Every once in a while, while flipping from channel to channel late nights, I stop on CBS, on some show with a dude named Craig Kilborn. He has this segment called Five Questions where he asks his current guest a bunch of stupid, meaningless questions (not unlike this one). The introductory screen, with the title “Five Questions” has an odd clip which I assume is from a movie or television show and every time I see it it causes me to wonder what exactly in the hell it is. There is some freak with an eyepatch over one eye, and one hook hand while the other seems to have been gnawed off. His belly is growing like an expanding balloon and everyone around him is running backward, away from him, for their lives.
Anyone know what that’s all about; what movie or show it’s from?
I remember that clip from way back when Kiborn was doing the 5 questions schtick on Comedy Central’s Daily Show. I can’t identify it but my WAG is that it’s from some German art flick like the one’s Mike Myers made fun of on “Sprockets”.
I haven’t seen the clip, but are the actors Chinese? If so, it may be another clip from The Story of Ricky, an ultra-violent piece of bizarro celluloid. The old “head-smash” clip Kilborn used to use was from Ricky.
Nah Max, they’re not Chinese, but Ursa, bringing up “Sprockets” is appropriate, I think, because it is really a weird scene. Like a nightmare. Maybe you’re right.
It’s definitely from The Story of Ricky, originally titled Li Wang. It’s a Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
An interesting review (including a screen cap of the face smash) can be found here
Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you.
Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.