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

''Film/BlackSwan'' is considered a "live-action version of ''Anime/PerfectBlue''". With the parallels and existence of the latter's [[NightmareFuel/PerfectBlue NF page]], those words are truer than you might believe.

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* The film begins with a dream sequence of Nina dancing the Prologue to Swan Lake (where Odette is cursed by Rothbart). It starts out all nice. But then Rothbart shows up and while he dances, he morphs into a monster. Everything takes on a MoreThanMindControl aspect as they dance around the stage and Nina's costume and hair transform into the classic tutu and white feather crown, symbolizing her transformation into the swan. All while Tchaikovsky's score blares. There's a surreal, almost dreamlike, aspect to it, that hints at the roller coaster we're in for.
* The entire "Night of Terror" sequence, as it's called on the score, which is basically 10 minutes of Nina going completely MENTAL the night before her performance, as we are treated to BodyHorror, and [[JumpScare jump scares]], just to name a few things. Unsurprisingly, that is director Darren Aronofsky's [[TeasingCreator favorite part of the movie.]]
** The major turning point is 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 it may have actually been Nina who stabbed Beth.
** 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.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPz9qt1orM Listen to the music from that scene]] and you'll probably never be able to listen to the introduction of Swan Lake again without hearing weird sounds in the background of the music.
* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Nina herself.]] Thanks to being smothered by her StageMom for so long, Nina becomes [[SanitySlippage insane and self-abusive.]]
** Her heavily implied eating disorder doesn't help matters either.
** 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 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.
** 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'''.
* What about Thomas' approaches to Nina? That creepy bastard knows that Nina is emotionally unstable, so he takes advantage of her and uses her for his own pleasure.
** 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..." . Eugh.
** He only gets shadier when Beth says she's going to stop by his house later, and the next we see of her she's in the hospital for "throwing herself" into traffic.
** There's also the interpretation that he's abusing these women because he believes breaking them down will make them better performers. Which is in some ways ''more'' twisted than if it was only about sex.
* The movie doesn't shy away from the damage ballerinas do to their feet on a regular basis. Now, toes fusing on the other hand, [[BodyHorror that's usually not quite normal.]]
* Nina's final Black Swan wardrobe and makeup is more than a little frightening.
** Her first appearance as the Black Swan, including with Nina's initial lunge to the camera, with that disturbing ''growl''.
* Then there's the moment when, after noticing the blood on her fingers, she starts cutting her nails whilst looking in the mirror with a psychotic expression on her face, while disturbing laughter can be heard...
* Ballerina legs? Nice. Ballerina legs snapping into the shape of swan legs? '''AAAAAAAAAAAAA!'''
* The scene (featured at the end of the trailer) involving Nina plucking a ''[[BodyHorror tiny black feather]]'' out of the scratches on her back... AND, [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes are red]] (pictured above).
** 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.
* [[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 Creator/HeathLedger, method acting suddenly becomes quite scary.
* The part where Nina slammed the door with ''her mother's hand still on the doorframe''. Her mother's screaming in pain only makes the scene even worse.
** And then shortly afterwards when she twists her mother's injured hands. Did this movie have a thing against hands or what?
* The climax (pun not intended) of the sex scene. Lily stands up and whispers "Sweet girl" in an extremely creepy way before suddenly transforming into Nina's doppelgänger and [[VorpalPillow attempting to smother Nina with a pillow]].
* The creepy old man on the train that sits across from Nina. The less said about him the better.
* 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.
* Nina peeling off the skin of [[{{Fingore}} her finger]] in the bathroom.
* Her "goosebumps" that turn out to be more literal than thought at first.
** And then later her neck freakishly elongating like a swan's.
* 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.
* The strange, subliminal imagery that flashes among the strobe in the dance club scene.
** One of which is Nina's final Black Swan form, the very same seen on the movie's poster.
* While the movie features several instances of Nina having disturbing hallucinations, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaD5cZNw0E her fitting]] features one of the more 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 first time we see the paintings Nina's mom has been making, for a brief second, you can see one of them ''move its eyes.'' This never gets brought back up, and we the audience are left wondering if we really did see something just like Nina did.
* Mundane example but the makeup for the black swan is pretty unnerving. It's a combination of EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette with just enough of a hint of bird to come across as unnatural, not helped by Odile's red-tinted sclera.
* Every time Nina sees a doppelganger of herself. It's just plain disturbing.

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