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Halloween Cookies?

Long week at work so I had to keep this one short. I'll make up for it over the weekend. Or so you think. Here's a ditty on dem Halloween Cookies, brought to you by the Pillsbury Doughboy and, believe it or not, a mummy.

Now here's your survey: what's some of the best death scenes you've ever seen in a film? There's hundreds of great candidates for this one.

Posted by Matt on 10/13/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 137 comments

When Samuel L. Jackson gets in in Deep Blue Sea! I know it wasn’t very gross or especially cool…and the graphics weren’t great, but it was SUCH a surprise that the damn shark popped out and ate Samuel when he was in the middle of a huge important speech! I mean, he was the star of the friggin’ movie and they killed him off right away. That takes guts.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 10/13/2004 11:55 PM

Nightmare on Elm Street 3

not the best death ever but a great one

when the dungeons and dragons kid gets killed

I love when Freddy makes fun of him and kills him

Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 10/13/2004 11:58 PM

When I said "makes fun of him and kills him" I meant it’s great that he makes fun of him AND kill him

the kid can’t just die, he has to die knowing that he’s a dungeons and dragons nerd

Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 10/13/2004 11:59 PM

-Halloran getting the ax in The Shining. Also, Jack’s death, while not as spectacular, always gave me the chills (wokka wokka)
-The TV girl/the marrionette kid from Dream Warriors
-Carrie’s mom…the screams, the knives, the organ music…still creepy as hell to this day.
-Paul Reubens in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Oooh! Aaah! Eeeh!"
-Walken/Catwoman (?) in Batman Returns
-Sonny Corleone. They got him on the causeway.
-Not technically a movie, but shot on film so I’m countin’ it: Ralphie Cifaretto from The Sopranos. Also, a more recent one that I won’t mention in detail…
-Robert Downey Jr. in Natural Born Killers. That tie around his head always cracks me up.
-"Marvin, what do you think of all this?…I mean, do you think that god came down from heaven and stopped the bullets–"
Props to "Eziekiel 25:17" too (both from Pulp Fiction)
-The shoot-out at the end of True Romance.
-Bill. I won’t spoil it, but man that cat is cool. Quentin Tarentino knows how to write great death scenes, I guess.

Man, I could go on like this forever, this is a fun one!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/14/2004 12:00 PM

Man, that is a good question. Some thoughts:

- Zed’s buddy from Pulp Fiction.

- Johnny Cage killing Scorpion in Mortal Kombat. As a fan of the games, I realize that if I take a step back and look at it as a regular person, the scene makes absolutely no sense.

- The end of the Outlaw Josey Wales. I might have to say this is my absolute favorite. Just Josey shooting an empty gun at the guy who messed up his life, just so he can watch the guy flinch at death over and over again. After unloading all of his empty guns, he finally impales the guy with his own sword. Awesome.

- Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope. Come on, like you didn’t laugh like an idiot and rewind.

- From the Punisher (2004):

"Howard Saint! HOWARD SAINT!!"

"You killed my son!"

*screaming is heard in the background, followed by an explosion*

"Both of them."

- The Joker in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (Uncut version). My favorite scene in any animated movie. "That’s not funny… That’s… not… ugh…" followed by the creepy scene of Robin/Joker Jr. hysterically laughing and then seamlessly going into a bout of hysterical crying.

Chestnuts roasted by Gavok @ 10/14/2004 12:19 PM

I liked the opening scene of Ghost Ship. It’s probably the only actually good scene in the movie, but it makes up for the other shite. Bunch of people ballroom dancing on a ship, taut wire goes across, acts as a knife, slices them all in half except the little girl who’s too short. The top halves all fall off. Little girl looks up and grandpa, half of grandpa’s head falls off. Beautiful.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 10/14/2004 12:41 PM

The Movie: Return of the Living Dead
The Moment:
Spooky is the token obsessed-with-death girl. She dresses in black, fully punked out, 80s style. She talks about death a lot and is kind of, in keeping with horror tradition, a nympho. Before the chaos ensues, Spooky regales the audience with her most frightful way to die. Being naked, eaten alive by a myriad of old men, is the gist of it. Then, once zombies rise from their graves en masse, she is caught, not so ironically, naked, as zombies devour her amidst the acid rain. Devour is, perhaps, too strong a word, as she makes several appearances later, as a zombie, but is remarkably intact.
The Reason:
It is apt. The foreshadowing was a nice touch.
While the film has many hilarious moments, scenes like this one really make the movie.
Oh, and did I mention that she was naked?

Chestnuts roasted by TheCurse @ 10/14/2004 12:47 PM

Best death is in Final Destination 2. Some teenage kids gets smashed flat by a pane of glass that falls from like 5 stories up. I laughed for hours at that one

Chestnuts roasted by Aaron @ 10/14/2004 12:49 PM

I miss when Pillsbury had Bats instead of the lame pumpkins and ghost. I mean come on the package was all sorts of spooky and it said Pillsbury BATS! In bright colors… maybe I’m just a sucker for bat themed cookies.

Chestnuts roasted by thepixelpuncher @ 10/14/2004 12:53 PM

Maaatt! You’re not supposed to jam all the cookies on the same sheet together! XD You coulda done 2 batches. But, I understand if the hunger for sweet, spookie goodness was overwhelming your rationale at that moment. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/14/2004 1:04 AM

Just stumbled onto this site, pretty damn funny…

I’m torn between Joe Pesci getting beat down at the end of Casino or Optimus Prime dying in transformers the movie(still upsets me, damnit).

However, I guess I’ll go with a borderline death scene…borderline because I’m not sure if he died or not. When Wilson floats away in Cast Away…I still like to think he washed up on shore and found a home with a nice white picket fence family

Chestnuts roasted by PimpLizzy @ 10/14/2004 1:08 AM

This is my first post here too!

Now, as far as death scenes go, one came to mind right away and hasn’t left… for the love of God it’s not leaving.

In Dawn of the Dead, (the old one with the blue skinned slow moving zombies) Roger is filling up the helicopter that he and the others are planning on flying away in. Little does he know a zombie is coming for him. However, Roger is a-ok because the zombie (whos head is strangely bigger than any human’s naturally should be) climbs ontop of a bunch of crates and the top of his head is taken off by the spinning helicopter blades. He simply drops after that, without a sound. It’s still "instant replay" worthy.

Also, I learned that his head was filled with crushed up chips and salsa apparently… which just makes you hungry.

Chestnuts roasted by Terry @ 10/14/2004 1:49 AM

Yes, yes to Resident Evil when the guy gets lasered into cubes…the movie was awful but that scene kind of creeped me out….

I also enjoyed the head frozen in nitrous oxide then smashed on the counter death scene in Jason X….that movie had its moments…

Chestnuts roasted by CryptKitty @ 10/14/2004 1:53 AM

Ooo…ahhhh…ohhh!

No, it’s not porn, it’s pop-up-fresh dough! Hmm-hmmm!

Yeah, the Pilsbury cookies suck, being nothing more than sugar, flour, and Yellow No. whatever. But those Tollhouse cookies look pretty damn good. Enjoy, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/14/2004 2:33 AM

After thinking about it in the shower i’ve decided I have a tie in my favorite death scene. If you haven’t seen American Beauty or Seven you may want to skip this but

Any time Kevin Spacey takes a bullet to the head it’s a good scene.

By the way Sticking together’s what
good cookies do.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew the Stroud @ 10/14/2004 3:36 AM

lookin’ tasty!

Chestnuts roasted by hooray for cookies! @ 10/14/2004 3:40 AM

Sorry to post again so quick but I forgot one too obvious for me. The depicted death of Bill Gates in the Mock-Documentry Nothing So Strange was awsome too. I know i’m the only person who’s ever seen that one though.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew the Stroud @ 10/14/2004 3:48 AM

That shark scene in Deep Blue Sea was too good.

And also, every death scene in the movie Riki-Oh was awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Pop @ 10/14/2004 6:08 AM

I’ve gotta say, I can’t remember his name.. That one black guy in Friday the 13th part 7. Not the one you get to see in the movie, but the unedited version of it. If you’ve never seen it, run out and grab a copy of the new F13th collection from Wal~Mart or someplace. The guy hets his head squeezed down to the size of a WALNUT by Jason’s huge, bony hands! Not to mention it’s accompanied by a HUGE spray of blood!

Chestnuts roasted by Mordenheim @ 10/14/2004 6:46 AM

Let’s see. in no particular order:

- One getting cubed by lasers in "Resident Evil". I know its been mentioned twice already, but c’mon. That’s just classic. And I like that movie, BTW.

- The henchman getting his head eaten by mutated seabass in the first "Austin Powers". Just came outta nowhere, and was unexpected for a comedy.

- The killer slashing up a whole room during his rap in "Scary Movie". Funny as shit!

- And my personal favorite, no contest. The whole House of Blue Leaves scene in "Kill Bill Vol. 1". I can only hope Q.T. releases the colorized version in the DVD box set if and when it comes out. And the ending to Vol. 2 was anti-climactic!

BTW, Matt, heroin makes you impotent (according to "Trainspotting" anyway), so you probably won’t be having six hour sex after taking it, whether or not the couch is gold.

Too bad there were no death scenes in "Mac and Me", right? Cuz then I’d get another reason to reference it. Oh, I just did! :)

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 10/14/2004 8:23 AM

I don’t know if anyone has said this one yet as I have ADD and can only skim through blog entries rather than read them all, but definitely one of the best death scenes has to be in Friday the 13th Part VII, when Jason storms into the tent, drags the chick out in a sleeping bag and then bashes her against a tree. I remember seeing that one in the theater and being like, OH YEAH…thats the stuff.

Johnny Depp dying in the original Nightmare was pretty sweet too…

And the prolonged death of Billy Batts in Goodfellas. First, he gets his face stomped in Jimmy’s bar and then he gets stabbed repeatedly in Henry’s trunk…awesome…

Oh, and one more maybe…just for the gasp-inducing nature of it…When Edward Norton puts the black dude’s face up on the curb in American History X…and just stomps him from the back…That one even made me wince…

Yeah…cookies

Chestnuts roasted by Goody @ 10/14/2004 8:42 AM

I wish I had some cookies

Chestnuts roasted by ddfgfdg @ 10/14/2004 8:53 AM

Like… All the zombies in Versus, especially the one zombie who gets a fist through the head or the other Zombie who get shot with a .50 cal S.R
I higly reccomend Versus if you like Zombies and death and japanese martial arts and trenchcoats and whatnot.

Chestnuts roasted by Evan @ 10/14/2004 9:00 AM

The stomach pump death from Dr. Giggles. First the ice cream, and then the stomach wall.

Death by Port-A-Potty from Sleepaway Camp II. Just think of the last thing that person saw before they drowned in the murky recesses of the unpumped Stop-N-Plop.

The head explosion from Scanners.

Uh, more later.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 10/14/2004 9:20 AM

Roach in ‘Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight’ had the best death. He went to The Demon Keeper with The Key, thought he’d get out free but the demons ended up eating him.
Best Thomas Haden Church death scene ever.

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 10/14/2004 9:21 AM

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