The Wily Filipino

Movie Quiz #5: The Answers.

Shot 1:

"Got me a movie, I want you to know / Slicing up eyeballs oh ho ho ho." It's Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou (1929), of course.

Shot 2:

In one of the coolest director cameos in recent cinematic history, Roman Polanski slices up Jack Nicholson's nose in his film Chinatown (1974).

Shot 3:

Doh! If you're a monk trying to protect yourself from evil spirits by painting your entire body with sutras, don't forget your ears! From Masako Kobayashi's tetralogy of horror, Kwaidan (1964). (Most popular wrong guess: Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book.)

Shot 4:

More ear violence courtesy of Virginia Madsen's big brother Michael, in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).

Shot 5:

Woman alone at home + the undead + big nasty splinter on the door = really really really really really really really bad combination. Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979) (or Zombi 2) is, thankfully, not as misogynistic as his other films, but the splinter-in-the-eye scene is up there with the drill-in-the-head scene from City of the Living Dead. (His homage to Bunuel, above, in the unspeakably nasty New York Ripper doesn't really count.) (On the DVD commentary, David Hemmings' stunned reaction is priceless.) Zombie, however, is my favorite Fulci flick if only for the incredible zombie-vs-shark fight scene. No, really. (Most popular wrong guess: some Argento flick. My favorite guess, from Rebecca Maglanque: "Stephen King Presents Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.)

The enigmatically named "mshoe" was the only person to get all five films correctly.

Up next: "things."

Posted by the wily filipino at June 5, 2005 12:17 AM