Movies that feature the "delayed body slice" effect

[trigun]

I'm not exactly what the term for this effect is, but I'm sure you've seen it. A person is cut with an ultra sharp object, looks normal for a few moments, and then falls apart into 2 or more pieces. 99% of the time the effect comes off as looking very cheesy.

Here are the movies I can remember off the top of my head (MILD SPOILERS):

Equilibrium (face sliced off with sword)
Final Destination 2 (barbed wire)
Resident Evil (laser grid)
Johnny Mnemonic (laser whip)
No Escape ("Now that's funny!")
Interview with the Vampire (I think I remember a scythe?)
Cube (I think, it's been a while)

Any others?

[tvpuff]

13 ghosts

[ArchibaldTuttle]

Ichi the Killer, too many times to mention

[Shonn]

Ghost Ship had a great opening scene that did this.

[Kumar J]

The Cell

[Suprmallet]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

[Caoimhin]

Highlander

[j123vt_99]

Blade?

[Simpson Purist]

Freddy vs. Jason (well, you see the aftermath)

[ianholm]

The Ghost Ship scene was disturbing.

[Giantrobo]

Vampires

[renaldow]

Originally posted by Shonn
Ghost Ship had a great opening scene that did this.

That one has to be the king of all the body slice scenes. Very well done.

I've always liked this effect, and it's been around for quite a while. It seems like after Ghost Ship it's being done more and more though.

[Groucho]

Idle Hands

[Mondo Kane]

Versus
Opening scene

[tanman]

Second for thinking the Ghost Ship scene as disturbing but very well done.

I think the Resident Evil scene was also very effective.

[DonnachaOne]

Blade II - Rienhardt's death
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - Meyer Link is sliced down the middle. He falls to the floor and one part slides a bit. Then he pulls himself back together!

Happens a lot with vampires, I see. Garlic, Stakes, daylight, delayed body slice effects.

[majorjoe23]

I think Lone Wolf & Cub had one.

[Cusm]

Princess Bride?

[chente]

Shogun Assasin

[Chad]

Wrong Turn

[sd_smoker]

Originally posted by Cusm
Princess Bride?

Where?!

[Sierra Disc]

Originally posted by Cusm
Princess Bride?

Um, no. It's PG for one thing.

[gtr986]

Ice Pirates!

[Sessa17]

Originally posted by majorjoe23
I think Lone Wolf & Cub had one.

The series of movies actually has quite a few of them.

[MasterCXtreme]

UHF

[Jamezuva]

Thirteen Ghosts has a decent one

[caligulathegod]

Cube.

[littlefuzzy]

Originally posted by gtr986
Ice Pirates!
Beat me to it!

"Are you okay?"
-nods-
*PLOP!*

[Sunday Morning]

Hilarious thread! I like it.

Which films did the "delayed body slice effect" without using digital effect?

[lesterlong]

I think the Resident Evil was one of the best ones. Ghost Ship was a bit over the top and unbelievably unrealistic. 13 Ghosts had an interesting one.

[squidget]

likely unseen by most but
Bichunmoo

[MaudlinHarold]

Almost any given episode of Voltron

[Charlie Goose]

I know Daffy Duck suffered this at least once. "Good thing I have Blue Crossth!"

In Texas chainsaw Massacre II there was a scene where a passenger in a moving car looked at the driver, and part of his head slid off. Chainsaw wound, natch.

http://charliegoose.homestead.com/files/goose.jpg Honk!

[tha_dvd_man]

Out of all that I've seen, 13 Ghosts definitley had the best. It was pretty graphic in showing it, as well as fairly convincing, and I liked how he was still moving his eyeballs around after door sliced right through him. :)

[lesterlong]

Kill Bill may have one. At least according to the script. :)

[Gunshy]

Monty Python's Meaning of Life had a quick shot of a British soldier sliding to pieces as the camera pans past him (in the foreground) after he was apparently diced by a restless native's blade.

-Gunshy

[the aftermath]

Here's one that's sort of different: Unfaithful

[SunMonkey]

The end of Rob Roy?

[Mike]

My Dinner w/ Andre, where he stabs Andre Gregory in the leg with a fork during their argument over who will pay the bill.

[Big Boy Laroux]

if they ever make a samurai jack movie, it'll break every record for delayed body slices in a movie.

[DonnachaOne]

Underworld.

And you see it coming a mile away.

[edstein]

The scene in Blade II is great. A full body split.

[Giles]

Originally posted by tanman


I think the Resident Evil scene was also very effective.

I hated the fact that you really didn't see much of the aftermath of the laserbeams, the gore level of the film was a tad disapointing

[kuyax]

Originally posted by the aftermath
Here's one that's sort of different: Unfaithful

which scene??

[Inverse]

Good god, I hadn't realized there were that many.

I can just see what film historians will be saying about this in a couple of centuries: "...these scenes illustrate an odd early 21st century folk belief, namely that at the moment of death the body is instantly transformed from a structure of bones and muscles into a solid hunk of Grade A cheese...."

[Rypro 525]

last samarui (sp)
final destination 2
ichi the killer ( the funniest)
kill bill
freddy vs. jason
underworld
bad boys 2 (well sort of)

[filmerp]

Hellraiser: Bloodline

[bjh_18]

Originally posted by Sierra Disc
Um, no. It's PG for one thing.

So was the already mentioned Episode I, but you still see a cheesy shot of someone being cut in half.

[Giles]

Originally posted by Mike
My Dinner w/ Andre, where he stabs Andre Gregory in the leg with a fork during their argument over who will pay the bill.

ah man, you just ruined the ending for me... -wink-

[Debaser]

Originally posted by MaudlinHarold
Almost any given episode of Voltron

LOL. Awesome.

[BuddyRevell]

Blind Fury

Notice how Phantom Menace's "slice" is very similar.

[Mondo Kane]

Full Metal Yakuza
Best one I've seen yet!

[dom56]

Can't believe no one mentioned Predator 2.

Gary Busey get sliced by the Predator's Smart disc.

[scott1598]

no one even mentioned the one in
"Jason X"...just saw it last night. pretty nice one in that CG world.

[thephantom]

The funny thing is why do they keep doing it? Some of them are semi-excusable(laser beams, tiny wires, etc), but the katana slice is just overdone. There's not a thin enough blade in the world to actually pull that stunt off with. A half second delay, tops, and that's only on thick body parts that fit together, mainly the torso. Decapitations should be more like Kill Bill Vol 1, the head should always come off in the process unless the blade is like half a millimeter thick.

[necros]

Conan the Librarian's head to crotch split in UHF is prolly the best one ever

[eedoon]

Equilibrium

[Drexl]

Team America: World Police

Helen Hunt