the greatest torture scene of all time?
 

got the idea for this thread in a post i was making about 1984. what a great torture scene. all psychology no gore, acted by two of the rsc's finest. i know audition and imprint may come up here, and i own both but have watched neither yet, so permit me a pre emptive spoiler alert request. thanks guy.:)

As far as a prolonged torture goes, the first Guinea Pig is quite disturbing and nasty.

August Underground's Mordum has a number of very disturbing, very graphic scenes of torture that are really quite vile and horrific.

Of course, the ear-lopping tortue in Reservoir Dogs is a classic - especially with the funky soundtrack to go with it.

good knowledge of obscure torture scenes. are either of those two movies any good or are they just a vehicle for sick gore? reservoir dogs scene is good quality, its tense without being splattery. well balanced!

I think Audition is tough to beat here. It isn't so much the torture scene itself as how unprepared the viewer is for it when it happens. Adds even more impact.

could well watch audition and/or ichi tonight. i've been waiting for the right moment. got them a couple of weeks ago but i've going through ghost story phase. it could be time crank it up a notch and unleash the fury. i also have the zombie trilogy waiting in the wings.

I found the 'examination' scene in Fire in the Sky quite a disturbing one as well. Not so much brutal as fucked up.

I've seen both August Underground Mordum and the first Guinea Pig. You do need a strong stomach to sit through them. Depends what you consider a good movie - they are just a vehicle for sick gore, but after each of them I felt like I'd had an 'experience'. If you want to test your limits I'd recommend both.

And I loved Audition. I'd highly recommend it. Be patient with it - it's not a quick moving film but that's exactly as it should be.

kinda like hostel but without gratuitous nudity. i'm not really into gore for gore's sake. although nudity for nudity's sake is a totally different ball game!

My personal opinion of AU's Mordum is that it is a pretty crap film. However it is extremely brutal. There is little in the way of plot - it is basically a fake snuff film.

Guinea Pig is the same sort of thing

I agree - not much in the way of plot etc, just basically fake snuff. I guess for me it was the roller coaster ride syndrome - when the films ended, I had to just sit back for a while. I'm glad I did sit through them though. It's been a long time since I was affected that deeply by a fictional film.

i felt like that about passion of the christ. i spent most of the movie wishing they'd lay off him. then, for a few days afterwards i'd find myself in a daze thinking back. my psyche felt violated. dunno if i would watch something like that again. the same goes for faces of death or any of those 'best sporting injuries' tv programmes. sometimes shit just gets out of hand.

I haven't seen too many that are to the point of unwatchable, they are never dragged on enough... Audition's was good, I just watched it.

I'd have to go with Audition for the freaky, pure little girl glee and delicacy of it. It's something really different from everything else out there.

Imprint was pretty bad in terms of pure brutality. I'm noticing a trend of women performing the torture makes it worse. Not because people are shocked that it's a woman, but they seem to just be more into it and more vengeful about it.

Pan's Labyrinth has a very brutal, very realistic torture scene that isn't terribly explicit, but it is really impactful. I found it simultaneously disturbing and beautiful.

a microcosm of the movie as a whole. just watched ichi. the scene with the hooks and the tempura and the spikes was toe curling. just thought of another one. who didn't cringe at the scene with the vice in casino?:eek:

I completely agree. It's a shame I knew about the second half of the movie before watching.

As much as thier not strictly torture scenes, I loved Saw III's. It's the emotional side to them that makes them powerful.

All the Saw films have scenes which are enough to drive a person crazy. Its more a torture of the mind than the body. I have seen Audition too and I must say its brutally shocking to watch because its the least expected in the last stages of the movie. I have to add a scene from my favourite slasher series, Friday the 13th pt.3 in which Jason grabs a red-hot poker from the fireplace and plunges it into a woman. Talk about ouch!