Top 10: Cut off fingers #1

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

Written By Serena Whitney:

When I had attended this year’s 1^st annual
Toronto After Dark Film Festival, I watched this short by Dave Mcgrath
entitled, Disfingered. (Check out the short’s website here:

www.disfingered.com ). It was about a man who keeps waking up
each morning with one of his fingers cut off. 

My friends made fun of me for being so creeped out by
it, but it was that short that made me realize how squeamish I am by seeing
fingers getting hacked off.  I know I’m not the only one out there either
who feels the same way, which is why I decided to do this week’s top ten on
moments that always send chills up my spine.  Thanks Dave for the
inspiration!

WARNING – SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!

10. Four
Rooms

In Quentin Tarantino’s
short for this film, we see Quentin, Bruce Willis, and Jennifer Beals trying
to convince the bellhop (Tim Roth) to cut off their friend’s finger if he
can’t light a lighter ten times in a row.  The moment where Tim Roth easily
chops off the finger was actually hysterical, but the scenes leading up to
it, made me a little tense. I thought it was going to be a lot gorier than
it was. I know this anthology film isn’t a horror movie, but when you have
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino involved, the movie is worthy enough
to make it on the list.

9. The
Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Lot’s of people say the trailer
scene affected them the most, but for me it was seeing Doug (Aaron Stanford)
getting his fingers hacked off by the ax-wielding, Pluto. (That and hearing
Beauty getting butchered.)  Yup…forget torture, burnings, blown off heads, and
rape, show a man getting his fingers cuts off and a dog being killed, and THEN
you crossed the line.  (Yes, I know…I need help.)

8.
Phantasm

It’s been years
since I’ve seen the original Phantasm film, but one scene is still
embedded in my memory.  Watching The Tall Man not only get his fingers slammed
in a door, but also get them all hacked off by Mike freaked the sh*t out of me.
Also, seeing that yellow ooze come out of his wounds didn’t help either.  Maybe
it’s cheesy now, but it wasn’t when I was little.

7. The
Faculty

Remember those
guillotine style paper cutters your teachers used in school?  Did you ever
have the fear some dumb ass classmate was going to play with it and
accidentally do something very stupid and cut all their fingers off?  The
reason for my fear of the paper cutter was depicted onscreen in Robert
Rodriguez’s alien-thriller when Zeke (Josh Hartnett) uses it to cut off all
the infected teacher’s (played by the great Jon Stewart) fingers off.  The
most disgusting thing was seeing the dismembered fingers scurry away like
mice with the bones showing. Ick!

6.
Demons

Dario Argento’s Demons is probably
one of the goriest zombie films I have ever seen.  I haven’t seen this movie
for a while, but I remember the graphic and explicit scenes with zombies
biting off the fingers of the movie patrons in the theatre.  I’m not going
to lie, the fast forward button was pressed a couple of times when I watched
this.

PART 2 OF THIS LIST IS CUMMING SOON!