A Vietnamese family, including an infant, being butchered by American GI’s in Platoon. That was when I hit the “eject” button.
The rape scene in Leaving Las Vegas was pretty horrific because it was so brutal and realistic.
And, of course, the episode of Survivor 2 where the contestants had to eat brains, big old crunchy bugs and 1 1/2 foot worms. Oh.My.Gawd.
The bodies of soldiers being shot up in Starship Troopers and Saving Private Ryan and the guys in ** Catch-22**.
Sloth in Seven is the reason for my strict “Podkayne does not watch serial killer movies any more!” rule. I didn’t bat an eyelash at Silence of the Lambs, but . . . shiver I’m not risking those wide-awake-at-three-a.m. thoughts again.
Ha! For once, I am first. (However, I’m damned now. I guess everything comes with a price.)
I would also like to throw in the scenes from Eraserhead that involve the demon baby or the chicken dinner. Yech.
While I agree that it was horrid and unnecessary to include in the movie, it doesn’t rock me to my sould or anything, considering that they were waiting for Derek to come outside so they could kill him. It was him or them, basically. Storyline-wise, I can accept him killing them. I would’ve.
Ah ha! I am in The People vs. Larry Flynt! Ok, so maybe you can’t see me, but I swear, I was there! The scene where Larry/Woody is up on stage and there’s a big screen behind him showing pictures of porn and then real-life news coverage? I was there! Well, um, it was exciting to me.
And I’d like to change my vote. There is a movie - I don’t know the name of it - about prison life. Sean Penn is in it. I know one of you all will know it. To this day, because of that movie, I have a hard time eating green beans.
A scene in Kingpin where Woody Harrelson teaches Randy Quaid how to floss, and Quaid’s character eats the stuff that gets left on the floss! :eek:
I nearly tossed my cookies right there in the theatre.
And I promise to preview next time!
Definitely the chicken scene in Poltergiest. Those maggots… UGH. shudder
8mm.
In it’s entirety.
Nick, what were you thinking?
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I’m really dating myself here, but there’s that scene in ** Catch-22** where the plane comes in low on a guy standing on a pier (or perhaps a barge) and cuts him in two just about the beltline. I found it horribly disturbing.
You thinking of Bad Boys and the boogers?
hannibal- that whole brain eating shite at the end.
You know what’s sad about the American History X scene? That neo-nazi skinheads really do that to people. shudder
What is really gross? How Sam Raimi treats his brother Ted. Ted gets run over by a truck with his head sticking out of a manhole cover in Darkman. Then Sam makes him act scared in Army of Darkness. Then Ted becomes the butt of all jokes and the epitome of incompetence as Joxer “the Mighty” in Xena, Warrior Princess.
Recent films:
When Jennifer Lopez rips the psycho’s nipple rings off in The Cell.
One scene that really disturbed me was near the end of Casino where Joe Pesci watches his brother beaten to death with a baseball bat and dumped into an open grave, then suffers a similar fate. That almost made me nauseous.
And, of course, who can forget Deliverance?
The first time I heard of that actually happening (not by skinheads, BTW) was 1972.
Ugh. That one gets me too (I think it was a raft). It doesn’t just cut him in two, it suddenly makes his upper body not there. I think it’s the slight delay bewteen impact and thud that gets to me.
I know Grok mentioned, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. I love that flick. There are some disturbing scenes in it, but they aren’t nearly as graphic as almost anything in most of today’s teen/slasher type movies. I think it’s the unrepentant brutality behind the violence that really the kicker there. Especially when they torute “Pup” to find out the location of the lover’s hideout. They don’t show a lot, but based on previous scenes, the imagination fills in what isn’t shown.
Actually I think they were just stealing his car, weren’t they?
I had forgotten about that until now. When I first saw that scene I was absolutely sick.