12 Most Dark And Twisted Movie Scenes Of 2017
3. We Are The Flesh – Incest
Think that mother! was the most shocking horror movie of 2017? Think again. First-time feature director Emiliano Rocha Minter’s Mexican horror We Are the Flesh makes Darren Aronofsky’s film seem like a walk in the park, and while it has murder and cannibalism in common with Mother! that’s nowhere near as dark as the movie gets.
Set in the aftermath of an unknown apocalypse, the film follows siblings Luca and Fauna as they seek refuge in an abandoned building inhabited by a maniacal hermit named Mariano. He allows them to stay on a couple of conditions – just regular things like helping him construct the weird womb-like structure he’s fixated on and letting him watch while they have incestuous sex with each other. Wait … what?!
Yes, Minter goes there in several excruciatingly uncomfortable scenes in which brother and sister have sex that’s as graphic as the movie is gory and then pulls a twist ending that we won’t spoil here, but puts an even more twisted and depraved spin on the whole thing.
A word of advice: keep some brain bleach handy if you ever intend on watching We Are the Flesh. You’ll need it.