10 WTF Moments In Film You Won't Believe They Got Away With
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Hollywood loves a good WTF moment - M Night Shyamalan has built a career out of the cheapest form of that audience titivation, by adding twists to his stories, and reducing his entire filmography to that slightly silly feeling you get when you discover a director has pulled the wool over your eyes. He's not the only one however, and may directors shoe-horn some pretty extreme WTF moments into their film with the conscious intention of leaving the audience's jaws in their popcorn, and their brains screaming outrage. Sometimes that leads to their films getting banned outright, or labelled exploitation cinema, as if that definition is somehow a dirty word, but occasionally, those moments slip through the censors' nets and audiences are left wondering how the hell the director managed to get away with it. This article is a perverse celebration of some of the most notorious examples of that sensation.