History NightmareFuel / BlackSwan

** One particularly disturbing thing was her scratching problem, especially to [[ParanoiaFuel those who do the same thing.]] The fact that her mother thinks using scissors to cut her nails is a good idea, and the fact that [[FridgeHorror she's done it in the past]] [[{{Fingore}} and might have injured Nina doing so]] isn't nice either.
*** When Nina wakes up from a particularly bad freak out wearing mittens. That's how parents usually try to discourage their ''babies'' (literal not even 2-years-old babies) from scratching. It really drives home just how smothered and held-back she is, and how her mother sees her.

* Ballerina legs? [[ShesGotLegs Nice.]] Ballerina legs snapping into the shape of swan legs? '''AAAAAAAAAAAAA!'''

* Every time Nina sees a doppelganger of herself. It's just freaky af.

[[caption-width-right:730:And this is one of the tamer scenes of this film.]]

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[[caption-width-right:274:The worst part? This is rather tame compared to some of the other imagery in the film.]]

* While the movie features several instances of Nina having disturbing hallucinations, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaD5cZNw0E her fitting]] features one of the most unnerving ones... while also being the most ''subtle''. As Nina is getting fitted for her costume, she is stood between two mirrors, creating a DrosteImage effect. The problem? [[MindScrew One of Nina's reflections]] [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf starts to scratch their shoulder independently of Nina.]] And it is ''never followed up on''...

** The worst bit? During the "Night of Terror" sequence, while Nina shoves her mother out of her room, she is saying ''You see...you see it!''. Which implies that she might have gone through the '''very same thing that Nina went through'''.

** The worst bit? During the "Night of Terror" sequence, while Nina shoves her mother out of her room, she is saying ''You see...you see it!''. Which implies that she might have gone through the [[FridgeHorror '''very same thing that Nina went through'''.]]

** The worst bit? During the "Night of Terror" sequence, while Nina shoves her mother out of her room, she is saying ''You see...you see it!''. Which implies that she might have gone through the [[{FridgeHorror}'''very same thing that Nina went through'''.]]

** The worst bit? During the "Night of Terror" sequence, while Nina shoves her mother out of her room, she is saying ''You see...you see it!''. Which implies that she might have gone through the '''very same thing that Nina went through'''.

** The major turning point is [[spoiler: Beth (Creator/WinonaRyder) stabbing herself in the ''face'' with a nail file whilst screaming "I'm nothing! ''Nothing!''" And then her face turns into Nina's, who runs for her life as Swan Lake music BLARES over the soundtrack. And when Nina gets to the elevator, she discovers she is holding the nail file, covered in blood.]] All of the other hallucinations reveal themselves to be hoaxes shortly afterwards, but this one is so extreme, it fully confirms that we have reached the point where we can't trust ANYTHING about the movie. And consider that [[spoiler:it may have actually been Nina who stabbed Beth.]]

* The movie doesn't shy away from the damage ballerinas do to their feet on a regular basis. [[spoiler: Now, toes fusing on the other hand,]] [[BodyHorror that's usually not quite normal.]]

* Ballerina legs? [[ShesGotLegs Nice.]] Ballerina legs [[spoiler: snapping into the shape of swan legs]]? '''AAAAAAAAAAAAA!'''
* The scene (featured at the end of the trailer) involving [[spoiler: Nina plucking a ''[[BodyHorror tiny black feather]]'' out of the scratches on her back... AND, [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes are red]] (pictured above).]]
** [[spoiler:That scene where the tiny black feathers are growing out of the scratches on her back is believed to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheFly1986'', including the scene where Nina's legs start bending the other way.]]

* Her "goosebumps" that turn out to be [[spoiler: more literal than thought at first]].
** And then later [[spoiler:her neck freakishly elongating like a swan's]].

** The major turning point is [[spoiler: Beth (WinonaRyder) stabbing herself in the ''face'' with a nail file whilst screaming "I'm nothing! ''Nothing!''" And then her face turns into Nina's, who runs for her life as Swan Lake music BLARES over the soundtrack. And when Nina gets to the elevator, she discovers she is holding the nail file, covered in blood.]] All of the other hallucinations reveal themselves to be hoaxes shortly afterwards, but this one is so extreme, it fully confirms that we have reached the point where we can't trust ANYTHING about the movie. And consider that [[spoiler:it may have actually been Nina who stabbed Beth.]]

* [[ParanoiaFuel The entire idea of being too committed to a role]]. Nina COMPLETELY loses herself in her quest to become the Black Swan. [[TruthInTelevision Considering the process some actors actually go through to become their characters]], like HeathLedger, method acting suddenly becomes quite scary.

** When Nina gets home, someone whispers "sweet girl" from the darkness of the kitchen and there's [[JumpScare a bloody figure - presumably that of Beth - standing in her kitchen]] when she turns the light on. And then the paintings start screaming at her.

*** When Nina wakes up from a particularly bad freak out wearing mittens - that's how parents usually try to discourage their BABIES (literal not even 2-years-old babies) from scratching. It really drives home just how smothered and held-back she is, and how her mother sees her.

** When he calls her little Princess at the end, it was so slimy and icky...also when he nearly full on assaults her in the ballet studio, saying, "open your mouth..." erk.

* The scene - featured at the end of the trailer - involving [[spoiler: Nina plucking a ''[[BodyHorror tiny black feather]]'' out of the scratches on her back... AND, [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes are red]] (pictured above).]]

* The things that are obviously unreal are disturbing, of course...but the things that ''might'' be real are even more unsettling because by then you realize you can't trust ''anything'' about the movie.

* As a reclusive perfectionist, in more then a few departments, the pure fact of Nina's whole experience in the movie coming from her desire to be perfect...''I just want to be perfect'' indeed.

** [[spoiler:That scene where the tiny black feathers are growing out of the scratches on her back is believed to be a ShoutOut to Film/TheFly, including the scene where Nina's legs start bending the other way.]]

** And now images of Nina's doppelgänger exist online. Behold, her [[http://www.n-portman.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=40208&fullsize=1 blood-curdling]] [[http://www.n-portman.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=39951&fullsize=1 smiles.]]