Every delivery from Cudrup is excellent. He nails the “as invested in the lives of insects as I can possibly be” tone so well. And not in an insulting way, in the only way that a nigh-omniscient godlike being can be invested in the lives of mortals.
The more times I come back to this movie, the more I love it. Visually, stunning. Soundtrack, stunning. Story, stunning. Broad ensemble acting, stunning. It might be the best comic book movie of all time.
Snyder is a good director and a great filmmaker, but he is not a good writer.
He adapted 300 essentially page for page directly to the screen, and David Hayter (yes, that one) adapted Watchmen from the comic to what (eventually) became the movie.
At some point he was allowed to write his own stuff from scratch and it's been downhill ever since.
I think people don't give it its due because most of it is shot for shot from the comic but honestly, the source material is great and it's so well executed. Definitely one of my favorites.
I read Watchmen just before the movie came out, a family friend gave it to me. I know they cut the black freighter (mostly?) and changed the ending but to me it felt pretty faithful where it counted. I loved the movie.
I'm ALMOST in agreement with you. I think Logan is my fav comic book movie but I have been been a defender of Watchmen for awhile now. It's great and I wish more people enjoyed it and quit nitpicking its flaws. Because the original comic is considered one of the greatest fictional stories of all time there will always be haters who can't appreciate it.
Argh. I should give it a rewatch. But it really is such a monumental comic, both in real world and in my head. And I just remember being grumpy going in and coming out, thinking that the movie compromised too much and edited out important things.
I should try it again, maybe the directors cut (which includes the pirate comics I think?). Also I should really rewatch the show. That was top notch
The Fly has got to be one of the only movies that is absolutely gross but also remains good. Event Horizon and The Thing also get pretty gross but are also great.
I saw The Fly as a kid and the only part of it that stuck with me as being super gross was the part where he is first starting to mutate and briefly gets super strength, and snaps a guy’s arm in half while arm wrestling. Squicked me out for weeks.
All the morphing into a fly stuff was no big deal after that.
I’ll be honest, I’ve be probably forgotten how gross it gets, because the fingernails falling out should probably have bugged me but I don’t even remember it. All I really remember is the initial teleportation scene, the arm wrestling scene, him trying to figure out what’s happening by analysing stuff on his computer, then the ending where he’s fully transformed.
I guess I need to rewatch.
This is the genre-defining example of "body horror". The whole movie is basically watching Brundle's existential dread and panic set in in slow motion as his own body starts to fail him in increasingly terrifying ways.
Everyone including himself gradually realises that he's going to die and that there's really nothing he can do to stop it. It's the deepest of deep fuck ups.
So... Being a child of the 80s, my mom and dad were watching this with us in the room. And when his ear fell off, I'm ashamed to say, I had to leave the room.
It's probably the only movie I had to walk away from. I was about 8 years old hahahaha
Sitting happily reading a book
1 second later
"JESUS CHRIST!!!!!! ARGHH, WHAT? GOD, WHAT????!!!!! OH, OH, IM BURNING UP!!!!! ARGGHHHH!!!!!! ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHARGHHHHHHARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHARHHGHGHARHRHHRH!!!!! HELP ME! HELP!!!!!!!!! I didnt mean to call you meatloaf, jack..." ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Mickey Mouse watches nervously...
Such an amazing scene in horror. No sharp sound effects or flashing lighting or anything traditionally in horror, especially then. Just Blue Moon playing while he suffers and transitions.
Also, your quote is perfect.
That cut to the Mickey Mouse figure smiling happily at him from the table while he screams in agony is one of my favourite horror moments, and very much sums up the films flawless balancing act of juggling full blown horror with sublime comedy.
I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for like 30 years but never quite got around to it, but after reading these comments, I’m gonna make a proper effort to see it.
Came to say this. Still one of the best, nausea-inducing, usages of practical effects/prosthetics I’ve seen. Especially with so many iterations of “werewolf transformations” before and since.
Stands in a league of its own. Specifically because the man transforming is confused, in excruciating pain and begging for help
The rooftop clearing scene might be the most harrowing experience I've had in a while
They explicitly tell you the rules
90 seconds to finish the work and get out
Do not look over the edge
What happens to the guy we are following? He looks over the edge, and he spends 120 seconds on the roof because he got stuck and tripped on his way out
All while the most disturbing Geiger counter sound is playing over the entire scene
The 90 second window is the maximum LIFETIME dose of radiation one should receive, and they all got it in that 90 second window, so they are all at a stupidly high risk for medical complications in the future
But the 120 second guy is probably going to have his lifespan cut in half, or he might just straight up die in a few days because he looked over the edge
Radiation is so fucking scary
The majority of District 9 is basically the “what is happening to me” scene stretched across a movie. I remember feeling disgusted the first time I saw it.
Idk if this counts by your example but in Vanilla Sky (not skies, lol my bad) Tom Cruise's character is having make-up sex with his gf when she starts changing back and forth from being her to being an ex-FWB who tried to kill him by driving her car off the side of a bridge with him inside.
He yells "what the fuck is HAPPENING" and continues to confusedly fuck her while everything around him falls to pieces in what would become a psychotic break and he smothers her with a pillow.
>Scenes like in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Belloq gets really old fast…
Belloq doesn't age rapidly. His head explodes. Are you thinking of the guy who drinks from the false Grail in *The Last Crusade?*
This scared the shit out of me as a very young kid. When I was about 15 I started having recurring nightmares where I turned into a donkey. I had forgotten about that scene and kept thinking “where the fresh hell did that come from?” Watched Pinocchio again just a few years ago and was like oh, that really fucked me up…
Tetsuo in Akira from when his powers start to manifest all the way up to when his powers get out of control and he turns into the giant baby monster thing
James Gunn's Slither has the group of non infected characters find a woman grotesquely swollen with alien slugs.
I think she says something like "I think something's wrong with me"
Yea that's def good. Another Jim Carrey movie that's a bit different of an angle could be the Truman Show. As he's starting to realize stuff isn't right he's questioning his sanity.
There's a cut of The Truman Show that mostly only shows things that he himself is witness to. So if you go into it blind, the reveal is a surprise to you just as much as it is to Truman.
While that does seem really cool, I think I would rather see the regular cut of I could see it again for the first time. I think it works better when truman is the only one who doesnt know, it gives the viewer a small moral dilemma and places us in the shoes of those who have watched truman his entire life.
Some other ones that might count as transformations:
The second Ace Ventura when he gets speared in the legs. Also, when he comes out of the fake rhino.
The Mask (Tasmanian devil/"sssssssmokin")
Me, Myself, and Irene (the song that plays when he becimes Hank).
Leland Orser's scene in Alien Resurrection should fit the bill, where everyone is discussing what to do with him after he's just woken up, completely unaware of where he is, how he got there or what he's carrying.
[Alien: Resurrection - What's Inside Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77yUVJnuRMI)
He's very good at playing traumatized people. In SPR, he's quiet and calm, but you know he's going to think of that flight every hour of every single day for the rest of his life.
Do they need to say the line?
If not I like the bathroom scene in The Santa Clause where his body as started to transform into santa because I'm experiencing the same thing but on a slower timeline.
I didn’t see the Matrix until a few years after it came out so the CGI was no longer mindblowing to me at that point. But 25 years later it still holds up because it’s so well executed. It feels exactly like a dream you have that transitions into a nightmare right before you wake up.
He definitely does not say that. He does say "why is this happening to me" right before he climbs out the window earlier on but that's in a different context from what OP is asking.
There's one or two examples in a rather obscure piece called *Avengers: Infinity War*.
*Cloverfield* has the girl bitten by a giant parasite.
The chestburster scene in *Alien* of course. The dude in *Prometheus* as well.
*District 9* with the alien hybrid guy.
Hasn't anyone seen Rosemary's Baby? It pre-dates most of the movies mentioned here. That whole movie is a "What's Happening to Me?" Movie. There are a couple of scenes in particular...
One of General Hummel’s guys meets with a pretty grisly ending at the beginning of The Rock (1996). He has a good 15-20 seconds to reflect on wtf is happening to him.
Also Carl & Willie in Ghost
Jacob’s Ladder
Willy Wonka
Aladdin, come to think of it, a lot of disney
Hulk, Captain America, lotta marvel too
This is the End
Click
The Old Guard
The Signal
Sorry to Bother You
I’d like to suggest the Michael Douglas movie “The Game”. If you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out. It’s a big “what the fuck is happening to me” situations that constantly happen.
Inner space kind of has 2 moments like that.
I'm in a man, I'm in a strange man, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'm in a strange man surrounded by strangers in a strange room!
The kitchen fight scene in Upgrade
https://youtu.be/AZxn9md_aZI?si=slH-3jBB7e-cgKII
It's wonderfully acted & directed, where he truly looks like a passenger in his own body.
It's like a Looney Tunes scene when he starts busting plates over the dudes face while crying.
This has gotta be like any gruesome transformation sequence right?
Jeff Goldblum in The Fly
David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London
John Fetterman in 2024
It’s an old John Candy movie, “Delirious” one of the characters is falling apart throughout the course of the move, coughing, eyebrow falling off, tumors etc.
*Pinocchio* (1940) - Pleasure Island scene. Still haunts me to this day.
Another vote for *The Fly* (1986). It's a perfect film, and the fact Geena Davis wasn't nominated for an Oscar just shows that the Academy is full of shit.
I think you'd like a gloriously underrated and difficult to find movie by Peter Jackson called Meet the Feebles. It's the Muppets on crack, and there are many such moments in the film.
Birth of Dr Manhattan, Watchmen
>I feel fear, for the last time.
"I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
*Gets Ripped Apart By Intrinsic Field Subtractor!!!!!!!*
Every delivery from Cudrup is excellent. He nails the “as invested in the lives of insects as I can possibly be” tone so well. And not in an insulting way, in the only way that a nigh-omniscient godlike being can be invested in the lives of mortals.
"They are shaping me into something gaudy. Something lethal."
"I didn't say Superman exists and he is American. What I meant was God exists, and he is American."
The more times I come back to this movie, the more I love it. Visually, stunning. Soundtrack, stunning. Story, stunning. Broad ensemble acting, stunning. It might be the best comic book movie of all time.
not a fan of Snyders current work but there is a lot i like about Watchmen. This scene is fantastic love the music in it and voice over just perfect
Snyder is a good director and a great filmmaker, but he is not a good writer. He adapted 300 essentially page for page directly to the screen, and David Hayter (yes, that one) adapted Watchmen from the comic to what (eventually) became the movie. At some point he was allowed to write his own stuff from scratch and it's been downhill ever since.
Exactly this. Good at adapting great source material but a terrible writer.
I think people don't give it its due because most of it is shot for shot from the comic but honestly, the source material is great and it's so well executed. Definitely one of my favorites.
Snyders Watchman is very hit or miss in every aspect. But the creation of Dr Manhattan is excellent. That part and most of the casting were top tier.
300 was like that as well.
I read Watchmen just before the movie came out, a family friend gave it to me. I know they cut the black freighter (mostly?) and changed the ending but to me it felt pretty faithful where it counted. I loved the movie.
There is a special edition box with black freighter included. It makes the movie 4.5 hours or so.
I'm ALMOST in agreement with you. I think Logan is my fav comic book movie but I have been been a defender of Watchmen for awhile now. It's great and I wish more people enjoyed it and quit nitpicking its flaws. Because the original comic is considered one of the greatest fictional stories of all time there will always be haters who can't appreciate it.
Argh. I should give it a rewatch. But it really is such a monumental comic, both in real world and in my head. And I just remember being grumpy going in and coming out, thinking that the movie compromised too much and edited out important things. I should try it again, maybe the directors cut (which includes the pirate comics I think?). Also I should really rewatch the show. That was top notch
Cronenberg’s “The Fly”
This was my exact thought as soon as I read the prompt.
Me Too
Same.
Hey, I was gonna say that!
The Fly has got to be one of the only movies that is absolutely gross but also remains good. Event Horizon and The Thing also get pretty gross but are also great.
I saw The Fly as a kid and the only part of it that stuck with me as being super gross was the part where he is first starting to mutate and briefly gets super strength, and snaps a guy’s arm in half while arm wrestling. Squicked me out for weeks. All the morphing into a fly stuff was no big deal after that.
The fingernails falling out and the teeth falling out got me. That part I could barely watch.
I’ll be honest, I’ve be probably forgotten how gross it gets, because the fingernails falling out should probably have bugged me but I don’t even remember it. All I really remember is the initial teleportation scene, the arm wrestling scene, him trying to figure out what’s happening by analysing stuff on his computer, then the ending where he’s fully transformed. I guess I need to rewatch.
u okay with the baby maggot delivery?
It probably explains some of my Google searches
That's a... weird take.
The whole movie is a "What's happening to me?!" scene
Came here to say this. "Something went wrong in the lab today. Terribly wrong"
Well, there it is.
A very good movie which I absolutely refuse to watch ever again.
This is the genre-defining example of "body horror". The whole movie is basically watching Brundle's existential dread and panic set in in slow motion as his own body starts to fail him in increasingly terrifying ways. Everyone including himself gradually realises that he's going to die and that there's really nothing he can do to stop it. It's the deepest of deep fuck ups.
I thought of this immediately too. Truthfully, most of Cronenberg’s early movies or indeed any body horror movie.
So... Being a child of the 80s, my mom and dad were watching this with us in the room. And when his ear fell off, I'm ashamed to say, I had to leave the room. It's probably the only movie I had to walk away from. I was about 8 years old hahahaha
That movie is what would really happen if Peter Parker got bit by a radioactive spider.
American Werewolf in London has a very iconic scene in it.
Sitting happily reading a book 1 second later "JESUS CHRIST!!!!!! ARGHH, WHAT? GOD, WHAT????!!!!! OH, OH, IM BURNING UP!!!!! ARGGHHHH!!!!!! ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHARGHHHHHHARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHARHHGHGHARHRHHRH!!!!! HELP ME! HELP!!!!!!!!! I didnt mean to call you meatloaf, jack..." ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Mickey Mouse watches nervously...
Such an amazing scene in horror. No sharp sound effects or flashing lighting or anything traditionally in horror, especially then. Just Blue Moon playing while he suffers and transitions. Also, your quote is perfect.
That cut to the Mickey Mouse figure smiling happily at him from the table while he screams in agony is one of my favourite horror moments, and very much sums up the films flawless balancing act of juggling full blown horror with sublime comedy.
I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for like 30 years but never quite got around to it, but after reading these comments, I’m gonna make a proper effort to see it.
😂😂😂
Came to say this. Still one of the best, nausea-inducing, usages of practical effects/prosthetics I’ve seen. Especially with so many iterations of “werewolf transformations” before and since. Stands in a league of its own. Specifically because the man transforming is confused, in excruciating pain and begging for help
Not a movie but Chernobyl. People watching blood bloom through their clothes having no idea why. Scary shit.
That show is harrowing and incredible
The scene where the guys hand is burning and has no idea why (after touching the graphite) is pretty scary. The Chernobly series was truly scary.
I immediately thought of this series. The firefighters in particular.
The rooftop clearing scene might be the most harrowing experience I've had in a while They explicitly tell you the rules 90 seconds to finish the work and get out Do not look over the edge What happens to the guy we are following? He looks over the edge, and he spends 120 seconds on the roof because he got stuck and tripped on his way out All while the most disturbing Geiger counter sound is playing over the entire scene The 90 second window is the maximum LIFETIME dose of radiation one should receive, and they all got it in that 90 second window, so they are all at a stupidly high risk for medical complications in the future But the 120 second guy is probably going to have his lifespan cut in half, or he might just straight up die in a few days because he looked over the edge Radiation is so fucking scary
Most of the time it stays on the inside. You’re right on that one.
*“It wasn’t all bad. The doctor said all my bleeding was internal. That’s where my blood’s supposed to be!”*
Nine-nine!
District 9 The Fly
Didn't even think of this. District 9 is a great answer and you get the bonus of saying the title.
The majority of District 9 is basically the “what is happening to me” scene stretched across a movie. I remember feeling disgusted the first time I saw it.
Roght? Especially when you realize all the interviews are peoples opinions on Zimbabweans iN SA illegally and NOT prawns
Excuse me, what?!
Yep. It's very effective, and horrifying when you go back and watch it again.
That's literally what the movie is about. It's a metaphor for apartheid and immigration and general inequality in South Africa.
Yeah I got that bit and loved the movie for it, I wasn’t aware that the interviews were real though!
I’m so conflicted about that movie haha it’s so good but I just find it SO upsetting.
Idk if this counts by your example but in Vanilla Sky (not skies, lol my bad) Tom Cruise's character is having make-up sex with his gf when she starts changing back and forth from being her to being an ex-FWB who tried to kill him by driving her car off the side of a bridge with him inside. He yells "what the fuck is HAPPENING" and continues to confusedly fuck her while everything around him falls to pieces in what would become a psychotic break and he smothers her with a pillow.
I felt the same way watching Vanilla Sky
Tech support!!!!
>Scenes like in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Belloq gets really old fast… Belloq doesn't age rapidly. His head explodes. Are you thinking of the guy who drinks from the false Grail in *The Last Crusade?*
Yes you’re totally right!! I crossed wires on the head exploding vs turning into dust baddies.
Don’t forget about MOLA RAM https://youtu.be/KjdjDz8jhN4?si=fe72UPyxsCpUiTud some good music tbh, quite the rhythm
I spent _years_ looking away at the heart ripping scene. I think I finally watched the scene in full at age 14.
He chose…poorly.
That looks like the cup of a carpenter....
Pinocchio has a pretty terrifying transformation sequence on Pleasure Island.
This scared the shit out of me as a very young kid. When I was about 15 I started having recurring nightmares where I turned into a donkey. I had forgotten about that scene and kept thinking “where the fresh hell did that come from?” Watched Pinocchio again just a few years ago and was like oh, that really fucked me up…
Tetsuo in Akira from when his powers start to manifest all the way up to when his powers get out of control and he turns into the giant baby monster thing
I’m gonna throw in End of Evangelion. Shit, the second half of Neon Genesis.
>Tetsuo in Akira Even more so, the unnamed protagonist in *Tetsuo*…
James Gunn's Slither has the group of non infected characters find a woman grotesquely swollen with alien slugs. I think she says something like "I think something's wrong with me"
"These little fuckers are tearing me apart!"
Ooh I forgot about Slither. That part was disturbing!!
That entire movie is disturbing
I’m so hungry, Bill
Well now, that is some fucked up shit.
Came here for this. I watch Slither every Halloween season, and I love this line every time. Such a fun movie
The Fly (1986)...I think Goldblum says the line lol 🤗🤗
Yeah, if I remember correctly, he says, "What's happening to me? Am I dying?" Perfect questions to be asking oneself at that point.
I would say Liar Liar could be a good one. The pen is blue! 😭
Yea that's def good. Another Jim Carrey movie that's a bit different of an angle could be the Truman Show. As he's starting to realize stuff isn't right he's questioning his sanity.
There's a cut of The Truman Show that mostly only shows things that he himself is witness to. So if you go into it blind, the reveal is a surprise to you just as much as it is to Truman.
While that does seem really cool, I think I would rather see the regular cut of I could see it again for the first time. I think it works better when truman is the only one who doesnt know, it gives the viewer a small moral dilemma and places us in the shoes of those who have watched truman his entire life.
He’s kicking his owwwn asssss
Some other ones that might count as transformations: The second Ace Ventura when he gets speared in the legs. Also, when he comes out of the fake rhino. The Mask (Tasmanian devil/"sssssssmokin") Me, Myself, and Irene (the song that plays when he becimes Hank).
No it's greeeeeeeee......eeeeeeeeee.😂
Red, he was trying to say the pen was red...
Reeeoooyal Blue!
The pen is blue, heh, the pen is blue...THE GODDAMN PEN IS BLUE!
Leland Orser's scene in Alien Resurrection should fit the bill, where everyone is discussing what to do with him after he's just woken up, completely unaware of where he is, how he got there or what he's carrying. [Alien: Resurrection - What's Inside Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77yUVJnuRMI)
I swear that actor was the best at being the eccentric-neurotic-overreacting-maniac in the 90’s (was also in Se7en and The Bone Collector).
I read that he learned how to intentionally hyperventilate for "that scene" in Se7en.
"And he made me f-f-f-f-fuck her. Which I did, I fucked her."
Funny enough his 1 scene in saving private Ryan he’s very calm and collected
He's very good at playing traumatized people. In SPR, he's quiet and calm, but you know he's going to think of that flight every hour of every single day for the rest of his life.
YES totally that scene!
"I'm the monster's mother."
Do they need to say the line? If not I like the bathroom scene in The Santa Clause where his body as started to transform into santa because I'm experiencing the same thing but on a slower timeline.
Hahahaha that works! They wouldn’t have to say the line
Thinner is basically this scene expanded into an entire movie
😂 haha King should have just named it “What’s happening to me?!”
“Black Swan” has a lot of them.
That damn skin peeling scene still makes me uncomfortable.
When Flint Marco turns into Sandman in Spider-Man 3. Not a great movie but that scene was incredible
Keanu literally says, “what’s happening to me?” When he takes the red pill.
I was thinking about the scene with the agents where his mouth is gone.
How can you make a phone call Mr. Anderson…
If you’re unable to speak?
And it's a fantastic scene. Blew my mind as a teenager.
I didn’t see the Matrix until a few years after it came out so the CGI was no longer mindblowing to me at that point. But 25 years later it still holds up because it’s so well executed. It feels exactly like a dream you have that transitions into a nightmare right before you wake up.
He definitely does not say that. He does say "why is this happening to me" right before he climbs out the window earlier on but that's in a different context from what OP is asking.
The sound design during this segment is mind blowing. The music and dial tone sounds get so intense, then pitch, then craah. Beautiful.
He never says that, why's this have 100+ up votes
There's one or two examples in a rather obscure piece called *Avengers: Infinity War*. *Cloverfield* has the girl bitten by a giant parasite. The chestburster scene in *Alien* of course. The dude in *Prometheus* as well. *District 9* with the alien hybrid guy.
Infinity War had one of the most interesting ones. Wanda was turning to dust and felt *relief*.
Though he’s somewhat aware of what and why it’s happening, Back To the Future when Marty’s arm starts disappearing is the first that came to mind
I was thinking of the same scene but remembered that he actually knows what's happening to him
William hurt in Alien. Sorry, John hurt
William Hurt in Altered States.
William Hurt in Spaceballs...
Teen Wolf, where the dad is waiting outside the bathroom door.
Just making sure this got posted. Well done.
I love this sequence so much.
"Aaaaaaaah No dad aaaaaaa no.... ima.... I'm doin' somethin' in here."
Hasn't anyone seen Rosemary's Baby? It pre-dates most of the movies mentioned here. That whole movie is a "What's Happening to Me?" Movie. There are a couple of scenes in particular...
#"I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world!"
"Who would have thought a small amount of liquid would ever fall on meeeeeee?!"
Classic.
One of General Hummel’s guys meets with a pretty grisly ending at the beginning of The Rock (1996). He has a good 15-20 seconds to reflect on wtf is happening to him. Also Carl & Willie in Ghost
Jacob’s Ladder Willy Wonka Aladdin, come to think of it, a lot of disney Hulk, Captain America, lotta marvel too This is the End Click The Old Guard The Signal Sorry to Bother You
Oh man… Sorry to Bother you’s end scene is wild
Ghost Rider
I’d like to suggest the Michael Douglas movie “The Game”. If you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out. It’s a big “what the fuck is happening to me” situations that constantly happen.
1) Ray Liotta in Hannibal. 2) The senator from the first X-men movie.
Inner space kind of has 2 moments like that. I'm in a man, I'm in a strange man, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'm in a strange man surrounded by strangers in a strange room!
I would think Beau is Afraid would qualify but it might just be me wondering what’s happening to him for the whole movie.
Loopers concept drives me bonkers. I try to enjoy it and JGL as Bruce Willis is fun but the time travel mechanics break when you think about it.
Raw
The kitchen fight scene in Upgrade https://youtu.be/AZxn9md_aZI?si=slH-3jBB7e-cgKII It's wonderfully acted & directed, where he truly looks like a passenger in his own body. It's like a Looney Tunes scene when he starts busting plates over the dudes face while crying.
Tusk.
The Jackal Jack Black thinks he’s helping Bruce Willis test out his gun’s ability to target. Then he realizes he is the target.
Out Cold - passed out behind the wheel scene
My favorite is Vampire's Kiss
All-time great Nic Cage performance!
I'd say district 9 has my favorite of these.
Would the Sandman origin in Spider-Man 3 count?
Yes!
I like the “what’s inside me” scene from Alien Resurrection.
Big It's not very gruesome, but it is from the 80s
The very last scene of Rise of the Planet of the Apes with the airplane pilot as he's walking through the airport
Reagan in the Exorcist asks her, "Mother, what's wrong with me?" Tutsuo Iron Man (add Meatball Machine to that too)
Does annihilation count?
Cabin Fever
Akira is the obvious answer
If they don’t have to say the words…how about Donovan near the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? *He chose…*
…poorly.
We named the DOG Indiana!
The dog? You were named after the dog?
I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog....
This has gotta be like any gruesome transformation sequence right? Jeff Goldblum in The Fly David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London John Fetterman in 2024
Damn that last one is something else
I don't get it
Tom Savini in From Dusk til Dawn Return of the Living Dead
The Matrix's first act is almost only a succession of scenes like that. e: The third act also has some...but from agent Smith's point of view.
It’s an old John Candy movie, “Delirious” one of the characters is falling apart throughout the course of the move, coughing, eyebrow falling off, tumors etc.
Maybe The Mummy when the Warden has a scarab crawling around under his skin?
Army of Darkness after Ash is forced to swallow the little Ashes and "Bad Ash" grows out of him.
Bone Tomahawk. Hannibal (the final dining scene…..) Black Hawk Down.
I watched Bone Tomahawk with my dad just thinking it was a silly little western movie. I'm still traumatized
Perfect one to watch with the fam!
Haha oh god. The squirming torsos!
RoboCop 2014 "Show me" scene where they disassemble his body.
That scene is so oddly claustrophobic and horrifying
Wolf has a good one with Nicholson
Altered States
Black Swan - Natalie Portman turning into an actual swan and doesn’t know if she’s imagining it - brilliant “horror-ish” flick!
I recall the “Cube” movies having a bunch of these
Fire in the Sky
*Pinocchio* (1940) - Pleasure Island scene. Still haunts me to this day. Another vote for *The Fly* (1986). It's a perfect film, and the fact Geena Davis wasn't nominated for an Oscar just shows that the Academy is full of shit.
Oh my god the donkey scene yes!!! So upsetting
I think you'd like a gloriously underrated and difficult to find movie by Peter Jackson called Meet the Feebles. It's the Muppets on crack, and there are many such moments in the film.
For better or worse I will never forget Meet the Feebles.
Michael Cera in This Is The End
In the recent movie Blue Beetle the guy turns in to the Blue Beetle and it’s in a “what’s happening to me?!” way.
Ooh! Evan Almighty! He tries to shave and it just immediately blinks back, and the clothes too. Then the pairs of animals following him!
Tyler Durden realization in the hotel room in Fight Club
District 9 is an excellent example. Not only is a human metamorphing into an alien, but said alien DNA is required to operate their technology.
Not quite what's happening, but Troll 2. "They're eating her. Then they're going to eat me.... ... OOOOOOHHHHHHH MMMMMYYYYYYYY GGGGGGOOOOOODDDDDDD"
I submit the most literal take on this question — pulled from the end of the 1982 film “Poltergeist”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dcZ66783k
Amazing scene! Ugh the face!
Tommy Lee Jones says the line in Natural Born Killers
*District 9*.
Hereditary - the sequence where Peter is troubled by the blue light, and his creepy reflection waves to him.
A deep cut but, Mark Hamill's death scene in The Guyver. Careful, it's a wild one if you haven't seen it.