The Most Disturbing Nude Scenes Ever Filmed

from nameless men devoured in an alien void to very real sex coinciding with the brutal death of a child these are the nude scenes that make even the most desensitized of us cringe strange innocence shattering combinations of Fascination and Terror have turned up in many of David Lynch's psychosexual films over the years but blue velvet arguably stands out as the most iconic example the 1986 film with its tale of idealized American Purity battling it out with sexual compulsion and violence effectively served as a microcosm of both Lynch's unique vision and the larger cultural turmoil of Reagan's America what kind of beer do you like hin hinin that pops Blue Ribbon in one particular scene near the film's end both those themes reach their Apex via a shocking use of nudity up until this point Jeffrey Bowmont has been able to keep his sexual trrs with Dorothy valin and his run-ins with the Lumberton criminal underworld a secret suddenly a fully newe Dorothy turns up at his cozy Suburban home dazed beaten and bloodied bringing the plot of Jeffrey and Sandy Williams versus sy's jealous ex to a screeching halt as everyone scrambles to deal with the bruised stranger just like that the world seems bigger scarier and racer than every character but Jeffrey believed it to be his shadow life intrudes on his normal life with the brute force of a dream taking over reality or vice versa Emerald Fels saltburn may not exactly be a new French extremity level freakout but it's certainly one of the most outrageous and sexually adventurous mainstream films to come out in recent years even so one scene easily Takes the Cake as its most shocking Fel who knows we won't be expecting what's coming takes her sweet time building towards the money shot at first it seems like Oliver will merely engage in a very open and full-bodied display of grief crying hysterically and hugging the Earth as though some delayed form of remorse is finally hit him then he gets back on his knees and takes his shirt off huh weird and then it happens Oliver unzips and shoves his member into the grave yeah he really does that it's clear from the film's first minutes that there's something off about Oliver but nothing in the film prepares you for grave desecration and finel smartly times her subtlest yet most unexpected use of nudity to coincide with that sudden swerve into darker territory the result is a scene both shocking in the moment and very difficult to parse is Oliver a necropile did he actually love Felix is he engaging in another Display of Power is he just really horny and messed up is it possible that we'll ever understand not really Lee Chang Dong's burning is a a slow burn that eventually erupts into a literal Inferno by the time its final minutes come to pass following months of uncertainty Jang Su has finally convinced himself that Ben has indeed killed ha armed with that self- permission he summons Ben to a Countryside Meetup stamps him sets the scene on fire and leaves naturally in a scene with murder and arson nudity is Small Potatoes but it's the little details that separate a great filmmaker like Lee from the rest if the ending of burning is a release of pent up tension so sudden and anticlimactic that it only begets more queasiness Jang su's halfhazard behavior is what sells it and in that sense seeing Jang Su desperately rid himself of every piece of clothing toss it all into the car and stumble away in the freezing cold is the Stinger that makes the ending so haunting it feels like watching Jung Su be reduced in real time to a trembling wild animal driven only by survival Instinct almost as though he takes refuge in beastliness to fully rid himself of the human emotions that would otherwise make him feel guilty and afraid there's nothing Sensational or sexual about it it's just a blunt cap on an explosion of raw violence nothing ends nothing is resolved there is nothing left but the body under the skin is a disturbing movie from top to bottom but every scene in which the female lures men into the fluid draining alien trap packs a special wallup each of those sequences is a mini Masterpiece in horror with various disperate elements brought into a harmonious Crescendo of dread the chamber in itself is creepy as all get out the slow descent into the dark fluid is both bizarre and nauseating in its slow certainty the fact that the victims enter it of their own valtion slipping into a Fugue state of horniness without even noticing it makes things all the more spine tingling but the full unceremonious nudity is what C it we're watching prey willingly Lodge itself in the Predator's mouth completely docile and unaware of the Fate that awaits them on that note the one iteration that's really impossible to shake off is the second in which we see the inside of the Trap the entire world has fallen away for these two poor men now all that's left for them to experience in their final moments is this state of vulnerable suspension in a featureless void that engulfs every inch of their skin as if dragging them back into a fetal pre-World State they desperately reach out to touch hands longing for some measure of connection before it's all over guy number one is devoured first while guy number two watches helplessly knowing he'll be next rarely has the human body looked so fragile on screen over the course of his career David Cronenberg has developed a sharp intuitive understanding of the human body's geography and pressure points although the bulk of those years of study happened in the body horror genre his expertise came to serve him handsomely in the 2007 crime drama Eastern Promises specific specifically in the staging of the film's infamous Bath House sequence in it a naked and unsuspecting Nikolai gets ambushed by two fully clothed Chen assassins at first as the film builds patiently toward the moment of the fight Nikolai keeps the towel on and it almost seems like there might not end up being any explicit nudity then Cronenberg Springs it on the viewer all at once what follows is one of Cinema's most brutally unglamorous physical tussles ever three men desperately clawed each other in a single-minded effort to Simply come out alive alive the camera never lingers on nikoli's genitals they're merely there as yolked to his body as his legs or his bloody back for cronenburg in a moment like that there's no point in making any secret of this or that body part at the end of the day it's all just tissue from which pain can be extracted even working wholly outside the horror genre he does for saunas what psycho did for showers Lars von trier's Antichrist has about as many passionate fans as it has disparates but no one can dispute that it's a deeply personal deeply emotional film conceived in the throws of Von trier's struggles with depression it's a film that allows itself to truly sit and grapple with despair staring it down in all its bottomless chaos rains even its much noted use of unsimulated sex ultimately serves to express something horrifying that ventrier sees and feels in the world that something is most fully on display in the film's opening sequence as the film's two unnamed protagonists have have hungry and transed liberated sex their toddler son Nick climbs toward a bedroom window opens it and falls to his death the closeup shots of penetration accomplished with the help of body doubles for Charlotte gainor and Willam defo are startling enough ventrier lets us access the full physical breadth of the sex in a way that even Cinema's most intense displays of eroticism don't usually allow but seeing them intercut with a child's death is what makes them stomach churning in the film's view of the world no pleasure can be truly total and cathartic all of it is willful ignorance obscene in its ineffectual denial of our mortality our capacity for evil our existence in an overwhelmingly sad and brutal world the grandiose writhing of defo and gainor's figures is only a reminder of how all that sweating will never be enough it may be a running theme in the history of the slasher genre but few films have cut to the core of teen sexual anxiety like it follows with its sexually transmitted Immortal stalker creature premise the David Robert Mitchell indie horror hit literalized an entire generation's persistent panic over intimacy trust desire bodily autonomy and the innumerable ways those things can spiral out of control you can get rid of it okay just sleep with someone as soon as you can just pass it along not all the creatures forms are direct manifestations of that panic in some cases like The Tall Man in the bedroom and the elderly woman in the school hallways the creepiness comes down to Ace casting and aing but the woman in the kitchen just might be the single most unsettling version of it and it's largely due to the way her presence brings the film sexual themes to the Forefront face bruised teeth missing clothes bizarrely torn arms held in an uncomfortable stance behind her back she suggests a victim of sexual abuse an avatar of Jay's unspoken and unprocessed fears surrounding her adult sex life urine streams down her leg further violating the kitchen's sexually hermetic quarters her single sock soaks it up in the film's most tactile moment of Agony for a few seconds before running away Jay is paralyzed and it's understandable the image before her is revolting and disorienting enough just to watch through the comfort of a screen in Mary Heron's American Psycho there's a sense of powerlessness in seeing a man as dull pathetic and annoying as Patrick baitman turn the world into his gory playground hey [Music] Paul throughout the film baitman keeps staking his claim on a fantasy of power and freedom which ultimately serves no purpose Beyond its own assertion his whole life is based on doing what he wants just to feel that he can do it his taste for undress as a confirmation of that fantasy reaches its logical conclusion in the film's scariest scene which sees him maniacally Chase christe with a chainsaw while fully nuded despite her best efforts to escape he succeeds in killing her dropping the chainsaw on her from many floors up this is baitman at his most deranged and he still wins it's ridiculous that he thinks highly of himself for killing yes and it's even more ridiculous that he thinks it's cooler to do it naked but he gets what he wants the film's fundamental tragedy that the United States permits a man like this a philosophy like this to be rewarded Finds Its clearest embodiment in Bale's chiseled body a perfect instrument for nothing but senseless violence and arbitrary [Music] Indulgence

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2024