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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 15 times TV was more gory than the movies

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 15 times TV was more gory than the movies

WARNING: The following piece contains graphic moving images that some (most) readers may find disturbing.

With Halloween upon us this weekend, the internet is awash with lists of scream and squeal inducing movies. But did anyone stop to remember that television has become ever more graphic, gruesome, and downright disturbing than its bigger brother in recent years? If you can stomach it, have a scroll through our gallery of deliciously gory TV moments that had viewers losing their minds (and a few nights’ sleep, to boot). From lawnmowers to bathtubs and nipples in gift wrap, we’ve got a bag full of tasty TV treats for you twisted children to feast on. Honestly, how do they get away with this shit?

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1. Spartacus face-off.

Is there a better way to assert your dominance in a crowded rebel camp than by slicing off the face of the giant German leader Sedullus? Also, a fitting end to a horrible character – go Spartacus!

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2. Scream Queens gardening.

We’d expect nothing less from twisted mastermind Ryan Murphy than a garden full of screaming sorority sisters buried up to their necks in soil getting blended up by a lawnmower. We give you Exhibit B:

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3. Breaking Bad bathtub.

Walt and Jesse’s first attempt at body disposal didn’t end too neatly when the latter decided to melt their victim in acid in a bathtub, rather than the optimal plastic barrel. Needless to say, the acid burnt through the bath and ceiling, leaving half-melted body parts strewn all over the floor. A lesson in real life chemistry if ever we saw one!

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4. Gotham eye scoop.

We absolutely hate Fish Mooney, so it was pretty hilarious when she scooped out her own eyeball with a spoon and then proceeded to smush it with her own shoe. Why, you ask? We still can’t think of a satisfactory explanation, besides her wanting two different coloured eyes like David Bowie.

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5. Game of Thrones head crush.

We might not have expected the Viper to overpower the Lannisters’ enormous medieval muscleman Gregor Clegane, but we did hope for an ending a little more dignified for Oberyn, who had his skull squished to the point of explosion.

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6. Mad Men nipple box.

‘She’s just not that into you!’ – is what somebody should’ve said to Mad Men‘s Michael Ginsberg before he cut his own nipple off and presented it to Peggy in a neat lil’ gift box. Surprise!

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7. Hannibal nose meal.

There are too many horribly gory Hannibal scenes to count on two hands. A cello and a totem pole definitely spring to mind for our top three worst moments, but this one’s definitely the most talked about.

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8. The Knick baby grab.

Obviously nothing’s scarier than the world’s most bloodthirsty monsters; doctors! Turn of the century medical drama The Knick is absolutely brimming with blood and guts. Most haunting of all for we female viewers was probably this horrific barehanded excavation of an unconscious woman’s stomach for an unborn baby. Did we seriously need this in our memory banks? Thanks guys 🙂

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9. The Strain alien autopsy.

Everything in The Strain is pretty horrible, but if we had to choose the most gif-able gross bit, we’d probably go for this delightful autopsy scene. Yummy!!

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10. Penny Dreadful breakthrough.

Frankenstein’s Creature is such a jerk. Here he is tearing an unsuspecting Proteus in half with his bare hands.

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11. True Blood spine chiller.

Ripping out someone’s spine on live TV like it’s nothing? Oh yes he did. Of course, we’re talking about Russell Edgington interrupting a live news broadcast to kill the anchor in front of a shocked audience. Just as humans and vamps were learning to get along… *Sigh*

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12. Hemlock Grove werewolf transformation.

Okay, somebody remind me why we watch this show again? Here’s a notoriously gross scene from The ‘Grove, in which we learn about the werewolf transformation procedure in eye-popping detail.

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13. Bones face splat.

What good is a list of gore-based entertainment without Bones? This scene in which a married couple gets their car stuck in a muddy ditch, resulting in half a dead guy’s face ending up on the husband’s shirt, is just too amazing.

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14. The Walking Dead zombie split.

What kind of milk does a decaying zombie drink? Half-and-half! Haha! Seriously though, this scene was pretty gross. WTF.

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15. Fargo minced meat.

It’s true what they say – there could be absolutely anything in that burger you’re eating. Here’s proof in the form of affable butcher Ed Blomquist mincing up the par-frozen remains of crazed killer Rye Gerhardt.

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Keen to pack more gory glory into your Halloweek? Make sure to check out our list of Halloween movies and TV shows on Netflix this year.

Hannibal: Episode 7 Recap

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Hannibal: Episode 7 Recap

For the first time in this condemned series the seventh episode felt like it was the beginning of the end. It felt desperate. There was sustained gratuitous violence, a human foetus inside a pig and a homage to a Nick Cage film. This is most certainly the end times.

This episode was about couples, so let’s start with the Romeo et Juliette of the series, Hannibal and Will. They were in a bit of a pickle (more of which later) at the end of last episode and the beginning of this episode told us how they got there. The Florentine police department find Hannibal sawing into Will’s skull. Again, nobody in the series seems to be capable of surprise and the frighteningly jaded officers barely blink at the sight of a large Lithuanian gentleman attempting to remove the cranium of a still conscious FBI agent. The horror they must have seen to not be remotely surprised by that doesn’t bare thinking about. Being from Florence, maybe they saw Tom Hanks’ hair during filming for the Da Vinci Code and haven’t been the same since? Anyway back to the dinner table and Jack, who’s being forced to watch Hannibal’s foray into neurosurgery, has got the police’s number saying “I don’t imagine you’re here to make an arrest”. No Jack, they’re not. Instead, bent as they are by Mason’s money, they take Hannibal and Will and hand them over to Mason, which brings us back to the end of last episode where they were hanging with the pigs.

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Cordell and Mason – continuing their complete transformation into Gregg Wallace and John Torode – spend ages informing Hannibal about the best ways to cook him. They’re one step away from making a buttery biscuit base out of Hannibal’s nuts. This is a dangerous game to play with Hannibal Lecter and Alana Bloom vocalises the blindingly obvious but delightfully ominous warning “play with your food, Mason, and you give it the opportunity to bite back”. But play he does and next up is a game of guess the film as Mason decides he rather likes Will’s face and would like to own it permanently. The canon of Nicholas Cage isn’t one I’d expect a series with pretensions as lofty as Hannibal’s to plum for cultural references and, like a face transplant performed by the sausage fingers of Gregg Wallace, it sits uncomfortably. When Mason wakes up from the anesthetic – given to him by Cordell – he finds that all is not well. He knows this because he’s wearing the face of the man who was supposed to be operating on him. The food bit back.

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But how? Considering we last saw Hannibal strung up in the pigsty, it’s fairly impressive. But he had help. Alana and her lover Margot (Mason’s sister) cut him loose after they’d rather had enough of Mason’s annoying little psychotic ways. The last straw came after Mason had thoughtfully put a human foetus created from his sister’s eggs inside a pig. The straws are beginning to build on my back as well. The series is now simply going for shock over substance. Jumping the shark is often used to describe the specific moment at which a show loses credibility, well, now we have a new saying: Hannibal has ‘entered the pig’. And I’m not sure it’ll ever find it’s way out.

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Hannibal makes good his escape carrying a wozy Will with him. At Will’s house he and Hannibal say goodbye for what seems like the final time and Hannibal leaves. Or does he? No is the answer because when Jack turns up a while later to look for him he’s still there in the garden (maybe he missed his train?) and hands himself in.

For the first time I can see why nobody seems to want to pick up this increasingly ludicrous show, they don’t want to lose face.

Hannibal: Episode 6 Recap

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Hannibal: Episode 6 Recap

In the last episode Chiyoh described Hannibal as a “beast”. In this episode, with his hunters closing in, the beast did what most cornered animals do and attacked. Except that Hannibal is the sought of prey that can talk its hunter into flambéing their own gall bladder, so when he attacks, you know you’re in for a treat. We join him immediately after his escape from Jack and he’s stumbling through Florence in the early hours like an old lush looking for one last martini rosso. He’s half dead and conspicuous but Hannibal isn’t going to take the back alleys home. He wants to drink in the beauty of the streets he’ll never see again, to consume them. He’s making memories.

Will Graham can’t escape his memories and has made it, bloody and battered, to Florence to pursue them. He runs into Jack but neither of them seem remotely surprised or pleased to see the other. There’s no “how are you buddy, nice haircut” from Will or “why are pieces of you face falling off” from Jack, it’s straight to the business of scowly faces and bewildering statements.

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Will asks why Jack didn’t kill Hannibal to which Jack replies “Maybe I needed you to”. Oh fine, say no more Jack. That’s a completely reasonable explanation as to why you let a genius cannibal psychopath stroll home for a nice bubble bath. Keep up the good work. Later, after Hannibal’s scarpered, they pay a visit to his home where the ever more perplexing and ever more beguiling Bedelia is waiting for them. Gillian Anderson is fast becoming the best thing about this series and they find her injecting herself with some unknown psychoactive substance. She pretends not to know them, or anything that’s happened, or indeed, who she is. They’re not buying it though because it’s such a blatant lie she might as well be crossing her blood covered fingers behind her back. She even toys with them as they leave saying, with a wry smile, “I wonder who will catch him first?”

That person may well be Mason Verger. He and his lackey Cordell salivate over the prospect of cooking Hannibal like a “Peking duck”. They’re a bit like Greg Wallace and John Torode, only less objectionable. Then the news arrives about Pazzi’s murder so Mason, together with Alana and Margot, plan to bribe the entire Florentine police department to ensure that the beast is handed over to them rather than caged in a cell.

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But before the department can find Hannibal, Will does. He finds him taking in a Botticelli at the Uffizi one last time. Their bruised faces and complimentary silhouettes mirror each other and you start to feel, like Will, that the two are “beginning to blur”. Will is starting to feel like Hannibal’s stalker now. He followed him all the way to Florence and talks about not surviving “separation”. Will’s one step away from sniffing a pair of Hannibal’s old pants before he goes to sleep.

The rest of the episode went by in a blur too. Will and Hannibal leave the gallery and as they walk down the street Will pulls a knife but before he can use it, Chiyoh shoots him in the shoulder from her rooftop perch. Will must be getting a little tired of Chiyoh’s interruptions. He wakes up at dinner a table – never a good sign – to find Hannibal feeding him soup which he says is “more for my benefit than yours” – a very bad sign. Luckily, Jack finds them but unluckily he has his Achilles tendon cut by Hannibal. He then wakes up at the dinner table, drugged but awake – a sign so bad you might as well start basting yourself. And sure enough Hannibal whips out a handily sized circular saw, which he proceeds to use on Will’s skull. The last shot jumps forward in time and we see Hannibal and Will – with brain still where it should be – hanging with the pigs in Mason’s farm.

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This episode provided some much needed plot development to a series that sometimes spends too much time philosophising and looking pretty than actually entertaining. People want to see Hannibal being Hannibal, which means more power tools to more craniums and less interminable conversations with Will. We want some memories.

Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what you guys are saying about Hannibal on Twitter:

Gillian Anderson Spooked in New Hannibal Season 3 Trailer

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We’ve got our hands on the first trailer for Hannibal‘s long-awaited third season, and it doesn’t disappoint!

After the third season was delayed due to time constraints, we were starting to feel like the thrilling drama was never coming back. But it is!

The new promo, titled “Bride of Hannibal“, focuses on the relationship between the cannibalistic Hannibal and his psychiatrist wife Bedelia Du Maurier, played by Gillian “Is-she-in-everything?” Anderson.

Set to a background of the Turtles hit song So Happy Together, the trailer draws us in to an idyllic upper-class lifestyle before destroying it all in the way only Hannibal can, with blood and gore and terror.

The new series is going to be awesome. Tune in from June 4 on NBC.

10 Goriest Television Moments

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10 Goriest Television Moments

Stop! Don’t look any further if you’re squeamish, or you have a stomach full of food and you’d like it to stay that way.

To celebrate the launch of super gory medical drama Critical for Sky, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 goriest television moments for all of you bloodthirsty television fans!

1. Spartacus: Seddulus’ face sliced off

Is there a better way to assert your dominance in a crowded rebel camp than by slicing off the face of the giant German leader Seddulus? Also, a fitting end to a horrible character – go Spartacus!

2. Breaking Bad: The botched disposal of Emilio’s body

Walt and Jesse’s first attempt at disposing of a body didn’t go too well, due to Jesse’s decision to melt Emilio down with acid in his bathtub, rather than the plastic tub that master chemist Walt suggested. Needless to say, the acid burnt through the bath and ceiling, leaving half-melted body parts strewn over the floor.

3. Game of Thrones: Oberyn’s head crushed by the Mountain

We might not have expected the Viper to outpower the Lannisters’ enormous medieval-muscle-man Gregor Clegane, but we did hope for an ending a little more dignified for Oberyn, who had his skull squished until his head exploded.

4. American Horror Story: Matt Bomer shanked up

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We didn’t want the gorgeous Matt Bomer going anywhere near another Ryan Murphy show, let alone the crazed Dandy of AHS: Freak Show, but fortunately for us, Bomer’s hustler character was stabbed to death only after getting his kit off.

5. Penny Dreadful: Frankenstein’s first monster rips through his second

It’s tough vying for Daddy Frankenstein’s attention, but the easy way to get through it is to rip up your replacement immediately.

6. Hannibal: Hannibal hypnotizes Mason Verger to eat own nose

Hannibal easily outmaneuvered Mason Verger by drugging and using the power of suggestion to make him eat his own face – on camera. The grisly moment when Will found Verger feeding parts of his face to the dogs was particularly unforgettable.

7. Vikings: Blood Eagle sacrifice

Finally, both a gore scene and a history lesson! Apparently Vikings used to execute people by a means of torture known as the “Blood Eagle.” Prisoners would have their spines and ribs broken from the back and then their lungs pulled out through the hole.

8. Utopia: Wilson Wilson tortured for information

Utopia Scene Torture from Diego Machado on Vimeo.

This scene, which took place in the FIRST EPISODE, was not for the faint of heart and is horrifying in all sense of the word. Due to being part of a group that had possession of a manuscript of government secrets, Wilson Wilson was tortured for information he simply didn’t have. Certainly a test for even Channel 4’s audience.

9. The Knick: Gruesome operations in front of an audience

Sky’s recent venture into the world of gory medical dramas focused on life at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York during the early twentieth century. At the forefront of medical innovation, world class surgeons often performed surgery in front of audiences.

10. And finally, check out the gore-filled trailer for new Sky series Critical

If you liked the Knick, or got a weird kick from the article above, you’ll probably enjoy new Sky series Critical, which airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on Sky One. The series takes place in real time as doctors fight to save patients at a major trauma unit. Yes, there’s a lot of blood.

Well, that’s us out! Hope you have a fantastic lunch!

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