10 Hardest-To-Watch Scenes In Cinema History

10. "Squeal Like A Pig!" - Deliverance

Deliverance tells the inherently eerie story of four friends who set out on a river rafting trip into the Georgia backcountry, only to find themselves caught up in a situation they never expected to face. Things get off to a fine start, all right (despite a weird encounter with the locals), but soon enough the boys find themselves held at gunpoint by a couple of sick hillbillies - one of whom reveals some seriously depraved intentions. So the hillbilly proceeds to strip Ned Beatty's stuffy, overweight businessmen character down to his white underpants, before riding him around like a pig (cue the famous line) and eventually raping him - all whilst a terrified Jon Voight watches on at his humiliated, degraded friend, wondering if he's next. The scene is horrifying because it feels realistic. It might have been parodied across the years, but going back it's plain to see that it has lost none of its power. Burt Reynolds' arrival on the scene (and subsequent rescue) might lend some cathartic energy to the sequence, but there's no getting away from the fact that this is one of cinema's most harrowing and uncomfortable scenes. Credit to Ned Beatty for going along with it.