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Movies that get fucking dark out of nowhere
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The killer inside me.
The movie is dark in general, and is advertised as so, but the first time it goes anywhere beyond creepy characters, it goes to full on visceral domestic abuse, bordering torture porn.
The movie is dark in general, and is advertised as so, but the first time it goes anywhere beyond creepy characters, it goes to full on visceral domestic abuse, bordering torture porn.
If there's one thing I expect from Korean movies, it's a dark turn if it isn't dark to start with.
Definitely 'Super'
Arlington Road ended with a pretty good gut-punch too, though I guess it never pretends to be anything other than a thriller, so... I'm not really sure just having a twisty ending counts?
Also... Perfect Blue goes real dark, real quick
Arlington Road ended with a pretty good gut-punch too, though I guess it never pretends to be anything other than a thriller, so... I'm not really sure just having a twisty ending counts?
Also... Perfect Blue goes real dark, real quick
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Maybe not entirely out of nowhere if you're familiar with Grave of the Fireflies and know that it's from the same director. But it's very brutal and tragic for a movie about cute animals.
Why the hell is no one following OP's example and telling how it's dark and changes direction?
Also why are people saying dark movies getting darker? Pans Labyrinth? Mother?
Click is a good example of what OP meant.
I'll go with Million Dollar Baby.
Hilary Swank plays a boxer. Does amazing and really manages to squeeze out some money.She has an accident that leaves her paralyzed. She convinces her manager and trainer helps her commit suicide.
yes but what are the damn examples?!
Co signed, animal and human murder all over the place. Was amazed it has a PG rating as there's even boobs on screen at one point too.
Maybe not entirely out of nowhere if you're familiar with Grave of the Fireflies and know that it's from the same director. But it's very brutal and tragic for a movie about cute animals.
I Melt With You
couple of lifelong friends getting back together for a party. Halfway through the movie one kills him self and reminds them of a pact they made to die together so the rest of the movie is them killing each other and crying pretty much. Fucking strange.
couple of lifelong friends getting back together for a party. Halfway through the movie one kills him self and reminds them of a pact they made to die together so the rest of the movie is them killing each other and crying pretty much. Fucking strange.
Imagine watching a kids movie with this cover knowing nothing going in:
This really is the ultimate answer. It really was out if nowhere.
This really is the ultimate answer. It really was out if nowhere.
Okay, can someone please explain to me how Click fits the premise of this thread? I only remember the usual terrible humour of an Adam Sandler movie. What happened in the second half?
People in this thread naming movies about serial killers or actual horror movies or movies titled MURDER DEATH BAD TIMES. What are you doing.
Not advertised in the trailers or typical of previous Sandler movies, the third act of Click suddenly swerves into an overly sentimental dramedy in which Adam Sandler watches himself lose his family due to his obsession with work and die young due to his unhealthy lifestyle. It's very emotionally manipulative, but not really in a bad way. It's actually one of his better movies.
Thank you! It seems like I slept through that part or dropped the movie before it reached it.
Click is basically a Ghost of Christmas Past movie. One of the better one too IMO. Too bad the movie is filled with Sandler's low brow humor.
I know what I'm watching this weekend. Thanks.
The Beaver
Mel Gibson is a depressed man who is CEO of a failing toys company, who is kicked out of his house by his wive and his older son thinks he is a loser. One day he finds a hand puppet of a beaver in the garbage, puts it on and starts communicating as the beaver.
He wears the puppet constantly and his life improves massively. Some hijinks occur, some laughs can be had and it looks like a warming comedy about a man find a way to connect with the world.
Mel Gibson is a depressed man who is CEO of a failing toys company, who is kicked out of his house by his wive and his older son thinks he is a loser. One day he finds a hand puppet of a beaver in the garbage, puts it on and starts communicating as the beaver.
He wears the puppet constantly and his life improves massively. Some hijinks occur, some laughs can be had and it looks like a warming comedy about a man find a way to connect with the world.
Then in the third act, the personality of the beaver starts to take over, his family leaves the house because they can't be around Mel, Mel and the puppet get into a fight and Mel cuts off his own arm to get rid of the puppet.
thanks! I had no idea what I was getting into, I thought it was a horror movie and it wasn't and then it just went psychopath... I watched it 20 years ago and still think about it.
The trailer doesn't indicate it will be anything more than a cute fish out of water story for celestial beings with some drama about defiance to monarchy.
I had no idea that Princess Kaguya was going to end up being about the oppression of women throughout history. Depressing as hell ending, but it's Isao Takahata so I should have expected.
I had no idea that Princess Kaguya was going to end up being about the oppression of women throughout history. Depressing as hell ending, but it's Isao Takahata so I should have expected.
Oh, man, that's a great scene. Some wild shit in that village! Luckily there's a pommel horse sitting in the middle of the town square so he can do his thing.
Gymkata. When Kurt Thomas ends up in the Village of the Crazies. Spooked me as a kid, and I'm sure someone at Capcom got inspired by that scene for RE4.
I was gonna suggest Bone Tomahawk, but that starts pretty dark, too.
I have to say the first time I saw this, I was like WTF? This has Nazis in it?
How come no one has mentioned this one yet?!
Stroszek - A heartwarming tale about three misfits who manage to escape hard times in Germany and find the American Dream.
Okja - Starts out appearing to be a fairly lighthearted and quirky film about a young girl and her pet super pig.
2/3rds through the film everything suddenly falls apart for the title character. Throughout the film he's portrayed as a naïf who seemingly overcomes the odds to find happiness through pure optimism, until reality suddenly crashes in on his new life - he loses his job, his home, his friends and, after an act of desperation, his liberty, and we're left with the famous final image of a chicken dancing. It's bleak even for Herzog, although he explored similar themes in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
Okja - Starts out appearing to be a fairly lighthearted and quirky film about a young girl and her pet super pig.
Yeah this.
More fucking disturbing than dark really.
Turns out this weird comedy about climbing the corporate ladder turns into some weird human/horse hybrid farming movie.
It definitely doesn't fit the thread theme, but the ending to this movie is quite possibly my favourite film ending of all time. For two reasons
Not only does the bad guy get away with everything scot free, but the hero dies and gets blamed for the whole thing. It's brutal
It's not really super dark and it's just one brief moment in the middle of the film, but the scene in the middle of Spider-Man: Homecoming where Toomes accidentally vaporizes the first Shocker is rather dark and violent for how relatively lighthearted the film is overall. Felt really out of place.
That movie destroyed all the goodwill it built up with this turn also.
Yeah it's been on my list forever but seeing it pop up in this thread definitely has my interest piqued, gonna watch after work today.
It was fairly comedic, albeit a little black humor, till that point, but damn it went in!
Same. I had only seen clips from campy musical numbers before watching it, so that's what I expected going in.
I didn't see it myself but I've read spoilers for The Book of Henry and A Cure for Wellness, with both films have some pretty dark detours in their direction after some point. Although for A Cure for Wellness, it's less dark and more insane as to where that finally ends up.
As for movies I've seen, I'd consider Sorry to Bother You, Hancock, and The Sound of Music as examples. I'd also say Gremlins goes dark even before that Santa Claus story TBH, with how the gremlins start attacking people. That you never really see what happens to some of them really puts it in the "dark turn" territory, even if some of the events veer more towards "black comedy" rather than explicitly "dark".
Coco also has an great example with the reveal of a certain character. Even if one figures there was something shady going on with that person; I honestly was not expecting it to have it shown to play out as it did, let alone veer into that territory to begin with.
As for movies I've seen, I'd consider Sorry to Bother You, Hancock, and The Sound of Music as examples. I'd also say Gremlins goes dark even before that Santa Claus story TBH, with how the gremlins start attacking people. That you never really see what happens to some of them really puts it in the "dark turn" territory, even if some of the events veer more towards "black comedy" rather than explicitly "dark".
Coco also has an great example with the reveal of a certain character. Even if one figures there was something shady going on with that person; I honestly was not expecting it to have it shown to play out as it did, let alone veer into that territory to begin with.
I wanna say Babe: Pig in the City but I think that movie starts pretty damn dark. If you were watching the two movies back-to-back though it might count!
Also Ewoks: The Battle For Endor literally opens with all the human characters from the first film getting murdered and all the Ewoks killed/captured except for the youngest daughter. Also the daughter has a bracelet that monitors each member of her family's life signs and the lights start going out one by one as the Ewoks and her family fight and lose.
Crazy shit for a made-for-tv film
Crazy shit for a made-for-tv film
This one starts off like a typical undercover cop thriller, then veers HARD FUCKING LEFT and gets into some really, really fucking uncomfortable territory with these two assholes:
I'm not gonna spoil it but god damn, I wasn't prepared walking into this one.
man reading the wiki plot summary for this movie is a fucking *TRIP*, lemme tell you.
It throws away a lot of the charm it established up to that point just to make this big dark turn but I think it's ballsy as hell and kinda works as a "loss of innocence" moment. It might secretly be a great foil to that entire genre.
Strange Days:
A little-known near-future (when made) cyberpunk film. The protagonist deals in recorded memories that can be experienced as immersive experiences, which leads him and the viewer to be confronted with....
A graphic first-person rape/murder sequence. The movie also has themes of racism, police brutality and corruption in a very raw and direct manner beyond what is usual for the genre.
this movie is so fucking underrated. total kino
It's a damn good watch though, I didn't expect much from it going in but it's well worth your time.