Best "hit from off camera" moments?

[Jim H]

How's that for a new topic?  Been on a kung fu bent lately.  One thing I like they do sometimes is have someone doing something or walking or whatever, and then a fist or foot flies from off camera and hits them in the face and they fly back.  Always makes me laugh.

Saw a fairly amusing movie from Dragon Lee, called Champ Against Champ.  There's a scene where the elderly father/master of the main character is watching him fight against a group of bad guys, and looking to his right and is kind of smiling and nodding.  Then a foot flies in from the right, hits him in the face, and he flies back and rolls down a hill and is badly hurt.  Great stuff.

Anyone else a fan of ye old fist-from-off-camera gag?

[ulthar]

Maybe not the same thing, but related:  I find it annoying in movies when there is some danger that is out of the camera's FoV, but very clearly within the FoV of the character, and the character does not see it.

Arrrrgh.

[daveblackeye15]

I think Kung Pow had a bunch of these.

[Neville]

One of the funniest moments of the Ranma 1/2 anime series was when one of the villains of the show was thinking of his future plans. If you've seen some anime, you'll know that when a certain character speaks to himself, the background is substituted by some bizarre backdrop. Anyway, when the machinations of this character reached their highest point, out of nowhere you heard accident sound effects and the background revealed the character had made is way through a soccer game until he was hit by the ball. Great stuff.

[Jim H]

"Maybe not the same thing, but related: I find it annoying in movies when there is some danger that is out of the camera's FoV, but very clearly within the FoV of the character, and the character does not see it. "

That is certainly related.  People ordinarily SHOULD be able to see the people hitting them from off character.  And I also find that technique somewhat annoying, at least if it is very obvious.

Oh yeah, and Kung Pow having many of these doesn't suprise me.  Most of Kung Pow is a 70s Wang Yu flick with Oederik overlayed on top of Wang Yu.  

One other good one is towards the end of I Know What You Did Last Summer.  A guy you think is the killer has this happen to him from the real killer as he is running.