The 8th Annual Mutant Awards: 2005

The Eighth Annual
Mutant Awards: 2005

As I've said over and over again on this site, I'm a squeamish sort. Usually this comes out in the form of violent protest against horror/slasher movies (Kyle loves calling me a sissy and then falling into a pile of hot women), but once in a while it takes another form. I get absolutely weak in the stomach when a director takes an interest in making me want to throw up.

I'm not even sure why this needs to exist as an option to filmmakers! Do screenplays really have direction like:

INT. OF OUTHOUSE

MARVIN moves slowly towards the edge of the grimy bowl, his hands shaking and his back spasming. He lifts himself up to peer into a gigantic slurry of

See? I can't even bring myself to finish that. I'm going to go ahead and say poor Marvin was staring at a massive bowl of ice cream, because that may help me sleep tonight.

So you can imagine my pleasure at having to bring to mind all these memorable film moments that were either designed to or just happen to make me want to puke. Which previously suppressed memory would take the cake (and then spew it back out again)? The infamous and long unchallenged pie eating contest from Stand By Me? The newcomer Team America: World Police, and its scene in the alley? Perhaps one of TWO nominated scenes from the much-loathed Doom Generation? Well, let's find out!

Oh lordy, the "bring me a bucket" scene from Meaning of Life. This was a gag (no pun intended) that just always made me cringe. MoL always struck me as the least intellectual and the most cruel of the Python's series, and this scene, complete with the exploding dinner patron and "wafer thin" mint always make me choke. Honourable mentions go to the "poisoned daughter ghost" from The Sixth Sense. (If you haven't seen the Sixth Sense, don't read the previous sentence.)

And now, just because I can, a list of synonyms for the word "vomit".