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Night Must Fall (1964)
Had to leave
I saw this movie in 1964 when I was 26 and had to walk out.
I had an extremely strong aversion to seeing images of body parts (maybe because of the gruesomely graphic accident photos printed in the Daily News in the 50's?). There were several visual references to body parts in the movie which were shockingly effective. Two that I recall; I believe it was Finney slouched down in his seat in a movie house with only his head visible - seemingly detached and free-floating and a scene in which someone opened a trunk suddenly revealing a hand and a head - the hand was just a model and the "head" was a mirror reflecting the face of the person who opened the trunk.
Here it is, over 45 years later and I still don't know how the movie ends or what, if anything is in that hat box and if it is a head, whether or not it's ever visually revealed. On the other hand, my date was bored and happy to leave.