Electric Torture: Difference between revisions

* Poor [[The Woobie|Bumblebee]]. He's shocked in the first live action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movie, for no apparent reason, and in a comicbook story arc connected with said movie...

* In ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'', Riggs is tortured by a [[Torture Technician]] played by Al Leong.

* Memorably applied by [[Papa Wolf|Bryan]] (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) in ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'' on a [[Complete Monster|worthless brute]] that addicts helpless little girls to drugs before selling them to be raped by dirty old men. He slams two long-blunt-and-rusty nails into the evil bastard's deserving thighs, connects the nails to a fuse box, and turns on the light, coolly telling him that unlike third world countries (which they used to outsource this kind of thing to), the power in Paris "will stay on till they turn it off from lack of payment on the bill." When the bastard gives up information on the person he sold Bryan's daughter to, Bryan leaves the room, with the power on.

* The torture device in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' isn't technically electric—although it may qualify as "some form of direct neural stimulation"—but the sequence checks all the boxes, including electrode-analogues, actor thrashing around in pain, and "increase the intensity" moment. And then Westley dies. Well, ''[[Only Mostly Dead|mostly]]'' [[Only Mostly Dead|dies]].

* Toward the end of ''[[The President's Analyst]]'', Dr. Schaefer is captured by {{spoiler|the phone company}}, who intend to extract information about the President for their ends. They have him trapped in a phone booth and subject him to some kind of high-tech pain-inflicting technology.

* Played with in ''[[The Artist]]'', as the movie begins with an audience watching George Valentin's [[Show Within a Show|newest movie]], where Valentin's character is being subjected to some sort of electric torture.

 

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