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| 4 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Squick}} Ouch.]]]] |
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| 6 | ''127 Hours'' is based on a real experience of someone [[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting off his own limb to survive]], and this film perfectly captures that feeling of isolation and tension. |
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| 9 | * The idea that you're rock climbing, and everything goes well until you make one wrong move, and a rock crushes your arm. [[RealismInducedHorror No supernatural elements here, all of it could conceivably happen even on the best of hikes.]] |
| 10 | * The fact that the story is a real re-telling of one man's predicament. |
| 11 | * Cranked up to eleven when, in the middle of cutting off his arm with a dull knife, he reaches a nerve bundle that, despite everything else he had done to himself, was still electrically painful. The sound effects that go with it only make it worse. |
| 12 | * [[ItMakesSenseInContext The jump scare with Scooby-Doo.]] |
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