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Joined: Jul 16 2006 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 324

What's the nastiest, cringe-inducingest scene in a movie for you?

For me......

It's the sledgehammer scene from the movie Misery.

There are lots of horror movies that go for the "gross out" effect, and feature a lot more blood and guts than this one. However, a lot of that stuff just comes off as "cartoony" to me. When I watch it, I find myself wondering how they created the effect rather than being horrified.

With Misery, you've got a couple of great actors creating the drama leading up to the moment. You could sense James Caan's horror as she placed the block between his legs, and Kathy Bates was just so sadistically creepy as she described the procedure to him. As she pulled the hammer back, I tensed my own legs in antipation of getting hit. As if the first leg wasn't enough, she then calmly walks over to the other side to do the other leg. Caan's reaction seemed so realistic......ending with him passing out from the pain.

For some reason, I find this kind of "blunt force" stuff to be far worse than other types of injury you see in movies. Another scene that comes to mind is the scene from Casino where Joe Pesci and his brother get beaten to death with baseball bats.

Any others?

Posted: Nov 11 2006 09:02 pm

The scene in the original Assault on Precinct 13 where the girl gets shot. I have no stomach for violence against children.

Posted: Nov 11 2006 09:30 pm

My dorm went to see What Lies Beneath as a group, and that scene where Harrison Ford lifts his wife out of the tub to look at the pendant, and then puts her back down..., well, that's the only time I've heard a large group of grown men yelp.

EDIT: I forgot to mention The Witches. Not any scene in particualr, the whole damn movie scarred me for life.

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

While I haven't seen the movie since I was much younger, there was a dream sequence in American Werewolf in London that scared the everlasting hell outta me. It involved monsters killing the main character's family while they were watching TV, or something to that effect.

Posted: Nov 11 2006 10:07 pm

"Hey... you wanna see something really scary?"

Pretty much everything in The Twlight Zone movie used to freak me out, especially the scene where the girl has no mouth.

Title: Nothing Special Joined: Oct 25 2006 Posts: 396

The first hour and a half of Audition was boring as hell. Then the final act is just fuckin' creepy. Involves vomiting into a bowl and making her victim eat it, cutting off a foot with piano wire and throwing it away....Just....gahh.

Posted: Nov 11 2006 11:56 pm

LARGE MARGE

No contest.

Okay, it's not that disturbing in "disturbing" sense, but she is frickin' eerie.

jonnymorgue wrote:

cutting off a foot... and throwing it away....

Oddly enough, a scene from the novel "Misery". Shocked

Posted: Nov 12 2006 01:54 am

that final scene in Blair Witch, when they find the dude standing in the corner, then the cam hits the ground.....

f'in freaked me out man

Title: Nothing Special Joined: Oct 25 2006 Posts: 396

Those two quick frames in The Exorcist where you see a white face on a black background. Those burn into my mind, and I see that shit in the dark.

Dammit....*leaves a lamp on all night*

Posted: Nov 12 2006 02:36 am

that's the only part of the exocist that freaked me out...i thought the movie was funny, personally

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I too, laughed at the exorscist.

I mostly get sick over those gore movies. hostel disgusted me.

the scene in the cell where the guy's intestines are coming out on the organ grinder sickened me, and event orizon as a whole sickened me.

Title: Nothing Special Joined: Oct 25 2006 Posts: 396

Mordum was weird, mainly because it didn't really try to have a plot; it was more like this guy's special effects project for college. There are maybe a dozen sick-ass scenes in the movie, and everything in between is just boring. But the crap that they pull off makes me want to shower in gasoline, because I just feel filthy for seeing it.

Posted: Nov 12 2006 02:07 pm

I laughed during Scream. I forget which one it was, though.

Posted: Nov 12 2006 04:50 pm

Cronenberg movies usually have at least one scene that makes me cringe... or pretty much all of Videodrome.

Joined: Jul 16 2006 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 324

jonnymorgue wrote:

Those two quick frames in The Exorcist where you see a white face on a black background. Those burn into my mind, and I see that shit in the dark.

Dammit....*leaves a lamp on all night*

Title: Nothing Special Joined: Oct 25 2006 Posts: 396

That's one of them. I know of one more, and someone once told me there were 3 total.

Posted: Nov 13 2006 01:12 am

Avian wrote:

Yeah, it was eerie... Until that damn VERSION I WISH I NEVER SAW decided to add that face into every other frame! Evil

Joined: Dec 11 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 3

Hostel had some pretty disturbing scenes in it. The part where the guy cuts the girls eyeball off, when the other guy gets the back of his ankel cut. ewww that just gave me cringes.

Joined: Oct 21 2006 Posts: 22

Ed Gein in the movie of the same name dancing in the moonlight banging a pot while dressed in his "woman" suit.

Joined: Aug 25 2005 Posts: 287

Following the scared, naked mass of people through the compound in "Schindler's List" bugged me the Hell out. You weren't sure if they were going into a gas chamber or a shower until the water started falling.

Recently, David Lynch's "Inland Empire" has a surreal/disturbing scene were Laura Dern is on a Hollywood street with three homeless people and she keels over, puking blood very graphically all over everything.

Neil Marshall's "The Descent" (one of the best horror films in recent memory) has a lot of great "what the fuck was that?" scares, but what creeped me out way, way more was some of the VERY claustrophobic camerawork of the women crawling through the subterranean cavern.

And, go ahead and laugh at me, but I get weirded out by "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" in about five different places (i.e., I hate bugs, so that whole sequence with Indy and Short Round walking over the insects is a hateful, hateful thing... and the dude who gets his heart pulled out and then gets dumped into the fire weirds me out, too... I'm not sure why).

Posted: Dec 13 2006 02:15 pm

ross_rifle113 wrote:

that final scene in Blair Witch, when they find the dude standing in the corner, then the cam hits the ground.....

f'in freaked me out man

That scared the shit out of me too. I was watching it alone in the dark for the first time in an empty house (except me). Also, I was somehow naive enough to think that that footage was the footage from the actual happening. I don't know why I thought that, but it definitely amplified everything I saw... especially that last part.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

this is pretty disturbing.

I dare you to watch it.

http://tehinter.net/articles/movies/swapreview.shtml

Posted: Dec 13 2006 04:03 pm

1st point I'd like to make is that anyone who thinks the Blair Witch Project was scary is a pussy! I slept through most of it, it was that boring!

2nd, I'll mention my movie "scary" moment... when I accidentally brought home "Jeebus' Jism"... wow! j/k

Posted: Dec 13 2006 04:21 pm

Tishwitch wrote:

1st point I'd like to make is that anyone who thinks the Blair Witch Project was scary is a pussy! I slept through most of it, it was that boring!

2nd, I'll mention my movie "scary" moment... when I accidentally brought home "Jeebus' Jism"... wow! j/k

Wow, that made no sense and still managed to make me cry blood.

Posted: Dec 13 2006 04:31 pm

Tishwitch wrote:

1st point I'd like to make is that anyone who thinks the Blair Witch Project was scary is a pussy! I slept through most of it, it was that boring!

2nd, I'll mention my movie "scary" moment... when I accidentally brought home "Jeebus' Jism"... wow! j/k

1st point: "Nothing's happening, nothing's happening...something about a map...nothing's happening, it's over. A lot of people look pissed."

2nd: yeah, I remember that. Fun night. And yeah, that one thing you did was sorta scary, but I guess that's what happens when you drink.