I cant stand most of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but that part where they try and make that half dead old guy club that girl in the head, it really bothers me. Also the part where leather face hangs the girl up on the hook (or was it a guy? I had my eys closed for most of that part).
I didnt know that 8mm had all that gross shit in it, I guess the one I saw was censored,
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Another hard-to-watch Nicolas Cage scene is in Wild At Heart where he repeatedly slams a guys head into a marble floor in the lobby of a movie theatre. You expect the scene to cut away as the pool of blood slowly spreads, but the camera stays on it for what seems like an eternity.
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One that always stuck in my memory was Sonny Corleone (James Caan) beating up Connie’s husband in the Godfather.
Caan just did a magnificent job of being completely out of control, it was like I imagine someone on AngelDust or PHP would be.
Funny you should mention that one, 'cause I always get really uncomfortable watching the pregnant Connie get beat up by her husband. He just flails her with his belt…very discomforting. I sympathize with Sonny’s desire to beat his ass.
when ray liotta pistol-whips the neighbor who assaulted his gf in Goodfellas…that looked fucking painfully real
the eyeball-cutting scene in dali/bruenel’s Le Chien Andelou
the fight scene in the pimp house in true romance was pretty nasty…gary oldman is filthy and degenerate and nasty and i luv em
clockwork orange…the credits fill me with dread
the dead-old-bag in the bathtub in The Shing…not gross but pants-shittingly terrifying
The eye-swapping scene in Minority Report . . . I remember actually pulling my sweater over my head, covering my ears and curling up into a ball both times I saw that in the theatre. Ugh. Squick.
Another vote for Battle Royale. I haven’t seen a lot of violent movies, so this was one of the first that I’d seen that really lingered on the gore.
I had totally forgotten about that scene until I read your post. That is a pretty damn gross scene, and with the extra loud “cracking” sound effects, Laura Dern screaming, and the heavy metal soundtrack, it just about made me nauseous when I saw the movie in the theatres. I’m surprised that the MPAA mandated trims and optical foggings in other parts of the film but left that particular scene be.
BTW, Don May of Synapse Films posted on a board awhile back about finding a print of **Wild At Heart **in a film storage vault that was 20 minutes longer than the released version. He didn’t specify what the extra footage contained, and I wonder if it had the un-fogged killing of Willem Defoe and the often-discussed death of Harry Dean Stanton that Lynch said had preview audiences rushing for the doors.
Private Pyle shooting himself in Full Metal Jacket. Ugh. It was just incredibly disturbing how you could see half of the top of his skull being blown all over the wall. And it was SO FAST.
That just made me laugh! That’s one of the cheesiest movies i’ve ever seen.
And American History X was pretty violent. I absolutely hated that movie when I first watched it. Now that I think about it, the movie was actually pretty good. I think they could have got the point across without so much violence (I know people will disagree with me about that). I just really hate violence, real or fake. I tend to think more along the emotional side, like “His family is going to be devistated” or “I hope that person didn’t have kids” whenever I see a movie where someone dies.
I found Flower of Flesh and Blood at the video store this past weekend and, since my wife is away for the week, rented it along with two of its sequels.
I knew it was fake before I started watching, but man, is it realistic! What set it apart from most gore movies is that those films usually show everything in quick flashes and sprays, but this one did everything slowly and calmly: slicing, cutting, sawing, prying, and pulling. And the sound effects, Yeek! :eek:
One thing I found darkly humorous about it though: Japanese indecency rules forbid showing pubic hair in movies. The makers of the film got around this by (warning: pretty gross)
having the “killer” slowly slice open the “victim”'s abdomen, scoop out her intestines, and place them over her crotch. Since her pubic hair is now covered her own blood-soaked entrails, the scene is no longer indecent.
Gotta love by-the-book censorship.
See Repulsion. I think it was a Roman Polanski film done in the late 60’s or early 70’s.
Sam Peckinah movies, especially the opening gunfight in The Wild Bunch and the ending gunfight in The Get Away.
Texas Chainsaw–not the most violent in terms of gore, but definitely one of the scariest. Someone already mentioned when they try to help drooling grandpa get to be the one to sledgehammer her head, but there’s also the scene when she’s running away at night through the mesquite bushes with leatherface chasing her and every twig on every bush seems to reach out to catch her shirt and slow her down.
Others on my list:
Gangs of NY–pretty consistent graphic violence all the way through. Scorcese just loves those spurting-blood shots.
Private Ryan–very realistic wartime violence
Reservoir Dogs–brutal torture violence: the cutting off the ear and gasoline-burn threat scene really get to me
The Cook, the Thief–more torture violence: cutting out the little boy’s belly button scene, also the death by suffocation by having the pages of his book shoved down the lover’s throat
Eraserhead–it’s not technically ‘violence’ but the scene where the main character unwraps the bandages from the crying baby (whose cries are heard through what seems like the entire movie) and all of its insides begin pouring out all over everywhere
I seem to remember a scene near the end of Wild at Heart where a guy blows his head off with a shotgun, and you see a piece of head fall on the ground - most of a jaw with a big chunk of flesh on it. That kinda surprised me.
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