Rats eating eyeballs movie#

Rats eating eyeballs movie#

Delicious!įor some reason, Italian horror maestro really had a thing for explicit eyeball damage, with his 1981 movie The Beyond containing no fewer than two scenes of oozing ocular damage. The neat trick is that it causes its victims’ eyes to boil in their sockets, turning the orbs opaque white and gush red blood from their tear ducts.

As the locomotive barrels down the trans-Siberian express, the Manchurian creature-in-a-crate breaks loose and, quite naturally, goes on a murderous rampage.

This flick is a Hammer film in all but name, featuring both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a tale that could have easily been retitled Monster On A Train. Lee is transporting a frozen and crated ‘missing link’ specimen with him across the continent. The slapstick sequence feels like it rolled in from another movie altogether, with a macabre hilarity more befitting the early works of Peter Jackson. When Tom Cruise’s John Anderton is forced to go on the run, it necessitates Cruise getting an eye replacement.Īfter a wild sequence involving spider-like robots on the eye-scanning prowl for Cruise, our hero is left with his own slippery eyeballs in a bag, one of which slips and rolls through a sewer grate at the Precrime lab. Minority Report presents us with a Big Brother future, in which eyes are the key to identity, allowing access into buildings, right down to the advertisements seen on billboards.

This is the second entry for both Philip K Dick and Steven Spielberg, and at least one of these guys will get a third nod in a moment. This sequence was cut from the 15-rated cut of the film in the UK. One can’t accuse Renny Harlin of tainting his films with symbolism or cinematic poetry, as evidenced in Die Hard 2. But he does go for the gusto with an action sequence in which a resourceful Bruce Willis saves himself from almost certain death by using a well-placed icicle through his adversary’s eyeball. So it’s fitting that when replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) decides to exact fatal vengeance on his father Tyrell (outfitted with a pair of spectacles that would do Harry Potter proud), it’s with a very graphic thumbs-through-the-eyeballs gouge. There’s a ton of eyeball imagery in Blade Runner, from the exaggerated ocular close-up that opens the film to the reflective tapetum lucidum of the owl in Tyrell’s offices. As Willie (Kate Capshaw) gears up for a tasty soup, she stirs the bottom to uncover a quartet of floating eyeballs, causing her meal to stare back at her. The appetiser, a disarmingly fragrant broth, is the most shocking. Still, as a kid, I delighted in the grotesque meal that included “Snake Surprise” (a large python contained live wriggling babies which the locals slurp with relish) and chilled monkey brains (served in severed baboon heads). One can argue there’s a certain xenophobia running through all of the Indiana Jones movies, ranging from the depiction of spear-carrying Peruvian aboriginals in both Raiders and Crystal Skull down to the stomach-churning Pankot Palace menu in Temple Of Doom (which I’ve never encountered in any Indian restaurant).