Lopped-Off Limbs in Popular Cinema

[CalMeacham]

It occurs to me that Paul Veerhoeven is a lover of lopped-off limbs. We get a hand in Robo-Cop, Both of Michael Ironside’s arms in Total Recall, and again, Ironside’s arm , along with at least three more limbs I can recall in Starship Troopers.
It may have loosened up the market for wholesale limb loss, but it’s still nothing like the recent numbers in KBII/Sith/SC.

[lieu]

I only remember one LOL (Lopped Off Limb) from Predator but hey, it sure was a good one. Carl Weathers gets separated from his arm at the shoulder but, falling in slow motion, the fist keeps squeezing the trigger and firing the cradled machine gun. That was worth two fists and an ankle right there.

[Plynck]

@Case Sensitive

She was going to open a second hand store.

The Bride was a smart girl, and she knew how to get ahead in the world…

@Case Sensitive

…weighted down with a copy of A Farewell To Arms

Damn. When I saw this thread, I instantly wanted to mention A Farewell to Arms.

**Wild at Heart ** (1990). It wasn’t losing the hand, it was when the dog ran off with it :eek:

**Johnny Mnemonic ** (1995) and The Cube (1997) both had people eviscerated by very fine wires.

Ghost Ship (2002) really ups the total dismemberments in recent years. Big time…

[Cornelius_Tuggerson]

@Mangetout

There was quite a similar bit in quite a similar movie (something about a haunted hospital) where someone gets sliced in half vertically (ear to ear, shoulder to shoulder) and just stands there for a bit, then one half falls over.

This also took place in the begining of The Cube

[ultrafilter]

Two or three films doesn’t make a trend. If it continues, you might have something.

@Case Sensitive

She was going to open a second hand store. Speaking of which, there’s Evil Dead, in which Ash chops his own hand off - and then traps it under a rubbish bin weighted down with a copy of A Farewell To Arms. Groovy.

Evil Dead 2, not the original.

[Baldwin]

Wild at Heart (1990). It wasn’t losing the hand, it was when the dog ran off with it

And that was Lynch’s reference to a Japanese movie (the name of which I can’t remember).

Originally Posted by Mangetout

There was quite a similar bit in quite a similar movie (something about a haunted hospital) where someone gets sliced in half vertically (ear to ear, shoulder to shoulder) and just stands there for a bit, then one half falls over.

I think that was in the remake of Thirteen Ghosts.

[CalMeacham]

And there was a movie in the late 50s called THE VIKINGS where Tony Curtis gets his hand cut off by Kirk Douglas (or perhaps the reverse.) Dismemberment wasn’t so easy to show in a movie back in those days, so it was a very dramatic event.

Yep. If you’ll notioce, I mentuioned it near the beginning of the thread.

[Cartooniverse]

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, with David Bowie, was one of the most gruesomely accurate and body-part dropping films I’d seen. The girl I was with walked out in shock, so I don’t know how it ends.

They just kept on beheading people. -gag-

Cartooniverse

[Max_Torque]

@Baldwin

I think that was in the remake of Thirteen Ghosts.

That director seems to have a thing for slicing people in half and letting them topple slowly. A year after Thirteen Ghosts, he directed Ghost Ship, which opens with a large group of people being bisected by a snapped steel cable during a shipboard dance.