[Dark Trope] Implied child death

[u/Argie_Theft_Auto3]

• Family Guy - In a deleted scene, Evil Stewie is shown entering the bully's house and giving him a noogie. It seems rather harmless until Stewie mentions "Why's his knuckle turning red?" Then screams of the bully are heard, implying that Evil Stewie noogied his head so hard it punched a hole through the bully's head.

• Old (2021) - In a deleted cold opening, a man is shown crawling and shouting for help in the aging island. What makes this more terrifying is that this person could originally have been a baby or child, it's implied since he's walking on all fours

[u/DyingSunSeverian]

That Old scene sounds fucked up, they should have kept it.

That entire movie is just a deeply squandered premise. It should have had the tone of that deleted scene but I guess they thought it might be too fucked up for general audiences. Just forgettable. At least make something fucked up and memorable.

[u/Racconwithtwoguns → u/DyingSunSeverian]

Doesn't help that the acting in that movie was...just bad in my opinion

[u/ErusTenebre → u/Racconwithtwoguns]

Shyamalan's direction often seems to be "Act as flat as fucking possible. If you emote, I swear to god it better be sudden anger and then you go straight back to flat."

If you watch the movies that made his career they all have that in common and it seemingly gets worse the longer he's been doing this.