10 Movie Scenes That Live Rent Free In Your Head

Nothing leaves an audience pondering, unpacking, and endlessly quoting your feature quite like the execution of a deeply unexpected twist. And in David Fincher's entirely enthralling 1995 thriller Se7en, the director was able to achieve exactly that and then some.

But the staggered reveal of Kevin Spacey's John Doe actually managing to find a way to not only murder Brad Pitt's unexpectedly pregnant wife, but also stuff her decapitated head in a box as the detective has his pistol aimed right at the head of the calculating bad is only the beginning of this rent-free sequence.

Pitt's frenzied reaction as he demands to know "What's in the box?!' that Morgan Freeman's Detective Somerset had just unfortunately inspected would ultimately find new life from there on out as fans reenacted this emotional and memorable exchange every time a parcel came through there door.

Is Pitt's slipping into the waters of Wrath a touch hammy? You bet. But that only adds to the brilliance of this all-timer of a twist ending, with the star's complex digesting of the information he receives becoming a meme in its own right seconds before he blasts Doe's head to smithereens.