it to the scene from Guts fo the Virgin. The unsuspecting “heroin” agrees to have sex with the guy, but it’s so obvious in every way that she really, really doesn’t want to have sex with him, and that made me very uncomfortable. Still, I never called anyone in this forum sick for thinking it was hot because they thought it was consensual, so don’t start shit.
Other movies that really started to get my gut to react were the intestine-vomit scenes in The Gates of Hell. Really shitty film, and watching someone puke up their intestines is never fun. Same goes for the intestine vomiting scene in Club Vampire. Also the animal torture scenes in Cannibal Holocaust were incredibly uncalled for and hard to sit threw.
The only movie that ever did this to me was Cat People. Maybe it toughened me up because I’ve seen a lot of the other movies mentioned and while I’ve found many disturbing, none have made me gag like Cat People did. It was a scene with Malcolm McDowell when he’s turned back into a human. He staggers to the bathroom to wash up and notices a piece of his victim’s flesh stuck to his leg. He picks it off, looks at it, then eats it. Bleah! Just the thought of that scene still has that effect on me!
I don’t know if you would consider it a good movie, but Dressed to Kill did it for me. My cousin and I went to see it at the drive-in (this was in 1980 or '81–the only theatre in town was a drive-in). On the way back home afterward, I had to pull over to the side of the road so we could both get out and vomit.
I don’t know if it would still strike me the same way. I haven’t really wanted to find out.
What about murder scenes?
She was actually talking to me. I was joking and told Bruce_Daddy that he was a sick, sick man. Then I told him to keep up the good work. Bad. :smack: BAD. :smack:
I still think this is extremely offensive material (rape… she said no, and any court in this good country would have him hauled off to where he could say no repetitively). I’m glad that you can get your gigglies by watching this, Indygrrl… but I vomited = I probably won’t be dating you any time soon.
I saw that movie for the first time with my In-Laws. Imagine watching that Jennifer Connelly scene with your Mother-In-Law sitting next to you. Whee!!!
To the OP - the closest I ever came was during a scene in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer:
They have interrupted a family at home, and are forcing the children, husband and father to watch and they rape and kill them. The kids (or wife, can’t remember) are screaming bloody murder during the entire scene. That scene came closer to the end, and I had pretty much had my fill of graphic rapings and killings by that point.
Yes, they make me flinch, too, but I can watch them. Maybe it’s cause I’ve never been murdered.
Normally murder scenes don’t bug me much. I just see fake blood and clever (or not so clever) makeup. The only murder scene that really disturbed me was at the end of “Heavenly Creatures”. And they really don’t show anything explicit… it’s the sound that makes it awful.
Some of you should start reveiwing movies by how many times you’ve had to get up and vomit while watching it.
Actually, it’s Olivier.
I really felt quite ill during and after the “brain scene” in Hannibal. Disgusting.
I think you misspelled “really fucking abysmal piece of exploitative trash selling itself as art because it has real porn stars having real sex in it” there, Loopy.
Do the quote box tag, but replace “QUOTE” with “SPOILER”. Like this:
There’s a similar scene in The City of Lost Children.
There is?.. Uh, could you pop that in a spoiler box to refresh my memory. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve seen the film and I don’t remember that part at all, and you’d think I would.
It’s not a rape scene, but in City of Lost Children There’s a scene where one of the cyclops is being controlled and ordered to kill his buddies. Her removes the wire that controls their sight from one of them, plugs it into his own eye piece, and allows the guy to watch himself being strangled. Man, I love that movie.
Elephant definitely made me feel queasy, not to the point of vomiting, but I felt like going home and never leaving my house again. By the looks of those exiting the theatre, with everyone kind of tramping past the bar and out the door, mostly silent, I know I was not alone. Extremely hard to handle. And I’m someone who barely flinched at Requiem for a Dream and loved Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the original).
Rape scenes upset me too, but I don’t agree that they shouldn’t be shown, or that showing them is necessarily normalizing it.
There was a time when the audience would “pretty much know that a rape scene was coming”…and then when it got to that point, the visual would fade out and the story would resume after the fact. But that was mostly in the Hays Code era, when you couldn’t even show consensual sex. Which led to stuff like Rhett and Scarlett in Gone With the Wind, where it’s implied that it was good for her to be by force, and now she’s been ‘tamed’.
In The Accused, prior to the flashback to the rape, Jodie Foster’s character is on the witness stand, and the defense attorney is questioning her in an attempt to undermine her testimony. “You just said ‘no’? Not ‘help’ or ‘stop’ or ‘rape’? Just ‘no’?” If it had been left at that, some people might indeed have drawn the conclusion that “no” isn’t much of a distress signal.
But when the scene played out, she wasn’t saying “No…no…ohhhhhh, no…” like the heroine in some bodice-ripper who was “really saying yes”. She was screaming “NO! NO!! NO!!!” and it was clear that she meant ‘no’. When a rape happens offscreen, however, there’s the possibility that a viewer can think “Well, she probably consented halfway through”.
I don’t want to watch rape scenes myself, but I’m a woman. Men, and more to the point, boys, need to see these scenes, in the hope that maybe they’ll think twice the next time they’re in a situation where they think some girl or woman owes them sex. Rape should be shown as traumatic for the victim, not implied as a triumph for the agressor.