John's Top Ten

Top Ten Gut Clenching Moments in Cinema

10. The metaphorical re-birth of Ozaki in the last 15 minutes of GOZU.  I just never really felt that a full grown man could be delivered thru a woman’s vagina.

9.  That whole meat-hook thing that Teri McMinn’s Pam character in the original THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE had to endure.  I can’t just imagine myself hanging three feet off the ground with a meat-hook the only element holding me up, it being gouged thru my back.  That might hurt!

8.  Just about every scene in TROMEO AND JULIET involving sex or masturbation…you know, just about every minute in that movie was sick…forget that…every single Troma movie in mind actually has some aspect to it that makes me want to stop watching film and give up, or just throw up all over myself and my special someone…

7.  I just really felt like urinating on myself when Jeff Goldbum's Brundlefly regurgitates on John Getz's Stathis Borans character's leg and hand in THE FLY.  I remember watching the movie when I was younger, and witnessing that beautiful scene now, I can only wonder at why someone let me watch that movie…I love it!

6.  All four rape scenes in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.  If the first one hadn’t been enough, Meir Zarchi sure hit you with the succeeding three. 

5.  Corey Feldman’s whole cinematic career.  I don’t really need to elaborate.

4.  Ned Beatty being forced to “squeal like a pig” while he’s being raped by a hillbilly in DELIVERANCE. 

3.  The dismemberment scene in BUIO OMEGA.  I was in total shock and couldn’t believe what the hell I was seeing.  First, Kieran Canter’s Frank character tortures and kills a hitchhiker, then great ole Franca Stoppi’s Iris character cuts her up with a butcher knife, throws the dismembered body pieces into a bathtub full of acid, buries the liquefied remains in the estate’s backyard, then proceeds to serve lunch and chows down a great ole serving of slop…inciting Frank to throw up.  It’s all so great.

2.  That scene in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE where Camille Keaton’s Jennifer Hill character castrates Johnny in the bathtub…“OH GOD! IT WON’T STOP BLEEDING!” is probably the best line I have ever heard in a horror movie, considering the situation.

1.  The ole pencil in the ankle trick in EVIL DEAD.  I bet it would hurt like hell.

Archive >> - Past top ten lists.