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Movies that get fucking dark out of nowhere

Cheerilee

Cheerilee

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Oct 25, 2017
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Bridge to Terabithia takes the trophy here, IMO.

I was never asked to read the book in school. I had never even heard of it. And the ad campaign promoted the movie as if it was just another generic YA Fantasy movie.

New kid in town is alone and bullied. Cute neighbor girl shows up and teaches him how to play make-believe fantasy in the woods with her. Then one day, the kid blows off his play-date with neighbor-girl. She decides to go play in the woods without him. While crossing the "bridge" over a creek into their magical woodland realm, the girl slips and hits her head on a rock and drowns and fucking dies.

The rest of the movie is a literal funeral, because the people you know and love can fucking die as if it was nothing, and it's entirely unreasonable and unfair, but that kind of shit happens in life all the time so get used to it kid.
 
itwasTuesday

itwasTuesday

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Oct 30, 2017
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A more obvious one by Wes Craven, Red Eye spends the first 15-20 minutes pretending to be a romantic comedy.
 
Luigi87

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Oct 25, 2017
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Been said in the thread already, but Click is definitely what came to mind for me.
 
Keldroc

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Oct 27, 2017
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arbok26 said:
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.
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One critic described it as "the most vicious betrayal of an audience by a film in my memory" and it's hard to think of a better description. Or recommendation.
 
Spookie

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Oct 28, 2017
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CaptSpaulding said:
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Just watched this.

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ShapeDePapa

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'd say Downsizing. I thought it would a weird comedy with funny premise but the film gets pretty dark fast.
 

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Book of Henry - the tonal shift is pretty jarring. La vita e bella, works well as it's the point how war chabges everything. My favorite tho, Miracle Mile, starting off as a slow romcom for the first third, then...

 
Dervius

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Oct 28, 2017
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I'll add in Green Room to the mix.

I saw it as.part of Odeon's Scream Unseen promotion, so horror was implied but the first 25 minutes of the film is generally a band of misfits on a road trip movie.

But then
it explodes in to one of the most viscerally violent movies I've ever seen. Two moments in particular still chill to me this day, one involving a dog and the other Anton Yelchins mangled arm.

As I say, I was expecting some kind of horror element, but the sheer level of violence in such detailed display totally caught me off guard.
 
FaceHugger

FaceHugger

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Oct 27, 2017
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Observe and Report was a dark comedy from the outset, but near the end it god really dark. More than I think was promised by viewers
 
Mivey

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Joker
It starts out as this really optimistic tale of a guy wanting to become a stand-up comedian, helping his sick mother.

You see him form a relationship for the first time, and you really think this could end with him pulling his life together,

and then it just falls apart, out of nowhere really
 
Nepenthe

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Aww, it's a cute tale of a puppy trying to get home—

ACTUALLY that puppy is the reincarnated soul of the man in the picture and experiences existential torment from being back home but unrecognizable to his family. He also suspects that the man his wife is now seeing murdered him and poses a threat to his family, but it turns out that the dog was a severe workaholic asshole and accidentally killed himself in a street race with the wife's husband after an argument.
 
shinken

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Oct 27, 2017
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Better Watch Out. I expected your average slasher movie, but it was way darker than expected and people are getting killed in a horrible manner and by whom.
 
Stinkles

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Oct 25, 2017
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From Dusk Till Dawn was cleverly and deliberately Marketed in the uk as a new Tarantino partnership crime flick.

I went in expecting reservoir dogs.

Came out extremely satisfied and grinning.
 
Travo

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Oct 27, 2017
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Mivey said:
The Joker
It starts out as this really optimistic tale of a guy wanting to become a stand-up comedian, helping his sick mother.

You see him form a relationship for the first time, and you really think this could end with him pulling his life together,

and then it just falls apart, out of nowhere really
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But...how could you not see it coming given the title of the film?
 
Rirse

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Jun 29, 2019
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I already knew what happens since it Pinocchio, wooden puppet comes to life, travels with his cricket friend, save his creator from the giant whale Monstro and becomes a real boy. Didn't expect how dark the Pleasure Island sequence can get with the slow transformation of boys into donkeys. And you figure after the movie over that the kids would be saved...but nope they are donkeys forever.
 
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