bodily mutilation

"We don't accept bodily mutilation as a form of punishment now."

In the sadomasochistic scene, it is practiced as a form of bodily mutilation with consent.

However horror films are not the only movies that have worked to realistically portray bodily mutilation.

Fake blood is used in nearly every, if not every single, movie that has shown bodily mutilation, be it human or otherwise.

Improved special effects in recent decades have seen an increase in the prevalence of bodily mutilation in film.

Canada, along with France, maintains that any bodily mutilation is already a violation of its existing criminal laws, making new legislation unnecessary.

The fact that literal retaliation by bodily mutilation was legally allowed does not necessarily mean it was practised.

He mixes the camp of a film like "Ghostbusters" with the disturbing bodily mutilations and invasions in the two other popular films.

Bodily mutilation is most usually portrayed in the context of horror, but is also used in other genres, such as medical dramas or war films.

Bodily mutilation in film describes the apparent mutilation for theatrical purposes of a character in a film.

Regardless of intent, movies have progressed greatly from the early years of Chaney and Pierce in the realistic portrayals of bodily mutilation.

In addition, Hadrian abolished circumcision, which was considered by Romans and Greeks as a form of bodily mutilation and hence barbaric.

In contrast to the older system, which had allowed execution or bodily mutilation for a wide range of offences, the Muluki Ain severely limited-without abolishing-corporal punishment.

In many instances she was made to endure a bodily mutilation which would, in the mind of the aggrieved husband, prevent her from ever being a temptation to other men again.

Known as the King of Splatter (Rickett 2000), Tom Savini has quite a reputation for his work in horror movies much of which has included severe bodily mutilation in many circumstances.

In 1989, in an interview for the British documentary Four Hours in My Lai, Simpson claimed to have killed about 25 people and added scalping and bodily mutilation to his description of events.

Seven years previously, the Balkan state of Herzoslovakia had one of its periodic revolutions that resulted in the death and bodily mutilation of its monarch, King Nicholas IV and his wife Queen Varaga.

When "Blasted," about a tabloid journalist who lures a mentally retarded girl into his home, burst upon London, it generated a response disproportionate to the size of the 65-seat theater, not least because of the play's candid depictions of bodily mutilation.

The drama's book, by Hilary Blecher, recounts the details of the life of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), the Mexican painter whose fierce self-portraits and images of bodily mutilation have been adopted as touchstones for political and artistic movements and have made her, in recent years, a cult figure.