10 Opening Movie Scenes That Wanted To Make You Uncomfortable

10. God Bless America

Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy God Bless America begins as it means to go on, by aggressively provoking the audience on their standards of taste and what they're able to consider funny.

Joel Murray stars as Frank Murdoch, a middle-aged man who has lost his patience with America's descent into stupidity, and so decides to take matters into his own hands in the most ultimate way possible.

The film kicks off with Frank complaining about his neighbours, a couple who keep him awake with their loud TV, inane banter, and relentlessly screaming baby. Despite his repeated requests for them to mind their noise levels due to his migraines and insomnia, they don't listen.

Frank then states a desire to kill them, at which point the scene shifts to him breaking into their apartment with a shotgun and blasting the boyfriend dead.

The girlfriend then begs him to stop, even lifting her own baby in front of her face as a shield, and when she then throws the baby into the air, Frank opens fire, decorating the room - and both himself and the mother - with the baby's bloody remains.

After a moment of gleeful celebration, though, the scene shifts back to Frank in bed, still being kept awake by the screaming baby.

The scene was a fantasy, but all the same, showing a baby getting shotgunned into red paste in the first two minutes of a movie is certainly a way to weed out the pearl-clutchers.