Of all the superhero movies released since, Doc Ock’s transformation and grand entrance by hospital slaughter stands apart. The message is clear to viewers Otto is gone, now replaced by a formidable killing machine. It’s a glorious parting shot of shadows, lighting, and staging. It ends with Otto waking up amidst the debris and corpses, screaming in rage. All captured with the style and manic energy that Raimi developed a reputation for when working in horror. Shadows of tentacles torment their prey, and, though bloodless, the deaths are brutal.

The camera constantly toggles between wide shots and extreme close-ups. Raimi demonstrates how to deliver a bloodless slaughter that still unsettles in the process. Just under three minutes long, and Spider-Man 2 racks up an impressive body count. Crashing sounds and a chainsaw revving- a wink to The Evil Dead – add to the chorus of terror. As the blade descends, the tentacled arms take on sentience and attack.īlood-curdling screams erupt throughout the large med bay as the arms find brutal ways to dispatch their bodies. The pregnant pause gives the camera time to zoom in on a swinging pulley before the doctor ignores it and prepares to cut into the harness. One doctor cracks a joke as he revs up a circular saw and pulls the whirring blade up to eye level as the room goes silent. Otto is unconscious, face down at the center of the room with the lengthy tentacles splayed out for easier access to his body. At the hospital, surgeons prepare to remove the harness from his spinal column surgically. During a public presentation, a fusion reactor destabilizes and goes critical, resulting in the death of Otto’s wife and the fusion of the harness into his back, the inhibitor chip destroyed.Ĭut to the scene straight out of a Raimi horror movie. when handling dangerous materials in his experiments.

He wears robotic, tentacle-like arms powered by A.I. Otto Octavious (Molina) begins Spider-Man 2 as a mentor to Peter Parker ( Tobey Maguire). In that film back in 2004, Raimi went to his genre roots to ensure Doc Ock had one remarkable rise to villainy, with an intense hospital scene that felt more at home in a horror movie than a superhero sequel. What that entails remains a mystery until the film’s release, but we know that we can expect to see Alfred Molina reprise the role of Doc Ock from Sam Raimi ’s Spider-Man 2.

The sequel sees Spider-Man turn to Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) for help, then a spell goes awry. Friday brings the theatrical release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the third entry of the Tom Holland starring MCU Spider-Man films.

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