10 Times Requiem For A Dream Scared The Hell Out Of You

7. Sara's Hallucination

The fridge comes alive in a scene too scary to forget; when Sara increases her diet pill dosage, her hallucinations start off a spiral into the darker part of Requiem. Her addiction fully in place, it's impossible for audiences to avoid the fear of the menacing refrigerator. If there's one bit you won't forget from Requiem, it's this. She tells the doctor "everything's all mixed up". His lack of sympathy is also scary; it's hard to believe that a doctor would treat a patient by continuing to feed her what are essentially mind-boggling drugs. It's Scary Because: it makes you wonder what really goes on behind the closed doors of the NHS...
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I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).