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Also, the eyeball torture scenes in Dario Argento's OPERA, a reflection and indictment of his audience's voyeuristic interests. The feelings of isolation at the end of THE WICKER MAN. And, God help me, the final reveal in SLEEPAWAY CAMP, which I found really disturbing on my first viewing...

The final 20 minutes of CARRIE, from the climax of the prom and onward, is the most intense stretch of film I've ever seen. De Palma presents his thrills not for cheap scare effect, but as tragedy. And like in all De Palma, blood (beginning with the pig blood falling on Carrie's head--a reversal...