Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The 9 Best Vomit Scenes Ever Filmed

There are few things in life funnier or more disgusting than vomiting. It's one of those things that just hearing someone starting to gag can start a whole crowd retching. There's a thin, possibly even non-existent, line between hilarious and disgusting vomiting. This isn't a list of little spews and tasteful hurls, this is over-the-top projectile vomiting at it's best. This isn't necessarily a count down, nor is it complete. There are a few scenes I fought with including like The Exorcist, but then I'd have to include the much more extreme rendition done in Scream 2. The Problem Child 2 scene could easily be replaced with a nearly identical scene from The Sandlot, but these are the ones that made the top of my list. Click on to see the chunky spew-fest.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)-
For the most part, this was a rather unsatisfying attempt to bring Douglas Adams' venerable and riotous books to life. There was nothing in this movie that wasn't done better in the 1981 BBC miniseries. To only two redeeming values of the movie were Alan Rickman voicing the part of Marvin the Paranoid Android, and a brief scene in which everyone turns into yarn dolls and our hero Arthur Dent spews yarn. Watch the first minute and a half, then do yourself a favor and stop.


Porky's 2 -
Porky's has an important spot in the history of comedy. Without the success of it, and it's inevitable sequels, there easily could never have been Revenge of the Nerds. The first Porky's had the distinction of Canada's highest grossing film for 24 years, and as of 2006 was still it's second. Porky's 2 doesn't have what you would call a traditional vomiting scene, instead it has tit vomit...yes...tit vomit.

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Problem Child 2 -
The Problem Child series of movies weren't exactly my favorite, as I never found them to be quite a laugh riot, but I had to admire Junior's tenacity and ingenuity when it came to being a total pain in the ass. This particular spew scene involves the little antagonist getting some good, old-fashioned revenge. As I mentioned, this scene (minus the ridiculous premise) is played out very similarly in The Sandlot a couple years later.


Meet the Feebles -
Before Peter Jackson became a made man by making the geek porn known as The Lord of the Rings, he made really shitty movies. But he was really good at making really bad movies. Meet the Feebles is a dark comedy featuring an animal cast made entirely of puppets or people in costumes who are members of the Feebles theatre troupe. One of the many actors is Harry, a rabbit who has a terminal STD who gets sick while trying to perform.


Guest House Paradiso -
This is a British movie based on a TV series called Bottom. It is the story of an English guest house (sort of a bed and breakfast) inhabited by various crazy characters, run by completely inept staff. After serving a meal with radioactive fish, guests begin to vomit in unbelievable quantities and with admirable gusto. This goes down as THE weirdest vomit scene I have ever watched.

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Bad Taste -
This is Peter Jackson's second nod on this list, and incidentally the first film he ever made. In the movie, a small New Zealand town has been invaded by enterprising aliens who are harvesting humans as food for a pan-galactic fast food franchise called Crumb's Crunchy Delights. "Aren't I Lucky, I Got A Chunky Bit."


Team America: World Police -
This notoriously raunchy and hilarious movie by the psychotic minds who bring us South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has a lot of things to be proud of. It's got some of the funniest songs ever made in a movie, the best puppet sex scene I've ever seen, and of course - an over the top vomit scene. In this clip, hero Gary has hit rock bottom, gotten drunk and kicked out of a bar and lets it all fly.


Stand By Me -
This is actually a very poignant and well made coming-of-age movie that is worth a serious watch in different circumstances. However, during a round of campfire story telling, one of the young raconteurs delivers the story of Lard Ass and the pie eating contest. It's another revenge vomit-fest.


Monty Python's The Meaning of Life -
The Meaning of Life really has nothing on Holy Grail or Life of Brian, but it does have some really great scenes. One in particular is that of Mr. Creosote in the fancy restaurant. He a disgusting, apocalyptically obese gourmand who ends up splattering more than just a little food.


Thus concludes the oddly numbered list of my all-time favorite, most outrageous vomilation demonstrations. If you have any suggestions for other truly epic exhibits of artful ralphing, feel free to leave a comment.


3 comments:

Foxblood said...

Check out 'The Great Santini' with Robert Duvall. It has a far, far better vomiting scene. A new number one, I bet!

Dead Regime said...

I've never seen that one, I'll have to netflix it. If you think it's got #1 potential, it's a must.

frizzi said...

Kudos for the Stand By Me mention