The reveal of Davros' mutilated body in The Stolen Earth, is just gruesome...
The reveal of Davros' mutilated body in The Stolen Earth, is just gruesome...
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The torture segments in Interference.
Dalek Sec merging with Diagoras. What's worse, is that wither or not he was still alive before the Daleks killed him.
No contest for me: it was Wild Blue Yonder, which in my opinion was actually a bit too much for the time that it was on. There's one bit in particular which is based on a scene from The Exorcist. I think that should have been a sign that it was too far.
Otherwise there's not too much I find genuinely hard to look at. It's either too absurd to be believable (Davros using his skin to create new Daleks) or quite gruesome in theory but let down by dodgy production values (Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks). Also, I can't remember the name of the chap, but the guy whose head is on the front of the mining contraption in Frontios. That's quite a disturbing image, although again not as much as it could be.
Stooky Sue & the Stooky babies (It spooks me how The Toymaker’s domain made them sentient), the Charles Banerjee / 14 Marionette Puppet and The Giant Toymaker from “The Giggle”! I do wonder how the individuals in my work felt that night as they randomly had the show on, which they would do again when “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” was on (I watched it on download the next afternoon). “The Wild Blue” Yonder scene was rather short and it didn’t really phase me oddly enough, perhaps owing to how short of a scene it was and how minimal of a horror element it was, whereas a vast majority of The Toymaker’s domain in “The Giggle” was rather clearly evident to have been horror inspired.
That guy ripping his own scalp off as he turned into an Ood.
@CaptainKaibyo I think that's because it was about to be ripped off naturally from the oversized brain.
The almighty jumpscare I had from reading Wikipedia’s page about the lost episodes and suddenly being confronted with this as I scrolled down
@CaptainKaibyo agreed. As many people in the fandom know, I am absolutely terrified of the Ood (can’t explain it, they just freak me the **** out), so most scenes with are disturbing for me, but in Planet of the Ood when they are shaking their heads with the tendrils flipping around and Halpen’s transformation are SO hard to watch.😂
I would also say Torchwood has a lot gruesome moments that qualify here, namely the truth about the 456’s original children, a lot of the “deaths” in Miracle Day, and all of Countrycide.
This franchise had a lot of dark stuff in there...probably too much to count.
@Dreamleak We can all agree that nothing even remotely gruesome in Doctor Who would be as harmful as anything gruesome in Torchwood...
The porter getting his neck bitten by a Weevil; the sex-addicted monster possessing Carys Fletcher; Dr Tanizaki being converted into a Cyberman, which ends up going wrong & killing him in the process; seeing Jack skinless & blind as he begins to regenerate back to life.
What do you think?