Stumbled across a list of "scenes we just can't watch" on total film this morning and one of my favourites was on there, just thought i'd share

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/get-the-kid-henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer-1986#content

I've only seen Last House on the Left once. Why? Because there's a scene in there that I just don't think I can watch again. Guys, you'll know the one I mean.

Also, that Faces of Death segment in which a skydiver goes off course and lands in an alligator farm. Whether that was real footage or not, just the thought of what's going on there makes me sick to my stomach.

I definately cannot watch the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange. Not exactly horror, but yeah :/

There's a scene at the end of a documentary called "Executions" (real footage, not dramatized) where a suspected terrorist bomber gets blindfolded, a sign (in Arabic) hung around his neck, then shoved against a dirt embankment and executed by three guys with AK-47s. That was incredibly tough to watch. Bullets do horrifying things to flesh, nothing like the clean "holes" in movies. For those interested though, it's a pretty good (and unbiased) documentary on the death penalty, from middle ages guillotines etc to modern lethal injection. 

I've posted this elsewhere I think, but the rape scene in Irreversible is very hard to watch.

I've got a couple of Masters of Horror ones, personally.  First, I generally don't wince too badly at male genital trauma and nutshots.  But there's this scene in Pro-Life where Ron Perlman hunts down the male abortionist...and proceeds to give him an abortion....so to speak.  And also, in Imprint, the needle torture is pretty rough to watch (shouldn't have been banned....but rough).

I guess i'm just odd because I can watch pretty much anything, I haven't found anything that I couldn't watch? I am alone here? Yes, things are very offensive and hard to take but we tough it out.

Well, yeah, of course we can force ourselves to watch anything. I took it more as "scenes we'd rather not watch."

the multiple cuttings scene in Eden Lake was pretty brutal.

and although it's not really Horror, the dentistry scene in Marathon Man made me squirm a little.

Speaking of dentistry, seeing as I'm watching Bug right now, this scene where Peter manually rips a tooth out of his own mouth with a pair of pliers is pretty rough.

Some scenes in Audition, a film by Takashi Miike, really disturbed me. Towards the end, especially, where she is putting acupuncture needles in his body and in his eye. Then she proceeds to cut off his foot with a sharp garrote. That is crazy!!

The scene in Misery where Kathy Bates breaks Paul Sheldons feet. I can't remember the name of the actor that played Paul Sheldon at the moment but ugh. Horrible... and I rarely EVER find gore movies or terrorist videos really that bothersome.

I find it bothersome that you don't know that was JAMES CAAN

I am with Tways.

Irreversible was the most disturbing film I have ever seen.

They set out to show the horror of that situation and they captured it.

Not a horror movie, but nothing has affected me that much.

CAAN!!  (my Kirk impression)

 I like " Last House on The Left" But I have to admit some parts were rather disturbing to me and I did have to look away a few times cause I felt like I was watching something I shouldnt have been watching.

The Scene in Twilight after the trailers and before the lights come back on.

ROTFL!  Very nice sir, very nice. *applause*

Will you be my best friend? Attrage must be replaced :) lol.

Umm, many many scenes in Cannibal Holocaust.

In 'Cabin Fever' when Marcy is shaving her legs...holy crap, that was a little much for me.

I decided not to watch Cannibal Holocaust. I watched another one in the same vein, Cannibal Ferox(I Think, someone can correct me). It showed some real animals getting killed, and I thought I don't really want to see this. So never watched Cannibal Holocaust. Weird, I can watched a million faked deaths and enjoy it, but the real killing of an animal disturbs me.

I will gladly be your friend,

The Scene in Cabin Fever with the shaved legs....

Yeah thats pretty memorable. kinda made my hands weak.

There is a scene in Passion Of the Christ where the cat of nine tails lands on Christ's rib and rips the skin to the bone. That was a one time watch for me. I will never sit through that again.

I know this one is silly, but if you remember Kick Boxer, one of the fighters has his leg busted to where the bone comes out, that was always a nasty scene to me.

Juuuust so's you know, Cannibal Holocaust also has the killings of real animals.  However, the difference is that Ruggero Deodato, in many interviews, has said that if he could make the movie over again, thats the one thing he would change because he thinks he went overboard.  So, you're not alone in not liking that general idea.  (Ferox, actually, was a ripoff of Holocaust done by Umberto Lenzi.  To show the difference between Deodato and Lenzi, while Deodato regrets his actions and says "It was stupid to introduce animals", Lenzi actually jokes with the actor who had to kill the pig in Ferox on a commentary track about the actor's squeamishness and such.)

(Most of the ferox stuff was built from wikipedia.  I met Deodato last year at Fangoria, so I know that he's not Umberto Lenzi's biggest fan (someone asked him about Lenzi...he doesnt like him) and thats also how I know about the animals, etc.  Just covering my tracks here.)

Cannibal Holocaust also has the killings of real animals.  However, the difference is that Ruggero Deodato, in many interviews, has said that if he could make the movie over again, thats the one thing he would change because he thinks he went overboard.  So, you're not alone in not liking that general idea.  (Ferox, actually, was a ripoff of Holocaust done by Umberto Lenzi.  To show the difference between Deodato and Lenzi, while Deodato regrets his actions and says "It was stupid to introduce animals", Lenzi actually jokes with the actor who had to kill the pig in Ferox on a commentary track about the actor's squeamishness and such.)

Interesting. I thought Ferox was a rip off. Not sure I am ok with that typing of joking from the director.

Yeah, lets me back my original thought to not watch Cannibal Holocaust.

Thanks for the info Cryp.

In my entire life of watching horror I've looked away, covered my eyes but there is only one movie that I stopped watching because of a scene. I couldn't watch it for almost a month and then finally watched it just to get over it. It's the scene in the Ring where she crawls out of the television. Silly I know...

Not really, I mean I've seen a lot of people freak out at that scene.  I think it's how it kinda comes out of the blue at the end of the movie after you think everything is better, coupled with just how freaky the scene is.

Also, that was the first exposure to that kind of horror for American moviegoers.  The Ring was the 1st big film remake of asian horror and it's been done to death since then, so it's lost some of it's impact.  Samara is a very creepy character and the Ring was a very good film.

you're dead on--I remember seeing the Ring for the first time (before I saw Ringu)--that was some creepy shit.

There was a new Uwe Boll film come out last year,was it,SEED.I watched a few seconds of it and could not go any further,it had animal cruelty,where somebody brutally tortured a dog and skinned it  whilst still alive.It made me cry,because this was supposedly actual footage from PETA.I have not seen the film so cannot comment on it.

I think the rape in I Spit On Your Grave is one of the scenes that still really gets me.

In the original Hills Have Eyes where Jupiter is sitting around the fire with the dead father on the other side, he is making his "speech" and eating the dead mans arm - I still fast forward on that one.

The eye gouging scene in Zombie

The "gun rape" scene in The Devils Rejects tends to bother me a bit as well

 There is a scene in I Spit On Your Grave that turns me grey. I haven't seen Last House.... yet, but I'm thinking it must be very similar.

Now, if you want to be completely disgusted by an ENTIRE movie, watch Salo. But I am not recommending it.

I downloaded Salo, but then deleted it. I sort of had an idea what it was going to be, and I'm not really into that.

One of these days I'll watch I Spit On Your Grave. That doesn't sound quite as disgusting, even if the title is.

gerry, it never ceases to amaze me how people can be disgusted by the torture of an animal, while the torture of humans is apparently just fine by them. Seed features a time-lapse sequence of a mother fucking human baby turning to maggots, and you're disgusted about a dog?

 Your probably on the right track cause the scene in both movies would have the same effect on any male.  It's like I Spit On Your Grave...with teeth!!

 Sounds like PETA

 I don't blame you for deleting Salo. I watched it 1 time, and I never will again. I suppose to some people it must have some sort of value, but it did nothing but completely disgust me.

 ooooohhhhh........ damn. I'm pretty sure I get the picture, but I wish I hadn't. :( ......... no baby, I ... ummm.... got a headache tonight.

Ohh looks like i have to add some movies to my list of those to watch, as far as the disturbing scenes go for me i think it would have to be... I dont know,

when i was little i remember finding David Cronenberg's remake of the Fly extremely distrubing, as well as sad i cried after watching it the first time with my mother, i think i was, 7 or 8 i can not remembe, just the scene with the monkey in the telepod freaked me out back then, so did the suicide scene at the end.

today i dont find very many films disturbing, except this animal cruelty thing i saw called Cat Crush, that was sick, it just fucking killed me, also this video where they burned someone up by tying him to a tree and setting him on fire,

there is some sick shit out there man

I'm almost wanting to see Salo now.

I know, right??

Ok it seams that i remember a scene from tales from the darkside the movie, where a mummy took a hook and pulled a guys brain out threw his nose. Now thats hard as hell to watch2009-06-1622:42:46

You'll be sorry.

 dam right...Salo is one vile movie...mostly revolting all the way but i was truly gagging during the Circle of Shit chapter

As a general rule these days I don't let my curiosity get the best of me anymore. So Salo, nope, never. We also have touched briefly on the trash that's circulating the internets. I stay away now. I might check out a wiki on something that people are talking about but that's it.

You are a wise man to stay away from viewing Salo. I've seen about everything I can imagine due to some of the people and places I've been exposed to over the years, but that doesn't mean I want to see certain things again. And when I say there are certain things that you just can't "unsee" I am being very honest. I have definitely been damaged in many ways, but that being said, I am in no way bent enough to enjoy a film like Salo.

honestly thinking about seeing Salo, simply because it appears to be so revolting, i can not imagine a film being discribed like that one, i read that the Director was shot and killed because of the film, which on its own is pretty heavy,

i dont know if i will enjoy it or not, from what you guys are saying it does not seem like i will

so i will just read the 120 days of Sodom until i have an oppertunity to see the film.

has anyone read that book?

oh yeah, ah speaking of the 120 days of Sodom. the author wrote the Margui de Sade, wrote many other books/short stories and i honestly would love to make a horror version of one of them but i am affraid to, i doubt it would be anything like Salo, just horror, nothing as nasty, so as scary as salo is nasty, but i am a little frightened to because well one director got shot for this shit (no pun intended) why would i be any different?  off topic, would such an offensive film be...allowed even?

The curb scene in American History X is very disturbing to me. I know they don't show anything but it gets me.

Many horror movies have been made based on his writings and beliefs, but at the moment nothing comes to mind. As for a film being "allowed" to be made, I don't believe in censorship at all. If you don't want to see something, simply do not watch it. I don't believe that just because someone doesn't like something they have the right to take it away from others, as long as no one is being harmed. There have been many reviews on Salo, and one of them prompted me to watch it, after a strong warning, which only added fuel to the fire. I didn't like it, but that doesn't mean I think it should be banned.

true, nothing should be banned and yet i still believe that people will bann it, 

but one of my goals is to make a film banned in the USA, or the most free country in the world at the time, so maybe this could be it

I only watched Henry once.  I don't feel an overwhelming desire to watch it again like I do with most horror movies, but it was very good.

Now if we're adding serial killer movies in this I would definitely say Ted Bundy. The ending is fucking mind blowing but you have to pay close attention because the end scene when  he is in prison is very symbolic. It's very good but very disturbing.

i remember my father watching an old movie called The Vikings where they would push the prisoners face first down on this "slide" that was like a long razor blade.

it took a long time to get over that one

Like a face cheese grater?

That sounds pretty horrific! Is this the old movie with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas?

For me  the scene in "Pet Sematary" where the father has to re-kill his dead toddler Gage, was brutal for me to watch.

I find it hard to watch any scene where something is going in to an eye

There should be more eye-related violence in movies.

 Yes in Cannibal Ferrox there are scenes with live animal mutilations.  Very distrubing.

The scene in The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum armwrestles with someone and snaps his arm backwards.

It's not horror but it creeped me out.  The scene in Marathon Man, where Hoffman is getting his teeth drilled, that's messed up.  "Is it safe?" hahaha

 Requiem For A Dream where Jared Leto's arm is all gnarly from where he's been shooting up.

it's an amazing movie but pretty disturbing 

 yikes-anything dental-related creeps me the eff out  - i.e American History X...it took me weeks to get over that!

No, no, no, Edward Norton was doin that guy a favour! Do you know how expensive it would be to get all those teeth removed by a certified dentist??

I still feel like double checking my rice now and than, ever since that sceen in Lost Boys like 20 years ago.

The part on Jackass 2 with the horse. I'm ashamed of you Pontius.

Yeah that was effing disgusting.

I have a hard time watching anything involving someone ingesting anything gross.

The custard scene in Dead Alive kills me.

Just watched Lars von Trier's Anti-Christ.  That's a movie I never want to see again, well at least the last thirty minutes of it.  Really wasn't much of a horror movie as the title would imply, just a collage of surreal and disturbing imagery.  That and genital mutilation, which I never enjoyed watching on the screen.