I asked my mother this and she asked why would they? I personally never would but I know that there are people who are against brutal and heartless murderers being killed and want some form of mercy shown to them, and if there are people that big of bleeding hearts, I imagine there might be somebody in the world who would vote mercy for Mr. Sardonicus. But what's everybody else think?
shareI don't see what's so horrible about the guy. He made a lot of threats but he never actually killed anyone.
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Mr. Sardonicus 6/10
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Maybe not, but what about when he put out that man's eye and had no remorse for that? And all the experiments, he didn't try them on himself, he lured young women in with some song and dance about being the special one picked and he has them chained up and has leeches suck their blood out, and that's probably one of the more TAME things he's done to them. And if the doctor didn't treat him, he was going to make his wife the same way he was, and he NEVER, absolutely NEVER, did anything to his current wife that made him worthy of being her husband, he didn't love her, he never did. If I were in the original showing I would hold the thumbs down as high up as I could.
shareFirst of all, Krull was a voluntary employee, who could have left whenever he wanted to. Besides, Krull certainly seemed to enjoy tormenting others- possibly a job benefit in lieu of vacation time. And what the heck damage can leeches do to you? Many doctors actually use them in the same way Sardonicus did. And his wife also voluntarily agreed to the marriage in order to save her father financially. A man, by the way, who appears to be running some kind of Ponzi investment scam. Sorry, my friend, on my DVD,I voted mercy and Sardonicus gets to enjoy a good meal and some of those beautiful town babes
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I would have voted mercy. Vengeful feelings bore me. Interesting about the DVD - was that actually filmed?
sharehe lured young women in with some song and dance about being the special one picked and he has them chained up and has leeches suck their blood out
That business that Krull was going to torture the wife and Sir Robert, yeah right like they were going to stand by and let that happen.
Robert was a gent, but hey he could have hit Krull and the Baron on the head anytime.
Please they could have gotten out of there, but then we wouldn't have much of a story.
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I'd say give the guy a break. He was nice enough to let them all go at the end.
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I voted thumbs up because he was a good man at one time. Not only that, but he at least had guilt for digging up his father. He was not always evil. He became evil when he became Mr. Sardonicus. He let his wife go in the end and he paid the doctor. He wasn't all bad. It was that curse put on him that made him evil.
shareI would have voted for mercy for one reason only. That reason is because the guy who looks into the camera and asks the audience to vote yea or nay tries to subtly influence the audience to vote for no mercy using the thumbs down card; indeed, the majority of the audience does vote thumbs down. I don't like anyone trying to manipulate me, so I would vote thumbs up.
Ironically, By avoiding manipulation, you were manipulated all the same. Voting sincerely despite his pitch is how you should've gone about it.
I voted thumbs up; I was honestly surprised when the "theater's" consensus was thumbs down. I didn't see that coming at all because Sardonicus was a character easy to sympathize with.
There was nothing wrong in digging up his father; his father would've wanted it that way. The ticket was supposed to be his son's future; he surely wouldn't have wanted pointless convention leaving his son's inheritance rotting alongside him! Therefore I was sorry the accident occurred, and can easily understand him growing cold once outcast to the fringes of society.
We also never really see him do anything evil. It was his assistant administering the experiments, I'm sure; we have no way of knowing what instructions the Baron left for him. We also don't know what the assistant did to cause the Baron to pluck out his eye. These things, along with the fact that everyone could leave at anytime, need to be considered when judging the man.
I enjoyed this movie. I thought the doctor was deliciously cheesy, standing unrightfully close and protective to the BARON'S WIFE lol .. he's lucky the baron didn't kill him on the spot. Maybe I missed the progression in the doctor and wife's relationship, but one moment he's a houseguest, the next he's this romance-novel lead with his arm around another man's wife.
I found Sardonicus a thoughtful portrayal of life. No man can have it all, and some senselessly get next-to-nothing. It seems it's only after you get what you think you wanted that you find out much more was lost in obtaining it. He became wealthy, but lost his father and his face, along with any chance of a developing real human connection. He fixed his appearance only to find out he lost a wife and is now facing an agonizingly slow and traumatic death.
Also, just like life, no matter how low you think you might be, there's always someone nearby looking to take advantage of you!
Yeah, I think you might have missed the fact that they were sweethearts before she married, but her father had other plans.
shareI'd vote mercy -- no one deserves to die slowly from starvation/thirst.
Besides, I get the feeling that his own misdeeds would have come to torment him, anyway, which would have served as a far richer punishment than death.
I want to live in a world of magic and miracles, not emptiness and entropy.
I would vote mercy. The reasons that people have mentioned (how he suffered, the way he looked, etc.) and the pain he inflicted on others (torture, spousal abuse, etc.) notwithstanding, he's an outrageous and entertaining character. His aristocratic bearing, his regal voice and diction, some of his dialogue, his arrogance, his flamboyantly evil persona are almost Shakespearean. One line in particular struck me, when the doctor tells him he has no decency or human feeling: "Life has erased all decency and human feeling from my heart." That is a real tragedy, sadness beyond compare. Even if most people would never stoop to the depths of degradation to which he did, I think anyone who has suffered in life could feel compassion for that and know how that pain feels. It's just a B movie, a little cheesy, designed strictly for entertainment and cheap thrills. But hearing the character say that, I couldn't help but feel great sympathy for him, and the pain that brought him to that point.
shareThe poor guy was just pussy whipped to begin with.
shareDepends on what kind of mercy you mean. Judging from the ending we're left to assume Sardonicus will either starve to death or commit suicide. The movie wants us to know he's done some horrible things, but I wonder about the kind of man he was before opening his father's grave. He should probably have been institutionalized.
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I just watched this with two other people and they voted for mercy. I was the only one who voted no mercy. Castle didn't do a very good count
I highly doubt that Sardonicus would have continued to experiment on people since his condition would have been healed if he figured out it was all in his head.
Also it's rather cruel to have someone die like that. It was funny though to watch Castle make fun of anyone who voted for mercy.