Exploding Heads in Movies
Ingrown Toenail
With the recent flutter of threads like this [Necrophilia in Films, Violence
in Libraries...heh, you guys kill me], I figure this shouldn't be too hard.
After all, without even trying, I can come up with two [Scanners and Raiders
of the Lost Ark].
Don't ask why I want to know this; it's a long story that goes back into the
bowels of history.
Mark "Attention all EHC members..." Lippert
Steve Ramirez
>
I still crack up every time I think about that zombie getting his
head blown clean off his shoulders in:
Dawn Of The Dead
There is a scene in "Maximum Overdrive" where a kid gets his head
run over by a steam-roller. I read somewhere that the head-explosion
effect was so gruesome, they had to cut it from the movie. Damn!
Oh well, just imagining that happening (to a kid, no less) was
gruesome enough.
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Ethan J. Rasiel
a paper boy's head is run over by a car as he is attempting to crawl to
safety (after being hit once already). 2 points!!
Ethan Rasiel @ CMU (Cool Man University)
Louis Blair
Doug Krause
Chopping Mall. A real late night classic.
Colin McFadyen
_Wanted: Dead or Alive_ of Z_The Soldier_
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The Running Man: when one of the convicts tries to run past the
electronic perimeter wearing an explosive neclace.
Wanted Dead or Alive: At the end when Rutger Hauer sets off the grenade
in Gene Simmons' mouth.
The Soldier: During an interrogation scene.
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>in Libraries...heh, you guys kill me], I figure this shouldn't be too hard.
>After all, without even trying, I can come up with two [Scanners and Raiders
>of the Lost Ark].
>
>Don't ask why I want to know this; it's a long story that goes back into the
>bowels of history.
>
berserk in a shopping mall.
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Ramsey Dow
>I still crack up every time I think about that zombie getting his
>head blown clean off his shoulders in:
>Dawn Of The Dead
Yes! I loved that scene. A week past several fellow horror enthusiasts and
I got together and watched all three of Romerro's zombie movies back to back.
During the exploding cranium sequence we did some playing around with slow
motion and pause. It looked so tasty, as I'm sure you can well imagine (or
remember, as the case may be).
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Brett K. Carver
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Pam Milligan
Wild at Heart, also shotgun blast.
Pam
Ron Rejmaniak
If we're going to allow squashed heads then...
there's THE GORE GORE GIRLS (~1970). One of H.G. Lewis' last efforts.
-Ron Rejmaniak
Joe Talmadge
Dang. Can't remember the name of the movie, but it starred Rutger
Hauer and (I think) Gene Simmons. At the end, Hauer sticks a hand
grenade in Simmons' mouth and then pulls the pin. boom.
Joe Talmadge Still here, but just barely.
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Whhhaaa???
Er, I'll nominate _Wild at Heart_. :)
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Well, as far as exploding heads go, in Toxic Avenger (a true classic...)
a paper boy's head is run over by a car as he is attempting to crawl to
safety (after being hit once already). 2 points!!
Heh! How many heads (or entire bodies) exploded in _Street Trash_?
:)
(Gee, I'm parched!)
Eddie McCreary
> In article <Yb6CLiS00...@andrew.cmu.edu> er...@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan J. Rasiel) writes:
>
> Well, as far as exploding heads go, in Toxic Avenger (a true classic...)
> a paper boy's head is run over by a car as he is attempting to crawl to
> safety (after being hit once already). 2 points!!
>
> Heh! How many heads (or entire bodies) exploded in _Street Trash_?
> :)
>
> (Gee, I'm parched!)
Don't forget _Scanners_.
In a similar vein:
A zombie in _Dawn of the Dead_ get his head sliced by helicopter blades,
In _The Beast Within_ a character's head gets blown up (as in inflated),
I think a movie called _Brain Damage_ had the hero's head blown up in
the end,
Did anyone mention Wilem Defoe in _Wild at Heart_ yet?
Jeff Goldblum at the end of _The Fly_,
Didn't James Woods blow his head off in _Videodrome_?
A character in _Spasms_ has his head inflate due to a snake bite.
That's all I can't think of right now.
Eddie McCreary
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E.HOBA
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>
> If we're going to allow squashed heads then...
>
> there's THE GORE GORE GIRLS (~1970). One of H.G. Lewis' last efforts.
In that case, since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, in "The
Fly II", I seem to remember seeing a guard's head getting
squashed by a descending freight elevator...
-Steve Mah (sm...@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU)
Doug Krause
#Don't forget _Scanners_.
Missed the first message eh? Bummer. :-)
Mikael Karlsson
>
>Of course, there's Scanners. A definite classic.
Don't forget Max Headroom. The exploding head/body is an essential part
of the plot.
/Mikael
Roger Butler
The Bounty Hunter(?) When Rutger Haur(sp) pulls the pin on the
grenade in Gene Simmons mouth. Not a great special effect, but I sure
hated the villain. Yeah!!!
The FLY II, when this guys head is squashed under an elevator, gross.
Vague memories of a 007 movie, a fight in the water with this gun that
shoots bullets of compressed gas, the bad guy is forced to byte the
bullet and as his head and body expand he shoots out of the water,
hits the ceiling and pops.
Roger Butler
William V. Smith
series (sorry-not a movie) a guy whose body was invaded by aliens was
shot and his head exploded *and* his chest exploded too. The name of
the episode was "Conspiracy" I believe.
MindWalker
...as it is in the SciFi movie Operation Outland too. Only there it happens
within spacesuits or elevators. Sticky...
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Brenton Williams
Talmadge) writes:
>
> Dang. Can't remember the name of the movie, but it starred Rutger
> Hauer and (I think) Gene Simmons. At the end, Hauer sticks a hand
> grenade in Simmons' mouth and then pulls the pin. boom.
>
>
"Wanted Dead Or Alive" , I do believe
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Todd Keenan Bowman
request (I was writing a paper on the topic for an English class) I'll
try to give you some help:
Scanners
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Chopping Mall (robot laser blows head apart)
Escape 2000 (machine gun reduces a head to applesauce)
Total Recall (Mars' pressure wastes Ronny Cox)
Dawn of Dead (Shotgun - see Escape 2000)
The Wild Beasts (not really exploding but an elephant steps on someones
head and it kinda squirts out the sides).
Hope this helps....
todd
Michael L. Kaufman
The Fury (Amy Irving blows up the bad guy at the end.)
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Was there an exploding head in Outland ? Guy's head exploded when
he got "decompressed" in the elevator ? (Can't remember too well
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Martin Nike
>
>Chopping Mall. A real late night classic.
yeah , Jim Wynorski used the soundtrack for this in DEATHSTALKER II
Chopping Malls one of those awful classics .. I loved it !
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Mark W Moormans
I've got a new one (at least if you use your imagination...). This
one didnt actually *show* the head exploding, but came pretty close:
Deep Star Six where the coward takes the diving bell up without
decompressing first... His blood starts to burst out from his skin
until you see big bursts happening against the opposite wall of the
escape diving bell...
-Mark
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Laurie Corrin
> Well, as far as exploding heads go, in Toxic Avenger (a true classic...)
> a paper boy's head is run over by a car as he is attempting to crawl to
> safety (after being hit once already). 2 points!!
>
If anyone is interested in renting Toxic Avenger to see this charming scene,
be warned: there are two versions of the movie on video. The unrated version
is a truly disgusting, violent, funny B-movie. The "R" rated version has all
of the disgusting special effects and a lot of the violence chopped out,
confusing the plot and removing a lot of the humor.
So -- if you want blood and gore, see unrated version. If you don't, don't
bother with this movie.
Laurie
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intel.com>, sram...@burro.intel.com (Steve Ramirez) writes:
> In article <69...@uwm.edu> gre...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ingrown Toenail) writes:
>>
>
> I still crack up every time I think about that zombie getting his
> head blown clean off his shoulders in:
>
> Dawn Of The Dead
>
> run over by a steam-roller. I read somewhere that the head-explosion
> effect was so gruesome, they had to cut it from the movie. Damn!
> Oh well, just imagining that happening (to a kid, no less) was
> gruesome enough.
I'm not sure if the original post-er meant to include heads exploding due to
being crushed, but if so, I recommend 'The Fly II'. An absolutely horrible
movie (as compared to the original remake :-) starring Jeff Goldblum), with
nothing to offer but this one dude who's head popped open under the weight of
a descending elevator.
As far as 'real' exploding heads go, though, I think 'scanners' was already
mentioned, so I have to put my bid in for 'The Fury'. To be honest, I can
never remember which one was which. To me, they've always just been 'the
exploding heads movies'.
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!Ingrown Toenail writes:
!Dang. Can't remember the name of the movie, but it starred Rutger
!Hauer and (I think) Gene Simmons. At the end, Hauer sticks a hand
!grenade in Simmons' mouth and then pulls the pin. boom.
!
It's called Wanted dead or alive.
Director Gary Sherman
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> Dang. Can't remember the name of the movie, but it starred Rutger
> Hauer and (I think) Gene Simmons. At the end, Hauer sticks a hand
> grenade in Simmons' mouth and then pulls the pin. boom.
>
The film is called "Dead or Alive" (or something like that).
This is the best part of the movie.
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
(I WARNED YOU)
The idea is that he (Rutger) is a bounty hunter and has caught this guy. He
then puts a grenade in his mouth to make him behave.
The deal (with the FBI) is for an additional $25,000 if the guy is alive.
Rutger turns to the boss FBI and says "I'll collect the bonus myself".
He then walks up to the guy with the grenade and says
"Fuck the bonus!" and pulls the pin, calmly turns, and walks away.....
scenes of FBI agents running for cover and calling Rutger names...
BTW This film also includes a good example of the "knife through the hand"
that was discussed a few weeks ago.
If you haven't seen this film then get it. The basic idea is a bit OTT, but
the acting, especially Rutger Hauer, is good.
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Eli
>The FLY II, when this guys head is squashed under an elevator, gross.
boyfriend's fly head off with a shotgun.
Matt Lewis
Help needed folks.
There's a boy being chased by a man down a white hallway...
The boy runs through a door and slams the door on the man's hand.
The man's index finger comes off and falls on the ground.
The boy picks it up and puts in a box.
Later, while in his room studying, he hears a tapping from
the box...
NAME THAT FILM!!!!
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#There's a boy being chased by a man down a white hallway...
#The boy runs through a door and slams the door on the man's hand.
#The man's index finger comes off and falls on the ground.
#The boy picks it up and puts in a box.
#Later, while in his room studying, he hears a tapping from
#the box...
#
#NAME THAT FILM!!!!
Actually, the boy cuts off the man's fingers. The movie
is "Phantasm".
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>There's a boy being chased by a man down a white hallway...
>The boy runs through a door and slams the door on the man's hand.
>The man's index finger comes off and falls on the ground.
>The boy picks it up and puts in a box.
>Later, while in his room studying, he hears a tapping from
>the box...
>NAME THAT FILM!!!!
Phantasm.
Ken Zarifes
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Great film by the way, but you'll need alot of beer.
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William Hooper
>The man's index finger comes off and falls on the ground.
>The boy picks it up and puts in a box.
>Matthew
O.K. The name of the film is . . . .
Phantasm!
(I know, I didn't put as many !'s as you, but I'm not that excited).
Great late-night horror flick. I've never seen the sequal--
anyone out there think it is worth renting?
--Bill Hooper
Mary V. Burke
>I remember an Italian film called "Father of the Bride" in which the title
>character puts a pistol in his mouth and blows his brains all over his
>daughter's wedding dress.
Something similar happens in an English film called "Wetherby"--a very
strange & creepy young man sits down at Vanessa Redgrave's kitchen table and blows his brains out in the middle of a conversation. Fun flick....
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>In article <1990Oct17.0...@news.clarkson.edu> je...@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>!
>! Let's not forget "The Running Man"
... or Scanners!!!
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"Deadly Friend." Anne Ramsey, the nasty neighbor, gets her head smashed by
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scene where the "bad guys" go out joy riding and crush the skull of some kid
riding his bike. Of course this comes after they ram the kid head on. The
skull crushing was needed to recieve full points, see the movie.
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Bruce Onder responded:
>Whhhaaa???
Do I detect a note of skepticism?
Douglas Meredith comments:
>this list seems to be expanding to cover
>squashed heads as well as those that explode
In this spirit, I also mention Blade Runner
and the ever-popular Zapruder film.
A.D.C.Elly
There is an 'exploding head' scene in the movie "Rent-A-Cop" with
Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli.
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for about the 6th or 7th time :-) and after the marines got wiped out after the
first alien encounter and Ripley drives the APC to save them, an alien jumps on
the APC, she stops and throws it off, and accelerates. Squick!! Bye bye alien
head. I hope those tires were acid resistant...
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>In article <Yb6CLiS00...@andrew.cmu.edu>, er...@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan J. Rasiel) writes:
!If anyone is interested in renting Toxic Avenger to see this charming scene,
!be warned: there are two versions of the movie on video. The unrated version
!is a truly disgusting, violent, funny B-movie. The "R" rated version has all
!of the disgusting special effects and a lot of the violence chopped out,
!confusing the plot and removing a lot of the humor.
!
!So -- if you want blood and gore, see unrated version. If you don't, don't
!bother with this movie.
!
Over here we only have the 18 rated version , which has all the gore
and violence hacked out , seemingly with an axe.This version is
really unwatchable , with hardly no continuity at all.
I was lucky (???) enought to see a sort of 'uncut' version.Some joker
had edited in the cut material from a foreign video , so whenever
something violent was going to happen , the speech would turn into
either french or Spanish.
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>Characters crushed beneath steamrollers.
I only remember comic or oddball situations -
Kevin Kline being steamrolled by Michael Palin while
stuck in cement in "A Fish Called Wanda", and Judge
Doom getting pressed by the runaway steamroller in
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Of course, you could count
the near miss by Harrison Ford by the big boulder in
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> This happened in real life in Salt Lake City about 6 weeks ago. A
> steamroller operator was thrown off in front of his steamroller.
> There was, however, no "film at 11".
Not too long ago, a Pacific Bell lineman was working in a underground
cable conduit and stuck his head out of the manhole just as a bulldozer
drove across, decapitating him. I know, nothing about movies, but I felt
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>
> ....
>Vague memories of a 007 movie, a fight in the water with this gun that
>shoots bullets of compressed gas, the bad guy is forced to byte the
>bullet and as his head and body expand he shoots out of the water,
>hits the ceiling and pops.
The movie was "Live and Let Die". The bad guy was Yaphet Kotto (sp?).
Roger Moore turns to Jane Seymour after the explosion: "I always
thought he had an inflated opinion of himself"!
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>mori...@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) suggests:
>>Characters crushed beneath steamrollers.
>I only remember comic or oddball situations -
>Kevin Kline being steamrolled by Michael Palin while
>stuck in cement in "A Fish Called Wanda", and Judge
>Doom getting pressed by the runaway steamroller in
>"Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Of course, you could count
>the near miss by Harrison Ford by the big boulder in
>"Raiders of the Lost Ark".
I missed the original post, but for awhile, broke college student
I saw only two new movies one year: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and
"A Fish Called Wanda". In both, a character gets run over by
a steamroller--and LIVES.
The next movie I saw was "The Naked Gun", where at least Ricardo
Montalban dies when run over by a steamroller.
Quite honestly, I saw only these movies in a year and a half. I
decided to try out "Indiana Jones and the Last Temptation of Christ"
or whatever, and...no steamrollers, just tanks.
Paul M Carpentier
Robert Duff
>
>Quite honestly, I saw only these movies in a year and a half. I
>decided to try out "Indiana Jones and the Last Temptation of Christ"
>or whatever, and...no steamrollers, just tanks.
>
>Paul M Carpentier
I haven't heard of this one! :-)
Rob
Louis Blair
>Characters crushed beneath steamrollers.
How about Sleeper?
Eric Sheppard
Nah. That was just a nose.