11 Grim TV Moments You Won't Watch Again

Ask anyone and there'll be a general consensus that anything involving eye, fingernail or teeth trauma in TV shows hits that special sweet spot that makes it even more grim than normal. There's just something about those most sensitive of areas that hits differently.

Which is clearly the exact thinking behind the decision in FX's The Strain to show one of the story's key parasites emerging from an unlucky victim's eye.

Notoriously backed by a billboard campaign that caused serious controversy, the moment is as cringe-inducing as it sounds and Guillermo Del Toro has no regrets. Obviously.

Of course Del Toro would push the boat out in his attempt to reframe the vampire narrative for a new generation and adding in a little eye trauma was always going to be a difficult watch.