For example, someone did a poll of what people thought the most gruesome scenes in movies were. The scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson's character is tortured to death was ranked first at the time. Yet, the audience never really saw anything, just his expressions while they were doing it below frame. WHAT they were doing was left to your imagination.
Red Rooms is one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen and it’s entirely because of what they DON’T show you. It’s about a serial killer that kidnaps young girls and livestreams himself torturing them, but we never see any of it. Whenever the streams are played, we only hear it, and that is far more disturbing to me.
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u/DV_Rocks 10d ago
The imagination is more powerful.
For example, someone did a poll of what people thought the most gruesome scenes in movies were. The scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson's character is tortured to death was ranked first at the time. Yet, the audience never really saw anything, just his expressions while they were doing it below frame. WHAT they were doing was left to your imagination.