Gore!!! What do you think is the 10 most shocking gore scenes in film?

[Dano]

There was this awful, very bizarre movie about race and Vietnam called "Dead Presidents."  It was full of all the usual cliched "messages" and didn't have much substance... but gets gore points.  In one scene, one of the guys on a long range patrol gets taken by the VC when he goes to take a leak.  When they find the guy, he's lying against a tree (still alive) with his belly slashed open and his genitals in his mouth.  Shocked the hell out of me, but don't blink or you'll miss it.

[onionhead]

Taxi Driver's climax is the bloodiest, most disturbing shootout ever on screen--beats out anything Peckinpah did, or the shootout at the end of Hill's Bonnie and Clyde.  Probably because the bloodletting did not seem cartoonish as it did in the other flicks, the whole film is chocked with grit and unblinking realism.
The best TV splatterfest of course goes ot Monty Python's Flying Circus "Salad Days" skit--Michael Palin hops up to the rest of the troupe picnicking, asks "Anyone for tennis?" and gets fatally beaned by a tennisball in the eye.  The rest is pure Stooges foodfight on a Herschel Lewis scale.  Absolutely hilarious.

[Vermin Boy]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Blood Feast yet; the tongue scene was better, but the opening was probably more shocking, since no one had seen anything like it before.

Also, the scene in Bad Taste where Peter Jackson shoves his own brains back in his head. Love that movie.

[The Burgomaster]

Actually, last night I got around to watching my newly purchased DVD of THE STREETFIGHTER with Sonny Chiba. It has several gory scenes. My favorites are:

1. A guy pulling a knife out of his own eye.
2. A guy throwing up in slow motion. You can see pieces of carrots in his vomit.
3. A guy's skull being smashed. There is a quick edit from the guy's head, to an x-ray of his skull, then back to his head with blood spraying out of his mouth.
4. A guy has his throat ripped out. Sonny Chiba holds the fleshy pulp in his hand for a few seconds.
5. A guy lands on his head and blood splashes out all over the floor.
6. A guy gets punched in the mouth and spits out some blood and teeth.

AND THE GRAND DADDY OF THEM ALL:

7. Sonny Chiba castrates a guy with his bare hands, and then holds up the bloody genitals.

I can't wait to watch the 3 sequels  . . .

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[The Burgomaster]

ONIONHEAD wrote: "Taxi Driver's climax is the bloodiest, most disturbing shootout ever on screen--beats out anything Peckinpah did, or the shootout at the end of Hill's Bonnie and Clyde. Probably because the bloodletting did not seem cartoonish as it did in the other flicks, the whole film is chocked with grit and unblinking realism."

I agree. Peckinpah's violence was usually very well choreographed, but I never found it to be disturbing. It was bloody, and interesting to watch, but not really anything that would stick in your mind for days and days. (Although, Straw Dogs had some disturbing moments).

As for Bonnie & Clyde, I assume you mean Arthur Penn, rather than Hill. Again, not really disturbing (except maybe when Gene Hackman is rolling around on the ground with a big, bloody wound on his head).

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[JohnL]

My picks;

The sphere drilling into the guy's head in Phantasm.

The sphere sticking out of the guy's face in Phantasm II.

The exploding head in Scanners, plus the ending fight.

Peter Weller getting his hand blown off in Robocop.

Bert Reynolds having his fingers cut off in Sharky's Machine.

[lonecorndog]

Damien01 wrote:

> I was thinking about what are the most shocking gore scenes to
> date, and have a hard time in comming up with "any current
> movie" that is very shocking. Sure some of the gore is good...
> And CG's effects are great... but I cannot see them that
> shocking...

For "any current movie" Ghost Ship comes to mind, when all of the adults on the deck are cut in half at the same time. That was like Private Ryan without the warning shots.

[systemcr4sh]

yeah that opener in Ghost Ship was worth the proce of the rental alone! I watched it with my parents, not a great idea haha.

[Dano]

Actually, the teen sci-fi neo-Nazi romp Starship Troopers was one of the goriest movies I ever saw in terms of both human and alien gore.

[peter johnson]

Geez, these are all good & correct . .  .
I'd also nominate the scene at the end of "On the Waterfront" when Brando has been beaten down to a bloody pulp & rises up to ask:  "Am I standing up? . . ."
Bothered me for years.
Yeah, Taxi Driver, & yeah, Fulci, etc.
I walked out on "The Valachi Papers" when it was new on the big screen due to excessive pointless gore . . .
peter johnson

[ErikJ]

The one death scene that jumps out at me is the guy who gets cut in half in 13 Ghosts. Matter of fact the only scene worth while in the other wise forgetable film.(I fell asleep soon after and never rewatched)

[Fearless Freep]

I suppose they guy who gets..um...'cubed' in "Cube" warrents a mention. not really gory on film but very unsettling to think about

[HamishT]

when the guy gets his head ripped off in Maniac
the guide in Cannibal Holocaust getting his leg amputated after being bitten by something

and just the whole killings of the docco group in Cannibal Holocaust, looks so real

[JohnL]

>I suppose they guy who gets..um...'cubed' in "Cube" warrents a mention. not
>really gory on film but very unsettling to think about

A similar scene in Resident Evil WAS fairly gory. The black team leader is sliced into cubes by a laser grid.

[Neon Noodle]

Unsetteling? it's the movie "Buried Alive", either the sequence where the girl gere her fingernails yanked out by pliers (awake, mind you) or the other girl who gets the hunk of flesh gnawed out of her neck by the crazed scientist (and then eaten)

That ranks quite high...