The suffering that Beer Guy went through in "Feast" got me to thinking about characters in movies who I felt sorry for, even to the point that I hoped the film would put them to rest and stop torturing them. I thought that this topic had come up on the board before, but did not find the thread.
First off, Beer Guy from "Feast."
He is soaked by a deluge of liquefied twelve year-old, monster stomach digestive acid, and maggots. The treatment is not good for his complexion, causing his skin to go pasty white and begin dissolving (his hair starts falling out too). Then, while looking out a boarded-up window, a monster grabs his eyeball and slowly pulls it from the socket. Comatose, he lies on a pool table and other characters check him for signs of life with a fork. He continues to dissolve, ultimately wandering in front of a monster and having his head smashed apart.
One of the characters from "Deep Star Six."
While hunting the monster in a partially flooded room, one fellow is hit by a speargun fired by a nervous crewmember. It is not an ordinary speargun, no; this thing also delivers a huge volume of compressed gas into whatever it punctures. This was a fairly quick demise, but looked uncomfortable.
Beer Guy is the most extreme one that came to mind, but several others seem to be dancing around the edge of my foggy memory. Any more?
There are many, but when I first saw "reservoir Dogs" I couldn't wait for the rest of the "dogs" to dump Tim Roth at the nearest hospital.
thats a tough one...the blonde girl from Mark Of The Devil who gets her tongue ripped out, stretched etc gets my vote...if I think of any others I'll post again...
I always seem to be the one hoping certain annoying characters get bumped off due to their irritation level :wink: for example; Oliver Platt's character in Lake Placid...
O yeah, and that soldier from "Black Hawk Down" too. Not only he gets hit on the leg, he also has to endure the doctor operating on him without anesthetics. Ugh.
See, I'm starting to realise is far more tolerable when this happens on not-so-serious movies.
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer had that one lady getting tortured while her family was killed right before her eyes, they went pretty far. In real life she even had to get therapy cause it was psychologically traumatizing.
Red to Kill had some really graphic rape scenes, especially the one of a mentally handicap chick, every "thrust" the guy made looked pretty damn painful, I was like, "someone run in and stab this guy!"
Quote from: zombiedudeman on November 30, 2006, 12:50:54 PM
Red to Kill had some really graphic rape scenes, especially the one of a mentally handicap chick, every "thrust" the guy made looked pretty damn painful, I was like, "someone run in and stab this guy!"
"I Spit on Your Grave" had the one rape section that made the viewer feel quite uncomfortable.
Quote from: Neville on November 30, 2006, 02:25:27 AM
There are many, but when I first saw "reservoir Dogs" I couldn't wait for the rest of the "dogs" to dump Tim Roth at the nearest hospital.
How had I forgotten this one? Watching him slowly squirm in the back of the car, smearing blood everywhere, was definitely hard to watch. You kept hoping they would drive by a hospital and push him out the door.
Quote from: Neville on November 30, 2006, 12:23:37 PM
O yeah, and that soldier from "Black Hawk Down" too. Not only he gets hit on the leg, he also has to endure the doctor operating on him without anesthetics. Ugh.
It was difficult to bear that section of the book, which, if anything, lends itself to even more sympathy than the film. You feel for both the wounded soldier and the young medic.
oh yeah, I Spit On Your Grave, forgot about that one, I think that was the longest rape scene in movie history, way over the top :buggedout:
LAST HOUSE on the LEFT was pretty sadistic. the Original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was terrifyin to watch the mental torture of Marilyn Burns at the kitchen table scene. The DEVIL'S REJECTS, when Otis is torturing the cowboy band members in the motel room was dog nasty.
The SAW films are rough on the victims.
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Gee Scott, thanks for that great pick-me-up bright and early in the morning for me to see the picture of people in agony and covered in blood.
People in pain... Jeff Goldblum in The Fly deserved a break. Walking around looking like h's gonna throw up every step, and then throwing up acid on that guy's arm was pretty good. It was a pretty rough moment.
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Ah...and another reminder why i stay away from movies like this.
I get enought depressing evil when i read the paper...i wanna watch more in my movies?
Not my cup of tea bags, guys. Enjoy...
Patrick Swayze in...well, anything really. He always looks like he is going to either spew or cry. I feel sorry for him because he always looks to be in such agony but then I need to remember..."pain don't hurt."
The ILSA films are pretty horrendous,as are some of the more sadistic WIPs. And alot of those SS Prison camp films. I saw some god awful stuff in one of those...I couldn"t stand to watch it all the way through. Gory films don't upset me,but sadism for the sake of it is just not an enjoyable film watching experiance for me. I din"t enjoy I SPIT on YOUR GRAVE at all! Yet 2000 MANIACS, with all it's torture ,is so damn, I dunno Cheerful(?) in its mood and the bluegrass music is great! DELEVERIANCE has a interesting story and charecters,which keeps it head over heels of the likes of such trash as as smething like, say , FRANKENSTIEN 1980(by the way,has anybody beyond me ever seen this terrible film...it's not got a lick of humor in it at all!)
"2000 Maniacs" is way too silly and amusing to match up with stuff like the "Ilsa" movies. One thing, the first "Ilsa" film is a bit less evil than the others I have seen. In that one you have Ilsa giving the one prisoner to her two female guards, to see if they can make him - ah - lose control.
How can anyone scream in horror when banjo music is playing?
Quote from: Andrew on December 02, 2006, 01:44:54 PM
How can anyone scream in horror when banjo music is playing?
I don't know about a banjo, but that neverending Spanish guitar piece in
Mesa of Lost Women sure made me scream...and cry. :teddyr:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: Andrew on December 02, 2006, 01:44:54 PM
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How can anyone scream in horror when banjo music is playing?
Sounds like a fair enough reason in itself..... :buggedout: