Terrifying Movie Cakes

I'm sure that there are other cakes in movies that are more memorable, but I feel like most of the time cake is used for comic relief.

1. Congratulations cake from Black Swan.


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This cake is the reason I made this list.  When it--the cake-- first came out I gasped, and shrunk into my seat when I left the theater it stained in my mind as one of the scariest scenes in the film.  It's pink.  It's heavily frostinged.  It's too big, and presented to the wrong person by the wrong person.  A nice gesture, I guess, but I'd like to know how many ballerinas would appreciate this extravagant dessert as a celebratory gift for an accomplishment as major as getting to play Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.  Ach, I just can't get over how much frosting is on that thing.  I'm biased because I'm not big on frosting in the first place, but just...look at all those roses! Like the size of golf balls, they are.  Really.  Unnecessary.  But even scarier is when the mother gets angry with her daughter's reaction to it and threatens to trash it, throw the entire uneaten cake in the trash.  Even if I find it unappetizing I still hate to throw food away, especially if it's almost completely untouched. And I'd do almost anything to avoid the wrath of that mother.


2.  Chocolate cake from Matilda


Of course I was going to put this on here.  An easy pick from childhood.  This cake looks absolutely delicious but screams for a glass (or half gallon) of milk.  This cake isn't just big, it's obscenely enormous, a chocolate colossus.  The kid whose punishment it is to eat the entire thing looks like he'd be up to the challenge, and ultimately he triumphs!  But it's sort of a lose-lose situation: if he didn't finish the cake he'd get further punished; because he finishes the cake Mrs. Trunchbull smashes the empty platter on his head AND he probably gets severe indigestion AND he still gets punished, along with his peers.


3. Welcome back cake from The Fighter

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 (Warning: slight spoiler ahead)
This cake is:
- a big sheet cake, meant to be shared with many people
- frosted just the way I like it
- pregnant with potentially dangerous implications.  At this point in the story Dicky has gotten released from prison and is ready to make a new start.  The family brought this cake and made signs to surprise him with a "welcome back" sort of celebration party, but tensions are high when Dicky realizes that his brother Micky wants to train without him.  I think he doesn't say anything as he picks up the cake and walks it over to his crack house.  It's a tense moment: will Dicky's anger drive him back to his old crack addict ways, after he's gone through withdrawal and been clean while in the big house?  What will he do? And what's going to happen to the cake-- will he share it with his addict friends or what?


4.  Dessert from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Okay, so this is a cheat because the dessert featured is a pudding and not a cake.  But it looks like a cake-like and it's terrifying in its own right so I decided to include it.  Here the dessert floats (house elf Dobby uses a Hover Charm) and threatens to fall on the heads of dinner guests if Harry disregards Dobby's warnings and attends Hogwarts.  Frightening stuff, fraught with bad consequences.  Additionally, for me, that thing is decorated with (too) many maraschino cherries.  I abhor those cherries and hate to associate with them.  And again, there is excessive frosted decoration.