10 Disgustingly Gory Moments in Otherwise Tame Films

2. The Face Picker - Poltergeist

poltergeist Another gory moment, another Steven Spielberg production. 1982€™s iconic Poltergeist is a movie that pretty much scared everyone as a kid. It€™s got some pretty intense moments from the tree trying to eat that kid, to that clown trying to strangle him later on, and the part when all the corpses begin to pop out of their caskets. Nothing is more over the top gross as the part when one of the psychic investigators wakes up in the middle of the night. He goes into the kitchen for a midnight snack and ends up munching on a chicken drumstick covered in maggots. And then a steak begins to crawl across the kitchen counter. But the piece de resistance is when he runs into the bathroom to vomit from the sight of crawling meat and begins to pick the skin off of his face. It€™s pretty gross watching him take chunks off his face as they go plop, plop, plop into the sink. It€™s so graphic, but kind of lame by today€™s standards, I€™m frankly surprised it made it into the film.
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Chris Gallo, a Connecticut native, has been a movie fan ever since he made his mom rent Airplane! for him as a kid back when video stores still existed. He's been writing film reviews on his own blog (www.mybodymovies.com) since 2005; the same year he graduated from Marist College. He has also contributed film reviews to the movie site DarkHorizons.com. Besides watching movies (horror's his favorite) and adding to his Blu-ray collection, he enjoys running, eating spicy foods, predicting the Oscars, and coming up with creative Halloween costume ideas.