Stop the suffering.

[Yaddo 42]

Amanda Pay's character in The Kindred. When she begins to transform into the gill-woman/hybrid, the look of horror and "what is happening to me?" just make me wish they would put her out of her misery. I know her character was a baddie, and I had a crush on her from Max Headroom, but that one stuck with me. Also the woman attacked by the critter in the watermelon while driving her car, but less so in that case.

Yul Brynner in The Ultimate Warrior when during the climax, Carrot is hanging by his garrote/cable from Brynner's arm. You knew what was coming to get rid of him, and good for them for putting in the film, then he has to chop off his own hand. Then crawl in agony to a nearby fire and stick the stump in to cauterize the wound.

How can anyone scream in terror when banjo music is playing? Juxtaposition. Also a girl I know told me if you ever wanted to torture her, force her to watch old reruns of Hee Haw. We made a non-torture pact after that.

[trekgeezer]

Okay, you guys are going the horror route with this, but what about some comedy. Remember O.J. Simpson's character Detective Nordberg from the Naked Gun movies.

Poor guy never got a break, but after what happened since maybe he doesn't deserve one.

[Yaddo 42]

But since comedy plays the pain and suffering for laughs usually without realistic consequences, it's harder to get worked up over it. Even the pain and suffering is played for laughs later, like when the bandaged character in traction is tormented and hurt by other oblivious characters. Look at the whole film The Disorderly Orderly.

And Nordberg was a human pincushion, he was only there to get hurt. Or maybe OJ was building up karmic equity against his later life. All things considered he has come out much better than and one would have figured or thought he deserved. End of my pointless hijack.

[Andrew]

I had forgotten all about the one bad girl from "The Kindred."  That was at the end of the movie, when everything suddenly happens at once.  The monster goes berserk, baby monsters are hopping everywhere, the place is on fire, and she suddenly up and morphs into fish-girl.  Now that you reminded me of it, that scene with her gills flapping open does stick in your memory.

I remember one bit of comedy/pain.  In the movie "Cavegirl," there is this one caveman who keeps trying to spy on the guy (who traveled back from present day) and the cavegirl.  He keeps slipping and falling down, off of cliffs and such.  Had a friend, who I have not seen in years, who could not stop laughing at that.  Caveman falling down a cliff, screaming the whole way - hilarity.

[Rombles]

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How can anyone scream in horror when banjo music is playing?

Sounds like a fair enough reason in itself.....