20 Most Intense Movie Scenes Ever
13. The Pawn Shop Basement - Pulp Fiction
After Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) end up fighting in a pawn shop, the owner of the store subdues them and brings them to his basement, where Zed (Peter Greene) rapes Marcellus.
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Butch manage to escape his constraints and goes to leave the shop, but his conscience gets the better of him and he returns back to the basement with a samurai sword, killing Maynard (Duane Whitaker) and leaving Marcellus to take care of Zed.
It's a pitch-perfect exercise in escalating tension that gets very, very weird, ahead of a cathartically violent payoff. It's by far the most uneasy and anxiety-inducing scene in the entire film.
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