I just watched Silent Hill last night, and it was pretty cool when Pyramid Head ripped that girl’s skin off. That can’t be healthy.
Then there’s that part in Leviathan when that dude gets bit in half when he was in that large diver suit and it bounces around the room, bumping into everyone.
Justin B: Many happy returns!
LOTS of good deaths so far! I’ll add an oldie-but-goodie — the stabbing/hanging/shredding scene from “Suspiria.” It’s so outrageously gory and somehow beautiful in a very macabre way. Although a bit dated, I still love it.
Someone finally put up some tales of the crypt episodes up on youtube, look up the nickname hauntedflower there are a few of them up. Even one with Corey Feldman! One called the assassin.
I’m not even going to say what my favorite kill is. I think that I wouldn’t want to admit that.
Justin B- I remember that film. Pepe’s death at the end is a good one too.
Lisa- I was thinking about Deadly Friend too. Remember when she threw that jackass to the police car?
The wedding massacre in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Though I never saw Sir Lancelot drive his sword through the bride’s father’s
head.
Terminator 3, at the end where obviously millions die as Skynet launches all those nuclear missiles. Doctor Spalko, in Indiana
Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. When she wishes
to know everything the aliens know, which is impossible for a
human brain. And the overload kills her. It seems I’m not the
only one who has seen The Black Hole. One of the rooms in
my house still has the original wallpaper with the USS Cygnus,
the Palomino, and the probe ship on the wallpaper. Also, the
death of the Wicked Queen in Walt Disne’s Snow White.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 10/19/2008 2:20 AM EDT
Garbage Daaaayy!!
Ghosted by dave @ 10/19/2008 2:27 AM EDT
Gotta go with that guy in Robocop who gets doused with toxic waste and then splattered on the hood of a car.
the basketball from Deadly Friend should be in some sort of top ten list
Ghosted by batfink @ 10/19/2008 3:56 AM EDT
True Lies, where the dude takes a fatal ride on a missile. Palpatine falling to his death in Return of The Jedi. Even though I’ve only
seen an image of this death here in this website, Mister T
killing Half Dead (Ernie Hudson) by snapping his neck in
Penitentiary II. And Sydney shooting her boyfriend in the head in
the first Scream film. He deserved it. Good night everyone.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 10/19/2008 4:53 AM EDT
The melting faces in Raiders of the Lost Ark, When Doc Brown gets shot the first time in Back to the Future, The Shower Scene and when the detective falls down the stairs in Psycho, When the alien “dies” in E. T. The Extraterrestrial…
I know this is not exactly halloweeny or gory, but in the movie Hell’s Angels (the one from the 1930’s), when the German zeppelin tried to escape the fighter bi planes, all the crew were trying to lighten the load by throwing every single thing from the zeppelin, and than the crew started to sacrifice themselves by throwing themselves off as a way to keep the Zeppelin away from the fighters. I know it’s not much, but the buildup to that scene was just wow.
- Ultra Magnus 2005
Ghosted by Ultra Magnus 2005 @ 10/19/2008 5:53 AM EDT
Molly: Just watched parts of that movie. HBO has been showing it for some reason. I like to think it’s cause Mythbusters busted some of the stuff they did in the movie recently. As bad as the majority of that movie is, that was a pretty awesome death scene… Didn’t Matt once reference that? Something about the last time a big speech was given Samuel L. Jackson died? Lol…
JLAJRC: I too get teary eyed during that episode of Futurama. Is anyone going to watch the newest movie on Sunday? I can’t wait!
Sorry to be a bit off topic, Matt. I’ll say I’ll agree with Precursor, kind of: my favorite death scene is from Terminator II (Only cause I just saw the end of that, too and I can’t think of any other movie that hasn’t been said yet…) When Robert Patrick (T-1000) gets blown up by Arnie. The look on his face is awesome. It’s almost robotic enough, almost fake… like he did have emotions. Maybe James Cameron told him to act like a surprised robot? lol… I liked him shattering after the strut through the liquid nitro tho. That was cooler, but not a death scene. The terminator’s death scene was pretty good, too. I’d have cannonballed into the vat of molten metal, personally. None of that heart wrenching slow decent stuff. Then John Conner would have taken it better, right? He prolly woulda said it was tubular or something…
Still, it was a good death scene…
Ghosted by Fuyoutakai @ 10/19/2008 6:57 AM EDT
The slow death of Shelly The Machines Levene’s soul in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Come on Gil, you can do it!
Ghosted by whitemale_98 @ 10/19/2008 6:59 AM EDT
Thought of another: Bleeding Gums Murphy on the Simpsons. I know that sounds stupid, but I loved Bleeding Gums… especially when he sang the National Anthem at a baseball game lol…
Ghosted by Fuyoutakai @ 10/19/2008 7:05 AM EDT
Ok, last one and I’ll shut up: Paris Hilton in House of Wax. Never saw that movie, happen to be channel surfing and saw the scene. As much as I loath her and I hate myself for admitting it, but watching her die was disturbingly satisfying…
Ghosted by Fuyoutakai @ 10/19/2008 7:10 AM EDT
I’d have to think hard about this one.
I think it may be – tying with me mentioning the film on the thread a couple of days ago – Flyboy’s death in ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ (original 1978 version; ie the superior one). In fact, this counts sort of as a double death.
We spent the whole movie with him, and when he emerges from the lift, bloodied and bruised, as a zombie, is a really scary moment. He slowly makes his way up to the hideout, followed by a horde of other zombies. Stephen has no option that to raise is rifle and shoot the zombie Flyboy in the head. Splat. Blood everywhere. His body falls to one side as the following army of zombies enter.
I feel I should have gone for something like Captain Kirk’s death in ‘Star Trek: Generations’, but for me, it didn’t really pack much of a punch and I found much of that movie disappointing.
I have to go with Frank Cotton’s death in the original Hellraiser (my all-time favorite horror movie though the sequels, aside from the first one, suck like a Hoover with a warp drive). Torn literally to pieces by hooked chains? Now that’s shuffling off this mortal coil in style!
the priest who “Kicks Ass for the Lord” in Dead Alive and gets impaled on the angle tomb stone
Ghosted by Starscream77 @ 10/19/2008 9:00 AM EDT
Tom Savini in Children of The Living Dead. BAD. ASS. That chick from Cloverfield like blowing up or whatever behind that screen was awesome, and every death from The Mist, ESPECIALLY the religious nut… Right through the milk bottle! lol Also, not quite a death scene, but I lovelovelove the zombies in the pool from the end of Diary of the Dead.
the mass death of hundreds at the beginning of ghost ship and the mass death of hundreds at the night club in hellraiser 3 were pretty awesome.
Ghosted by nick @ 10/19/2008 10:03 AM EDT
1. Jason doing the back breaker bent backwards on the cop in F13 pt. 6
2. Zombie in helicopter blades in DAWN OF THE DEAD
3. KILLER KLOWNS boxing scene
4. Sad one: Jack in AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
5. David Warner’s decapitation in THE OMEN
6. Anything from REANIMATOR or STREET TRASH
Ghosted by The Manimal @ 10/19/2008 10:56 AM EDT
The one on Resident evil where they get trapped in that room with the lazer that cuts them up. An it turns into like a grid and slices that fellas head into little blocks..sick,very!
In Hot Fuzz, when the reporter/photographer fellow gets squashed with the falling chunk of building!
Ghosted by Ded Grotty @ 10/19/2008 11:46 AM EDT
All the deaths from Heathers. Maude Flanders getting knocked off the Nascar stands by a T-shirt! The end of Temple of Doom was pretty funny, when the bad guys fell into the open mouths of the alligators. And the alligators were cute!
Ghosted by Creepy McGee @ 10/19/2008 12:00 PM EDT
Sam Jackson’s death in Deep Blue Sea was actually going to be one of my scary moment answers in the other thread. It’s really not that scary, but the first time that I saw it…let’s just say I was in a highly suggestible state of mind.
“He ate me! A fucking shark ate me!”
Speaking of Tom Jane movies with entertaining deaths, there’s one coming out sometime soon called Mutant Chronicles that has some great ones. I won’t spoil anything, but I’ll just say that little kids don’t fare any better in this one than in The Mist.
We watched The Happening last night, so with that fresh in my mind, my favorite death scene was when the guy just kind of lays down in front of the lawnmower like he’s tired and then the lawnmower just kind of eats him up. It’s so goofy and cheesy, you have to giggle.
In Cabin Fever, when one of the infected chicks is chased down by a dog and gets mauled; and in Near Dark, when that vampire kid Homer bursts into flames and explodes.
Ghosted by Sprocket @ 10/19/2008 12:57 PM EDT
Hey, I know I’m trying to go off the rails on my own personal crazy train, but what are the preps for Tgiving on XE this year?
I have a suggestion if all the good parades are done. Review a SEARS CATALOG a year! Highlight the cool new stuff. Cause lets face it, that was the kickoff to Christmas anyway. Whaddya think?
There will definitely be another Sears Wishbook review, similar to last year’s. I have a good one already planned.
As for the TG parades, I need to re-review them. I can only do one if I find one that featured stuff worth talking about. Sadly, I think I already covered the best of them.
squee4242 stole my first thought, which was Marvin getting shot in the face.
But then, Admiral Backbar brought up The Shining and it reminded me of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V, in which Groundskeeper Willie gets an axe in the back in every segment. “Ach, I’m bad at this.”
Tv death- Cotton Hill in King of The Hill. As hated as he was, the didn’t have to kill him off. RIP Bleeding Gums Murphy. The Golden Girls
episode where Rose says drop dead to a woman, and the woman drops
dead. Movie- I’ve only seen images of this scene, Day of The Dead
(1985), when the zombies tear Captain Rhodes in half. His last words
are “Choke on them.” Rhodes was a jerk though. I think he was
mentioned in a Lilo and Stitch The Series episode. Lilo mentioned
seeing a movie with a guy ordering people around. then zombies ate
him.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 10/19/2008 2:28 PM EDT
Joe Pesci in Casino. Brutal.
Ghosted by Mario E. @ 10/19/2008 2:33 PM EDT
What about Joe Pesci in Goodfellas? He never saw it coming. Nobody did. Brutal as well.
Ghosted by Larry @ 10/19/2008 3:35 PM EDT
Matt, I remember one Thanksgiving Day Parade where Cheech Marin was in it, and he was singing Cheech The School Bus Driver. I think
it was in 1988.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 10/19/2008 4:20 PM EDT
Rhodes getting ripped apart in Day of the Dead– “choke on ‘em!”
Ghosted by Heather M. @ 10/19/2008 4:36 PM EDT
Matt: If the various Macy’s parades are used up, you could always do a non-Macy parade like the CBS ones.
Or you could just skip the parades and just talk about the commercials during the parades. We haven’t had a commercial article in a long time.
Another suggestion, I don’t know if you ever liked the show “Friends.” But they practically owned the Thanksgiving-themed episodes for awhile. Do one of those, maybe.
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 10/19/2008 4:41 PM EDT
I just thought of another one. You could talk about the famous WWE Wrestlecrap gimmick The Gobbledy Gooker.
I remember the bird you’re talking abot JLAJRC. From the 1990 Survivor Series. For some time before the Survivor Series, the WWF (before it
became the WWE) was displaying this giant egg. People wondered
what was in it. Ted Dibiase’s unknown team member, which was the
Undertaker in his debut match, or the Playmate of the Month. In the
end, it was that dude in the bird costume, the Gobbledy Gooker. It
then danced in the ring withWWF legend Gene Okerlund. Another
great death scene, Krest’s death in License To Kill. Like a balloon.
Die Another Day, when Jinx forces a blade through a book to kill
Miranda Frost. The book was The Art of War. Serpentor probably
read that book alot. And Frankie The Fixer getting caught in an
explosion in Wise Guys.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 10/19/2008 6:09 PM EDT
ANY death from a Sci Fi Channel “original” movie. Death by giant mosquitos, man eating locusts, Mansquito, lake monsters, closet monsters, basement monsters, Mexican zombies, Egyptian mummies (In Arizona, no less), being one of thousands killed by MASSIVE natural disasters (Volcano, Earthquake, Tsunami, Dante’s Peak, Twister), Cerebus, being killed by ghosts, poltergiests, spirits, undead, diseases, both of those combined, Leperchauns, homicidal maniacs, curses, buildings, fate, and extremely long lists of unpleasant deaths.
Ghosted by PlnatMonster @ 10/19/2008 6:37 PM EDT
I know I’m in the minority, but I love Thanksgiving over Halloween or Christmas. A lot of sugary candy doesn’t settle well with me these days and Christmas is well and fine if it isn’t a recession, but Thanksgiving is awesome. I loved canned cranberry logs and stuffing.
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Sadly, I think I already covered the best of them.
Thomas: Yep.