vivisect

This happens before Ellie has her own run-in with members of the cult, who grab Ellie and come close to hanging and vivisecting her before she can explain that she’s not a threat.

For example, standing right next to a table featuring a prop body vivisected in all of its gruesomeness was a hovering staff person and that was a distraction.

It didn’t help that she was pressured to watch a boy vivisect a live crawfish with his pocket knife.

The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes infamously vivisected dogs because he believed only human beings could have souls.

Rarely has a film so neatly emotionally vivisected me as this one about a villain best known for wanting to skin puppies to make a coat.