# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/41 "2013-02-27T00:00:05Z")
Some of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have scenes beyond the “slasher dismembering people with a weed whacker in a fight scene” type (which are also there, don’t get me wrong) where after capturing the victim, they go about doing stuff like removing the skin (skin’s an organ, so it fits the topic) or dressing the body (not necessarily dead when they start) like you would with game. I don’t remember how graphic it was on screen, but Silence of the Lambs also had skin harvesting as a major part of the plot. ---
**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 28, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/42 "2013-02-28T04:30:52Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > 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. No, no! No blood in _Plan 9_, but _Wizard_ is as bad of a movie. Comicaly bad. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/43 "2013-02-28T12:51:34Z")
THE BLACK CAT with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. There’s no gore, of course, everything happens off-screen, but there’s the wonderfully spooky scene with Karloff chained and helpless, and Lugosi saying he’s going to skin him alive ---
**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 28, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/44 "2013-02-28T13:30:35Z")
_Silence of the Lambs_ has been mentioned, but a more gruesome example is its sequel, **Hannibal**. We get a disembowelment at one point in the film, but more appropriate to this thread is something near the end of the film Hannibal subdues and drugs Justice official Paul Krendler (played by Ray Liotta), and surgically removes the top of his skull, cuts out a portion of Krendler’s brain, sautes it in front of him, and feeds it to Krendler. Just the beginning of this scene, with the sound of the saw, sent Pepper Mill running out of the room. She didn’t come back until the movie was over. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/45 "2013-02-28T13:47:47Z")
The original DAY OF THE DEAD in which the gleefully-mad Military Base doctor has taken to experimenting on the zombies, including "re-"vivisection. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/46 "2013-02-28T13:50:13Z")
I haven’t seen it in decades but just ordered a multi-pack of horror DVDs that includes it- but I’m pretty sure BLOOD DINER may qualify. A more comedic remake of BLOOD FEAST, cultists assemble a woman from various parts to be the vessel for the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/47 "2013-02-28T14:04:10Z")
You asked (in part) for vivisection, so I offer [Law Abiding Citizen,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Abiding_Citizen) in which Gerard Butler’s character takes revenge on the man who murdered his family: the man is strapped down to a table and pumped full of adrenalin to keep him awake and alert for as long as possible while Butler’s character dismembers him with a power saw. Edit: [Here’s the scene.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6l5-Rup-D4) ---
**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 28, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/48 "2013-02-28T14:05:35Z")
It wasn’t so gross and gruesome, but the 1966 film **The Frozen Dead** gave us removed heads (still living) and a literal stockpile of arms. Here they are in action (I kid you not): [http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=A0PDoX\_jYy9RP0oAg5eJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DFrozen%2BDead%26\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3DFrozen%2BDead%26fr%3Dyfp-t-200%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D89&w=284&h=213&imgurl=www.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fimages%2FTurkeyDay%2FFrozenDead.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fturkeyday.htm&size=11.5+KB&name=the+\frozen+dead+\<%2Fb\>1967+so+trying+to+recover+from+that&p=Frozen+Dead&oid=5b48948b129be09ef5db8c591dd030a7&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-200&tt=the%2B%253Cb%253Efrozen%2Bdead%2B%253C%252Fb%253E1967%2Bso%2Btrying%2Bto%2Brecover%2Bfrom%2Bthat&b=61&ni=240&no=89&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119t7cge6&sigb=13oldimoc&sigi=11ktb23tl&.crumb=G.kSrW0OssH](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoX_jYy9RP0oAg5eJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DFrozen%2BDead%26_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3DFrozen%2BDead%26fr%3Dyfp-t-200%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D89&w=284&h=213&imgurl=www.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fimages%2FTurkeyDay%2FFrozenDead.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fturkeyday.htm&size=11.5+KB&name=the+%3Cb%3Efrozen+dead+%3C%2Fb%3E1967+so+trying+to+recover+from+that&p=Frozen+Dead&oid=5b48948b129be09ef5db8c591dd030a7&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-200&tt=the%2B%253Cb%253Efrozen%2Bdead%2B%253C%252Fb%253E1967%2Bso%2Btrying%2Bto%2Brecover%2Bfrom%2Bthat&b=61&ni=240&no=89&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119t7cge6&sigb=13oldimoc&sigi=11ktb23tl&.crumb=G.kSrW0OssH) ---
**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 28, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/49 "2013-02-28T14:11:33Z")
It wasn’t so gross and gruesome, but the 1966 film **The Frozen Dead** gave us removed heads (still living) and a literal stockpile of arms. Here they are in action (I kid you not): [http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=A0PDoX\_jYy9RP0oAg5eJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DFrozen%2BDead%26\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3DFrozen%2BDead%26fr%3Dyfp-t-200%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D89&w=284&h=213&imgurl=www.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fimages%2FTurkeyDay%2FFrozenDead.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fturkeyday.htm&size=11.5+KB&name=the+\frozen+dead+\<%2Fb\>1967+so+trying+to+recover+from+that&p=Frozen+Dead&oid=5b48948b129be09ef5db8c591dd030a7&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-200&tt=the%2B%253Cb%253Efrozen%2Bdead%2B%253C%252Fb%253E1967%2Bso%2Btrying%2Bto%2Brecover%2Bfrom%2Bthat&b=61&ni=240&no=89&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119t7cge6&sigb=13oldimoc&sigi=11ktb23tl&.cru](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoX_jYy9RP0oAg5eJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DFrozen%2BDead%26_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3DFrozen%2BDead%26fr%3Dyfp-t-200%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D89&w=284&h=213&imgurl=www.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fimages%2FTurkeyDay%2FFrozenDead.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitleyskrypt.com%2Fturkeyday.htm&size=11.5+KB&name=the+%3Cb%3Efrozen+dead+%3C%2Fb%3E1967+so+trying+to+recover+from+that&p=Frozen+Dead&oid=5b48948b129be09ef5db8c591dd030a7&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-200&tt=the%2B%253Cb%253Efrozen%2Bdead%2B%253C%252Fb%253E1967%2Bso%2Btrying%2Bto%2Brecover%2Bfrom%2Bthat&b=61&ni=240&no=89&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119t7cge6&sigb=13oldimoc&sigi=11ktb23tl&.cru) > **[The Frozen Dead (1966) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060434/)** > > The Frozen Dead: Directed by Herbert J. Leder. With Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Kathleen Breck. A crazed scientist (Dana Andrews) keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so... ---
**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 28, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219/50 "2013-02-28T22:11:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > No, no! No blood in _Plan 9_, but _Wizard_ is as bad of a movie. Comicaly bad. :smack: Sorry, I didn’t see the headline on your post, and thought you were referring to _Plan 9._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-movie-request-scenes-with-organ-harvesting-vivsection/651219.md?page=2)