History NightmareFuel / Casino

* Andy Stone gets assassinated, despite being vouched by almost all the Mafia bosses as a loyal subordinate and one even mentioning he's a Marine, simply for not being Italian. And then there's how he's assassinated: walking to his car when two hitmen casually walk behind him and shoot him repeatedly.

* It is extremely difficult to watch [[EyeScream the vise scene]], where Nicky puts a man's head in a vise to extract information, having already (off screen) [[GroinAttack stabbed him in the testicles]] with icepicks. More unsettlingly, it's implied that Nicky is indicated to be uncomfortable with the measures he has to take to extract information. It's even all but stated Nicky was only going to these lengths because one of Remo's bars was hit and one of the victims was a waitress with no connection to the mob who was working on her day off. Creator/MartinScorsese reportedly said the vise scene was his "[[CensorDecoy sacrificial]]" scene, which he would consent to take out if he was threatened with an NC-17 rating. They complained about some other scenes, but not that one, so it stayed in.

* She might have deserved it, but Ginger's death is legitimately frightening: in a shitty motel in LA somewhere, she stumbles out of her hotel room and crawls across exposed brick in a poorly lit hallway (so poorly lit that the dark is legit pitch black, that she [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything literally fades in and out between light and dark]]) before collapsing and dying. You'd be forgiven for thinking you suddenly were watching a David Lynch movie with the way it's shot, and how "House of the Rising Sun" begins to distort. Additionally, her repeatedly screaming "Oh, no! No! No! No!" as it happens gives you an idea that as much of an AddledAddict she was by then, [[FridgeHorror she was still]] ''[[FridgeHorror fully aware]]'' [[FridgeHorror of what she was facing.]]
** Worse, she died from a "hot dose". What's a hot dose? A mix of the drug one is addicted to, and [[{{Squick}} battery acid]]. And making things worse, Ace reveals in his voiceover that he wanted a ''second autopsy'', not because he loved her or even cared for her, but because [[ParanoiaFuel he was so confident that she was whacked, he wanted to make sure he wouldn't be.]]
* Meta-example: Joe Pesci looked so much like the man his character was based on, Tony Spilotro, that some of the pit bosses ''nearly fainted'' at the sight of him.

* The movie makes a convincing argument about why you shouldn't even ''try'' to cheat at a casino. One poor bastard is found giving secret signals to his friend about how much to bet. His reward? [[{{DisproportionateRetribution}} Getting zapped with a hidden cattle prod, hauled into a room where they threaten to cut off his fingers with a table saw.]] He gets his hand smashed by a hammer instead.

** And near the beginning, when Nicky asks if he could move out to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, he mentions with noticeable worry that "even the cops ain't afraid to bury people in the desert". That [[HorrifyingTheHorror Nicky is afraid of something]] is rather frightening.

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"Listen to me Anthony. I got your head in a fuckin' vise. I'll squash your head like a fuckin' grapefruit if you don't give me a name!"]]

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* [[EyeScream The vise scene]], where Nicky puts a man's head in a vise to extract information, having already (off screen) [[GroinAttack stabbed him in the testicles]] with icepicks. It's even all but stated Nicky was only going to these lengths because one of Remo's bars was hit and one of the victims was a waitress with no connection to the mob who was working on her day off.
** Creator/MartinScorsese reportedly said the vise scene was his "[[CensorDecoy sacrificial]]" scene, which he would consent to take out if he was threatened with an NC-17 rating. They complained about some other scenes, but not that one, so it stayed in.
** Even worse is what happened to the real victim afterwards. He was shot, ''then his corpse set on fire.''

* All of the executions to tie up all loose ends. One disgusting one is a guy murdered in Costa Rica by kneeling and a hitman shooting into the ''top of his head''. Another, while getting into his car, gets his throat cut and a plastic bag put over his head, making it unclear whether he died from blood loss or from drowning in his own blood. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Then there's a split second of him getting stabbed in the head.]]

** In 2008, it was revealed that Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, the man upon whom Rothstein was based, was an FBI informant. Which makes this scene more horrifying: they were killing everybody ''except'' the man who was ratting them out.