

In the 1959 film The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, the Drake family is stalked by enemies with a long-standing grudge, one of them a vengeful Jivaro with his mouth tied shut with twine in emulation of a shrunken head.One of the red-robed gauchos in Gallowwalkers has his lips sewn together with red thread, although it doesn't prevent him from talking.Wade: Oh, you really don't wanna do that. Infamously done to the In Name Only version of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.Ījax: I'm gonna sew your bloody mouth shut.Less gruesome than most examples, as 8 is made of cloth, but his expressions make it horrible anyway. In 9, the Seamstress captures 8 and sews his mouth shut to silence his cries.When Earl is turned into a scarecrow in Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, the process involves his eyes and mouth being stitched shut.His sewn mouth is shown up close, which was quite shocking for the audiences in 1933. Murders in the Zoo opens with a man getting his mouth sewn shut, and being Left for Dead in the middle of a Chinese jungle.Likewise, the remake of The Amityville Horror (2005) used this trope when George hallucinated (?) seeing the Torture Cellar victims of the house's original owner.The protagonist manages to cut the stitches on one man's mouth in time to be warned that the doctor is right behind him ( how the stitched man saw the doctor through stitched eyelids in unanswered). In the morgue in The Crazies (2010), the doctor has started tying people down to sew their eyes and mouth shut.The Final Girl in Exit 33 has her lips stapled gunned together.Neither this particular scene nor the people with the stitched-shut sensory organs appeared in the novel however. In the David Lynch's Dune (1984), some minions of Baron Harkonnen on Giedi Prime were shown with their eyes, ears, and mouths sewn shut, in the disturbing scene where the Baron rapes a boy while pulling his heart plug.

Once re-animated, the first thing he does of his own volition is to grab a pocketknife and cut the stitches so he can curse her out. Winnie mentioned he talked so much that she sewed his mouth shut before killing him.
FUNNY CARTOON VIDEO ABOUT KEEPING MOUTH SHUT CODE
Mentioned but not shown in order to not push the limits of the Comics Code too far in an issue of John Byrne's run on She-Hulk as a necessary step of returning Black Talon's unwilling superpowered zombie servants to rest after feeding them salt.

He does this before the story starts so that he can disguise himself as Freddy and infiltrate the heroes.
