What's the most genuinely shocking moment in a film?

[Overhaulin]

Have to agree with those that have mentioned the scene from Saving Private Ryan.

I couldnt get it out of my head for days. The last time the film was on I had to go into the kicthen just before that scene started.

[Alfachick]

1, the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange *singing in the rain, Whack*
2, head, curb, crunch, American History X
3, rape scene in Boys Dont Cry
4, most of the film seven, makes me feel a bit sick just thinking about some of the stuff in it!
5, One flew over the cuckoos nest where they give Jack Nickleson a Lobotomy for like no reason.

I think thats the top 5 in no particular order although that may change... as i remember about other films and whatnot.
Yeah.

[thebluebus]

britten_mark said:

Strawman said:

Strange Japanese film, one of those you wish you'd never seen, where the protaganist gets tied up and then the pscho wife sticks pins in his eyes and removes his feet using a cheese wire, I thought it was called the audition but couldn't find it on IMDB

Thanks for that, I had forgotten the title and been waiting for it to be mentioned again. It's referenced all over the net, don't know why IMDB ignores it.

It's here - strangely, the very first result if you type "Audition" into the search box

But I think the bag suddenly moving, in that same film, is a right shocker!

[thebluebus]

And another Jap-film shock moment;

"Kairo", now sadly victim of an American remake. Woman walks down a darkened corridor towards something(?) in the shadows. Unbearable tension, and then sudden silence - and the whispered words "help me".

shit the bed!

[Silent1]

Alfachick said:

1, the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange *singing in the rain, Whack*...

IIRC that holds the record for the most amount of retakes in a scene

[audidoody]

The stabbing scene on Private Ryan is made more horrific by the fact that the stabbing is done with the SS knife Pvt Mellish took as a souvenir off Omaha.

Also, from the same film, the scene where the bullet ricochets off the medic's helmet .. he takes it off to see the damage and then gets shot between the eyes .... and the bit where the wounded solider being dragged across he beach by Miller is hit by a mortar round and turns into half a torso only Millar still thinks he is dragging an intact body ... and the guy looking around in the sand for his arm etc etc etc.

[disad-vantage-d]

"Squeal like a pig, boy!"

Deliverance.

For obvious reasons.

[Cotty]

Dog Soldiers when the knife is grating on the guys teeth, kind of similar to the Saving Private Ryan scene

The head/boat scene in Jaws always gets me.

[ncs]

The sex scene in Team America scarred me for life

Nick

[chrisbr68]

Saving Private Ryan. Painful film to watch, especially at that bit where one of the soldiers is stabbed really slowly in the chest - horrible.

[ZR1cliff]

Battle scenes dont shock me as they are genuine scenes in as much as both sides know what they are up against,in contrast with the film Schindlers List....The German commandant when choosing a house keeper from the line of jewish women states he doesnt want to get too close to the woman he chooses as he does not want her to catch his cough......
......minutes on he orders the shooting of a female engineer,in a blunt final order.
The clearing of the ghetto in the same film with the little girl dressed in a red coat in the back ground,i found just as shocking.

[paoloh]

Gladiator, when he returns home to find his wife and child.

[uriel]

The original Ring when the wifey comes out of the telly. Near filled me pants!

[DocJock]

Severance, where they are all sat eating pie and Danny Dyer spits out a human tooth

[chrisbr68]

Also, the rape scene in Scum - not really pleasant

[thebluebus]

chrisbr68 said:

Also, the rape scene in Scum - not really pleasant

The greenhouse rape is bad, but the matter-of-fact "where's your tool?" is worse.

[ZR1cliff]

DocJock said:

Severance, where they are all sat eating pie and Danny Dyer spits out a human tooth

Ime just having sausages for tea

[qube_TA]

AI - you can cope with it being the most depressing film ever but then you realise it won't end, it just keeps going on, as soon as you think it's ended, there's a bit more, and then some more, AAAGGGGHHAA make it stop, please, I can't take it,,, AGGGHAAA, now there's some aliens, WTF is going on why won't it end, for the love of god why?

[Towie]

thebluebus said:

chrisbr68 said:

Also, the rape scene in Scum - not really pleasant

The greenhouse rape is bad, but the matter-of-fact "where's your tool?" is worse.

Im the Daddy Now is far far worse

Edited by Towie on Sunday 11th November 18:43

[jimothy]

The previously mentioned scene in Audition is bad, but the only scene in a film that has made me refuse to watch a film again (ignoring all of Dumb and Dummer) is the "because there are too many of us" scene in Jude. Wrong, just wrong.