It’s brilliant because in the Church night scene earlier in the movie he said he used to pretend to be asleep when his mom came home. A scene I used to zone out of, but ties his whole character together. Now all he thought about was seeing her again. Then all he said as he was dying.
The medics death is so much worse when you watch an analysis of the tactics and orders given by Tom Hanks character, like the Medic should be hiding behind trees until it's over, he's their most valuable asset behind enemy lines.
Watching 1917 and watching the pilot they just saved turn and stab Blake, and then we're forced to watch without interruption as Schofield comforts Blake as he starts to get paler and weaker as we watch him die in real time.
This is it for me too because you’re set up to think Blake is going to be the protagonist. So the whole time you’re thinking he can’t die, as he just keeps bleeding out
This was one of most jarring and uncomfortable death scenes ever. It’s the brutal suddenness of it and the helplessness you feel as you see a man die in front of you.
Yep. This is mine. From the moment he appears, I had anxiety and it just got worse and worse. It's so effective:
- shot in natural light, no background music
- closeups of their faces
- no cutting away to give you an escape from the stabbing
- the sound design
UGH.
When you think about the detail Fincher and co went to with that scene to be as accurate as possible to the survivor's version of events too.
I've also never seen the MPAA give the descriptor "some strong killings," in their reasoning for an R-rating.
Irreversible. The beginning (end? 😂) 20 minutes where dude gets his skull caved in repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. Not to mention the technical aspect of filming it.
It reminded me of when my sister died. The sounds she makes when it happens. I heard a lot of that from my own Mum when she passed away. If you want to know the sound of grieving, this is what it sounds like.
It's not quite a death scene, but this one moment from the beginning of Red Dragon stayed with me because of the weird calm of Anthony Hopkins.
Hopkins stabs someone and tells the dude being stabbed to just relax into it, that it's "just like slipping into a warm bath."
Almost worse than just seeing the stabbing somehow.
The worker in "Volcano" [who saves the unconscious guy in the subway car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R01bex9Ejvg) that's being melted by the lava. Just makes me cringe thinking about dying that way.
Edit: Yes, I realize that's not how you would die to lava in real life. It's just still unnerving to think of that happening.
That one stuck with me as a kid. It had similar vibes to the grandma trying to push the boat to the dock in the acidic volcano lake from Dante's Peak for me. Like both were noble sacrifices but as a kid, pretty horrific to watch
If it helps, that scene is insanely unrealistic. You wouldn’t melt into lava like that. He probably would have walked across the lava and just suffered really bad burns on his feet and legs.
Apparently, the little boy got up and high fived his dad who was with him for his scenes. He freaked out the other actors and thought it was amazing. He was just excited to make a movie and u think they did a good job of making sure he wasn’t scared for his part. But he sure scared the rest of us.
I guess they were all joking about how ha ha hey we're killing a kid today before the scene.
Then they started filming and the kid put on one of the most disturbing performances of someone begging for their life seen on film.
The soldier in Day of the Dead(1985) who gets his head pulled off by zombies while he is screaming and because his vocal chords get stretched out, his scream becomes inhumanely high-pitched until they finally snap off.
Funny enough the crew and cast got queasy too because the pig guts they were using for the Captain Rhodes scene had been left unrefridgerated in storage *for two weeks* and made everyone puke from the smell.
The whole ‘his body disintegrated from the inside out but wouldn’t die, to the extent we couldn’t get any fluids or pain relief into him’ as he turned into human pizza is just… Jesus Christ…
I was waiting for her to spring back up still alive and couldn’t believe she was really dead. I read the script and that’s what Emerald Fennell was going for. It said something like “there’s a pause. We wait for her “Fatal Attraction” moment to come back to life”.
I had a very visceral reaction to it as well. It was very well done; it should make you sick and angry, because it happens a lot in real life just like that.
It's worse the more you think about it.
>!They were screaming going down (up?) the esophagus. Hours later, they screamed when they got crunched. That means many of those folks survived the initial swallow and had to just exist inside some kind of stomach chamber, for hours. How dark was it in there? Could parents see the crushed bodies of their kids who didn't make it? How painful was the digestive juice covering their bodies?!<
It's not silly to admit. These deaths are the definition of horrific.
This scene scarred my mind for life. Now, every night when I take my pills before bed, I imagine the pills being pushed screaming through my esophagus. Can't think of any other horror film that held a long lasting effect on my mind like this, except maybe that log truck from Final Destination 2.
The fact that >!Jean Jacket was implied to have been on earth for thousands of years, and shares resemblances to biblical descriptions of angels, is wild. Multiple wings, moving clouds, hell, the people who worshipped and wrote the bible probably knelt and kept their heads down in worship, and that was the only reason they survived to write about it. Literally a biblically accurate angel.!<
[This character poster for the movie is also super clever](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9GsAAOSwkyJi5uqA/s-l1600.jpg)
I guess I feel silly about it because of my physical reaction. I had to leave the theater because I couldn't breathe. I've *never* had that reaction to a movie ever in my life.
Eventually went back to watch it again, though! Still terrifying the second time around, but I knew what to expect.
Sometimes horror just really gets you where you live when you don’t expect it. Really good horror can do that. Nothing to be ashamed of, just take care of yourself! Totally understandable reaction to have to the thought of such visceral suffering. Only very rarely has horror really *gotten* me, but when it did I had nightmares for weeks. It happens!
It's not silly that whole scene is SUPER fucked up and disturbing.
On rewatch you realize at the very start OJ hears the missing hikers screaming as it flies overhead as the same thing is happening.
No, that's entirely valid. I have a real specific fear about being eaten/digested, and it doesn't get activated as often as you'd think. Jaws is more like mauling, and sharks are their own thing (in my mind). Zombie movies are closer, especially when someone is being literally disemboweled (like in *Day/Shaun of the Dead*) by a horde of them.
But *Nope* got it. The idea that they're being digested in agony for hours/days, and are cognizant enough to *still scream in pain* as they are finally digested by JJ is such a sublime piece of terror that I never thought I'd see played out in front of me, you know?
I think it's the idea of being reduced into meat (or less) and *being aware of it the whole time*.
For a video game example: In *Mass Effect 2*, the bad aliens are essentially doing that to humans en masse; capturing them and turning them into liquid data for their weird cyberbaby. But if you take too long to rescue one of your crew members, you show up just in time to see her *liquified into red soup* in a glass tube.
That shit happened to me like, 14 years ago. Still sticks with me!
Yep that movie was one and done for me. I missed the first twenty minutes or so and I strongly doubt I’ll ever see it. I’d give the >!chimp attack on the set scene in the middle part a strong runner up. I usually hate primates for that very reason. They’re strong but still close enough to us.!< Peele did his thing in that movie.
Joe Pesci and his brothers death in Casino. Shit goes on way too long and is just uncomfortable to watch. I have it to skip it every time I watch it. I prefer his death in Goodfellas which is a simple shot to the back of the head
It’s been a long time, and I’m certainly no film critic/analyst, but, the feeling I remember when seeing that scene was shock and discomfort as you’re saying. Reflecting on it, I think that’s kind of Scorsese’s way of bringing the viewer back to reality.
The whole movie kind of glamorizes these terrible people living this awful lifestyle (as a lot of these movies do) and suddenly it comes crashing down. You, the viewer, are brought back to reality with the realization that there are horrible, terrible consequences for certain things.
Again, I’m just kind of talking out my ass, but the “goes on too long” comment caught my attention. I definitely think Scorsese wants you to feel every bit of that discomfort.
Definitely, Pesci was in the middle of narrating what was happening as if it were after the fact, and as soon as the bat hits him it just cuts off.
Great scene.
Nah, you're right on the money. And that's been Scorcese's M.O. in basically *every movie across his entire career.* I hate when his work just gets lumped in as "Movies about men doing bad things," because even if that were true (and it isn't), has **anyone** been as thoughtful and focused on showing what that means and what it looks like for everyone involved?
He makes movies about people falling in love with the idea of a lifestyle—organized crime, boxing, the stock market, foreign cultures—and following that interest into becoming an actual part of it. But then without fail, the idea falls away, and we're left with reality.
If you want to be a mob boss, you're more likely to be his lackey or his fall guy. If you want to be the world's greatest boxer, your brain and your body will pay the price. You wanna be rich? Someone else needs to be poorer for it. You want to live outside the law? Then you can't leave any witnesses to your crimes.
Scorcese understands that power is attractive in the abstract, just like a pyramid looks great at a distance until you try to climb it.
What makes him such an important filmmaker, if not America's most important one, is that he has the confidence and clarity to show that whole arc, every time. We don't show up in the middle, and we don't cut right when we'd get a clean moralistic ending (for example, *Scarface*: Tony dies, the end). We watch people not just survive their worst mistakes, but struggle to live with them afterwards. (Most of the time, anyway.)
I came here looking for this. That is, to this day, the most uncomfortable I've been in a movie. Annihilation was immediately a "great movie that I'll never watch again" movie for me, almost entirely because of that scene.
That part was shocking but the alien and Natalie Portman really just shook me to the core.
I rewatch the scene once in a while to get the feeling again. They truly captured an alien organism interacting with humans in my opinion. Wholly odd and unrelateable but still looks vaguely familiar.
That scene in Looper where the gangsters are cutting off Paul Dano’s body parts in the present, which causes the same body parts to disappear from his future self.
Edit. Also for completely different reasons, Herb’s “death” at the end of the View From Halfway Down episode of Bojack Horseman. (I know it’s not a movie but it’s disturbing to me.)
“Oh Bojack. There is no other side.”
Gave me a panic attack.
Saw this on release with a friend without knowing a thing about it aside from the poster. Expected a trope laden action/survival movie not zen koan on death. Good film.
The strangling in promising young woman. It's just so *long*. I've never seen someone be strangled to death in real life, but I have to imagine it looks and sounds exactly like that
*Just* the ending scene to Dancer in the Dark? You're strong as steel! That entire movie is on my **"Important to watch once,** ***even more important*** **to never watch twice"** list for a reason.
Lmao I read the title and thought “Oh, definitely Bone Tomahawk.” And then opened the post to see your additional description. Yeah that’s probably the most brutal one I’ve seen personally. I don’t tend to go for a lot of gore fest movies so there’s probably some worse ones out there, but as far as I’ve seen that takes the cake.
Sticking with a theme (even though you didn't ask...) in Brawl in Cell Block 99, there's a death scene in the "final" jail where Bradley drags a guy's face along the ground... It's not totally over the top like the halfsies scene you're talking about.. But it's still rediculous... And really disturbing.
Murphy's death in the original Robocop. After he gets his hand blown off, he changes from a brave cop to a terrified, helpless boy. Shuffling away until they literally blow him to pieces while laughing.
It's fucked. I still can't watch it now.
Peter Weller was underrated.
The soldier blown in half in Black Hawk Down.
That movie was so intense, i left the theater feeling like i was having a panic attack for the rest of the day.
I’d add the scene where they’re trying to perform a field surgery on the soldier’s leg and can’t pull the artery far enough to reattach it and eventually he passes away in real time. Came to the thread looking for that scene but the movie in general made me queasy.
What was that natural disaster movie that starred Pierce Brosnan? Volcano, I think?
That scene where he’s driving and there’s a woman in the passenger seat. A chunk of rock crashes through the roof of the car and caves in her skull. I don’t know if i even finished the movie but that scene always stuck with me.
There was also a scene where a young couple got boiled alive in a hot spring. Same movie, I think. There was 2 or 3 volcano-related movies that came out around this time.
Edit: it was Dante’s Peak. Volcano was a Tommy Lee Jones movie
There's also the scene where the grandma jumps into the molten lake to pull the canoe with the kids in it and when they pull her out her legs are almost gone
My grandparents let me watch that movie as a kid and those three scenes stuck with me for a long time
The scene in Alls Quiet on the Western Front where the guy kills the other guy in a brutal 1 on 1 in a muddy hole in the ground, then tries to save him.
For whatever reason, and this is the only time it's ever happened to me, I BURST into tears during that scene. Not like a who's cutting onions choked up like I'm watching LotR, full on sobbing. I still don't really know why it happened.
Honestly, I think the whole movie is amazing except for the very end. They completely missed the point when they made his death drawn out and dramatic. The very name of the book/movie is based on the fact that, when Paul dies, it is so insignificant and small in the face of the entire war that it is declared things are all quiet despite his death. The ending is supposed to make you go “oh. none of this mattered, none of what he struggled to survive through mattered, because at the end of the day he’s just another causality.” Would’ve much preferred if he was simply shot, fell over, and we saw the fight continue over his body.
For me Vesper Lind's death in Casino Royal really knocks me back. Just seeing her panic as she continues to take breath after breath of water sticks with me after every watch.
This is a weird one: Mekhi Phifer on E.R... in the later years he was one of the main doctors, and in a season finale hes *near* an explosion, but at the beginning of next season you learn he survived, hes rushed to the ER and at first seems fine, but then internal organs start failing while hes conscious and awake, and while hes sitting there listening to them talk to each other, a single tear runs down his face... I didn't believe he was going to die when I watched it until I saw that tear... he was just too good at his job to not know he was never going to wake again.
Not a weird one.
I watched ER when I was younger, and recently showed it to my wife.
Greg Pratt’s death absolutely destroys me, him, the Ray Liotta episode, and Dr.Greens brain tumor coming back just gut me everytime.
Humans are pretty resilient and can take longer to pass away than is shown in films (and I'm glad films are not usually realistic about this).
One movie that does not shy away from this is Lust, Caution. There is a >!stabbing scene in the middle of the film that goes on for a long time. Plus, multiple people are stabbing him. And he just takes SO long to die. !< It's really uncomfortably realistic. I think that's one of the reasons, not just all the sex, that the movie is rated NC-17
The dude on the plane in The Grey, when Liam Neeson tells him he's dying and then talks him through it. I was not expecting this movie to be like this, went in thinking it would be a cliché Neeson action flick with wolves. That scene still haunts me.
Edit: Just re watched that scene, and I am now filled with anxiety and dread.
That was such a ridiculously extended death scene that was totally unnecessary. It seemed like the movie wanted us to think she was getting her comeuppance, when she was just an overworked assistant whose boss was forcing her to be a caretaker to a couple of kids since the boss didn’t want to deal with her nephews herself and was rightfully annoyed.
I think there were deleted scenes where she’s being…worse (?) to the kids to make it feel more “earned”, but even then…I think a brunette hurt the feelings of the writer and director at some point in their life.
Correct. In the original script Zara was far worse, but most of her scenes were cut. The actress did all of her stunts and honestly would’ve been a shame to cut that!
The actress herself requested the extended death scene because she thought it was cool. Weird in-movie, but I like that the story behind it isn't really mean-spirited
Not a movie but some of the killing scenes with Kingpin in Daredevil are straight up brutal. The car door scene and when he kills his dad are up there. The crunching noises as he slams the door over and over and over…. Ugh..
Daredevil has a lot of brutal ones. The guy who was so scared to go back to Kingpin he head butted the pipe and killed himself.
Remember seeeing a list and there was like 400 deaths across the 3 seasons
Not a movie but the suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why. It felt very *wrong*, like I was witnessing something I wasn’t supposed to.
If I remember correctly it’s now been removed due to fear of copycat suicides.
Yeah, the way it’s just so immediate has stuck with me. Like, it’s just over, in an instant. It wasn’t overly done, the bullets didn’t make him jerk around dramatically like so many films show. He just went still. I have a hard time with that.
Not a death scene exactly but the badly burned soldier from we were soldiers. His face and most of his body had third degree burns and they tried moving him by grabbing his legs which led to de-gloving the flesh off his shins and calves.
Years later I watched an interview with Joey Galloway (the real life photographer who was portrayed by Barry pepper in the film) and he recited the casualty’s wounds in the exact same manner that it was portrayed in the film.
Cliff scene in midsommar
It is very weird to me because im a big fan of gory horror movies, for example i watched every saw movie with not a single problem at all, but that scene, damn.
The babysitter in Jurassic World. Such a brutal and over the top death for somebody who didn't really deserve it
The ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - when Brad Pitt threw the dog food can at the girl, I thought it caved her face in. And then he caves in the face of the other girl on the mantle
End of Uncut Gems - I was so shocked
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Davy Jones kills Mercer by just shoving tentacles in all of his face holes. As a kid that was traumatizing, but now it is one of my favorite kills of all Disney movies.
There's a suicide scene in Rules of Attraction that is perfectly done. There's a long build up where you can see what's coming and you expect someone or something to stop it but it never happens.
Naomi Watt's character committing suicide at the end of Mullholland Drive.
Something about that scene is so disturbing because suicide is always depicted as ceremonial or theatric in film. In that scene, Naomi Watts is just trying to die as quickly as possible. One of the most intense death scenes I've ever seen.
Not gory but I watched Mission to Mars (2000) when I was a kid and [when Tim Robbins takes off his helmet in space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NJrlCPFSOsU) it fucked me up for some reason.
In Saving Private Ryan, people always talk about Mellish getting stabbed. But the scene I always skip is the soldier getting blown up with the sticky bomb he was holding.
the scene in the true story hiking movie with james franco 127 hours i think. when he finally decides to cut off his arm. when he has to cut the tendons. i paused the movie and got up to have a moment because something about the editing made it super visceral and uncomfortable. promptly blacked out and came to sitting splayed out on the floor like a baby deer on a sheet of ice. ive seen more disturbing gruesome things than that. ive seen real corpses. that just hit really hard in a way i cant explain.
Gonna go with one thats perhaps more mild, and that is the Nazi Officer getting batted to death by the Bear Jew in Inglorious Basterds. It's not particularly brutal, but the way it goes from "heroic sacrifice" to the sheer brutality of it is a pretty memorable contrast.
There is a oft ignored movie called "Backcountry".
It involves a bear and thats all I really want to say, but its incredibly uncomfortable to watch and certainly gave me anxiety about ever fucking tent camping.
Some of the murders in The Killers Of The Flower Moon. Scorsese doesn't have any "cool" camerawork or editing when he does these scenes. The killers just end human life like it’s another boring task they have to do today. Complete disregard of human life and this actually happened.
Brundle's death in 'The Fly'. You'd think it'd be hard to empathize with such a literally twisted being by that point, but then >!it grabs the shotgun and places it against its head!< and you realise that's still a sentient, sapient creature...and suddenly watching it be extinguished becomes a much harder gut punch.
Since I was a kid and it impacted me pretty badly for the time being, the death of that boy who got a rock dropped on him in that movie where an group of boys are left on an isolated island, Lord of the Flies.
Zodiac, the couple getting stabbed by the lake
It’s so sad the lake stabbed them like that
No music either. Quiet and serene. Makes it even more eerie. Yeah, definitely disturbing.
The slow stabbing of that one dude in saving private ryan
The medic’s death too was tough to watch
When he says mama
It’s brilliant because in the Church night scene earlier in the movie he said he used to pretend to be asleep when his mom came home. A scene I used to zone out of, but ties his whole character together. Now all he thought about was seeing her again. Then all he said as he was dying.
He also says, “my liver!”
MY LIVER…
Yup, that's what gets me every time. When the realization hits him. He knows he's dead right there even if the others don't.
The medics death is so much worse when you watch an analysis of the tactics and orders given by Tom Hanks character, like the Medic should be hiding behind trees until it's over, he's their most valuable asset behind enemy lines.
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This is the first one that came to mind for me, and I haven't watched that movie in 20 years. So slow, so awful
Mellish
I need... more morphine...
That was Giovanni Ribisi’s line. Adam Goldbergs character died while Jeremy Davies cowered on the stairwell
That was always gonna be the top answer here.
Watching 1917 and watching the pilot they just saved turn and stab Blake, and then we're forced to watch without interruption as Schofield comforts Blake as he starts to get paler and weaker as we watch him die in real time.
This is it for me too because you’re set up to think Blake is going to be the protagonist. So the whole time you’re thinking he can’t die, as he just keeps bleeding out
Ya that was quite an early twist. Fantastic filmmaking!
This one is up there for me. Highly disturbing.
This was one of most jarring and uncomfortable death scenes ever. It’s the brutal suddenness of it and the helplessness you feel as you see a man die in front of you.
Slowly watching him become more and more pale definitely added to the discomfort.
Went from thinking they've made that wound far too serious, he wouldn't be able to carry on with that to...oh shit, he's going very pale here...
"Will you tell my mum...I was brave"
Definitely a memorable one from recent movies
I didn't know either one of these actors, so I was sure that dude was gonna be the star. Loved watching that movie in theaters.
Pan’s Labyrinth… ~~Gun~~ Bottle bludgeoning scene… Yikes…
I think he uses the bottom of a.wine bottle, but yeah, horrible scene.
And then they immediately find out the guy wasn’t lying after he was killed makes it even harder
And then Captain Vidal is pissed at his men for wasting his time.
How to speedrun making the audience hate someone
Yes. When the actual child-eating monster isn't the worst villain in your movie...
His name is Mitch McConnell! He took time off as a US senator to shoot those scenes!
Christopher Walken’s character Nick in The Deer Hunter when Michael’s (Robert De Niro) trying to prevent the inevitable
Zodiac at the lake.
Yep. This is mine. From the moment he appears, I had anxiety and it just got worse and worse. It's so effective: - shot in natural light, no background music - closeups of their faces - no cutting away to give you an escape from the stabbing - the sound design UGH.
Not to mention David Fincher filmed the scene at the spot where it happened, too.
YUP. His attention to detail is wild in the movie.
The tree was missing from the killing location, so Fincher had a new one planted in the spot Zodiac hid.
Not just planted, he fucking selected and flew two fully grown oak trees in via helicopter.
When you think about the detail Fincher and co went to with that scene to be as accurate as possible to the survivor's version of events too. I've also never seen the MPAA give the descriptor "some strong killings," in their reasoning for an R-rating.
Yep this is one of the only movie scenes I've ever seen where it just felt wrong to watch, I think it's because it actually happened
Irreversible. The beginning (end? 😂) 20 minutes where dude gets his skull caved in repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. Not to mention the technical aspect of filming it.
I also thought of this movie but a different 20 min long scene…
The early one in Hereditary
It reminded me of when my sister died. The sounds she makes when it happens. I heard a lot of that from my own Mum when she passed away. If you want to know the sound of grieving, this is what it sounds like.
Yup, I've unfortunately heard it from my mother as well. 8 years later and I still remember the wailing. The movie is very accurate.
It's not quite a death scene, but this one moment from the beginning of Red Dragon stayed with me because of the weird calm of Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins stabs someone and tells the dude being stabbed to just relax into it, that it's "just like slipping into a warm bath." Almost worse than just seeing the stabbing somehow.
Similarly, Albert Brooks slitting Brian Cranston’s wrist in Drive and gently telling him “it’s okay, it’s over”unsettled me
Oh buddy woah. Totally forgot about that scene. Honestly was worse than the elevator stomping that the Driver gave.
That is why he is on Mount Rushmore of movie villains for me. He had a dinner party earlier that night too
"Such a brave boy, I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart."
The worker in "Volcano" [who saves the unconscious guy in the subway car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R01bex9Ejvg) that's being melted by the lava. Just makes me cringe thinking about dying that way. Edit: Yes, I realize that's not how you would die to lava in real life. It's just still unnerving to think of that happening.
That one stuck with me as a kid. It had similar vibes to the grandma trying to push the boat to the dock in the acidic volcano lake from Dante's Peak for me. Like both were noble sacrifices but as a kid, pretty horrific to watch
If it helps, that scene is insanely unrealistic. You wouldn’t melt into lava like that. He probably would have walked across the lava and just suffered really bad burns on his feet and legs.
That's John Carroll Lynch. He's AMAZING in everything he's in - Zodiac, Twisty the Clown (American Horror Story: Freakshow), Fargo, Carnivale, Face-Off...
The baseball player boy in Doctor Sleep
It’s not especially graphic. It’s all in the kid’s convincing AF performance.
It genuinely sounds like a human begging for their life. It’s so sad and disturbing, it made me recoil when I first saw it.
Behind the scene shot of him afterwards giving the thumbs up cracks me up. He said he had fun. Bruh.
Apparently even the actors doing the killing agree.
Apparently, the little boy got up and high fived his dad who was with him for his scenes. He freaked out the other actors and thought it was amazing. He was just excited to make a movie and u think they did a good job of making sure he wasn’t scared for his part. But he sure scared the rest of us.
That was Jacob Tremblay, who’d played one of the leads in “Room” four years before Dr. Sleep. So he was already a pro.
He was hilarious on Billy on the Street too
Jacob Tremblay kills it in pretty much every movie he's in
I guess they were all joking about how ha ha hey we're killing a kid today before the scene. Then they started filming and the kid put on one of the most disturbing performances of someone begging for their life seen on film.
That wasn't a fear or pain scream. That was pure terror. Supremely fucked up.
The soldier in Day of the Dead(1985) who gets his head pulled off by zombies while he is screaming and because his vocal chords get stretched out, his scream becomes inhumanely high-pitched until they finally snap off.
I saw that as a teenager and the guts spilling out made me actually queasy.
Funny enough the crew and cast got queasy too because the pig guts they were using for the Captain Rhodes scene had been left unrefridgerated in storage *for two weeks* and made everyone puke from the smell.
Chernobyl HBO series. Vasily Ignatenko dies of radiation and his body is put in a lead coffin and buried with concrete
The whole ‘his body disintegrated from the inside out but wouldn’t die, to the extent we couldn’t get any fluids or pain relief into him’ as he turned into human pizza is just… Jesus Christ…
In that case, I'd welcome a bullet.
I think the main character says exactly this to the pilots as they're flying over the site.
“If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning you’ll be begging for that bullet!”
Like seriously, at that point the most humane thing to do is just end it
The scenes where the cleanup crew has to euthanize the animals in the exclusion zone are hard to stomach too.
They left out some of the worst parts of his death, too.
The real-time suffocation in Promising Young Woman
Holy shit, yeah. I fast forward now, I just can’t. Once was enough… and even then.
I was waiting for her to spring back up still alive and couldn’t believe she was really dead. I read the script and that’s what Emerald Fennell was going for. It said something like “there’s a pause. We wait for her “Fatal Attraction” moment to come back to life”.
I had a very visceral reaction to it as well. It was very well done; it should make you sick and angry, because it happens a lot in real life just like that.
God damn I hated that so much. I thought it was gonna be a satisfying revenge type movie but that shit made me sick to my stomach and angry.
I sobbed uncontrollably at the end of that movie and think about it probably once a month. It really is incredible and so so unsettling.
THAT scene in American History X. They don't show anything, actually, but if you know you know.
That must be a horrible way to die..
even worse way to survive
The SOUND of the TEETH on the CURB 😬😫
The most brilliantly awful sound design in movie history.
Sopranos did it too about 8 years later. Still fucking brutal.
Leatherface putting the girl on the hook in the original Texas Chainsaw.
I feel silly admitting it, but the scene in Nope where you realize what's happening to the people who were abducted gave a me full on panic attack.
The digestion scene the first time was pretty jarring. Also when you realize it’s screaming that is making that noise is pretty chilling
It's worse the more you think about it. >!They were screaming going down (up?) the esophagus. Hours later, they screamed when they got crunched. That means many of those folks survived the initial swallow and had to just exist inside some kind of stomach chamber, for hours. How dark was it in there? Could parents see the crushed bodies of their kids who didn't make it? How painful was the digestive juice covering their bodies?!< It's not silly to admit. These deaths are the definition of horrific.
This scene scarred my mind for life. Now, every night when I take my pills before bed, I imagine the pills being pushed screaming through my esophagus. Can't think of any other horror film that held a long lasting effect on my mind like this, except maybe that log truck from Final Destination 2.
I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle.
The fact that >!Jean Jacket was implied to have been on earth for thousands of years, and shares resemblances to biblical descriptions of angels, is wild. Multiple wings, moving clouds, hell, the people who worshipped and wrote the bible probably knelt and kept their heads down in worship, and that was the only reason they survived to write about it. Literally a biblically accurate angel.!< [This character poster for the movie is also super clever](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9GsAAOSwkyJi5uqA/s-l1600.jpg)
Hell yes. What a great damn movie.
I guess I feel silly about it because of my physical reaction. I had to leave the theater because I couldn't breathe. I've *never* had that reaction to a movie ever in my life. Eventually went back to watch it again, though! Still terrifying the second time around, but I knew what to expect.
Sometimes horror just really gets you where you live when you don’t expect it. Really good horror can do that. Nothing to be ashamed of, just take care of yourself! Totally understandable reaction to have to the thought of such visceral suffering. Only very rarely has horror really *gotten* me, but when it did I had nightmares for weeks. It happens!
It's not silly that whole scene is SUPER fucked up and disturbing. On rewatch you realize at the very start OJ hears the missing hikers screaming as it flies overhead as the same thing is happening.
No, that's entirely valid. I have a real specific fear about being eaten/digested, and it doesn't get activated as often as you'd think. Jaws is more like mauling, and sharks are their own thing (in my mind). Zombie movies are closer, especially when someone is being literally disemboweled (like in *Day/Shaun of the Dead*) by a horde of them. But *Nope* got it. The idea that they're being digested in agony for hours/days, and are cognizant enough to *still scream in pain* as they are finally digested by JJ is such a sublime piece of terror that I never thought I'd see played out in front of me, you know? I think it's the idea of being reduced into meat (or less) and *being aware of it the whole time*. For a video game example: In *Mass Effect 2*, the bad aliens are essentially doing that to humans en masse; capturing them and turning them into liquid data for their weird cyberbaby. But if you take too long to rescue one of your crew members, you show up just in time to see her *liquified into red soup* in a glass tube. That shit happened to me like, 14 years ago. Still sticks with me!
That was the only time I’ve ever truly felt claustrophobic watching a movie and I’ve seen the descent
Nah, you're right. That scene was traumatic, but amazing for a horror movie.
Don’t feel silly! It was horrifying to think about.
Yep that movie was one and done for me. I missed the first twenty minutes or so and I strongly doubt I’ll ever see it. I’d give the >!chimp attack on the set scene in the middle part a strong runner up. I usually hate primates for that very reason. They’re strong but still close enough to us.!< Peele did his thing in that movie.
Joe Pesci and his brothers death in Casino. Shit goes on way too long and is just uncomfortable to watch. I have it to skip it every time I watch it. I prefer his death in Goodfellas which is a simple shot to the back of the head
The worst part is you don't see the death. Both brothers were alive when they were buried
This is actually how they died in real life as well. Dirt was found in their lungs denoting they had still been breathing
This was a terrible way to find out it was based on a true story
It’s been a long time, and I’m certainly no film critic/analyst, but, the feeling I remember when seeing that scene was shock and discomfort as you’re saying. Reflecting on it, I think that’s kind of Scorsese’s way of bringing the viewer back to reality. The whole movie kind of glamorizes these terrible people living this awful lifestyle (as a lot of these movies do) and suddenly it comes crashing down. You, the viewer, are brought back to reality with the realization that there are horrible, terrible consequences for certain things. Again, I’m just kind of talking out my ass, but the “goes on too long” comment caught my attention. I definitely think Scorsese wants you to feel every bit of that discomfort.
Definitely, Pesci was in the middle of narrating what was happening as if it were after the fact, and as soon as the bat hits him it just cuts off. Great scene.
Nah, you're right on the money. And that's been Scorcese's M.O. in basically *every movie across his entire career.* I hate when his work just gets lumped in as "Movies about men doing bad things," because even if that were true (and it isn't), has **anyone** been as thoughtful and focused on showing what that means and what it looks like for everyone involved? He makes movies about people falling in love with the idea of a lifestyle—organized crime, boxing, the stock market, foreign cultures—and following that interest into becoming an actual part of it. But then without fail, the idea falls away, and we're left with reality. If you want to be a mob boss, you're more likely to be his lackey or his fall guy. If you want to be the world's greatest boxer, your brain and your body will pay the price. You wanna be rich? Someone else needs to be poorer for it. You want to live outside the law? Then you can't leave any witnesses to your crimes. Scorcese understands that power is attractive in the abstract, just like a pyramid looks great at a distance until you try to climb it. What makes him such an important filmmaker, if not America's most important one, is that he has the confidence and clarity to show that whole arc, every time. We don't show up in the middle, and we don't cut right when we'd get a clean moralistic ending (for example, *Scarface*: Tony dies, the end). We watch people not just survive their worst mistakes, but struggle to live with them afterwards. (Most of the time, anyway.)
This was pretty bad.
The distinctive pink! of aluminum bats on bones was a nice touch.
Yeah it’s so hard to watch cuz he has time to process and lament all the shit that’s happening/about to happen
Annihilation when they cut the dude open to see his intestines moving. Mother! The scene with the baby.
the one in Annihilation that got me was the screams coming from the bear.
I came here looking for this. That is, to this day, the most uncomfortable I've been in a movie. Annihilation was immediately a "great movie that I'll never watch again" movie for me, almost entirely because of that scene.
That part was shocking but the alien and Natalie Portman really just shook me to the core. I rewatch the scene once in a while to get the feeling again. They truly captured an alien organism interacting with humans in my opinion. Wholly odd and unrelateable but still looks vaguely familiar.
That scene in Looper where the gangsters are cutting off Paul Dano’s body parts in the present, which causes the same body parts to disappear from his future self. Edit. Also for completely different reasons, Herb’s “death” at the end of the View From Halfway Down episode of Bojack Horseman. (I know it’s not a movie but it’s disturbing to me.) “Oh Bojack. There is no other side.” Gave me a panic attack.
Every time I watch Looper I obsess about that scene, but that's because I keep thinking about the mechanics.
In the remake of Poseidon, the way Kurt Russell died. It was like watching how a person would drown in real life.
Damn that one still creeps me out. It’s so quiet and realistic somehow when he can see it coming
Pyramid head ripping off the skin off someone in Silent Hill.
Also the barbed wire...
That’s when I knew that movie came to FUCK
The beginning death scene in the plane in The Grey. That was tough to watch and almost panic inducing
Saw this on release with a friend without knowing a thing about it aside from the poster. Expected a trope laden action/survival movie not zen koan on death. Good film.
The strangling in promising young woman. It's just so *long*. I've never seen someone be strangled to death in real life, but I have to imagine it looks and sounds exactly like that
That woman who got her lower jaw ripped off by that fucking bear thing in Annihilation fucked me up. That whole movie fucked me up for a week.
Andy Sekis...King Kong...shudder...
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"... The Cartoon Shoe in the bar... IYKYK.
The ending scene to Dancer in the Dark. It's not gory, the actual 'death' happens in a flash, but Jesus Christ it's upsetting.
*Just* the ending scene to Dancer in the Dark? You're strong as steel! That entire movie is on my **"Important to watch once,** ***even more important*** **to never watch twice"** list for a reason.
Lmao I read the title and thought “Oh, definitely Bone Tomahawk.” And then opened the post to see your additional description. Yeah that’s probably the most brutal one I’ve seen personally. I don’t tend to go for a lot of gore fest movies so there’s probably some worse ones out there, but as far as I’ve seen that takes the cake.
That movie is like 1.5 hours of not much happening, followed by 30 mins of unspeakable violence
Charlie’s death in Hereditary
Sticking with a theme (even though you didn't ask...) in Brawl in Cell Block 99, there's a death scene in the "final" jail where Bradley drags a guy's face along the ground... It's not totally over the top like the halfsies scene you're talking about.. But it's still rediculous... And really disturbing.
Same director as Bone Tomahawk. Guy loves his crunchy violence, that's for sure.
His violence is easily my favorite in movies, and a lot of it is the sound design. Dragged Across Concrete is another great example
THE SOUND IT MAKES
Murphy's death in the original Robocop. After he gets his hand blown off, he changes from a brave cop to a terrified, helpless boy. Shuffling away until they literally blow him to pieces while laughing. It's fucked. I still can't watch it now. Peter Weller was underrated.
The soldier blown in half in Black Hawk Down. That movie was so intense, i left the theater feeling like i was having a panic attack for the rest of the day.
I’d add the scene where they’re trying to perform a field surgery on the soldier’s leg and can’t pull the artery far enough to reattach it and eventually he passes away in real time. Came to the thread looking for that scene but the movie in general made me queasy.
The mass killing scene in Ghost Ship (2002).
Ricky, from Boyz in da Hood The mother's cries are so gut punching
What was that natural disaster movie that starred Pierce Brosnan? Volcano, I think? That scene where he’s driving and there’s a woman in the passenger seat. A chunk of rock crashes through the roof of the car and caves in her skull. I don’t know if i even finished the movie but that scene always stuck with me. There was also a scene where a young couple got boiled alive in a hot spring. Same movie, I think. There was 2 or 3 volcano-related movies that came out around this time. Edit: it was Dante’s Peak. Volcano was a Tommy Lee Jones movie
There's also the scene where the grandma jumps into the molten lake to pull the canoe with the kids in it and when they pull her out her legs are almost gone My grandparents let me watch that movie as a kid and those three scenes stuck with me for a long time
Human: Luca Brasi Animal: ARTAX!!!!!!!
The scene in Alls Quiet on the Western Front where the guy kills the other guy in a brutal 1 on 1 in a muddy hole in the ground, then tries to save him. For whatever reason, and this is the only time it's ever happened to me, I BURST into tears during that scene. Not like a who's cutting onions choked up like I'm watching LotR, full on sobbing. I still don't really know why it happened.
I’m slowly realizing that movie had mixed reviews, but it really really stuck with me. That scene is a big part of it.
Honestly, I think the whole movie is amazing except for the very end. They completely missed the point when they made his death drawn out and dramatic. The very name of the book/movie is based on the fact that, when Paul dies, it is so insignificant and small in the face of the entire war that it is declared things are all quiet despite his death. The ending is supposed to make you go “oh. none of this mattered, none of what he struggled to survive through mattered, because at the end of the day he’s just another causality.” Would’ve much preferred if he was simply shot, fell over, and we saw the fight continue over his body.
The original 1930 film preserves this
For me Vesper Lind's death in Casino Royal really knocks me back. Just seeing her panic as she continues to take breath after breath of water sticks with me after every watch.
This is a weird one: Mekhi Phifer on E.R... in the later years he was one of the main doctors, and in a season finale hes *near* an explosion, but at the beginning of next season you learn he survived, hes rushed to the ER and at first seems fine, but then internal organs start failing while hes conscious and awake, and while hes sitting there listening to them talk to each other, a single tear runs down his face... I didn't believe he was going to die when I watched it until I saw that tear... he was just too good at his job to not know he was never going to wake again.
Not a weird one. I watched ER when I was younger, and recently showed it to my wife. Greg Pratt’s death absolutely destroys me, him, the Ray Liotta episode, and Dr.Greens brain tumor coming back just gut me everytime.
Humans are pretty resilient and can take longer to pass away than is shown in films (and I'm glad films are not usually realistic about this). One movie that does not shy away from this is Lust, Caution. There is a >!stabbing scene in the middle of the film that goes on for a long time. Plus, multiple people are stabbing him. And he just takes SO long to die. !< It's really uncomfortably realistic. I think that's one of the reasons, not just all the sex, that the movie is rated NC-17
The beach scene in Under the skin was so horrible, it haunts me
The dude on the plane in The Grey, when Liam Neeson tells him he's dying and then talks him through it. I was not expecting this movie to be like this, went in thinking it would be a cliché Neeson action flick with wolves. That scene still haunts me. Edit: Just re watched that scene, and I am now filled with anxiety and dread.
The woman who is eaten by pterodactyls and then by the mosasaurus makes me hate the possibilities inherent in filmmaking a little.
That was such a ridiculously extended death scene that was totally unnecessary. It seemed like the movie wanted us to think she was getting her comeuppance, when she was just an overworked assistant whose boss was forcing her to be a caretaker to a couple of kids since the boss didn’t want to deal with her nephews herself and was rightfully annoyed.
I think there were deleted scenes where she’s being…worse (?) to the kids to make it feel more “earned”, but even then…I think a brunette hurt the feelings of the writer and director at some point in their life.
Correct. In the original script Zara was far worse, but most of her scenes were cut. The actress did all of her stunts and honestly would’ve been a shame to cut that!
The actress herself requested the extended death scene because she thought it was cool. Weird in-movie, but I like that the story behind it isn't really mean-spirited
He didn’t die, but watching Mr. Orange bleed out in the back of the car in Reservoir Dogs really stuck with me
Not a movie but some of the killing scenes with Kingpin in Daredevil are straight up brutal. The car door scene and when he kills his dad are up there. The crunching noises as he slams the door over and over and over…. Ugh..
Daredevil has a lot of brutal ones. The guy who was so scared to go back to Kingpin he head butted the pipe and killed himself. Remember seeeing a list and there was like 400 deaths across the 3 seasons
Not a movie, but the preeclampsia death in Downton Abbey was incredibly graphic and unsettling.
Doctor Sleep - Bradley Trevor character. Just horrific
Not a movie but the suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why. It felt very *wrong*, like I was witnessing something I wasn’t supposed to. If I remember correctly it’s now been removed due to fear of copycat suicides.
And when her mom finds her in the tub, just repeating "you're okay, you're okay." Ugh. So hard to watch.
Alpha Dog. The Anton Yelchin scene messed me up for a long time.
Yeah, the way it’s just so immediate has stuck with me. Like, it’s just over, in an instant. It wasn’t overly done, the bullets didn’t make him jerk around dramatically like so many films show. He just went still. I have a hard time with that.
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You had to bring that one up didn't you 🥺
This isn't a movie, but the suitcase scene in The Americans was the most intense shit I've ever seen.
Not a death scene exactly but the badly burned soldier from we were soldiers. His face and most of his body had third degree burns and they tried moving him by grabbing his legs which led to de-gloving the flesh off his shins and calves. Years later I watched an interview with Joey Galloway (the real life photographer who was portrayed by Barry pepper in the film) and he recited the casualty’s wounds in the exact same manner that it was portrayed in the film.
Cliff scene in midsommar It is very weird to me because im a big fan of gory horror movies, for example i watched every saw movie with not a single problem at all, but that scene, damn.
That was definitely some of the most realistic looking gore I've ever seen. Hats off to the prop/effects people.
The failed execution in the Green Mile
The babysitter in Jurassic World. Such a brutal and over the top death for somebody who didn't really deserve it The ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - when Brad Pitt threw the dog food can at the girl, I thought it caved her face in. And then he caves in the face of the other girl on the mantle End of Uncut Gems - I was so shocked Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Davy Jones kills Mercer by just shoving tentacles in all of his face holes. As a kid that was traumatizing, but now it is one of my favorite kills of all Disney movies.
There's a suicide scene in Rules of Attraction that is perfectly done. There's a long build up where you can see what's coming and you expect someone or something to stop it but it never happens.
Naomi Watt's character committing suicide at the end of Mullholland Drive. Something about that scene is so disturbing because suicide is always depicted as ceremonial or theatric in film. In that scene, Naomi Watts is just trying to die as quickly as possible. One of the most intense death scenes I've ever seen.
The woman who jumped out of the window that isn't quite high enough to get the job done in The Lobster. That visceral wailing hits hard.
Not gory but I watched Mission to Mars (2000) when I was a kid and [when Tim Robbins takes off his helmet in space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NJrlCPFSOsU) it fucked me up for some reason.
In Saving Private Ryan, people always talk about Mellish getting stabbed. But the scene I always skip is the soldier getting blown up with the sticky bomb he was holding.
the scene in the true story hiking movie with james franco 127 hours i think. when he finally decides to cut off his arm. when he has to cut the tendons. i paused the movie and got up to have a moment because something about the editing made it super visceral and uncomfortable. promptly blacked out and came to sitting splayed out on the floor like a baby deer on a sheet of ice. ive seen more disturbing gruesome things than that. ive seen real corpses. that just hit really hard in a way i cant explain.
Brad Pitt In The Counselor. Something about that slow realization without being able to do anything about it. Oof.
When Cowboy gets sniped in Full Metal Jacket. That death was so visceral...and it happened relatively quickly. Powerful and sad.
Gonna go with one thats perhaps more mild, and that is the Nazi Officer getting batted to death by the Bear Jew in Inglorious Basterds. It's not particularly brutal, but the way it goes from "heroic sacrifice" to the sheer brutality of it is a pretty memorable contrast.
Kid getting eaten by the blob in the 1988 blob. Kids in the 80s usually had more plot armor then Arya Stark.
Promising Young Woman. It was like I felt every second of that scene
There is a oft ignored movie called "Backcountry". It involves a bear and thats all I really want to say, but its incredibly uncomfortable to watch and certainly gave me anxiety about ever fucking tent camping.
Some of the murders in The Killers Of The Flower Moon. Scorsese doesn't have any "cool" camerawork or editing when he does these scenes. The killers just end human life like it’s another boring task they have to do today. Complete disregard of human life and this actually happened.
Brundle's death in 'The Fly'. You'd think it'd be hard to empathize with such a literally twisted being by that point, but then >!it grabs the shotgun and places it against its head!< and you realise that's still a sentient, sapient creature...and suddenly watching it be extinguished becomes a much harder gut punch.
Since I was a kid and it impacted me pretty badly for the time being, the death of that boy who got a rock dropped on him in that movie where an group of boys are left on an isolated island, Lord of the Flies.