You can't do that to our George! Abu Ghraib was nothing compared to this. But topping, or rather bottoming, them all was the sight of George Clooney being relieved of his expensively manicured fingernails by some Geneva-convention-hating Arab with a pair of pliers in Syriana. Saw III gouged, hacked, shot and beat out a host of horror competitors in the stomach-churning sadism stakes. Everyone was at it - Hostel, 24, Lost, Hard Candy, even Bond underwent a robust testicular bludgeoning in Casino Royale. The beast turns out to be the result of pollution from the nearby US army base - think of them as your local special effects team.Ī torture scene was 2006's must-have. Usually in monster movies you get nothing but tantalising glimpses of the beast until the last half-hour, but good ol' tadpole-features leaps out of the river and into action straight away - like it can't wait to show off its prehensile tail and hideously toothsome multiple mandibles. Narrowly edging out Mr eyes-in-his-hands from Pan's Labyrinth and Bill Nighy in Pirates Of Caribbean 2, The Host's disgusting mutant amphibian from Korea showed a relentless commitment to the art of rampaging, eluding capture and eating people. And some cakes with pastel icing! And what's this? A classical reworking of Siouxsie And The Banshees' Hong Kong Garden? That Sofia Coppola, she's so post-something! And is that Bow Wow Wow with Kevin Shields? Awesome! And look at all those shoes! And here's Adam And The Ants, oh God I love this! And some more shoes. Brilliant! And there's Kirsten Dunst in a great big pink costume. Hey, it's Gang Of Four's Natural's Not In It. Nice soundtrack shame about the film: Marie Antoinette