Originally posted by Mekugi
Cody,
The person was alive and as the head was being cut off, you can see the mouth moving and the grimace. If it is a special effect it is a damned good one. They had to get through the front throat/neck muscles first, then cut and snap through the spine to wrench it off. They show this, and it looks pretty authentic to me.
More than likely Berg was very weak and unable to struggle- maybe the result of being starved, tortured and/or drugged so he would not put up a fight. It makes sense since these scumbags are used to fighting hand to hand with women and children and a healthy male would be a challenge. The bloodpressure being low (from drugging and starvation) would account for the lack of the blood gust/pump as well.
When butchering live animals (pigs, sheep and other large animals, rabbits I hit in the head with a hammer) the only time I have ever gotten blood to pump out is when I stabbed and pulled out directly, freaking the animal out. Cutting and sawing usually causes a drizzle because the wound is large and wide and as there is not enough obstruction from the flesh to get a high pressure squirt. Hollywood type movies don't give you the actual physics of killing live things (most times- the end of "Apocolypse Now" has an actual slaughtering of a waterbuffalo in it) and go with dramatic gusts of hose-like pressure for everything and body parts exploding "for impact". As you know, absolute rubbish. SO what I am saying here is that "smaller" puncture wounds with high blood pressure bleed out in heavy squirts, large cuts with low blood pressure guzzle and drizzle. The latter is what you are seeing in the video.
I'm going to go puke now.
-Russ
Thanks for the info, just wondering.
-C. Chu
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