- Velvet (1986) – Meeting Frank Booth
The first mildly disturbing scene in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is when Dorothy Vallens catches Jeffery Beaumont hiding out in her apartment. One scene I care to forget, as much as I can. From what I remember it consisted of the crazy Dennis Hopper punishing the main protagonist's love interest in a scene that left film critic Roger Ebert with such a bad taste in his mouth he gave the film a mediocre rating.
2. Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door (2007) – Final Torture Scene
The Girl Next Door tells the story of Meg Loughlin, a girl who comes to live with Ruth Chandler. Ruth is a seemingly proper woman in her neighborhood. In reality, Ruth is actually aiding in the delinquency of minors and a closet Satanist. Ruth ties Meg up in the basement where she is tortured both mentally and physically by Ruth and a group of children.
3. Sleepaway Camp (1983) – Final Scene
For the most part, the original Sleepaway Camp is rather tame. Up until the film’s final scene, you might actually find it pretty shocking that this horror/slasher even received an R-rating as most of the violence and language hovers around PG-13. Sure the film has some weird moments but nothing truly terrifying really happens. In fact, some of the antics and quotes from the campers are just plain funny.
The fun stops at the film’s end when we find out that camper Angela is a boy who was forced into living as a girl. In the film’s finale, the campers and counselors find Angela at the lake with a boy she had been seeing.The campers see Angela fully nude (exposing her true gender),severed head of her date to the dance in hand, while making the strangest sustained growl and holding the same face until the credits start to role.
4. Trouble Every Day (2001)
Not really a vampire movie, though it deals with the themes of lust and repression that are hallmarks for the genre, Trouble Every Day boasts two of the most awful murder scenes in movie history. They both begin as sexual encounters before turning into painful scenes of cannibalism. The final murder, between a man and a hotel maid is the tougher of the two. As Salon's Andrew O'Hehir puts it, the scene is remarkable for "Denis’ wrenching sensitivity to pain." You can't forget the screams of the victim. If a human were actually hurting human in this way, this is what it would sound like.
5. Inside (2007)
Viewers' jaws, already smacking the floor from Inside's previous oh-shit moments of gore, uncontrollably slink even lower once the intruder starts a-snipping; cutting Sarah's stomach open like a pumpkin, the psycho chick pulls the fetus out of the now-dead Sarah, and Maury and Bustillo show the whole thing, steady cam and all. Just one of the many reasons why Inside is arguably the best horror movie of the last 10 years.
6. Irreversible
Clocking in at 11 minutes long this has to be the most brutal rape scene in cinema history. Personally I’ve only heard about this one from word of mouth, one day, I may find the time when I want to see something that is tolled backwards with the brutal rape at it ark centerpiece. Until then I just keep asking myself, is it worth it.
7. Salo
The whole film.
Wow what can be said about this extravaganza of body mutilation, orgies and shit eating torture.
Pasolini’s last and more notorious film is about a bunch of Italian fascists during the last days of WWII taking their sadistic fantasies out to the fullest. They capture a group of teenagers and take them prisoner to a villa where they submit them to a series of brutal sexual requests that yes involve eating faecal matter and multiple rapes.
While critics will tell you it’s a representation of the corrupt political system in Italy at the time, one that Pasolini frequently spoke out against. That makes it no less disturbing to watch and will leave you scared and tormented as the credits roll.
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