Phantasma-gore- ia
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5/5/2007 4:18 PM
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Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
Just that. In horror-dom, there seems to be this mandatory bravura, this stolid attitude of "that wasn't scary" or "that was lame." I believe, however, if you can find the chinks in this armor, you can pry the plates apart and find what really gets beneath someone's skin, what really scares them. Case in point: in Saw II, one of the most squirm-inducing sequences for a lot of viewers, despite the brutal violence and gushing gore was the infamous needle pit that Xavier so courteously treated Amanda to. A lot of people simply were taken to the edge by that scene, deeply affected. I, on the other hand, didn't bat an eyelash. Now, I get through horror in part because I know it's not real (save those tasteless Italians...) and that, moreover, I know how they do it. There is one thing - only one - that puts me in my place and makes me realize I'm not invulnerable to the horrors of Horror. An instance in Dead Men Walking speaks to this end and in fact lays out my feelings perfectly while also serving as a gruesome example: 0:35:40. It’s time I come clean about something here: I can take just about bloody (ahem) anything in horror films, but I’ll have to face that when it comes to crap being puked up, thrown up, chucked up, what have you, my stomach starts to loosen and it takes will power to keep it down. Mostly I’m O.K., but if I already am sick (with flu, not a biotoxin) or I’ve just eaten a big meal, the case becomes stronger to stop from hurling myself. Now, on with the gore. The other two of the infected trio earlier barf blood all over their escorts while a third (and this is where it gets really disgusting) is foaming up with a pinkish mixture of some unholy slime that oozes down his face like lava from a science fair volcano. Eventually, everybody in the mess hall, as it were, is puking blood all over everyone else, the entire affair one absolutely stomach-turning episode of ungodly sickness. SR: SSSSS I have always been gastrointestinally uneasy and when I see notable scenes like the one I'm thinking about as the subject of this particular post, it leaves me a bit uneasy. It is in City of Living Dead and it is a spot that seared itself in my memory forever. Giallo and general Italian horror fans, based on what I've already said, will know exactly what it is, but for everyone's edification (or vile enjoyment) I'll reproduce here how I said it on my site: “THE BODY PURGING” 0:31:30. A girl’s eyes start to bleed…then it gets really sick. She starts to foam at the mouth as if rabid, the foam quickly turning red and then into strange things: intestines – yards and yards of them – and then organs of several shapes, sizes and colors. In time, the girl vomits up her innards while the specter of the suicidal priest stares her down. After the body purging, a hand reaches into the boy’s hair and grabs out a chunk of his brains, leaving a grapefruit-sized hole. SR: ããããã That left me feeling ill, like I might be sick myself. That, I must say, is rare. In fact, it never happens. Nothing I have ever seen that does not involve projectile or otherwise unusual puking has prompted a physical reponse like this. A third and final moment in this vein (ahem) in my grim horror-watching career comes from Wishmaster 3: 0:54:12. Don’t eat prior to watching this scene, I really mean it. Anne befriends the Djinn, tragically unaware of course of who he really is. She wished earlier to lose some weight. If you know anything about the series, it’s that the Djinn always grants wishes, but never in the manners intended. Anne indeed loses weight, a la City of the Living Dead. Her nose and areas around her mouth start to bleed, events that the Djinn describes as “a little liposuction.” As she starts to spit up a liquid, molten mixture of fat and blood, the Djinn goes on about how she always considered her stomach a problem area. In a few seconds that too is on the floor and the waxy substance she’d been spitting up for a while continues. As Diana steadfastly refuses to make her wishes, aware of the repercussions if she did, Anne continues to waste away, her entire body’s worth of fat shriveling up, her skin taking on a gruesome new complexion. Eventually the Djinn talks her into wishing for him to relieve her of the pain, naturally intending for the process to be reversed. Instantly, however, all her joints go limp and she’s D.O.A. SR: SSSSS So, now that I've come clean about what grosses me out, how 'bout you?
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Dr_Gor
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5/5/2007 5:57 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
I agree with you about SPOUT re-spacing our postings! HOWEVER! DON'T ANGER the SPOUT-GODS!!! The Most 'Disturbing' things I have ever seen on film... hmmm .... I guess I should start at the beginning... "The Exorcist" : I was 13 years old when I first saw Linda Blair plunging the metal crucifix into her bloody and mutilated vagina, over and over, and THEN shoving her mothers face into her crotch while yelling "Lick Me! Lick Me, You Bitch!" ... "Last House On The Left" : The ENTIRE scene from where the car breaks down and they take the girls out into the woods until BOTH of the girls are dead and they clean all the blood off of themselves in the stream! "Deliverance" : Homosexuall Rape Scene! 'Nuff Said! "Cannibal Holocaust" : What disturbed ME most about this movie was NOT the extreme Blood and Gore, OR the 'real life' animal (and HUMAN) butchery (!) BUT, the RAPE scene! That was nasty! When two members of the film crew capture and brutally rape a young Indio girl! THAT is some sick shit, right there! "Necromantic" : (appearantly not listed on SPOUT) ... The 'Grand Finale' of this movie is the SICKEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN! AND, I would NOT recomend this movie to ANYONE!
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divinemsjunebug
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5/6/2007 5:07 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
There aren't a lot of things that really freak me out or scare me too much in horror movies any more. That scene in Wishmaster was really something, ugh, I did get a little sick to my stomach while watching it. I can't handle vomit either. If I see that someone is going to hurl I HAVE to close my eyes big time or I just feel it rising in my throat. ick. I remember the first time I saw Nightmare on Elm Street there were several parts that really creeped me out. But I can't remember what they were. Of course now I watch it I just think it's so funny... In Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, it really disturbed me when they broke into that couples house and did those things in front of the husband while he was tied up, and everything else that happened etc. I was married at that time and thought how horrible that would be. It bothered me for quite a while, of course now that I'm a little jaded after my divorce, it probably won't bother me as bad - lol. There was another time I got really antsy and couldn't hardly stand to watch it in some of the chase scenes in Jeepers Creepers. I was literally about ready to run out of the theater because I had so much angst. But I also realized it was PMS time (sorry guys - but it's so friggin true - a little too emotional sometimes) and have decided NEVER to watch any high anxiety movies around that time. Just hilarious. I love both of those movies, just cracks me up. There was this other movie I saw that just grossed me out to no end and it looked SOOOO fake but it still made me sick. I think it was Ed and His Dead Mother, where her ear and nose and other body parts were falling off or something like that, I don't know what it was but I had to fast forward through it...I did the same thing with Hostel, I had to fast forward through a lot of scenes there too. Now that gore was VERY realistic. I probably have a million others too that I just can't think of tonight. But those are some that just come to mind. Things don't usually make me sick because I took a lot of film appreciation classes in college so I like to think about the editing and how they did certain things. It really fascinates me how creative a lot of movies are these days. They have to come up with new and different death scenes all the time (that's why I really loved Ghost Ship as I've said a million times).
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Dr_Gor
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5/6/2007 2:20 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
The reason I could not find "Necromantic" on SPOUT is because I misspelled the title! This movie IS listed on SPOUT (!) and, in fact, they have it available to purchase (!!!). However, as I have said before, I would NOT recommend this movie to ANYONE! I recommended this movie to Robert (Phantasma-gore-ia) a while back and HE was thoroughly disgusted by it! (you can read Robert's thoughts on this on his website!) This is a German made film from 1988 and the correct spelling is "Nekromantik" ... Now, before any of you purchase this film out of curiosity, just remember that I did NOT recommend it! (I do not want to get sued!) Personally, I enjoyed this movie simply because I had never seen anything like it before and also because I could tell my friends that I have the 'sickest' movie ever made and it was fun to invite them over to watch it and then I could watch them get 'grossed-out'! (it NEVER failed!) ... For some years I thought "Nekromantik" WAS the 'sickest' movie ever made... UNTIL I saw "Nekromantik 2" ! This one ALMOST made me throw-up! (I was trying to eat my lunch when I watched it the first time and within 10 minutes of the opening credits, I almost lost it! I had to shut the movie off so I could finnish eating and then I started it again!) Again, BOTH of these movies are NOT for everyone! Please read all that you can about them BEFORE deciding to watch them! You Have Been Warned! < GOR >
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divinemsjunebug
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5/6/2007 6:38 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
Those are all really good examples. I do think when I first saw the Wizard of Oz that those parts were spooky to me. I think the Haunted Forest made me put a blanket over my head and the part where the fake Wizard shows himself. My mom said that after I had seen the movie, I asked her if I could have a flying monkey so he could fly all over the place and bring me things...hee hee. So they might have scared me at first but the more I thought about it, the more I thought they could be useful. I totally forgot about that part in Night of the Living Dead when the daughter becomes a little zombie. That was so sad, I think I am going to watch that today since it's been so long since I've seen it just to refresh my memory. I still love the beginning of that movie... Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer haunted me for a long time, that has been one of the only movies where I have actually left the room and just kept coming back in while my ex husband was watching it. I guess because it was so realistic that I could see it really happening and to know there are people out there that get their kicks from doing something like that. It was just a little too much for me. Wrong Turn was another one of those movies that just had some really gross scenes in it, I can't remember a specific scene right now but I know there were a few. Oh yes, and in The Fly with Jeff Goldblum when he is arm wrestling and breaks the other guys arm and the bone is sticking out. THat was HORRIBLE, ugh. I hate movies where bones break and they are sticking out of the skin. Now that really gives me the shivers. There were a few other things in the Fly that made me cover my face and peek through my fingers.
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