Which show or movie really shocked you? Spoilers, obviously.

Being Human - UK

Boxing it since the episode is relatively new.

I couldn’t believe Annie killed Eve. I was completely confident there would be a twist, because protagonists don’t let babies die. I never would have guessed that the writers would so far as to have Annie murder the baby, even if it was for the good of the world.

Two movie examples:

In the Company of Men for the casual destruction of the deaf woman’s emotions.

Once Were Warriors for the brutal domestic violence.

Both were more ‘realistic’ than gory and both left me feeling almost physically ill.

I loved that movie. So few people are aware of it!

Memento. The first time, anyway.
Almost every scene of Pulp Fiction.
The anime scene in Kill Bill.
Election
Orgazmo
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
Donnie Darko
Gattaca when you find out the cop is his brother

What I found most interesting about the story was that Howard (the guy played by Matt Malloy) ended up being emotionally destroyed, while Christine (the deaf woman) ended up more-or-less OK at the end. Chad (the guy played by Aaron Eckhardt) wasn’t really a misogynist - he was a sadistic sociopath who exploited the weaknesses of two people in order to hurt both of them.

That’s probably a more accurate summary of the end result, although I’d say Christine is also damaged. Chad’s certainly a monster though.

I have to mention the source of my name, L.A. Confidential:

when James Cromwell shoots Kevin Spacey

Truly one of the most unexpected things I’ve seen in a movie.

I thought “Dead And Buried” was very good. There’s even one scene where I had to turn away. However the ending caught me completely off guard; sadly that ending has been ripped off shamelessly in several popular films since then.

“Life Is Beautiful” at the end shocked me; very good twist, while “Crimes And Misdemeanors” didn’t shock me I must admit that I didn’t see the ending coming.

Se7en. Saw it in a packed cinema with friends. We didn’t know much about it beforehand. At the end the whole audience shuffled out in silence.

Remember Little House on the Prairie? Homespun, Saturday-night morality tales, suitable for all the family.

So what do I remember most? A house fire, with a woman and baby trapped upstairs, and in her panic the woman is using the baby’s head to try to break open a window.

The Sixth Sense. I know…lame and obvious. I should have seen it coming but I honestly did not. Got chills up my spine that reminded me why I love mysteries.

Quintet - The first thirty minutes introduce a fairly typical post apocalyptic premise, I thought I knew exactly how the movie was going to go from then to the end. Then a literal bomb flies through a window.:eek: HOLY SHIT! Did they just do that?

A character’s suicide on* Battlestar Galactica*.

City of God was a glimpse into my worst nightmare.

Kids. All kinds of fucked up.

Both fantastic films. I, too was shocked at the former. That was a kind of subtle evil never seen in films before or since.

I thought the movie was suprisingly realistic, except for casually Lil Zee was able to kill dozens of wealthy and powerful peeps with no real response. No, not a chance, you can kill ghetto dwellers to your hearts content but mug a rich person and they mobilize the military.

I agree wholeheartedly about In the Company of Men. It’s one of those movies that I love and that I have no intention of ever watching again.

I was pretty shocked at how violent *Drive *is. I didn’t know much about it and it’s generally not the genre I watch but my sweet, eighty year old stepmother highly recommended it:eek: I’m almost wondering if she has it confused with something with a similar title.

For me, its Schindler’s List. Even knowing what it is about before seeing the movie doesn’t lessen the cold, non-empathetic emptiness of the Nazi treatment of the camp inmates. I haven’t ever made it all the way through the movie its so horrifying to me.

Come and See. Hellish and uncompromising, with a Mozart score.

Revelations
{6:7} And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard
the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
{6:8} And I looked, and behold a pale
horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And power was given unto them over
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

The twists and turns at the end of The Prestige, but mainly the reveal that Hugh Jackman’s character has been duplicating and drowning himself multiple times for the sake of a magic trick. That movie floored me. I was not prepared for the reveals, the details, or the foreshadowing. The opening shot of the movie with the top hats on the ground and the later implications of this surreal shot have stuck with me for years. Wow. I’ve been waiting for another movie to wow me like that one.