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

[Riot]

NOT GORY ALWAYS JUST DISTURBING!!!

1
Forced EAT HIS OWN PENIS ...DOOM GENERATION.

2
KID HEADS RUN OVER ... TOXIC AVENGER EDITORS CUT

3
ANGLEA ...at the end of SLEEPAWAY CAMP!

4
Still Conected mutant Fetis...BASKET CASE 3

5
Returning to the womb and Granny eating her own ear....... DEAD ALIVE.

6
Literly eating out!.......CASTLE FREAK

7
Most of   Last house on the Left   and    I Spit on yer Grave.  Not gory just disturbing.

8
Girl in tent ripped in half.... JASON goes to HELL

9
Most of Canibal Ferrox

10 Head Punch in Riki oh

> 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... Maybe "Death Becomes Her" could be the best example
> of CG at work... but I would question as being shocking over
> impressive... even if I think the most shocking thing that was
> done by CG was on "The Crow" Lets face it CG has proven that
> even an actor could be dead and still finish the movie.
>
> Here is what I think is the most shocking gore scenes in film.
>
> 1... The ending of Easy Rider (I for one dont like this
> movie that much... Maybe because I'm not a drug up hyppie. But
> I think the shotgun to the head caught most of America by
> suprise.) It proved that gore isnt limited to horror films.
>
> 2... The Taxi Driver's shoot-out. (Robert De Niro shoots
> a man that is trying to stop him from entering the building.
> What is so impressive this wasnt done by any computer effets.)
>
> 3... Michael Myers stabs a guy to the wall (this is why
> Halloween is recongnized as the start of slashers movies and
> not Black Christmas... )
>
> 4... Indiana Jones watches a guy gets his heart pulled from
> his chest, and the heart is still beating. (By far not the
> greatest gore scene... But Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
> was a PG movie. And because of that scene we now have have
> PG-13.)
>
> 5... The head explodes in Scanners. (When you think of
> it this isnt that impressive compaired to the shotguns to the
> head scenes in Easy Rider or Dawn of the Dead... And The Fury
> also predates Scanners by 4 years with Parapsychologic
> abilities and bodies exploding. But in Scanners the whole
> process is given a real and painful looking effect to both the
> the giver and the taker)
>
> 6... Its not easy to become An American Werewolf (Lets
> face it, before American Werewolf, become a werewolf wasnt that
> painful. You grow hair, sharp teeth and claws... but after the
> shocking transformation that was seen in AAWIL, werewolf
> transformation has become more painful... even in movies like
> "Fright Night" that dont have werewolfs also followed in
> AAWIL's footsteps.
>
> 7... The Chest opens in the Thing (The special effects
> started off a new can of worms, that spawn Nightmare of Elm
> Street, and similar movies. Some of the suprising things about
> this movie is that the Special effects surpass many GC's
> Effects and they werent given an award for best special
> effects... Odd.)
>
> 8... Man gives birth to a baby Alien. (SF was taken to
> another level once it was proven that horror is space could
> work.)
>
> 9... The horses head in the bed in The Godfather.
> (Killing animals isnt a good thing, but sometimes it better
> to use a real dead animal for the movie. The Horses head was
> from a Dog Food Company.)
>
> 10... Shower scene in Psycho. (Bloody... sure not by
> far. Gore I think not... But it gave the illusion of stabbing.
> Its secret is fast editing, as seen in "Jaws." Because of the
> illusion of gore filmmakers tried to be more shocking and
> started to inch up on the sex/gore by getting more grafix and
> showing more of the body. I think it wasnt until 1968 when
> rated "R" and "X" ratings came into view. )
>
> Ok these are my opions and I like to see if you guys agree or
> disagree... :D

[MoonShadow]

Hmmm... personally, I'd say the highpoint for shocking gore scenes in movies was between the 70's and the end of the 90's... here's my list.

10
The little girl getting blown away in "Assault on Precinct 13". This caught me completely off guard since obnoxious kids rarely get blown away in american movies... It isn't exaclty discreet either - John Carpenter gives us a full shot of the bloody squib going off. How this got past the censors, I'll never know.

9
The opening murder in "Suspiria." Dario Argento is always good for a gallon of blood or two (Remeber the arm in "Tenebre"?) but he really outdoes himself here. Not only is the poor victim stabbed more times than the entire cast of "Scream" put together AND hanged, but there's THAT shot of the still-beating heart being pierced by the knife. Dario strikes me as the kind of person you don't approach at a party and ask, "Where do you get your ideas from...?"

8
Graveyard scene in "Dead alive" (Or "Braindead" as it's called over here) where the guy who pees on the grave gets a suitable punishment. If there's one image gore-filmmakers know how to exploit, it's castration. Also see point 4 below.

7
Lucio Fulchi demonstrating an alternative use for an electric drill in "City of the living dead" as one unlucky individual gets skewered from ear to ear. I almost put the gut-puking up here instead, but that scene makes me laugh more than anything else... Somehow the sound of the burping awakens the juvenile in me.

6
Here's a corker for a mainstream title, for a change: Richter (Michael Ironside) getting both arms torn off in "Total Recall". Bow down to Paul Verhoven for injecting the standard Hollywood fare with a healthy dose of the red goo.

5
The kid on the raft in "The Burning" who's fingers get in the way of the killer's hedgeclippers. Won't be playing the banjo anytime soon.

4
Castration scene in "Cannibal Ferox." where the cannibal not only relieves one unlucky bastard of his priates but also slobbers it down right in front of him before stopping the bleeding with a red hot knife. Said poor bastard later has the upper part of his head sliced clean off, and his brians subsequently snacked on. Very gross or very funny, depending on how much alchohol you've consumed prior to viewing.

3
The girl in "Cannibal Holocaust" who is subjected to 'ritual punishment for adultery', which includes getting raped with a wooden dildo, then having a huge mudball  with spikes inserted into her privates before beaing beaten to death with a rock. This is by far the most queasily unpleasent film I've ever seen, and there's a dozen other scenes that could have made this list (like the primitive abortion scene, the castration shot that almost beats "Cannibal Ferox" for sheer grossness, or the -unfaked!!!-turtle dissection) but this is the first real horror scene in it, and therefore wins by default. One of the few 'bad'-films not made more tolerable by beer.

2
The lovely 'morning after' shot of the rape victim from "Man bites dog", entrails dangling over the edge of the table. Makes you glad the film isn't in colour.

1
The cop's girlfriend getting done in by the killer in Lucio Fulchi's "New York Ripper". His worst film IMHO (although "A cat in the brain" is a personal hobby horse of mine), and quite probably his most sadistic, unflinching gore scene too. Keywords: tied up naked victim, sadistic killer with a donald duck-voice, a razor blade, nipples and eyeballs. After this, you really do feel like the killer got off easy when his head goes of like an overripe mellon at the climax when the cop finally pumps a bullet into it...

By the way, does anyone think a terrible film can be redeemed by excessive amounts of gore, or do you denounce such shameless commercialism?

Cheers,
Thomas

[Chadzilla]

MoonShadow wrote:

> 10
> The little girl getting blown away in "Assault on Precinct 13".
> This caught me completely off guard since obnoxious kids rarely
> get blown away in american movies... It isn't exaclty discreet
> either - John Carpenter gives us a full shot of the bloody
> squib going off. How this got past the censors, I'll never
> know.
>
>

According to legend, he didn't.  The movie was supposed to trimmed of that to receive an R rating.  Carpenter said he would....then sent to uncut version out with the rating.  Psyche!

[jmc]

What's funny is that #4 and #7 feature the same "unlucky" actor, good old Giovanni Lombardo Radice.