10 More Hardest To Watch Horror Movie Moments

Director Rob Jabbaz may not be a big name on the horror circuit, but his 2021 Taiwanese body horror bloodfest The Sadness is shot for shot one of the most disturbing projects put to film in recent years.

With a population succumbing to a viral pandemic that turns them into homicidal maniacs who thrive on the receipt and distribution of pain, there are few places The Sadness won't go. Certainly, there is an abundance of violence and gore from across the spectrum, whether this is the binning of infected babies, the disembowelling of hospital staff, vicious stabbings on the train or politicians losing their heads on television. But we have to pick just one.

And that singular scene arises from the sadistic whims of the closest thing the film has to a consistent antagonist, The Businessman (Tzu-Chiang Wang). Having taken young Molly's (Ying-Ru Chen) eye out with an umbrella, he pursues her to a hospital where he finds her sedated and left alone in a wheelchair, and decides to put her empty eye socket to... other uses.

For once in the film, Jabbaz shows restraint and includes no graphic detail, but this is what makes it one of the most challenging scenes: Molly is powerless as The Businessman tells her what he's going to do, and once he unzips and rams himself in there, the reaction shots flick between his ecstasy and another man hiding nearby, grimacing and covering his ears. We're right there with you, dude.