10 Most Disturbing Scenes

Sometimes around Halloween I do a list of my favorite scary movies, but that gets old. I saw a list on the internet today featuring the 10 most disturbing scenes in film over the last decade. I thought that list was kinda lame, so here's mine. Although, admittedly, I'm doing mine "overall" and not "the last decade". I'll try to indicate spoilers as I go. This list is mostly in order, but some of it is "as I thought of it." Enjoy.

1. Sweeney Todd (Spoiler)
Scene: The Oven Scene
What happens: Sweeney finds out that Mrs. Lovett was lying to him the whole time about the death of his wife, so he throws her into an oven and burns her alive.
Why it's disturbing: The whole throwing her into an oven part. That's brutal.

2. Reservoir Dogs
Scene: The Ear Scene
Why it's disturbing: For absolutely no reason other than to cause physical pain, Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), cuts off a cop's ear. And then talks into it. It's hard to watch.

3. Psycho (Spoiler)
Scene: They find the rotting corpse of Norman's mother in the cellar.
Why it's disturbing: It shows the depth of Norman's insanity. Killing your mom is one thing, but digging up her corpse and keeping it around because you can't accept the fact that you murdered her is a whole different bag of crazy.

4. A Clockwork Orange
Scene: Alex rapes a woman to the tune of "Singing in the Rain."
Why it's disturbing: See above. That song will never be the same for you after that. Unless you're an unfeeling sociopath.

5. The Dark Knight
Scene: The Joker's Press Tape
Why it's disturbing: I almost went with the "Magic Pencil" scene, but this scene, where The Joker kills an innocent person on tape and threatens to kill more unless Batman reveals himself is scarier. "Look at me!" Jesus.

6. Drag Me To Hell
Scene: Christine murders her cat.
Why it's disturbing: Christine is really a nice person and doesn't deserve a demon curse. It happens, and she ruthlessly murders her cat as a sacrifice thinking it will get the demon off her back. It just goes to show how far even the nicest person will go when their ass is on the line.

7. Saw (Spoiler)
Scene: Jigsaw stands up, he was alive the whole time.
Why it's disturbing: The whole movie, which takes place mostly in a shitty bathroom, these two guys who are chained there go through some awful stuff trying to escape. Also, there's a dead guy in the middle of the room, who you think shot himself during a failed "game." But it's really the guy who put them there, wanting a front row seat to the madness. Messed. Up.

8. American History X
Scene: The curb stomp scene
Why it's disturbing: Derek murders a guy by making him put his mouth on the curb and stomping down on the back of his head. It's a really messy way to do it, but it speaks volumes about the hate Derek has in him, which is very disturbing.

9. Seven
Scene: Sloth
Why it's disturbing: Because the victim here has been trapped in a room, chained to a bed, for an entire year. It's a horrific way to go, to slowly decompose while you're alive. It says something about John Doe, the killer, as to how patient and meticulous he is. Definitely a disturbing quality in a serial killer. It's not about the glory or grandstanding, it's about how much pain he can cause.

10. Silence of the Lambs
Scene: Hannibal's escape
Why it's disturbing: Hannibal kills a guard and then smuggles himself out by wearing the poor dead bastard's face. I can barely even comprehend it. It's just....ew.

There you go- the most disturbing scenes ever. See you in your nightmares!