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Rosstin316
04/16/2024
01:39 PM
#1
Not the most brutal or gruesome, but deaths that were uncomfortable to watch for some other reason.

Example: Jurassic World, the babysitter. She seemed like a decent person who was forced to look after and protect the kids, yet she got the most over-the-top and violent death thats usually reserved for the douchebag villain getting his comeuppance.

Another example is Breaking Bad, Jesses single mom girlfriend. Even though it mightve been the most painless death and she didnt even know it happened, I havent ever rewatched the series because I dread that part so much.
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GreatnessGuru
04/16/2024
01:53 PM
#2
Spooks (MI5 in the US)
Second episode has the most gruesome and grisly death.

If you've seen Jason X think opposite temperature.
Were_Wyrm
04/16/2024
01:55 PM
#3
Saving Private Ryan, you know the one...
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notforremnant
04/16/2024
01:55 PM
#4
Yeah the babysitter's death was over the top out of nowhere for absolutely no reason, only thing I remember about all those movies.

Probably something from Akame Ga Kill off the top of my head, in a show that's not afraid to kill people off. If you're watching it for the first time it's excellent for that.
Prestoff
04/16/2024
01:57 PM
#5
Kaori from Akira. Not only does she go through soo much shit the entire movie, but she gets killed off in a painful/gruesome way that really ruined the movie experience for me.
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Zwijn
04/16/2024
01:57 PM
#6
The wife in I saw the devil.

Main character (implied) in Eden Lake.

Exploding woman in Cloverfield.

Its mostly unfair deaths that get to me.
Hayame_Zero
04/16/2024
01:59 PM
#7
Alien Resurrection: the hybrid alien. It's a gruesome way to die, AND the fact that it was basically crying for its mother made it so much worse
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Tyranthraxus
04/16/2024
01:59 PM
#9
It doesn't even happen on screen but like the way Rambo describes what happened to his friend in Vietnam is disquieting
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Rosstin316
04/16/2024
02:00 PM
#10
Brykner posted...
Princess Euphemia and all involved with it from Code Geass.

It is just such a shitshow and the realization of how horrible it is and who it is happening to with nothing that can be done to stop it is just so hard to watch.

Excellent answer, fucking Hell that was rough.
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thronedfire2
04/16/2024
02:02 PM
#11
The bathtub scene in Mirrors came to mind since I just watched that recently
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pauIie
04/16/2024
02:02 PM
#12
i haven't watched the movie (this is the reason actually) but the bone tomahawk one. ifyky. i watched the clip and i felt icky for like a week. i'm thinking about it now since i mentioned it, and i'm squirming.
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LeCh0nk
04/16/2024
02:05 PM
#14
Game of thrones Princess Shireen. Her screams where haunting.
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Rosstin316
04/16/2024
02:06 PM
#15
LeCh0nk posted...
Game of thrones Princess Shireen. Her screams where haunting.

This made me fucking angry more than anything, like did she only exist so the writers could manufacture some unbearable sad?
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dhampire1
04/16/2024
02:09 PM
#16
These arent gory or shocking, more emotional.

13 Reasons Why.
the end of season one. You know what happens the whole show, you know its coming, but man it was still so depressing and sad.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
her mother. It was just random and out of nowhere. It was realistic. No monsters, no villains. Just a random health issue.
It was in real time I believe with no music and seeing the shock and horror of Buffy. It just felt so realistic to me the way it was done. Buffy fights everything, yet here she was pacing and couldnt punch or do anything to help.
Gobstoppers12
04/16/2024
02:09 PM
#17
Game of Thrones: Oberyn getting his head crushed. That shit traumatized me badly for a few days. Not just because it was brutally violent (it was amazingly well-crafted as an effect) but because I thought I had been spoiled on the outcome years prior. I went into watching that fight knowing in my heart that Oberyn was going to win, because I knew Tyrion got out of prison. I just didn't know the full details of how, so I assumed Oberyn won the fight.

The feeling in my stomach when I watched him get his skull crushed in was...intense. Like something happening right before my eyes that I knew with such confidence should not have been happening. It was the most insane moment of the entire series for me. I don't think anything will ever replicate that feeling.
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DaxNovalis
04/16/2024
02:10 PM
#18
That JW death is one of the most unfair I have ever seen in a movie.

A couple that stand out for me:

The slow knife death in Saving Private Ryan (if you've seen the movie, you know the one)
The oven death in Thanksgiving
Demigod_Elessar
04/16/2024
02:10 PM
#19
Might be cheating here because it may not necessarily be unsettling or gruesome, but the first one that came to mind is Littlefoot's Mother in The Land Before Time.

Fuck that movie, for not only being as depressing as it was, but also for making little 5-year-old me have an existential crisis and realize that my mom was going to die one day. Lol
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sabin017
04/16/2024
02:11 PM
#20
One of the Devilman movies showed a kid dying and then being tampered with in gruesome fashion .
Also in Peter Jackon's King Kong, the swamp slugs .
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archizzy
04/16/2024
02:12 PM
#21
Old Yeller (1957)
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

As an animal lover who especially loves dogs these deaths will always be the hardest thing for me on film. My dad sat me down at a very young age in the early 80s to watch Old Yeller.

In school in the late 80s we read the book for Where the Red Fern Grows then watched the movie in class. Not a dry eye in the room.

These two will always be my answer for this type of question. These are the most emotional and hard to watch scenes for me.
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dummy420
04/16/2024
02:13 PM
#22
LeCh0nk posted...
Game of thrones Princess Shireen. Her screams where haunting.
GoT had some standouts but that one was truly something that stuck with me for a bit.
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pauIie
04/16/2024
02:13 PM
#23
LeCh0nk posted...
Game of thrones Princess Shireen. Her screams where haunting.
this is the most angry i've ever gotten at a fictional death. wasn't unsettling for me tho.
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Rosstin316
04/16/2024
02:13 PM
#24
I can just say all animal deaths and keep it simple, no matter how tame the manner of death might be.

Cant watch Fear again for that reason. Fuck Mark Wahlberg, he was too good in that role.
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SAlYAN
04/16/2024
02:14 PM
#25
The "richest man in Gingertown" in Dragonball Z. I guess the same could be said for everyone else Cell absorbed, but goddamn did the show linger on his for so long. Just the way he melts away, with his scream gradually distorting and then fading. Shit gave me nightmares for years as a kid.
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MC_BatCommander
04/16/2024
02:14 PM
#26
Cell draining people was always oddly terrifying for an anime meant for children

SAlYAN posted...
The "richest man in Gingertown" in Dragonball Z. I guess the same could be said for everyone else Cell absorbed, but goddamn did the show linger on his for so long. Just the way he melts away, with his scream gradually distorting and then fading. Shit gave me nightmares for years as a kid.

Lol read my mind
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04/16/2024
12:03 PM
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masterpug53
04/16/2024
02:15 PM
#28
Quint in Jaws. It's literally the guy's worst nightmare to die that way, and it's so drawn-out to the point where you have to wonder if he could've saved himself by grabbing something or planting his foot somewhere else at the right moment (things that were probably running through the character's mind as well).
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Rosstin316
04/16/2024
02:15 PM
#29
Oh, speaking of anime, Fullmetal Alchemist, we all know the one.
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TomClark
04/16/2024
02:15 PM
#30
GreatnessGuru posted...
Spooks (MI5 in the US)
Second episode has the most gruesome and grisly death.

If you've seen Jason X think opposite temperature.

Topic was won in the second post.
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BuzzKilljoy
04/16/2024
02:16 PM
#31
Laura Palmer in Fire Walk With Me.

But then I saw somebody post Where the Red Fern Grows and now I'm fucked up.
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NoxObscuras
04/16/2024
02:16 PM
#32
Definitely Nina Tucker in the original Full Metal Alchemist. Everything done to her was horrible and it was just made worse that Scar Mercy killed her.

Edit: Oh TC kind of Ninja'd me on that one lol
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DaxNovalis
04/16/2024
02:17 PM
#33
Another one I just thought of, the face melding dude in the Thing 2011. Like damn, what a horrible way to go.
Vicious_Dios
04/16/2024
02:19 PM
#34
The MPO being eaten alive, by hundreds of baby spiders within his body and falling onto the floor which bursted those things from out of him


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Mega_Mana
04/16/2024
02:21 PM
#35
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CrimsonGear80
04/16/2024
02:21 PM
#36
Tom hanks in Philadelphia. How he slowly wastes away throughout the film is just heartbreaking, then you get to the scene where he shows his lesions in court and it almost becomes too much.
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McMarbles
04/16/2024
02:26 PM
#37
Lost: Nikki and Paolo get buried alive
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Zikten
04/16/2024
03:01 PM
#38
Has the director or someone involved in Jurassic World, ever answered why they did that death?
Perksurx
04/16/2024
03:05 PM
#39
Why hasn't anybody said "Any death in 'Terrifier' 1 and 2"?
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Perksurx
04/16/2024
03:06 PM
#40
Hayame_Zero posted...
Alien Resurrection: the hybrid alien. It's a gruesome way to die, AND the fact that it was basically crying for its mother made it so much worse

Also most of the deaths in Day of the Dead. Rhodes being ripped apart, the head being ripped off and the scream turning into a high-pitched, the dude's eye ripped out as he's laughing hysterically, etc

It took me years to figure out Rickles scream goes high-pitched because his vocal cords are being stretched.
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Kurt_Russel
04/16/2024
03:08 PM
#41
masterpug53 posted...
Quint in Jaws.
Came in to say this. The close up of him coughing up blood traumatized me as a kid.
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pauIie
04/16/2024
03:09 PM
#42
Perksurx posted...
Why hasn't anybody said "Any death in 'Terrifier' 1 and 2"?
doing this in it's own way is bringing it up, but why do people ask why something hasn't been brought up instead of simply bringing it up? just bring it up lol.
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Perksurx
04/16/2024
03:13 PM
#43
pauIie posted...
doing this in it's own way is bringing it up, but why do people ask why something hasn't been brought up instead of simply bringing it up? just bring it up lol.

Any death in 'Terrifier' 1 and 2.
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MrKapowski
04/16/2024
03:14 PM
#44
Zikten posted...
Has the director or someone involved in Jurassic World, ever answered why they did that death?

Pretty sure i read that the actress specifically requested an over the top, gruesome end for her character.
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Prestoff
04/16/2024
03:44 PM
#46
MrKapowski posted...
Pretty sure i read that the actress specifically requested an over the top, gruesome end for her character.

Was it? I know the director said that she was the first female character to get killed off in a Jurassic Park movie so that's why he made it that way to make it memorable. I remember it was from some article or something, but I can't seem to find it.
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DipDipDiver
04/16/2024
03:47 PM
#47
I always think about the old guy living in the sterile apartment in Creepshow. You don't actually see how he dies, you just see thousands of cockroaches suddenly erupt from his corpse
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Southernfatman
04/16/2024
03:52 PM
#48
This is brutal and gruesome (to a degree), but I had to add it:

Spoilers for the movie Casino: Joe Pesci and his brother getting severely beaten by baseball bats and buried alive. I've seen gorier stuff in movies, but that one got me when I first saw it and still slightly to this day.

BuzzKilljoy posted...
Laura Palmer in Fire Walk With Me.

This one too. Even though you know it's coming, it's brutal to watch. The whole movie is a pretty heavy sit. Great movie, but rough to watch.

Mega_Mana posted...
BCS: Howard Hamlin

And this one too.
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masterpug53
04/16/2024
03:58 PM
#49
Mega_Mana posted...
BCS: Howard Hamlin

Honestly Chuck's got to me way worse, particularly coming off the heels of the scene depicting his sad regression into mental illness accompanied by that really haunting soundtrack. Pretty much everyone on the internet knew that he'd end up dying in a house fire, but next to no one saw coming that it was intentionally set.

I distinctly remember the original airing putting up a suicide hotline number right after that episode cut to black, and I didn't doubt that it was necessary.
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Kami_no_Kami
04/16/2024
04:37 PM
#50
Narutaru just so much of Narutaru.
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