Eye Scream / Live-Action Films

Examples of Eye Scream in live-action films.

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• 1BR: One of the tenants, Lester, takes off his sunglasses to reveal one of his eyes was injured as punishment for trying to escape in the past.
• The Turkish movie 3 Dev Adam has a snitch's eyes clawed out by guinea pigs. It's Spider-Man, turned to the life of a crime boss, who's behind this torture?
• In fact, it can be almost guaranteed that Eye Scream will be involved if there is a cyclops. In The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad defeats the first cyclops by shoving a flaming torch into his eye (in a shot shown from the cyclops' point of view, no less!) and then leading the blinded monster off of a cliff.
• Cillian Murphy puts his thumbs in a guy's eyes in 28 Days Later. Not even a zombie; just a guy that he hates. Another less-gougey example was Frank looking up to shoo away a raven pecking at an Infected corpse dangling in the air and getting an eyeful of infectious Rage-blood.
• Done again in 28 Weeks Later where, in a particularly horrifying case, an infected man mercilessly beats and then gouges out the eyes of a woman strapped into a hospital bed. A woman who is his wife. Who has just forgiven him for abandoning her during the crisis of the last film. And then inadvertently infected him with a kiss.
• 300:
  • The Über-Immortal gets his right eye stabbed out by King Leonidas with a piece of broken spear, immediately before Leonidas relieves him of his head.
  • Unreliable Narrator Dilios also loses an eye, but he doesn't seem to be too upset about it.
  King Leonidas: Dilios, I trust that "scratch" hasn't made you useless.
  Dilios: Hardly, my lord, it is just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.
• In 1408, a cleaning lady who found herself locked in 1408's bathroom for four seconds used a pair of scissors to cut her own eyes out. What had she seen? No one knows. In the short story it was subtler yet in its own way scarier. She simply goes blind while cleaning the room, and yet she says "she's blind, but she can see the most awful colors".
• Abbot of Shaolin, one of the many Shaolin-themed films from the 1970s, have the villain Pai Mei pulling a Klingon Promotion by killing the previous Abbot by ripping his eyes out.
• The ABCs of Death: The pedophile janitor in the "Y" segment gets antlers jammed into his eyes.
• Comedic example: In Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Ace gets a confession out of someone by pushing his own eyeball in and out. The prisoner announces that his brother used to torment him the same way.
• In ÆonFlux the titular character must authenticate herself by being dosed with an anesthetic before a needle is inserted in her eye to test her DNA.
• Aleta: Vampire Mistress: After Jeorg Von Helsing tries to kill Aleta, she rips out one of his eyes and puts it in the wound he gave her. She did this so he can watch her kill all his descendants.
• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) has the Dormouse, who just loves to inflict these, victimizing both the Bandersnatch (managing to extract the eyeball from the socket without damaging it in the slightest) and the JubJub bird. The Hatter also gets to inflict one on the Knave of Hearts during the final battle. This doesn't seem to affect the Knave much afterward, though.
• In All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Bird gets slashed across the eyes, blinding him before he gets stabbed repeatedly.
• An American Werewolf in Paris had one of the ghosts sneeze her eye out, having it hang by a nerve.
• In the film Any Given Sunday, one of the football players loses an eyeball complete with optic nerve on the playing field.
• In Army of Frankensteins, Dr. Finski pulls out Alan's eye to implant it in the monster—while Alan is still conscious!
• Art of the Dead: When Father Mendale is affected by the Envy painting, he rids himself of its influence by plunging his crucifix on his rosary into his eye.
• Attack of the Killer Donuts: In one attack, a killer donut spits acid in someone's eyes. At the climax, when Officer Rogeers shoots one of the donuts, some of it gets in his eye.
• In the Japanese movie Audition, the Yandere girl whom the male lead picked as his girlfriend/wife through a fake audition tortured him by putting needles in the poor guy's eyes and tapping them in veeeeery slowly.
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• Minor example in Battleship. The humanoid aliens are extremely sensitive to light, to the point that they need to wear darkened visors to see on Earth. The protagonists capture an unconscious alien and one of them shines a flashlight into its (fully dilated) pupil. The alien then shrieks in pain as it wakes up.
• Billy Club (2013): When Billy gets smacked in the face with a baseball, we see one of his eyes shut from the impact.
• Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds features a Staggered Zoom shot of the corpse of one of the bird-victims, complete with pecked-out eyes.
• The remake of Black Christmas (2006) had a lot of eye-gougings, leading up to a Christmas tree decorated with eyeballs.
• Black Wake: In one scene, when a guy is on the ground after becoming infected with a parasite, his friend turns him so he's looking upward, and we see one of the parasites is in his eye socket.
• Black Dynamite has a case of this, wherein the titular character sits atop a helpless goon, mid battle frenzy, and shouts "Do you see where I'm coming from you jive motherfucker?!", proceeding with a lethal technique from the school of The Three Stooges.
• Mario Bava's Black Sunday/The Mask of Satan has vampires that are different — you stake them, not through the heart, but through the left eye. (This detail is not present in the Gogol story on which the film was based.)
• Blade Runner:
  • Classic Eye Scream... the scene where Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer) forces his thumbs into the eyes of his creator after he refuses to help Roy extend his lifespan. The scientist screams and howls while Roy gouges his eyes and crushes his head simultaneously, bringing his life to an end.
  • The scene that takes place in The Eyeworks, where Hauer's character and his buddy (Brion James) festoon the genetic designer with synthetic eyeballs.
• In Blood of the Tribades, Grando fatally tortures members of his own cult with the thorns of a rose in order to keep them in line - one unfortunate follower gets his eyeballs sliced with thorns.
• In Bloody Homecoming, Roddy gets stabbed through the eye with a sharpened spirit staff.
• In Bloody Reunion, the killer kills Myung-ho by driving their thumbs through his eyes.
• Averted in Blue Beetle, when a furious and grieving Jaime gains the upper hand against Carapax in revenge for his family after the latter seemingly kills Jaime’s uncle Rudy, Jaime was about to stab Carapax in the eye but was stopped by Khaji-Da at the last second, with the blade only mere inches to Carapax’s eye.
• The anthology film Body Bags:
  • With a segment called "Eye", what would you expect? The protagonist loses his eye twice through impalement.
  • "Hair" also includes wormlike parasites emerging from a human eye.
• In the climax of The Boy Next Door, Claire stabs Noah in the eye with one of her son's epipen and later jams her finger in the same eye.
• In Breaking Point (1976), Michael digs his fingers into the eyes of the violent rapist and thug Vigorito.
• Brightburn: Brandon's first murder centers around one of these, where he stalks Erica Conner (the mother of his would-be love interest Caitlyn) while she's alone in her diner and causes the lights to shatter, resulting in a shard directly piercing her eye. The scene focuses intently on Erica removing the shard, afterwards presenting several shots from her (heavily damaged) POV.
• Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman:
  • Longara kills his right-hand man Bracoli by driving a drinking straw through his eye.
  • In the final combat, the Machine Gun Woman drives a straw through Longara's eye. She then puts the stiletto heel of her boot through his remaining eye.
• Buddha's Palm have an offscreen version with the Firecloud Devil having his right eye burnt out in his backstory. For most of the film, his right eye is visibly damage and scorched black.
• Capps Crossing: In the climax of the movie, David drives his knife into Kyle's right eye.
• The Car: Road to Revenge: One of Talen's gang has a drill built into his hand. While torturing Craddock, he sticks the drill through his eye.
• The Casino: The final fight in the titular casino has the protagonist using literally everything he can get his hands on to fight off hordes and hordes of mooks, including embedding a pair of dice into a mook's eyes, with plenty of blood for good measure. Classic Shaw Brothers gorefest, no surprises here.
• In Casino Royale (2006), James Bond shoots a nail in the eye of mook who's wearing glasses.
• A flashback in Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers reveals that Rose put out Darkie's eye by jamming a blade into it.
• An early example of the effectiveness of this trope is an early scene in Un Chien Andalou. Woman. Eye. Razor blade. Nothing more needs to be said. (Movie fun fact: They pulled that scene off with a bit of legerdemain and a cow's eyeball.) Not surprisingly, this film was made by Luis Buñuel. A later scene with the same woman takes place eight years later and she's fine, so we can think the operation (or whatever) was a success.
  • The British film magazine Empire went through a phase a few years ago where they seemed to include that frame somewhere in every other issue... In the establishing shot that poor actress actually had a razor blade held close to her eye.
• Child's Play:
  • In Child's Play 2, the security guard at the Good Guy doll factory who is killed when part of the doll-building machinery shoves doll eyes into his eyesockets.
  • Chucky kills Barb this way in Curse of Chucky by jamming a knife into her eye shortly after revealing his true nature to her.
• In The Chill Factor, demonic activity around a winterbound cabin causes several icicles to fall down in an attempt to kill a character who wandered outside. The last one hits the mark after he falls on his back, going straight through his right eye.
• A scene in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) emphasizes the Necromongers' pain immunity by showing Dame Vaako (Thandiwe Newton ^*Credited as Thandie Newton) applying eyeliner by burning patches of skin around her eyes.
• Chumbscrubber. As the climax, the kidnapped and held for ransom kid is stabbed in the leg by one of his captors. When the hero shows up almost immediately after, all hell breaks lose and the main kidnapper is slashed through the eye by the kid.
• Clawed: In one of The Shadow Of Death's attacks, there's a quick shot of the victim's eye, which looks like it's resting on the outside part of the socket.
• Cleanskin: When Yussif attacks Conlan in the stables, Conlan manages to get the knife off him and stabs him through the eye.
• The brainwashing scene in A Clockwork Orange. Reportedly, Malcolm McDowell's cornea was scratched during the filming of that iconic scene.
• Clown Kill: Charlie Boy squirts Colin in the eye in one scene. He states that he didn't squirt Colin with water, but with a chemical containing bleach and hydro-chloric acid.
  • Near the end of the movie, the Janitor stabs Charlie Boy in the eyes with two big nails.
• In Cowboys & Aliens, Jake escapes the alien scientist experimenting on him, slashing out one of the alien's eyes. During the climax, the scientist recaptures him and is eager to return the favor.
• The classic wuxia flick, Come Drink With Me, have a scene where a little child gets a needle in his eye while eavesdropping on the villains. One of the Elite Mooks quickly delivers a Mercy Kill.
• In Cradle of Fear, the reanimated Emma smashes a whiskey bottle and drives the jagged edge into Sophie's eye. Later The Man murders on of the traffic cops by driving his finger claw through his eye.
• In Richard Gale's Criticized, Arthur Lemments gouges out Darian Stonehall's left eye with a paperclip and then literally pours salt into the fresh wounds of the eye-socket.
  "It's just a little paperclip. It's just a little paperclip. It's just a little paperclip. It's just a little paperclip."
• David Cronenberg:
  • Around the end of the psychic duel in Scanners, Cameron's eyes explode. This being a Cronenberg movie, no, the realism is not toned down.
  • In The Fly (1986), as what remains of Seth Brundle's human form is shed to reveal "Brundlefly", his eyes — the only part of him that wasn't rendered unrecognizable by his Slow Transformation — ooze away, having been succeeded by gigantic insectoid ones.
  • In Eastern Promises, Nikolai takes the knife from one of his attackers and violently shoves it into his eye.
• Myca, the creepy sister/lover of Top Dollar from The Crow (1994), had a thing for people's eyes. We didn't get to see her actually take the eyes out, but we are shown the scene of her dropping a pair of eyes onto a little dish, watching them sizzle into goo. It made the scene in which she had little Sarah in her clutches ("Her eyes are so innocent.") especially creepy. Her comeuppance is appropriately karmic — she gets her own eyes pecked out by the titular crow before falling to her death.
• Cube 2: Hypercube. When a character who's gone mad and started eating people tries to kill Kate, she uses his own knife against him by stabbing him in the eye. He wanders around for years more in the hypercube vowing revenge, encountering Kate again seconds after the original incident.
• In The Cyclops, Russ Bradford throws a flaming spear into the title creature's eye.
• The brainwashing devices in Cypher feature small claws that leap out from the machine and prise your eyelids open, and it's all featured in gruesome closeup.

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• This is the M.O. of the serial killer in D-Tox: he drills into his victims' eyes through the door's peephole when they look into it.
• One of the more famous (and harrowing) death scenes from Damien: Omen II has a woman getting her eyes pecked out by a raven, which causes her to blindly stumble into the path of a truck.
• The Dark (2018): Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue and he's completely blind as a result (it's indicated that his abuser Josef had done this for breaking his "rules").
• The Dark Crystal: Aughra can remove her own eyeball at will and use it like a remote camera. While it doesn't hurt her, it certainly is weird. In the backstory told in The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, she lost her other eye and came to be how she looks in the film when she laid on the ground to watch the Great Conjunction. A beam of intense light struck her eye, destroying it and burning her badly. She considered the knowledge she gained from the experience to be well worth the loss.
• The Dark Knight:
  • The Joker makes a pencil disappear into one of Gambol's goons... and it wasn't even the pointy end of the pencil. "TA-DA! It's, ah, it's gone."
  • The half-burned-off Harvey Dent's face featured a completely exposed eyeball without a lid. Think about how vulnerable that must make his eye.
• Dawning of the Dead: When Katya is battling zombies on the roof of the news building, she finishes off the last one by burying a screwdriver into its eye.
• Danny in The Day After accidentally looked toward the mushroom cloud when Kansas was attacked, and he's blind for the rest of the film.
• In Dead & Buried, a nurse murders a heavily bandaged, traction-bound patient by stabbing him through the eye with a syringe.
• Deadtime Stories: Volume 2: In "Dust", George hits Dr. Flesch in the face hard enough with something (possibly a taser) to kill him and knock his eyeball out.
• In Death Factory, Leticia is cornered by Alexa and has her eyes pressed in until she's killed.
• In Death Walks on High Heels, a flashback reveals that Smith was blinded in an accident while breaking into a safe when a blowtorch flame lanced across his face.
• In Demolition Man, Simon takes a man's eye out with a fountain pen - in order to fool a retina scanning lock.
• In The Descent, Sarah kills one of the Crawlers by jamming her thumbs into his eye sockets.
• Destroyer (1988): One of the director's eyes bursts when he gets killed in the electric chair.
• In Diary of the Dead one character uses a Magical Defibrillator on a zombie and her eyes melt. Lovely.
• Anyone who has seen Die Hard 2: Die Harder may remember a certain scene with a large icicle. The Squick factor is so obvious even to the director that they even lampshade it, as Bruce Willis turns away in clear horror like he wants to throw up, from looking at the face of the man he just stabbed. Bonus points for using a weapon that phonetically has the word "eye" in it.
  • So instead of eye-stabbing him, you could say he eye-stapped him.
• Doctor... Series:
  • Doctor in Distress (1963): When Sir Lancelot opens his umbrella on the train, the woman sitting in the same compartment muses he could've taken her eye out.
  • Doctor in Clover: When showing him the syringe of Dextranome 90, Dr. Grimsdyke accidentally squirts a bit into Symington's eye.
• In Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the body snatcher Hare is blinded when an agrey mob toses him into a lime pit.
• Doctor Mordrid: Mordrid travels to the Magic Dimension to inspect the Hellgate, which is only guarded by a single man who has had his eyes gouged out by Kabal. Mordrid uses his Healing Hands to restore his eyesight.
• Doll Factory: One of Kay's friends finds a doll in the factory and pretends to have sex with it to amuse the others. For his troubles, the doll gouges out one of his eyes.
• The 2009 remake of Don't Look Up has this in spades. Sharp impliments going into eyes, flies burrowing into eyes, flies emerging from eyes...
• Drag Me to Hell has a couple. In one, an eye gets forked. Granted, it's a hallucination in a pie, but still. In the second, an anvil drops on someone's head, ejecting their eyes Looney Tunes style. Really.
• In The Draughtsman's Contract, a mob puts Mr. Neville's eyes out shortly before beating him to death.
• This trope happens right there on the cover◊ to Dr. Phibes Rises Again.
• Duel of the Ironfist has an unfortunate mob boss who had his eyes burned out by a blowtorch.
• A couple of the minor bad guys in David Lynch's Dune (1984) have their eyes sewn shut, which is NOT in the book.
• Event Horizon
  • This movie practically runs off of this trope, and might hold some kind of record for most injured eyes/sockets in a major Hollywood movie. In fact, the very first person we see in this film is missing eyes! This is barely two minutes in, mind you. This is because whatever's on the other side of the wormhole is so horrifying that some gouge out their own eyes to make the madness stop.
  • Dr. Weir, the designer of the title ship, gouges out his own eyes soon after his own experience with what's beyond the portal. He later has a confrontation with Miller, minus his eyes, which leads to the film's most memorable (and terrifying) line:
    Weir: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
• In the Gregory Hines movie Eve of Destruction, the titular rogue android can only be killed through the eye, as the rest of the head containing her main processor is armored. Hines' character thought only one shot was needed, but ultimately both eyes needed to be attacked. Out of ammo after he shoots out one eye, he rams the barrel of his gun into the second eye.
• Evil Dead films:
  • Ash puts both the eyes out of a Deadite by gouging them out with his thumbs in The Evil Dead (1981).
  • And in Evil Dead 2, an eye pops out of its socket while the head it belongs to is being crushed in a cellar door. The crew calls this the "Eyeball... flyball!" moment.
• In Exam Brown tries to torture information on the question out of Dark by holding the corner of a piece of paper up to her eye. Fortunately, he was only bluffing.
• In the short film Fantaisie in Bubblewrap, one bubble screams, "Oh god, not the eye!" as it's being punctured by a pencil.
• As if plucking out a guy's eye through a crack in a boarded-up door wasn't enough, one of the monsters in Feast went on to play tug-of-war with the guy for possession of the eyeball until its optic nerve snapped.
• Fear, Inc.: When Joe and Lindsey venture outside in search of Ashleigh, they find her with an arrow through her eye.
• The Field Guide to Evil: In "Haunted by Al Karisi, the Childbirth Djinn", Songul has a nightmare in which she sees her mother-in-law about to stab her infant son through the eye with a hairpin. Later, she returns to the house and finds the bloodied hairpin lying on the kitchen counter...
• Final Destination film series:
  • Final Destination: The first death in the series has Tod's eyes fill with blood as he's being strangled to death.
  • Final Destination 2: After successfully fleeing his burning apartment building, Evan gets a rather squick 'falling fire-escape ladder meets eye' situation.
  • Final Destination 3: While Ashley and Ashlyn are being boiled alive in their tanning beds, Ashlyn's goggles melt and fuse with her eyeballs, causing her to scream from the extreme pain.
  • The Final Destination: Having survived a deadly trip to the hair salon, Samantha opens the door to leave only to have a rock propelled through her eye courtesy of a nearby lawnmower.
  • Final Destination 5: During the eye surgery scene, a LASIK machine goes haywire and begins cutting into Olivia Castle's eye; when she finally gets free of the machine, she slips on a teddy bear's eyeball and crashes through the window, her other eye popping out of its socket when she lands. And then it gets run over by a car.
• Fire in the Sky has a scene where The Greys stick a needle in an abductee's eye.
• In found., both the killer in Film Within a Film Headless as well as Steve end up gouging out their victim's eyes.
• Played for Laughs (much like everything else) in Fist Of Fear Touch Of Death. One of the scenes shown at the "1979 World Karate Championships" has Bill Louie fighting an unnamed opponent, tweaking his sockets and tossing the eyeballs out into the crowd.
• The Flesh and the Fiends: After Hare agrees to turn King's Evidence against his former partner and is set free, vindictive locals catch him and burn out his eyes with a flaming torch.
• Very common in the Friday the 13th series.
  • In the first movie, a guy is perforated by several arrows, including one in the eye.
  • In Part III, a woman is shot in the eye with a Harpoon Gun, and the Final Girl's boyfriend has his head squeezed until one eyeball pops out. Oh, also, this movie's "you're all doomed" guy finds an eyeball. It's worth mentioning, incidentally, that this movie was in 3D. Watch out!
  • In Part V, one girl is stabbed in the eyes with garden shears, a guy's eyes are crushed by a leather strap and an old black guy gets his eyes gouged out.
  • In Part VII, one girl is stabbed in the eye with a party horn.
  • In Part VIII, Jason is stabbed in the eye with an ink pen.
  • In Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy Krueger jabs one of his claws into each of Jason's eye sockets.
• Fright Night 2: New Blood: Charley attacks Gerri by jamming a crucifix in one of her eyes. This does slow her down briefly, but she just repairs herself.
• At one point in From Beyond, an eyeball is sucked out of a woman's head and her frontal lobe is consumed through her eye socket. There's also several instances of people's third eyes bursting out of their foreheads on stalks, and these eyes are occasionally subject to injury themselves.
• The Italian director/screenwriter Lucio Fulci was quite fond of this motif. Quite a few of his horror films, such as The Beyond, The New York Ripper and Zombi 2 contain scenes involving injury to the eye. Zombi 2 is the most infamous: a woman is killed by a zombie pulling her head forward until she gets a wooden splinter through the eyeball. All in agonizingly slow Suspense-O-Vision, with many shots from the woman's point of view. The buildup to the big moment lasts a full 20 seconds, and is rendered slightly ridiculous by the fact that the woman involved has both her arms free and doesn't even attempt to struggle.
  • This is homaged in Planet Terror, where a zombified Quentin Tarantino gets stabbed through the eye with Rose McGowan's peg leg.
• Full Metal Jacket: While it doesn't happen, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman threatens to do this to Private Pyle for looking at him funny.
  Sgt. Hartman: Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds, exactly three fucking seconds, to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and SKULLFUCK YOU!
• The Funhouse Massacre:
  • Jeffrey "Animal The Cannibal" was stabbed in the eye with a fork by a woman he intended to kill and serve to his customers. He has a scar over his right eye as a result.
  • The Stitch-Faced Killer (aka, Eileen) stitches the eyes and mouths of her victims shut.
• In the 1950 Western The Furies, Vance Jeffords (Barbara Stanwyck) is so enraged that her father is engaged to marry the aging, strong willed Gold Digger Florence Burnett that she throws a pair of scissors at Flo's face. They hit an eye and the vein underneath.
• In the 2019 film The Furies, protagonist Kayla realises that she, the abducted girls, and their male hunters have all been fitted with implants in their left eyes to allow whoever set up the current hunt to track them, even able to detonate the implants if the hunters or the girls gain a numerical advantage to keep the numbers even. Kayla not only cuts the implant out of an unconscious hunter, but later cuts out her own left eye to remove the implant so that she can go after the people who organise the hunts and be presumed dead.
• A particularly wince-worthy scene in Gangs of New York has Bill the Butcher tap a knife to his glass eye. The film makers pulled it off with an extra-thick contact lens, but you've got to wonder about how committed to his craft Daniel Day-Lewis was feeling that day, especially since it was a Throw It In!.
• The Gate has three. One uses a Barbie doll.
• Ghosts of War: Among the injuries Butchie endured from smothering a grenade explosion include the apparent loss of an eye, and a simple surface of injured flesh covering up where his eyelids should be located.
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Because of their body armor, the best way to kill Viper Commandos (from the opening battle) or Neo-Vipers is through the eye cover of their helmets. Snake-Eyes and Scarlett are particularly proficient at this, but Duke gets one too.
• The climax of The Godfather. An assassin bursts in on Moe Greene while he's getting a massage. Moe puts on his glasses and looks up at the killer just in time to get a bullet through lens and eye. It's very likely a reference to the real-life death of Bugsy Siegel, who got a bullet through the head that exited through the eye, knocking it across the room.
• In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Angel Eyes sticks his thumbs into Tuco's eyes to get information from him. It doesn't seem to do any permanent damage, though.
• The Goonies doesn't show us the actual attack (in fact, the entire film takes place 350 years later), but it's still rather unsettling. While the kids are exploring the pirate ship, Andy reacts in disgust at seeing one of the crew members' skeletal remains. Mikey tries to tell her it's nothing to worry about and pulls the skeleton away from the railing. That's when we see it has a dagger in each eye socket.
• A bad guy in The Green Hornet is killed by sharpened stakes in the eyes. Both of them.
• In Grim Prairie Tales, Determinator Colochez attempts to gouge Martin's eyes out but dies of exsanguination before he can succeed.
• Halloween II (1981):
  • Dr. Mixter is found with a syringe jammed into his eye.
  • Later on, Laurie shoots Michael Myers through both eyes... and that STILL isn't enough to stop him.
• Halloween (2018): Late in the original film, Laurie stabbed Michael in the eye with a metal coat hanger. While most incarnations of Michael Myers seem to have recovered with little trouble, this version still has that injury, with the eye shown clouded and scarred.
  • Halloween Kills: Michael kills two firemen by stabbing their eyes with a halligan's bar he picked up from the first one he killed and later Big John by inserting his thumbs into his eyes.
• Halloween at Aunt Ethel's: In One scene, Aunt Ethel is shown gouging an eye out of a corpse. She has difficulty doing so, and her attempts end up spurting blood.
• This is how Johnny Wong goes out in Hard Boiled, courtesy of a Moe Greene Special by Tequila and a .38 revolver.
• In the climax of Hardcore Henry, after Henry has finally managed to gain the upper hand against telekinetic megalomaniac Akan by jumping him from behind, Henry beats his face to a pulp while they're suspended in the air, and when he has nothing to finish him off with, he rips out his own goddamn cyberetic eye, wraps the stalk around Akan's head, rips through it sideways, and sends his body flying into the blades of the helicopter flying next to them.
• The Haunting in Connecticut features a rather nasty combination of calipers, eyelids, and scissors...
• In The Hazing, Kapps murders the other patient in his hospital room by stabbing multiple syringes into her eyes.
• Hazmat: When he bursts into the control room, Jacob pins David down and drives the back of his fire axe into David's eye.
• In the 1971 grindhouse film The Headless Eyes, the Villain Protagonist gets his eye gouged out at the start of the film, right before the opening credits, and from that point on he starts gouging out and collecting other peoples' eyes.
• Hellboy:
  • In the Director's Cut of Hellboy (2004), during Rasputin's resurrection scene, his face is never shown on-camera, but instead a shocked Ilsa asks "What have they done to your eyes?!" Though Rasputin wears very dark sunglasses thereafter, a later scene (also exclusively in the Director's Cut) shows Rasputin putting in a pair of glass eyes, implying that his original eyes were already gone when he first came Back from the Dead.
  • A motif throughout Hellboy (2019). It begins on a close-up shot of a corpse's eye being plucked from its socket by a crow. There's a long Gross-Up Close-Up of Baba Yaga's missing eye, and she tries to take one of Hellboy's. Nimue is reassembled by a hag with sewn-up eyes. Nimue's eye gets shot out and dangles out of its socket for a while. Numerous other enemies are shot or stabbed in the eye.
• Hellraiser: Inferno:
  • Near the beginning in Joseph's nightmare, Pinhead suddenly appears and tears out Joseph's eyes just before he wakes up.
  • A twisted vision of Joseph's mother attacks him with her eyes gouged out.
• A very unpleasant Real Life example from Hiroshima Mon Amour, courtesy of stock footage of casualties from the 1945 nuking of Hiroshima. A doctor is shown using clamps to pull open a woman's eyelids, revealing her burnt-out husk of an eyeball.
• Hitchhiker Massacre: In the opening of the movie, the killer takes his victim's life by shoving her into the sharp broken end of a piece of wood. The scene burns away mid-skewer.
• In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, one of the "weapons" that Azog's army uses is a bunch of cave trolls with their hands and feet replaced with mace-balls and controlled by chains anchored into their eye sockets.
• Klaus in Hold Your Breath has a thing about eyes. Keys, hash pipes, sticks, egg beaters, they'll all go into your eye.
• One of the more harrowing scenes in A Home Too Far, a war movie. Running into napalm without facial protection does bad things to your eyeballs, it seems.
• Horrific: In Terror Vision, Dr. Jordan hires a male prostitute to be the subject of his perception experiment. He is killed when a giant monster crawls out of his eye socket.
• The British crime film Horrors of the Black Museum has a scene in which a woman is shown with blood running between the fingers pressed to her face, followed by a shot of binoculars with spikes at the eye-pieces. It is allegedly based on a real case.
  • In the real case, the booby-trapped binoculars were sent anonymously to a young woman's birthday party. Luckily, her father started fiddling with the focusing dial without looking through them, so no one was hurt when he triggered the mechanism.
  • A similar pair of eye-stabbing binoculars was used in a Michael Slade novel, Ghoul.
• In the thoroughly Gorn-tastic movie Hostel there's a scene where a man has taken a blowtorch to an Asian woman's eyeball, melting it into a grotesque shape. Afterwards, our hero cuts off the protruding gore only to have it leak viscous fluids down the woman. Afterwards, she throws herself in front of a moving train after seeing her reflection.
• In Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost pretends to stab his eye with a fork (he actually does it in a ketchup package). Timothy Dalton's character later attempts to push his thumbs into Angel's eyes during their climactic fight.
• Averted in Hot Tub Time Machine with Adam, who was stabbed in the eyebrow. Still, pretty close call.
• Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch: Stirba has a spell that causes its victims' eyeballs to explode in a fountain of blood. Fortunately, the heroes are able to neutralize the spell with their holy earplugs (yes, you read that correctly)... until Stefan's dwarf friend trips over and loses his earplugs.
• Hummingbird: While searching for information on Isabel's killer, Joey threatens to gouge out Taxman's eye with a spoon.
• In The Hunt (2020), Athena kills Randy by driving her stiletto heel through his eye.
• Implied in Enki Bilal's Immortal.
  Dayak: You have a black box in your brain. Give it to me, please.
• The Jose Mojica Marins film Inferno Carnal features a close-up of a scalpel scraping around an eye.
• I Spit on Your Grave:
  • In the remake, one of Jennifer's rapists — who has a distinct voyeuristic bent — films the attack. In her revenge kill, Jennifer puts hooks through his eyelids. She later spreads fish guts across his face, leading to crows eating his eyes.
  • In another revenge kill, Jennifer puts lye in a bathtub one of her rapists is suspended over and lets him fall in. Cue his face burning off, including his eyes, and even his tongue.
• A version of this happens in Innerspace, when Tuck (currently miniaturized and injected into a neurotic man instead of the rabbit he was expecting) attaches a sensor to the nearest retina to see if he could get his bearings. At the moment of attachment, Jack (said neurotic man) suddenly grabs at his eye and screams, comparing the pain to having a white-hot spike jabbed through his eye.
• The henchwoman called The Witch in Iron Monkey gets defeated by having a metal ball flung into her eye. Which embeds itself through her sockets, and somehow she continues fighting for a while after that!
• In Jack Reacher, the titular character defends himself from an attacking mook by shoving his thumb to said mook's eye.
• The first Jaka Sembung has the titular hero captured alive by the Dutch colonizers, who then decides to have his eyes gouged out as punishment for his resistance. Jaka Sembung's love interest, Surti, managed to save him from certain death and help him reunite with his mentor, getting herself shot in the process; Surti then decides to give up her eyes for Jaka Sembung, with Jaka's mentor using a knife to remove Surti's eyes, and then cast some ancient Indonesian spell so her eyes are embedded into his, restoring his vision.
• Jack the Giant Slayer: One of the eyeballs in Fallon's miniature head shoots out during his death.
• Jeepers Creepers: The "Creeper" removes and eats Darry's eyes, in order to gain use of them. The last scene shows a close up of a deceased Darry with his eyes removed, with the Creeper looking through the gouged hole. Darry (in a brief instant without eyes) makes a cameo in the sequel.
• Jeepers Creepers 2: The Creeper himself gets javellined right through the eye. It hurts him so bad he rips off half his own head to get it out. He grows a new one though.
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: John delivers one of these to one of the assassins pursuing him with a knife from the antique store they're fighting in.^note The assassin in question is played by Tiger Chen, Wick actor Keanu Reeves' personal friend who starred in Reeves' directorial debut Man of Tai Chi.
• There's an obvious version and a less obvious version in the Joshuu Sasori series. In the first film, an enraged bully whose scheme has backfired tries to kill Matsu, the protagonist, with a piece of glass; she lures her attacker around the shower area until she appears to be cornered, then dodges the thrust - leaving the prison warden to take the glass shard straight in the eye. He chokes his attacker to death with his bare hands, glass still embedded. By the second film, he has had Matsu imprisoned underground, bound hand and foot, for a year, but she has used the time to carve a shiv from a spoon by scraping it on the floor with her teeth. At her first opportunity, she goes for his other eye, only just missing. The less obvious version lies in the way that Matsu is frequently depicted with one eye obscured; this is a reference/allusion to youkai which often only have one eye.
• Subverted in Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun (a.k.a. "Doppelganger"). In the pre-titles sequence, Dr. Hassler (Herbert Lom) goes into his bathroom and pulls out one of his own eyes. It's quickly revealed that it's a false eye, concealing a miniature camera.
• The Spanish film Julia's Eyes has one scene of a knife edging closer to an eye and another of a needle actually being stuck into it.
• In Julia X, Jessica murders The Man by driving a scissor blade through his eye.
• Jurassic Park: Nedry is sprayed with a good dose of venom in his unprotected eyes. He loses both the can of dinosaur embryos and his life when the dinosaur sneaks into his van.
• In Keep an Eye Out! a one-eyed police officer makes for several puns and visual gags. He is eventually hit in the eye.
• In Kevin & Perry Go Large, a character named, appropriately enough, Eyeball Paul is such a raging alcoholic he does shots of vodka through his eyeball, just to get a buzz.
• Near the end of Kick-Ass 2, Hit Girl grabs Black Death's hand and makes him stab himself through the eye with his own finger.
• The Killer (1989) revolves around the titular Hitman with a Heart trying to amend for his mistakes after a botched assassination job leads to his revolver's muzzle accidentally blinding an innocent singer, turning her eyes to mush in the process. It's also how he's killed in the finale, courtesy of two bullets in his eyes.
• Eagle Shadow Fist: The film's final battle (which is some 10 minutes long...) ends with the protagonist gouging out the main Japanese fighter's eyes. In VERY graphic detail. See?◊
• Kild TV: Early in the movie, when Milton is hosting the Dr. Perseco's Late Night Horror show, in one segment, he brings out a skinned cow skull, and while monologuing, he cuts one of the eyes with a knife. He then proceeds to cut both eyes out and hold them over his own eyes at the camera.
• The Shaw Brothers wuxia movie, Killers Five, have the heroine throwing her hairpin into a Mook Lieutenant's left eye. Pretty harsh, right? She then delivers the coup-de-grace by throwing her sword through his other eye.
• Kill Bill:
  • The Bride plucks out the eye of one of the Crazy 88s during the bloodbath at the House of Blue Leaves, which prompts a black-and-white filter for the next few minutes. The uncensored, full-colour, extended version of this scene takes it even further when the Bride throws said eye down another mook's throat.
  • Elle revealing that Pai Mei plucked out one of her eyes for insulting him (which is the reason we see her with the cool pirate-style eyepatch), and that she killed Pai Mei in retaliation by poisoning his fish heads. When she and The Bride face off and lock swords, the Bride takes advantage of the moment to pluck out Elle's remaining eye and then crush it under her bare foot.
  • And then there's the bit where Budd keeps the Bride from resisting being buried alive by threatening to spray a whole can of Mace into her eyes. "Burn 'em right out of your head." It includes an extreme close-up shot that shows the can's nozzle very close to her eyeball.
• King Arthur (2004) has a big battle scene in it's first act where Tristan managed to arrow a barbarian archer through the eye.
• In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, victims of a virus eventually have their eyeballs burst, to gory effect. Also, Harry is missing an eye, having been shot in the face last film. He usually wears an eyepatch or darkened glasses over it, but in one scene we get to see his ruined eye in all its glory.
• In The Kite Runner, Assef, though largely a Karma Houdini, does get slingshotted in one eye near the end.
• Kokoda has a nasty example when an Australian solider who's been hiding under a log for some time finally rolls out... to see a Japanese soldier waiting for him, rifle (with a bayonet on the end) at the ready. The suspense builds up as the blade hovers in front of his face for a bit and then... shhhk!
• In Kong: Skull Island, Mason Weaver assists Kong by shooting Ramarak in the eye with a Flare Gun, which blows up said eye.
• The Lady Hermit: The title character, played by Cheng Pei-Pei, kicks a cup full of chopsticks at a bad guy she's fighting; two of them stab right into his eyes.
• In The Longest Nite, Sam the Dirty Cop beats up a suspect in one of his many Police Brutality moments, and tries forcing a confession out of her via pencil to the eye.
• The Lair of the White Worm has an example. A vampire-cop happens to land on a sundial, ripping an eye out of his socket in a particularly gory shot.
• The Last House on the Left features the ever-popular Moe Greene Special.
• The Last Sentinel has Tallis, the hero, removing a tracking device embedded behind his left eye by digging it out with a dagger.
• The Laundromat has a sequence about organ harvesting - including a horrifying scene of the cutting out of some poor schmuck's cornea.
• Legendary Weapons of China has the introduction of the Boxer Clan and their Blind Obedience, when two of them are ordered to commit suicide as proof of their loyalty, the first being told to claw his own eyes out. He does precisely that.
• Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds: The Plesiosaurus loses an eye after the Rhamphorhynchus stabs it out with its beak.
• Legend of the Wolf: In the climax, the titular protagonist's victory concludes with him digging out the Big Bad's eyes with his fingers. Before leaving him to die in a gorge slowly filling with water. We even get a nice, lovely close-up of his fingers dripping with blood.
• Limitless: When Eddie sticks the needle in the eye of the Russian Mafia thug.
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • In The Return of the King the filmmakers were very worried that the audience would sympathize with the Oliphaunts, thinking it wasn't their fault that Sauron's army was using them. Even after giving them the sound of a lion's roar rather than an elephant's trumpet and inserting numerous shots of the Oliphaunts deliberately stomping on Rohirrim, they still had to remove a shot of one of them getting hit in the eye with an arrow before they were satisfied the animals would not get undue sympathy.
  • Meanwhile, in The Two Towers, during the siege there's a quick shot of a man shouting an order to archers on the wall, with only a wide gaping hole in his right eye socket. The real treat is that it's not a special effect - he was originally just an extra with an eyepatch, but when Peter Jackson & Friends asked to see what was underneath, they decided it was so shockingly awesome they had to show it once. The extra described the experience of having the eye patch off on film as being very cathartic.
  • Legolas shoots orcs through the eye on a number of occasions. This is a departure from the books, where he usually aimed for the throat.

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• Machete:
  • Sartana kills an attacker by stabbing his eye with her high heeled shoe.
  • Luz gets an eye shot out; later, when she emerges from the back of an ambulance, the doctor says "How's the eye?" The response? "What eye?"
• In Machete Kills, Luz gets shot in the other eye. "I can't see you, but I can still kick your ass!"
• In Mad Max: Fury Road," the War Rig is stuck in mud and the group is trying to get it out while the Bullet Farmer shoots at them in the night. Max tries unsuccessfully to hit him with a sniper rifle, but gives it up to Furiosa on the last bullet. She shoots out the light which blinds the Bullet Farmer figuratively and literally when he can't even see a lit flare put in front of his face, his eye sockets seen quite open!
• Main Street Meats: In the climax, when Sis is trying to kill Cherry for getting close to Tommy, Cherry stabs Sis in the eye with a knife sharpening stick.
• In the final fight of Marked for Death, the protagonist John Hatcher gouges out the Big Bad's eyeballs with his thumbs. Of course being a Steven Seagal flick, that's only the beginning of what he does to finish the guy off.
• In Marketa Lazarová, Mikolas shoots an arrow straight through a man's right eye, which the camera focuses on for bizarre effect.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Iron Man, terrorist leader Raza attempts to torture Tony Stark's fellow captive Yinsen by shoving a steaming hot metal poker through his eye. Although Raza is ultimately persuaded against this, just seeing how close the poker is to Yinsen's eyes is enough to make anyone a bit squeamish.
  • In the very impressive battle between the forces of Asgard and Jötunheimr in Thor, Laufey forms a morningstar-like ball of ice and hurls it at Odin's face. The next time we get a clear look at Odin, he's holding his spear Gungnir at Laufey's throat... and his right eye has very visibly been gored right out of his head.
  • Loki in The Avengers (2012) rips out some random guy's eye to give a mind-controlled Hawkeye access to iridium. The scariest part? Loki's evil little smile while he's doing it. Made worse by the fact that the eyeball only needed to be scanned. But Loki handled the scanner with such violence that, although nothing is seen, it's obvious the man will lose sight in that eye.
  • Nick Fury wears an eyepatch, with vaguely suggestive scarring around the affected eye. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier we finally see the damaged eye, in a scene that is both awesome and intensely uncomfortable.
  • Downplayed, in that nothing happens to their actual eyes, but in Doctor Strange (2016) all the skin around the eyes of Kaecilius and his followers dies and dries and flakes away, leaving shiny, purple, very sore-looking flesh underneath.
  • At the climax of Thor: Ragnarok, Hela slashes Thor across his eye. To symbolize him succeeding Odin as King of Asgard, he gets a similar eyepatch at the end, until Infinity War when Rocket gives him a stolen bionic replacement.
  • In Captain Marvel (2019), we find out what was responsible for Fury's eye injury: he was scratched by Goose the Flerken after he had cuddled her for too long.
• Masquerade (2021): When Casey shoots the female burglar, the bullet goes through her mask and straight into her eye. The aftermath is shown later when Daniel kneels beside her body.
• The Matrix Revolutions features a fight between Neo and Bane/Smith. When the EMP beam goes awry and cuts a power cable, Smith jams it in to Neo's face effectively melting his eyes.
  Neo: I think you better drive.
• May ends with the title character gouging out her own (lazy) eye with scissors, then giving it to the "doll" she made of parts of people she'd murdered in a frenzied attempt to get it to see her. It's suggested that it works, although it's more likely May just went completely insane.
• One victim (played by Ted Raimi, in a cameo) in The Midnight Meat Train is hit in the head with a hammer. The blow is hard enough to send an eyeball flying out. And then his wife slips on it. Given Kitamura's geekery, this was almost certainly deliberate, since Ted Raimi also played the eyeball-popping victim in Evil Dead 2, as mentioned above.
• In Midnight Movie, Josh gets stabbed through the eye with the killer's corkscrew blade.
• Minority Report has John Anderton getting his eyes taken out and replaced by a creepy back alley surgeon (Peter Stormare!) because, 20 Minutes into the Future, retinal scanning is everywhere. For added ick, he carries the old eyes around in a plastic bag to get into places where he used to have security clearance. And as if that isn't enough, his ex-wife even uses his old eyes to get access to parts of the pre-crime facility she wouldn't be able to get to otherwise. When she casually drops them on the table in front of one of the technicians when she's asked about it...
• In the climax of Misery, Paul almost gouges out Annie's eyes with his fingers.
• Mission: Impossible Film Series:
  • Mission: Impossible (1996) has the elevator scene. The character on top of the elevator which suddenly starts rising looks up into some mysterious spikes and... yeah.
  • Mission: Impossible II has a moment where a knife stops just millimeters away from Tom Cruise's eye. This was no effect; they actually stabbed at the stuntman's eye with the knife, and it actually went that close. Sure, they had a frame rigged up with a rope so it couldn't stab him, but still.
• Morgan opens with Morgan attacking one of the scientists that helped create her, stabbing out her left eye.
• A (relatively) tame version of this trope appears in, of all places, Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Dogberry takes advantage of several opportunities to jam his grubby, unkempt fingers into his hapless assistant Verges' eyes, with icky sound effects to boot.
• The scene in The Mummy (1999) where the freshly-risen titular Big Bad awakens, and there just so happens to be one of the American mercs the protagonists hired to help for the dig nearby... Even worse, the poor bastard survived the whole thing.
  "He took my eyes! Help me! My eyes!..."
• In The Music Box, a scene opens with a large packing crate in the foreground. Stanley enters holding a ladder at his side, and there's a painful yell — Ollie rises into scene from behind crate, hand over his eye. Mild example, but — ow!
• My Bloody Valentine has two. Early in the film, an unsuspecting Red Shirt gets pickaxed through the back of the head, with his eye popping out on the point. Later on, the same weapon gets stuck in a wooden floor, and a victim is slowly but forcefully skewered.
• A mild case in Mystery Team; Jason squirts bug spray in his eye.
• Nacho Libre has Esqueleto throwing a half-eaten corn-on-a-stick right into a thug's eye.
• Never Say Never Again: Domino's brother has surgery on one of his eyes to pass a retina scan. This comes complete with a close-up of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity.
• In Next of Kin (1982), Linda stabs Rita in the eye through a door peephole using a hat pin.
• Nightbooks: A director trademark. The Shredder almost tears into Yazmin's eyes, but is stopped by Alex.
• Nightfall (1988):One of the rituals practiced by Sor's religion (who predict a coming darkness in a world which currently has Endless Daytime) is tying down a member and letting hawks peck out their eyes. Roa's screaming indicates that they're not likely to have any sort of anesthetic.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street:
  • In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, one of the sleep-clinic shrinks tells how a young patient cut off his own eyelids to stay awake. He also mentions that nobody knew how the kid got the razors to do it, so it's possible Freddy actually caused the damage and it was wrongly thought to be self-inflicted by skeptical adults.
  • In A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Freddy kills Nancy's mother. One of his blades goes through her eye.
• In No Kidding, Cook tells David what she plans to do to Matron if she catches her spying on her:
  Cook: I don't like spies. You can tell her from me, the next time I catch her I shall yank her eyeball through the keyhole!
• Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight: One of the killers presses his thumbs into the eye sockets of the priest who tied up Bartek until blood flows out of them.
• In None Shall Escape (a 1944 film about a trial against a Nazi officer following the end of the then-ongoing second world war, told via flashbacks from the points of view of the witnesses at the trial), Wilhelm loses his left eye to a stone thrown by Jan.
• Nope: OJ and Emerald's father is killed in the beginning of the movie when a coin (and other random debris) suddenly falls out of the sky and hits him right in the right eye as he was looking up. We get a lovely shot of his corpse with the coin-shaped wound in his bloodied eye socket.
• Once Upon a Time (2017): Su Jin forced Bai Qian to cut out her eyes and give them to her. Later Su Jin blinds herself.
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico had Agent Sands getting his eyes gouged out by Dr. Guevara. We're treated to a nice first-person view of the drill-extractor-thing they use slowly approaching his eyes, but fortunately not of the operation itself, as the screen cuts to black when the drill bits occupy almost the entire screen. He manages to compensate for this by becoming a badass blind gunfighter near the end of the movie. In the last scene of the movie, we're treated to a very gratuitous scene of the empty innards of his eye sockets...
• The heroine of One Missed Call looks through the peephole of her apartment door and very narrowly misses getting stabbed in the eye by an extremely long needle.
• Opera (1987):
  • The killer forces the main character to watch as he murders her friends. How? By taping forks right under her eyes. Should she close them...
  • The scene where the killer shoots Daria Nicolodi's character through a door's peephole and through her left eye.
  • And in the finale, where the killer is revealed via crow attack. One of them manages to peck out an eye in disconcertingly realistic fashion, afterwards holding it in its beak.
• In P2, the kidnapped heroine Plays Possum after losing a game of chicken, and jabs her kidnapper in the eye with a sharp object when he checks to see if she's dead.
• Pacific Rim: Hannibal Chau has a scar directly on his eye, the result of an incident in a Anti-Kaiju Defense Shelter. Although, one can argue that Chau himself did tried the Human-Kaiju drift, like Newton does. Chau's word, 'once', is a subtle hint. A couple of the Kaiju themselves also get eye injuries, Leatherback from a flare, Slattern from a nuclear blast.
• The Pale Man of Pan's Labyrinth. No damage to the eye going on, but... well, go look at a picture of him.
• The Passion of the Christ features a crucified man getting his eye pecked out by a crow.
• In The Phantom (1996), the Big Bad preps a fake microscope that has blades come out of the eyepieces when properly adjusted. He gets a librarian he suspects of doublecrossing him to look into the microscope and adjust it to look at "the sample"; when it's properly adjusted, the word "LIAR" comes into focus. Cue screams.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1962):
  • The Phantom's dwarf assistant kills a rat catcher by stabbing him in the eye with a knife.
  • The Phantom himself is missing an eye. It likely melted due to the acid that disfigured his face.
• In Pig Hunt, one of the hippie women stabs Jake through the eye with the boar tusk she wears on her necklace.
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • The Curse of the Black Pearl: Ragetti's wooden eye! It was cringe-worthy every time it was popped in and out. Especially when it got impaled by a fork. The fork then moved around as he moved his eyes trying to see it.
  • Dead Man's Chest: We briefly see a crow pull out a prisoner's glass/wooden eye with its beak.
  • At World's End: When Davy Jones kills Mercer to get the key. Right for the eye socket. The camera is out of focus when Davy Jones finally drops the body, but you can still see a dark wreck where his eyes used to be.
• There is a scene in Pitch Black where a character injects himself with morphine via his tear ducts.
• Pit Fighter: Jack, tge titular pit fighter, defeats one of his opponents in a kickboxing ring by kicking his right eye out if the socket. Complete with the camera lingering on the victim's bloodied, bulging eye hanging on a vein (a disturningly realistic-looking prop) with the victim shouting in pain the whole time.
• Plunkett & Macleane villain General Chance enjoys sadistic torture and is especially fond of the soft unfortunate eyes of his captives.
• The Predator: Quinn McKenna threatens a mercenary who has kidnapped his son with a tranquilizer dart gun. The mercenary mocks him because such a weapon cannot kill. Quinn proves him wrong by shooting him in the eye with the dart, which kills him.
• The Princess (2022): The princess stabs one of her guards fatally in the eye with a hair pin.
• Played with in Pulgasari. At one point, the King's soldiers shoot rocket-propelled javelins at his eye. One of them sticks in, and blood is shown dripping from it. But Pulgasari, being the invincible Kaiju he is, simply pulls out the javelin and is apparently uninjured despite the blood.
• Monica's death in The Rage: Carrie 2 involves Rachel using her Psychic Powers to smash her glasses and drive the broken glass into her eyes.
• During the famous battle scene that happens midway through Akira Kurosawa's Ran, one of the many horrors on screen is a man crawling about with an arrow through his eye.
• In Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper, the Ripper kills James by driving his thumbs through his eyes.
• In the Korean horror movie The Red Shoes (2005), a character has her face grabbed from behind by the antagonist, who proceeds to jam one of their fingers into the unfortunate woman's eye socket, gouging out her eyeball. It is seen dropping to the ground in a close-up, and the woman's mangled, bleeding socket is shown shortly after.
  • In the same movie, the death of another character involved, amongst other things, having the heel of a stiletto shoe jammed into his eyeball.
• In Repo! The Genetic Opera Blind Mag's eyes are marked for repossession. In the end she gouges her own eyes out on stage, instead of letting Rotti have her murdered for them. He murders her anyway.
• Resident Evil Film Series:
  • Resident Evil (2002) had the laser trap room when the laser turns into a grid showing an extreme close up of a guy's eye followed by a delayed Diagonal Cut through it as he falls apart into cubed chunks.
  • The second movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, subverts this near the end, after the movie's main plot ends. Alice is taken back by the Umbrella scientists and seems to have no memory, so one of the scientists condescends and shows Alice how his pen works. Alice then regains her memory in a flash and nearly gouges out the eye of one scientist with the pen. But instead of actually gouging out his eye, she merely beats the crap out of him instead.
  • In the third movie, Resident Evil: Extinction, the villain, The Tyrant, uses his mutant arm to gouge out both eyes of one of the lab coat mooks who just realised the good villain was turning mutie. He also stabbed him in the throat, don't know what he was doing there.
• Return to a Better Tomorrow have the hero killing a mook by driving a receipt holder spike into his eye.
• Revenge (2017): When Dimi is attempting to drown Jen in the lake, Jen manages to snatch his hunting knife from its sheath without him noticing. She then rakes the blade over both his eyes, then jams it up to the hilt in one of his eye sockets.
• Robin Hood (1991): Harry betrays Marian to Daguerre and Folcanet expecting a reward and is next seen by the other Merry Men in a cage, dead with his eyes put out and maggots swarming across his head. Judging from his corpse's expression he wasn't already dead when the mutilation was done.
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: The Locksley family's loyal retainer Duncan had his eyes gouged out by the Sheriff of Nottingham for refusing to believe the false charges of Satanism being directed at Lord Locksley.
• A bizarre example is provided in the Japanese splatter-comedy film RoboGeisha: When one of Yoshie's targets gets too fresh with her during her performance as a geisha, she responds by gouging his eyes out... with a pair of fried shrimp.
• In Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, Theresa is killed by having twigs shoved through her eyes.
• In Saving Private Ryan, an enemy sniper takes a bullet to the eye through his rifle scope.
• Saw:
  • In Saw II:
    • The opening trap, the Death Mask, involves a contrapted mask full of pointy nails that would snap shut unless it was unlocked in time. The catch? The key had been surgically inserted behind one of the luckless victim's eyes. Either cut your own eye out and plunge your fingers in to get the key, or suffer a horribly painful death.
    • Gus Colyard is shot through the eye while looking through the peephole of a magnum booby trap.
  • In Saw IV:
    • In the opening trap, the Mausoleum Trap, two victims are put into a strangulation device, and the keys to each other's chains are taped into their collars. One had his eyes sewn shut and the other his mouth to prevent any kind of communication between them.
    • The Bedroom Trap (pictured above): either use this diabolical device to gouge your own eyes out, or get torn limb from limb.
  • Saw 3D has the Impalement Wheel, which involves three rods that would not only penetrate the victim's eyes, but also their mouth. If any scene in the Saw franchise wanted viewers to see first-hand what being in a Jigsaw trap is actually like, watching that trap in 3D (as the film had intended) is it.
  • Averted in Jigsaw. This is hinted at in one of the movie's trailers when one of the participants in the Barn game falls dangerously close to a set of outstretched spikes, but it never happens.
  • The Eye Vacuum Trap from Saw X involves a man with two plastic pipes connected to a vacuum machine funnelling into his eyes, who has to break all the restrained fingers on his right hand with a triggering dial on his left to avoid the machine from sucking his eyes out.
• In the 2007 British independent film Saxon, our protagonist "Fast" Eddie loses an eye to a loan shark and is in danger of losing the other if he doesn't pay up. It's not shown very explicitly, but it's still a hell of a way to open a film.
• When Emma and Marcus find Suze's body hanging from the rafters in Scare Campaign, her eyes have been gouged out.
• Scarred: When Jonah Kandie has Bo and Asia at his mercy, one way he tortures Asia is by burning the end of a stick, and pressing the burnt end into Asia's eyes.
• The street shootout scene in Second In Command has Van Damme's character, Sam being attacked up close by an insurgent, where both men grappled with each other for a while until Van Damme shoves his thumbs into his opponent's eyes, tearing out his eyeballs.
• Bonus points for the WWE film See No Evil, whose working title during production was Eye Scream Man.
• In A Serbian Film somebody gets eye raped. As in, having an erect penis shoved into his eye socket. It's as graphic and as Squicky as it sounds..
• In The Seventh Seal, The Bully gets his eyes slashed with a knife. Can't say he wasn't warned.
• One of the Amoral Afrikaner Private Military Contractors in Sheena has his eyes pecked out. By killer flamingoes.
• Carrots are good for your eyesight... unless wielded by Mr. Smith from Shoot 'Em Up. As learnt by a mook who gets a carrot embedded in his left eye.
• Sheitan: At the end of the film, Bart wakes up to discover that Joseph has removed his eyes.
• Shutter Island: "If I sink my teeth into your eye right now do you think you can stop me before I blind you?"
• Silent Night (2012):
  • Deputy Jordan is electrocuted to the point of his eyes exploding, like Chip in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.
  • Deputy Giles is stabbed in the eye with a Sinister Scythe.
  • Jim punches Santa in the face so hard it appears to cause one of the killer's eyes to bleed.
• In Silver Bullet Corey Haim's character shoots a werewolf in the eye with a bottle rocket, he later blows out its other eye with the silver bullet.
• In Single White Female Sam (Steven Weber) is killed (perhaps accidentally) with a stiletto shoe through the eye.
• In Slashers, Rebecca kills Preacherman by stabbing a wooden stake into his eye.
• Slumdog Millionaire has the Fagin-type head of an orphanage blinding the kids who sing well with hot lye. Why? Because blind singers earn twice as much begging.
• In South Wind, the enraged Big Bad Golub gouges out Hristo's eyes after he insults him.
• In Speak: The villain says he didn't know why he raped Melinda Sordino because he thinks she isn't attractive, right before she throws a jar of permanently blinding acid into his eyes.
• In Spectre, Mr. Hinx uses metallic thumbnails to gouge out the eyes of a Spectre member at Oberhauser's behest. Hinx later tries to gouge James Bond's eyes, but Bond is able to block it and shove him back.
  • Another subverted example is when Blofeld has Bond locked into a Robotic Torture Device and points two drills at his eyes, but Bond frees himself in time by detonating a watch bomb right next to Blofeld.
• Short Film: Spider - "It's all fun and games....until someone loses an eye".
• In Spider-Man 2, this is the cause of Rosalie Octavius' death, thanks to Dr. Octavius/Dr. Octopus' experiment. A glass window shatters in front of her, leading thousands of shards of glass to go flying in her direction - we see the reflection of the glass in her eye just before it enters, killing her.
• Inverted in The Spirit. The Octopus dissolves a kitten. All that remains are his eyes.
• Japanese gore film Splatter Naked Blood has a woman under the influence of a powerful drug engage in Autocannibalism. After devouring a couple of her fingers, one of her nipples, and various other bits of her flesh, she catches her reflection in the blade of her knife and drives a fork straight into her eye, which she pulls out and devours.
• Splintered: Near the end, Sophie (the heroine) flees into the woods from the utterly insane, feral man, Vincent, whom his brother, Gavin, locked away to protect her (by keeping her captive) from being killed. She doesn't get far until she falls over and is assaulted by ravenous man, but she lashes out and stabs him several times in the face and eye with her cross necklace. Her attacker dies before she can finish him off by smashing his face in with a rock.
• Star Trek: First Contact:
  • Picard's nightmare about his Borg assimilation experience ends with a scene of a sharp probe approaching his eyeball. To make it worse, in the split second before the scene ends, we actually see the needle touch his cornea and make it flex a bit. It even provides the main page's image, just to be completely sure.
  • All of the Borg assimilation montages included a shot of a needle going through an eye. Probably justified, since nearly all borg have only one eye visible, the other covered/replaced by some kind of mechanical thingie.
  • In the assimilation montage during the movie we see a female proto-drone (former Starfleet officer) whose left eye has been replaced by a mechanical interface for the eye-probe — if that's not bad enough there are traces of blood on the eyelid.
• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi has a mechanical example when poor Threepio, who is always losing parts, has one of his optical sensors ripped out by Jabba the Hutt's pet, Salacious Crumb.
• Strange Nature: During the attack on his house, Joe sticks his thumb in the eye of one of his attackers until blood starts to pour out.
• Strippers Vs. Werewolves: Justice kills a werewolf at the start of the movie by stabbing him in the eye with what is later identified as a silver fountain pen.
• In Stung, one of the killer mutant wasps inserts its stinger directly into its victim's eyeball - a stylized drawing of this shot even adorns the disc itself on Blu-ray and DVD copies of the movie.
• In Sucker Punch, there are several posters in the dance studio that show how doctors would perform a lobotomy, by hammering a piece of metal under the eye to disconnect a nerve. When Baby Doll is lobotomized she shows no physical after-effects, but the effect is still there.
• In The Suicide Theory, one of the injuries Percival racks up involves him losing an eye—which is actually rather mild considering this is the only lasting damage from him being shot three times in the head. He wears an eyepatch for the rest of the movie.
• Starro, in The Suicide Squad, has a harpoon thrown into his eye, followed by a huge swarm of rats chewing their way in through the wound and eating him from the inside out. We even get to see the gushing eruption of fluid as the harpoon lances into his eyeball.
• A famous sequence in Superman Returns has Supes not only withstand about 400 rounds point blank from a Gatling gun, but then get shot directly in the eye. The bullet flattens on his cornea and bounces off.
  • The same happens in J. Michael Straczynski's Supreme Power comic (a Darker and Edgier Squadron Supreme); there, Hyperion (their version of Superman). Going for the eye is also a favorite information extracting tactic of Nighthawk. "But what if I don't know what you want to know?" "Then I'll apologize. Profusely."
  • The above scene is parodied in Epic Movie (2007), in which Supes' eye is far less bulletproof.
• Suspect: Kathleen's process server gets slashed in the face and eyes with a straight razor by Michael, a murder suspect, when she serves him with a subpoena for testimony.
• The martial arts film The Sword of Swords has the protagonist being blinded by his rival, the film's Big Bad, via darts into the eyes.

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• Talk to Me:
  • The opening: After being possessed, Duckett stabs himself in the eye.
  • Another participant allows himself to be possessed. He smashes his face to a pulp and also tries to pluck out his own eye.
• Tamara: Roger kills himself by driving a knife through his own eye.
• In Ten Dead Men, Ryan cuts Hart's eye out with a knife before he kills him: keeping the eye as a Creepy Souvenir.
• A Taste Of Cold Steel, a martial arts flick, has one eye-patched villain getting his other good eye whipped out... by a Buddhist horsetail whisk.
• Terminator:
  • The first movie had the T-800 (Arnold) cutting its own eye out because it was damaged (and presumably interfering with its vision). We are grateful that they seem to have made this special effect much less realistic than they could have at the time.
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Sarah Connor is threatened with losing an eye when she is captured by the T-1000 at the climax.
  • Terminator Genisys: When the T-1000 goes after Kyle Reese and a police officer, the latter shoots it directly in the eye. The T-1000 immediately shrugs it off.
• In The Terror, Gustav has his eye pecked out by Katrina's falcon.
• In an installment of the horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre entitled "Vision Stains", a young woman goes about murdering homeless women and sucking out the fluid from their eyeballs with a syringe as they take their final breath. She then injects said fluid into her own eye in order to see her victims' memories. She ultimately ends up gouging out her own eyes after she starts to hear voices. There is no Gory Discretion Shot.
• In Theatre of Blood, Vincent Price is a Shakespearean actor who kills his critics by restaging death scenes from The Bard's plays. For his last and worst enemy, he chooses King Lear.
• In The Thing, Gary shoots one of the Norwegians in the eye after he starts shooting at them trying to kill the alien, also later when Palmer is revealed to be the one taken over by the alien his eyes melt out of their sockets.
• The Three Stooges certainly make eye-pokes business as usual - but one short, They Stooge To Conga takes it to another level when Moe gets a spiked-sole shoe pressed in the eye!
• Thriller: A Cruel Picture actually shows an extreme closeup of the protagonist having a scalpel inserted into her eye. Even worse when you know that it was an actual (dead) person they filmed it happening to.
• The opening scene in the original Total Recall (1990) where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character breaks his visor and has his face and eyes blow up due to the Martian atmosphere. "Oh, he looks like a fish!" Fortunately, it's All Just a Dream. Unfortunately for the Big Bad, the same can't be said when the same thing happens to him for real.
• In Train, Vlad pulls Todd's eye from its socket while he still conscious.
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon:
  • Done to Starscream when Sam attacks him with the gauntlet that was meant as a grappling hook for climbing structures. And again when Sam takes out the other eye with an explosive device that ultimately blows Screamer's head into the robotic equivalent of Ludicrous Gibs.
  • Shockwave also gets slapped pretty hard with this trope, being battered with enemy fire until his single eye is left dangling out of its socket. And after that, Optimus rips the whole goddamn thing out through his throat.
  • The snipers are trained to shoot out the eyes of the Decepticons.
• At the very beginning of the climactic shootout at the end of True Romance, Christian Slater's character is hit with a bullet that grazes his eye. Originally this was going to outright go through his eye and kill him, but ultimately this was changed to said Disney Death in order to give the film a happier ending.
• The breakout scene in True Lies starts with Harry using the doctor attempting to torment him as a Human Shield, and then grabbing a nearby Patterson Trocar and flinging into an enemy guard's eye.
  Harry: "...then I'm gonna kill that guard over there with that Patterson Trocar on the table..."
• The Malicious Demonic Monster Grimdo, who is the Big Bad of Ultraman Taiga The Movie: New Generation Climax, is finally defeated when Ultraman Reiga blasts his energy beam through Grimdo's main eye, successfully penetrating all the way to the other side.
• The Big Bad of Undefeatable is a psycho who kidnaps, rapes, enucleates and kills women. In the infamous climactic fight, he karmically loses both his eyes. Not both eyes at once, mind you. Each one in two separate incidents during the same fight, leading to the Bond One Liners:
  Kristi: We'll keep an eye out for you, Stingray.
  Nick: Yeah, see ya.
• Under Siege: The first film has a fight scene at the very end, where Segal sticks his thumb into the guy's eye right before driving a knife into his skull.
• The villain of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory gets the passwords to a computer system from two of his former co-workers by threatening each one that he would poke the other in the eye with a hot needle (The two co-workers were sleeping together). The threat included a very graphic description of how the heat from the needle would cause the fluid in the eye to boil and explode.
• The Undertaker (1988): Roscoe kills a man in a car by leaping out at him from the back seat and driving a knife into his eye.
• Underworld (2003):
  • In Underworld: Awakening, Quint gets an injection in his eye. It hurts like hell and causes his eye to become really red.
  • In Underworld: Blood Wars, Selene kills a Lycan mook by stabbing him in the eye with a silver arrow.
• In Vampires vs. Zombies, Carmilla kills Travis by driving a Wooden Stake through his eye.
• In Varsity Blood, Linda goes down to an arrow through the eye courtesy of the killer.
• Vault of Horror: In "Drawn and Quartered", Moore takes his revenge on the art critic Breedley by poking out the eyes of his portrait. As he does this, Breedley's wife discovers that he has been having an affair and, swearing that he "will never look at another again", tosses acid in his face: burning out his eyes.
• Early on in Vengeance! (1970), this is how Yu-Lou, the olderTang brother, finally gets taken down; while fighting off hordes and hordes of mooks, one lucky mook managed to drive his ax through Yu-Lou's face and gouge out his eyes, leading to an extensive shot of Yu-Lou stumbling around while eyeless. This shot notably inspired the opening of the John Woo classic, The Killer (1989).
• Two segments of V/H/S/2 feature this:
  • The protagonist of "Phase I Clinical Trials" ends up cutting out his own eye. It just makes him unable to see what's attacking him.
  • The protagonist of "A Ride In the Park" gets a barbecue-fork in the eye when attacking a parent.
• In The Vikings, Jerkass Viking warrior Einar has his left eye clawed by a falcon and has an ugly cataract for the rest of the movie. Audiences in the 1950s found the scene even bloodier than it actually was.
• In Village of the Damned (1995), a doctor accidentally drops some acidic drops in the eyes of one of the ten Creepy Children during a check-up. The ringleader of the kids then uses her telekinesis to make the optician use said drops on her own eyes over and over, until she's left permanently blind.
• Violent Night features a lot of gory deaths, one of which involves stabbing someone through the eye with the star from a Christmas tree.
• The Voyeurs: Pippa blinds Julia and Sebastian after she drugged them at the end using a laser surgery device, in revenge for their voyeurism. We see Sebastian's eye actually sizzling.
• In Warlock (1989) a seer offers her assistance helping the Warlock find what he is missing. He takes her up on the offer, literally, by taking her eyes. Later, you can see the eyes, with some of her optic nerves still attached, moving in the direction of the Warlock's book.
• In Wer, Gavin Flemyng did this on purpose to himself. Because he wants to know if Talan Gwynek the werewolf infected him or not. Gavin is infected, but not as bad as Talan.
• In When Evil Calls, Linda loses both eyes when she slips on the wet floor and lands face first on a pair of open scissors in a tin.
• Wishcraft: The killer murders Cody through stabbing him in the eye.
• In The Wraith every person, the titular character kills, has their body mostly intact, with their eyes no longer in their sockets.
• In the 2012 movie Would You Rather: Lucas is forced to slit open his eye or be shot in the head. He follows through but he won't be needing an eyepatch though.
• In X-Men: First Class, Azazel holds the point of his tail at a victim's eye.
• The protagonist in X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes finally gouges his own eyes out to stop the visual horrors.
• In The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Graham taints his sister Winnie's mascara with poison, causing her to lose an eye.
• One of the most (in)famous moments in Zombi 2 is when Dr. David Menard's wife Paola is attacked by a zombie and slowly dragged into one of the splinters of the door the zombie broke into through her right eye in full detail.
• Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!: At the research centre, Chris kills a zombie by shoving a pole through the back of her skull and out its eye socket.

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