Disembodied eyes

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » April 15, 2003, 4:00 pm

Can anyone recall any movies in which a disembodied eye, or an extreme close up of a single eye figures? (and please don'y say LotR)

I know Hitchcock uses a disembodied eye in the opening credits of Vertigo, but I'm looking for other instances in film.

Abelard · Post by **Abelard** » April 15, 2003, 4:16 pm

I think they had a close up of an eye in one hour photo with robin williams.

Acies · Post by **Acies** » April 15, 2003, 4:21 pm

I can only really think of two things.
Requiem for a Dream (Movie is so jacked up...) and Fire in the Sky, both have close ups for the eye.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » April 15, 2003, 4:24 pm

"Fire in the Sky" had some extreme eyeball closeups during a couple of the scenes where the aliens were "probing" DB Sweeney.

Xyphir · Post by **Xyphir** » April 15, 2003, 4:28 pm

Does that scene in Clockwork Orange qualify?

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 15, 2003, 4:29 pm

resident evil (need to find image)

bladerunner

Toshira · Post by **Toshira** » April 15, 2003, 4:55 pm

Dune, David Lynch version

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 15, 2003, 4:55 pm

Demolition man (eye on a pencil)

Minority Report (Tom Cruise's eye a couple of times I think...)

The Ring? (I could swear it showed the eye at several points)

I'll think of more later...

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » April 15, 2003, 4:57 pm

Friday the 13th Part III (Originally in 3D) Eyeball on the end of the old guys finger.

Think he was saying something like "Your doomed! DOOMED!" or something equally as cliche'.

Also, that guy named Rick has his head crushed by Jason, and his eye pops out at the camera.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 15, 2003, 5:06 pm

Shaerra wrote:Friday the 13th Part III (Originally in 3D) Eyeball on the end of the old guys finger.

Think he was saying something like "Your doomed! DOOMED!" or something equally as cliche'.

Also, that guy named Rick has his head crushed by Jason, and his eye pops out at the camera.

You really just rose the bar for the quality of this conversation, didn't you?

I don't remember The Ring showing eyes like this... just the "ring", the white circle on black.

Mort · Post by **Mort** » April 15, 2003, 5:07 pm

Any Given Sunday has a nice scene of an eye being shot out of a player's skull.....

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 15, 2003, 5:07 pm

Oh, and to add a possible example, 2001, when he's going through the monolith. I believe there were some extreme close-ups on his eye there.

Ogbar · Post by **Ogbar** » April 15, 2003, 5:33 pm

Un Chien Andalou

Somehow, though, I dont think the scene in question in this film is what you had in mind.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 15, 2003, 5:41 pm

Dregor Thule wrote: I don't remember The Ring showing eyes like this... just the "ring", the white circle on black.

Samara's eye

and wallpaper
Samara's eye

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » April 15, 2003, 5:43 pm

Ogbar wrote:Un Chien Andalou

Somehow, though, I dont think the scene in question in this film is what you had in mind.

Could you describe it for me?

I'm not looking for things *happening* to/with eyes, just static close-ups of single eyes, with nothing else in the frame.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 15, 2003, 5:49 pm

also from The Ring

You have become better at Google searching! (3)

Post by **Sylvus** » April 15, 2003, 5:53 pm

Lalanae wrote:
Ogbar wrote:Un Chien Andalou

Somehow, though, I dont think the scene in question in this film is what you had in mind.
Could you describe it for me?

I'm not looking for things *happening* to/with eyes, just static close-ups of single eyes, with nothing else in the frame.

Iirc, there's a razorblade in the scene and it probably won't suit your needs.

Ogbar · Post by **Ogbar** » April 15, 2003, 5:54 pm

Lalanae wrote:
Could you describe it for me?

I'm not looking for things *happening* to/with eyes, just static close-ups of single eyes, with nothing else in the frame.

You can find some description from the link, but basically, 'something happens to the eye' (gets slit), so, indeed, overall it was not what you intended - though, briefly, the eye is in close up, as you stipulate.

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » April 15, 2003, 6:12 pm

Maybe I'm not remembering right, but didn't Hitchcock also use a close-up of the eye of the girl that was killed in the shower in Psycho?

Edit: Just checked, it's there. Right after she's killed, the camera follows the blood down to the drain, then morphs from the shower drain to a close-up of her open eye, then slowly pans out to show her lifeless body.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » April 15, 2003, 9:01 pm

Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within..

devereaux · Post by **devereaux** » April 15, 2003, 9:20 pm

The floating eyeball in big trouble in little china. Also in d&d the movie.

Kcale · Post by **Kcale** » April 15, 2003, 9:27 pm

Total recall, and what the hell were you smoking when you came up with this subject

Taly · Post by **Taly** » April 15, 2003, 9:53 pm

Star Trek "First Contact" beginning with Picard dreaming bout the borg

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » April 15, 2003, 10:49 pm

IIRC there's a closeup of Hannibal's eye(s) in Silence of the Lambs..

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » April 15, 2003, 11:39 pm

Beast Master had one in a ring.

For some reason I think of the old black & white Nightmare Theatre kind of movies that they used to show late saturday nights.

Maybe an Outerlimits episode.

Why do you need an eyeball close up again?

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » April 16, 2003, 12:02 am

Event horizon. I think I recall it being a pretty good shot of Sam Neil's eyes after he tore them out.

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » April 16, 2003, 12:39 am

Evil Dead 2. When they are trying to stuff the witch back into the basement, her head gets caught in the trap door and the eye flys all the way across the room into that screaming chick's mouth. Sublime I tell you. Sublime.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » April 16, 2003, 1:21 am

Beetlejuice

And in the new Maxim towards the back there is one as well.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 16, 2003, 9:44 am

I don't remember The Ring showing eyes like this... just the "ring", the white circle on black.

Never doubt me again!

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » April 16, 2003, 9:59 am

Oh yeah, just remembered, Casino where they have that guy's head in a vise and squeeze it so far that the guy's eye shoots out across the room.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » April 16, 2003, 11:04 am

Disturbing Behavior

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 16, 2003, 11:07 am

Fairweather Pure wrote:
I don't remember The Ring showing eyes like this... just the "ring", the white circle on black.
Never doubt me again!

I'm still not sure it's what she was looking for, but yes, I was wrong

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » April 16, 2003, 11:10 am

Zombie

One of the undead SLOWLY pulls a lucky gal into a splintered doorframe... super sick eye gouge closeup... them crazy Italians!

Hammerstalker PE · Post by **Hammerstalker PE** » April 16, 2003, 11:25 am

Blair Witch Project

The Evil Dead

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » April 16, 2003, 12:27 pm

Kcale wrote:Total recall, and what the hell were you smoking when you came up with this subject

The disembodied (not necessarily literal) eye is a common scopophilic symbol in cinema to the point of almost being cliche.

There are a couple famous "eye shots" in Psycho, most notably the one you mention Shaerra (the other being from the wrong POV). Considering I studied the film in school, I'm not sure why it escaped me at the time I posted...

Thanks to all, and any others who post. You've given me a couple good examples of contemporary film, which is what I was hoping for.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 16, 2003, 12:53 pm

eye shots frequently pop out in movies where they show eye scans, when needed to open the door let's say

From memory I think we had those in Bourne's identity or some other spy flick, Bond?
and that flick with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery, name escapes me, they needed an eye scan to open vault in bank in Malaysia

Trias · Post by **Trias** » April 16, 2003, 2:21 pm

watch matrix about 5 times a day at work every day...and i know there are a couple eye scenes in it

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » April 16, 2003, 2:23 pm

I think Mission:Impossible had some eyeball/retinal scan scenes.

Does Terminator, with the laserbeam/eyeball count?

valryte · Post by **valryte** » April 17, 2003, 2:11 am

Five Fingers of Death

Dude gets BOTH his eyes poked out during a fight then you see them roll on the floor like a couple of dice! AWESOME!!!

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » April 17, 2003, 2:08 pm

Some of you people lack reading comprehension...but thanks anyways I guess...

Oreck · Post by **Oreck** » April 17, 2003, 2:14 pm

Yeah they missed the In "Vertigo" part

Oreo