N      This isn’t the only movie where A.J. Cook was shown to be in an automobile accident and have visions of death – cf. Final Destination 2.  It’s essentially the same role.

YEAR 2002 directed by chris angel

STARRING tara spencer-nairn, michael trucco, jason thompson

Qs: 4.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:15:09.  The make-up of the Generation 4 Djinn is less than remarkable, but still provides an excuse to need a face and a new personality.  It decides to steal one, carving around the features before pulling the flesh off, due gore resulting.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:21:42.  “Hold your tongue” – as soon as he said the words, Doug pulls his own tongue out of his mouth and lets it flop on the desk.  “Cut off your nose to spite your face” triggers another one when Doug pulls out a pocketknife and slices his sniffer, which organ joins his severed tongue on the desk.  He then thrusts the blade in his cheek and presses deep and hard, all the while bleeding red down himself like a burst wineskin.  His last act as living human was to use a recently manifested gun and, muzzle pressed to his temple, blow his ever-loving brains out.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:53:37.  Hokey blood, hokey head, but a decapitation nonetheless.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:59:16.  The club bouncer wishes Verdel put up a better fight.  Wish granted – he throws a punch that the Djinn catches, alluding to the man’s earlier use of a phrase “a good way to lose your hand” before crushing his like a empty can.  He then chars to a pockmarked blackness the back of his other hand before impaling him on a metal spike and throwing him into a dumpster.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 1970 directed by herschell gordon lewis

STARRING ray sager, judy cler, wayne ratay

Qs: 6.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:04:22.  Montag sermonizes about the nature of reality and ventures to prove that our comfortable world is about to unravel before our eyes.  He puts himself in a guillotine, very literally sticking his neck out to get his point across and cackles heartily until the very moment when the blade falls and decapitates him.  His head lands in a bucket and we’re shown gratuitous close-ups of the bleeding gore at the neck, open arteries and sundry other tubes coursing with red.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:12:45.  After Montag’s first subject/victim approaches and lies down in her “trance,” the master hypnotist produces an eighteen-inch electric chainsaw and proceeds to ravage the woman’s midsection until it looks like he ran her guts through a blender.  Playing around in her butchered guts one handful at a time while his “catatonic” victim stares at the ceiling, Montag proceeds to undo the bloody horrific carnage he so visibly wrought.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:33:04.  Montag’s second victim gets a solid metal spike (which he makes a concerted point to authenticate) through her head.  The first couple taps start driving it inward, breaking into the skull, the woman spitting up mouthfuls of red.  Montag was merely creating a hole into which he delightfully reaches and pulls out a chunk of brains.  Her formerly golden locks matted red with blood, Montag pounds the spike further until it breaks through the other side.  Even after this, he still isn’t done.  He pushes her eyes into her head, going back to the first and forcing it out entirely, as one would remove a contact lens.  Naturally, it is undone and she returns to her seat.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:53:40.  Vic #3 is put under the mechanics of a punch press which Montag tells us is used to stamp parts out of solid steel.  He verifies the power with a piece of wood before setting out his latest subject under it.  At the mark the punch approaches and begins its fearsome work.  It bores through her, she writhes, bleeds buckets, screams shatteringly and resigns herself to the destruction, allowing Montag to fiddle around with her innards, clumps of gore sliding off her body onto the table.  Montag sifts and sorts through the bloody pieces as if looking for something before rendering her whole again.  At 0:59:07, her husband wakes to find her mutilated body later that night.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:08:02.  It’s a twofer this time, with sword swallowing.  He starts force-feeding the first one the cold steel, the poor woman coughing and gagging on the blade, spitting up pieces of organs and various other lacerated viscera.  The same happens to the second – temporarily.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:32:10.  Montag confronts Sherry in her own home and brutally disembowels her with his bare hands, soaking the carpet with fresh redness, smearing the bloody entrails all over, gloriously reveling in his savagery – that is, until he receives a shock he never could have prepared for.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 1994 directed by mike nichols

STARRING jack nicholson, michelle pfeiffer, james spader

Qs: 5.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:52:48.  Will wakes up in a park, covered in red.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:15:20.  While washing up in the office restroom, Will pulls from his pockets two black-skinned fingers, one still wearing a ring.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:49:02.  It’s bloodless, but it’s serious.  Stewart pulls up to Ms. Alden’s residence and gets mouthy with George, the guard at the gate.  He orders him to back up, which he does, but it doesn’t stop there: he slams it into drive, runs into George and uses his body and the weight of his truck to break through and onto the property.  George’s body doesn’t stay on the hood forever but soon slips under the vehicle, causing it to buck a bit as it went over him.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:50:47.  Laura finds Tom with his throat ripped out, all but drained by Stewart.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:54:00.  Stewart and Jack get it on in Laura’s horse stables, starting with a twelve or so foot leap over the walls of his pen.  Will throws him for distance before getting into a real biting match, producing red and flying hair.  Laura comes at Stewart with a pitchfork that he catches and jams into Will’s shoulder.  Will pulls it out and leaps on him, throwing him into a pond wherein he tries to drown him before throwing him quite a ways onto concrete stairs.  This doesn’t kill him, so he gets up and comes at Will with a pair of hedge-clippers, which might have worked had Laura not unloaded a revolver into him while he was in mid-air.  SR: SSSSS

unrated version

YEAR 2005 directed by greg mClean

STARRING peter alchin, john jarratt, cassandra magrath

Qs: 6.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:29:44.  JFF: you need a good eye to detect it, but the plants in the foreground tip the observant off to the fact that the shot was actually a few seconds shorter than it appears by being run backward and replayed or vice versa as the movement is erratic and testifies to some trickery.

N      1:02:07.  After Lizzie creates a fiery subterfuge to distract Mick, she rushes in to try to save Kristy.  Desperately attempting to untie her, she accidentally catches a glimpse of a totally mutilated corpse of somebody or another, divested of major portions of every limb and the head, moist and gory stumps where once complete arms, legs and a neck were.  At 1:03:42, we get a closer look at it and see that the bones for the lower leg are in fact still there, just stripped of flesh as if dipped in a pool loaded with piranhas.  There isn’t nary a square inch that isn’t butchered, sliced, stabbed, torn up or similarly marred; she’s wrapped in a barbed wire corset; there’s absolutely no left arm to speak of; zilch remains above the neck and the skin is tightly drawn to the body as if halfway mummified.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:04:48.  Lizzie springs her trap and trains Mick’s own bolt-action on him, eventually firing out of pure fear, zinging him rather sweetly by the right ear.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:18:05.  Lizzie returns to Mick’s to get a car and try to escape, but ends up falling down a well where Mick has apparently been dumping bodies for quite some time: many skeletons long dried out litter the place; a few actually still have flesh adhering to them, worms luxuriating in it.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:23:18.  In a move I question the logicality of, Lizzie finds a car and gets it to run, but Mick is in the backseat and happily stabs her clean through.  After she falls out of the car, he makes a slash at her and cuts off three of her fingers, asking her politely to “calm down.”  He then tells her about a Vietnam War-era tactic used to get information out of POWs but to make it so they couldn’t escape called “head on a stick” and proceeds to demonstrate that if you sever the spine just so, that’s what the victim became: a paralyzed head on a stick.  SR: SSSSS

N      1:28:25.  Kristy manages to pull over a motorist who promises her a blanket.  As he goes into the back of the car to retrieve it, he puts a thermos of coffee on the top of the car as he procures said blanket.  You can barely hear it, but a shot has rung out from somewhere and pierced the thermos through.  By the time the man realizes this, escape is impossible and he’s soon taken out of the running in a quick, red blast.  At 1:29:07 after Kristy realizes there’s no movement going on around her and gets out of the car to investigate, we see exactly where the shot landed: directly in his left eye, blowing his skull apart and splattering the contents all over the ground.  SR: SSSSS

N      scene #2000!  1:33:56.  At all curious what’s been happening with Ben this entire time?  He’s been holed up (nailed up) elsewhere on Mick’s property.  With nails through both wrists and a rotting body within smelling distance, Ben continues his mad glances around the place and notices that the rotting body has no lower half save the pelvic bone.  Very slowly and severely painfully, Ben pulls his arms off of the nails, slips out of the wire around his arms and heads for the hills.  SR: SSSSS

YEAR 2003 directed by rob schmidt

STARRING desmond harrington, elisha dushku, jeremy listo

Qs: 12.  AR: SSSSSSSSSS

N      0:02:15.  Two climbers are killed, the boy before the girl.  He’s hit after reaching the top of the cliff they were climbing and thrown to the ground far down below.  She cuts herself free, but falls too, only to trip over barbed wire strung across the road and be caught, dragged off and eaten.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:21:16.  Early on, Evan is abducted, who knows what having been done to him.  Francine later finds his shoe only a few feet from his severed ear.  After the ear business, Francine doesn’t hold on long.  Grabbed through the mouth with a razor blade-studded barbwire garrote, her head is nearly severed at the jaw line, a bit of red dripping onto her clothes.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:25:18.  Back at the killers’ house, the remaining four (who don’t immediately know they are “remaining”) sneak around what they are pretty sure is the most depraved place on earth.  It’s inhabited, as they will soon find out, by the kinds of beings who live and think at the level of the basest of animal instinct, produced only by centuries of inbreeding.  Dishes of rotten matter on the dining room table attract flies; containers upon containers of bodily organs and various parts such as eyes, ears and tongues stuff the refrigerator.  Jars of teeth and dentures are on shelves in the bathroom as is a tub filled with decomposing human being (cf. Silence of the Lambs, TCM IV).  Soon after, they must swiftly hide when the deadly trio returns – lugging Francine’s body.  While they get situated, they drop her in front of Chris and Jessie, the wire halfway back into her head.  Blood runs from her across the dirt floor of the cabin over to where they’re hiding.  Later carving her up, we can hear bone being cut, muscle squishing and blood gushing as the blades make their way through.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:34:04.  Here we get to see a shot of Francine’s butchered body: her right leg has been cut in half, gore piled up at the stump, and her left arm was similarly treated.  Razor wire and bloody handprints are all over her skin.  SR: SSSSS

N      0:38:43.  Carly, Scott, Jessie and Chris tour the junkyard where the victims’ cars and belongings at the time strewn about like a last-minute abandonment of material possession at a rally or a concert.  Every vehicle has some sign that the previous owners didn’t meet a glorious end – a bloody cooler, bloodstained climbing equipment, blood-smeared upholstery or paint jobs.  SR: