What Is The Goriest AMERICAN Film Of All Time?- Page 3

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:39am

I don't think there is anything wrong with C_S saying that gore and blood and violence are beautiful...I'm sure De Palma, Hitchcock, Peckinpah, Tarantino, Argento, Scorsese, etc. all think much the same thing. Not to mention Goya, Picasso, Bacon...on and on. Don't be such literalists.

[Pippin]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:47am

you both have valid points. I can see how it is both disturbing and beautiful at the same time.

SPOILER ABOUT AMERICAN BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just like that scene in AB right after Spacey is shot, and the freaky camera guy looks and sees him lying in his own pool of blood with his reflection- It is a beautiful shot, although disturbing and sad.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 2:38pm

There is an independent film company called Troma that makes films that are gory and has alot of sex in them. There was one where one of the characters takes two books and smashes a guy's head, another one where a character holds a guy's head under a chest press machine and lets the weights go and they smash into the guys head and there's nothing but blood everywhere. One had a guy gets his arm cut down by a VCR(some was holding his hand while rewind was on).

More mainstream gory films would probably be anything out of the Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, and Leatherface movies. Alot of zombie movies like The Return of The Living Dead are pretty gory too.

[mrmcfeely]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:13pm

It's probably George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. I believe it was the first movie rated x for violence. I'm such a fan, I went to the Monroeville Mall, outside of Pittsburgh, where it was filmed. The first slasher movie was Blood Feast, which influenced John Waters. By the way, I cannot wait for Grindhouse.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:32pm

NOTLD is one of my favorite movies! The existential metaphor inherent in "living dead" is so wonderfully played out that the pic hits a nerve on an emotional level.


And of course eating guts is always fun to watch!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:33pm

"I want to eat your BRAINS!!!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:34pm

NOTD has one of the greatest endings in film history. It never fails to blow my mind.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:40pm

was that pun intended?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:41pm

NOOOOO!!!!

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:48pm

"Plus, when you really think about it, aren't we ALL serial killers underneath it all?"

Well, I'm really thinking about it and I'm going to go with "No." I love gorey movies. I think they're fun and thrilling, so I'm not going to say that you're a freak or anything along that line. Serial killers are sociopaths with no regard for anyone except themselves, Sandwich. If you fit this description, feel free to apply it to yourself, but I know quite a few people, including myself, who happen to value other people.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 5:03pm

SPOILER WARNING FOR "CASINO" -

Joe Pesci's death scene is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in a mainstream Hollywood film. To this day, it still haunts me.

For those who don't know, he and his brother are taken out into a field and beaten to nearly an inch of their lives. Then, a giant hole is dug, the two are stripped naked, thrown into the hole, and buried alive. Yeesh.