18 Scenes We Just Can't Watch

Claret-spillers, gut-spinners and sphincter-squeezers. Click if you dare...

By Andy LoweOct 30th 2008

6. Snuffed Out - Irreversible (2002)

Revenge is far from sweet in the first/last scene from Gaspar Noe's back-to-front ordeal-thriller.

After his mate Marcus (Vincent Cassel) has his arm snapped in a nightclub fight, Pierre (Albert Dupontel) pins down the attacker and clunks a fire extinguisher into his pancaking skull. Over and over and over again. (Noe used subtle CGI to crank the scene's appalling realism.)

See also - the bit with the bottle from Pan's Labyrinth.

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