10 Intense Horror Movie Scenes You Couldn't Watch
8. Seven: "I'm Alive, Bitch!"
The 1995 psychological horror/crime thriller Se7en was David Fincher's sophomore directorial endeavour. He more than made up for the lukewarm reception of Alien 3 (1992) with this well crafted but disturbing tale.
The story follows Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) and his soon to retire partner Detective Lieutenant William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) as they investigate a string of murders committed by a man with a biblical sense of retribution. Each victim the two encounter has been subjected to some kind of horrific ordeal, all of which represent one of the seven deadly sins.
They encounter an obese man forced to eat himself to death, representing Gluttony, and a lawyer forced to cut away a pound of his own flesh, representing Greed, and so on. It's stuff like this that puts Eli Roth's Hostel to shame.
But one of the most tense and disturbing scenes involves the two detectives investigating the crime scene for Sloth. They enter a rundown building and find a known sex offender strapped to a bed in a state of physical decay. What they think is just a dead, rotting corpse soon turns out to be the body of a severely emaciated but ALIVE man, kept on this mortal plane only by the bare minimum sustenance.