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Disfigurement via mirror smashing - extreme stuff


I found the scene where the transvestite hoodlum disfigures Kersey's woman by smashing her face into a mirror repeatedly particularly disturbing and harrowing. Almost up there with something from ROBOCOP or ROBOCOP II.

Damn, imagine if Paul Verhoeven had ever directed a Death Wish movie, now that would've been extreme.

My order for Death Wish so far goes:

3, then 4, then 5.

I haven't seen 1 and 2 yet ironically!

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The scene is horrific but when you see her healed up later she is more beautiful "disfigured" than 95% of women are non-disfigured.

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One of the few "highlight" scenes in this sequel. The other being the remote-controlled soccerball Bronson sends in to surprise one of the baddies.

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I haven't seen 1 and 2 yet ironically!


How is not watching a film "ironic"?
Why do so many few people understand what irony is?

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The irony is that the first and presumably the second are the most famous Deathwish movies so having not seen them yet being a Deathwish fan is ironic.

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Paul Veerhoven has nothing on that! I thought it the scene with the mirror was traumatic. It rivaled the rape scene in Death Wish 4. However when the rapists got their just desserts in Death Wish 4, I enjoyed that.

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I just watched that scene... and it wasn't traumatic at all imo.
I was expecting half of her face to be hanging off lol! But just a few cuts and that was it. Nothing extreme at all.

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The head mirror smashing scene in Rob Zombie's "Halloween II" was more creepy to me.

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One of the most hilarious scenes ever in a movie full of hilarious scenes: Freddy Flakes has his face blown off by a nitroglycerine-laden soccer ball. One of the main 'made men' goes crazy by shooting everything in sight -with his shot gun- then dies a hilarious and well-deserved death by choking on a cyanide-laden donut. A black man has his face burnt by it being slammed into an iron press. Great, great, great stuff.

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