Terminator 3. They didn’t stop Skynet? Judgment Day actually happened? Holy shit.
Lost. The flash sideways aren’t an alternate timeline but the afterlife? jaw hits floor
I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show completely cold, along with a few friends who’d never heard of it either. It was just starting to get some real traction on the east coast as a cult film back in 1977. But this wasn’t a special midnight showing, merely a double feature on campus, paired with Phantom of the Paradise, which I’d seen before and was dragging my friends to. RHPS played first.
Noone in the audience was dressed up, but as soon as the lights went out, 4 or 5 people started crying out “Lips! Lips!” Then suddenly those lips appeared. I and my friends were blown away by the next 90 or so minutes. Sitting through the subsequent showing Phantom of the Paradise was pretty anticlimactic, frankly.
It was the first RHPS viewing of many, but that first was truly memorable.
Hard Candy, starring Ellen Page. She gets a little bit 'O unexpected revenge on a pedophile.
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A lame one, but in Ballykissangel a charcter died just when everything was going right for her and there was no warning that she was going to die. It genuinely shocked and upset me that this Sunday evening TV drama that I’d been half-shamefully watching should end on such a downer.
I was never even a big fan of This Life, but a certain character’s death there - she was crossing the road, and bam! - was sudden and realistic and profoundly shocking.
In From Dusk Til Dawn it wasn’t the vampires that shocked me, it was Tarantino’s character casually raping and murdering the middle-aged hostage.
Wasn’t that because they mobilised the military against one of the other characters that they thought had done said killings?
Seems to be a lot of Britishy stuff here, which reminded me of Hot Fuzz. I love the movie, but i was pretty shocked the first when it turned from a fish out of water story, then suddenly turned into a dark(but still damn funny) slaughterfest.
The House Of Yes-
I need to add this one to the really dark comedy thread, but its not even that funny. The set is a house, the entire movie takes place in said house. A man and his fiancee return to his childhood home and meet his mother and siblings, including his insane sister. There is a shocking turn of events and the ending is predictable yet shocking.:eek:
I loved that ending…what a total mindfuck.
Can you remind me of the ending? I vaguely remember the movie and it seems I liked it but I don’t remember anything particularly twisty. It might be worth checking out again.
Well, as it turns out, the older brother, who was convinced that his younger brother and father were insane serial killers and who killed his father rather than kill one of the people his father said was a demon turns out to be the serial killer while the younger brother turns out to be Mathew McConaghy’s sherriff character and he turns out to be RIGHT…the people he’s been killing and that his father killed ARE demons…or at least they are all murderous and evil.
Ooooooh, it’s sort of coming back to me. Off to put it in my Netflix queue. Thanks!
The ending of The Mist. That crushing realisation of what has happened and the timing of it all.
Not sure about ‘shocking’ as I was expecting, it but Schindlers List was damn hard to watch. I have only seen it once on VHS - it came as a 2-tape set. I got through the first half of the film one night before needing a break and going back to finish watching the next evening.
The D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan would fall under the same category.
In the movie Serenity (based on the SF series written by Josh Whedon)
when Wash, the pilot, is impaled after successfully crash landing the ship.
“I am a leaf on the wind”
On* L.A. Law* when uberbitch Rosalind Shays steps into the elevator shaft. Now that was some delightfully cheesy TV!
The Statue of Liberty scene in the original Planet of the Apes. I know i’s plot holes and inconceivabilites have been dissected here, but it sure made a big impression on my tender young mind.
And, more of a question than a comment, but were audiences who saw China Town shocked by the "…she’s my daughter <slap> she’s my sister <slap>…"scene? By the time I saw it I was already aware of the line / seen film clips, so even though I originally didn’t know the context of the line, it wasn’t too hard to put it together by the time it came up. It seems like it should have been a great twist, but I’ll never get to experience it.
Pan’s Labyrinth. Terrific movie, but the unrelenting brutality just left me drained and numb by the end. And I still think Del Toro was wrong, it was all in her head as a means of coping with the horror around her.
A big YUP. I was blown away. But then I don’t often pick up on “clues” in film. Great, great movie with stunning performances by both Bruce and Toni Colette.
Double post, sorry! But this is another one. Just AWESOME. It is so very, very rare that Hollywood will let a “sad” ending in a film. This one was superb. Especially since the story did not end that way! LOVED, loved it!
Fullmetal Alchemist and its (semi-)remake Brotherhood. Night of the Chimera’s Cry/An Alchemist’s Anguish. The latter, by the way, is free on Hulu.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not particularly twisty, if you’re paying attention you’ve figured it out a quarter way through the episode. Well, at least you figure out what he did and what he’s going to TRY, not that he’s going to succeed.
What you see is a man, afraid of being thrust back into poverty, irreversibly fuse his daughter and his dog together, full well knowing that at best she’d be a lab specimen for the rest of her life. Knowing that the last time he did this to his wife (to become a State Alchemist in the first place), the only thing the creation said was “I want to die”, and refused to eat.
But it’s not just that, it’s the cries of the chimera, asking “big brother play?” It’s the main character freaking out at the realization and beating the snot out of the guy who did this to his little girl while the creature screams “Daddy hurt! Don’t hurt daddy!”
A father intentionally destroyed his daughter’s life in one of the most horrendous ways imaginable, for pure personal gain, and any retribution done to him is still being observed by a little girl not understanding why people are hurting her daddy.
Both Schindlers List and the D-Day landings in Saving Private Ryan contain scenes that were partly inspired by Come and See. Which, to my mind at least, far outdoes them both in the shocking department.
It is also, famously, a damn hard movie to watch - it makes Schindlers List look like a Disney film.
Another vote for The Sixth Sense, but mostly for the little girl in the tent.
Why was The Red Violin red? That was pretty much a “holy crap” moment.
And in the 2nd season of 24, when the cute blonde sister turned out to be a terrorist – well, I was a 24 newbie at the time, so things like that still shocked me.
I enjoyed it, (its a Nolan film so of course it’s well done) but unfortunately I know just a smidge about the history of magic so as soon as I saw a certain character and their behaviour I could see what was coming.
The ending seemed rather odd to me as well. Surely, once it was clear what Tesla’s machine was doing then Jackman’s version of the trick was obvious and so the basement reveal at the end didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know already.
Good film anyway, and if you don’t know anything about that type of trick then I can imagine it packs a punch.
The shocking scenes that stick in my mind are mostly from my childhood and in order of ascending trauma I’d have to say “Them”, “Alien”, “The Wicker Man” and, somewhat surprisingly, “Ring of Bright Water” (I was very young at the time)