we’ve all had weird experiences with
hospitals but none like this welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 unusual
operating room scenes hello now don’t
you worry we’ll soon have you cured for
this list there doesn’t need to be an
actual operation occurring in these
scenes we’re looking at any weird
unexpected or otherwise bizarre
situation that happens to be set in an
operating room put away your butcher
knives and let me save this patient
before it’s too late whether they’re
tinged in science fiction or dressed in
the elements of horror
these big-screen scenes take our
understanding of a typical operating
room setting and flip it on its head
also a spoiler alert probably an order
what do I want
I wanna bleh okay number 10 the miracle
of birth Monty Python’s the meaning of
life hot one the miracle of birth isn’t
childbirth a wondrous occasion Monty
Python’s final film starts off toying
with that sentiment at first by showing
us a pregnant woman being wheeled
through a seemingly endless corridor and
then by playing to our worst fears about
medical staff the Monty Python comedy
troupe portrays doctors who have little
interest in delivering a child but are
utterly enamored with various expensive
machines and devices that go pink I get
the most expensive machines in case the
administrator come plenty amusing to
watch so-called professionals care so
little about their work but the scene
also surprisingly works as a cautionary
tale about skewed priorities trips up
injections and I’d put the tube in the
baby’s head only if I can do the
episiotomy okay okay
legs up number nine barging in a
gunpoint Lucy someday put a bag of drugs
in me I need your own move it coming in
unannounced is rude enough but doing it
at gunpoint is just not okay
do it now Frankton nevertheless the
titular Lucy does just that after having
an experimental drug into her body
oh just administer local anesthetic
don’t bother
she marches into a nearby tri-service
Hospital trotting into an operating room
and threatening some unfortunate
surgeons with her gun until they agreed
to aid her scarlet johansson handles the
scene like a professional conveying the
degree to which Lucy has shifted from an
ordinary girl to superhuman with ease
how much is left 500 Crump’s number
eight Beverly’s breakdown dead ringers
we’re all set Beverly someone get the
man a psychiatrist stat use these in
Dead Ringers Jeremy Irons has the
difficult task of playing twin brothers
and Gynaecologists Elliott and Beverly
mantel rules and we will do the job
Beverly having gotten close to a patient
who left town due to her job slow
we undergoes a mental breakdown and one
fateful operation sends him right off
the deep end I’m afraid I’m not familiar
with these instruments doctor the entire
scene has a menacing feel to it with the
bizarre instruments Beverly ordered for
operations all the surgeons wearing red
and Beverly slow descent into hysteria
I’ve just haven’t made that brand-new
[Music]
we’ll be honest this one was deeply
unsettling for us wow-p yes number five
number seven unexpected success Harold &
Kumar Go to White Castle
it’s a godforsaken bloodbath you can see
we have three poor rhythmic gunshot
wounds score one for the well-meaning
stoners what dr. Lee is trying to say is
that we need to sedate the patient or
you could go into cardiac arrest
all right during their ongoing quest to
locate a White Castle restaurant best
friends Harold and Kumar find themselves
in doctors scrubs and then get called in
for an actual surgery second nurse well
we should probably use his marijuana
that’ll sufficiently sedate the patient
for surgery accompanied by the
ever-charming Ryan Reynolds as a
supervising male nurse Harold and Kumar
awkwardly attempt to figure out how to
save a gunshot victim why we don’t have
time for questions we need marijuana now
as much of it as possible like a big bag
of it but doctor we don’t have marijuana
in this hospital
shit this leads to a welcome moment of
true brilliance from Kumar showing his
unexpected talent for medical work
[Music]
oh and Reynolds’s nurse tries to come on
to kumar great one of you clean this up
please put the Chester me that’s okay
I’m not funny anymore
your place chocolate
number six copper and the defibrillator
the thing what else we got different
cleaner over here
leave it to the great John Carpenter to
invent a gory scene in an operating room
[Applause]
in his cult classic film Antarctic
station member Norris suffers a heart
attack during the increasingly stressful
proceedings his fellow worker copper
elects to use the defibrillator trying
to keep Norris alive and then Norris his
chest caves in
what follows is a visually horrific
sequence that also stands as the high
achievement in practical special effects
as the titular thing emerges from nurses
chest cavity and threatens the other
station members thank goodness for
flamethrowers number five saving John
Kramer Saul three her procedure like
this the patient is tearfully alert
nothing like mortal danger to motivate a
person to success that’s the setup for
the scene from saw three great death dr.
lynn denlon with a manufactured collar
around her neck is tasked with operating
on John Kramer who spoiler alert is the
jigsaw killer Lynne begins cutting into
John’s skull in a sequence that is this
unpleasant as it is tense stop the
bleeding it doesn’t help that Amanda
John’s loyal apprentice has her eyes
fixed on Linder in the process or that
the caller will instantly kill Lynn
should John die fill that syringe with
alcohol from that point
hang in there Lynn alright John you
should keep your mouth closed
number four farewell to the arc reactor
Iron Man 3 but then I thought to myself
why stop there at the opposite extreme
we have a relatively peaceful operation
that concludes one-man struggles there
are people who say progress is dangerous
but I’ll bet none of those idiots ever
had to live with the chest full of
shrapnel during the climax of this 2013
action blockbuster billionaire Tony
Stark begins the process of moving on
from his life as Iron Man a montage
shows us the effects of Starks actions
before settling on one image that of
Tony going through surgery to finally be
rid of the life-endangering shrapnel and
now neither why let me tell you that was
the best sleep I’ve had in years
it’s quite the pleasant scene
considering while watching doctors pull
metal out of a person’s chest and now
I’m a changed man
number three alien baby Prometheus
there’s no home sweet space explorers
don’t have an easy go of things
least of all new Mira pause as our faith
driven heroine Elizabeth Shaw it’s not
exactly a traditional fetus as events
proceed Shaw finds herself pregnant
except she can’t have children an
incredible pain and desperation the
archaeologist pulls herself into a
medical pod and commences an improvised
c-section which may go down is one of
the most hard to watch sequences in film
Shaw squirms and pain skin is precisely
cut and pulled back and the reveal of
her fetus is something you’re unlikely
to forget
number two a quick-fix Star Trek for the
voyage home
damnit do you want an acute case on your
hands this woman has immediate
postprandial upper abdominal distention
step aside old science the futures here
to save the day what the hell is that
what are you doing tearing of the middle
meningeal artery what’s your degree in
dentistry in Star Trek for 23rd century
space travelers jmt Kirk and Leonard
McCoy infiltrate a San Francisco
hospital in order to save their friend
Pavel Chekov who is unconscious from a
head injury how do you explain slowing
pulse low respiratory rate and coma
funduscopic examination endoscopic
examinations are revealing in these
cases Kirk and McCoy’s infiltration
mission brings them at odds with the
hospital’s medical staff resulting in an
entertaining exchange between the lead
doctor and McCoy the artery must be
repaired now put away your butcher
knives and let me save this patient
before it’s too late
fortunately the staff is relocated
through Kirk’s quick thinking and Chekov
makes a full recovery
doctor such unprofessional behavior into
that little room please
thank you futuristic technology
[Music]
he’s coming around gentlemen before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions how are you going in
rectally I’ll get the lubricant there’s
no time for losers dad’s always driving
over to number one swapping faces face
off this is a state-of-the-art more for
genetic template the inside is modeled
on your skull the outside exactly like
Taurus it’s in the title kind of meet
FBI agent Sean Archer a noble man on a
mission to bring the psychotic villain
castor Troy to justice so you want to
take his face in mine borrowed the
procedures completely reversible do you
think that I want to do this it just so
happens that a promising doctor has a
plan to help with this mission swap
archers face with Troy’s to allow Archer
to stop Troy’s operations
[Music]
thus one of the most visually impressive
surgical procedures takes place as the
latest in computer-generated imagery is
used to illustrate how odd yet inspiring
the process of switching people’s faces
could be
[Music]
do you agree with our list this is my
needs to doctors what’s your favorite
unusual operating room scene oh my god
she free for more fascinating top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com leave it all to us you’ll
never know what hit you good bye
[Music]
hospitals but none like this welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 unusual
operating room scenes hello now don’t
you worry we’ll soon have you cured for
this list there doesn’t need to be an
actual operation occurring in these
scenes we’re looking at any weird
unexpected or otherwise bizarre
situation that happens to be set in an
operating room put away your butcher
knives and let me save this patient
before it’s too late whether they’re
tinged in science fiction or dressed in
the elements of horror
these big-screen scenes take our
understanding of a typical operating
room setting and flip it on its head
also a spoiler alert probably an order
what do I want
I wanna bleh okay number 10 the miracle
of birth Monty Python’s the meaning of
life hot one the miracle of birth isn’t
childbirth a wondrous occasion Monty
Python’s final film starts off toying
with that sentiment at first by showing
us a pregnant woman being wheeled
through a seemingly endless corridor and
then by playing to our worst fears about
medical staff the Monty Python comedy
troupe portrays doctors who have little
interest in delivering a child but are
utterly enamored with various expensive
machines and devices that go pink I get
the most expensive machines in case the
administrator come plenty amusing to
watch so-called professionals care so
little about their work but the scene
also surprisingly works as a cautionary
tale about skewed priorities trips up
injections and I’d put the tube in the
baby’s head only if I can do the
episiotomy okay okay
legs up number nine barging in a
gunpoint Lucy someday put a bag of drugs
in me I need your own move it coming in
unannounced is rude enough but doing it
at gunpoint is just not okay
do it now Frankton nevertheless the
titular Lucy does just that after having
an experimental drug into her body
oh just administer local anesthetic
don’t bother
she marches into a nearby tri-service
Hospital trotting into an operating room
and threatening some unfortunate
surgeons with her gun until they agreed
to aid her scarlet johansson handles the
scene like a professional conveying the
degree to which Lucy has shifted from an
ordinary girl to superhuman with ease
how much is left 500 Crump’s number
eight Beverly’s breakdown dead ringers
we’re all set Beverly someone get the
man a psychiatrist stat use these in
Dead Ringers Jeremy Irons has the
difficult task of playing twin brothers
and Gynaecologists Elliott and Beverly
mantel rules and we will do the job
Beverly having gotten close to a patient
who left town due to her job slow
we undergoes a mental breakdown and one
fateful operation sends him right off
the deep end I’m afraid I’m not familiar
with these instruments doctor the entire
scene has a menacing feel to it with the
bizarre instruments Beverly ordered for
operations all the surgeons wearing red
and Beverly slow descent into hysteria
I’ve just haven’t made that brand-new
[Music]
we’ll be honest this one was deeply
unsettling for us wow-p yes number five
number seven unexpected success Harold &
Kumar Go to White Castle
it’s a godforsaken bloodbath you can see
we have three poor rhythmic gunshot
wounds score one for the well-meaning
stoners what dr. Lee is trying to say is
that we need to sedate the patient or
you could go into cardiac arrest
all right during their ongoing quest to
locate a White Castle restaurant best
friends Harold and Kumar find themselves
in doctors scrubs and then get called in
for an actual surgery second nurse well
we should probably use his marijuana
that’ll sufficiently sedate the patient
for surgery accompanied by the
ever-charming Ryan Reynolds as a
supervising male nurse Harold and Kumar
awkwardly attempt to figure out how to
save a gunshot victim why we don’t have
time for questions we need marijuana now
as much of it as possible like a big bag
of it but doctor we don’t have marijuana
in this hospital
shit this leads to a welcome moment of
true brilliance from Kumar showing his
unexpected talent for medical work
[Music]
oh and Reynolds’s nurse tries to come on
to kumar great one of you clean this up
please put the Chester me that’s okay
I’m not funny anymore
your place chocolate
number six copper and the defibrillator
the thing what else we got different
cleaner over here
leave it to the great John Carpenter to
invent a gory scene in an operating room
[Applause]
in his cult classic film Antarctic
station member Norris suffers a heart
attack during the increasingly stressful
proceedings his fellow worker copper
elects to use the defibrillator trying
to keep Norris alive and then Norris his
chest caves in
what follows is a visually horrific
sequence that also stands as the high
achievement in practical special effects
as the titular thing emerges from nurses
chest cavity and threatens the other
station members thank goodness for
flamethrowers number five saving John
Kramer Saul three her procedure like
this the patient is tearfully alert
nothing like mortal danger to motivate a
person to success that’s the setup for
the scene from saw three great death dr.
lynn denlon with a manufactured collar
around her neck is tasked with operating
on John Kramer who spoiler alert is the
jigsaw killer Lynne begins cutting into
John’s skull in a sequence that is this
unpleasant as it is tense stop the
bleeding it doesn’t help that Amanda
John’s loyal apprentice has her eyes
fixed on Linder in the process or that
the caller will instantly kill Lynn
should John die fill that syringe with
alcohol from that point
hang in there Lynn alright John you
should keep your mouth closed
number four farewell to the arc reactor
Iron Man 3 but then I thought to myself
why stop there at the opposite extreme
we have a relatively peaceful operation
that concludes one-man struggles there
are people who say progress is dangerous
but I’ll bet none of those idiots ever
had to live with the chest full of
shrapnel during the climax of this 2013
action blockbuster billionaire Tony
Stark begins the process of moving on
from his life as Iron Man a montage
shows us the effects of Starks actions
before settling on one image that of
Tony going through surgery to finally be
rid of the life-endangering shrapnel and
now neither why let me tell you that was
the best sleep I’ve had in years
it’s quite the pleasant scene
considering while watching doctors pull
metal out of a person’s chest and now
I’m a changed man
number three alien baby Prometheus
there’s no home sweet space explorers
don’t have an easy go of things
least of all new Mira pause as our faith
driven heroine Elizabeth Shaw it’s not
exactly a traditional fetus as events
proceed Shaw finds herself pregnant
except she can’t have children an
incredible pain and desperation the
archaeologist pulls herself into a
medical pod and commences an improvised
c-section which may go down is one of
the most hard to watch sequences in film
Shaw squirms and pain skin is precisely
cut and pulled back and the reveal of
her fetus is something you’re unlikely
to forget
number two a quick-fix Star Trek for the
voyage home
damnit do you want an acute case on your
hands this woman has immediate
postprandial upper abdominal distention
step aside old science the futures here
to save the day what the hell is that
what are you doing tearing of the middle
meningeal artery what’s your degree in
dentistry in Star Trek for 23rd century
space travelers jmt Kirk and Leonard
McCoy infiltrate a San Francisco
hospital in order to save their friend
Pavel Chekov who is unconscious from a
head injury how do you explain slowing
pulse low respiratory rate and coma
funduscopic examination endoscopic
examinations are revealing in these
cases Kirk and McCoy’s infiltration
mission brings them at odds with the
hospital’s medical staff resulting in an
entertaining exchange between the lead
doctor and McCoy the artery must be
repaired now put away your butcher
knives and let me save this patient
before it’s too late
fortunately the staff is relocated
through Kirk’s quick thinking and Chekov
makes a full recovery
doctor such unprofessional behavior into
that little room please
thank you futuristic technology
[Music]
he’s coming around gentlemen before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions how are you going in
rectally I’ll get the lubricant there’s
no time for losers dad’s always driving
over to number one swapping faces face
off this is a state-of-the-art more for
genetic template the inside is modeled
on your skull the outside exactly like
Taurus it’s in the title kind of meet
FBI agent Sean Archer a noble man on a
mission to bring the psychotic villain
castor Troy to justice so you want to
take his face in mine borrowed the
procedures completely reversible do you
think that I want to do this it just so
happens that a promising doctor has a
plan to help with this mission swap
archers face with Troy’s to allow Archer
to stop Troy’s operations
[Music]
thus one of the most visually impressive
surgical procedures takes place as the
latest in computer-generated imagery is
used to illustrate how odd yet inspiring
the process of switching people’s faces
could be
[Music]
do you agree with our list this is my
needs to doctors what’s your favorite
unusual operating room scene oh my god
she free for more fascinating top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com leave it all to us you’ll
never know what hit you good bye
[Music]
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