10 Intense Recent Movie Scenes You Couldn't Watch
You cringed, you winced, and you turned away from these scenes.
Where movies are concerned, we all have our own tolerance limits, and though many of us think there's nothing we can't handle, everyone has their specific triggers which will make them instantly turn away from a scene.
Sometimes a film scene is intense enough that you can't stand to sit through it in its entirety, forced to watch instead through splayed fingers or perhaps even averting your eyes completely.
It's rare that scenes can so aggressively push our buttons, but when a filmmaker commits so fully to their distinctive, uncompromising vision, the results can be bracing to say the least.
And so, these 10 recent movie scenes all tested the audience's stomach for brutal violence, messy bodily fluid-based humour, traumatic drama, and a bout of dry-humping so "spirited" it should probably count as a public display of indecency.
These scenes left us all turning away in disgust, fear, or embarrassment, as we tried to find our happy place and think of basically anything else.
This isn't to say that they're bad scenes, though, because each certainly generated the desired effect the filmmaker was surely intending...
10. Bobby-Lynne Gets Devoured By An Alligator - X
Though there are certainly bloodier death scenes in Ti West's exploitation throwback X, none are quite as disturbing as the grim fate afforded to porn actress Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow) later in the film.
After seeing murderously horny old lady Pearl (Mia Goth) head out to the lake surrounding her property, Bobby-Lynne follows her and tries to guide her back inside, only for Pearl to call her a whore and push her into the lake.
After a moment, poor Bobby-Lynne is attacked by an alligator, which chomps its jaws down on her head and initiates a death roll.
We're then forced to watch as Bobby-Lynne is helplessly spun around in the water, her gurgling screams becoming increasingly desperate before she finally goes quiet and motionless, as the surrounding water turns a gnarly shade of red.
If not as outwardly disgusting as some of the movie's other deaths, the prolonged suffering as Bobby-Lynne screams for her life is considerably more upsetting.