I love whump too so I'll focus on my favorite whumpy moments!
Lawrence of Arabia: Lawrence (a very pretty Peter O'Toole) is whipped and raped about halfway through the movie. Later, his wounds re-open while he's in uniform and he bleeds through, surrounded by men who didn't know he'd been tortured.
Prisoners: Paul Dano's character is gruesomely tortured and spends most of the movie bloodied and fucked up. David Dasmalchian also gets roughed up, and it's a great movie for ManPain from Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Crimson Peak: Tom Hiddleston is stuck in an abusive, incestuous relationship with his older sister and suffers some, uh....pretty serious physical wounds...
Society of the Snow: This is a re-telling of the 1972 Andes plane crash, so the whole movie is about a bunch of young rugby players trying to survive in the snow vs. gruesome injuries and cannibalism. It's too sad for me to really consider it whump.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Bowie's character is a POW in a Japanese camp who is repeatedly tortured at the hands of a prison guard homoerotically obsessed with him.
Purple Rain: Prince's dad is physically abusive to him, and Prince in turn is abusive to his girlfriend. But he's very pretty while doing it 💀
Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Castle Freak all feature Jeffrey Combs in various states of whump, but From Beyond is probably the best for it. He's at his most sympathetic in that movie and he spends the first half of it wrapped up in big fluffy sweaters and trying not to cry. Castle Freak adds an element of emotional whump as his character is grieving the death of his son and his marriage is falling apart.
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Date: 2024-04-02 02:16 pm (UTC)Lawrence of Arabia: Lawrence (a very pretty Peter O'Toole) is whipped and raped about halfway through the movie. Later, his wounds re-open while he's in uniform and he bleeds through, surrounded by men who didn't know he'd been tortured.
Prisoners: Paul Dano's character is gruesomely tortured and spends most of the movie bloodied and fucked up. David Dasmalchian also gets roughed up, and it's a great movie for ManPain from Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Crimson Peak: Tom Hiddleston is stuck in an abusive, incestuous relationship with his older sister and suffers some, uh....pretty serious physical wounds...
Society of the Snow: This is a re-telling of the 1972 Andes plane crash, so the whole movie is about a bunch of young rugby players trying to survive in the snow vs. gruesome injuries and cannibalism. It's too sad for me to really consider it whump.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Bowie's character is a POW in a Japanese camp who is repeatedly tortured at the hands of a prison guard homoerotically obsessed with him.
Purple Rain: Prince's dad is physically abusive to him, and Prince in turn is abusive to his girlfriend. But he's very pretty while doing it 💀
Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Castle Freak all feature Jeffrey Combs in various states of whump, but From Beyond is probably the best for it. He's at his most sympathetic in that movie and he spends the first half of it wrapped up in big fluffy sweaters and trying not to cry. Castle Freak adds an element of emotional whump as his character is grieving the death of his son and his marriage is falling apart.