10 Intense Horror Movie Scenes You Couldn't Watch

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00:00Body horror's entire purpose is to make you cringe, make you feel sick or turn your stomach

00:05inside out.

00:06Filmmakers want to come up with ways to make you uncomfortable to the max, and that usually

00:11involves doing unthinkable things to corpses and or living unfortunates.

00:15If they manage to get you to cover your eyes and exclaim, oh Jesus Christ, what the f**k,

00:20then they can confidently say they've done their job.

00:22So on that note, I'm Amy from WhatCulture and here are 8 intense horror movie scenes

00:27you couldn't watch.

00:29Number 8.

00:307.

00:31The Living Corpse

00:32The 1995 psychological horror-crime thriller Seven was David Fincher's sophomore directorial

00:38endeavour.

00:39Coming off the back of the lukewarm reception to Alien 3, Fincher managed to redeem himself

00:43with this well-crafted but disturbing tale.

00:46The story follows Detective David Mills and his soon-to-retire partner Detective Lieutenant

00:51William Somerset, following along as they investigate a string of murders committed by

00:55a man with a biblical sense of retribution.

00:57Each victim the two encounter has been subjected to some kind of horrific ordeal, all of which

01:02represent one of the deadly sins.

01:04They encounter an obese man, forced to eat himself to death, representing gluttony, and

01:08a lawyer forced to cut away a pound of his own flesh, representing greed and so on.

01:12But one of the most tense and disturbing scenes involves the two detectives investigating the

01:17crime scene for Sloth.

01:18They enter a rundown building and find a known sex offender strapped to a bed in a state of

01:23physical decay.

01:24He looks like at this point he's just skin and bones.

01:26He probably reeks.

01:27That is just a dead guy on a bed.

01:29Or that's what they think.

01:31But it turns out that rotting corpse is actually the body of a severely emaciated but alive man,

01:36kept on this mortal plane only by the bare minimum sustenance.

01:40Watching him move around, looking at the bones under his skin, ugh, ugh.

01:44No part of that is enjoyable.

01:467.

01:47Misery.

01:48The Hobbling.

01:49After the release of this particular Stephen King adaptation, Kathy Bates was seen by the

01:53world in a whole new light.

01:55You see, Misery isn't your average cliched horror.

01:57There's no teens running around, there's no jump scares.

02:00Instead, it's made far more sinister than all that by Kathy Bates' incredibly unsettling

02:05performance.

02:06The aptly named Misery tells the story of an over-obsessed fan, Annie Wilkes, who happens

02:11to find her favourite writer, Paul Sheldon, after he's been in a car accident.

02:15She nurses him back to health, but upon hearing the outcome of his latest manuscript, she's

02:20displeased with the ending.

02:21She forces Sheldon to rewrite his story until she's satisfied with it, and he complies,

02:26but that's only until he can devise an escape plan, which unfortunately for him, fails.

02:31After a disturbing monologue, which hears Annie explain how she must perform an operation

02:35on Paul for his own good, she breaks his ankles in a truly brutal fashion.

02:40She places a block of wood between his legs, and proceeds to swing a sledgehammer.

02:44And yeah, you do the math, you know what comes next.

02:47If you thought the first blow was hard to watch, the second was even worse after watching her

02:51nonchalantly wander over to do it all over again.

02:54Absolute psycho behaviour.

02:566.

02:57Hostel.

02:58The ball gag vomit.

02:59There are plenty of disturbing and disgusting moments in Hostel, but one you may not think

03:03of is the instance in which we're forced to confront one of the most disgusting bodily fluids,

03:08vomit.

03:09After the first Saw movie came out in 2004, gore horror became all the rage, and Eli Roth

03:14saw all this popularity and went, hey yeah, I'd like me a piece of that.

03:18Hostel took what Saw had established and turned it up to 11.

03:21Whilst Saw evolved around the sick games of Jigsaw, punishing people he deemed had done

03:25wrong, Hostel told the story of millionaire sickos who paid money to torture backpackers just

03:30because they wanted to.

03:31Although there were gorier scenes than this, including one where a victim has his Achilles tendon severed,

03:36one of the most disturbing involved Paxton being tormented with a threat of violence.

03:41In this scene, he watches a man have his fingers cut off, but the cherry on top of that torture

03:45cake is seeing just how much the guy doing the cutting is enjoying it.

03:49The sadistic pleasure that the torturer seems to get from watching his victim squirm caused

03:53Paxton to uncontrollably vomit through his ball gag, a vision that is just undescribably grim.

04:00The sheer terror and helplessness felt by this character is enough to make anyone wretch.

04:055.

04:06Dog Soldiers

04:07Private Terry's looking tasty.

04:09Neil Marshall has come a long way since his directorial debut in the early 2000s.

04:13He's well known for directing big budget operations like Game of Thrones and the Hellboy reboot,

04:18but this guy cut his teeth on low-budget, gory horror flicks.

04:22This grainy, dim-lit horror involves a group of British squaddies on a training exercise in

04:26the remote Scottish Highlands, who, in their words, get waylaid by a bunch of huge f***ing

04:31howling things.

04:33The six-man squad are forced to hotfoot it through the remote landscape as an unseen foe pursues

04:37them. During one scene, they devise a plan to hotwire an old jeep, and whilst the other

04:41survivors cause a distraction, the squad's Geordie member makes a desperate dash for

04:45the barn housing the car. Luckily for him, he manages to successfully hotwire it, but

04:50as the lights flicker on, the audience is faced with the grisly scene of Private Terry,

04:54previously thought to be dead, being slowly eaten alive by one of the werewolves. The combination

05:00of shock and gore can take you out on that one.

05:034.

05:03Apostle

05:041900s brain surgery

05:06Having a rusty drill bit slowly inserted into the top of one's cranium is surely low on

05:12one's bucket list, and watching it happen to someone else cannot be that much higher.

05:17Apostle follows Thomas Richardson, a former missionary who travels to a secluded Welsh

05:21island in the hope of rescuing his sister from the clutches of a cult. His mission brings

05:25him into conflict with a whole load of fanatical devotees who, unfortunately for him, have a

05:30penchant for human sacrifice. Their aim with their kills is to purify the land and make it fertile,

05:36but instead of just investing in some manure, they take it several steps further. During

05:41one particularly horrific purification scene, a member of the cult is strapped to a table

05:45for all to see, and has a drill bit slowly fed into his brain. Although we're spared

05:50the ordeal of witnessing the actual insertion, the twitching legs of the victim and the cries

05:55of horror from the onlooking crowd are enough to make the event unbearable.

05:593.

06:00Freaky

06:01The Opening Rampage

06:03Now just because a horror is also a comedy doesn't mean that it can't confront you

06:07with some pretty gruesome imagery. And that was proven in the opening sequence of Freaky.

06:11The film's central killer, the Blissfield Butcher, hunts down a group of teenagers in a mansion

06:15and kills them each brutally. In a way, each kill is slightly comedic, but they're all

06:20still nonetheless cringe-inducing in nature. It may have been partially my own fault for

06:24going in expecting the film to be relatively bloodless, you know, more erring on the side

06:28of black comedy than true slasher gore. And this meant that when we see the Butcher's

06:31first victim get a wine bottle viciously shoved down his throat and then smashed, I couldn't

06:36help but actually gag a bit.

06:38Next up, a girl gets her head smashed in with a toilet seat, immediately followed by a man

06:42being stabbed through the throat with the jagged ends of a broken tennis racket. And then,

06:46of course, to finish it all up, we have a girl get impaled through the spine on a metal spike.

06:51The whole scene is just one horrid death after another. It's so relentless that it's actually

06:56a little hard to endure.

06:572. Suspiria 2018

07:00The dance scene

07:01Now this isn't a hard watch just because of Dakota Johnson's unconvincing display of modern dance,

07:06though that is an element, but instead because completely out of the blue you're forced to

07:10watch a human body break and contort in ways that it never should.

07:14In one room, we see Johnson as dancer Susie, throwing her best shapes to impress the matrons.

07:19She moves sharply and with purpose, driving her body forward and back,

07:22thrusting her limbs around with a certain dramatic flair.

07:25Unbeknownst to her, however, her every move is absolutely battering a lass in the next studio over.

07:31Through the walls, Susie's dance is causing havoc. Principal dancer Olga has her body

07:35ravaged by an unseen power, bending and snapping her into wholly unnatural positions.

07:40A combination of the climactic music, the sharp cuts between the girls,

07:44and the overt body horror at play makes this scene super hard to watch.

07:481. Bone Tomahawk

07:50A human wishbone

07:52It's fair to say that genre crossovers are hard to pull off sometimes,

07:55and that makes it even more impressive what Bone Tomahawk managed to achieve.

07:59First a western and then a disgusting, all kinds of fucked up horror,

08:02the film offers up one particular scene that will have you crossing your legs and covering your eyes.

08:07First position, I'll admit, was a toss up between this and another very similar scene from Terrifier.

08:13Bone Tomahawk, however, is the better film by far and so pits it to the post,

08:17but on that topic have you ever wondered what it feels like to be cut in half from the groin upwards?

08:21No? Well, neither have I, and I never want to find out.

08:24In this scene we witness the cave dwelling killers brutally murder a kidnapped local.

08:29First, they strip him before violently scalping him,

08:32and going as far as to stuff his own bloody hair back in his mouth.

08:36To add injury to injury, they then decide to finish the job by turning him upside down and

08:40bisecting him, hacking down through his body before tearing him apart and snapping him like a wishbone.

08:46If you could watch all that without covering your eyes and peeking through your fingers,

08:50then you'd definitely have a stronger stomach than most.

08:53And on that horrible, disgusting note,

08:55we've reached the end of this list of 8 intense horror movie scenes you couldn't watch.

09:00There are so many more out there,

09:02so please let me know in the comments down below which ones you would have included on this list.

09:06And remember to check out WhatCulture.com for more lists and articles like this every single day.

09:11As always, I've been Amy from WhatCulture, and I'll catch you next time.

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