10 Most Disturbing Details Implied In Movies

Cormac McCarthy's books aren't exactly laugh-a-minute page-turners, and while the film adaptation of The Road does leave out one harrowing sequence (your writer's not going to describe it, but nevertheless it makes the film adaptation look tame in comparison), there aren't that many differences between the source material and the finished product.

Much like the book, the midpoint of the film sees Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) stumble across a derelict house in search of food and supplies. After breaking the lock on a basement, Man and Boy venture down into the darkness and begin to hear weak moaning. It doesn't take long for them to discover a small stash of naked, withered captives chained and locked down in the basement - some of them missing arms and legs.

Before the Man and Boy can catch their bearings they flee the basement, while their horrific discovery tugs on their trouser legs. When the true occupants of the house return, it's clear what was going on in the basement. These starved and emaciated individuals were just a small example of the horrific depths humans would go to in the post-apocalyptic world.

Cannibalism is a common trope in post apocalypse stories, and it never gets any easier to digest (no pun intended). While The Walking Dead and The Last of Us had corpses hanging like meat at a butchers, there is something worse about victims still being alive when body parts are hacked off for Sunday dinner.