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Most brutal torture scenes in fiction

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Reek, reek, it rhymes with meek.

The Casino Royale bond one was pretty tame. I think there was a worse torture scene in one of the Brosnan ones but even then it wasn't that bad.
 
I Know Who Killed Me had some pretty dicey moments. Particularly when Lindsay Lohan's character gets
her hand clamped to two pieces of dried ice. Then they're pulled apart dramatically as her hand rips apart.
There was also a deleted scene that never saw the light of day where
her other character tried, to no avail, to sew her own severed leg back on.
 
Nicktendo86 said:
Watched it for first time with some friends the other day, was on Netflix and seemed to have been censored as the baby scene was missing. Was really hard to watch otherwise, bit of gore doesn't bother me but it was just silly. The fake English accents was the most I insulting thing though.
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It is censored, but not for the baby scene, which is more of a "blink and miss it" moment than anything else.
 
Wizard's First Rule is the biggest example I can think of, where the author actually seems to take pleasure from writing these graphic scenes.
 
LOST. Sayid-Sawyer bamboo shoots.

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Wait, what? That happens in MGS GZ?

Ech. I always thought it was just a game about bad guys who control bees and torture topped off by jokes about male nudity.
 
erpg said:
Wait, what? That happens in MGS GZ?

Ech. I always thought it was just a game about bad guys who control bees and torture topped off by jokes about male nudity.
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In this case, the
rape stuff
happens all on tape, and is never depicted visually.
 
Prisoners.

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Hugh Jackman's character did some pretty horrible things to Paul Dano's character like
putting him in a box with a shower that was rigged to only shoot out either boiling hot water or freezing water. Not to mention that he kept him in there for days and beat him badly everyday before that.

It's all made worse when you find out
that Paul Dano's character was another victim and the mental problems that prevented him from saying stuff was because of the drugs they kept him on his entire life.
 
The aforementioned part in A Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes to mind at once. Pretty uncharacteristic in a Murakami-novel too, which makes it even more shocking.

Also, in the Hyperion-books by Dan Simmons there's at least three gruesome torture-scenarios:
- "The tree of pain", a huge metal tree with spikes for branches. Peoples' souls are hung on the spikes to languish for eternity, while being conscious all the time.
- The guy who is chained to a certain kind of tree that regularly gets hit by lightning, making him burn to death. But he resurrects right after, just to be killed by lightning again and again.
- Another guy who is kept prisoner by the evil Catholic Church. He's killed, resurrected, killed, resurrected on and on, every day, as punishment. And he knows about it and remembers it all.
 
1984, room 101.
Having rats borrow through your face. Even though it physically didn't happen, the whole torture was hard to watch. That speech O'brian gave to Winston that basically Winston was fucked, there was no resistance and there is future but Big Brother.
 
^ bwahahah, we have a winner

Ampersands said:
Prisoners.

prisoners+paul+dano+hugh+jackman.jpg


Hugh Jackman's character did some pretty horrible things to Paul Dano's character like
putting him in a box with a shower that was rigged to only shoot out either boiling hot water or freezing water. Not to mention that he kept him in there for days and beat him badly everyday before that.

It's all made worse when you find out
that Paul Dano's character was another victim and the mental problems that prevented him from saying stuff was because of the drugs they kept him on his entire life.
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great movie
 
A fridge horror moment that really made me squirm when I really thought about it was from Torchwood where
Jack Harkness gets transported a thousand years into the past and buried in a pit that's then filled with concrete. Since he's immortal, he just keeps on dying and coming back to life every few seconds for the next thousand years. What makes it worse is when you realize his eyes and mouth were open when they poured the concrete on him... so yeah. Yeep.
 
Wait, the second bomb was in her
vagina?

But if we're talking about scenes like the title says, that was all offscreen, does that count?
 
Alcoremortis said:
A fridge horror moment that really made me squirm when I really thought about it was from Torchwood where
Jack Harkness gets transported a thousand years into the past and buried in a pit that's then filled with concrete. Since he's immortal, he just keeps on dying and coming back to life every few seconds for the next thousand years. What makes it worse is when you realize his eyes and mouth were open when they poured the concrete on him... so yeah. Yeep.
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Yeah, not graphic persay but some thought and it's the worst thing ever. Ugh.

I don't watch a ton Of violent movies, but anytime a fingernail is ripped out I have to cover my eyes.

I'm looking at you, Supernatural.
 
Someone already said Martyrs, it can really turn your stomach.

Law Abiding Citizen (but I couldn't be happier while it was happening, the guy deserved it)
 
Ridley327 said:
In this case, the
rape stuff
happens all on tape, and is never depicted visually.
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Regardless. It seems that Kojima is taking the MGS franchise in a completely different, and much darker and brutal direction than any of the previous games.

And the stuff we see in GZ is basically only 1 mission. Who knows how much more fucked up shit will be in Phantom Pain
 
psylah said:
Also, some of the footage of autopsies was of real bodies.
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Don't forget the scene where they feed a real cat to hundreds of rats. It's fucking terrible. Cannibal Holocaust is another film that tortures real animals, although you could argue that in Cannibal Holocaust the animals were just being killed for food.
 
Philosophy of a Knife is exactly what you seek I believe if your after some more graphic content. It's got a fetus cut out of a womb, limbs cut off, people are skinned alive, forced abortion, decapitations, throat cuttings and teeth pulling in it. That's barely the surface of it really.
 
LaserBuddha said:
Anti-Christ is the worst.
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Yep.


I would like to mention the story of mass execution that Pilar tells in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Each fascist/traitor is brought out of a church, one by one, to be marched off a cliff. As the crowd of men - all armed with weapons - gets drunker, so too do the punishments of each traitor who is brought out of the church.
 
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