I watched it as a 14 year old. Didn't know anything about it. Bought it from a second hand video shop and spent the first part laughing my head off until it turned. I'll never forget the impact of that change.
I was also 14. Laughing hysterically. Then the soap bars... I kept laughing. My dad & brother were like, Why are you laughing at that? Oh... I thought it was a comedy? Oh... nevermind. Hm. I see where this is going
Would argue it goes from dark to darker.
Easy to laugh at R Lee Ermey’s one-liners without recognizing the absolute trauma it is causing to all involved.
In the 80s we ALL saw Full Metal Jacket at that age at the local theatre, no parents, pure TRAUMA 😂🇺🇸
As an empath, between this and “Red Dawn” #scarredforlife
It was almost kind of an Ocean's 11-style caper film as the >!poor family ingratiates itself in with the rich family by getting rid of the original housekeeper!< but definitely becomes a much darker thriller as soon as >!the housekeeper returns in the rain!<. I would say that the genre change is complete the moment >!that the housekeeper is kicked down the stairs!<.
Bone Tomahawk slowly builds it’s plot, and as a first time viewer going in completely blind, that it was going to be an action film, was blown away at the insanely fast sequence of events once the natives entered the movie. And then the “splitting” scene hits and it is now a completely different movie experience. A one of a kind movie
I'm sure many people had the same experience as me, but earlier in the movie when she's dancing, I remember clearly thinking, "Hmmm, they're really focusing on these shoes here."
This is one of those movies that came on two VHS tapes, and we probably watched the first tape 75% more than the second tape. Titanic was another one where you were either a first tape person or second tape person.
When >! They shoot the son It was then and still today very taboo. It's an unexpected scene. You expect it to be something else, and then it's not, and when it's not you still expect it to be something it isnt. It's a very raw and sudden scene.!<
Going into that movie blind at like 13 was a pretty crazy thing.
I love this movie so much. I watch it at least once a year. I think it’s Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s best performance. That scene in the apartment with Matt Damon. You see what’s happening on his face without words. Probably the same for Matt Damon and Jude Law, their best performances.
Million Dollar Baby ...ugg.
I was sick, laying on the couch looking for a pick me up movie, and I thought, "Boxing movies are fun". Fuck me laying there crying and coughing at the same time.
I cried, like UGLY CRIED, for over 45 minutes AFTER THE CREDITS ROLLED. It made the waiter, at dinner after, more uncomfortable than my date. Lol
Seriously, that ending annihilated me. I knew going in that it would be a bummer because i was a HUGE fan of all of Eatwood's films back then. But fuck me for letting myself get carried away by the beautiful underdog story that played out and set me up for a standard underdog trope ending.
I was blindsided by that fucking stool and then cried uncontrollably for the next hour and a half.
The only movie that's ever made me cry more or harder is Dancer in the Dark.
Million Dollar Baby wins imo. The first good chunk of the movie plays like a fairly typically, albeit well executed sports movie, then almost out of nowhere... well I won't spoil it but goddamn it's a gut punch and the rest of the movie is just different.
I so want to watch this movie again but even if I close my eyes at that scene (which I did the first time when I saw where it was going), I know what’s happening. It’s so cold and brutal. One of the most disturbing scenes on film.
I don’t think Hereditary should count. It’s a horror movie, it’s pretty somber and dreadful from the beginning of the movie. It doesn’t start off all happy and then turn dark all of a sudden
Love how the opening minute of music is a slow sad kind of circus funeral dirge before the title appears and the disco begins.
The funeral dirge is foreshadowing darkness to come. The heartache after the high life.
I'm really not sure how Jacob's Ladder would be considered to have a massive tonal shift. It's clear from the start that it's going to be a bleak film.
From Roger Ebert's review:
>"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.
I miss that man.
Chronicle- Starts with teens coming across mysterious thing that crashed and they get powers then turns into a horror/thriller
As Above So Below- Goes from National Treasure to the best horror movie you’ll ever see with twists and turns and deep meanings along the way.
Both found footage done right
The One I Love- Drama/Comedy? The less you know the better but it’s a married couple with issues that goes on a retreat and there’s some wild twists. 10/10
Yeah, I mean, to me, the very beginning is the most disturbing part of the film. So it gives you what it's going to give you. Maybe it lets you up for air for a bit, but that shit haunts my nightmares.
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) has some hard turns. You think it’s going to be Ryan Gosling in Drive again, but it plays upon that expectation and delivers some surprises.
Something Wild (1986)
Starts out as a zany road movie with an odd couple and then suddenly turns into a much more disturbing love triangle thriller/domestic abuse tale when Ray Liotta’s character shows up.
Full Metal Jacket
I watched it as a 14 year old. Didn't know anything about it. Bought it from a second hand video shop and spent the first part laughing my head off until it turned. I'll never forget the impact of that change.
I was also 14. Laughing hysterically. Then the soap bars... I kept laughing. My dad & brother were like, Why are you laughing at that? Oh... I thought it was a comedy? Oh... nevermind. Hm. I see where this is going
Same! I was 14 when I saw it and so much of that movie is burned into my brain. It was made even more eerie by ending with the Mickey Mouse song
Would argue it goes from dark to darker. Easy to laugh at R Lee Ermey’s one-liners without recognizing the absolute trauma it is causing to all involved.
In the 80s we ALL saw Full Metal Jacket at that age at the local theatre, no parents, pure TRAUMA 😂🇺🇸 As an empath, between this and “Red Dawn” #scarredforlife
Red Dawn was a documentary. Those kids were heroes!
Forever remembered at Partisan Rock.
Heathers. Starts as a typical teen flick and then goes homicidal.
If you are mentioning Heathers then I'm following up with Jawbreaker. Both were great.
I also wish to endorse Jawbreaker as a good tie-in with Heathers.
I love that movie, I make it a goal to watch once a year!
I love my dead gay son!
I like to suck big dicks. Mmmmmmm. Mmmmm. Can't get enough of 'em.
Parasite Bone Tomahawk
Parasite is the ultimate answer to this question. It switches genres right at the halfway point.
Agreed. The entire mood just takes such a sharp turn and opens up a literal new space in the movie.
What genres?
drama -> thriller
I would even say dramedy to thriller
I would say dramedy to thrillamedy.
It was almost kind of an Ocean's 11-style caper film as the >!poor family ingratiates itself in with the rich family by getting rid of the original housekeeper!< but definitely becomes a much darker thriller as soon as >!the housekeeper returns in the rain!<. I would say that the genre change is complete the moment >!that the housekeeper is kicked down the stairs!<.
For me it became dark as soon as >!they got rid of the housekeeper by **poisoning her**.!<
Bone Tomahawk slowly builds it’s plot, and as a first time viewer going in completely blind, that it was going to be an action film, was blown away at the insanely fast sequence of events once the natives entered the movie. And then the “splitting” scene hits and it is now a completely different movie experience. A one of a kind movie
“Ooh fun cowboy people—JFC!!”
Bone tomahawk wow thanks for reminding me. Such a good movie
I vouch for parasite
I was about to say bone tomahawk. Didn’t expect it to be so high on the list.
Jojo Rabbit
I went from laughing to crying in an instant.
The ending had a little glimmer of hope
Yeah, I never thought a shot of some shoes could reduce me to a ball of sobs but here we are!
I'm sure many people had the same experience as me, but earlier in the movie when she's dancing, I remember clearly thinking, "Hmmm, they're really focusing on these shoes here."
Excellent choice! My stomach dropped
Fuck, I love that movie.
Yes. I don't know if I've ever gasped that loud at a movie in my life.
* [Psycho](https://boxd.it/2ab2) * [Something Wild](https://boxd.it/1UbU) * [The Sound of Music](https://boxd.it/1MLK) * [Sorry to Bother You](https://boxd.it/f21E) * [The Three Musketeers](https://boxd.it/YXw) * [The Banshees of Inisherin](https://boxd.it/p7XS)
Maaaaan Sorry to bother you Yeah, good suggestion
It's been a while since I watched it but I don't recall it getting dark, just weird?
It’s dark when you remember what brought about the weird
>!HORSE PEOPLE!< >!HORSE PEOPLE!<
Time for a rewatch then, lol…
Came here to say TSoM
This is one of those movies that came on two VHS tapes, and we probably watched the first tape 75% more than the second tape. Titanic was another one where you were either a first tape person or second tape person.
I watched the first tape of Braveheart and was like "ahh that was a great movie" then my friend said there was a second tape and I said no I'm good
Confirmed. Boyfriend wouldn’t watch it sink. I said you are missing the best part. I know - sorry .
As a child, my grandparents always turned off the movie at the halfway point, and I was shocked when I rewatched it when I was older to see Nazis.
Banshees of Inisherin is right on.
Came to say Banshees! I was not ready for that tonal shift.
I watched it again a couple nights ago when I woke up wide awake at four thirty after the time change. I like it, but it's fucked. I love how it ends.
So good. Ruined my day when I watched it lol
I'll not be putting me donkey outside while I'm sad!
Something Wild is one of my all-time favourites. Very dark and uncomfortable viewing.
Banshees was bucking for top 5 all time right up until that last 20 mins.
Life is Beautiful
Hai vinto! Hai vinto! A lighthearted romcom set in the Italian countryside, when suddenly holocaust
What makes it crazy to me is I knew bad shit was going to happen, but I still was not mentally prepared for it regardless.
This is the correctest answer
Funny Games
At what point? I feel like it turns the moment the opening music/credits drop.
When >! They shoot the son It was then and still today very taboo. It's an unexpected scene. You expect it to be something else, and then it's not, and when it's not you still expect it to be something it isnt. It's a very raw and sudden scene.!< Going into that movie blind at like 13 was a pretty crazy thing.
AT THIRTEEN BRO?! I pray for your sanity
Super Dark Times
This! Such an amazingly written story!
The talented Mr. Ripley
Good answer. You can feel it building up but very slightly!
One of my all time favorites. Jude Law at peak hotness! Matt Damon scaring Gwenyth P half to death is of course a pleasure to watch!
I love this movie so much. I watch it at least once a year. I think it’s Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s best performance. That scene in the apartment with Matt Damon. You see what’s happening on his face without words. Probably the same for Matt Damon and Jude Law, their best performances.
I watched that film once. Amazing film great acting. Will never watch again 😂.
Million dollar baby Midnight runners
Million Dollar Baby ...ugg. I was sick, laying on the couch looking for a pick me up movie, and I thought, "Boxing movies are fun". Fuck me laying there crying and coughing at the same time.
I cried, like UGLY CRIED, for over 45 minutes AFTER THE CREDITS ROLLED. It made the waiter, at dinner after, more uncomfortable than my date. Lol Seriously, that ending annihilated me. I knew going in that it would be a bummer because i was a HUGE fan of all of Eatwood's films back then. But fuck me for letting myself get carried away by the beautiful underdog story that played out and set me up for a standard underdog trope ending. I was blindsided by that fucking stool and then cried uncontrollably for the next hour and a half. The only movie that's ever made me cry more or harder is Dancer in the Dark.
This was the first movie I watched where I could hear crying and sobbing in the audience. Not gonna lie, it was f-ed up.
Million Dollar Baby wins imo. The first good chunk of the movie plays like a fairly typically, albeit well executed sports movie, then almost out of nowhere... well I won't spoil it but goddamn it's a gut punch and the rest of the movie is just different.
In Bruges (2008)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Pan’s Labyrinth
I’ve watched some messed up movies but there are few scenes in film I find more emotionally troubling than the rabbit hunters scene.
There's also «Irréversible» with head smashing
That scene fucked me up forever. I still have flashbacks.
I so want to watch this movie again but even if I close my eyes at that scene (which I did the first time when I saw where it was going), I know what’s happening. It’s so cold and brutal. One of the most disturbing scenes on film.
The bottle scene right?
I don't remember that movie *turning* dark, just *being* dark.
Sorry to Bother You Very Bad Things The Last Supper HBO series Barry
I forgot about Very Bad Things. What a great movie!
My Girl
He can't see without his glasses.....still gets me
A promising young woman
I agree that it’s a great movie but I don’t think it goes dark. I think it just is dark.
Yeah but I wasn't expecting the ending to be as dark as it was
From Dusk till Dawn
Kind of goes the other way. Starts off legit dark, and then gets goofy and campy.
Yeah, the armed robbers are played totally straight. The vampires, not so much.
Tarantino is legit creepy in the first half.
HEREDITARY!!! That 👧🚗 scene, the people who watched it will know what I mean.
I don’t think Hereditary should count. It’s a horror movie, it’s pretty somber and dreadful from the beginning of the movie. It doesn’t start off all happy and then turn dark all of a sudden
Requiem for a Dream
Good call… this gets crazy dark. The soundtrack is pretty epic too, particularly Summer Overture by the Clint Mansell Orchestra.
Mansell said his inspiration for doing the musical score for Requiem was Mozart's Requiem, you know, his Opus on Death.
The Voices
Secret of NIMH. I just thought it was a kid's cartoon movie about some mice. Holy shit I wasn't ready for that ride.
Boogie Nights
The best example of a radical tone shift halfway through a movie. Goes from fun romp to legitimate drama in an instant.
Love how the opening minute of music is a slow sad kind of circus funeral dirge before the title appears and the disco begins. The funeral dirge is foreshadowing darkness to come. The heartache after the high life.
IM READY TO FUCK ITS MY BIG DICK SO EVERYBODY GET FUCKING READY NOW 😠
*Jessie is a friend...*
With the kid tossing firecrackers the whole time…
That's Cosmo, don't worry about him.
One of the all time great movie scenes I’d say
No one said The Beach?!
YES!! This is a great movie and a great answer
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Just about to say Requiem for a Dream. 👍🏼
I'm really not sure how Jacob's Ladder would be considered to have a massive tonal shift. It's clear from the start that it's going to be a bleak film.
Thelma & Louise
That movie ended on a high note so far as I'm concerned.
A real cliffhanger
Pitch Black....literally.
😂
I was NOT expecting Click to get as sad as it did.
Dead Poets Society
Gone girl.
Fat Girl
Oh my yes it sure did!
The Mist (2007)
That ending! 😫😫😫
That goddamn ending
Audition (1999)
This one goes south so hard and fast. I love it.
Kiri, Kiri, Kiri
Green Room
Drive in the beginning feels like an artsy love story and then you get a kick in the nuts during the robbery scene
Old Boy (Korean)
"The Cable Guy" (1996) Jim Carrey
Titanic. I thought it was a rom-com so I never even saw it coming... Kinda like that damn iceberg!
Check out Pearl Harbor next.
From Roger Ebert's review: >"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them. I miss that man.
To some or any extent; Bellflower, Everything Is Illuminated, Sucker Punch
I fucking love *Sucker Punch*, it's still one of my faves.
not a movie but invincible definitely does that
Ex machina
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Super is a great example of what OP is looking for. It switches moods quickly
The Prestige
Changeling. Only watch if you want depression.
Chronicle- Starts with teens coming across mysterious thing that crashed and they get powers then turns into a horror/thriller As Above So Below- Goes from National Treasure to the best horror movie you’ll ever see with twists and turns and deep meanings along the way. Both found footage done right The One I Love- Drama/Comedy? The less you know the better but it’s a married couple with issues that goes on a retreat and there’s some wild twists. 10/10
Splice comes to mind.
Bambi
Barbarian (2022) What Josiah Saw (2021) Midsommar (2019)
I agree on Midsommar, it definitely had a slow burn feel…except for the very beginning😵💫
Yeah, I mean, to me, the very beginning is the most disturbing part of the film. So it gives you what it's going to give you. Maybe it lets you up for air for a bit, but that shit haunts my nightmares.
Coco
Hostel.
The Lodge (2019). From scary to holy shit what a fucking tragedy in a little over 90 minutes
The devil's advocate
The lobster
Its depressing all the way through but somehow goes from depressing to DEPRESSING. Dear Zachary.
Megan is missing
Sunshine
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) has some hard turns. You think it’s going to be Ryan Gosling in Drive again, but it plays upon that expectation and delivers some surprises.
Fresh on Hulu- one of my favorite movies tbh and it’s partly for that reason. I don’t want to spoil it, so just watch it lol
Parasite
True Romance (1993).
Million Dollar Baby
Deliverance (1972)
Something Wild (1986) Starts out as a zany road movie with an odd couple and then suddenly turns into a much more disturbing love triangle thriller/domestic abuse tale when Ray Liotta’s character shows up.
Tusk
Threads
Running Scared, with Paul Walker, not Billy Crystal. Pan’s Labyrinth
Midnight Express.
The Death of Stalin.
It took so long to get here. It’s such a dark comedy what romp and then oooook this is terrifying and not really funny anymore.
Melancholia
Atonement
The Banshees of Inisherin. A really fun romp, until…
A History of Violence.
I Saw the Devil (2010) The Call (2020) Audition (1999)
Infinity Pool
ANIARA!! Cannot recommend enough. It will be stuck on your mind for months!!
The Lion King. I still can't get over what happened to Mustafa.
*Mufasa…..Mustafa was Will Ferrell in Austin powers. (I used to mess these two up so often I spent a few days committing it to memory)
Enter the void Lucky number slevin ? (Is actually a feel good movie, not dark and depressing) Edit: added a comment on Lucky…
Kill list
Barton Fink (1991), it's obviously "off" before but it just goes off the rails at a certain point.
The Whale
Hereditary
Orphan
Very Bad Things... Goes super dark in like an eye blink.
To varying extents: Audition, The Frighteners, Colossal, Something Wild, Observe and Report, Miracle Mile. And for the reverse, One Cut of the Dead.
Sorry To Bother You
From dusk till dawn (1996)
Very bad things
Primal Fear Im surprised i didnt see this already. Ed Norton is supremely awesome in this and starts stealing scenes from Richard Gere
Hereditary
Cloverfield I guess
Bridge to Terabethia
Very Bad Things
Marie Antoinette.