# Which show or movie really shocked you? Spoilers, obviously. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601 "2012-09-04T00:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/21 "2012-09-05T16:49:29Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > 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. That actually took me out of the movie and actually turned me against it. Sure it’s a GREAT visual. It’s also nonsensical and silly. Regarding the end of “Seven” I actually assumed the box contained not Paltrow’s head but her fetus. So when it was clear what it was from the wisps of hair coming out of the box…I was…can I say this? Disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/22 "2012-09-05T16:49:55Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > 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. And he wouldve gotten away with it, too, if not for those meddling… oh wait, he did get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/23 "2012-09-05T17:00:00Z")
> [@Noggy\_Monster](#): > > 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. That caught me off guard too. I didn’t really think much about the Bruce Willis character during the movie, so it was a cool ending. And it all been cleverly pulled off in the film. Hard to believe the same guy made it that did all those other lousy movies. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/24 "2012-09-05T17:32:00Z")
“Jesus Camp”. Not just watching kids be indoctrinated, but being able to clearly see the transition boundaries in many of the kids from “innocence recoverable” to “irreversibly brainwashed” was heartbreaking. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/25 "2012-09-05T17:57:50Z")
> [@Melaleuca](#): > > Remember **Little House on the Prairie**? Homespun, Saturday-night morality tales, suitable for all the family. In a similar vein, **The Waltons** had an episode where Elizabeth was harrassed by a _poltergeist_. That really, really creeped me out as a youngster! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/26 "2012-09-05T18:01:32Z")
What’s the name of that short movie that someone made with all of the old ladies sitting around playing Russian Roulette? That was fucked. up. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/27 "2012-09-05T18:10:20Z")
> [@Noggy\_Monster](#): > > 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. I went into that movie completely cold. I mean that not only did I not know what the twist was, but I didn’t know there WAS a twist, so I wasn’t even thinking along those lines. I hate horror and ghost movies anyway, so my mind was just on enduring it until it was over. It caught me completely flat-footed. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/28 "2012-09-05T18:29:27Z")
> [@Evin](#): > > _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. Heh, I came to post this. A truly great movie that I will probably never see again. My favorite, horrifying scene: When they leave the family home and the girl turns back and briefly sees the pile of dead, naked bodies stacked like cordwood against the back of the house … and doesn’t tell the boy But there are so many horrifying scenes it is hard to choose. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/29 "2012-09-05T19:07:24Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > **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. Gak!! Noooo!! Why did I look at the spoiler? Why?! Sigh. Love that show. I’m right at the end of the first season (or ‘series’ as the Brits call them). ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/30 "2012-09-05T19:14:11Z")
_The Sting_. In my defense, I was kind of young when I saw it (14 or so), but I was very surprised when Redford opened his eyes. I don’t know that I’d ever seen a movie with a ‘twist’ ending prior to that. ---
**Author:** ![Abortion\_Fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@Abortion\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abortion_Fanatic)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/31 "2012-09-05T19:26:24Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I went into that movie completely cold. I mean that not only did I not know what the twist was, but I didn’t know there WAS a twist, so I wasn’t even thinking along those lines. I hate horror and ghost movies anyway, so my mind was just on enduring it until it was over. It caught me completely flat-footed. Same for me. Can’t remember the circumstances - I think I was out of the country when it was released to theatres? - but I knew nothing about it, I mean nothing at all. Yeah, now that I think about that’s exactly what it was, my husband and had been overseas a few months, had just returned home, were still jet-lagged, and went into the video rental place looking for something not too involved that wouldn’t require too much from our fuzzy brains. We see a Bruce Willis movie, called the Sixth Sense, there’s also a kid on the cover… surely it’s your typical Willis action movie where he shoots stuff and things blow up and this kid is probably, like, the President’s son or something that he has to save. Maybe there’s some sort of ESP plotline, who knows, mindless action flick, here we come. So we just had NO idea whatsoever what we were about to watch and were just stunned. The movie wouldn’t have had nearly the effect on me if I had known anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/32 "2012-09-05T19:31:57Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > What’s the name of that short movie that someone made with all of the old ladies sitting around playing Russian Roulette? > > That was fucked. up. The guy who showed it to me thought it was _hilarious_. I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/33 "2012-09-05T19:35:19Z")
The ending of the pilot episode of **The Shield**. Also, the ending of **Frailty**. Shocking on its own, then shocking again when you realize that Bill Paxton totally went for the implications of THAT ending and the studio behind him totally approved it. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/34 "2012-09-05T19:35:36Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > What’s the name of that short movie that someone made with all of the old ladies sitting around playing Russian Roulette? > > That was fucked. up. **Sunday’s Game**. The have it on Youtube. It is a cute little indie short film. I encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to watch it for a quick pick-me-up. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/35 "2012-09-05T19:42:11Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Also, the ending of **Frailty**. Shocking on its own, then shocking again when you realize that Bill Paxton totally went for the implications of THAT ending and the studio behind him totally approved it. I’d completely forgotten about that movie. That WAS shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/36 "2012-09-05T19:49:13Z")
> [@Noggy\_Monster](#): > > 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. I went into the movie knowing there was a twist but not what it was. I was so totally engrossed in the movie that I forgot to look for the twist. It knocked me for a loop too. If I had seen it on TV I probably wouldn’t have been so into the movie and been able to figure it out. I still think its a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/37 "2012-09-05T20:00:20Z")
Requiem for a dream. It just spun so out of control it was like piling pain, upon pain, upon pain. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/38 "2012-09-05T20:27:45Z")
The chest burster in the original _Alien_ pretty much came out of nowhere. The shower scene in _Psycho_ because we thought Janet Leigh was the protagonist Private Pyle’s suicide in _Full Metal Jacket_ because it seemed he was beginning to get his shit together. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/39 "2012-09-05T21:18:23Z")
I passed out about half an hour into Haneke’s _The Piano Teacher_. Tried to get out of the movie theater, only managed to make my way into the corridor, started to lose vision, stumbled into the men’s room and crashed to the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/40 "2012-09-05T21:46:55Z")
The end of _The Usual Suspects_. The reveal in _The Crying Game_ would have been, had I not known the secret before walking into the theater. My girlfriend at the time thought it was one hell of a special effect… But the scene that first came to my mind when reading the OP was [this bit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqy2pp4fJF0), during the basement gunfight in _Donnie Brasco_. The clip shows a pretty surprising and bloody gunfight, where Bruno Kirby, Michael Madsen and Al Pacino lie in wait in a darkened basement to ambush three other Mobsters. The gunfight goes messily, but all three of the members from Donnie Brasco’s family make it through relatively unscathed…Until they start cleaning up the bodies at 2.35 of the clip and you’ll see Al Pacino’s character casually shoot Bruno Kirby’s character in the back of the head, like Pacino was turning off a light switch. It was intended by the director, Mike Newell, I’m sure, but the casualness of the killing was far more shocking to me than the gorefest that preceded it. The ending of _Katyn_ was shocking too, but more horrifying that unexpected. (Kind of like _Titanic_—we all know how the story’s supposed to end.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=3)