Total Recall/Nightmare Fuel

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  • Want to know what happens to someone if they're exposed to the wafer-thin air of Mars without an oxygen mask? Remember the scene in Total Recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger and two other characters are trapped on an airless Mars? Their gagging, eye-bulging antics are so over the top that the scene almost Crosses the Line Twice into Nightmare Retardant. Almost. Admittedly, the scene's scariness and plausibility are slightly reduced by the fact that two of the three characters somehow survive. Not only do they survive, but they are perfectly fine.

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