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3. Doom's Rampage - Fantastic Four (2015)

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From one Doom to another now, with Josh Trank's ill-fated 2015 Fantastic Four reboot.

Depending on who you believe, the film was either hacked to pieces by a twitchy Fox or Trank simply couldn't hack it as a big-budget filmmaker, but either way the end result is a chaotic, tonally jarring mess that falls totally flat.

But there is one scene which hints at the film's darker potential, given that Trank has spoken extensively about his movie being inspired by the body horror films of David Cronenberg.

Near the end, Doom (Toby Kebbell) is awakened and embarks on a brutal rampage through the research facility where he's being held. Cue Doom using his abilities to telepathically explode the heads of anyone who tries to prevent his escape.

If you can get over Doom's undeniably silly design, it's a genuinely unnerving sequence which ranks among the more disturbing set-pieces of any superhero film from the last decade.

It may only last all of a hot minute, but what a minute.

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