A shot is set up in such a way where it looks fine from one angle, then they reveal another that makes it look way worse
Infinity War - Thanos reveals Nebula hanging up imprisoned, then when the camera follows Gamora going to her we see that mechanical components are stretched out and her head and body are in pieces.
Breaking Bad - Hector sets off a bomb in a murder suicide against Gus but he seems to walk out fine impossibly, then the camera moves to in front of him and you see half of his face is just not there anymore.
This specific present at the beginning of Toy Story. The toys are freaking out that they may have to deal with competition, and they say "these boxes are really big," or something to that effect. But then Rex says, "Hey that one doesn't look so bad," and we see the box from two angles. After the kid turns, the toys' anxiety skyrockets.
NOW were talking. almost debating on buying one of those the other day.... I already have miltiple bos and sniper rifles (stop saying chai tea, chai MEANS tea)
I feel the timing makes sense, as they were going to be moving in just a few days, so his mom wouldn’t go out and buy brand new posters for him to put up.
I always assumed it was sheets-- mr potato head makes a crack about who invited the kid who gave sheets as a present. Im aware sheets aren't packaged that way, but oh well
During the landing scene, we see Captain Miller rescuing a wounded soldier on the beach, only for a shell to explode right next to them moments later.
After that, we see him continue dragging the soldier, only to turn around and realize that the explosion has blown away everything from the waist down.
said wounded soldier was also captain miller's second in command, a (likely) first lieutenant. you see him during the beginning, he's the one with the single bar on his helmet standing with miller on the landing craft.
miller wasn't just dragging some random guy across the beach to rescue him. he was desperately trying to save his second in command, someone he likely already served with back in italy.
for military nerds, his death is also likely why a technical sergeant (horvath) is the second in command throughout the rest of the movie or even why a captain is on this mission to save private ryan at all!
Happens a little later in this scene with his radioman too. Miller gives him an report to relay, turns away to speak to Sgt. Horvath for like five seconds, then turns back to him only to discover him dead with his face a bloody ruin from a shrapnel hit or heavy MG round.
This one scene is full of examples. There’s also the guy whose helmet saves him from a bullet, and then gets shot seconds later when he takes the helmet off to inspect it
I'm dying on this hill: there was a switch up in scenes during script editing. She should have turned the generator on, felt his arm, realized he died, and then the raptor should have jumpscared her.
It's so weird to me that she has a moment of calm when she feels his arm, while a screaming velociraptor is still hanging out 5 feet away from her.
Never understood this. His severed arm somehow ended up atop a cabinet and his entire body was devoured in less than 20 minutes by a lone Velociraptor. These things are giant naked scaly man sized monsters, as opposed to diminutive feathery fluffy turkey sized normal Velociraptors, but a lone one should barely be able to move after eating a meal almost its own size, much less be capable of chasing and hunting Sarah here.
I feel like with the suspension of disbelief one could argue that the raptor had a torso chunk in its mouth, did a rip and tear that flung the arm, and the arm landed and wedged just so.
There’s no reason to think it ate all of him. It wouldn’t need to. Grant explains that they disembowel and “you’re alive when they start to eat you.” So it likely incapacitated Arnold, disemboweled and started eating his organs. Arnold may have been thrashing in pain and adrenaline before dying, so the raptor likely removed the limb that was preventing her from eating peacefully and tossed it away.
As for the rest of his body, it’s a maze like complex, we don’t see every corridor. The raptor probably dragged it away somewhere. Maybe behind the cables that it emerges from when it attacks Ellie.
Well you see, it's a summer blockbuster movie film about living dinosaurs eating people made with frog dna mixed with mosquito dna somehow preserved in amber, so I wouldn't take it too seriously.
I love this as a subversion of the usual “grab person from behind in the dark” scare. In the span of a few seconds you go “oh shit -> nah she’s fine -> OH SHIT.”
In Catch-22, during a mission Yossarian finds Snowden, one of his crew, injured in the back of the plane. He treats his obvious serious leg wound and thinks he's going to be all right...before opening Snowden's jacket and all of his guts spill out over Yossarian.
I like how the flashback to this moment is initially presented in a lighthearted way, but as the film progresses, it gathers more detail and finally turns into a nightmare.
Thats the core of the book over and over and over. The same story in more detail. Natelys whore is another. Its a light hearted night out banter story to begin with
Snowden is the biggest gut punch in a book full of gut punches. He keeps coming up from really early on and you're not sure what happened, and then finally towards the end he gets one of the shortest chapters in the whole book, with nothing to pad out the tragedy.
You want to make sure that the object is bandaged/secured so that it actually stays in until you get to the ER. It’s the thing that’s keeping you from bleeding out.
I know this is genuine advice and I’ve heard it before, but the logistics still confuse me.
Like, if I have a knife in my leg, how do I secure it? I’m imagining trying to wrap bandages/duct tape/gauze around the knife and then my leg, while every tiny bump against the knife hurts like hell and makes the wound a little worse.
It's true. Those first 4-5 seasons had so much quality comedy, and felt so genuine, and since then it's just been another franchise that died years before it was buried.
In Beyond the Aquila Rift Greta's reveal when she walks into the light. Initially she looks plausibly human, but as more and more of her appears, she's anything but and instead this horrifying spindly spider-like creature.
Considering the reveal that Dear Leader was not on the drug, I always wondered if there was some cut content about Taye Diggs' character also not being on it.
I assume it's just subtext. Fascists are hypocrites, it makes sense that all of the people at the top don't actually believe in what they preach and are only in it for the feeling of power over others.
Wasn't the twist of it that those in the inner circle weren't on the drug?
But yeah, he absolutely should have been acting with less emotion. It would have been pretty obviously telegraphed within a society where people are explicitly hunting for signs of emotions
At the end of Devilman: Crybaby, Akira and Ryo are laying next to eachother. At a glance, it looks like they are both fine, despite the end of the world.
agreed; I think what’s so strong about Devilman Crybaby is that it isn’t just a sad ending for the sake of it, but rather it carries a message about trust and faith, and what happens when a paranoid society lets go of those two essential things. it’s a show that tells us “love thy neighbour before it’s too late”
It's also the realistic nature of it. For an anime about Demons trying to take over the world its depiction of the total breakdown of society is chillingly real. To the point you can look around in real life and see some of the same warning signs.
I keep seeing people post things like the Ghost Ship wire scene, and it reminded me of the lawyer's death in 13 Ghosts.
The house in the movie is made entirely of glass, and the basement imprisoning the ghosts will frequently change. At one point the lawyer character is slowly backing away from an approaching ghost and you see a dramatic shot of one of the glass doors sliding swiftly shut. At first he seems fine, but with a shocked look on his face. Then his glasses break off, his tie slips off of him, and a single drop of blood runs down his temple. Then the front half of him just flops/slides down revealing that the glass door cut him in half vertically and the inside of back half of his body is revealed still pressed against the other side of the glass.
It's one of the things I remember most because of the bathtub scene freaking me out when I was younger. Now as an adult I just kind of think it's a funny scene because of the ghost's girl's attitude. She's not even being evil or anything, she's just getting annoyed at the living girl interrupting her while she's trying to have a ghost bath, like "excuse me, do you fucking mind??"
As a kid, I happened to walk thru the living room when my uncle and grandparents were watching this and I happened to catch this scene. Honestly traumatized me for a while.
Now as a 30 year old I can appreciate the practical effects! Gnarly death scene
Soldier ant Barbatus in the aftermath of the battle is seen to regain consciousness, and start speaking to Z, then the screen cuts to a more distant view and he is literally just a head. “Give it to me straight, kid. Am I hurt bad?”
Aliens:
Marine headcam captures a small acid scorch that is spotted by the support team in the APC, Ripley asks them to pan back so they can have a better look. Then one of the marines says “If you like that, you’re gonna love this…” and brings the attention to a much larger area of acid destruction that has taken out a sizeable chunk of floor.
That movie starring keanu reeves where he plugged wires into the back of his head and brains could synch with data. that had a dude that sliced up people with a wire whip.
After peter parks, he silently goes to bed, leaving his mother to discover what happened the next morning. Peter drives home with Charlie’s body in the car
God, when the scene with Charlie hit, it was so sudden after the panic of (i think) needing to breath from an allergy. The way the camera is just latched onto Peter's face so close, the tension of him trying to look in the backseat as the camera shifts to see what's behind him, the flash of what you see before it snaps right back to his panic-stricken face. And then Toni Collette's scream the following morning...
Horror done right, because Peter’s face goes through all these emotions and I SWEAR I’m thinking the same things as he is! (Don’t look, but I gotta look, NONONONO DONT LOOK)
Denise (Walking Dead) is shot by an arrow off-screen while in the middle of a conversation and at first it seems like nothing’s wrong, until she starts repeating her words and we see that it’s pierced through her eyeball
One of the funniest details about this scene is that Charles saw Stu randomly show up in his house in the middle of the night and didn't question it at all. Like I know they're buddies, but I'd still be pretty weirded out if one of my friends just randomly showed up inside my house at 9 PM.
In Shingeki no kyojin we see a girl performing CPR on his boyfriend after the titans incident on the official first day of the cadets. At first it looks like the boyfriend is just unconscious, but after the camera shifts, we see that he's missing half his body, and the girls is completely in denial performing CPR. The scene is censored in the anime, but still lets the viewer see that the man is missing his lower half. In the manga, they straight up show you.
I think the anime version is so much more impactful. For a moment you think she’s helping him and Armin is just frozen in fear, then the angles change and you see the real horror. Such a great scene
I always remember this because of Lorena Abreu's... ahem, enthusiastic cosplay of this scene. Her joyously saying, "I'm Hannah..." followed by a direct recreation lives rent free in my head.
This was the one I thought of too. Or the woman who gets her head cut off at the start of the sequence. We know she’s in trouble because of the guy who had his hand cut but it’s still a great shot.
I watched that episode of breaking bad on the AMC website and before you see anything it showed the name of the episode (Faceoff) and a still image of Fring's face blown half off as the thumbnail. Kind of made it obvious when this scene came up, but it's still a great show so whatever.
In the Red Dwarf episode DNA, the crew inadvertently turn Lister's dinner into a raging Vindaloo beast using an alien DNA machine. In order to combat it, they decide to use it again, this time on Lister, to turn him into a superhuman so he can fight the beast. At first glance, it looks like it has gone well.... but it turns out he's pintsize!
I don't have a photo but in an old horror set during a war.
A man's been injured and has a blanket over his lower half. The movie comes toward its end, the protagonist gets back to injured soldier.
Soldier says " i feel better look i can move my legs".
The main character moves the blanket to reveal rats have been eating his legs ans they're the source of movement.
As a rat enthusiast that scene always fries me cause the rats are clearly domestic rats, not wild rats and decently happy ones too. Like homies have clearly been bribed to do the acting with snacks.
God I rented that with my dad the night after I got home from college one semester. I was exhausted from all nighters and packing everything up. He insisted on this and I was over the gore by the time we were halfway through. I was just mad by the time it was over due to my exhaustion and absolute desire to watch anything other than it.
While we know the disaster is going to be bad this scene I think hits the same from Day After Tomorrow Tornados hitting the city, an exec runs to his secretary in the office witnessing the storms then cut to janitor in the hall outside that seems alright after it passes and we don't know just how bad the destruction is until he opens the door: https://youtu.be/5DThDM--N04?t=125
In season 2 a character discovers Hannibal's secret, only to be killed and displayed across multiple vertical slides, much like those medical exhibits that show slices of the body to show internal organs, etc.
The first shot shows the body from the side, then slowly angles the camera to reveal the true horror of what has been done to them.
It's been a while since I watched the show, but that scene stuck with me for a long time. I'm avoiding posting a picture since it's pretty graphic
Deathwatch (2002 horror movie set during WW1 with a small group of British soldiers in an abandoned German trench), Pvt Colin suffers a spine injury (unknowingly making him paralysed below the waist) near the start and is bed bound throughout most of it.
Near the end, the main character Pvt Charles comes to help Colin, after most of their group has died through either supernatural means or insanity, and notices Colin's legs are moving under his blanket, assuring him he'll be on his feet soon.
Only for it to be revealed after Charles removes the blanket that the movement was rats which had been and were eating his legs. Charles then mercy kills Colin.
In Freddy vs. Jason, the character is thrown into a metal bracket by Jason, after having heroically charged the masked slasher with a flag pole. An act quickly lost amidst the utter chaos of the scene.
When Kia finds him, he appears relatively fine, downplaying his injuries and insisting she go help the others. However, once she leaves, the camera pan reveals the truth: Linderman has been fatally impaled through the back. His body and breathing still as we see an alarmingly large pool of blood growing underneath him.
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This specific present at the beginning of Toy Story. The toys are freaking out that they may have to deal with competition, and they say "these boxes are really big," or something to that effect. But then Rex says, "Hey that one doesn't look so bad," and we see the box from two angles. After the kid turns, the toys' anxiety skyrockets.