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  • In the opening scene of 13 Sins, Professor Solomon hacks the finger off the hostess of his testimonial dinner with a steak knife.
  • In .45, Big Al cuts Jose's fingers off with a meat cleaver after he sees Jose coming on to his girlfriend Kat.
  • In The 6th Day, Arnold's character shot the female goon in the hand taking out her fingers and later used her thumb to infiltrate the cloning laboratory.
  • 71: Into the Fire had one of the titular seventy-one soldiers losing his thumb to the reload gauge of his M1 Garand rifle.
  • Bud in The Abyss almost loses his fingers in the attempt to stop an automatic pressure door from closing. His saving grace: His titanium wedding ring that he wanted to flush down the toilet a few scenes earlier.
  • Lauren gets part of her hand blown off by a shotgun blast when the thugs invade the house in The Aggression Scale.
  • The Air I Breathe: The gangster "Fingers" acquired his nickname because of his habit of removing the fingers of those who don't pay him their debts.
  • Picasso's first victim from Alex Cross is paralyzed and then tortured by having all of her fingers cut off.
  • In Anatomy they have someone turned into an anatomic model while he's alive; they show how the hand nerves make the fingers move among other things. He's obviously nonplussed as he wakes up during the procedure.
  • Assassin's Creed: Much like Altair before him, Aguilar's ring finger is severed during his Assassin induction. Interestingly, this should not have been necessary, as the Hidden Blade was modified in the 13th century so as to no longer require such a sacrifice and the contemporary Ezio Auditore indeed didn't need it, but the Spanish Brotherhood might just want to do things in very "traditional" ways.
  • The Assignment: In the very last scene, it's revealed that Frank cut off Jane's fingers after shooting her (presumably so she couldn't do surgery ever again).
  • In Asylum: Blackout, first George suffers an accident with a meat slicer, then later Harry Greene bites off his own finger in front of George.
  • The Babadook: During one of her episodes, Amelia bites her own finger down to the bone.
  • Bethany: While Claire is playing the piano in one scene, she strikes a key, and her fingernail comes off. In a later scene, she sees one of Bethany's hands grab her by the wrist, and grabs a nearby knife to chop Bethany's fingers off. Though that bit wasn't real, and she ended up cutting deeply into her own arm.
  • Berlin Syndrome: Clare briefly gets out of the apartment with the keys after stabbing Andi's hand, pinning it onto the table using a screwdriver and running for help. Andi slams her hand in the door she's trying to open outside then drags her back.
  • The Big Heat (1988): A drug dealer tries pulling his gun on Inspector Wong, but Wong beats him to the draw by shooting the guy's revolver. Which somehow explodes in his hand and removes four of his fingers. The film even shows the guy's nearly-fingerless hand in full detail afterwards.
  • The Big Lebowski: A severed toe with nail polish on it is delivered to the rich Lebowski by a gang of nihilists who claim to have kidnapped his wife — they didn't. Walter doesn't buy it, claiming he could get a toe — with nail polish on it — easily. We later see one of the nihilists is missing one of her toes.
  • In a Taxi Driver homage, Korean film A Bittersweet Life has someone lose a couple of fingers to a 9mm bullet.
  • A Taste of Killing and Romance has Wong Cheung, the main villain, torturing the captured Love Interest by slicing her fingers off.
  • In Black Hawk Down a group of US soldiers is advancing through the city when one of them has his gun shot out of his hands, snapping his index finger so badly that it's left hanging by an inch of skin.
  • Black Robe has the title character's finger slowly sliced off with a sharpened shell. No discretion shot.
  • Black Swan might make viewers afraid of doing manicure, due to several scenes with the removal of cuticules and aggressive nail-cutting.
    • Black Swan was a regular Fingore buffet-table; fingers are clipped, cut, scratched, smashed, broken, twisted, and effing peeled.
  • Blade Runner. Roy Batty breaks two fingers on Deckard's hand to punish him for killing Zhora and Pris. A few moments later he shoves a nail through his own hand to restore feeling to it as he nears the last moments of his lifespan.
  • In Blue Iguana (2018), Arkady cuts Deacon's left pinkie finger off while demanding to know the whereabouts of the titular diamond.
  • In Body of Lies, Leonardo Di Caprio's character is tortured by terrorists and has his fingers beaten to a pulp with a hammer.
  • Bones and All (2022) Bones and All]]: Maren establishes herself as an eater at the beginning of the movie by grabbing her friend's newly-painted finger and biting it off.
  • Rocco from The Boondock Saints loses two of his fingers during the course of the movie — one to Il Duce during the big shootout that the brothers have with him, and one to Yakavetta at point blank range with a .357 Magnum shortly before the mafia boss decides to just kill him.
  • Bound has Shelly's finger cut off just off screen with pruning shears. Violet almost has her fingers cut off with the same shears, too.
  • In The Burning during the infamous raft scene the killer cuts off several of one of the camper's fingers with garden shears.
  • The Candy Snatchers: When Avery tries to reach for a gun in his drawer, Alan kicks the drawer shut on his hand until his fingers are covered in blood.
  • In Casino, Ace's guards use a hammer to smash a cheater's hand.
  • In Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers, Kong orders Gus's finger cut off so it can be used as a Finger in the Mail. Katherine misunderstands the order and cuts off Kong's finger.
  • Cheap Thrills has an eccentric billionaire who offers two down-and-out losers $25,000 to whoever is willing to cut off a pinkie in the name of entertainment. Craig accepts the money in exchange for having his pinkie cut off. The lost digit is momentarily forgotten and rediscovered when the neighbor's dog chokes to death on it. In a later challenge, the billionaire offers $50,000 to whoever eats the finger, and Craig ends up eating his own pinkie.
  • In Circus, Bruno displays his displeasure with Don by having Moose break Don's fingers before firing him.
  • In Cold Prey 2, the Mountain Man gets two of his fingers blown off with a shotgun. This doesn't seem to cause him much pain - it just makes him angry.
  • In Cradle of Fear, Nikki starts to slide her hand into the top of Melissa's panties, then screams as she loses two fingers to Melissa's Fetus Terrible that chooses that moment to be born.
  • The Krites from Critters get their first taste of human when one bites several fingers off the daughter's boyfriend Steve.
  • Cut to the Chase: Subverted. Max is threatened with this by Travis, the Man's enforcer, for not paying his debt. He relents after learning Max's sister is a lawyer and he's promised the money though, giving him one day for delivery.
  • Darkman:
    • The movie has an awesome (from an evil point of view) scene when the Big Bad used a cigar cutter to chop off someone's finger.
      Robert Durant: Now, let's consider my points, one by one. One. I try not to let my anger get the better of me.
      [Durant cuts off one of Black's fingers; Black starts to sweat]
      Robert Durant: Two. I don't always succeed.
      [Durant cuts off another of Black's fingers]
      Robert Durant: Three. I've got seven more points.
      [Durant cuts off Black's third finger; Black screams]
    • Not to mention during Peyton's torture and mutilation we see his hands being forced onto a pair of electrodes, which causes the skin on them to be destroyed leaving the muscle and bone exposed in surprisingly graphic detail. When Peyton sees his unbandaged hands for the first time he's understandably horrified.
      Peyton/Darkman: They took my hands!
    • In a later scene, Peyton and his girlfriend are at a local carnival where he spots a milk bottle toss and wants to Win Her a Prize, the biggest, pinkest elephant they have. After his third toss knocks down the bottles, the carny refuses to give it to him... and sends Peyton into a rage. Peyton grabs his two fingers and twists them backward with a Sickening "Crunch!".
  • Satan bites the tip of Guerrero's finger while torturing him in Hell in Dead in Tombstone.
  • In the martial arts film Death Valley, the hero busts a band of thugs in a gambling den, and in retaliation, two of them tries drawing their swords to attack the hero. But our protagonist beats them to the draw and removes four of their fingers from each right hand.
  • Deep in the Valley: While trying to escape from the sorority house, Carl slams the sash window down on Lester's fingers.
  • During the climactic battle at the end of Die Hard 2, John McClane bites one of Col. Stuart's fingers off.
  • Practically a Running Gag in Demons, with digits being variously bitten off, shot off, crushed against a doorframe, and stuck in the spokes of a motorcycle. Not to mention fingernails splitting bloodily when the newly-infected sprout claws.
  • Dinner for Schmucks: At the dinner, the swordsman-schmuck takes a finger off in one blind swing. And then a vulture grabs that finger.
  • Early in District 9, Wikus is losing several fingernails. Later, he cuts off a thumb with an axe in an attempt to get rid of whatever is turning him into a prawn.
  • The eponymous hero of Django gets his fingers trampled by a dozen horses as a punishment for stealing gold from the gang of Mexicans after having helped them steal it from the army in the first place.
  • In Doctor Strange, the eponymous character gets into a major car accident in the beginning of the movie that cripples his hands and leaves very noticeable scars on his fingers which never fully heal and hand tremors that never fully go away, which ruins his career as a neurosurgeon. He also gets splints drilled into his hands to immobilize them.
  • Doll Factory: Melvin slices off at least one of Yegor's fingers in a sword fight with him. Yegor regenerates it.
  • In the final fight of Duel to the Death, Ching Wan tries to grab Hashimoto's blade out of desperation when Hashimoto goes to stab him. Hashimoto responds by simply rotating the blade, severing all of Ching Wan's fingers on that hand.
  • Dust Devil: The Dust Devil severs the fingers of his victims, and keeps them in a jewel box.
  • Dying Breed: When Rebecca puts her hand up to Rowan's face, he bites off two of her fingers.
  • Not inflicted on a living person, but in Eastern Promises, Nikolai cuts a corpse's fingertips off quite candidly to prevent identification.
  • In Eat (2014), Novella's slow descent of stress-induced autocannibalism starts with her nervously chewing the flesh at the side of her thumb, to the point that she draws blood. Later she peels a strip of flesh from her thumb that ultimately gouges a bloody furrow up her forearm.
  • In The Escapist, Rizza hands a Sinister Shiv made from a melted plastic comb to one of his defaulting customers and gives him the choice of cutting off his thumb or three fingers. The jumpy con chooses his thumb.
  • In Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom captures Reed Richards by freezing him in ice, then sadistically bends his fingers the other way. Luckily, they don't snap off, but Reed groans in agony.
  • Hong Kong movie called Fatal Move where an evil mob boss tortures someone for information by removing their fingernails and teeth.
  • Fear City: The killer cuts off the fingers of his first victim with a pair of scissors.
  • Feast of Love: Bradley cuts off his fingertip after learning Diana's cheating on him.
  • In Les Femmes de l'ombre, the Nazis attempt to elicit information from a captured member of La Résistance by crushing her fingers one by one. It works.
  • In The Final, Emily offers the Alpha Bitch one chance to avoid getting tortured: cut off all of Bradley's fingers in exchange for her own safety. When she refuses, Emily offers the same deal to Bradley, who accepts.
  • Fingernails: Part of the tests the institute conducts to determine romantic compatibility is the removal of one fingernail from both partners, which are then analyzed in a microwave-like device. Upset with passing the test again with Ryan, Anna rips out all her remaining fingernails at the end of the film.
  • In Five Fingers 2006, terrorists kidnap a pianist whom they have mistaken for a CIA agent and cut off the fingers of his right hand one by one during his interrogation.
  • Five Fingers of Death has this as part of a Coldblooded Torture sequence, when the hero is subjected to having his fingers hit repeatedly by two clubs held by the Co-Dragons.
  • About halfway through the Cronenberg remake The Fly, Seth realizes that something is going badly with his experiment when he nibbles on his nails (an established nervous habit) and one of them comes off in his mouth. He manually pulls another one off (they both come away very easily) and squeezes the denuded fingertip, causing pus to squirt out.
  • Following, Christopher Nolan's first film, uses this in a major plot point: one of the characters claims that she witnessed a mob punishment of the Loan Shark variety where a man had all his fingers smashed before they killed him. At the end she gets a Karmic Death, having all her fingers smashed by the villain.
  • In the 1942 movie For Me and My Gal, set during WWI, Gene Kelly plays a rising vaudeville star who slams his hand in the lid of his steamer trunk, intending to injure his hand enough to avoid the draft, because he's just landed a contract on Broadway. He miscalculates and damages the tendons, making the injury permanent.
  • In Four Rooms, this is played for laughs in the Penthouse. Chester Rush asks Ted to bring him a chopping board, a hatchet and a bucket of ice for a bet that he's holding with his friend Norman, inspired by an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. If Norman can light a Zippo 10 times in a row, he keeps his finger and wins Chester Rush's car. If he fails, he gets his finger cut off immediately by Ted (and then they'll take him to the hospital to get it re-attached, hence the ice). At first, Ted's reluctant to do it, but $1,000 changes his mind. The bet starts and he fails on the first try. Ted slices off his finger immediately, grabs the money and walks away calmly with a big smile on his face. Everyone else panics.
  • In Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy Krueger cuts off all Jason's fingers on his right hand with his own machete.
  • Full Contact have this happening during the fight between Jeff and the main baddie, the Judge. The latter has a concealed knife and uses it to slice off two of Jeff's fingers, with bloody results.
  • Gang of Roses: Getting tired of the sheriff's equivocation, Left Eye shoots one of his fingers off.
  • Ghost Lab (2021): In one scene, Dr. Wee discovers that Dr. Gla's ghost will protect him against any harm, so he decides to deliberately put himself in harm's way. He decides to try and chop one of his own fingers off to get Dr. Gla to manifest, and it works. Later in the film, though, when Dr. Gla hasn't manifested in a while, Dr. Wee attempts to chop his pinky finger off again. This time, Dr. Gla doesn't take the paper cutter away this time, and Dr. Wee slices his finger off. He's seen in the next scene having had it reattached, bandaged up, and with a metal rod through it to keep it still while it recovers.
  • Ghosts of War: When Eugene and one of the other soldiers are trying to move a cupboard in the attic, the cupboard door slams shut on Eugene's fingers. When the fingers are freed, it's shown that they're bent in odd angles.
  • In A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the titular Girl bites off Saeed's finger.
  • Kovacs's fingers are severed when Jopling slams a door on them in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
  • The Gray Man (2022). Lloyd uses a pair of pliers to torture Fitzroy by tearing off several of his fingernails. So it's Laser-Guided Karma during the final battle when Fitzroy's niece shoots a flare gun at Lloyd which tears several of his fingers off.
  • In Grindhouse, Dakota Block accidentally breaks her own fingers in an attempt to open a car door, then later fixes them by cracking her knuckles (Yeah, it's that kinda movie).
  • In The Handmaiden, Uncle Kouzuki cuts off the fingers on one of Fujiwara's hands with a paper cutter.
  • In The Hangover Part II, Teddy loses a finger by attempting the Five-Finger Fillet.
  • One of the mob has his fingers crushed in a piano as punishment in Harlem Nights.
  • In Headless Horseman, Seth raises his hand in an attempt to ward of the Horseman's axe. Instead, it cuts off his fingers.
  • In Heathers, Veronica shoots off J.D.'s middle finger during their confrontation in the boiler room.
  • In Hellraiser: Inferno, the Engineer serial killer is keeping a young boy captive and cuts off his fingers one by one so he can leave them behind as calling cards at his crime scenes. It's later revealed that the boy is the lead detective's mangled spirit, being destroyed by his own dark side, the killer.
  • Help!: The others can't understand why Ringo won't let them just cut off his finger.
  • In Thehills Have Eyes 2006, Doug loses one of his fingers to Pluto's axe.
  • The Hitcher:
    • One of the most infamous scenes involves Jim finding a severed finger in his French fries.
    • The sequel The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting has a shoutout to that scene with Jack cutting off his own finger and casually tossing it into a deep fryer.
  • Abby from Hobo With a Shotgun gets a pretty serious treatment of this near the end of the movie with a lawnmower when she tries to rescue the hobo and she retaliates against Drake by stabbing him with the jagged bones on her damaged hand.
  • In Holy Motors, an extra gets her fingers bitten off by a gnome.
  • Almost happens in Home Alone when Harry attempts to bite off Kevin's fingers as revenge for the torture he and Marv went through. However, Old Man Marley stops Harry by hitting him in the head with his shovel.
    • However, during the filming, Macaulay Culkin (who played Kevin) did get one of his fingers accidentally bitten by Joe Pesci (who played Harry) which left a permanent scar.
  • A character in Hostel loses a couple of fingers and later gets revenge by maiming the villain.
  • House of the Witch: When Taylor notices that she can stick her finger into the mirror in the foyer, she decides to stick her whole hand in, which results in said hand getting grabbed by something. The others pull her out, but by then, one of her fingers was cut off in the mirror.
  • House of Wax remake: Finger + pliers = OH MY GOD, OW.
  • Hush: Maddie's hand gets totally mangled when the killer traps it in a sliding door and gives it several stomps.
  • In the horror film Husk, the possessed victims hammer nails through their fingers, and then use their hands as weapons.
  • In I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, the demon-possessed motorcycle cuts a priest's fingers off with its brake lever, when he touches it incautiously.
  • Inspector Gadget (1999) gives us the origin story for the titular cyber policeman, as well as his archenemy, Dr. Claw. In this case, this trope applies to Claw, in which after he blows up the soon-to-be cyber cop during the first chase at the start of the movie, Gadget's bowling ball crushes his left hand while he is closing the sunroof to his limousine. It is after Claw's left hand is crushed, it is replaced by a mechanical claw, living up to his namesake.
  • In Jane Austen's Mafia! a mob boss gets his index and middle finger cut off by getting them caught in a shotgun and they fire through the barrel like bullets, it's played in a cartoonish manner so there's no blood.
  • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday: Protagonist is in jail and needs answers from the bounty hunter. The Jerkass bounty hunter decides that for every question, the protagonist must have one finger broken.
  • What leads to Quint's death in Jaws is when one of Hooper's oxygen tanks falls from its mooring in the now sinking Orca and lands on his hand.
  • In John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, John manages to get facetime with the head of the High Table and begs him to call off his excommunicado. The two come to a deal but the Elder also forces John to cut off his ring finger as a price.
  • In Jungle 2 Jungle, Russian mob boss Jovanovic does this to people who displease him, and is about to do this to Richard for supposedly cheating him when Mimi Siku intervenes.
  • In K-19: The Widowmaker, a torpedoman gets his hand caught in a winch during a drill. Extra points for blood spattering the lens.
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service: During his One-Man Army action sequence, Lancelot shoots off a mook's finger with his gun.
  • In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr.'s character has his finger severed by a closed door. It is sewn back together. A few hours later, the finger is hit badly by the villains and eventually detaches. As the ambulance is being called to put it back together a dog eats the finger.
  • Garth Pancake of The Ladykillers (2004) remake blows his finger off in an accidental explosion. The film concludes with a cat spitting the finger in a trash barge in the river below.
  • The opening scene of The Last Shot has Alec Baldwin getting a finger cut off with scissors. It gets sewn back together fine, though.
  • Lippy: One of the apparent penalties the two girls get for stealing lipstick is that they each have to lose a finger.
  • In Live and Let Die, Dr. Kananga threatens to have Tee Hee cut off James Bond's little finger and then move on to more sensitive areas of his anatomy.
  • In Lone Star State of Mind, Junior is in $2000 debt to a gangster. The gangster threatens to cut off a body part for every $100 he fails to pay back. Earl scrounges up $1900, so the gangster cuts off Junior's pinkie.
  • The Longest Nite: Sam, the corrupt cop Villain Protagonist enjoys pulling this off while performing a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on his suspects. In an early scene in a pub, he had his underlings hold a man down while smashing his spread-out fingers with a bottle (and afterwards, taunting him to pick up a gun), and in a much later scene, he tortures an informant by driving pointed, metal rods underneath the fingernails.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Struggling with an invisible Frodo for the One Ring, Gollum bites his index and cut it with his teeth, leaving Frodo with a bloody, shortened finger.

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  • The Machine Girl: The movie is full of examples of Fingore, and even the title character doesn't escape it. For example, as punishment for spilling food on her, the Yakuza wife in hacks off the chef's fingers and makes him eat them. On sushi.
  • In Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Toady, one of Humungus' goons, tries to catch the Feral Kid's steel boomerang in midair and winds up losing all the fingers on one of his hands for his trouble. After he plainly saw it effortlessly kill Wez's boy toy by piercing his skull. The other goons even see what's about to happen and yell for him to stop, then find it knee-slapping hilarious. No-one offers him first aid, even Humungus only sees about stopping the laughter with "No more games!"
  • Major Payne: At the beginning of the film, Payne breaks his comrade's finger to get his mind off his bullet wound.
  • Scene in Man on Fire (1987 version), where the protagonist pumps a captured enemy for info by duct-taping his hands to the steering wheel and cutting off his fingers one by one. His screams are, well, awful.
  • Man on Fire (Denzel version):
    • The main character tortures a corrupt Mexican policeman by removing his fingers one by one and cauterizing the wound with a cigar lighter.
    • In the climax, he's talking on the phone with the guy he's after, and holding the guy's brother hostage. When the guy tries to buy him off, the protagonist holds the phone up so the brother can talk and blows his fingers off with a shotgun.
  • In the opening scene for The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramango kills the assassin that his underling, Nick Nack, sent to kill him, to keep his skills sharp. This takes place near a statue of James Bond, posed fire a gun with his right hand, and his left splayed out. After killing the assassin with his one-shot Golden Gun, Scaramango picks up his weapon and flawless shoots of the fingers on the left hand of the Bond effigy.
  • Me, Myself & Irene: Jim Carrey's character attempts to calm the gunman down by pulling his gun down which end up getting his thumb shot off and later found in the river, where a fish ate it.
  • In Midnight Movie, the killer causes a sash window to slam shut on Samantha's fingers.
  • In Mirror Mirror (1990), the mirror causes Susan's hand to be caught in the garbage disposal. Her hand is ground off at the wrist and she bleeds to death.
  • Ambrose uses a cigar cutter to snip off the tip of Stamp's finger for daring to suggest that he should stop shagging The Mole in Mission: Impossible II.
  • In Money Movers, Jack Henderson persuades Eric Jackson to allow him to take over his robbery plan by tying him to a chair and having his henchman Ernest start cutting his toes off with a set of bolt-cutters till he agrees.
  • In Monster Party, Luther uses his cigar-cutter to cut off Flash's finger as a warning to Casper as to what will happen if Flash's debts are not paid in full.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street:
  • Naked Killer have the protagonist, Kitty, waking up from being knocked out after her first assassination by her rescuer, the veteran assassin Cindy. And then Kitty sees her hands and realize nine of her fingers (sans her left pinky) is covered in bandages. As it turns out, Cindy had most of her fingertips flayed while she's unconscious in an attempt to get rid of "fingerprint evidence" to throw the police off her trail.
  • New Town Killers: After knocking Sean to the floor during their fight in the cellar, Alistair grabs Sean's hand and breaks several of fingers to stop him grabbing for the gun.
  • Nightwish: One of the students has his middle finger violently cut off by a crazy Igor-type character who wants a "souvenir".
  • In No Kidding, David burns his fingers on a hot frying pan trying to fry up some eggs in the absence of Cook.
  • On the Buses:
    • When trying to help Olive in the canteen, Stan grabs a metal saucepan and immediately lets go after burning his fingers on the metal handle,
    • When Stan is pouring himself a cup of hot milk, he gets distracted by Olive screaming over a spider and the milk overflows, burning his fingers.
  • In the opening of Outpost: Black Sun, a young girl claiming to be the distant relative of a Nazi Grandpa turns up at a retirement home in Paraguay. After the old man smiles and clasps her hand, she starts breaking his fingers one at a time to find out where his fellow war criminals are.
  • Twice in Outrage, to be expected since it is a movie about the Yakuza.
  • In Panic Room, Raoul (presumably) gets his fingers broken when the panic room door slams shut on them after he had his hand positioned out of range of the door sensors.
  • In The Phantom of the Opera (1998), the rat catcher has his hand impaled by a rattrap, and then rats gnaw at his fingers; biting his thumb down to the bone.
  • In The Piano, Alistair cuts off Ada's index finger with an axe when he finds out she has an affair with Baines. Considering Ada's passion for playing the piano, this is particularly cruel.
  • The Pink Panther: Played for comedy, if you can believe it, in The Return of the Pink Panther. The first time Sir Charles Lytton meets with Pepi, he breaks two of Pepi's fingers. On their next meeting, Pepi gets two more fingers broken. The third time, Sir Charles breaks Pepi's thumb. To add insult to injury (or injury to injury), Pepi gets a metal door slammed on his injured hand by his own boss.
  • Pitchfork: Jenny blows Mr. Holister's fingers off with a gun before he can put a bullet in Hunter's head.
  • In The Pope of Greenwich Village, Eric Roberts' character has his thumb cut off by Mafia boss "Bed Bug Eddie".
  • The Prestige:
    • Alfred Borden gets two of his fingers shot off during an act that went wrong. And later his twin brother gets the same two fingers cut off because they're pretending to be the same person.
    • One of the tricks malfunctions and an audience volunteer gets her fingers snapped/bent/crushed when a prop cage collapses the wrong way.
  • In Primal, Loffler fakes a seizure and when one of the marshals comes to check on him, he bites down hard on the marshal's fingers: drawing blood and refusing to let go.
  • In Project X, J.D. jumps off the roof and breaks his pinky on landing. He's completely nonchalant about it, and his friends fix it with a lot of tape.
  • Pumpkins: Tommy, while removing the innards from a jack-o-lantern, gets two of his fingers bitten off.
  • Reservoir Dogs:
    "If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers, the little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that, he'll tell you if he wears ladies' underwear. I'm hungry. Let's get a taco."
  • Resident Evil Film Series:
    • In Resident Evil (2002), one of the minor characters gets part of his hand (including fingers) sliced off by a deadly laser trap.
    • And in the second, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Alice breaks her finger and has to snap it back into place.
  • In Revenge for Jolly!, Tina shoots Cecil's left hand, leaving it uselessly curled in on itself.
    Cecil: That was my good hand. Now it's my bad hand.
  • Severed fingers and iron nails are featured prominently on any version of the Cursed Videotape in The Ring — disturbing, to say the least, especially since they symbolize Samara losing her own fingernails while trying to crawl out of the well she died in. In fact, in the Japanese and American versions of Ringu/The Ring, both of the specters of Sadako and Samara have no fingernails, as they were torn out when they made multiple unsuccessful attempts to climb out of the well.
  • In Ripper: Letter from Hell, the killer starts the jeep engine while Eddie is trying to fix it, causing his hand to get ground up by the fan.
  • In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar bites hard into his human neighbor's fingers as revenge for threatening his grandfather figure Charles. Most likely, had Will never called for Caesar to stop, the chimp would have bitten those fingers off clean. Caesar gets punished for those fingers by being sent to an animal sanctuary.
  • RoboCop: Among the many mutilations inflicted on him before his death, Boddicker's crew starts out by blowing off Murphy's right hand with a shotgun.
  • RRR: In a flashback, an English soldier blows off one of Venkata Rama Raju's fingers, rendering him unable to fire back at them until his son steps in.
  • In Runaway Train, Jon Voight's character gets his fingers chopped off by the coupling between the cars as he tries to get to the lead engine.
  • Saw:
    • Saw II:
      • A common depiction in the movie's posters is a pair of severed fingers with a decayed appearance, taking place of the "II" in the film's title.
      • In the film itself, Eric breaks one of John's fingers to force him into telling Daniel's location.
    • Fitch's trap in Spiral requires him to hold down a mechanism with his teeth that will slowly tear his fingers off, which he has to do fast enough to escape before the rising water hits an exposed cable and electrocutes him to death. Though he makes a valiant effort and loses a few fingers, his screams cause just enough of a delay to doom him. To add insult to injury, the current causes his mouth to clamp down, ripping off his remaining fingers anyway.
    • The teaser poster for Saw X shows a man with a mask-like contraption that has hoses stemming into his eyes. As seen in the film's trailer, the man has to twist and break his fingers one by one to avoid the hoses from sucking his eyes out.
  • Scarred: While torturing Tiny's father, Jonah Kandie takes a knife and cuts off one of his fingers.
  • In Scream and Scream Again, Torture Technician Konratz uses a pair of bone shears to cut a finger off a young woman he is interrogating.
  • In The School for Good and Evil (2022), unlocking a student's magic involves pricking their finger with a special key. Good is clean, painless, and leaves no mark. Evil goes right through the finger and the students are seen wincing as it does.
  • In Sharky's Machine, Burt Reynolds loses two fingers to a bit of vigorous questioning from the bad guy.
  • Shoot 'Em Up:
    • Smith has all of his fingers broken one by one.
    • Near the end, he shoots a punk tanking cover behind the bar by shooting out another punk's leg to collapse him, then the elbow to swing the arm out, and finally the wrist to jerk the tendons, pulling the index finger, shooting the last punk in the leg with his accomplice's weapon, WITH ALL FINGERS BROKEN!
    • He first gets his point on what he hates most by shooting the middle finger off one of them. With a carrot.
  • Mel Gibson does this to an unsuspecting invader in Signs.
  • There's a fingernail or two embedded in the wall of the pit in The Silence of the Lambs.
  • In Silent Night (2012), Rev. Madeley gets three of his fingers sliced off.
  • Happens off-screen to Lucille in Sin City.
    Lucille: He made me watch him... suck the meat off my fingers.
    [she uncovers her arm; everything past the wrist is gone]
    Lucille: He made me watch. He made me WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATCH!
  • Sniper: Thomas Beckett loses his trigger finger to Razor Floss.
  • Threatened in Spies Like Us:
    "Bob Hodges": Every minute you don't tell us why you're here, I cut off a finger.
    Fitz-Hume: Mine or yours?
    "Bob Hodges": Yours.
    Fitz-Hume: Damn!
  • The Downer Beginning of Special Female Force has one of the first squad's officers being resorted to Hanging by the Fingers from a balcony. Just then, The Dragon who is nearby decide to make her fall by sticking his knife under her fingernails and twisting it.
  • Played for laughs in Stay Tuned, when Crowley — who has been trapped in a frozen wasteland Arctic channel — starts trying to count off how long he's been there, and one of his gloved fingers snaps off.
  • In Stir of Echoes, the ghost girl breaks two fingernails while clawing at the floor during the rape scene.
  • In Sugar Hill (1974), King interrogates the piano player Preacher about the murders of Morgan's people. When Preacher says he doesn't know anything, King smashes the piano lid on his fingers.
  • In Suicide Kings, four college students hold a mob boss hostage in a friend's home and cut off the man's right pinkie (complete with ring to prove it's him) in a ill-fated attempt to get him to help find the kidnapped sister of one of their group.
  • In Superman II, Superman crushes General Zod's fingers.
  • Super Xuxa contra Baixo Astral has Titica attempting to cut Xuxo's tail off to serve it in Baixo Astral's food, only for Rafa to distract him. The dog escapes and Titica ends up chopping off his own finger instead, dropping it on the frying pan held by Morcegão.
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Poor, poor Toby finds a severed finger baked into one of Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies.
  • A guitarist gets his hand stomped on and his fingers broken by a Hitler Youth goon in the film Swing Kids.
  • And in Syriana, George Clooney's character gets his fingernails pulled out in a torture chamber.
  • In Tamara, Kisha gnaws several of her fingers down to the bone when psychically compelled to gorge herself by Tamara.
  • During Travis Bickle's final rampage in Taxi Driver, one of the pimp's men gets several fingers blown off when Travis cuts loose with his .44 Magnum.
  • In The Terror of the Tongs, the Calling Card of the Red Dragon Tong is cutting the fingers off the hand of their victims.
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
    • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Sawyers cut the tip off Sally's finger so Grampa can suckle it like a little baby. In real life, after the stage-blood device attached to the knife failed to work, Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) - who was already suffering a mental breakdown from filming the dinner scene for 27 hours in a room over 110 degrees Fahrenheit - tore off the safety tape and actually cut open the actress's finger so that they could just finish the damn scene.
    • In the remake Andy's fingernails are torn off when Leatherface drags him down the stairs and he attempts to cling to the walls.
  • In Park Chan-wook's Thirst (2009), when Sang-Hyun volunteers for the medical study and suffers the effects of the Emmanuel Virus, one of which is his fingernails falling out.
  • This Is the End has a hilarious subversion in which it seems like a helicopter blade had cut off Craig Robinson's finger. When James Franco asks if he's okay, Craig reveals he just got a papercut on his finger.
    Franco: Are you okay?
    Craig: No, I'm not okay! [shows Franco his index finger] Fuck your house, Franco!
  • In Three O'Clock High, Buddy The Bully gets threatened by a Bully Hunter, who pokes him in the chest. Buddy Hates Being Touched, so he snaps the finger.
  • In Timber Falls, Ida cuts off Sheryl's finger as punishment for her and Mark failing to have sex as commanded.
  • This happens to the first guy Lai Lai Zhen encounters in The Tournament. He tries to strangle her with a wire, the two are struggling until he tells her he will fuck her after he killed her. This makes her so angry that she makes a wall jump to get behind him, then she cuts his fingers off with the wire, slams his mutilated hand into a wall, beats him up and shoots him dead.
  • Transit: While trying to force the location of the loot out of Nate, Losada cuts the fingers of Nate's left hand with a machete.
  • True Grit:
    • The remake has a surprisingly nasty scene (for a PG-13 movie) where a whiskey smuggler is being coerced into informing on some bandits by Rooster Cogburn. As he cracks, his partner slips a hidden knife out and brings it down on the man's left hand, severing four fingers before stabbing him in the chest.
    • There's a similar finger-chopping incident in the 1969 John Wayne version, but it's pretty subtle.
  • Sir from Truth or Consequences, N.M. tortures Raymond's friend Wayne by cutting off some of his fingers.
  • In Truth or Dare, one of the dares requires seven different living body parts to be removed. The count includes a pinky finger and a pinky toe.
  • George from Twice Round the Daffodils is fond of needlepoint, but often accidentally pricks his finger with the needle.
  • In UHF, George Newman interviewed a clumsy shop teacher, who then lost one of his thumbs to a table saw.
  • Unfriended: Under the spirit's influence, Ken sticks his hand in a blender and turns it on.
  • In Unthinkable, the torture expert played by Samuel L. Jackson begins by cutting off the tip of the terror suspect's finger and it is later shown that he has pulled out all of his fingernails.
  • Up Pompeii films:
    • Up Pompeii: When the giant narrator Lurcio is introducing the residents of Prosperus Maximus' palace, Villanus sees his giant finger and swipes at it with his sword.
    • In Up the Front, Lurk angrily stabs a potato that reminds him of Groping, before clutching his hand in pain as the knife went through to the other side:
      Lurk: Look at my finger! Oh, get me to the Royal Finger Hospital quickly.
  • Alluded to in Van Helsing, where VH gives the heroine a cutting implement and tells her to clip off one of the evil henchman's fingers, should he fail to cooperate. Subverted when she replies that she'll clip off "something."
  • Manech of A Very Long Engagement purposely gets shot in the hand in an attempt to get out of the army, losing two fingers in the process.
  • V/H/S/2: The first victim in "A Ride in the Park" has all the fingers on one of his hands bitten off by a zombie while he's still alive.
  • Warcraft (2016): when Blackhand pins Lothar down to crush his skull, he makes a mistake of grabbing Lothar's boomstick with his fingers and gets them, along with most of the hand, shot off.
  • Warlock (1989). After the warlock has been helped by a friendly housekeeper, he notices that the man's ring actually has magical properties. When the man explains that he can't get it off, the warlock simply hacks off the finger with a kitchen knife and murders the guy.
  • Watch Your Stern: When Blissworth tries to mend Captain Foster's bell, he causes a small explosion that singes his fingers and so has to wet them until the pain dies down.
  • Watchmen: Adrian Veidt's secretary gets her right hand's index finger and middle finger shot off during the assassination attempt on Veidt.
  • In When Evil Calls, the girl who wishes she could lose a stone in weight has her her right hand and arm ground off in a garbage disposal.
  • The Widow (2020): When one of the male rescuers reaches into Zoya's mouth to extract whatever's in it that's blocking her throat, she bites down on his fingers hard enough to draw blood.
  • In The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Black and Tans interrogate one of the Irish rebels by pulling out his fingernails one-by-one with a pair of wicked-looking pliers.
  • Winterskin: Late in the movie, once her true colours are revealed, Agnes decides the best way to ensure that Billy won't hurt her anymore is to chop off all his fingers.
  • In the second Wishmaster movie, the female protagonist cuts off the last knuckle of her pinky finger as part of a purification ritual.

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