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Nightmare Fuel / The Crow (1994)

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  • The blood-curdling scene in which Eric places his palm over the barrel of Fun Boy's gun and dares him to pull the trigger. Fun Boy does so, and Eric at first pretends to scream in pain. But then he pulls away, the bloody hole in his hand starts to spontaneously close up, and Eric starts up a wicked laugh that builds in intensity until it is high-pitched, screechy, and wild. That's when Fun Boy finally realizes that he's fucked.
  • "THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK! THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!" Spoken by a man not only facing death but who has been evil for his entire existence and now realises there is an afterlife and he's not going to the good place...
  • The 30 hours worth of pain Eric inflicts on Top Dollar, taken directly from Shelly's experience of being beaten, gang-raped and left to die slowly. Of course, the bastard deserved every minute of it.
    • Plus the scenes in which Eric properly learns about what happened to poor Shelly. He at first doesn't have any idea of his empathic powers, so when he goes home and checks around, he accidentally starts "collecting" the memories "recorded" in the objects and furniture there, and logically it's NOT pleasant at all. And later, when he meets up with Albrecht, he touches him to "properly" learn about Shelly's last minutes since he was there when she expired...
  • Top Dollar himself is pretty damn creepy. He's not just a crime boss, he's also a twisted pyromaniac who sleeps with his half-sister Myca, and murders their sexual partners so that Myca can use them in occult rituals. How depraved can one man be?
    • Not to mention his grand plan for Devil's Night can be summed up as "burn all Detroit to the ground so the inferno can be seen from orbit". For profit? For ego? For revenge? No. Because it'll be fun. What's truly terrifying is, given his power and authority, he could do it.
    • His sister contemplated pulling a child's eyes out of their sockets.

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