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The scene where they kill the family feels so brutally real


Some think this movie is tame and not as brutal as its made out to be or not that bad compared to other serial killer films, yes it is, it has a brutal realness to it other films don't imo.

That scene where they kill the family is the most brutal realistic looking scene in a horror movie i think i've ever seen, legit looks like two serial killers filming themselves with an old video recorder murdering a family. The old grainy bad quality video recorder helps add to its realness as well.

And the way its done, with Otis groping the wife and ripping her clothes off while the husband is gagged and tied up in the floor having to listen to it. Then the kid walks in while his mother is being sexually assaulted by two psychopaths, then Henry grabs him and breaks his neck infront of his mother, they kill the mother, kill the father, and Otis continues sexually assaulting the body while shes dead and using her like a puppet.

Man its one of the most brutal realistic feeling scenes i've seen in a horror movie, its so unsettling.

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yes

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From what I’ve read this scene caused a lot of walkouts at initial screenings. It was the most harrowing scene in the movie imo.

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There should have been an eventual scene in which Henry and Otis get strapped to the electric chair and fried to death.

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Otis i think got a much more brutal end than that though lol, stabbed to death and chopped up into pieces.

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