Most disturbing scene in the movie was...*spoilers*

i agree, that scene was insanely intense. i actually wondered if i needed to leave the theater for a second, and my favorite films are The Thing (1982) and the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. this kinda stuff usually does not bother me, but i think the cinematography and sound design added so much to the movie. it's the most disturbed i've been in a cinema since the bear attack scene in Annihilation (2018)

what's scary to think about is that this happens daily in the animal kingdom. every frog or rat that is eaten by a snake goes through a very similar experience. we as humans should be blessed that we don't have to go through such a horrific way to die.

i was a little disappointed because i assumed the climax of the movie would also be taking place within the gullet of the alien. as horrific as it was, i kinda wanted more of that. had it followed through, NOPE would've been a flawless horror film.

Those people learned a very valuable lesson, although it was the last one. Never leave home without a Bowie knife. Imagine 40 people slicing up its insides...

Absolutely disturbing in a perfect way. Hiding and running away from the alien is how the characters spend the entire film. That scene takes you directly to the place you never want to go and holds it there. "What happens when people get abducted by aliens?" is a question every person has and will never find out. This scene tells you and it's not magical or mystical or paranormal. It's instead organic, animalistic and familiar. Possibly the best filmmaking choice in the entire movie.

It was particularly bad, I thought, because you not only have men, but women and young children screaming while being digested to death inside that thing, and there's nothing more distressing than seeing innocents die so horribly, only to have what's left of their blood and body parts being rained on houses and the ground below.

Definitely... it made you wonder what those people are thinking, feeling. That they know they're inside some ship, and thousands of feet off the ground. Even if you make your way down and out of the ship, you'd fall to your death.

This movie sort of gives me the goosebumps because I've had several UFO dreams, one of them takes place in an abandoned ghost town coincidentally, where I'm watching them from a distance. I'm thinking... wow, they are real, this is going to turn the world upside down! I didn't know I was dreaming. LOL! I would then wonder if they can see me. Eventually one would get closer and closer to me, I would panic, hide, eventually wake up. The scene where OJ went to check out Jupe's show, and wondered where everybody went, where he was hiding from under the bleachers to view the UFO... then all of a sudden the UFO comes his way. Hard to put into words, but it was weird because I knew what he was feeling. I've been in that situation in my dreams. Weird.

there is a similar scene at the end of the film Borderlands aka final prayer --- spoilers--- where the two caracters are lured through a tunnel and end up in a stomach and are burned by gastric acids before the camera cuts

Gordy going nuts.

very much so, because you realize it's not a "ship" but a creature and they are lunch.

Also for me, Gordy walking around all bloody on the tv set.