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  • #16
    Originally posted by Quot View Post
    Actually, and this may sound silly to most, but as a youth, a very cruel scene that really made an impression on these eyes was the donkey transformation scene in Pinocchio. Holy Jeebus!


    That one was pretty terrifying!

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Alex K. View Post
      Last House on the Left
      This is the right answer. Though I can't say I've ever become desensitized to it. It's the opposite for me. That film becomes more painful with each viewing.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Quot View Post
        Actually, the ones that really upset/disturbed me the most was when I was much older: The tendon slicing in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and the unexpected suicide in Cache.
        A couple of more recent ones that come immediately to mind are the live dismemberment in GREEN INFERNO and the face smashing in PAN'S LABYRINTH.

        I think the most punishing experience of my adult life has to be seeing A SERBIAN FILM on the big screen, in a packed theater. I thought I was going to have a heart attack during the final 15 minutes!
        Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome? Why did you watch it, Max?

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        • #19
          The elevator scene in Basic Instinct. Also the closing scene (although there's no violence in it). I was probably 11 or 12 when I saw it (secretly on TV)

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Alison Jane View Post
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            • #21
              Originally posted by agent999 View Post
              I saw Death Wish when I was 10. The rape scene was pretty shocking, I thought naked women were supposed to be fun.
              I saw part 2 at the drive-in with my parents. Not a good movie for a 9-year-old.

              I have a few, the enema scene in the TV movie SYBIL being the most traumatic.

              The cat vivisection in THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA. Again, saw this with my parents as a child.

              There was one movie I saw on TV that I don't know the title of but it had a scene where a bunch of kids are standing in circle throwing rocks at a bird, killing it.
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              • #22
                Robocop 2 got me as well when I was young - specifically the scene where the crooked cop has his torso sliced open with a scalpel. It had the equivalent of a PG-13 rating in NZ so I must have been only about 10 or 11 when I saw it. I recall looking at the video case and wondering why it had an R18 rating in Australia. I found out pretty quickly.

                I also recall watching Under Siege 2 at a similar age and being disturbed by Eric Bogosian's fingertips being sliced off at the end.

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                • #23
                  THREADS and THE DAY AFTER were pretty rough..and they were on tv!!

                  WHEN THE WIND BLOWS was very upsetting....as was the violence in WATERSHIP DOWN.....

                  Also, back when theaters showed shorts before the feature (UK) there was one about a hitchhiker killing people..and it was an old woman..cant remember it much now...but thought it was too much to be showing before a Disney movie!!

                  Horror stuff never really got to me as I could internalise the violence and stuff as make believe from an early age...the ones mentioned above were too realistic!!!

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                  • #24
                    The ending of THREADS for sure. I saw THE SHINING when I was 7 or 8 and the woman in the bathtub and the twins freaked me out. The murder of Peter Weller in ROBOCOP that others have mentioned, the sadism was unusual for an action film.

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                    • #25
                      I remember as a kid being pretty shaken up by the dog stuff in The Fly 2. Fortunately though it hasn't really stuck with me what the content was there...

                      I remember the first time I watched Pulp Fiction the scene where Travolta and Jackson shoot up the kids over breakfast had an impact. Oddly I watch that scene now and can't even really see why it bothered me. Much more likely to be laughing than feeling shocked now.

                      Poletergeist 3. Just because of all the mirror stuff. Growing up I was often living in towers like that with the shiny stainless steel lifts and the mirrors everywhere. Was always looking for Kane out of the corner of my eye.

                      Lots of Dr Who stuff scarred me greatly. Kids now must be really getting shaken up by it as these days it is actually genuinely frightening.
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                      • #26
                        Not violent or cruel, but the music at the end of Close Encounters when the mothership is communicating scared me shitless as a kid. All those bowel shaking low notes freaked me out, I had to block my ears when I watched it.

                        Also, add me to the list as being freaked out by that Superman III robot transformation.
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                        • #27
                          City Of The Living Dead's head drill messed me up at the time. I was a complete horror movie virgin and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Today it's one of my all time favorite films (and scenes... ahem).

                          Also the Pesci death in Casino. Just thinking about that scene gives me anxiety. I know, he was a complete scumbag but nobody deserves that, haha. In general more realistic film violence disturbs me tremendously. I can laugh my ass off at Bloodsucking Freaks because it's sooo over the top and bizarre but a scene like Ethan Hawke's encounter with the gang bangers in Training Day still gives me nightmares.
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Headless Body View Post
                            This is the right answer. Though I can't say I've ever become desensitized to it. It's the opposite for me. That film becomes more painful with each viewing.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Nabonga View Post
                              but a scene like Ethan Hawke's encounter with the gang bangers in Training Day still gives me nightmares.
                              good call. think i was 19 when that came out. that scene is a good one. all fun and games then it takes a sharp turn.

                              i had a moment when i realized that i was in a possibly not good place with people i did not know. nothing happened cuz i got up, got out, and just started running. lost a shoe. i've told a few people about this but i compare it to that scene from Training Day. major slap in the face/wake up call from the tension

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                              • #30
                                As a young teenager the animal violence in cannibal holocaust was pretty upsetting...more recently would be the french martyrs....i have seen far worse violence bit the whole film was so depressing it effected my mood for days.

                                another that springs to mind was when 'it' premiered on uk tv, I begged my parents to let me stay up and watch it. The first scene with georgey and I was running up the stairs.

                                its funny that people mention casino...I watched it for the first time a few months ago and found the baseball bat scene distressing

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