Many films have scenes that may or may not shock the public, but some are unanimous in this regard. Shocking can sometimes be a narrative resource, to draw attention to a particular cut. Seeking to remember feature films that have sequences that are marked in our memories, follow below 10 movies that have shocking scenes!
brutal nights
In the plot, we meet a young woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) who arrives in Detroit for an important job interview and rents a house through Airbnb. But when she arrives at the place, in a very complicated area far from the city center, she ends up bumping into Keith (Bill Skarsgård) who also made the same house reservation for that night. They come to an agreement and both sleep in place. The next day, when returning to this house, Tess finds a corridor in the hidden basement and there she is surprised. Right after that, we meet another important character, AJ (justin long), who will end up finding Tess at an unsettling moment.
Irreversible
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Screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival, 20 years ago, the feature film directed by Gaspar Noah it has one of the most shocking scenes of the last two decades in cinema. In the plot, which has a narrative with reverse chronology, we see the developments in the lives of some characters after a violent act.
The Exorcist
Released in the second half of 1974, the classic horror film The Exorcistbased on the book of the same name written by William Peter Blattyshows us the story of a young woman who seems to be possessed by a demon, her mother then calls an exorcist to try to free her from this situation.
holiday
In the plot, we meet Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), a young woman who lands at an airport in Turkey to spend time at her bandit boyfriend Michael’s beach house (Lai Yde) and ends up facing a normality of violence and abuse within the boyfriend’s universe. When it seems that she begins to realize that there is something wrong, or at least that she wants to leave that universe even if not convinced, she meets a Dutch sailor but Michael will not let things go the way they were going.
Miss Violence
The famous Carl Gustav Jung said: “Suffering has to be overcome, and the only way to overcome it is to endure it”. Is it, Jung? And it comes from Greece, one of the most shocking films of recent times, Miss Violence. Winner of several awards at the Venice Film Festival, the impactful story directed by Alexandros Avranas (who also signs the script) talks about the absurd violence embedded in a middle-class Greek family full of rules and punishments. This is one of those works that will leave the audience scared.
Family Secrets
An ambitious couple looking for a venture, takes the parents of one of the parties on a visit to an island where supposedly there is a great place, where nothing is missing, and would make a great hotel. The purpose of this invitation is to get a good part of the entry money of this business. It turns out that the person responsible for the house on the island, after some embarrassing situations with family members, ends up running away, leaving the rest of the people unable to leave the island. What was to be a pleasant walk, washed down with wine and relaxed conversations soon turns into a hostile, tense environment, where hidden facets soon come to light.
Coal
In the plot, exhibited at the important Festivals in Toronto and San Sebastian, we meet Irene (Maeve Jinkings), a woman who lives with her husband (Romulo Braga), the son Jean (Jean de Almeida Costa) and the father (the latter already in a very weak state) in a city isolated from the big centers, in the interior of Brazil. The family lives a simple life where lack of money is frequent. One day, a woman appears with an unusual proposal, which consists of the family hosting a mysterious international visitor named Miguel (Cesar Bordon), in exchange for a good amount of money. They do. Thus, days of many conflicts ensue, in which we understand each of these characters better.
The perfection
When the surprise becomes the big point of the script. Written and directed by New York filmmaker Richard Shepard (they also sign the script nicole snyder and Eric C. Charmelo), The perfection, movie available on Netflix is a 90-minute feature film that generates several surprises for the viewer. The script, which seeks its differential in the change of perspective, generates a plot twist that even changes the whole meaning that the official synopsis of the film conveyed. This isn’t a movie about envy, it’s a movie about revenge!
The fog
Directed by French filmmaker Frank Darabont, The Fog it’s a portrait of the end of the world with hints of action, emotions and wrong decisions. The bombastic events that fill the story (based on a book by Stephen King) compose what we see on the scene, each one, by the personality of each character, we are guided by fear, faith, courage and despair in the face of the unusual fact of that day.
The Last House on the Left
A tense film where revenge becomes the only solution. After raping and mistreating two friends, a gang of fugitives unknowingly takes shelter in the summer home of one of these girls’ family. When the parents find out what they’ve done, they begin a bloody vendetta.
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