10 Best Scenes In David Fincher's Filmography

Marriage has never been scarier than in Gone Girl. When a dissatisfied housewife, Amy Dunne, finds out that her husband Nick is cheating on her, she plots an elaborate scheme to make herself disappear and frame him for her murder. At first, her plan is a success, with Nick’s detached, slimy behavior making him seem all the more suspicious. But when Amy’s left with no money and no place to go, she turns to her wealthy ex-boyfriend, Desi, who gladly takes her in.

Amy soon regrets this decision when Desi reveals himself to a possessive creep who rarely lets her leave his house. Having a change of heart after Nick goes on television and pleads for her to come home, Amy creates a cover story for her disappearance by framing Desi for kidnapping her. Shortly after seducing her patsy, she slits his throat with a box cutter mid-coitus and bathes in his blood like a modern-day Elizabeth Bathory.

The gore on its own is incredibly nauseating, but it’s how the film simulates Desi's death that gets under your skin. As Desi gasps for air, the droning score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross swells, and the scene continuously fades in and out to black like it’s losing consciousness. Much like in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we’re glad that Amy is escaping from her "captor," but we're deeply unsettled by her blatant disregard for human life when it comes to getting what she wants.