One of the most violent movie scenes ever.

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I honestly don't see how anyone can have a reaction to a movie that was violent, yet the violence was not REAL

Saving Private Ryan may be an exclusion, as the violence was not real, but was actually based on fact...and that may have really bothered some Veterans

I guess a rape on film although not real, can trigger reactions from an actual rape victim as well.

well, if it's just the "friday the 13th" type trash, i see your point... but very well done horror can have very dramatic effects on people, even to the tune of causing PTSD type reactions, not just in veterans who see such epics as "saving private ryan" (man, the beach scene was just... just...)

on one side of the isle, my take is that our psyches aren't made to witness that type of violence. it's damaging. it scars us. yet, on the other side, i still find myself lured to it, drawn to it... is it thanototic? just another case of the moth drawn to the bug light? i don't know... or is it just the more visceral, banal, voyueristic part of us that "needs" to see this stuff?

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I haven't seen any of these gore movies (Silent Hill, Hostel, etc.) but there will always be ONE movie scene that seriously disturbed me.

It's near the opening scenes of "Robocop" wherein Peter Weller gets all shot up while the bad guys laugh and taunt him - must have something to do with the fact that my dad was a cop at the time but that scene messed me up

That wasn't just violent, it was pornographic. I couldn't believe that picture only got an "R" rating.

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... is it thanototic?

WOW! ...How long you been holding on to that one dude?!

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... is it thanototic?

WOW! ...How long you been holding on to that one dude?!

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I would have to put "Hostel" way up on the list of most disturbing.

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I know what you mean by simple gore-fests. in terms of sheer gore, Dead/Alive Peter Jackson is probably up ther at the top in my book. What else would you expect when the climactic scene has the hero going through a room of zombies by holding up a lawn mower?

But the point of that was to be funny-gory. Adn with dialogue like, "You're mum ate my dog!" "Not ALL of it" and a kung fu priest saying, "I kick ass in the name of the Lord" you know what to expect from the movie.

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I would have to put "Hostel" way up on the list of most disturbing.

[I]Hostel[/I] is one of the most effective uses of gory violence I've seen since [I]Silence of the Lambs[/I]. Hostel isn't in the same league as [I]Silence of the Lambs[/I], but Eli Roth certainly knows how to use the disassembly of the human anatomy to great cinematic effect.

whas hostel really that gory? I haven't seen it, probably won't, don't quite have the stomach for it... but I loved Silence and Seven, fave films in fact, but the gore was more psychological there, not so visual... for some reason, realistic visual gore gets me more than psychological horror. the whole idea behind hostel terrorizes me w/o even seeing it.

I think [I]Silence of the Lambs[/I] is pretty visually gory, but the gore is overlooked, for the most part, because it is so skillfully woven into the story. The gore in [I]Hostel[/I] is definitely more blatant, but I still think the filmmaker's did a commendable job of using it to the benefit of the film's plot and tone.

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I think Silence of the Lambs is pretty visually gory, but the gore is overlooked, for the most part, because it is so skillfully woven into the story. The gore in Hostel is definitely more blatant, but I still think the filmmaker's did a commendable job of using it to the benefit of the film's plot and tone.

how does the visual gore of Hostel compare in terms of "stomach-ability" to Silence? I had no real prob w/ Silence. Now, I DID have a prob w/ the scene in Hannibal w/ Ray Liotta (sp?) and can never look that actor in the face again w/o picturing that horrific cranial-splitting scene again.

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That's one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen.

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I really didn't think that scene was all that disturbing, in fact i remember being in the cinema watching the movie and everyone was laughing when it happened.

I too thought that was pretty funny... I also laughed my ass off through "The Devil's Rejects", "Pulp Fiction", etc...

I always get the craziest looks when I go to a film like those and am one of the only ones laughing out loud in the theatre...

I guess I am just a sick, twisted, fawk!

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I think Silence of the Lambs is pretty visually gory, but the gore is overlooked, for the most part, because it is so skillfully woven into the story. The gore in Hostel is definitely more blatant, but I still think the filmmaker's did a commendable job of using it to the benefit of the film's plot and tone.

how does the visual gore of Hostel compare in terms of "stomach-ability" to Silence? I had no real prob w/ Silence. Now, I DID have a prob w/ the scene in Hannibal w/ Ray Liotta (sp?) and can never look that actor in the face again w/o picturing that horrific cranial-splitting scene again.

My advice is that you avoid Hostel. It's one of those movies where you can watch the whole audience squirming on cue.

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Don't get me wrong Hostel, did have some things I had never scene (i.e. the eyeball); but overall... I don't think it lived up to the hype.

Maybe I have simply become that desensitized...

I thought "A History of Violence" was just as gory/violent as Hostel...

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Haven't seen "Silent Hill". The two most violent that come to my mind are the beach landing in "Pvt. Ryan" and the prolonged flogging in "Passion of the Christ".

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But the point of that was to be funny-gory. Adn with dialogue like, "You're mum ate my dog!" "Not ALL of it" and a kung fu priest saying, "I kick ass in the name of the Lord" you know what to expect from the movie.

Ah, so you've seen Shaun of the Dead. Sometimes there comes a point where the camp of the movie takes the piss out of the red gelatin and pig entrails. Which is why Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead{s}, Army of Darkness, Spider Man 2) can still make rent.

But it depends on your point of view going in. I didn't find Pulp Fiction funny the first time. But I did find Hannibal laughable. .....'cause it SUCKED.

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