BS: Bloodiest movie ever

Subject: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 08:08 PM

I was thinking that the Passion was a light wieght compared to We were Soldiers in terms of how many gallons of blood were used.

Then I realized that The Shining probably beat Mel.

Then I recalled a really whacko cult film where a guy kept trying to bury his mother who wouldn't die and the house was attacked by zombies.

Anyway just like some one has to be last on a threead there has to be the bloodiest movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 11:50 PM

How about "The Wild Bunch" or "Scarface"?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Apr 04 - 11:54 PM

What about Kill Bill?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 12:07 AM

"Jock the Gipper". It's an underground cult movie starring the young Ronald Reagan and the same chimp actor who played Bonzo, but he's older and he plays a character named Jock. Reagan plays a deranged alcoholic vet who mutilates chimps and other innocent primates and disects them for payoffs from Asian drug gangs who sell off various parts and extracts from the chimps for their perverted customers in the Orient who want to improve their stinkin' sex life! (Everybody knows Chimps really "got it", right?) What happens is, Jock gets mutilated horribly in the lab, but he escapes. He then starts hunting down the evildoers and vivisecting them one by one, aiming to finish up on Ronnie the Psycho Vet...the guy who lopped off his coconuts. The final scene is the bloodiest and most gruesome thing you'll ever see on screen. I loved it. Jock's glorious closing line: "And now, asshole, here's one for the Gipper!!!"

Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:20 AM

Let's hope there isn't a contest for the bloodiest movie -- I don't think it could get much worse than it is, could it?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: LadyJean
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:24 AM

Many many years ago, the adolescent son of one of my mother's friends said "Ben Hur" won the Heinz Ketchup award for the year. (Many people have noted the similarity between ketchup and blood.)
This is, in fact, my rationale for avoiding slasher movies. If I want to see ketchup, I'll go to the Heinz plant.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:48 AM

I bet Chongo and I could share some laughs.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:41 AM

I remember seeing part of something called "The Wizard of Gore" at a drive-in theater in 1970 or '71. I say "part" because it was too sickening to watch, especially for my date. We were forced to hide in the back of my '66 Dodge van with the curtains drawn until it was all over.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:11 AM

I bet that just broke your heart, eh Bruce? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 06:05 AM

I doubt my choice is the bloodiest, but it's the one that most revolted me..does that count? "Natural Born Killers" is at the top of my most-despised film list. I'm pretty much a fan of Oliver Stone, and though I understand what he was trying to do with this movie, I found it deeply deeply upsetting to watch...xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 06:53 AM

A Monty Python sketch called, " Sam Peckinpahs Salad Days " blood everywhere, brill.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Nerd
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 11:32 AM

I think the cult film Donuel is referring to was "dead alive." A stinkeroo, but it WAS kind of funny. The re-animator movies were also really, really gory. I don't remember the Shining being THAT gory, except for the "blood flood" which always looked like a Kool-Aid commercial to me. (But in terms of sheer gallons, of course, it WAS impressive).

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 11:35 AM

I actually like "Natural Born Killers". I think it's a pretty amazing film. And I don't normally go for films that are full of graphic violence of that sort. I liked the satire and the point that the film was making about the exesses of American media.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 11:40 AM

Sorry...excesses.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 11:46 AM

Chopper. a great movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 12:36 PM

Like I said, LH, I got it, I just didn't want it..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:22 PM

I hadn't been to a movie in a long time and didn't know how advanced (and how bloody graphic) special effects had become within the previous couple of years. I read Peter Benchley's Jaws, and some time later (when the manager of my apartment building wanted to paint my apartment and I had to be gone for a few hours), I went to see the movie. Ye GAWDS!! Body parts strewn along the beach, a leg bitten off and sinking toward the bottom, blood gushing out of Quint's nose and mouth, and that scene where the shark crashes into the boat's cabin and starts snapping at Brody's legs. Even if it didn't get him, every time I think of that, I still try to put my feet in my shirt pockets!

It wasn't long after that I went to see Alien, which was intense enough all by itself, but it was on a double-bill with The Fury (1978) directed by Brian De Palma. Had to do with a secret U. S. agency trying to gather parapsychological children and young people (telepathic, telekinetic, etc., like King's Carrie and Firestarter) with the idea of developing them into weapons. At one point, one of the young people (the lovely Amy Irving, I think) levitates someone, makes them start to bleed from various bodily orifices including from under their fingernails, and then spins them like a top, spraying blood all over the furniture and the walls. In another scene, John Cassavetes' head explodes, spraying blood, brains, and teeth all over the room. They didn't just show this once, they did about a half-dozen instant re-plays from several different angles.

Yummy!!

I'm not particularly squeamish, but I wonder if anyone has ever thought of putting airsick bags in a little pocket on the backs of theater seats, like they do on airliners. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:36 PM

Hmm! It just occurred to me. The airsick bag thing could be of benefit to critics as well.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,Den
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:56 PM

What about resevoir dogs. Or was that just violent?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:06 PM

You people ain't seen nothin'!

1972s "Three On A Meathook"

Now THAT'S a bloody film...

Dead Alive?? (AKA Braindead) A shining example of what a lousy director Peter Jackson really is...

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,Shlio
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:17 PM

How do you define a "cult" movie? Isn't it at the same time one which only an elite group of people will be able to understand and enjoy watching, and a box-office hit? (Just interpreting from the various uses I've heard of the word)

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:47 PM

It's a movie that is popular, but not mainstream. Suburban families don't take the kids to see it. It is beloved to a select group of really cool people who really get off on the notion that most "straights" and boring people like that just don't understand it or appreciate it. If too many people get to like the cult movie, it loses its special status with its former fans and becomes mainstream. This is a real drag! To be supercool you have got to be outside the mainstream.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 06:24 PM

There's a good definition of cult films here. It begins: Cult Films have limited but very special appeal. Cult films are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal, with outrageous, weird, unique and cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. Most cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), although they can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way. They mention that Fantasia was considered a "cult" film for a while.

I'd agree with LH that much of the appeal of cult films comes from perceiving oneself to be part of an enlightend "cool" community, but I also think many fans simply have a real appreciation for their particular favorites.

As for blood, I'm sure I've seen people swimming in pools of blood in some film or other; more blood, but not as bright red as the elevator scene in The Shining. The grossest thing I recall seeing was open heart surgury on regular evening TV. Shudder. I lasted about thirty seconds before changing the channel, I never lingered again.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 06:31 PM

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seems to have a full ocean of disolved Shape Shifters (the home planet of the security guy, Odo).

In Fantastic Voyage, they shrink a submarine and it travels through vast tunnels of blood and plasma.

Lots of gore in The Thing (1982 version).

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Allan C.
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 09:15 PM

Are we talking about volume or just spatters? If it is the former, then "Blood Farmers" is a likely contender. Certainly it is a front runner in the "Why did they even bother making this one?" department.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 10:41 PM

Mmm... John Carpenters "The Thing"... what a fantastic movie that is!

FX that still look good today!

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 01:31 PM

Does anyone remember the cult film from the 70's called Mark Of The Devil? It was about witch hunters. This movie was so disgusting they even advertised you would be given a barf bag on entering. At one disgusting scene, I turned away to see about a dozen people running out of the theater.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 02:06 PM

It has to be "The Ten Commandments". The whole sea turned to blood.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,robomatic
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 05:04 PM

The old 'Starsky and Hutch' TV series was a roller coaster of bleeding bandits. I recall something like six to a dozen of guys shot BEFORE THE OPENING CREDITS. Must have been the good old days when you could shoot yure gun without a lot of paperwork!

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 05:43 PM

For me 'Saving Private Ryan' was pretty sickening. The first one I ever saw that upset me for a while was 'Dirty Harry'. Am I being 'Girlie'!

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 06:41 AM

Does anyone remember Roman Polanski's "Macbeth"? Maybe not the bloodiest per se, but the bloodiest unintentionally FUNNY, bloody movie I ever saw. I was laughing so hard, my friends made me move six rows away from them..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Golly
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 07:13 AM

My favorite is a cult movie "The great Fu Man Chu Eagle Murder Mystery" I am not exactly sure of the title and indeed would like to be corrected. One scene involved a shootout where any where a bullet hit provoked a deluge of blood. Even the water tank and fence posts were not exempt. I turned on the television halfway thru assuming it was some western or other and hit on this scene. Hilarious!
I almost threw up at the beach scene in Savng Private Ryan.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: s6k
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 03:45 PM

that scene was done very well.

best war movie HAS to be platoon. quite a lot of blood there. full metal jacket is rather graphic too toward the end.

one of the bloodiest movies is Natural Born Killers, with Woody Harrelson. it also has a damn great soundtrack.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 04:24 PM

Natural Born Killers is a great satire...

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 08:43 PM

I thought I saw what Stone was going for--to make a cheesy comercial rip-off of Man Bites Dog but with the advantage of being thoughtless and sensational? I think he succeeded, too.

Pulanski's Macbeth sucked, as has everything of his I've seen. But the play really is funny, anyway.

Scream is a fun movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: harpgirl
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 09:52 PM

the bloodiest movie ever was the texas chainsaw massacre and starship troopers. hi i am nathan and this is live edition

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: s6k
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 04:17 AM

natural born killers is indeed a very good satire.
A lesser known film called SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS is one of the best i have ever seen.
Check it out on IMDB, i have the dvd.

its a reality show where 8 people are chosen at random every series and have to kill eachother.. the survivor wins. the entire film runs like an extended episode of the show, with the announcers coming in now and again to recap on what has happened so far etc.

It's done really well and is very underrated, probably because the director intentionally chose unknown actors.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Rain Dog
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:40 AM

I think the film Donuel is referring to is 'Dead Alive ' or as it was known in the Uk 'Braindead ' made by a certain Peter Jackson before he got involved in Lord Of the Rings.

It is a few years since I have seen it but I do remember it as being one of the bloodiest films I have seen. It is a comedy, very funny in parts, but also on the gory side. A bit like his earlier film ' Bad Taste '

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:43 PM

NBK may be a satire, but Stone is apparently impervious to the thought that his own sensational hot gas is as good an object of the satire as anything in the "media" he thinks he's fit to "comment" on. Come on, Platoon! The Doors! JFK--good god what a showy shallow fartbrain. What an enthusiastic businessman with absurd pretentions. He could search himself and his art for the sense of his subject, if he knew how, if he knew how to measure, if he even listened to his own self-indulgent artsy noodle-doodling, if he was an artist.

Scorcese's movies are pretty good and bloody. They may not be the bloodiest per gallon, but it seems like more when you care what happens. Like the movie Traffic--except for the Mexican cop, and okay, the kids, anybody could be shot in the face and So What? Ketchup doesn't count, except in fun parodies.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloodiest movie ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:02 PM

Too bad we can't get Howard Stern's opinion on that, Fred.