History NightmareFuel / ReservoirDogs

* Really, the entire gut shot sequence in general. Roth does a fantastic job of portraying the pain from that type of wound, and he sufferes with it for most of the film. Also, seeing ALL the blood that Orange leaks coming down that ramp is stomach churning. We can also see him become pale from the blood loss, and seemingly the only reason he stops making painful noises during the sequence where White, Pink, and Blonde deal with Nash and talk to Eddie is because he's passed out from the pain, the blood loss, or a combination of both.

* The noises of pain that Mr. Orange makes during the opening credits. Even before you see that he's been shot, you know that things have gone pretty bad, pretty fast.

* ''Mr. Freaking Blonde.'' Every time he's onscreen, there's an undeniable sense of unease. Nobody disputes the claim that Mr. White makes that he's a complete psychopath, and even Mr. Pink rules him out as the rat specifically ''because'' he's just too damn nutty for the very idea he'd betray them to the police to be considered plausible.
** According to Mr. White, as soon as things started to go downhill, he immediately began shooting random civilians, one of which was a girl in her early twenties ''at most''.
* The infamous torture scene. The poor officer has already been tied down to a chair by a group of professional criminals who will not hesitate to resort to murder if need be, and now he's been left in the company of the most psychotic and unstable member of the group. Things start out bad enough when Mr. Blonde starts playing and dancing along to "Stuck in the Middle With You" to mess with him, but then he takes things further when he gets down to business and ''cuts the guy's ear off''. And then, to put the cherry on top, he goes outside, grabs a can of gasoline, and then gets ready to ''light him on fire''.
** And if the ear cutting wasn't bad for you enough, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MD8aWKr6g4 then check out the deleted scene of it at 11:18 but the camera aiming at the ear, don't worry Kirk Baltz didn't actually lose his ear.]]
* Mr. Brown's death. He gets shot in the head, and still tries to drive off to evade the cops, but suffered severe cognitive impairment and not being able to see, dying soon after.
* Mr. White ruthlessly gunning down a pair of cops when they catch up to himself, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Brown. For most of the movie Mr. White is portrayed as a tough but compassionate gangster, but here we see just how dangerous and ruthless he can be. Worse still, he does so with a calm and cold expression on his face. Mr. Orange can only watch in horror as the man who he bonded with kills Orange's fellow officers.

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* Mr. White ruthlessly gunning down a pair of cops when they catch up to himeslf, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Brown. For most of the movie Mr. White is portrayed as a tough but compassionate gangster, but here we see just how dangerous and ruthless he can be. Worse still, he does so with a calm and cold expression on his face. Mr. Orange can only watch in horror as the man who he bonded with kills Orange's fellow officers.

** According to Mr. White, as soon as things started to go downhill, he immediately began shooting random civilians, one of which was in her early twenties ''at best''.

* Mr. Brown's death. He gets shot in the head, and then keeps on living for a few more minutes.

** And if the ear cutting wasn't bad for you enough,[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MD8aWKr6g4 then check out the deleted scene of it at 11:18 but the camera aiming at the ear, don't worry Kirk Baltz didn't actually lose his ear.]]

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about both it and the character in general. Usually movie villains and psychopaths at least fluctuate between different emotional states. Anger, satisfaction, fear and so on...and that makes them more human. Blonde by contrast, never shows anything beyond calm sarcasm and inappropriate humour - not even when he's dying! It feels like he'd come across exactly the same whether he's torturing someone, discussing killing innocent people, or just chilling on a sofa watching TV. It's not only that he's not disturbed by his actions, but he doesn't even seem particularly pleased by the torture either despite claiming he finds it "amusing." He's just indifferent. His constant maintenance of the exact same baseline blank attitude gives the impression he's totally incapable of feeling any kind of human emotion at all.

* ''Mr. Freaking Blonde.'' Every time he's onscreen, there's an undeniable sense of unease. Nobody disputes the claim that Mr. White makes that he's a complete psychopath.

* ''Mr. Freaking Blonde.'' Every time he's onscreen, there's an undeniable sense of unease.

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about both it and the character in general. Usually movie villains and psychopaths at least fluctuate between different emotional states. Anger, satisfaction, fear and so on...and that makes them more human. Blonde by contrast, never shows anything beyond calm sarcasm and inappropriate humour - not even when he's dying! It feels like he'd come across exactly the same whether he's torturing someone, discussing killing innocent people, or just chilling on a sofa watching TV. It's not only that he's not disturbed by his actions, but he doesn't even seem particularly pleased by the torture either despite claiming he finds it "amusing". He's just indifferent. His constant maintenance of the exact same baseline blank attitude gives the impression he's totally incapable of feeling any kind of human emotion at all.

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about both it and the character in general. Usually movie villains and psychopaths at least fluctuate between different emotional states. Anger, satisfaction, fear and so on...and that makes them more human. Blonde by contrast, never shows anything beyond calm sarcasm and inappropriate humour - not even when he's dying! It feels like he'd come across exactly the same whether he's torturing someone, discussing killing innocent people, or just chilling on a sofa watching TV. It's not only that he's not disturbed by his actions, but he doesn't even seem particularly pleased by the torture either despite claiming he finds it "amusing". He's just indifferent. His constant maintenance of the exact same baseline blank attitude gives the impression he's totally incapable of feeling any kind of human emotion at all. His personality is just a hollow mask he wears to try and hide complete emptiness underneath. It makes you wonder what awful things he's done in the past...

* Mr. Brown's death. He gets shot in the head, and then keeps on living for a few more minutes.

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about both it and the character in general. Usually movie villains and psychopaths at least fluctuate between different emotional states. Anger, satisfaction, fear and so on...and that makes them more human. Blonde by contrast, never shows anything beyond calm sarcasm and inappropriate humour - not even when he's dying! It feels like he'd come across exactly the same whether he's torturing someone, discussing killing innocent people, or just chilling on a sofa watching TV. It's not even only that he's not disturbed by the pain he inflicts, but he doesn't even seem particularly pleased by the torture either despite claiming he finds it "amusing". The constant maintenance of the exact same baseline weird slightly jokey attitude he always has gives the impression he's totally incapable of feeling any kind of human emotion at all. His personality is just a hollow mask he wears to try and hide complete emptiness underneath. It makes you wonder what awful things he's done in the past...

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about it. Usually villains and psychopaths fluctuate between different emotional states. Anger, satisfaction, fear and so on. Blonde by contrast, shows nothing beyond calm sarcasm and inappropriate humour. It feels like he'd come across exactly the same where he's torturing someone, discussing killing innocent people, or just chilling on a sofa watching TV. It's not even just that he's not disturbed by the pain he inflicts, but he doesn't even seem particularly pleased by the torture either despite claiming he enjoys it. The maintenance of the exact same baseline weird slightly "jokey" attitude he always has constantly gives the impression he's totally incapable of feeling any kind of human emotion whatsoever. His personality is just a hollow mask he wears to try and hide total emptiness within. It makes you wonder what awful things he's done in the past...

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly the most disturbing thing about it. For a man committing the most horrible acts of pointless physical torture, he would come across just the same if he was chilling on a sofa or buying groceries. He calmly walks to his car to get the gas can as if he doesn't have a care in the world and dances happily in circles with it as Nash screams in distress. It makes you wonder what awful things he's done in the past...

** Blonde's total lack of emotion during the whole scene is almost certainly disturbing thing about it. He calmly walks to his car to get the gas can as if he doesn't have a care in the world and dances happily in circles with it as Nash screams in distress. It makes you wonder what awful things he's done in the past to be so calm when inflicting such horrors on people...

* The infamous torture scene. The poor officer has already been tied down to a chair by a group of professional criminals who will not hesitate to resort to murder if need be, and now he's been left in the company of the most psychotic and unstable member of the group. Things start out bad enough when Mr. Blonde starts playing and dancing along to "Stuck in the Middle With You" to mess with him, but then he takes things further when he gets down to business and ''cuts the guy's ear off''. And then, to put the cherry on top, he goes outside, grabs a can of gasoline, and then gets ready to ''light him on fire''.