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
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, at the end where boyfriend puts his face back on to kiss girlfriend.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Durranged are great "Early Shock Gore movies" but didnt have much of an impact on films until years later. I wish it did. But thats the way how hollywood works.
"Night of the Living Dead" on the otherhand was a great movie, too. (I still think Dawn of the Dead is the best zombie film ever made) but for the most of the 'Undead' rip-offs those movies didnt improved from what Night of the Living Dead has did but down-graded (lack of scripts, flour faced zombies, speed kills, lame gore shots) "Zombie 2, Blind Dead, and Beyond" are the best of Night of the Living Dead rip-offs, sadly that they are the best out of hundreds of zombie films. I wish Day of the Dead had the budget it was supose to be, because I do know the script would of been better, but it seems that Hollywood dont like zombie films.
Opening of Saving Private Ryan (radioman shot in face, armless guy finds arm, kid with entrails out)...
Reservoir Dogs ("Stuck in the Middle With You" scene among others)...
My all time favorite bad movie: The Deadly Spawn. The Deadly Spawn ate one woman's face off, bit off several heads (one of which was regurgitated in front of the victim's son), and chewed on a bunch of other actors who I'd never seen before or since. The movie is also known as "Return of the Alien's Deadly Spawn," which I believe was a last minute attempt to cash in on "Alien." Recommended for the cheese and gore factor... Also one of the greatest and probably most realistic reactions by a character seeing a monster for the first time I've ever seen in a horror flick.
"Return of the Alien's Deadly Spawn" I havent seen this move in years, the funny story of this movie is back in 1983, when my dad was supose to take us to see Return of the Jedi, thought that Return of the Alien was that movie... well, being 13, I knew this wasnt Star Wars, but then it was fun to watch a gore film at that age... I think the funnest thing about my dad, is he really thought that movie was Return of the Jedi and told all his friends how bad that movie was...
I guess I need to see that movie again... :D
in no order in particular
The head crushing scene in Story of Ricky. Kind of cauight me off guard when I saw it the first time.
The nipple biting scene in Burial Ground. I was haunted by that scene since I was a little kid.
The sloth victim in Seven. Although no blood was shown the make up efect was creepy and then when he moved I almost messed myself. (I was watching it at 5 in the morning befre I had to go to school)
The liquid nitrogen face slam from Jason X. It was just cool.
The ear scene from Reservoir Dogs
The scene from Stir of Echoes when the girls fingernails break off was a bit of a shock.
The beginning scene of Cube.
The spoon scene in Murder in the First. I was afraid of eating anything around people for a while after that.
The skinned dog scene in Needful Things
The cockroach scene in Creepshow
Trashcan Man in The Stand after he had the nuclear warhead. I've only scene it once and for some reason that part stuck out to me.
The part in Wild Things where Kevin Bacon turned around and you saw all of him...scarred me for months.
The nipple biting scene in Castle Freak.
That's all I can think of for now. More to come.
Let's see - gore moments that shocked me to the core (either with amazement or just making my stomach lurch) in no particular order.
The chest mouth in John Carpenter's The Thing
The splinter through the eye in Lucio Fulci's Zombie
The girl puking her guts out in Lucio Fulci's The Gates of Hell
The guy getting his head tore off while screaming in Day of the Dead
Herbert West using the paper spear to hold up the dead bad guys head in Re-Animator
Crazy Mom licking her new born babe clean in The Brood.
I'll give honorable mention to the chest burster in Alien, but it didn't shock or surprise me. I had grown impatient waiting for the movie, so I read Alan Dean Foster's novelization and had spoiled it for myself (did the same thing with JC's The Thing)
* The "acupuncture needles in the eyelids" scene in AUDITION
* The "sawing off the foot with a piano wire" scene in AUDITION
* The "penis eating" scene in CANNIBAL FEROX (aka MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY)
* The "biting off the fingers" scene in DEADBEAT AT DAWN
* The "drinking brains through a straw" scene in BLOODSUCKING FREAKS
* The "heart on the end of a spear" scene at the end of ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN (aka FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
* The massacre at the end of TAXI DRIVER (previously mentioned in this string)
* The "open heart surgery" scene in NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES
* The "intestines coming out of the guy's rectum" scene in THE MEN BEHIND THE SUN
* The "slicing open the body" scene at the end of LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET
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Oh shoot, forgot about Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS , which has a character
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without her skin, kill Ilsa
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not to mention a bunch of other scenes in that movie and Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheik (misbehaving harem girl has her foot gnawed off by ants)
The bathtub castration in I Spit on Your Grave
"I CAN'T STOP THE BLEEDING!"
1. Zeke gets skinned in Dagon
2. Girl puking guts in Gates of Hell
3. Acupuncture from Audition
4. Foot sawing from Audition
5. Eye splinter in Zombie
6. Lawnmower fight in Dead Alive
7. Evil army dude gets ripped in half in Day of the Dead
8. Breast hooks in Cannibal Ferox
9. Exploding head in Scanners
10. The first death in Texas Chainsaw Massacre - it's so sudden and brutal with the guy twitching on the floor, it's one of the most real death scenes I've seen.
Brother R
I remember watching Faces of Death almost 20 years ago when I was 15, and an awful lot of that remains in my memory. The monkey brain eating scene and the guts being scooped up by a cop into a plastic bag being two particular horrors I found hard to shake off.
Oh, and the bit in Maniac where he jumps on the car and shotguns that guys head off. In fact, the whole of that movie was pretty damn gory as I recall.
Maniac?? That was a pretty decent movie for what it was worth. In fact, it is one of the very first bad movies I watched when I was just getting started. As for that particular scene, when we watched it in slow motion, the head was replaced with a mellon of sorts as it exploded. That was pretty funny. But as for the movie, it was overall pretty creepy. Stop talking to your mannequins!
Scottie
Scott0 wrote:
> Maniac?? That was a pretty decent movie for what it was worth.
> In fact, it is one of the very first bad movies I watched when
> I was just getting started. As for that particular scene, when
> we watched it in slow motion, the head was replaced with a
> mellon of sorts as it exploded. That was pretty funny. But as
> for the movie, it was overall pretty creepy. Stop talking to
> your mannequins!
>
The head was actually a fake one made by Savini himself and shot by Savini himself with a live shotgun (meaning they didn't use blanks, but an actual round of buckshot - if you look closely you can see his leg shoot out as he was actually blown off the hood of the car by the recoil). Reportedly the head was stuffed with the remains of the dinner at the set that night. But it wasn't a melon, believe me. Check out Savini's book Grande Illusions (or Bizarro!) for look at how the effects were done.
Maniac is one of my all time favorite movies. Sick and sleazy the way a grindhouse movie should be. Spinell's excellent performance (like it or not, real serial killers are more like this creep than that suave cannibal poser is), Savini's over the top effects (this movie features some truly disturbing stuff), and a nifty score by Jay Chattaway make the movie worth checking out.
Here's my review
http://www.scifilm.org/reviews/maniac.html
check it out!
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
I suppose they guy who gets..um...'cubed' in "Cube" warrents a mention. not really gory on film but very unsettling to think about
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
>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.
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...
NOT GORY ALWAYS JUST DISTURBING!!!
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Forced EAT HIS OWN PENIS ...DOOM GENERATION.
2
KID HEADS RUN OVER ... TOXIC AVENGER EDITORS CUT
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ANGLEA ...at the end of SLEEPAWAY CAMP!
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Still Conected mutant Fetis...BASKET CASE 3
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Returning to the womb and Granny eating her own ear....... DEAD ALIVE.
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Literly eating out!.......CASTLE FREAK
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Most of Last house on the Left and I Spit on yer Grave. Not gory just disturbing.
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Girl in tent ripped in half.... JASON goes to HELL
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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!
What's funny is that #4 and #7 feature the same "unlucky" actor, good old Giovanni Lombardo Radice.