What are some genuinely disturbing scenes?

The scene from Nikita where the cleaner dissolves the bodies in the tub. It's such a simple scene to shoot, just pour water on the actor and have him spazz out, but the implications of a living person suffering something that painful and degrading really fucks with me.

television and films with this feel?

you seem to know a lot about dogs, is it possible you are one?

no...

So... I probably shouldn't be saying this, but if you've heard Army Dog (2025) was rough to work on — that's an understatement. The crew went through hell. Real PTSD-type stuff. I mean, you had VFX artists who had to reference actual images of dog fatalities and human trauma — stuff like hanging victims and disembowwowed corpses — just to make sure the gore was "anatomically precise." One of them told me they’d lie awake at night wondering if the neck fracture angle they animated was “off by a few inches.”

Brendan Hanson, the DP, admitted that they used that cartel video Funky Town as a visual guide. He literally said, “We studied that thing so many times, I can describe the cheekbone layout on that guy's face like a map.”

Grunt — the main dog actor — apparently started eating Seth Rogen’s poop on set. No joke. People said it was his way of coping with the role. They started calling it Mruffed Acting — like Method Acting but for dogs... and somehow darker.

There was a scene with so much fake dog blood, they built a special drain system for it. And get this: to figure out how to “realistically peel a dog’s face off,” they actually consulted vets. One even said, “With the right mix of methamphetamines, the dog might survive it.” They didn’t do that — but still, that was the level of commitment.

The cinematographer? She told me she'd stay awake for 72 hours straight just to avoid dreaming about the horrors she helped create.

Look, say what you want about ethics, but no one’s denying the results. Army Dog is disturbingly realistic. NYU’s vet school is supposedly using it to teach anatomy now.

It’ll probably get banned in a dozen countries. And honestly? I’m proud I was part of it.

if there was a dog here right now I would scratch him/her behind the ears and rub on the belly, just saying

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The final scene in Lake Mungo always makes my skin crawl. The way the ghost moves perfectly sets off my fight or flight.

fucking hell it took me a minute
I went from "poor dogo, all deformed" to "wait, it can't be that deformed, it must be a first gen AI pic" to "the other dog is fine" to "omg is it really that fucking deformed what's wrong with him no" to "i'm a fucking idiot, thank god the pupper is fine"

I think that's the hardest I've ever been jumpscared in a movie. It's such a chill movie up to that point my guard was completely down.

Yeah, it felt like the whole movie was designed to disarm you for that one scene. Also just a damn good movie about grief.

The end of Mulholland Dr

war is heck

Idgi?

war is ruff

has this one been manipulated, I usually see the evil face but I just see the dog on this version

The scene where they assassinate the bread guy from Michael Clayton.

aaaand...we're good!

Ruff movie

hey i just found the dog

Fuck you that shit scrambled my brain

The scene in looper where the doctor is cutting parts off of the guy in the past so the wounds and mutilation appear on his future self. Creepy concept and unethical surgery always hits.

The dog in the fly II

The Fly 2

The word "disturbing" is used a lot. I didn't quite understand what it meant until I watched this movie. That rape scene just won't wouldn't leave my mind. I'm falling asleep at night, and it's there. I woke up in the morning, and it's there.

Oh wow that’s a pretty good use of lighting I couldn’t see the dogs face for like two minutes

Just watched this recently, great movie and that was creepy as fuck

good movie about grief

look inside

boohoo I'm a sad whore

why does redditors have such dogshit opinion

dogs don't know much about dogs
you can see them fucking bunch of random things that aren't dogs
one time I caught one fucking my sister

Everything about that movie is disturbing to me. Some may enjoy that body horror stuff, but I can't stand it. It's a weakness of mine. The loss of a person's humanity just makes me wanna puke. Same with District 9. I went to the theater alone to see it. I had been working on a boat all day and I was sunburnt, so I wasn't feeling great. I had no idea it was a body horror movie. I almost left the theater. Not because the movie was bad, but because the body horror aspect of it made me feel sick.

Fuck The Fly II. I won't watch it again. :)

I Just watched Speak No Evil 2022. Grounded reality social psych thriller and toward the end it had a pretty traumatic sequence. Classic characters make dumb weak decisions but thats every horror to me

i was unable to see the dog until just now

I've seen The Fly and The Fly II twice. I will NEVER watch them again. I can handle disturbing films, I like the challenge. But those movies strike a chord in me. I don't know why, and I don't care. Good films, but not for me.

try videodrome, if i remember right it's weird without gore

Craig T. Nelson barfing up a zombie in Poltergeist II.

I've seen it. I can handle that. A little body horror is fine. But the Fly movies were simply too over the top.

Good films, but not for me.

Nah, I back you up, The Fly II is not a good film by any definition. Well, the special effects are good, perhaps too good. I mean they achieved real horror. I guess we don't like real horror, anon. I say the first remake is a good film, but it has its moments. Again, real horror, not nearly antiseptic black and white Night of the Living Dead there, bro.

i really like fly but it did fuck me up when i saw it as a kid and I'm kinda nervous to watch the sequel cause you just know theyre trying to one up it

and I'm kinda nervous to watch the sequel

Anon, do yourself a favor and skip it. Animal cruelty, is that something you enjoy? If not, skip.

inb4 REAL cruel-T?

Well no, but it's convincing. I wish I never saw it.

takes ages to see dog face

finally see dog face

now can't see scary face anymore

If you're like me, do yourself a favor and just pretend you watched it. That's one movie I wish I could forget. It's just gross, and not in an entertaining way.

I got the trick. To look at the dog, look at the dogs eyes. To see the man, look at the dogs nose and *think* of it as the man's left eye. You can swap quickly after that

Damn it. This is actually one where you have to avoid looking at it correctly or else the illusion disappears.
Look at the dog's left jowl. Then relax your eyes like your trying to look at one of those 3d optical illusions.

I don't get this one. What's the illusion? How do I make it work?

It's impossibly horrible. Murders, space ayyas, psychopaths, werewolves, all that shit I can enjoy in the context of a film. But I don't enjoy the abstract concept of a character losing their humanity. It's bold, and I appreciate it for what it is, but I don't wanna watch it.

I think you have to be autistic for this one to work

I struggle to think of much I've seen as an adult in a fictional film that disturbs me, but there is a scene in this that really, really bothered me. Without the context of the rest of the film it would probably just play as mild gore, however.

that movie where the neighbor lady's kids kidnap the sisters and torture her in the basement, i think they burn her clit off