Film: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Moment: The mutated warden is blended up in an industrial meat grinder
Though it’s hard to choose a single moment from Riki-Oh (a martial arts movie I discovered thanks to Hobo with a Shotgun director Jason Eisener) considering how insanely gory the majority of the film is, I’d have to give the edge to the infamous third-act meat grinding scene. Ricky’s climactic fight with the sadistic warden of the prison – who has just transformed into a hilariously fake-looking gargantuan version of himself – ends with the antagonist being tossed into a giant meat grinder and pulverized into a stew of churned flesh. This is hands-down one of the raunchiest scenes ever filmed, and the movie as a whole ranks right up there with Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive as an exercise in pure, unadulterated gory mayhem (though the gags in Dead Alive are admittedly more accomplished from a technical standpoint).