Disturbing Scenes In Non-Horror Movies

So a movie doesn't have to be in our favorite genre to contain some truly WTF scenes. Check out this list, which features not only one, but TWO entries from Return To Oz, featuring Fairuza Balk (The Craft) in one of her earliest performances as Dorothy. 

I remember first discovering this movie on TV in the 80s when it was played as a Saturday afternoon feature. Even then I knew this was one demented movie. While its intention was no doubt to expand the fantastical world of Oz as done so in the numerous L. Frank Baum books, the creative team seemed to really go all in on this one after a bad trip. 

The most haunting scene for me was with the many heads of the witch. Like an action figure, the still-animate heads could be interchanged on her body to suit her mood. This is just the tip of the iceberg with this movie....the whole thing is way out there. I mean, Dorothy's in an asylum for starters because you know, lions and tigers and bears...batshit crazy, right?

Other entries include Willy Wonka (the good one), some Hitchcock, Lost Highway (no other David Lynch entries, which certainly qualify more so if you ask me - um, hello? Mullholland Drive - behind the diner?).

Check it out on WhatCulture.

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