Even as our old lists find new life on the front page we have reached the end of another brand-new list, and I hope you agree that we brought you “a truly special, truly memorable, truly incredible list that characterizes what CHUD is about.” This has been a long effort of diving into the depths of what cinema has to offer, and I think I speak for all of the writers when I saw that prepping for this list has been one of the most delightfully gag-inducing duties I’ve yet endured for this site.
So that you’ll have a permanent, centralized resource with which to look back whenever you need to reference our catalog of gross, I’ve compiled this detailed index. You’ll find a sequential and alphabetic listing of all the films written about, as well as a section detailing the four Saturday Sidebars. Each main entry is also joined by a small highlight image, perfect for avatar use by our Message Board-participating Chewers.
Enjoy, and be sure to bookmark this page!
We’re entering a new age here at CHUD, with a refreshed stable of writers, a re-energized concentration of efforts, and a focus on consistent, knowledge-backed fun. To ring in this new era for the site we wanted to bring you a truly special, truly memorable, truly incredible list that characterizes what CHUD is about, and we think we’ve cooked up just the thing.
The 25 Grossest, Most Execrable Moments in Film.
We’re here to explore the most depraved, flinch-worthy, vomit-inducing (or vomit-involving) moments ever put to film. We’re not interested in simple gore and viscera here… We’re looking for the shittiest, pusiest, cummiest, pukeiest, piss-filled scenes in the history of motion-pictures. Some will be huge, some will be small, but they’ll all be gross. We’ve also put an unprecedented amount of effort into pre-planning, scheduling, and dividing the effort for this list, so expect it to hit you every one of the next 25 weekdays (with a number of special surprises planned for the weekends!).
So without further ado, grab your nearest complimentary airsick bag (or maybe just a whole trashcan) and jump into CHUD’s newest list.
The List Proper
Function: Semen
Pullquote: “Directed by Todd Solondz, this masterpiece of discomfort and brutal honesty gives us a peek into the lives of many misunderstood individuals with emotional states that range from extremely lonely to extremely likely to enjoy your kid’s holes.” –Renn Brown
Day 2: Hostel
Function: Eye Squirt
Pullquote: “It’s a spa that pampers its clients with the absolute finest in suffering of unwary travelers who only get to check out in small, smoldering and/or bloody little bits (unless they happen to have accounts in Zurich, Luxembourg and the Isle of Man).” –David Oliver
Day 3: Dead Alive
Function: Pus
Pullquote: “She is on the way out of town and already knee deep in afterlife by the time the food is served and when the custard is brought to the table by her loyal son, things go south. Including her hearing.” –Nick Nunziata
Day 4: Antichrist
Function: Semen
Pullquote: “With a sickening thunk, his testicles are scuttled off to the Land of the Flattened and every guy in the audience gets sick to their stomach. As he lies there unconscious, his scrotum housing a living nightmare, she lies down beside him, seemingly oblivious to what has just happened.” –Jeremy Butler
Day 5: Beloved
Function: Piss
Pullquote: “The audio commentary reveals that Oprah’s piss stream salted the Earth. In the last 12 seasons, none of Farmer Schlamme’s blueberries have been able to grow on that plot.” –Troy Anderson
Day 6: Meet The Feebles
Function: Shit
Pullquote: “Eating close-ups are always kind of gross, even when it is normal food. And the shit is just… so… wet and gooey. You are also being spared the horrible sounds of the fly chewing and savoring his shitty meal.” –Joshua Miller
Day 7: Carrie
Function: Menstruation
Pullquote: “Combine the terror and sensations of your period — especially your first period — with the whole dank nastiness of a locker room, and your stomach (and maybe even your nose) should just churn.” –Elisabeth Rappe
Day 8: Visitor Q
Function: Breast Milk
Pullquote: “Later on when the visitor stops by to get some garbage bags from mom so he could properly dispose of a corpse (long story) the mom surprises him by entering the room in garbage bag regalia and attacking him with liters upon liters of breast milk.” –Alex Riviello
Day 9: Water Power
Function: Shit
Pullquote: “Dude jacks off in shitty water. Pretty gross. Add in poor lighting with cheap, grainy 70s film stock that has since been dubbed from VHS to VHS to VHS, and everything is coated with an extra layer of gross. If you’re getting your rocks off to this one, a salute to you, ya sick fuck.” –Renn Brown
Day 10: Audition
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “While Ayomi looks on in horror as the man in the bag starts begging for his meal, you hear gagging. Then wretching. Then faint, subtle splashes. Then more of the same. And again a third time. All you have to do is look at the pure shock and horror on Ayomi’s face and your own stomach starts to turn.” –Jeremy Butler
Day 11: Street Trash
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “Now, you might think this would lead to a pissing scene. After all, why else carry him to the bathroom? But you’re forgetting this is Bill “I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a cock between those legs” the Cop.” –Joshua Miller
Day 12: National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Function: Semen
Pullquote: “It’s a dog spunk eclair, spread all over man faces, so I’m thinking pretty friggin’ gross. With Richard gargling it and sucking it straight out of the donut, and some other frat boy saying he thinks he’s had one of these before, it’s just that little bit extra added to, hands down, the most blatant display of dog chowder in film history.” –David Oliver
Day 13: Trainspotting
Function: Shit
Pullquote: “No one likes shit. I don’t care what you’ve seen two girls do with a cup, nobody likes shit. It’s repugnant and it’s hard-wired to your basic programming to turn away from the little pellets we leave behind. This sentiment serves as part of the larger outlook for Trainspotting.” –Troy Anderson
Day 14: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “He eats and he pukes, and not a dainty little cough of plasma into the sink, he projectile vomits a disgusting crescendo of matter that looks a little too real to be taken wholly as silliness. In 2010 it feels sort of tame after a couple of decades of Farrelly Bros. movies and their ilk but when it was released this was not only extremely edgy but also analogous to the way our culture had become. Excess. Excess. Excess. To the point where we were bursting at the seams.” –Nick Nunziata
Day 15: Cannibal! The Musical
Function: Eye Squirt
Pullquote: “Thick eye goo splatters down his beard, permanently staining it a crusty melon shade. It’s reminiscent of a flan – all gooey and glistening as it launches out of his pinpointed wreck of an eye. It sprays all over our hapless miners, who are actually starving at this point, yet their appetite for mutton is utterly ruined. Say, are you looking at his eye?” –Elisabeth Rappe
Day 16: Nekromantik
Function: Semen
Pullquote: “When a gravedigger tries to intervene the next morning Rob kills him with his own shovel and then frolics through a field while classical music plays. He goes home, selects a sharp knife, crawls into bed, unzips his pants, and starts stabbing himself in the stomach.” –Alex Riviello
Day 17: Salò -or- 120 Days of Sodom
Function: Shit
Pullquote: “Watching Salò is one of the most punishing cinematic experiences you could submit yourself to, and in a film of such unmatched depravity, there is a scene that stands out- the literally-named shit feast.” –Renn Brown
Day 18: Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Function: Eye Squirt
Pullquote: “The shots are pedestrian and the entire script falls apart upon heavy inspection. But, that’s not why you watch flicks like this. You watch flicks this to see that one scene that all of your film junkie friends talk about forever. The eye-gouging sequence from Thriller is one of those moments. “ –Troy Anderson
Day 19: Rabid Dogs
Function: Piss
Pullquote: “While the moment lacks the awesomely comical stream power of Beloved, the spattery leg coating aspect here is more unpleasant. What really defines the scene is the context, with the two goons laughing cruelly, and then eventually becoming incredibly turned on by the urination, making the kinds of a creepy/goofy sex faces only 70’s Italian men can make.” –Joshua Miller
Day 20: Feast
Function: Semen
Pullquote: “But the fun doesn’t stop there, kids. No – instead of just being deposited and left behind, we revisit the Who Does It Come Out Of segment – and this time the answer is her. Her mouth, her nose – her whole face.” –Jeremy Butler
Day 21: The Fly
Function: Birth
Pullquote: “The upside to this hypothetical fly larva would have been that when it set about to shitting itself all over the place, at least Ronnie could have just flipped him right around to eat it right back up.” –David Oliver
Day 22: The Exorcist
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “When one considers a list of the most powerful bodily functions in film history is there anything that springs to mind before this seminal, genre-defining moment from the early 70’s? A young girl is possessed by a demon and projectile vomits on a priest. If that isn’t taboo (especially then), I don’t know what is.” –Nick Nunziata
Day 23: Drag Me To Hell
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “Arguably, this is the worst kind of puke since it’s not only the usual chemical composition of vomit (stomach bile and partially digested foodstuffs), but also includes the fluids of decomposition and formaldehyde. Now, I’m not precisely sure what formaldehyde tastes like. I imagine it to be like the bottle of Stolichnaya I threw up once, only a million times more foul.” –Elisabeth Rappe
Day 24: City of the Living Dead
Function: Vomit
Pullquote: “Lord knows I wouldn’t wanna walk around with all of my innards in the floorboard back in the car. And, just to add insult to injury, after he has to watch the woman he was just feeling up get drained, the boyfriend has his brain ripped out of the back of his head. Nicely done, Father Thomas.” –Jeremy Butler
Day 25: Pink Flamingos
Function: Shit
Pullquote: “There’s no poop so ultimately it’s just a sprawled, naked man, but he squeezes real hard. The site of the slightly prolapsing anus, popping open and closed is enough to cause some pretty hearty revulsion. These days, it’s the kind of show that you’d have to go to a Nickelback concert, or brave a clown gathering in the Midwest to witness.” –Renn Brown
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Sidebars:
“Peeing in the movies is no new occurrence, having debuted way back in
the late 1800’s in the B&W silent pisser ‘Bathroom Frivolities’ and
come into its heyday in the 70’s and 80’s as people were pissed on,
folks were forced to drink the wet wildness, and person water etched a
yellow valley through the heart of celluloid. Some piss may or may not
make its way into our Body Function Junction list (you’ll have to wet
and see), but here’s a few honorable mentions for your viewing relief.” –Nick Nunziata
RawHead Rex
Jeepers Creepers
Waterworld
Doc Hollywood
“Of all sickening bodily functions, vomiting pops up in cinema by far the
most. So it wasn’t much of a surprise that vomit scenes comprised about
40% of our initial BFJ nominations list. Even just whittling down my
selections for this sidebar was a roller coaster of second-guessing and
tears.” –Joshua Miller
Bad Taste
Team America: World Police
Henry Fool
Taxedermia
Spermicidal Tendencies
“Spunk, sperm, jizz, load…whatever you call it, it’s a daily part of
practically every male’s life. Some dudes are scared of it, some dudes
are controlled by it, but we all have it and at least once a day we all
think about where we’re gonna put it next. That’s what today’s sidebar
is all about – the various places guys put their business.” –Jeremy Butler
Silence of the Lambs
American Pie
Forrest Gump
Ichi The Killer
our lives, and one that we’re always happy to get rid of. Not to say
that it doesn’t have its uses, though. Stuffed in a bag and lit on
fire, it’s an A-1 party prank. George Clooney once convinced a friend
that his cat was sick by taking a shit in its litter box.” –David Oliver
Dogma
Dumb & Dumber
Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie
Dreamcatcher
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Alphabetic Listing:
American Pie
Antichrist
Audition
Bad Taste
Beloved
Cannibal! The Musical
Carrie
City Of The Living Dead
Dead Alive
Doc Hollywood
Dogma
Drag Me To Hell
Dreamcatcher
Dumb & Dumber
The Exorcist
Feast
The Fly
Forrest Gump
Happiness
Henry Fool
Hostel
Ichi The Killer
Jeepers Creepers
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Meet The Feebles
Nekromantik
Pink Flamingos
Rabid Dogs
RawHead Rex
Salo
Silence of the Lambs
Street Trash
Taxedermia
Team America: World Police
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Toxic Avenger 4
Trainspotting
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Visitor Q
Water Power
Waterworld
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