YEAR 2001 directed by CHRIS WALAS

STARRING ERIC STOLTZ, DAPHNE ZUNIGA, LEE RICHARDSON

Qs: 11.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:01:44.  The godawful fly-thing we knew it was going to be finally pops out of Veronica.  They cut the umbilical cord and haul the nightmare away.  Fooling around with the throbbing mass, they feel something moving within and actually manage to produce a human child.  A stretch to produce a sequel I suppose…  SR: SSSSS

N      0:18:00.  The dog the team transported (the very same one Martin was cuddling earlier) gets transported in a lab environment, a leap from the baboon in Seth’s pad.  As it is, he teleports and is indeed still alive.  However, in the process, somewhere along the way, he went from docile, harmless pooch to Cujo, biting off several of a researcher’s fingers.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:37:13.  Remember Cujo?  Who didn’t suffer too long?  Well yes he did.  He in fact is still alive and unwell, being researched as it were.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:48:15.  Martin rolls back his left sleeve and pokes around in a nasty wound, origins unclear.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:12:37.  Martin pulls off his right eyelid.  SR: SSSSS

N     1:19:10.  The gigantic sack of who knows what that Martin turned into starts to break open and give birth to something, like a cocoon opening for a butterfly.  Wings protrude, slime pours and stretches and a vile creature springs forth.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:21:00.  Dr. Shepard enters the lab where Dr. Jainway used to be, seeing a puddle of blood on the floor, being added to drop by drop.  When he looks up to see what the source was, he finds her body, inverted and producing red, a droplet at a time.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:27:55.  “No sign of him anywhere.”  Well, maybe if he had the sense God gave a…fly, he’d have looked upward.  He didn’t, and Martinfly drops in front of him, spewing all over his face.  You know what’s going to happen.  His face starts to disintegrate a la Cube Zero, flesh and blood peeling away, teeth and eyeballs bared.  He falls back into the shot in a moment, a blithering pile of blood, his skull pouring it from everywhere possible.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:30:40.  Ever wonder what would happen if a descending elevator landed on a guy’s head?  It would squash it like a watermelon under an elephant’s foot.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:32:50.  Martinfly dissolves the back of that nuisance of a security guard Scorby’s left hand.  SR: SSSSS

N     1:38:20.  You’re as curious as I am to know if it worked.  It’s life at the hands of death, of sorts: a hideous creature leaps from the destination pod, looking more like something that crawled out of Wishmaster, a half-human integrated with what looks like a spider sac.  In the tail end of the unnatural beast, Martin is encased in goo something like Poltergeist.  Beth peels away his genetically altered afterbirth and reveals a human being, pink and sticky.  Bartokfly on the other…feeler looks quite horrifying himself.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 2003 directed by ronny yu

STARRING samuel l. jackson, robert carlyle, meat loaf aday

Qs: 4.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N       C.f. my caveat for Cabin Fever.

N       0:33:10.  During a devastating shooting, one man is hit in the neck, blood spurting straight out, everyone else (but our heroes J) hit at least five or six times, Leopold Durant bleeding down his suit from his wounds.  While here, I’ll mention a scene I wanted very much to include, a very violent one, something that I can’t imagine happening in real life: after the massacre that only Felix and Elmo ran away from, the latter pulls a club from his bag and, being rushed by a quintet of druggies, proceeds to swing for the pin.  The first gets a simple fist in the mouth but it’s the second that I hurt for – Elmo draws his club high behind him and, though we don’t actually see it, I know he shatters his jaw in a million pieces with a direct connection and follow-through.  Though I’ve watched this several times, I still can’t comprehend the pure, deep, almost animal pain that it must have felt like.  You know his jaw thereafter (if he lived) was artificial as I’m sure was his entire mouth’s worth of teeth and that he never talked properly again.  The third fool to rush a man with a golf club gets whacked in the shin, something that absolutely would never set right and probably made the man see stars in colors and patterns he couldn’t get on any drug.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:36:27.  In another scene with kinetic energy applied to the human body in ways I don’t want to think of, the first galoot who clearly can’t suffer enough for his tastes attempts to make off on a motorcycle parked outside the hotel.  Big mistake – it was Dakota’s.  She whips in out of the blue and high kicks the sap right in the nose, blood pouring out in a thick stream.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:45:40.  Our old friend Leopold Durant is trussed up under a freight car held high by a crane, a gooey fluid mix of blood and saliva dripping from his mouth while he hangs, being berated by Virgil.  That’s the B & G, now for the rest.  Instructed to let him go, a subordinate misunderstands the instructions and releases the hold on the multi-ton car – it crashes to the floor, we know with Leopold under it.  We’re not shown the aftermath, but I can safely assure it can be left up to the individual to envision the scene given this: there was no extra space under the car for anything to fit but air.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:22:34.  Dealing with the druggies was one thing.  This is another.  This scene is rated to the limit and it’s a graphic one.  In it, the Lizard, played by Meat Loaf, splatters Iki’s guts all over the wall with a point blank shot to the chest.  Next, he’s surreptitiously slipped a volatile chemical mix in his drink.  Within seconds, our heroes safely behind an umbrella, the Lizard’s body blows up in one giant bang.  His blood and guts cover every square inch of the entire room, making it look like someone detonated a fifty-gallon drum of ketchup and tomatoes.  The basic idea of a human body simply exploding is quite raw on its own, the revolutionary stomach-turning sight the room had become adding to the scene and helping it to earn a point for the film.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 2001 directed by bill paxton

STARRING bill paxton, matthew mCconaughey, powers boothe

Qs: 4.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N       0:04:27.  A wall of crime scene photos in Agent Doyle’s office.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:17:30.  Fenton had finally had enough of his father’s psycho-religious buncome and so when he’s told to destroy a “demon,” he swings the axe hard but not down at the “demon” but sideways at his father’s chest where he catches him in his left lung.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:26:59.  When we re-examine the visions Dad claimed to have, we find the woman, the first demon he brought home, slit a man’s throat and calmly smoked a cigarette next to his body.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:28:50.  We learn the truth about Agent Doyle’s mother.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 1994 directed by kenneth branagh

STARRING kenneth branagh, tom hulce, helena bonham carter

Qs: 7.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N       0:10:43.  A pregnancy sequence done realistically for the period, 1773.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:26:49.  A confrontation during a medical demonstration occurs around a recently carved-up body, a section of skin on the throat missing and a cavity cut into the abdomen.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:29:18.  Victor Frankenstein meets a surreal sight – a disembodied monkey’s arm brought to apparent life by electrical stimulation.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:33:53.  A frightened and ignorant man who thinks the Professor is about to inject him with smallpox rather than the vaccine it actually was stabs him and runs away.  Victor tries fruitlessly to revive him, but to no avail.  When the camera pulls back for a bird’s-eye shot, we can see blood just everywhere and a section of exposed skin on his chest bearing the injury.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:37:10.  Frankenstein puts the Professor’s brain on ice.  Thirty-eight seconds later, Frankenstein carves up a chunk of meat (animal, I’m sure) and tosses it in a tank of electric eels.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:46:45.  It’s not exactly dry, but rather clear and quite a vile idea.  Frankenstein’s creation’s tank explodes only seconds after Victor feared his experiment a failure.  His creation automatically lunges at him and overturns the tank of amniotic fluid, which Victor and his slippery project writhe around in while trying to secure footing and simply stand up.

N       1:40:40.  Frankenstein’s creation breaks into his wife/sister’s room, plunges his hand down into her body and rips out her beating heart.  He then throws her body off the bed, her face slamming straight down onto a table with a candle that promptly sets her once lovely looks on fire.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:42:10.  Frankenstein does it again, this time creating a woman, mostly from his wife.  He then opens the tank and cleans, dries and dresses his newest creation.  At 1:45:25 we get to see its face – patchworked like a quilt, a seam running straight through the right eye, nearly shut, one on her head amidst random clumps of wiry hair and red patches.  When Frankenstein’s first creation arrives, things go to the dogs.  His “wife” looks over and feels the malformed figure and compares him to her.  She then alarmingly (pardon this) pieces things together and comes to the only conclusion she can – that she too, as the one before her, was a monstrous atrocity borne of misguided will and genius.  She then picks up a kerosene lamp, gives Victor and his male creation one last look and crushes it over her head, setting herself on fire.  Then, in a spectacular shot, she ricochets down the hallway, a semi-human raging conflagration, touching off everything she contacts.  She then jumps to her second death straight onto the marble floor of the foyer.  SR: SSSSS

N       Upgraded to 4 from a perfect 3 for the look and idea of a man made from parts of dead men, reanimated and brought to realize his ungodly origins.

YEAR 2003 directed by ronny yu

STARRING robert englund, ken kirzinger, kelly rowland

Qs: 16.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N       0:01:48.  Here we see Philip’s hands and feet from NOES 3, strands of musculature hanging out of wide gashes in the wrists and tops of the feet, strings of gore leading away.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:02:00.  Amidst a series of shots from the Nightmare series is a standout one from the very first – the unforgettable scene where the soon-to-be-outrageously-famous Johnny Depp is sucked down into his bed and spat out in a bloody geyser all over the ceiling of his room.  Curious Note: if you look elsewhere on the site for the other scenes in the original Nightmare, you’ll see that this same scene is rated 4 there, but only 3 here.  This is because the cut here is shorter and doesn’t show the investigation of the house in which one can see the ceiling dripping blood like a hellish rain.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:04:59.  Seconds before Ms. Vorhees appears to convince Jason his work isn’t finished, he jams his signature blade straight into the gut of a fresh female victim and through a tree, pinning her to it in an instant.  While there, she morphs into several others who were jointly responsible for Jason’s death many years ago in the drowning accident at Camp Crystal Lake.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:13:10.  Gibb’s boyfriend Trey rolls over from getting a beer and realizes the infamous Jason is standing over him.  Jason jams his blade through Trey’s back and through the mattress at least ten times, blood dripping through the hole onto the floor.  Shortly after, while his bloody body twitches, Jason folds him in half in the bed.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:17:08.  Lori comes upon a crying girl curled up in the hall.  Turning the girl to face her, Lori is horrified to see the girl has no eyes, only bloody sockets.  Thirty seconds later, the door she backs up to starts to bleed torrents.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:20:17.  Previously sitting on the porch, drinking, Blake is shocked awake, surprised to realize he had been sleeping.  Turning to his father, seated to his right, he is at first confused, but only for a moment, when he won’t respond.  Jabbing him in the shoulder reveals why: his head had been cleanly severed.  The jab knocked the detached head off (and into Blake’s hands) whereupon blood spurted in small arcs from the open neck.  Blake himself was only seconds from becoming a bloody streak across the windows of the house as well.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:30:00.  Mentioning at 0:08:04 that she thinks she might need a nose job, Kia flips through a magazine in a hospital waiting room.  Shortly after, she starts coming upon some rather gruesome pictures as we can gauge by her expression.  On what turns out to be the last page she flips to, Freddy pops his claws out, hooks two of them into her nostrils and pulls her nose off.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:41:05.  At a cornfield rave, Gibb sneaks off among the stalks where she encounters “Trey,” somehow unable to see that it’s just his head merely a puppet in Jason’s hands.  Coming upon a building just at the edge of the field, Gibb traipses in, all the while searching for a guy she was pretty sure was dead when she saw him folded in half after stepping in his blood.  Anyhow, poking around doesn’t last, as Freddy appears to face her down.  Fleeing, Gibb tries to hide in a locker, which also doesn’t last.  Freddy rips the door off and slashes her across the chest, blood spraying across his face and coursing in a healthy flow from the cuts.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:43:23.  Crashing the party, Jason proceeds to slice many of the attendees across the chest, much arterial spray flying out of the massive gashes.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:49:05.  Hearing his name called in a breathy voice, Mark turns in the direction of the sound and sees a steamy vapor coming out from under the bathroom door.  There, he briefly sees Freddy in the reflection of the medicine cabinet mirror.  Spinning on his heels, he sees an image of his brother rise from a bathtub overflowing with bloody water.  There, he quickly sees it’s merely Freddy impersonating his dead sibling when he starts laying out his case (the whole “everybody forgot and I needed Jason to kill but now he won’t stop” thing).  The image stretches out its arms from which we can see blood pouring from long slits across the wrists.  As a pool of blood forms around Mark, tentacles of some sort rise from it, piercing his feet in many places and causing unholy pain.  From there, the image backs Mark up to the corner of the room, an arm with bloody and in places bubbling flesh enters frame.  When Lori and Will appear at the window, futilely trying to wake him, Mark’s real body (on fire at this point) slams into the glass and falls to the ground.  Popping up again, begging for help, three deep slashes form across his face.  As if all this weren’t making his message clear, Freddy causes to appear in Mark’s badly burned skin the words “Freddy’s back.”  SR: SSSSS

N       1:03:28.  Freeburg, possessed by Freddy, draws full chambers of a tranquilizer into two hypos and stands in the hall through which everybody else is running, waiting for Jason so he can inject him with the full quantities and thereby drag him into his world where he has a potential chance of winning.  The expected Jason arrives and, just as both payloads are dispensed into his neck, Jason slices Freeburg completely in half, each of the pieces spraying blood everywhere.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:04:56.  Once in Freddy’s dream world, Jason hacks off in one clean swipe Freddy’s claw arm, the stump spraying blood, the severed arm twitching and pouring red.  Almost immediately, he slices off the other one, it too spraying blood.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:09:02.  Itching to “dig a little deeper” and see what really scares Jason, Freddy stabs one of his talons into Jason’s head taking us on an in-depth trip through Jason’s brain to his deepest memory.  Brain matter parts, synapses split and blood oozes as we travel.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:22:00.  In an awesome battle sequence involving martial arts (which I think I can safely suspect Robert Englund wasn’t involved in) and flying oxygen tanks, Freddy unleashes a stack of dozens of eight-foot concrete rebar rods in a hail upon Jason.  One rod punctures his left leg and another runs through his chest; blood spurts from both wounds.  Freddy then unleashes a giant piece of swinging equipment which smashes into Jason full-on three times, leaving him spouting blood from several places: his broken neck, his pierced chest and his pierced leg.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:23:47.  The battle now transferred to the pier, Jason slashes Freddy across the chest four times, blood spraying everywhere.  Lying before Jason, Freddy reaches up and slices off the fingers of his slashing arm before tearing into him, hacking at him with his own blade eleven times and his own talons twice before rolling him over and stabbing him in his eyes, massive amounts of blood running down his famous mask.  Freddy takes a deep dig into his chest for good measure.  Much good it did; Jason rose and jammed his stubby left hand deep into Freddy’s side, blood pouring out.  Still not done (and still not dead), he tears Freddy’s right arm off, tatters of flesh hanging on and cups of blood spilling and spraying from the stump and from his mouth.  Taking one last stab at Jason with his own blade, Freddy screams as Jason pulls his hand out of him.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:27:14.  Freddy confronts Lori and Will with Jason’s blade.  Jason appears behind him and jams his own hooks through his chest before Lori rises to attention, seizes Jason’s blade and slices his head off, his open neck spraying red.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 1980 directed by sean s. cunningham

STARRING betsy palmer, adrienne king, kevin bacon

Qs: 9.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N       0:04:40.  Gary, a Camp Crystal Lake counselor, is getting frisky with a lady friend in the attic of one of the lodges.  An unseen killer, whose POV we are shown things through, stabs Gary in the stomach, causing much red to flow not only from the site but from his mouth as well.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:22:19.  The third victim, Annie, is slashed across the throat, the cut pouring red.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:40:03.  Jack and Marcie are getting it on while in the bunk above them, Ned lies with his throat slit.  Look for blood on the edge of the pillowcase even as they lie there.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:42:41.  The most creative death in the film, I think, is Jack’s.  Lying on the bed he and Marcie were getting intimate on, he has no way to know what’s going to happen.  A drop, having soaked through the mattress above, lands on Jack’s forehead, right between his eyes.  Before he can react, an arm reaches out over the bed and holds him down – while an arrow with a special spear tip pierces his neck and twists around, blood spurting from the hole.  SR: SSSSS

N       0:46:37.  Our hidden killer falls upon Marcie next, swinging an axe at her, landing in her head, directly in her left eye.  Another good make-up effect for 1980.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:10:40.  Searching for Bill, Alice gets the shock of her life when she comes upon the most savage death in the film.  Jack’s was the most creative – this is the most violent.  Closing a door to the cabin, she finds him tacked to the door with arrows, one through his left thigh, one through his chest, one in his neck and one through his eye.  If that wasn’t enough, his throat was slit wide open.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:14:02.  Brenda’s cut- and roped-up body crashes through the window of Alice’s cabin.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:18:59.  Shortly after Alice runs out to the jeep and finds the latest victim, slashed across her throat, bleeding down herself, she runs for it and before her falls the body of Mr. Christy.  SR: SSSSS

N       1:27:58.  Alice is fighting with the killer at the pier where she finds the machete Bill used earlier to kill the snake and uses it to lop her adversary’s head off.  SR: SSSSS