Doctor Strange, on the other hand, has saved the Earth and the cosmos several times and has one of the most outstanding credentials ever. People began to assume that after Disney took over the MCU, it would become cleaner and cleaner, with less frightening material. But, contrary to popular opinion, horror master Sam Raimi altered the course of events.
He used horror themes not just from his own films, but also from other films like The Ring. The film Madness of the Multiverse is a horror film involving superheroes. In this video, we’ll look at the top five sequences from the film that no one expected to be so horrifying. However, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you know what to do. Let’s get started, shall we?
Scarlet Witch Behaving Like the Vengeful Ghost fromThe Ring
Well, Sam Raimi is definitely one of the greatest horror directors of all time, and he knows how to bring the dead to life, at least in a manner of speaking. So, anyone who has watched both Doctor Strange 2 and films from the Ring franchise, will be able to draw comparisons between the scene in which Scarlet Witch escapes the mirror dimension at Kamar Taj. It was becoming impossible for Wanda to escape the intricately and intelligently crafted mirror dimension.
She tried to break the glass, but spikes of glasses protruded from all sides to impale her; next, she tried to use her magic in the room, but it just bounced from one mirror to another. She soon realized that the walls of the mirrored room were frangible.
Next thing we know, she was using reflections to find her way out of the room and seek America Chavez. Once Wanda knew where to go, she used a reflection to emerge before America and Strange. However, this escape was one of the most horrifying scenes of the film as Wanda comes out of a golden artifact just as the vengeful ghost of the young girl used to come out from TVs in The Ring films.
Flying Doctor Strange
We know that Doctor Strange can fly using his sentient cloak or the Cloak of Levitation. However, Sam Raimi took the whole flying thing to a different level altogether. In the movie, Strange dream walks to possess the corpse of his other self from another universe. That’s how Zombie Strange came into being in Raimi’s film. However, possessing the dead was something forbidden, even by evil standards.
He was attacked by the ghosts of the damned who sought to kill him. However, Christine encouraged Strange to unleash his full potential, and the primary Strange managed to take over the damned souls through Zombie Strange. After this incredible feat, Zombie Strange merged with the souls to become one body.
We saw in the trailer how he could develop several arms around him, almost similar to many Hindu gods and goddesses, but what the trailers didn’t show was the way he flew from a distance to Mount Wundagore, the throne dedicated to Scarlet Witch. Zombie Strange developed massive dark wings which looked like that of a bat or a vampire and flew to rescue America from Mount Wundagore. The depiction of Zombie Strange in the film was an intricate affair that needs praise, I mean, the sheer meticulous details that Raimi has put into the character is remarkable.
Death of Sinister Strange
Although we got to see Sinister Strange earlier in the fourth episode of What If, his depiction in Multiverse of Madness was something else entirely. Benedict confirmed in an interview that these two Stranges were different versions, but if we look closely, they have too many similarities in the way they function and think. Sinister Strange’s only wish after the destruction of his universe was to be with Christine Palmer and to achieve this, he submitted himself to the influence of the Darkhold, or the book of the damned.
When Strange from Earth 616 and Christine from Earth 838 met with Sinister Strange, the latter offered Strange the Darkhold so that he could use it to save America, but at the cost of Christine Palmer. However, Doctor Strange and Sinister Strange broke into a fight. Although the fight sequence was musically rich, and I mean, literally musical. However, later in the fight, Doctor Strange emerged victoriously. He managed to throw Sinister Strange out of the sanctum sanctorum, and the evil sorcerer supreme fell on spikes of the railing outside. His brutal death was witnessed by Christine, who was standing outside.
Assassination of Illuminati
Before the release of Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, Marvel Studios had released a trailer that confirmed The Illuminati, along with a shield, which belonged to Captain Carter. In the comics, the Illuminati comprises Tony Stark, Charles Xavier, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, Reed Richards, and Namor Mackenzie. However, there are a few changes in the film, as we see Charles Xavier, Reed Richards, Captain Marvel, Captain Carter, Black Bolt, and Karl Mordo.
Mordo had drugged both Strange and America and brought them before the Illuminati for questioning and judgment. However, before they could vote on his future, a possessed Wanda from 838 arrived at the headquarters and unleashed her scarlet wrath. After defeating the Ultron bots at the establishment, she went after the members of the Illuminati.
Wanda turned Reed into stretchy spaghetti, she dealt with Black Bolt’s powerful whisper by sealing his mouth, Captain Carter was impaled with her own shield, while Captain Marvel couldn’t do much either, and died after getting smashed by a huge statue. After the others had fallen, it seemed for a while that Professor X would manage to stop Wanda’s attack, but she ended up snapping the veteran mutant’s neck.
Slaying of Gargantos
While attending Christine Palmer’s wedding on Earth 616, Strange witnessed that a giant octopus-like alien was hunting America Chavez. Being the good doctor that he is, he left the wedding to save America from the monster called Gargantos, which was envisioned and created after taking inspiration from Shuma Gorath, one of the adversaries of Doctor Strange in the comics.
In the film, Strange fights Gargantos with the help of Wong, but the alien creature gives the sorcerers a tough time. In the end, Strange used his sorcery to uproot a pole and impaled it on Gargantos’s massive eye. He pulled out his makeshift weapon to forcefully extract the eye from its socket, veins, and all.
That was our list of the most frightening and disgusting scenes from the film. Let us know your thoughts.