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The 10 Most Shocking Movie Moments Of 2016 (So Far)

In 2016, it takes a lot to still shock and/or awe an audience. This is a medium over a century old - gone are the days of cinema-goers screaming in fright at the sight of a steam train hurtling towards them on the big screen. By now we feel we've seen it all. Now it takes real originality and craftsmanship to surprise the average film fan or instill in them any sense of real wonder.

5) High-Rise – Laing Eats The Dog

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As contemporary leading men go, few have an image as wholesome as Tom Hiddleston. Rarely has an actor managed to appear so charming and utterly, pleasantly English even while playing the villain. It’s why he’s a favorite to be the next Bond. You suspect it’s also probably why Ben Wheatley hired him to play Robert Laing in his black comic satire High-Rise, and in the process perversely upend our very idea of one of cinema’s nice guy actors.

High-Rise is full of shock value – there’s murder, torture and rape. There are orgies, and there’s ABBA played repeatedly on the soundtrack – but nothing braces you quite like the film’s opening scene. Wheatley’s first images are of Hiddleston, amiable Hiddleston, roasting someone’s pet dog on a spit. That’s his dinner.

You’ll never look at the guy the same way again.