Just as the game gets under way, an assassin comes from the audience and tries to kill her with some sort of odd weapon. Allegra Geller (JENNIFER JASON LEIGH) is the most famous game designer in the world and a group of test subjects has been assembled to give her latest game, eXistenZ, the once-over. A man uses a "gristle gun" (consisting of animal parts that shoots teeth instead of bullets) to shoot Allegra in the shoulder and her associate in the chest. In essence, she plays a character -- who did nothing but continually remind me of actress Elisabeth Shue -- that never gets the audience to sympathize with her or understand her odd attachment to her throbbing, organic game pod. The Samaritan, which is Hellboy's choice of projectile weaponry, might look like your regular magnum revolver, but it's more like handheld artillery. A man is killed when a detonator explodes in his back.

An explosion sends glass flying across Ted and Allegra. Extreme amounts of other blood and gore are present and the film probably isn't the best choice for the squeamish. Blood/Gore Handguns: Used to shoot and kill two people.
Kiri and his partner operate on Allegra's pod that's quite bloody and gooey. Smoking Don't want to see this ad?




Full 360° view (of another prop) available here. Blood squirts out from a man when he's shot, as is the case when another man is shot with a machine gun and two others are shot with handguns.

DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE

Note recharge plug on side power gauges on top. With characters entering a virtual world where anything goes, that would seem like an easy thing to do.

Although wounded, she manages to escape and flees with Ted Pikul (JUDE LAW), a rookie security guard and marketing trainee at Antenna, their employer. He is well-versed in multiple fandoms that gravitate toward the edgy and nihilistic spectrum of the internet culture. Alright, forget about any other sidearm that came before, we have a clear winner here.

It also doesn't help that the film suffers from a terrible case of miscasting (we'll stop saying "although in hindsight" -- you should just take that as a given from now on). Later another one is used to shoot and kill a man. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO The rest of the performances and characters are essentially throw away roles. It does make up for its sci-fi shortcomings by having a 50-round magazine with a rapid auto-fire mode. Even later, we still see the hole in her shoulder (although it's no longer bloody).

While in hindsight the film cumulatively manages to make sense once you know the real and final truth -- which actually improves one's reaction and view of the overall proceedings -- that doesn't make one's first (and probably only) experience with it any better. A gun's purpose is usually to kill, main, or injure someone with bullets, though the most powerful of them all in this list transcend beyond that blunt primal purpose. Allegra tells Ted that they need to stop driving so that they can have "an intimate moment together," but she's referring to him attending to the gunshot wound in her shoulder. Can't say the same about any other gun, sadly. A louis wu did not want to engage in sex while aliens or strangers watched.

GUNS/WEAPONS A man is shot several times in the face, resulting in blood squirting out each time until we see that he's dead and has had a big portion of the side of his face blown off.

MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) During the film's second act, Ted is given a firearm called the "Gristle Gun", which is built entirely out of organic components (primarily bones and muscle fibers) and uses human teeth for ammunition. That's arguably more useful than killing them and practically can make the L.O.O.K.E.R. Along the way, she cusses some, makes out with Ted, and kills some bad guys. As they race outside, they see more explosions and machine gun fire. Stop the ads.