Its pretty much common knowledge that I'm a bit of a sicko.
Anything even remotely gross, I have found it and watched it, and after that inexplicable period in my early twenties when I refused to watch anything remotely horror like, almost nothing bothers me.
I don't mean 'bothers me' as in scares me (everything scares me) I mean 'bothers me' as in stops me sleeping 'bothers me'.
Has taken a piece of my soul, not in the good way, without my permission 'bothers me'.
Anyway, completely on purpose and of my own volition, I have seen the sickest shit ever committed to film and it usually makes me beam, at the sheer genius and audacity of it e.g. the remake of Evil Dead is SO gory and blood soaked but it makes me so happy.
I am not a psychopath. Promise.
However, there are a few sequences, in a number of films, that I still cannot bring myself to watch again (or watch for the first time even) and to be honest, I don't think they are all going to be ones that you would totally expect.
In no particular order, I have listed ten off the top of my head.................
10. The Green Mile
Del's Execution
Horrifically botched electrocution - head sets on fire and everything (or so I'm told)
I used to actually walk out of the room for this one but I now just cover my eyes.
This is odd really because I have a weird fascination with execution, fuck knows why, it really really gets to me.
9. T2: Trainspotting
Spud vomiting in the bag
Spud has a bag tied over his head and Renton tries to save his life, resulting in spud vomiting into the bag while its still on his face.
Its not even the actual vomiting its the ripping open of the bag after and it going EVERYWHERE.
8.A Cure For Wellness
The psycho dentist drills through Lockhart's front tooth
Like actually drills a hole through the centre of his front tooth. I don't feel that any further explanation is needed.
Its a combo of the secondary sensation that you feel on his behalf and the NOISE, that just makes it unbearable.
7. Cannibal Holocaust
Muskrat murder
Sounds funny but its really not, its so fucking horrific it made me cry.
They actually kill innocent animals more than once in this film, 7 in total, I think, including slitting the throat of a muskrat (a Coati, if you must be picky) that is screeching for its life, beheading a couple of monkeys and butchering a sea turtle. The producers actually got arrested for making this film and had to prove that it wasn't a snuff movie. Sick bastards. It's a pile of shit now because its aged terribly but it was massively controversial for its time and remains banned in several countries.
It also inspired Eli Roth to make Green Inferno. So, thanks for that. Take that statement any way you wish.
6. Asylum Blackout/The Incident
Fingernails in the nose
This one is a bit hard to explain but I'll try. The resident super psycho out of all the resident regular psychos in the mental home, digs his nails really hard into the bridge of the central characters nose, really really hard and for what seems like ages, almost ripping it off.
This sounds ridiculous but watch it and tell me that you didn't want to put the dvd in the freezer straight after. The whole film is just so grim and hopeless, its stayed with me for years.
5. Snowtown
Bathtub strangulation
Exactly what it sounds like, except this is with some kind of hose pipe or cable, the victim has already been tortured and beaten to a pulp and its RELENTLESS.
This is a true story so that makes it smack you in the face ten times as hard as it usually would but what is even worse is that it just goes on and on, he almost dies and they let him breathe again, over and over until his brother jumps in and finishes the job, EVEN THOUGH the reason he had been tortured in the first place was for raping his brother!! The whole film is 25000 shades of fuck no.
4. Seed
PETA animal cruelty footage
For some reason Uwe Boll, the fucking lunatic, decided to put actual PETA footage of dogs being skinned alive and other absolute treats, over the opening credits of his film, Seed.
The film isn't even about animals its about a serial killer. Good way to bring attention to PETA though I suppose. I will never get those images out of my head.
3. Django Unchained
Dogs eating the slave
Calvin Candy sets his dogs on one of his slaves for refusing to fight
I have actually never watched this scene, even though it is only short cut away shots I don't care - the sound is enough to turn my stomach. I can't even tell you why it bothers me that much either, I have definitely seen worse.
2. Irreversible
The fire extinguisher scene
Guy gets his face caved in with a fire extinguisher and then his assailant attempts to rape him in a club full of people.
Most people who know about this film will see the title and think I'm going to say the 11 minute long brutal rape of a woman in an alley is the bit I can't stomach and yes, they would be correct but the whole fire extinguisher thing..... Jesus Christ, Gaspar Noe is a fucking sick person.
Speaking of sick people - my number one spot will never change as long as I live. I'm sure of it.
1. A Serbian Film
The entire disgusting piece of shit film
I won't go into detail but this piece if filth should never have been allowed into production. Utterly fucking pointless and horrific. The film makers claim it is a metaphor for how Serbians are treated by their government and do you know what I say to that? FUCK. YOU.
Anything even remotely gross, I have found it and watched it, and after that inexplicable period in my early twenties when I refused to watch anything remotely horror like, almost nothing bothers me.
I don't mean 'bothers me' as in scares me (everything scares me) I mean 'bothers me' as in stops me sleeping 'bothers me'.
Has taken a piece of my soul, not in the good way, without my permission 'bothers me'.
Anyway, completely on purpose and of my own volition, I have seen the sickest shit ever committed to film and it usually makes me beam, at the sheer genius and audacity of it e.g. the remake of Evil Dead is SO gory and blood soaked but it makes me so happy.
I am not a psychopath. Promise.
However, there are a few sequences, in a number of films, that I still cannot bring myself to watch again (or watch for the first time even) and to be honest, I don't think they are all going to be ones that you would totally expect.
In no particular order, I have listed ten off the top of my head.................
10. The Green Mile
Del's Execution
Horrifically botched electrocution - head sets on fire and everything (or so I'm told)
I used to actually walk out of the room for this one but I now just cover my eyes.
This is odd really because I have a weird fascination with execution, fuck knows why, it really really gets to me.
9. T2: Trainspotting
Spud vomiting in the bag
Spud has a bag tied over his head and Renton tries to save his life, resulting in spud vomiting into the bag while its still on his face.
Its not even the actual vomiting its the ripping open of the bag after and it going EVERYWHERE.
8.A Cure For Wellness
The psycho dentist drills through Lockhart's front tooth
Like actually drills a hole through the centre of his front tooth. I don't feel that any further explanation is needed.
Its a combo of the secondary sensation that you feel on his behalf and the NOISE, that just makes it unbearable.
7. Cannibal Holocaust
Muskrat murder
Sounds funny but its really not, its so fucking horrific it made me cry.
They actually kill innocent animals more than once in this film, 7 in total, I think, including slitting the throat of a muskrat (a Coati, if you must be picky) that is screeching for its life, beheading a couple of monkeys and butchering a sea turtle. The producers actually got arrested for making this film and had to prove that it wasn't a snuff movie. Sick bastards. It's a pile of shit now because its aged terribly but it was massively controversial for its time and remains banned in several countries.
It also inspired Eli Roth to make Green Inferno. So, thanks for that. Take that statement any way you wish.
6. Asylum Blackout/The Incident
Fingernails in the nose
This one is a bit hard to explain but I'll try. The resident super psycho out of all the resident regular psychos in the mental home, digs his nails really hard into the bridge of the central characters nose, really really hard and for what seems like ages, almost ripping it off.
This sounds ridiculous but watch it and tell me that you didn't want to put the dvd in the freezer straight after. The whole film is just so grim and hopeless, its stayed with me for years.
5. Snowtown
Bathtub strangulation
Exactly what it sounds like, except this is with some kind of hose pipe or cable, the victim has already been tortured and beaten to a pulp and its RELENTLESS.
This is a true story so that makes it smack you in the face ten times as hard as it usually would but what is even worse is that it just goes on and on, he almost dies and they let him breathe again, over and over until his brother jumps in and finishes the job, EVEN THOUGH the reason he had been tortured in the first place was for raping his brother!! The whole film is 25000 shades of fuck no.
4. Seed
PETA animal cruelty footage
For some reason Uwe Boll, the fucking lunatic, decided to put actual PETA footage of dogs being skinned alive and other absolute treats, over the opening credits of his film, Seed.
The film isn't even about animals its about a serial killer. Good way to bring attention to PETA though I suppose. I will never get those images out of my head.
3. Django Unchained
Dogs eating the slave
Calvin Candy sets his dogs on one of his slaves for refusing to fight
I have actually never watched this scene, even though it is only short cut away shots I don't care - the sound is enough to turn my stomach. I can't even tell you why it bothers me that much either, I have definitely seen worse.
2. Irreversible
The fire extinguisher scene
Guy gets his face caved in with a fire extinguisher and then his assailant attempts to rape him in a club full of people.
Most people who know about this film will see the title and think I'm going to say the 11 minute long brutal rape of a woman in an alley is the bit I can't stomach and yes, they would be correct but the whole fire extinguisher thing..... Jesus Christ, Gaspar Noe is a fucking sick person.
Speaking of sick people - my number one spot will never change as long as I live. I'm sure of it.
1. A Serbian Film
The entire disgusting piece of shit film
I won't go into detail but this piece if filth should never have been allowed into production. Utterly fucking pointless and horrific. The film makers claim it is a metaphor for how Serbians are treated by their government and do you know what I say to that? FUCK. YOU.