A somewhat…horrible movie-based request, for a video project of mine: I need suggestions for movie scenes where people are vivisected, disassembled for their body parts, etc.
As distinct from, y’know, just a Hockey-masked slasher dismembering people with a weed whacker in a fight scene.
Gory is fine, so is animation. But not anything with footage of actual humans being dissected.
So far, I’ve got Parts: The Clonus Horror and The Island down as sources, along with a clip from what looks to be the hilariously cheesy Nazis at the Center of the Earth, but that’s it.
Can any other (presumably) B-movie buffs help me out?
Turistas has a scene or two like that, I think. It’s about some American backpackers in Brazil trying to escape the bad guys who want to harvest their organs.
If a television show is acceptable, **Justified’**s season 3 has an episode, “Thick as Mud,” that has a pretty wonderful take on this trope, complete with gory visuals.
Well, I hate to mention it but there’s also Men Behind the Sun. It supposedly only contains some actual *autopsy *footage staged as vivisection. But it also has what appear to be genuine scenes of animal cruelty, so like I said I’d avoid it in general…
Hannibal and one of the Saws (I think II) have scenes of people slicing parts off living people to eat them. Hannibal Ray Liotta’s brain, and Saw II someone’s leg. Not sure if that’s part of what you’re looking for.
The punishment for almost anything in the Cluster society of the TV series Lexx was having all your organs harvested. It forms a major element of the episode “I Worship His Shadow” which is I believe the series opener.
There is also a SyFy Channel movie called “Do or Die” in which convicted criminals have their organs harvested live on TV.
Interestingly, both movies feature criminals restrained on slabs, from which knives come to remove the appropriate organs.
We didn’t actually see the organ harvest in Lexx; we only heard it, then saw the organs on a tray (& everything else dumped into a clear garbage bag to be fed to the Lexx). Not to hijack, but I always wondered what happened if the mind probe reveals the defendant really is innocent of whatever they’ve been charged with.