12 Most Dark And Twisted Movie Scenes Of 2017

Wolf Creek director Greg McLean’s latest movie Jungle is the true tale of survival of Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg (played by Daniel Radcliffe) who survived alone for three weeks in the Amazon rainforest in the early 80s after becoming separated from his friends on a backpacking trek gone awry.

Yossi grows increasingly weak as he faces everything the jungle can throw at him, from quicksand and raging floods to barely surviving by eating bird foetuses scavenged from eggs. That last part might sound gross enough, but it’s by no means Jungle’s most squeamish moment. Not by a long shot.

That honour goes to a scene in which Yossi is forced to perform self-surgery after noticing a pulsating lump has developed on his forehead. Armed with only a pair of tweezers, he cuts open the lump and pulls out a burrowing and surprisingly long parasitic worm with his bare hands.

With a rather middling Rotten Tomatoes score of 50%, Jungle is by no means a great film, but it’s worth a watch for this stomach-churning scene alone.