10 Movie Scenes WAY More Disturbing Than Intended
10. Jack Black's Death - Mars Attacks!
Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is a film jam-packed with willfully uncanny imagery, even if the edges are softened considerably by its generally campy, B-movie-inspired tone.
And so, when Private Billy-Glenn Norris (Jack Black) gets disintegrated by a Martian with a ray-gun, it's thoroughly silly stuff, the gun quickly melting Norris' flesh away to reveal the skeleton beneath in decidedly cartoonish fashion.
But things get considerably bleaker a few seconds later, when Burton cuts to Billy-Glenn's poor parents, who are watching the massacre unfold on live TV and just saw their son get vaporised before their very eyes.
To really hammer home the trauma of the moment, Billy-Glenn's father Glenn (Joe Don Baker) mutters "No, it didn't happen! No, it didn't happen!" while frantically changing the channel on the TV remote.
It's an unexpectedly "real" moment in such an unapologetically ridiculous film, of a father denying that he just witnessed his son get turned to dust.