10 Ways Horror Movies Got Scarier By Accident
1. The Bystander Was An Assistant Who Stumbled Onto Set - Irréversible
Gaspar Noé's experimental psychological horror film Irréversible is one of the most disturbing and unforgettable movies of all time, infamously remembered for both its brutal violence and especially a prolonged sequence in which Alex (Monica Bellucci) is raped in an underpass.
Perhaps the most chilling and unsettling moment in the entire nine-minute scene is when a shadowy figure enters the underpass in the background, and after seeing what's going on for a few seconds, backs out and leaves.
As brilliantly horrifying a commentary as this was on bystander behaviour, it wasn't in any way intentional, and simply a result of an assistant wandering into the set when he didn't realise Noé was actually filming.
Yet Noé ultimately kept it in the film as it only enhances the scene's already nauseating quality, and firmly underlines the audience's own complicity in watching this savage act on screen.