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Has Any Violence Or Gore In A Film Ever Truly "Shocked" You?
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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StreetsofBeige
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Seeing this as a kid. Freaky back then. Hilarious now.
John Marston
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For me it's anything done to people's nails. Like a needle being pushed under them or nails being pulled out 
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Trunx81
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Not a film, but as a kid I was watching a farming documentary on the morning show while eating breakfast and some farmer brought a pony in and just killed it with his nail pistol thing they use to euthanize animals. How the horse hit the floor, limp and lifeless all of a sudden, haunts me till today.
ReBurn
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Yes. I've never been into gore in movies. I watched a few slasher films in the 80's but those weren't super gory and I didn't find them very interesting. When I watched Hostel I was shocked at how graphic gore in movies has become. I haven't really watched any horror or gore films after that aside from White Noise in 2005 and It Follows. I thought It Follows was stupid. White Noise was more of a creepy thriller.
TheInfamousKira
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First one that really stayed in my mind as a child was the scene in The Cell with J Lo where she's in the killer's mindscape and runs into a horse who gets like instantly separated into like a million paper thin medical slides by way of giant descending sheets of glass from the ether. Was super gross and super cool, and this was around the time I was still staying up past my bed time to listen to music on VH1's late night block while I drew first gen Pokémon in a sketchbook, so I hadn't been desensitized yet.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
The guy pulling his face off in the original Poltergeist traumatized me as a kid.
Ammogeddon
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Saltburn.
Putonahappyface
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The uncut version is worse. Fucking horrible unhinged film.
Little Mac
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I can't do cinematic gore or torture very well but love me some jump scares ...
KaiserBecks
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Violence these days doesn’t really shock me anymore because it’s mostly CGI. There’s something more „real“ to older movies using practical effects. I remember watching „City of the living dead“ for the first time. The drill scene was quite something.
Kind of funny?
First time I saw Braindead I balked at the level of gross out splatter. But the movie was kinda funny too so it took the edge off a bit. But holy shit, Peter Jackson went all out with the violence here.
Clear
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Violence these days doesn’t really shock me anymore because it’s mostly CGI. There’s something more „real“ to older movies using practical effects. I remember watching „City of the living dead“ for the first time. The drill scene was quite something.
Kind of funny?
I want that Peter Jackson back!
Also, RIP Lucio Fulci.
TrebleShot
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Bone Tomahawk, Ive only ever seen the famous scene but it stuck with me for a few days and even now thinking about it really makes me feel uneasy.
Proper messed up, I dont know how the directors or whoever sat there and came up with such a deprived scene, they didnt have to show it like that either. Disgusting.
Proper messed up, I dont know how the directors or whoever sat there and came up with such a deprived scene, they didnt have to show it like that either. Disgusting.
nkarafo
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When i watch a horror/body horror movie i'm always prepared for what i might see, so nothing shocks me. Whatever shock usually comes from movies where you don't see it coming. Bone Tomahawk, for instance, was a pretty raw movie but i wasn't prepared for that scene.
Same with Irreversible. Everyone was hyping the rape scene as the worst thing ever and because of that it even felt a bit tame in the end for me since i have seen worse. But i didn't know about the fire extinguisher scene, that came out of nowhere and it was amazing actually. Probably my favorite gore scene to this day.
Same with Irreversible. Everyone was hyping the rape scene as the worst thing ever and because of that it even felt a bit tame in the end for me since i have seen worse. But i didn't know about the fire extinguisher scene, that came out of nowhere and it was amazing actually. Probably my favorite gore scene to this day.
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What A Shame...
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That's from Inside (2007), same director as Martyrs and High Tension. The entire movie is rotten but that scene takes the cake.
The newborn scene in the uncut version of A Serbian Film is the most uncomfortable I've ever been watching something. I have genuine concerns for whoever made that shit.
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Audiophile
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No gore needed, the most unsettling and gruelling scene imo is cold, clinical and understated; transferring true fear and helplessness on to the viewer in the most mundane way:
Spoilers if you haven't seen 'Michael Clayton (2007)' yet:
Devoid of humanity, no apparent eye contact, no attempt to comfort him or ease him into it. Not even a chance to get lost in the emotion of bargaining and chaos, but a sudden ninety seconds of calm to process the end.
Just, 'this is it'.. they might as well be furniture removal men.
If we're talking visceral, brutal violence in a more literal sense then probs the latter scenes with Jennifer Lawrence and the baby in mother! (2017).
That said, I'm never really "shocked". It's more the implication of what's happening on screen rather than the violence or gore itself.
Spoilers if you haven't seen 'Michael Clayton (2007)' yet:
Devoid of humanity, no apparent eye contact, no attempt to comfort him or ease him into it. Not even a chance to get lost in the emotion of bargaining and chaos, but a sudden ninety seconds of calm to process the end.
Just, 'this is it'.. they might as well be furniture removal men.
If we're talking visceral, brutal violence in a more literal sense then probs the latter scenes with Jennifer Lawrence and the baby in mother! (2017).
That said, I'm never really "shocked". It's more the implication of what's happening on screen rather than the violence or gore itself.
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dark_chris
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Starship Troopers was unexpectedly violent for me as a kid.
Also the guy being ripped apart in Day of the Dead.
Also the guy being ripped apart in Day of the Dead.
I feel like Reservoir Dogs, with the torture of the cop but you know one of the guys there is undercover but can't show it, it about as far into "torture gore" as I wanna go for cinematic purposes.
Tarantino did it again with the Gimp in Pulp Fiction, then lightly revisited it with the beginning of Kill Bill with The Bride in the nursing home. He knows how far the regular audience is willing to go.
Tarantino did it again with the Gimp in Pulp Fiction, then lightly revisited it with the beginning of Kill Bill with The Bride in the nursing home. He knows how far the regular audience is willing to go.
MrMephistoX
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I have kids so the scene in Doctor Sleep with the little league player got to me. The SAW series also just seemed excessively violent for shear shock value and torture and I didn’t enjoy that one bit either.
kunonabi
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Yeah, pretty much the same for me. I was watching super gory stuff since I was like 5 or 6 so movie gore just doesn't have an effect. Real life gore is a whole other beast though and I have little stomach for it.
As far as cinematic stuff it's the thought that has more of an effect on me like the needle pit in Saw II or the "nail" clipping in the anime Monster.
MisterFalcon
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The fight in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with the Manson was different from most fight scenes, people who got dealt horrible injuries actually screamed out their lungs in pain. It's understandable most shows don't want to do this as it's so unpleasant to endure but that's probably how these things go.
On the otehr extreme is a show like Person of Interest where people get shot in the leg and just silently fall over to be out of the fight while keeping it PG-13.
On the otehr extreme is a show like Person of Interest where people get shot in the leg and just silently fall over to be out of the fight while keeping it PG-13.
Alex Anderson
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Rambo 2008 was a little much.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Africa Addio. I've seen hundreds of horror films, old and new and have become numb to gore, but this one pushed me to the limit.
en.wikipedia.org
The uncenscored unedited version.
Africa Addio - Wikipedia
The uncenscored unedited version.
Grildon Tundy
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The turning point for violence in movies for me going to see Hostel 2 with my then-girlfriend and our friend. Afterwards, we were recapping and basically none of us fully watched the movie once they got to the hostel--we either turned away or covered our eyes.
Looking back, I went into that movie wanting to "prove" I could take it. Walking out, my mindset changed to: "Why would I even want or need this imagery taking up space in my head?"
It also doesn't help that listening to Eli Roth's take on violence in his movies, he's not exactly treating his characters with respect and seems to enjoy their suffering.
Looking back, I went into that movie wanting to "prove" I could take it. Walking out, my mindset changed to: "Why would I even want or need this imagery taking up space in my head?"
It also doesn't help that listening to Eli Roth's take on violence in his movies, he's not exactly treating his characters with respect and seems to enjoy their suffering.
LaughingStock
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Pan's Labyrinth when the captain smashes a man's face with a bottle.
Raven117
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I truly have no idea why people want to watch this stuff.
I’ve read “Melancholie der Engel” is pretty rough.
As is “Slaughtered Vomit Dolls” (the fact it exists).
August Underground.
Society is pretty weird.
(I’ve haven’t seen any of these (and won’t. Ever. but have seen them listed on a few of these lists and haven’t been mentioned yet).
I’ve read “Melancholie der Engel” is pretty rough.
As is “Slaughtered Vomit Dolls” (the fact it exists).
August Underground.
Society is pretty weird.
(I’ve haven’t seen any of these (and won’t. Ever. but have seen them listed on a few of these lists and haven’t been mentioned yet).
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EverydayBeast
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Saw movies have great effort at gore and violence
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Saw movies have great effort at gore and violence
That franchise have the most boring horror movies I have ever seen
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Hero of Spielberg
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The part in the Silent Hill movie where Pyramid Head rips off the woman's skin and throws it at the church door caught me off guard when I watched it.
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
I watched some super gory movies way too young and then grew up scouring those "goriest movies ever" top 10s, so I wouldn't say "shocked". Like OP I'm quite desensitised to anything violence-wise in movies.
I think it's more the stuff you don't see that can be more shocking. It's going to be hard to top that scene in A Serbian Film simply because of what's actually happening, even if all the audience sees is brief glimpses, sounds and reactions.
I think it's more the stuff you don't see that can be more shocking. It's going to be hard to top that scene in A Serbian Film simply because of what's actually happening, even if all the audience sees is brief glimpses, sounds and reactions.
Putonahappyface
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Ok so I see Bone Tomahawk has been mentioned a few times, so curiosity got the better of me and I watched it last night. That one specific scene it truly FUBAR!
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Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I don't watch torture porn but I did watch hostel and Irreversible. That was enough for a lifetime l. I dont understand why someone would seek that out on purpose.
Chuck Berry
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That one part in Bone Tomahawk got me pretty good