Helping promote ABCs of Death 2, now on VOD platforms, we caught up with director Dennison Ramalho who guess blogged about his pick for “Greatest Movie Deaths,” which is included in this awesome supercut that includes picks from all 26 directors!
Ramalho heads back to 1988 where is talks about a classic scene in T.F. Mou’s Men Behind the Sun.
There was something wrong about the Hong Kong Horror-Drama MEN BEHIND THE SUN (1988, Dir: T.F. Mou). Something so evil and venomous that transcended mere shock value. The video store promised young Dennison a film that was “more shocking than FACES OF DEATH.” I was ecstatic, lining-up to rent that VHS. I like to be shocked, after all! But this thing was a different kind of beast…
Perhaps it was the way it was filmed…
It felt like a kinky, pleased look upon death and torture that disturbed me back then (and does it to this day). My favorite death scene in the history of movies is in one of its scenes. It made me suffer, cringe, barf… It branded itself in my brain forever.
Here it goes:
An elderly Chinese death camp prisoner is locked, naked, into a metal-walled room. We don’t know what that place is before the door is sealed. It’s a submarine-looking kind of environment. It doesn’t look good… Suddenly the man starts screaming from a pain in his ears. He collapses, squirming, as his body starts bloating like a puffer-fish. Sadistic doctors watch from above, as more atmospheric pressure is exerted upon the prisoner. When the body can’t handle no more pressure, his intestines snake out of his anus, expelled from the inside-out.
It was really tough to watch. It changed me.