Disturbing Movie Moments

[hasbro]

Some friends of mine did LSD while watching POT. Fortunately one knew what was going to happen in the scene and they left beforehand.

[huntergrayson]

Re: Salo

My friend got a bootleg of it (because apparently, and I don't know why, a real DVD of this movie can cost 100's of dollars) and we watched it.

Minor OT - Because it's a Criterion out-of-print. Granted, there are many other OOP discs, but this was very quickly pulled (like within months) due to copyright issues. There has not been another Region 1 (US) release. So the fact that there are very few discs out there, combined with the fact that it's the first time the film has been available uncensored, means $$$.

More disturbing movie extra than moment, but the Criterion Silence of the Lambs DVD has word-for-word transcripts of serial killers talking. Creepy! Plus, the commentary features the FBI advisor, so I know now which vans killers prefer and such. Will forever be disturbed by the guy skinned and hung from Lecter's cell.

From Lynch -- all of Eraserhead, especially the dinner scene. And the part in Lost Highway where the guy impales his head on a glass table and we get a very graphic angle.

[veronicamars]

There's a famous horror film called Black Christimas from the 70s, with Margot Kidder. It's about a sorority house being stalked by an unseen killer.

Cutting to the chase, you don't why the guy is doing this or who he is. All you know is that he is in the attic. The disturbing part is that when the police finally get involved, they give the lone survivor of the massacre a drug to help her sleep, so she is groggy. Then they leave her alone in the house with the killer, who is upstairs.

What wedding rape scene in Caligula?

[emersende]

Oh . . . um, all right: Caligula shows up at a wedding, rapes the bride, and then fists the groom.

I watched the not-very-good The Hillz the other night, and the worst part was seeing these teenage boys annoy/terrorize a store clerk. This past week I had my freakiest, scariest customer service experience ever, which was somewhat similar, so I'm already kind of creeped out. But, damn. Maybe cashier abuse is my particular film phobia.

[veronicamars]

I didn't find the Blair Witch scary for the most part, but when they found the teeth of the first guy that vanished, my stomach turned.

[Chenoeh]

The worst part is something weirder: eating a live octopus. Head, tentacles and all. Ewww and yet I'm fascinated how they got the effect.

That wasn't an effect.

[roxpopuli]

There's that scene in Reanimator where a severed head goes down on a woman.

Ding ding ding! We have a winnah!

[sexlexia]

re: Prince of Tides
I ended up turning this movie off after the scene where Nick Nolte reveals to Babs about what had happened in the house the night the guys broke in a la flashbacks. (IIRC, three men had broken out of prison and these folks were just unlucky enough live nearby/in their path.) It was distubing up to that point but what disturbed me the most after Nick admits to being raped was how that tidbit of info was treated in the movie. Maybe it got better... I'll never know, but it pissed me off to no end that somehow it was worse for Nick to have been raped because he was a boy then it had been for the mother and sister. WTFever.

I took some community college course that had us watch movies in class and then discuss their symbolism ...or something (must have been important since I can't remember the class hardly at all) and one move we watched was Wild at Heart. That movie disturbed me to no end. (No spoilage because it's an older movie but if you don't want to know about it then skip the rest of this post...)
I still have nightmares about the girl they find in the desert who was in a car accident but is up and wandering around wondering what the hell happened. When she gets into the light Nick and GF can see that a good bit of her skull is gone and her brain is exposed. The only thing I could think of at the time was "Holy fucking shit! She's up, walking and talking but she's a corpse!"

::shudder:: It haunts me to this day. The movie went down hill from there...

[deelight]

The movie Kids has some disturbing scenes - the one that is standing out to me is when the girl who just found out she had AIDS is raped while she is half-conscious, in a living room full of passed-out teenagers.

[sumire]

I've seen Salo, but I knew what to expect and was bracing myself for it. The disturbing moments that really haunt me are the little things, like the dying goldfish in Total Recall (poor widdle fishies!), or the unexpected, like Forrest Whitaker's body being run over and sort of wedged in the tires in The Crying Game.