# I'm looking for a movie with an absurd fight sequence (villain licks his knife at one point) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 4, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727 "2024-07-04T16:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/1 "2024-07-04T16:38:02Z")
I’ve seen clips here and there, over the years, of some 1980s B-movie with a memorably absurd fight sequence. I don’t know the specifics, but there’s a point at which the villain menacingly licks his knife while the camera does an uncomfortably long close-up. About all else that I can tell you about the movie is that it’s in the so-bad-it’s-good camp, and that its aesthetic is basically “if the 80s puked on a movie.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/2 "2024-07-04T16:49:41Z")
I think the issue here is that it looks like it was puked in the early 90s actually: Undefeatable (1993) With a fight so bad, it was mentioned in many critics lists as one of the greatest campy fight scenes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gqvuGqr-u2Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Undefeatable (1993) [[Best Fight EVER]] -【RE-SOUND🔊】") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvuGqr-u2Y&t=80) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/3 "2024-07-04T17:00:28Z")
There’s a whole TVTropes page for [Licking The Blade](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LickingTheBlade). Several movies are listed. It’s quite a cliche, in fact. Hard to pin down which one you saw without more details. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/4 "2024-07-04T17:02:36Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Hard to pin down which one you saw without more details. It was definitely _Undefeatable_. And yeah, I mixed up my 80’s puke with my 90’s puke. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/5 "2024-07-05T16:40:45Z")
That fight scene might be terrible but it’s Oscar-worthy compared to _Samurai Cop_ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/6 "2024-07-05T17:02:08Z")
That’s the same cheap mall-ninja knife they used in [Cobra (1986)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_(1986_film)). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/7 "2024-07-05T17:05:57Z")
My favorite movie fight scene ever: Unstable Lab Tech versus Disappointed Dad! ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-movie-with-an-absurd-fight-sequence-villain-licks-his-knife-at-one-point/1003727/8 "2024-07-06T19:48:13Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Undefeatable (1993) With a fight so bad, it was mentioned in many critics lists as one of the greatest campy fight scenes. Wow - David Byrne got pretty buff go that role.