10 Movies That Got Real Dark, Real Fast

Before Martin McDonagh’s award-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, the acclaimed director worked with both Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson on In Bruges. The movie was a dark comedy that followed Ray and Ken, two hitmen who had been sent to Bruges after a job gone wrong.

Early on, audiences knew that these two friends were contract killers, but the tone of the movie didn’t exactly reflect that. There was plenty of goofy humour, and a grown man sarcastically pouting about having to be in Bruges.

But then, exactly what happened during the previous job was shown. In Ray’s first job for Harry, he killed a priest, firing at the target first through the wall of a confessional booth, before shooting him in the back. The problem was that the killer didn’t see who was on the other side of the priest.

The shot of the unmoving little boy, killed by a bullet of Ray’s that went straight through the priest, is haunting. This took the movie down a very dark path, and opened the door to some very real suicidal thoughts of Ray after what he had done.

There was still a surprising amount of humour in the movie, but it was never quite the same tone after this scene.