Most Disturbing Scene in Fiction
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There was something I read, I can't remember where or when but the images of it somehow still haunt me.
It was as if the author had heard of 40k's Slaanesh and thought 'I could do better' by adding a well written plot to the atrocities.
It certainly cured me of my bile fascination for awhile.
It was as if the author had heard of 40k's Slaanesh and thought 'I could do better' by adding a well written plot to the atrocities.
It certainly cured me of my bile fascination for awhile.
Most of Cormac McCarthy's "'Blood Meridian' or the Evening Redness". Get's pretty descriptive about its scenes of mass murder, rape and scalping. Incredible piece of literature, I'd recommend it to most people (above the age of 15).
Elfen Lied, puppy scene. I don't want to go too into detail for spoiler reasons, but anyone who's seen the show knows what I am talking about. I'm seen some disturbing shit. I watch horror movies for fun, including some that fall into the "torture porn" category (OK, those weren't fun, but I had to finish the Saw series, and was not in a position to reject seeing Hostel). That scene is the only time I flat-out stopped watching something because it got too unpleasant for me to continue.
Edit: Also, Junior Rennie's "girfriends" in Stephen King's "Under the Dome" novel. Stephen King is a hell of a writer, and he's shown before that he doesn't really have personal limits when it comes to being gruesome, but all the parts involving that were...ick.
Edit: Also, Junior Rennie's "girfriends" in Stephen King's "Under the Dome" novel. Stephen King is a hell of a writer, and he's shown before that he doesn't really have personal limits when it comes to being gruesome, but all the parts involving that were...ick.
Just this morning something....horrifying happened in Dwarf Fortress.
One of my Dwarfs went into the room I keep the male cats in (to prevent the dreaded catsplosion due to rapid breeding). Somehow, there happened to be a rat in a room full of cats (it may have just immediately spawned, since vermin spawn randomly), and the Dwarf in question was horrified of rats, and this was sufficient to bring his happiness from "content" to "Dwarf rage violent" level. The reaction? He starts throwing cats. The cats respond by attacking him.
Now, cats do not really have the attack power to quickly kill a Dwarf. An unarmed Dwarf can kill a cat, but will take a bit if they have no combat training at all. This room contained maybe 20 something cats. The Urist McCatbait refused to leave the room, and with each attack by the cats he became less happy, and he continued to fight the cats due to the combat AI and due to tantruming. Now, since it was a stalemait, neither being able to do a lot of damage to the other, it began to take a long time...so the Dwarf got hungry. So he was eating the corpse of the cats he killed while fighting off other cats, and it took him 2 ingame months to finally succumb (he was completely insane by the end of it).
Just the thought of it is....gruesome.
One of my Dwarfs went into the room I keep the male cats in (to prevent the dreaded catsplosion due to rapid breeding). Somehow, there happened to be a rat in a room full of cats (it may have just immediately spawned, since vermin spawn randomly), and the Dwarf in question was horrified of rats, and this was sufficient to bring his happiness from "content" to "Dwarf rage violent" level. The reaction? He starts throwing cats. The cats respond by attacking him.
Now, cats do not really have the attack power to quickly kill a Dwarf. An unarmed Dwarf can kill a cat, but will take a bit if they have no combat training at all. This room contained maybe 20 something cats. The Urist McCatbait refused to leave the room, and with each attack by the cats he became less happy, and he continued to fight the cats due to the combat AI and due to tantruming. Now, since it was a stalemait, neither being able to do a lot of damage to the other, it began to take a long time...so the Dwarf got hungry. So he was eating the corpse of the cats he killed while fighting off other cats, and it took him 2 ingame months to finally succumb (he was completely insane by the end of it).
Just the thought of it is....gruesome.
The only thing that comes to mind right away is the scene in Running Scared where she's looking for the little boy and ends up in the house of horrors and realizes why the floor is covered in plastic and what exactly is going on. Ugh. That makes me nauseous. I guess I'm pretty undisturbed by anything unless it has to do with kids or if it's just something eerie as hell like the aforementioned part from Looper (which I'd never seen, but looked that part up on Youtube just to see what the dealie-o was. That was pretty darn well done to make something horrific without being in the least bit gorey.)
This will sound very odd, but the ending of Alpha Dog blindsided me and just tore me up.
And that is most likely not even close to some of the stuff out there, or hell even stuff I myself have seen, but that scene has stuck with me through the years.
Towards the end when the kid is standing there above the already dug hole in the desert, and they do a superb job of really making you not know if they are going to shoot him. It just builds, and builds, and builds, and continues to build until I couldn't even sit still and eventually broke down crying loudly.
And that is most likely not even close to some of the stuff out there, or hell even stuff I myself have seen, but that scene has stuck with me through the years.
Certain scene in Richard Layman's novel Endless Night. Involves the sexual assault of a young teen girl, and the pre-teen boy she was babysitting is forced to watch and becomes sexually aroused by it, and well, it was pretty graphic and not much gets to me. It sure as hell did when i was 14 or so when i read it anyways. Oh that was so long ago now.
There's probably way worse out there in the wild orient (I hear Berserk and Black Lagoon are pretty brutal), but the pilot episode of Genocyber stuck with me. Teen rape of both orientations, mutilation of every type and form imaginable, old man scientist taking advantage of his daughter being a controllable cyborg, and enough visceral blood and gore to fill a lake.
For me? If I even start to think about the last twenty of minutes or so of Requiem for a Dream, I become instantly depressed, for one, and two, I think it's one of the darkest scenes in fiction. I won't describe it, I won't even recommend you see it (Even though it is very good), I don't think anybody should really attempt to see it, because you won't be ready for it, but it is incredibly powerful, at least to me, and the movie blew me away. I don't even want to try a cigarette ever after that movie.
Either you find Salad Fingers creepy or hilarious, I'm in the latter category. He strikes me as whimsical in ways that I find appealing.Shoggoth2588 said:
The straight up disturbing one is Spoilsbury Toast Boy. Oh, one of David Firth's one-offs, Dog of Man, kinda fucked me up when I first saw it.
I was reading this out loud ?..nearly caused my ex to break up with me .
I?d recommend listening to the whole thing but if you are shot on time skip to 8:55
There's a lot of moments in Pontypool that qualify. It's the most original "zombiepocalypse" movie released in the last decade. Not much these days can disturb me half as much as some older more "classic" entertainment can. The "Dreams" episode of M*A*S*H is creepier than anything in Saw or Paranormal Activity. The television mini of Stephen King's IT is one of the more horrifying shows ever made and has several of those disturbing moments. More recently I'm thinking of Carnivale's "Pick a Number" episode. Perhaps "Home" from the X-Files. Splice was pretty screwed up. The Wes Craven directed "Last House on the Left" (not the new one, the one from back in the 70's) was one of the world's worst movies, but it had one of the more disturbing scenes I've ever seen before or since in it (actually a couple of them.)
I don't know what scene you are tal-Tanis said:
Inner thoughts: "The chair ... the chaaaaaaaaair!!!"
... now I do, that scene did bad things to my eyes.
It was disturbing and creepy. T_T
Then there is that ... I'm sure most of the anime was pretty damn disturbing, but only one other anime made something much more worse for me.Moderated said:
"Another", that anime had many disturbing scenes from it.
One involved gravity, stairs and a very pointy umbrella, this is pretty early in ... so yeah.
Look it up to be disturbed ... or horrified.
