First, since The Geek Twins mentioned it, that weird scene in Superman III where a woman is transformed into a robot for...reasons. It was creepy as hell and completely against the tone of the rest of the movie.
Next up, the scene in Willow where the evil witch turns the entire good guy army led by Val Kilmer into pigs. It's not like a puff of smoke and POOF they're pigs; it's a long, slow transformation process that was pretty nasty. At least that's how it felt to me. The good thing for me is no one shows Willow anymore so I'm never faced with having to watch it again. And I'm not watching that YouTube clip either! Nooooope.
The scene in the original Robocop where the evil henchman runs into a bunch of toxic waste and morphs into some grotesque Toxic Avenger. I mean, not even the Toxic Avenger was as gross with the toxic waste as this!
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The scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy and the Nazi girl go into some Venice catacombs and are accosted by thousands and thousands of rats as the place floods. Rats in general are nasty but in this scene they're everywhere: the ground, the water, in the sarcophagus, in the lady's hair...eeek! (28 Days Later largely recreated this about 15 years later.)Speaking of Indy, remember the face melting at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Ick. Come on Spielberg and Lucas!
Speaking of Lucas, the Star Wars parody Spaceballs featured a villain called Pizza the Hut. Who was a monster just oozing with pizza cheese and sauce. Yuck. That's almost enough to make me not want to eat pizza...almost.
Speaking of icky-looking characters, the original Freddy Krueger! Even now it takes a lot of willpower to watch one of those movies. That burnt-up face is just so nasty. Though the reboot was pretty fucking lame.
Not quite as gross, but that scene in Star Trek II where they Khan puts those worm things in Chekov and the captain guy's ears was so nasty. And when the worm crawls out of Chekov's ear it was almost as gross.
Though still I think the most emotionally scarring cinematic moment was the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie. Most of those moments above were gross but this was just a punch to my 8-year-old gut.
2 comments:
Thanks for the Shout-Out! That Superman II scene definitely freaked out my little brain back then. You're right that it came out of nowhere! The rest of the movie was so silly and light by comparison.
Pizza the Hutt was supposed to be funny, but ended up looking horrific with the dripping and melting face.
Chekov's ear was insanely creepy but set the tone for the rest of the movie. Especially with the guy blowing his head off to keep from being mind-controlled.
I haven't thought about the Willow scene in years and will now promptly push it back out of my noggin thank you very much.
That exploding guy in Robocop actually fit perfectly in the tone of the film, so the whole thing is nasty to me. Starting with Murphy's hand being blown off by a shotgun.
Please don't talk about Optimus. Too soon.
A great list Pat.
Have to agree with those worms that went in the ears. Probably one of the worst forms of torture ever.
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