10 "Gory" Movie Moments (That Didn't Show As Much As You Think)
5. Cooked Goose (Mad Max - 1979)
When rewatching the Box scene from Se7en I couldn’t believe that you never see the head whatsoever. A false memory of at least a tuft of blonde hair still exists in my mind. This is the power of implied horror.
In the original Mad Max film, Max’s (Mel Gibson) cop partner Goose (Steve Bisley) is roasted alive when his upturned vehicle is set alight by the film’s baddie. There is a brief shot of Goose screaming as flames engulf him.
Max visits Goose in hospital and is confronted with the sight of a hospital bed with a figure completely covered by the white bed sheets. We know Goose is underneath, and as Max approaches a charred and disfigured hand flops out from under the sheets.
But Max can’t just stop there. He pulls back the sheet to see Goose’s face and recoils in horror. And we are never shown it. Instead, we are shown the burnt arm and from that our imagination fills in for the absent face.
And I’m not the only one who remembers a face that’s never shown. Check those YouTube comments and Reddit threads asking for the “original” scene where we see Goose’s burnt visage - it was never there!