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So every week we recap a best of. Curious to know what you would select as the greatest scene of limb loss outside of Monty Python and the Knight.

riotinmyskull

this is a tough one but i'm gonna have to go with audition.

lordzeppelin

Or...alternatively, for amusing, Army of Darkness.

RichC2

- The gleeful removing of a foot via piano wire in Audition (Miike)
- The gleeful removal of body parts in Ichi The Killer (Miike)
- The removal of an arm in Requiem for a Dream
- Most scenes in Story of Ricky, though that was less limb loss than total limb destruction.

I'd also just go with Audition or the Monty Python/Black Knight scene.

Giles

the elevator scene in 'Pieces'

HighSpeedOnIce

Michael Madsen removing Kirk Baltz's ear to the tune of "Stuck In The Middle With You" in "Reservoir Dogs"

Goldberg74

Jack Black losing his arm in "The Jackal."

NoirFan

The scene in Aguirre: The Wrath of God where a soldier's severed head continues moving it's lips is quite shocking, simply because it's done so matter of factly.

toddly6666

TOTAL RECALL: Michael Ironside losing arms between elevator

Giles

the mass bisection scene 'Ghost Ship'

Tom Savini getting ripped apart by the 'infected' - Planet Terror

monkey bitten victim prologue sequence from 'Dead Alive'

finger severing scene from 'The Burning'

'infected arm' amputation from 'Day of the Dead'

arm getting blown off by shotgun - 'Robocop'

head bisection from flying bug - 'Starship Troopers' - imdb is convinced that this scene was actually restored for the FX network airing of this film - is this true??

Rockmjd23

Damien: Omen II had a good bisection scene.

Giles

haven't seen it, but I have heard it's one of the noisest deaths in the series.

NoirFan

The first one had an impressive decapitation as well.

Groucho

I've heard that was the first on-screen decapitation in cinema. Not sure if that's true or not, but I can't think of one earlier.

My pick for this thread: any of the "lessons" from Arrested Development.

obscurelabel

Alec Baldwin's fingers chopped off by a knife wielded by Shirley Stoler in Miami Blues.

Rockmjd23

Not even close. Polanski's Macbeth, Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve, I Drink Your Blood all come to mind. I bet there's ones from the pre-code days.

NoirFan

Scanners and The Fury had heads exploding all over the place.

Giles

you also have to credit the films of H.G. Lewis

Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) - had victims losing fingers, arms, heads.

Brian T

Reminds me of a key scene involving a rather gruesome severed head in TROPIC THUNDER.


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NoirFan

The first mainstream Hollywood decapitation, perhaps.

Lateralus

John Adams the HBO mini-series 3rd episode while on the ship. I don't think the guy with the bone saw ever got the leg completely off.

Groucho

I just looked it up, and that's how it was described.

islandclaws

Not that it's a phenomenal movie, but the head chopping scene at the end of 30 Days of Night was pretty fuckin' gory.

Also, Tom Savini's head removal via shotgun in Maniac.

And the arm chopping, blood-spraying scene in Tenebre.

mdc3000

The double leg amputation scene in The Ruins was pretty sick.

Rockmjd23

Wasn't there a decapitation in Birth of a Nation? Or was it Intolerance? One of those two Griffith films I'm sure had one, and they were the most expensive movies ever made up to that time (1915-16).