As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
- The scene where the boys discover that... thing is terrifying, for the fact that we never find out what the hell it was.
- What it does to them is worse. Matt is flung against a wall while Steve suffers a nosebleed and screams in pain.
- The death of Richard Detmer in the original script. He basically gets his arms and legs telekinetically ripped off by his own son. Yikes. Similarly, Andrew ripping the spider apart with his powers earlier in the movie.
- The way Richard actively beats his son is brutally realistic, especially since it outright causes Andrew to go off the deep end.
- Steve's death while sad is also horrifying considering that he was struck by lightning (probably due to Andrew who he wanted to help) before falling to the ground. All you can see is lightning and all you can hear is Steve screaming before the camera cuts out.
- Andrew revealing his powers to his father by smashing him against a wall and throwing him across the room. While it's undoubtedly cathartic, it was also one of the first dominoes in his Start of Darkness.
- The way Andrew snarls at Richard: "I COULD CRUSH YOU!" after he slams the bastard against the wall.
- The time Andrew forcibly removes a bully's teeth with telekinesis. Made worse when he records himself explaining how he removed them.
- The time Andrew potentially killed those four neighborhood thugs. It's a lot more mundane than the other scenes, but his callous rummaging of what might be their corpses is hard to look at.
- Andrew's "Apex Predator" speech:Andrew: I've been doing a lot of reading, you know? Like, online about, like, just evolution and natural selection and how like there's this thing, right? It's called the apex predator, right? And basically what this is, is the strongest animal in the ecosystem, right? And as human beings, we're considered the apex predator, but only because smaller animals can't feed on us because of weapons and stuff, right? A lion does not feel guilty when it kills a gazelle, right? You do not feel guilty when you squash a fly... and I think that means something. I just think that really means something... *holds his hand out and starts telekenetically crushing the car behind him*
- A crossover with Fridge Horror: A YouTube comment under that scene noted that, earlier, the boys could only affect what was in their line of sight. Andrew crushes the car without looking at it.
- When Andrew robs the gas station, the clerk chases him with a shotgun. Andrew telekinetically swats it away, causing it to go off and blow up a gas tank, setting both of them on fire. Andrew can be seen laying on the ground, burning and twitching in agony.
- From his Start of Darkness onward, Andrew is pretty intimidating, but he really reaches the peak of terror at the climax, seeing as he's an ungodly powerful psychic who can and will level a metropolis, and comes damn close to doing so.
- By the end of the film, Andrew has careened over the edge into full-on megalomania. And it’s not pretty."You’re weak, Matt! You’re all weak! I’m stronger than all of this!"
- By the end of the film, Andrew has careened over the edge into full-on megalomania. And it’s not pretty.
- After the Creative Closing Credits end, all you hear is the quiet buzzing noise the Object made when the boys first come in contact with it and it's extremely unsettling.
