Lucio Fulci’s The Gates of Hell (or whatever name it originally had). I was never able to forget it.
Epic…for all the wrong reasons.
I don’t really expect anything to top THE FLY or STAND BY ME.
There’s a Problem Child group puking sequence in an amusement park but I couldn’t find any links to it, sigh…
…except maybe that Fulci scene which is really, really nightmarish and terrible.
Is it more than mere coincidence that the first person to respond to the original post has a name that sounds like someone having a chunder?
Not from a film, but:
The Sandlot
The Matrix
Wild at Heart
Drag Me to Hell
Mark, were you inspired by my Zimzalabazaladouzalademza post for this? I’ve been thinking about vomit in cinema for the past couple of days and have been considering starting an independent research essay on its usage.
—PolarisDiB
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Jane Austin’s Mafia!
“Reflections of Evil” has the greatest (and also the most epic) vomit scene I’ve ever seen!
HENRY FOOL. ftw
“Is it more than mere coincidence that the first person to respond to the original post has a name that sounds like someone having a chunder?”
—Yo, Vanselow, lick my Ralch it up.
jackass movies.
Polaris, no, the idea for this thread just popped into my head one day earlier this week. Then I saw “Daybreakers” that evening and felt compelled to put it up A.S.A.P.
Pierre:
I thought about that Monty Python scene, but I couldn’t quite recall if he tossed his cookies or simply exploded at the end of the scene—I knew for certain he did the latter, wasn’t sure about the former. Thank you for reminding me.
Nevertheless, it’s a good idea. Vomit in cinema is just not discussed often enough.
That said, it is a little difficult to move past this initial step (“What are the best vomits?”) to the really fun step (“…and why?”). Vomit being easily recognizable as a form of base humor, is there not also some ways it is used for more intellectually stimulating effect?
I argue so. As a direct statement of dis-ease, vomit is a high note of many scenes in which distressing elements eventually go completely out of the character’s control or ability to assimilate. Assimilation itself is to me the most important aspect of vomit—the bodily rejection of something alien and potentially poisonous. This is because of my enjoyment of cyborg and post-human ideas, but nevertheless in a sense you can understand Tetsuo: The Iron Man to be almost literally Tsukamoto’s vomiting industrialization onto the cinematic canvas and leaving us to pick through the chunks to see what digestibles remain.
—PolarisDiB
Great post polaris! And that’s why Reflections of Evil’s vomit sequence is great. That happens near the beginning of the film but when the movie finishes you’ll understand that Packard – the director of the movie – had it with the world and that sequence was one of the most explicit announcement of his take on things. Actually the entire movie is like that. It make you to laugh your ass off then make you to pay for every second of that laughter.Anyway this film is a must for everyone. If there has been ten original movies in the history of cinema, it’s one of them.
Fucking grammatical errors. Sorry. I should improve my English.
My girlfriend is emetophobic, so I always have to remember what movies have vomit scenes in them so that I can tell her not to watch them! Unfortunately, it’s making me a bit of an emetophobe any time I watch a movie with her because I’m so worried that people will start puking and she’ll be disturbed. And now I’m way more grossed out by vomit than I used to be.
Game set and match, I believe—-
Guesthouse Paradiso is the overall winner. There’s nearly 10 minutes of solid vomiting, and most characters are covered in green bile. If I knew how to do one of those visual links I’d give you one. 2nd place to the Mr Creosote sequence in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, even though strictly speaking it’s an abdominal explosion, but the other diners still get smothered in vomit.
MARK IS SUSPENDED IN GAFFA
I had the idea for this topic BEFORE seeing the film “Daybreakers” just a few hours ago. Anyone who has seen said movie shall know why I now just HAVE to post this subject after already giving it some thought. And I don’t think this has EVER been done before online—the greatest vomits in film history! Films containing classic chunder action are listed below—don’t view them on a full stomach!
“The Adventures of Barry McKenzie”
“The Exorcist”
“Stand By Me”
“The Fly” (and of course, “The Fly II”)
“Daybreakers”
I understand “The Witches of Eastwick” has a great vomit scene, but I haven’t as of yet witnessed the film for myself. Granted, having a character toss his or her cookies in a movie can be little more than a rather puerile gag, but in a film like “Stand By Me”, it’s simply unforgettable. And vomit can be absolutely terrifying (see “The Fly” and its sequel for proof). So what are some other great regurgitations in cinematic history?