History NightmareFuel / RequiemForADream

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the [[BodyHorror gangrene in Harry's infected arm]] -- shown in [[GrossUpCloseUp lovingly gory detail]] throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry ''shoots heroin'' into the wound) -- has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKViMPHRzM The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, Tyrone in jail and Harry reeling from the pain in his arm, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and [[HellIsThatNoise grating distortion noises]] that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.

** Finally, as if seeing Sara strapped to a hospital chair as two orderlies try and fail to force feed her spoonfuls of potato and later try a nasal tube, all accompanied by the absolutely savage [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQhuicAnP4 "Meltdown"]] (which, as it motors onward as if leading the characters on a death march, starts to sound less like the Kronos Quartet and more like the music of Hell itself), isn't bad enough, her doctor gets her to sign a consent form for electroconvulsive therapy. The shock therapy and the sounds accompanying the scene, especially the way the score pauses for a second of soul-chilling silence just before each shock sent into Sara's brain and then ''blasts'' back in as she convulses uncontrollably from the current, are played as ElectricTorture, and it is absolutely ''agonizing'' to watch.

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the [[BodyHorror gangrene in Harry's infected arm]] -- shown in [[GrossUpCloseUp lovingly gory detail]] throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry ''shoots heroin'' into the wound) -- has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKViMPHRzM The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, Tyrone in jail and Harry reeling from withdrawal, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and [[HellIsThatNoise grating distortion noises]] that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the [[BodyHorror gangrene in Harry's infected arm]] -- shown in [[GrossUpCloseUp lovingly gory detail]] throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry ''shoots heroin'' into the wound) -- has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKViMPHRzM The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help after being arrested, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the [[BodyHorror gangrene in Harry's infected arm]] -- shown in [[GrossUpCloseUp lovingly gory detail]] throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry ''shoots heroin'' into the wound) -- has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKViMPHRzM The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help after being arrested, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.
---->'''Harry''': Oh, Jesus Christ!\\

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the gangrene in Harry's [[BodyHorror infected arm]] -- shown in lovingly gory detail throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry shoots heroin into the wound) - has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKViMPHRzM The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.

''Requiem for a Dream'' is about the horrifying after-effects of drugs on a person, so naturally there are plenty of terrifying or {{Squick}}y moments seen throughout this film.

* Sara's descent into madness over the course of Fall and Winter gives us such gems as Sara's POV of the world, which is menacing in every possible aspect, a refrigerator coming to life to eat her complete with loud, startling banging sounds, a TV personality emerging from the TV as a bizarre being made of static and mocking her, and the simple, horrific image of a completely fucked up Sara walking down a sidewalk in broad daylight as people pass by so quickly they are blurred and look like ghosts. That last one also serves as the first image seen during the Winter segment, just to make sure you knew what the last third of the movie was about to be like.

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the gangrene in Harry's [[BodyHorror infected arm]] - shown in lovingly gory detail throughout the Winter segment (Tyrone echoes the viewer's horror when Harry shoots heroin into the wound) - has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony as he is taken away and prepped for surgery, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YLT1yoNec The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.
--->'''Harry''': Jesus Christ!\\

'''Harry''': I need a doctor, man! I can't take it! My arm! MY FUCKING ARM!\\
'''Tyrone''': ''Help us! '''SOMEBODY FUCKING HELP US, PLEASE!'''''

** Because Tyrone is able to answer "yes" to the questions "Can you hear me?" and "Can you see me?", he is deemed fit for prison work detail, where he is subjected to brutal physical toil and a few N-bombs from racist guards for good measure. We finally see him lying on his prison bed, curled up in anguish as drug withdrawal takes its mental and physical toll on him.

** Finally, as if seeing Sara strapped to a hospital chair as two orderlies try and fail to force feed her spoonfuls of potato and later try a nasal tube, all accompanied by the absolutely savage [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQhuicAnP4 "Meltdown"]] (which, as it motors onward as if leading the characters on a death march, starts to sound less like the Kronos Quartet and more like the music of Hell itself), isn't bad enough, her doctor gets her to sign a consent form for electroconvulsive therapy. The shock therapy and the sounds accompanying the scene, especially the way the score pauses for a second of soul-chilling silence just before each shock sent into Sara's brain and then ''blasts'' back in as thousands of volts course through her, are played as ElectricTorture, and it is absolutely ''agonizing'' to watch.

** Finally, as if seeing Sara strapped to a hospital chair as two orderlies try and fail to force feed her spoonfuls of potato and later try a nasal IV, all accompanied by the absolutely savage "Lux Aeterna" (which is as creepy as it is awesome in the "Requiem for a Tower" orchestration), isn't bad enough, her doctor gets her to sign a consent form for electroconvulsive therapy. The shock therapy and the sounds accompanying the scene, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQhuicAnP4 Meltdown]] - which pauses for a second of soul-chilling silence just before each shock sent into Sara's brain - are played as ElectricTorture, and it is absolutely ''agonizing'' to watch.

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Lux Aeterna"]] may be one of the most incredibly powerful pieces of movie soundtrack music of all time, but it's also incredibly ''dark.'' It's the kind of music you can imagine playing as the whole world burns and the entire human race screams as one in hopeless, helpless despair. There is not a single uplifting or hopeful note in the entire piece.

* The climactic MadnessMontage is absolutely brutal for both the characters and the audience; the rapid cutting back and forth between the four main characters reaching terminal velocity on their journeys to rock bottom is disorienting enough, but then there are the individual hells they have created for themselves:

** But compared to Harry, Tyrone is fortunate; the gangrene in Harry's [[BodyHorror infected arm]] - shown in lovingly gory detail throughout the Winter segment - has progressed to the point that he has to have it amputated just below the shoulder, and we are treated to numerous shots of him writhing in agony, culminating in a surgical saw splattering blood against his plastic face mask as it cuts into his upper arm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YLT1yoNec The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder, is especially harrowing.

** Finally, as if seeing Sara strapped to a hospital chair as two orderlies try and fail to force feed her spoonfuls of potato and later try a nasal IV, all accompanied by the absolutely savage "Lux Aeterna" (which is as creepy as it is awesome in the "Requiem for a Tower" orchestration), isn't bad enough, her doctor gets her to sign a consent form for electroconvulsive therapy. The shock therapy and the sounds accompanying the scene, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQhuicAnP4 Meltdown]], are played as ElectricTorture, and it is absolutely ''agonizing'' to watch.

* The whole movie could apply to some, though most of it falls into TearJerker territory.
* The real NF here is Sara's descent into madness over the course of Fall and Winter. This sequence gives us such gems as Sara's POV of the world, which is menacing in every possible aspect, a refrigerator coming to life to eat her complete with loud, startling banging sounds, a TV personality emerging from the TV as a bizarre being made of static and mocking her, and the simple, horrific image of a completely fucked up Sara walking down a sidewalk in broad daylight as people pass by so quickly they are blurred and look like ghosts. That last one also serves as the first image seen during the Winter segment, just to make sure you knew what the last third of the movie was about to be like.
* Let's not forget this scene...
--> '''Marion:''' So what do you want us to do now?
--> '''Uncle Hank:''' Ass to ass.
--> ''(Someone holds up a greased-up double dildo)''
--> '''Crowd:''' ''(ad nauseum) ASS TO ASS!''
* The shock therapy (as pictured in the page image), and the sounds accompanying the scene. It's really played as ElectricTorture, and is absolutely ''agonizing'' to watch.
** Appropriately enough, the corresponding track to this scene on the soundtrack is titled "Meltdown".
* Harry's [[BodyHorror infected arm]].
* Anything in the "Winter" suite of the soundtrack, especially the aforementioned [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQhuicAnP4 Meltdown]].
** "Lux Aeterna" is as creepy as it is awesome. ''More'' creepy, actually (except the orchestrated "Requiem for a Tower" version, which is just awesome).
* Marion having a dollar bill stuffed into her mouth during the MadnessMontage. There's something succinctly horrible about a barely-conscious woman being gruesomely violated by a stranger, for a crowd of jeering strangers, and being fed a single dollar from an anonymous, sweaty hand. It's a hell of an image to express how worthless her addiction has made her.
* In the scene where Marion has sex with her psychologist for money, he grabs and kisses her so violently [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it almost feels like a rape scene]].
** The whole idea of that part of Marion's arc is horrible. This is a man who has an education for the express purpose of understanding, analyzing, and learning how to treat mental illness. The "You smug fuck!" scene drives it home; the entire reason for his getting involved with Marion in the first place is ''because'' he knows that she's a weak-willed dreamer. He knows damn well that she's at risk for addiction. He's violent with her because he's been ''waiting the entire time'' for her to whore herself out to him, because he knew that's what she'd eventually end up doing... and like most abusers, once he knows he's got her once, he knows he's got her for good.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YLT1yoNec The scene]] where Harry and Tyrone are both crying out and screaming for help, accompanied by [[JitterCam harsh camera shaking]] and grating distortion noises that intensify as their screams get louder.
--> '''Harry''': Jesus Christ!
--> '''Tyrone''': Can somebody help us?
--> '''Harry''': I need a doctor, man! I can't take it! My arm! MY FUCKING ARM!
--> '''Tyrone''': ''Help us! '''SOMEBODY FUCKING HELP US, PLEASE!'''''
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Lux Aeterna]] may be one of the most incredibly powerful pieces of movie soundtrack music of all time, but it's also incredibly ''dark.'' It's the kind of music you can imagine playing as the whole world burns and the entire human race screams as one in hopeless, helpless despair. There is not a single uplifting or hopeful note in the entire piece.