Nightmare Fuel / Gangs of New York

• The knife-throwing act. Yikes. Keep in mind, this was against a woman Bill once impregnated and considered an apprentice.
• In the film's beginning battle, one poor guy had his cheek ripped apart by another guy forcefully tearing his mouth open.
  • Another suffers a compound fracture to his leg courtesy of Monk's shillelagh. Since the opening fight takes place in the 1840s, it'd likely have to be amputated if he even survived the battle at all.
• The Irish Draft Riots are shown to be terrifying for all involved. Having to worry about an angry mob coming to tear down your house and possibly kill your family, the lack of sufficient police, and if you're black or rich, you better get the hell off the street or you'll end up lynched, beaten to death, or both. The rioters even beat up other poor passerbys they believed had valuables.
  • There's one scene where John Schermerhorn sends the women of the house upstairs to hide and plans to hold the mob off with two pistols. Highly unlikely that ended well for any of them. (The real Schermerhorn died in 1851.)
  • The shot of the dead black man being stabbed and then hung from the lamp post. Then the scene cuts to a period etching of the exact same scene with the only difference that it's a tree. Then we see another etching of the corpse of another black man being burned while he's hanging. Then it cuts to Jimmy Spoils being surrounded by the mob...and that's the last time we see Jimmy alive.
  • The soldiers opening fire on the mob and are moments later seen wading in blood.
• Bill (especially his propensity for violence and random brutality) is walking nightmare fuel incarnate. The fact that he's so powerful within New York to the point that he's the undisputed crime lord everyone answers to makes it even worse. Daniel-Day Lewis will haunt your dreams.