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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
times faces were torn off in horror
movies i'd like to take his his face
off for this list we're looking at the
grossest face ripping scenes in horror
movie history though notable we won't be
including face off or seven in this list
in an attempt to stick as straight as we
can to traditional horror cinema there
will be spoilers ahead can you think of
any we missed let us know in the
comments
number 10 rita dead alive aka brain dead
maggie
it's me
rita the graphic violence of peter
jackson's dead alive may come as a shock
to those who mainly know the director
for his middle earth movies old school
fans know full well jackson's devilish
sense of humor and that comes through
big time in this 1992 splatterfest
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in just one of the gore-soaked scenes of
dead alive the unholy spawn of an undead
coupling bursts forth from poor rita's
face in graphic detail the effects are
still gruesome and disgusting to this
day and believe it or not there's a lot
more where that came from with dead
alive
number nine barb the deadly spawn
damn the deadly spawn is a neat creature
feature from 1983 a gross out horror
flick that relies heavily upon its
excellent effects to deliver the thrills
the face rip in question occurs
relatively early on in the film when the
protagonist's parents sam and barb meet
their ends at the sharp teeth of
articular spawn sam goes first and is
devoured but barb's death seems more
protracted and painful as she loses her
face to the creatures before being
devoured by the smaller baby spawns in
the basement
it's all extremely goopy gross and
disgusting and horror fans probably
wouldn't want it any other way
number eight narcisse night breed why
won't you come what did you say
shut up clive barker isn't known as one
of the masters of horror for nothing
night breed is the first film of his to
make an appearance on our list but
spoiler alert it won't be the last barca
wrote and directed nightbreed as an
adaptation of his novella cabal and it's
one of his most imaginative works
narcisse is a member of the titular
night breed who shows up early in the
film cryptically revealing to
protagonist aaron how to enter the
monster realm of midian what do you know
about it
they forgive you there
see they only take you if you're worthy
and
shortly afterwards he shocks aaron by
violently removing the skin from his
face before being overcome by
authorities in the hospital first
i have to show you
that's how it works
my true face
that's what these are for
i'm an actress
there's a face beneath this face number
seven freddy krueger a nightmare on elm
street the next encounter on our list
may be short but it's also one of the
most iconic scenes from the world of
1980s horror please guys
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tina gray is built up at first to
perhaps be the lead protagonist of wes
craven's original a nightmare on elm
street but audiences soon realized that
nothing in freddy krueger's dream world
is as it seems
watch this the child murder is at his
most intense and disturbing here as he
torments poor tina although the young
woman does attempt to fight back at one
point she even tears off kruger's face
but it's to no avail as she's ruthlessly
torn apart by freddie in her nightmare
number six adam banjo the devil's
rejects stop stop
[ __ ] i have just started the horror
cinema of rob zombie is visceral violent
and unrepentantly sleazy evoking the
spirit of 1970s new york and the grind
houses of times square want proof well
how about zombies decision to not only
shoot one face ripping scene for one of
his movies but two
the firefly clan's first appearance in
zombies house of a thousand corpses has
a scene where killer otis taught the
victim with his father's severed face
more gruesome still was the encore for
2005's the devil's rejects where otis
again does the deed to adam banjo a
musician whose band falls afoul of the
fireflies
it's wince inducing stuff
number five sergeant jim pembry the
silence of the lambs
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is no stranger to let's say facial
reconstructive surgery such as the time
he narcotically induces mason verger
into a state where he self-inflicts such
damage fans of lecter's second
appearance on film are probably more
familiar with his dramatic escape in
1991's silence of the lambs
ready when you are sergeant pembroke
here lecter played by sir anthony
hopkins uses the face of a guard he
attacks sergeant pembry as a disguise to
escape police custody this is only
revealed when pembry
lecter emerges during an ambulance ride
and causes more bloody carnage it's a
shock many moviegoers never saw coming
weapon unknown we've got grand mal
seizure activity but he's postdictal now
uh the vital signs are good number four
lg peters the texas chainsaw massacre
two crazy looking little [ __ ] get out
of here
the original texas chainsaw massacre was
loosely based upon the exploits of
notorious wisconsin serial killer ed
gein specifically the killer's penchant
for grisly flesh constructions
throughout his home this texas chainsaw
sequel from 86 continues in this vein to
the point where leatherface not only
tears off a victim's face but puts it to
another different use this occurs when
radio dj stretch is being held captive
by leatherface and the sawyer family and
leatherface decides to place her
co-worker lg's face over hers creating a
horrible sight that we still remember to
this day trouble is it's then revealed
that the now faceless lg actually
survived his initial attack at least
temporarily number three edna gruber
eyes without a face
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who said slasher movies have all the fun
horror fans in the know will likely
point to this stylish and atmospheric
thriller as an early example of
transgressive horror within contemporary
cinema and with good reason the plot of
eyes without a face has been retread
numerous times such as in 1988 with
faceless directed by notorious
exploitation artur jesus franco
you must make the incision as low as
possible
so it's the only skin reserve available
to us it's simple really but oh so
effective a surgeon is desperate to
successfully transplant a human face
onto his disfigured daughter it's a
motive that turns into madness after
young edna gruber is incapacitated by
the doctor and has her face forcibly
removed what's worse the transplant
doesn't take meaning that edna's
disfigurement and later death was all
for nothing
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number two marty poltergeist
it's arguably one of the scariest horror
movie moments under the pg rating we're
talking about the og poltergeist from
1982 and a scene so graphic that it
almost put this steven spielberg
produced classic into r rated territory
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the flight occurs during a dream
sequence when a paranormal investigator
named marty is peering into the bathroom
mirror we then see a terrifying
hallucination culminating with the
mirror's reflection of marty tearing off
his own face the special effects are
still fantastic and the hands that are
doing the tearing actually belong to
none other than spielberg himself
before we name our number one pick here
are some honorable mentions
darry jenner jeepers creepers darry is
missing something
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private robert rickles day of the dead a
bad day to be a soldier
seth brundle the fly brundle into
brundlefly
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shane child's play the gift that keeps
on giving
hurts my best buddy dr julius liftlander
basket case a new kind of malpractice
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number one frank cotton hellraiser
no
we had to hear it from your own lips
this isn't for your eyes
you set me up
[ __ ] this is the face rip against which
all other horror movie slashings are
judged the creme de la creme of creepy
grossness from the twisted mind of clive
barker to be honest hellraiser's uncle
frank was already creepy enough played
to the hilt by andrew robinson however
frank's comeuppance at the hands of the
cenobytes is more than suitable as his
face and body are torn apart by the
extra-dimensional creatures or while
frank utters the immortal line jesus
wet
not to be outdone barker's sequel
hellbound brought back the other
antagonist from the first film julia
basically doing a gender swap of the
path taken by her departed lover frank
it goes about as well as you'd expect
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