# Gruesome movie request: scenes with organ harvesting/vivsection? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219 "2013-02-24T03:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/21 "2013-02-24T19:41:11Z")
Martyrs ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/22 "2013-02-24T20:34:29Z")
I don’t remember if they showed the actual harvesting(probably not, in 1978) but that’s what was going on in _Coma_. > **[Coma (1978) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077355/?ref_=sr_1)** > > Coma: Directed by Michael Crichton. With Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn. When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/23 "2013-02-24T23:26:35Z")
There was this Japanese genera going around that featured dismemberment. > **[Guinea Pig (film series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_%28film_series%29)** > > Guinea Pig (ギニーピッグ, Ginī Piggu) is a Japanese horror film series that consists of six films, as well as two making-of documentaries. The series' original concept, envisioned by manga artist Hideshi Hino (who wrote and directed two films in the series), was to create film adaptations of his manga work.\[citation needed\] The series primarily focuses on situations involving graphic violence, gore, mutilation, torture, and murder. > The Guinea Pig series has garnered controversy for its depictions of v... Pretty gruesome…I think you can find em on torrents. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/24 "2013-02-24T23:37:34Z")
[Re-Animator](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/) would seem to fill the bill. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/25 "2013-02-24T23:39:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I don’t remember if they showed the actual harvesting(probably not, in 1978) but that’s what was going on in _Coma_. > > [Coma (1978) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077355/?ref_=sr_1) I’m pretty sure we only saw the aftermath. And the vivsection aspect is downplayed since the subjects are all braindead by that point. I don’t think we actually saw any organ harvesting in A&E’s horrible remake, but the aftermath scenes were more graphic. **The Island** had clones being grown for both spare parts and use as gestational surrogates. We saw a female clone being terminated after giving birth and a male clone who’s anesthetic failed on the operating table (who then tried to escape). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/26 "2013-02-25T01:48:08Z")
Somebody Help Me ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/27 "2013-02-25T16:34:55Z")
> [@feppytweed](#): > > You’re thinking of the first \*\*Hostel \*\*movie, not Saw. :smack: Thank you, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/28 "2013-02-25T16:39:46Z")
Human Centipede has vivisection. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/29 "2013-02-25T17:40:45Z")
**Skinny Puppy** ’s music video for the song “[Testure](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtySNoe0gMw)” might work. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/30 "2013-02-25T17:59:03Z")
Not gruesome, but\*\*\* Abra Cadaver\*\*\* an episode of _ **Tales from the crypt** _ had a point of view of a living man being vivisected. More in the gruesome side, in the awful, just plain infuriatingly retarded _ **Wrong Turn 4** _ one of the morons is the victim of death _by fondue_, when the evil hillbillies strap him on a table and start cutting off parts of him, including organs, while alive. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/31 "2013-02-25T22:46:22Z")
**Repo Men** > **[Repo Men (2010) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Repo Men: Directed by Miguel Sapochnik. With Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber. Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has... ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/32 "2013-02-26T04:49:01Z")
Coma. Jesus of Montreal has a scene with organ harvesting. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/33 "2013-02-26T06:39:51Z")
Comicly bad, on a _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ scale, but had some real fake, cheesy scenes of vivesection with blood splattering all over the place. Seriously bad movie. You are warned. It makes a good “drinking” movie however. Everybody does a shot with the obvoius _“Wrong!”_ comes up. Wasted in under a half-hour. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/34 "2013-02-26T08:41:16Z")
_Last House On Dead End Street_. Not to be confused with\* Last House On The Left\*. Both were 1970’s horror exploitation flics. ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/35 "2013-02-26T14:50:14Z")
[The Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/) has at least one scene of medical organ harvesting. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/36 "2013-02-26T16:39:11Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Comicly bad, on a _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ scale, but had some real fake, cheesy scenes of vivesection with blood splattering all over the place. Are you sure? I just saw _Plan 9_ a few weeks ago (at the Rifftrax rebroadcast in theaters), and I don’t recall any vivisections or blood spattering. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/37 "2013-02-26T16:46:22Z")
One film that showed _on television_ back in the 1960s was **Eyes Without a Face** (_Les Yeux Sans Visage_ in the original French). It showed what became a standby of circa 1960s horror – the innocent-seeming Mad Doctor experimenting on young girls, in this case, to try to restore the disfigured face of his daughter. What set this apart was the precise and clinical depiction of his removing the facial skin from one sedated victim. It showed him carefully outlining the eyes, mouth, and the periphery of the face, carefully slicing it with a scalpel as you’d cut out a pattern with an X-Acto Knife, _and then grabbing the edges and lifting it off the head directly into the camera_. This made a profound impression on pre-teen me. Several years cago I saw a DVD of it on sale at the video store at Disney World’s _Pleasure Island_. They can get edgy there at times. > **[Eyes Without a Face](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Without_a_Face)** > > Eyes Without a Face can refer to: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/38 "2013-02-26T16:50:08Z")
For your viewing pleasure, from **Eyes Without a Face** : [http://search.yahoo.com/search;\_ylt=AnjxtRGQfkveaHp\_fSF2ghCbvZx4?p=Eyes+Without+a+Face&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-200](http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AnjxtRGQfkveaHp_fSF2ghCbvZx4?p=Eyes+Without+a+Face&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-200) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/39 "2013-02-26T18:54:29Z")
In _Robocop 2_, they take out a guy’s brain (with optic nerves and eyeballs still attached), and put the still-living brain into a tank, to be preserved for later transplant. Then they hold up the head, getting a clear look at the now-empty brain-case. It’s not really that gory, but the really creepy part is that it is shown from the point-of-view of the brain in the tank. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/40 "2013-02-26T22:23:02Z")
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