8. Shawnee Smith – Saw

Shawnee Smith has had roles in huge box-office features since her first casting in the 1982 production of Annie, moving on to star in other hits such as The Blob, The Island, and the series Anger Management. Despite these major roles in international production successes, one of her most notorious roles in movies to this day was as Amanda in the famous gut-wrenching Saw franchise. Starting out as a victim of the serial mastermind “Jigsaw” and moving her way up to apprentice, Smith showed that she isn’t afraid to get down and gory in some of movie history’s most hard-to-watch torture segments, including ruffling through a pit of needles to find an antidote and searching through her lover who she murdered to find the key to her escape. Her graphically-disturbing performances also helped her “find” her way to earning a prestigious Eyegore Award.

7. Lucy Liu – Kill Bill: Vol 1

Lucy Liu, who is a widely-adored actress renowned for her roles in Lucky Number Slevin, and Charlie’s Angels, gave one of her more prominently-reference performances in Quentin Tarantino’s bloody action-adventure, Kill Bill: Vol 1. Starring in the role as Oren Ishii, one of the murderers of the protagonist bride (played by Uma Thurman), Liu manages to terrify audiences in the role as the merciless lord of the Tokyo underworld. While decapitating one of her colleagues over a mere disagreement may be near the top of the list for her more cringe-inducing moments, one of the more disturbing sequences involving her character portrays a young Oren hiding under the bed while her parents are murdered. Although Liu doesn’t appear in the sequence, the spite and charisma she shows while actually on camera precisely depicts the rage and hatred of the younger Oren Ishii.

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