In “Reservoir Dogs”, do they actually show the guy’s ear getting cut off? I’ve only seen it on video, and theyshow everything up to the “cut”, then it pans away and we horrible screaming. Next shot, his ear is gone.
At least that’s what I saw.
In “Reservoir Dogs”, do they actually show the guy’s ear getting cut off? I’ve only seen it on video, and theyshow everything up to the “cut”, then it pans away and we hear horrible screaming. Next shot, his ear is gone.
At least that’s what I saw.
Kids–Pretty much the entire movie was disturbing, but I was especially icked by Casper’s rape of Jenny at the end. It wasn’t even violent, in the traditional sense anyway. But that was what got me–the gentle, completely unapologetic assault on this defenseless, infected girl. Would Casper have even called it rape? Have even recognized that it was wrong? I didn’t think so. And that bothered me more than any blood and guts shoot 'em up ever has.
Supposedly on the new “Special edition” DVD there are 2 new shots of the ear scene, both shot from different angles. They are supposed to be “wicked gross.”:rolleyes:
God save me from another Tarantino movie.
Three Kings
The scene where George Cooney’s character is explaining the finer points of sepsis. I was told that a cadaver was used in that scene but the director later discounted that as a silly rumor. Sure looked real to me.
May seem tame, but I was a kid when I saw this in the theater:
John Carpenter’s The Thing. There’s a scene towards the end when one guy turns the corner and the infected doctor is standing there. When the guy goes to scream the doctor quickly shoves his hand into the guys mouth and opens it (his hand I mean). You get a split second view of the fingers streching the cheeks out.
Pretty freaky! But, that movie is chock full o’ freaky.
Charlize Theron slashing her own throat in Devil’s Advocate.
Tom Hanks breaking off his tooth with an ice-skate in Cast Away.
If you came from the generation that saw Dustin Hoffman getting the pick and drill work from Laurence Olivier,you did not want to show up for your dental appointment the next day.I pictured the dentist saying "Is it safe?"
Ditto eating a sausage sandwich after watching the gunner’s guts come out of his jacket in Catch 22.
Also that scene in Fargo gave a new meaning to ground meat.
Zapruder film. I get sick every time I see it. Same with the Vietnamese spy footage with the summary execution in the street with the shot to the head.
The make believe I can deal with pretty well by now.
I just saw We Were Soldiers this week. SPOILERS!!!
There were lots of scenes that were hard to watch. The one that made me turn away was when the one guy got all burned up, and they started to carry him, * and his skin on his legs pulled away.*
I don’t know how realistic it was but for effective my money is on the ear scene from Reservoir Dogs. I can’t even listen to Stuck in the Middle without getting flashbacks, and I can stomach an awful lot. Speaking of our man Tarantino, what about the rape scene in Pulp Fiction. Can anyone watch that without hugging themselves and keening in a corner?
Perhaps I was young and impressionable, but an early scene in Scarface was traumatic for me – somebody getting hacked up in a bathroom with a chainsaw. Maybe I just imagined it (and it has been years since I saw the movie) but it seems the chainsaw clunked, sputtered, died, then roared to life again after gnawing through bone & assorted gore. <shudder>
And I think I shall never forget for the rest of my life that description of using celery as a live stage prop. That sound is so unmistakable.
I think I’ll be having willies for lunch this lovely Friday! :eek:
There is a French film called Man Bites Dog. It is a mock-umentary about a film crew making a documentary about a serial killer. Of course there is now way for them to journalistically tell his ‘story’ without being co-opted into it.
There are several murders in that film. The very first one is shocking and disturbing. It is one of the few films I have never finished seeing as I just couldn’t take it.
I watched Frances last night and the rape scene (mentally ill patients being raped by servicemen who paid the orderlies to let them in) turned my stomach…
Michael Madsen had another psycho role that left quite an impression and that’s his character in Donnie Brasco. He and his gang hack up a victim after killing him. I don’t remember the details but Madsen looks like he’s having fun. Eck!
Ditto on The Thing. Lots of freaky gory stuff. How bout’ that Swedish fellow that’s frozen after cutting his wrists open? You don’t actually witness his suicide…but’s it’s awful to look at just the same.
Another scene that freaks me out is in Interview with the Vampire where Lestat and Louie are entertaining a couple of prostitutes and Lestat kills one and is working on the other for Louie. She’s a bit drunk and when she comes to that she’s been bitten, well good ol’ Lestat puts her in a coffin as she’s screaming. THAT scene gave me nightmares!
I can stomach all kinds of blood and guts, but NOT needles. Uma Thurman’s needle scene in Pulp Fiction and hell, even Nick Cage’s needle scene at the end of The Rock had me turning away.
Another vote for Saving Private Ryan, Casino…also the crash scene in ALIVE about the soccer team stranded in the Andes…Actually the whole movie is pretty unnerving.
The shot of the fingernail popping off the hand in Stir of Echoes REALLY bothers me. It’s just so real-looking.
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[li]Casino (the vise and the beating/burial)[/li][li]Stir of Echoes (the fingernail, and the tooth)[/li][li]In Too Deep (an off-screen shot of a helpless, beaten man getting “raped” with a pool cue)[/li][li]Cape Fear (the rape, arm breaking and cheek biting of the secretary) [/li][li]House on Haunted Hill (with the patients getting surgery without anesthetic and later when they take over the hospital)[/li][/ul]
Man, I stay as far away from that as possible. Real life gives me enough heebie-jeebies to watch replications of it.
Here’s my story. Back in the old days, when you had only three television networks, ABC ran movies regularly. They were called “movies of the week.”
The one I’m thinking of was “The House on Greenapple Road”. I was 10 at the time.
The story opens with the police coming to the house and finding blood everywhere and the wife missing. That was bad enough, but at the end, they recreate the murder (in which William Windom gets it with the knife in the kitchen). He slams into the fridge, and as he slides down, he leaves a trail of blood smeared into the Amana.
Yeah, I know, minor stuff compared to bulging eyes and sliced ears, but I can still remember the movie and how shocked I was after 32 years.
(Checking imdb, I see that this was the pilot movie for the “Dan August” TV show, and it also had a pretty good cast: Christopher George, Janet Leigh, Walter Pidgeon, Keenan Wynn, Ed Asner, even Eve Plumb.)
Ditto to PRIVATE RYAN, AMERICAN HISTORY X, and SOPRANOS.
I remember watching the movie A TIME TO KILL in the theater and wondering how they were going to depict the rape of the little girl, because it would have to traumatize the 10 year old actress. Mercifully it occurred off-screen then was referred to later, which made it just as awful without the fake blood.
The demonstration for Himmler of the showers/mass graves in the miniseries WAR AND REMEMBRANCE were extremely graphic and made me cancel plans I’d made to go out that night as I didn’t feel like having a good time afterwards. While I thought SCHINDLER’S LIST was a great and powerful movie, something about the fact that the miniseries was in color instead of b/w made it more real. (Through documentaries and movies the real Holocaust footage has been so [I hate to use the word but] overused that we’ve become inured to it- the grainy b/w footage of the actual liberations has become almost a “ho-hum, here come the living scarecrows and piles of bodies again” disturbing video meme- but the fact that this was in color, that there was frontal nudity on prime-time network televison, and the use of an apple blossom sprig that allowed you to follow one little girl’s track through the “process” like the red coat in SL all made it newly disturbing.) The actor who played the Reichsfuhrer could have been his clone and, as in real life, he watches the “process” unmoved, then asks for a cigarette, to which one of his adjutants says to another (in German) “He doesn’t smoke”- also adds to the horror.
In the same miniseries, when Aaron Jastrow (John Gielgud) is sent to the showers, the lights go off, and everybody (including the noble Jastrow) screams, it is incredibly disturbing and makes you violently mad all over again at the Nazis.
Watching SCHINDLER’S LIST in the theater, the liquidation of the ghetto, with gunfire surrounding you through the Dolby stereo system, made me want a drink when it was finished.