One of the best thrillers of all time is on Netflix right now – with 3 unbelievably shocking moments

Only a few film memories manage to send shivers down our spines for years to come. Or to create the same thriller effect when you watch it again as you did the first time. Seven master director David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room) succeeds in this feat. This high-tension trip, which is currently available on Netflix, has lost none of its power even 28 years after its release.

Now on Netflix: David Fincher’s thriller Seven grabs us in 3 disturbing scenes

Seven is without question one of the best films the thriller genre has to offer: An unlikely detective duo (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) are chasing you Serial killer whose murders are inspired by the seven deadly sins. With terrifying crime scenes, breathtaking twists and engaging main characters, Sieben (Original: Se7en) is a dark all-round suspense package. Above all 3 shocking scenes burn into the memory for all eternity. They will still reverberate long after David Fincher’s film is gone from Netflix.

1. Seven shocks with the excess of human cruelty

One of the first to die in Sieben is a morbidly overweight man from the unknown killer fattened to death became. In the thriller he stands up for the sin of excess/gluttony. The victim was tied up and forced to eat until his stomach ruptured. Together with the detectives we are presented with the result of this atrocity.

The scene burns mainly through her gloomy staging on: The light fingers of the flashlights feel their way almost timidly through the pitch-dark room and over the bloated corpse. Seven presents the horror of the act with deliberately fleeting impressions in the black. But it’s a shocking impression that sticks. Even after you’ve turned off Netflix again.

2. The biggest shocking moment in seven is anything but sluggish

A completely different form of fright is forgiven behind the victim of the deadly sin “sluggishness”. Here the police officers find a man tied to the bed. In the seven-scene, the investigators present exchange ideas about him for quite a while stench and the state of the rotted body out of. A nasty corpse… until the so obviously dead suddenly moves.

It’s just a little cough with which the “corpse” comes back to life, but it is one of the most unexpected jump scares in film history. Many a horror film is supposed to imitate the thriller seven on Netflix.

3. Seven distraught on Netflix asking “What’s in the box?”

However, the most emotionally shocking scene awaits at the end of Sieben, even if, unlike its predecessors, it does not rely on disturbing visual values, but on the greatest horrors in the audience’s imagination leaves. We know unseen what lies in the cardboard box at the end of David Fincher’s seven.

Anyone who has seen it knows what is meant and will never forget it. That the last act brings the killer down at the same time and closing the circle of the seven deadly sins in the most depressing way is one of the greatest achievements of David Fincher’s thriller. A absolute abysmal circular reasoning.

With these three shock scenes, Sieben plays on the keyboard of our emotions and fears in completely different ways. Put together as a complete cinematic work, they not only result in a perfectly planned ride by the killer, but also one of the best thrillers of all time.

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