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.
REPLIES: 136 comments
It's dumb but I still think the best death was Frank at the end of the first Hellraiser
Chestnuts roasted by GreyWeirdo @ 10/13/2004 09:10 PM EST
That's not dumb, I'd put that in my Top 10 for sure.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/13/2004 09:13 PM EST
If Frank's death was the "Jesus Wept" scene than yeah, best ever. Second best though is from Tremors, when the guy sits on a tire to try to get away....duh theres a hole in the middle!....or, you know, anything involving Jason!
Chestnuts roasted by Qwan @ 10/13/2004 09:20 PM EST
I loved when the dude from Millenium died at the end of Hard Target... that's one I quote a lot:
"Heh heh heh.... Whooops!"
Chestnuts roasted by AlphaCentaurian @ 10/13/2004 09:21 PM EST
Shower scene in Psycho... cliched I know but the best death scene ever
Also when everyones face melts off looking at the Arc of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Arc.
Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 10/13/2004 09:21 PM EST
Left one out..
When Ben the lone survivor of Night of the Living Dead is mistaken for a zombie and shot.
Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 10/13/2004 09:23 PM EST
When that one guy gets decapitated by a plate of glass in "The Omen"
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 10/13/2004 09:34 PM EST
My favourite death scene is from Friday the 13th Part VI, where the sherrif is broken in half by Jason near the end of the flick. I just love the sound of that crunch!
Chestnuts roasted by Croww @ 10/13/2004 09:37 PM EST
ooo, my first post ever. Ok, probably that guy in The Fly II who's head gets squashed by the elevator. Blood everywhere.
Chestnuts roasted by DarthPez @ 10/13/2004 09:39 PM EST
Zombi, when the girl gets a wood splinter lodged in her eye.
Chestnuts roasted by beastofbourbon @ 10/13/2004 09:40 PM EST
The nerd in me wants to say Spock in Star Trek II, just because as a nerd I feel obligated to mention Star Trek at every opportunity. But to avoid that, I'll say David Warner's head slice in The Omen (which was already mentioned), the famous bed-sucking-into from Nightmare on Elm Street, and the punk who gets punched at the beginning of The Terminator. Yeah, that's brief and not really crucial to the film, but I like any time organs are ripped out by bare hands.
Chestnuts roasted by Eric @ 10/13/2004 09:43 PM EST
I have to add two more scenes... 
The killing of buddy badguy in The Last Boyscout, after all the beatings and shootings, he goes through the 'copter blades. Nice...
The other would have to be the multiple death scene at the beginning of Ghost Ship, where everyone is sliced by the thin cable in one freakin' second. (BTW, that was the only good scene in the movie, but worth the watch just for that.)
Chestnuts roasted by Croww @ 10/13/2004 09:58 PM EST
Best death scene? Comes from one of the worst movies ever...13 Ghosts. You know when when of the guys gets chopped in half by two doors slamming shut on him? Then he looks alright until he splits in half?
Best. Death. Ever.
Chestnuts roasted by scottie @ 10/13/2004 10:00 PM EST
The sheriff from Robin Hood: Prince of Theives. Just fucking die, already!
Chestnuts roasted by Zorbs @ 10/13/2004 10:10 PM EST
My choice would have to be when Rhodes (Joe Pilato) gets torn in half and eaten by zombies in Day Of The Dead. The guy has it coming to him through the entire movie and he finally gets it at the end.
Chestnuts roasted by bob genghis khan @ 10/13/2004 10:23 PM EST
just to be an insensitive asshole... the little kid who gets run over at the beginning of the first toxic avenger
Chestnuts roasted by ralph @ 10/13/2004 10:34 PM EST
When the alien bursts through the dudes stomach in Spaceballs & then does that song and dance. Quality.
Or seriously, after Christian Bale has shot up just about everybody in Equilibrium and then gets challenged to a swordfight against his nemesis. You expect another major kick-ass action sequence but it lasts all of 3 seconds as Bale does a sweet parry and then just slices the dudes face right off. There's a slight pause before you see it slowly slip off the skull and onto the floor. That was way cool.
Chestnuts roasted by Cliche-Man @ 10/13/2004 10:40 PM EST
In Robocop, a guy crashes his van into a toxic waste dump, then stumbles around with his skin melting off, then gets run over by a car whipping his head over the roof and squishing his dissolving body all over the windshield.
Chestnuts roasted by FuzzyHulk @ 10/13/2004 10:42 PM EST
I quite liked when Carrie's mother died at the end of Carrie. With all the sharp objects and everything? Yeah. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/13/2004 10:47 PM EST
My personal favorite death scene would be the one in Terminator 2, where the dude is all shot up and holds the chair over top of the detinator thats gonna 'splode the building the chip or the hand(it's been a long time since I've seen it)is at. He does this mad tremor thing and it's like you can see the life fade from him, he drops the chair and the building goes *boom-shaka-laka*
Just a great death.
Chestnuts roasted by wrestlelexxx @ 10/13/2004 10:50 PM EST
My favorite scenes:
13 Ghosts- When the lawyer is cut in half by the closing glass. And this isn't at the waist for those of you who don't know, or cut down the middle like between his chest. He gets cut and half from head to toe from his right and left side.
Dawn of the Dead 2004- The fat zombie lady with the poker through the eye. The guy getting hit with an ambulance in the beginning. The celebrity lookalikes getting shot...there's a bunch in this movie.
Kiss of the Dragon- The pool ball that Jet Li kicks into a guy's forhead. The chopsticks to the throat. The actual "Kiss of the Dragon" acupuncture move Jet does to the french cop.
Boondock Saints- When Connor drops a toilet on a guy's head. And the court room scene when the mob boss gets his head shot off with a shotgun and two handguns.
The Good Son- I have to say knowing that McCauley Culkin fell to his death and you actually see his body is probably the best death scene ever.
Resident Evil- Despite being a crappy movie adaptation, where the leader, "One", gets sliced into cubes.
These are some of my favorites..
Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 10/13/2004 11:02 PM EST
One of my favorite death scenes is in the first TCM when Sally's boyfriend Jerry dies. By the time he goes down you've seen the first couple die deaths that could've easily been remedied by not going into the house, and you sit there thinking "he's not going to go in there and get killed, that would just be monotonus, and then he goes in, goes RIGHT to where Leatherface just finished chopping up Pam and that other guy, finds Pam, and then BAM, again, it's over! It was beautiful how they kill 60% of the charecters in the first 20 minutes.
Another guilty pleasure of mine, while not in a horror movie is in the first Jurassic Park where the lawyer gets eaten off of the John. I dunno, maybe the 7 year old who saw it is still inside me, eating all of my snacks...
Chestnuts roasted by s0fa @ 10/13/2004 11:13 PM EST
I dont care for the movie much but when brad pit gets hit by the car and flipped in the air and hit again, I think in Joe Black. Yeah that was fun.
Chestnuts roasted by soul @ 10/13/2004 11:16 PM EST
Another cool death is Joe Pesci's at the end of Goodfellas when he gets the smack down from the two dudes with shovels and they mash his face to a pulp and then bury him alive. You can still see his bloodied, mangled face still trying to swear at the dudes even as the dirts landing on him. Hardcore.
And the res evil cube death was cool too.
Chestnuts roasted by Cliche-Man @ 10/13/2004 11:26 PM EST
Best death scene from a movie i'm embarresed to love, Wrong Turn. The cop at the end.
"Murder? Whos.. splort!" arrow through the head! it was soo funny.
Or the ever classic Johnny Depp in Nighmare one, so much blood!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Scuba @ 10/13/2004 11:53 PM EST
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 EST
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 EST
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 EST
-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 AM EST
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 AM EST
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 AM EST
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 AM EST
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 AM EST
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 AM EST
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 01:04 AM EST
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 01:08 AM EST
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 01:49 AM EST
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 01:53 AM EST
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 02:33 AM EST
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 03:36 AM EST
lookin' tasty!
Chestnuts roasted by hooray for cookies! @ 10/14/2004 03:40 AM EST
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 03:48 AM EST
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 06:08 AM EST
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 06:46 AM EST
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 08:23 AM EST
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 08:42 AM EST
I wish I had some cookies
Chestnuts roasted by ddfgfdg @ 10/14/2004 08:53 AM EST
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 09:00 AM EST
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 09:20 AM EST
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 09:21 AM EST
Okay... I'm double posted. Thomas Haden Church had another excellent death scene.
Billy Clanton in 'Tombstone', the eye-to-eye scene where he finds out he's going to get shot at... he takes a few (Three?) bullets before biting the dust.
Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 10/14/2004 09:25 AM EST
1st post and too many scenes to choose from!
* Evil Dead 2: Ashe's possessed girlfriend rising from the grave, complete with naked, head-rolling ballet sequence. Epic battle ensues ending with the demonic girl's head in a vice and Ashe taking his trademark chainsaw to it (with a tear in his eye).
* Friday the 13th had so many but the one that stood out for me was in either No. 3 or 4. Party-favor through the eye. I can't look at the New Year's Eve horns without thinking of that scene.
* House of 1000 Corpses: Head of the Household psycho disarms the young cop in front yard. Psycho hillbilly guy holds the gun to the cop's head for an excruciatingly long period of time, as the camera slowly pulls away to a bird's eye view, before finally pulling the trigger. Just brutal.
Chestnuts roasted by fsthokie @ 10/14/2004 09:39 AM EST
The hospital scene in Akira. Heck, any death from Akira.
The giant mother chainsaw massacre scene from Dead Alive (Brain Dead for you oversea-ers).
The guy getting disembowelled in the original Dawn of the Dead.
Chestnuts roasted by Slacker @ 10/14/2004 09:45 AM EST
1. American Psycho- That scene where Christian Bale is running with naked through his apartment with a chainsaw and drops it down the stairway on the hooker's head. Dead hookers rock.
2. Idle Hands- Where the hand kills that douche from the Offspring, because face it he DESERVES to die.
3. Transformers- Optimus Prime. Nuff said.
4. I realize this is not an actual factual death, but every time Artex falls into the swamp of sadness in Never Ending Story I cry like a little bitch.
Chestnuts roasted by Orion Homobutt @ 10/14/2004 09:58 AM EST
When the old lady gets launched through the roof in Gremlins. I still laugh when I think about it.
Chestnuts roasted by Bob Johnson @ 10/14/2004 10:14 AM EST
I'll put these in since they don't seem to have been mentioned already...
'Suspiria' (1977, Dario Argento)- Student at the dance academy is stabbed in the still-beating heart in a close-up shot and then hung by the neck by a cable suspended from a shattered skylight (falling glass from which also becomes embedded in the face of a girl who is standing below).
'Gates of Hell' aka 'City of the Living Dead' aka 'Paura nella città dei morti viventi' (1980, Lucio Fulci)-
Girl begins to bleed from her eye sockets and then vomits her organs one by one (supposedly in the order which they appear in the human body). A liver is actually seen emerging from a somewhat realistic looking human mouth. It's not a great movie, but it's quite visceral.
'Riki-Oh' aka 'The Story of Ricky' (1991, Ngai Kai Lam)-
Ricky finally gets revenge on the corrupt prison warden by shoving him (inch by inch) into a meat grinder. Watching the gory ground beef like substance emerge from the other end of the grinder is truly a sight to behold.
'Bad Taste' (1987, Peter Jackson)-
Early in Peter Jackson's career, he acted and directed gore flicks (including Dead Alive/Brain Dead). This is one of them. Watching the Academy Award winning director of Lord of the Rings kill the rotund alien leader by diving through him (head first) with a chainsaw makes this movie most worthwhile.
Chestnuts roasted by Kristian @ 10/14/2004 10:21 AM EST
Bottles, In the video game Banjo-Tooie (WHat?! I like Rareware). Anyway, I have a problem. I keep getting lots of popups whenever I go here. Anybody have any idea why?
PS. HOW COME NOONE LISTENS TO MY POSTS?!
Chestnuts roasted by TOM @ 10/14/2004 10:25 AM EST
Scanners 2, baby: I don't remember the context anymore (AWFUL film), but I do remember that if you go frame-by-frame in one of the head-exploding scenes, you discover that apparently they used the hapless clay doll Mr. Bill to shoot it. Funniest damn thing I ever saw. My friends and I must have rewound it about 75 time times to see the claymation gore.
Oh, and Tom - there are some popups here (Matt does have to pay the bills, after all, and bandwidth is not cheap for McBoo commercials), but if you have a LOT, then maybe you've a spyware problem. Try getting a popup blocker (yahoo's is free and works pretty well) and either Lavasoft Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy. See if that helps.
Chestnuts roasted by rachi99 @ 10/14/2004 10:45 AM EST
I'm going to chime in for Blade Runner.
After Pris gets shot and she convulses on the ground screeming. The screem and thrashing so almost human and Freaky.
And the stylized death of Zora. When she gets shot and runs though all the glass.
I’m going to have to rank “the full head crushing scene” in the toxic Avenger and Most Disappointing Death Scene Ever. Really coming from Troma you expect to see something more. At least a close up with some brain juice.
Chestnuts roasted by Angela @ 10/14/2004 11:16 AM EST
Huh, I'm just happy when people die... I feel cheated when they don't actually. Like in 13 Ghost, suuuure, the lawyer got sliced in half. But including that only 4 people died in the movie.
And most of it was very clean death too. Very disappointing.
Oh we are a morbid bunch.
Actually, when I think about it, how about the scene in the Animatrix when that robot crushes that guy's head? It's all the more gruesome because it's animated...
Chestnuts roasted by Sucrose @ 10/14/2004 11:38 AM EST
Angela, realize that the head crushing scene is Troma's infancy. they were just little teenie babies, i mean for the fact that this was the first time they crushed a head and that they used a cantalope stuffed with various meats and crap it looks pretty good! And their head crushings only improved since then. IE- In Citizen Toxie when the Old lady gets run over and her head gets crushed and she just starts spraying piss and shit everywhere
also another great death in the first Toxic Avenger is when Sarah's seeing eye dog gets shot.
Chestnuts roasted by Orion Homobutt @ 10/14/2004 11:38 AM EST
One more...
Jaws: Quint slowly slipping into the shark's gnashing teeth, kicking and screaming. Special FX have come a long way since then but it still freaks me out every time.
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women"
Chestnuts roasted by fsthokie @ 10/14/2004 11:49 AM EST
I'm too impatient right now to read all of these but I have to say:
Matrix Revolutions--You stop fighting to stop the fighting. AHHH. Does a pascifist's heart good.
Peace =)
Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 10/14/2004 11:57 AM EST
Friday the 13th Part IV
(I think it was 4. It might have been part III, but I think it was IV. Anyways IV is my favorite friday overall but that wasn't the f@#king question, was it?)
Anyway, when some random teen is walking on his hands down the hall when Jason's axe comes down between his legs, detaching his one leg in the process and coming through his stomach as he crumples into a wet crimson heap of mangled testosterone.
Man, I watched that scene in slo-mo over and over. And no, I don't think it affected me in the long run. Much.
Chestnuts roasted by TimCo @ 10/14/2004 12:01 PM EST
I have to agree that Porkins' death in Star Wars was classic....
I'd say any death in the movie Ninja Scroll was phenominal.
In Return of the Jedi when Han Solo throws that bag or whatever at the dude in the shield generator on Endor and he just flips over the railing with that cheesey scream. Its still funny til this day.
My Girl when Macauly Culkin got stung by a million bees. Too bad he was allergic...and too bad he's Macauly Culkin.
Drew Barrymore's death in Scream. I just like how she was kept barely alive until her parents came home finally and when she couldn;t scream when they finally arrived.
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/14/2004 12:19 PM EST
As usual, a couple off the top of my head:
When Lord Folken and the Lion dude kill each other in the Escaflowne movie, after Folken make his speech about how ending the world is his greatest desire.
Norman Osborn's in Spider-Man, he says "Oh." and has this look on his face like "I never in a million years considered my own Goblin Glider doing me in."
The brothers in Wagons East, too young to die, to stupid to live.
There are plenty of others, and some great ones were already mentioned. But, I'll think of others, without mentioning the first Faces of Death.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash with a sawed-=off croquet mallet @ 10/14/2004 12:19 PM EST
The scene with the melting cultists in The Devil's Rain. I'm suprised nobody's mentioned this yet. It's the BEST death scene EVER!
Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 10/14/2004 12:24 PM EST
I would have to say most of the death scenes in The Omen, partially because I didn't see them coming (or was smugly convinced I knew what was going to happen, only to be proven wrong) and partially because they were pretty creative.
The one that sticks out the most in my mind is the guy who you THINK is going to be crushed by a truck but is instead decapitated by a sheet of glass resting in the bed of the truck.
I'm a pretty big horror gamer (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, etc.), but I'm not so much a horror film fan. Sorry, that's the best I could come up with.
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 10/14/2004 12:53 PM EST
Oh oh oh! I forgot-best death scene in a terrible movie.
Deadly Friend - I still can't believe the guy who wrote the screenplay for Jacob's Ladder wrote this crap. The movie is awful and unintentionally hilarious, but one scene ALWAYS gets a response from people who see it.
You know that old lady from Goonies? She gets decapitated by a basketball. Actually, it's not so much a decapitation since her head just kind of... explodes.
Matt, seriously: find and watch this movie. I'm sure you could get an article out of it- its' pure, distilled, concentrated "bad 80s teen horror flick"- but even if you don't you'll love it. It sucks so bad, you have to love it.
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 10/14/2004 01:00 PM EST
Oh oh oh! I forgot-best death scene in a terrible movie.
Deadly Friend - I still can't believe the guy who wrote the screenplay for Jacob's Ladder wrote this crap. The movie is awful and unintentionally hilarious, but one scene ALWAYS gets a response from people who see it.
You know that old lady from Goonies? She gets decapitated by a basketball. Actually, it's not so much a decapitation since her head just kind of... explodes.
Matt, seriously: find and watch this movie. I'm sure you could get an article out of it- its' pure, distilled, concentrated "bad 80s teen horror flick"- but even if you don't you'll love it. It sucks so bad, you have to love it.
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 10/14/2004 01:00 PM EST
hey night trekker, i think i just pissed my pants laughing after picturing mama fratelli getting killed by a basketball!!! I must find that movie!!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/14/2004 01:14 PM EST
I don't watch many horror flicks, so I'm not familiar with what a lot of you are describing, but I totally second the poignancy of the Artex death scene (look at me, I know big words!). And I laughed my ass off at the classic look on Green Goblin's face. It was like his version of "d'oh!"
My all-time favorite death scene is when Boramir dies in the first LOTR. First, because I think Boromir is a big whiner and I was glad he wouldn't be whining anymore. But more importantly, he was such a trooper for taking all those arrows in the gut like he did. And when Aragon swoops in and finishes off the Urukai, the audience inevitably cheers. Great movie moment.
And not that it's a death scene, but the bit with the knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail is HI-liarious. "It's just a flesh wound!"
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/14/2004 01:17 PM EST
when Christopher Lloyd melts at the end of Roger Rabbit.
Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 10/14/2004 01:59 PM EST
I have to agree with Croww - the opening scene from "Ghost Ship" was pretty freakin' sweet. I remember being the only one in the theater not making little sicky, choky, gagging noises.
Chestnuts roasted by Skeen @ 10/14/2004 02:05 PM EST
Nicolas Cage as Skeletor? A male model as He-Man?
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/14/2004 02:17 PM EST
OOH! I almost forgot! In "Deep Rising," when they cut open one of the monster-thing's tentacles and the half-eaten guy falls out, then he gets up and stumbles toward the camera as he quickly dissolves into a puddle of gooey bones and other unidentifiable stuff. I had to stop eating my popcorn for a few minutes.
Chestnuts roasted by Skeen @ 10/14/2004 02:24 PM EST
I doubt this was mentioned yet, but the best death scene is clearly in the movie "Con Air".
John Malchovic gets cuffed to an extended firetruck ladder which drives through a cement walkway. He then is launched into high tension power lines where he is electrocuted.
But somehow he is still alive long enough to fall into a constuction site when he lands on a conveyor belt and gets his head crushed by a giant piston.
Try to top that one.
Chestnuts roasted by Vfats @ 10/14/2004 02:40 PM EST
OK, someone else mentioned it, the toilet-dropped-on-bad-guy's-head death in Boondock Saints. One of my favorites for sure.
Another one, off the top of my head, and I don't know if this has been named in here, but in Ninja Scroll when the big stone guy rips that ninjas arms off and drinks the blood out of one.
Every time I see that, even though it's a cartoon, I still cringe.
Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 10/14/2004 03:00 PM EST
Day Of The Dead - when the evil soldier guy gets ripped in half by hordes of Zombies right at the end. Skin being torn apart. Redder than red blood. Eyes popping out. Entrails being eaten.
Mimicked but not beaten very recently by THAT scene in Shawn Of The Dead.
Chestnuts roasted by newplanet @ 10/14/2004 03:36 PM EST
Don't forget the old king's death in Return of the King, the flaming dive over the parapet. You just know the whole battle stopped and everyone pointed and said, "Ooooh, aaaah! Pretty!" At least he didn't think "Oh, no! Not again!" before he went SPLUTCH!!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/14/2004 03:43 PM EST
I agree with a few people on the Omen - all the deaths were great, my personal favorite being the nanny. "It's all for you Damien". Gives me chills.
Someone else mentioned Ed Norton's American History X killing as well - another horrible turn away scene.
Chestnuts roasted by Alison @ 10/14/2004 04:03 PM EST
I don't think I've seen any ones concerning Final Destination 2...I know its not the greatest movie, but the deaths are pretty good, I think...How can you not like the guy getting split into 3 parts by the barbed wire fence? He stands there for a second, and his 3 newly acquired body sections just slide off each other onto the ground. Another good one is when the kid gets crushed by the thing dropped by the crane...Watching him get folded over and crushed to the max always makes me cringe.
Chestnuts roasted by Hammer @ 10/14/2004 04:21 PM EST
I can't believe I forgot Steven Segal's death in Executive Decision...HILARIOUS!!!!! When they were transferring between planes Steven Segal was shit outta luck and plunged to his death. And he dies early in the movie!!!! My friend told me supposedly he tried to haggle with the director so he wouldn't be killed off so quickly because he never dies in his movies. I don't know if thats true but its funny.
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/14/2004 04:24 PM EST
Off topic but here in NYC:
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown will air Tuesday Oct 26th at 8:00PM on
ABC
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Thursday Nov 25th at 8:00PM
I do loves the Peanuts specials!!
(Doing the Snoopy dance)
Chestnuts roasted by Astroboy @ 10/14/2004 04:39 PM EST
Matt, your ability to craft a phrase on a page is so brilliant!...I nearly killed myself choking on a pretzel when I read this sentence in your cookie article!!.....
Besides, if making one package of cookies is fun, it stood to reason that making three at the same time would be the natural equivalent of taking heroin and having six hour sex on a gold couch while a nearby parrot spit coins in your shoes. I was digging the potential. And, generally speaking, I've always liked cookies.
Chestnuts roasted by Mitch from NYC @ 10/14/2004 04:45 PM EST
Well, maybe not BEST death scene, but certainly one that I found entertaining...
In The Time Machine (the Guy Pearce version) where he goes back in time to save his fiancee. He takes all these precautions to make sure she doesn't die again, then the second he turns his back on her she gets run over by the carriage. For a scene that wasn't supposed to be funny, it had the most impeccable comic timing. I had to fight so hard not to laugh in the theater and let my twisted sense of humor ruin the movie for the more normal people around me.
Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 10/14/2004 04:46 PM EST
I'll nominate the "lawnmower scene" in Dead Alive. Man, that looked like so much fun!
Chestnuts roasted by Bobby... @ 10/14/2004 04:48 PM EST
I liked it when Sean William Scott gets decapitated in Final Destination.
I wasn't expecting it.
Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 10/14/2004 05:05 PM EST
Don Murphy is looking for other 80's properties to turn into films after Transformers.
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/14/2004 05:36 PM EST
I have to agree with the poster that mentioned Paul Reuben's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I defy anyone else to treat the end of an immortal existence with more grace and dignity! "Augh! Ooh! Ouch!"
Chestnuts roasted by Clementyne @ 10/14/2004 05:51 PM EST
I do clinical work (psychotherapy) with homeless gay men, and aparently the best mix of drugs for sex is crystal meth, poppers (inhalants), and Viagra.
No word on whether they use parrots to put coins in your shoes.
Chestnuts roasted by Shelby @ 10/14/2004 06:17 PM EST
Boris, from Goldeneye (I think).
"I am INWINCIBLE!"
*wham*
Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 10/14/2004 06:24 PM EST
ok im a godfather freak so heres some of my favorite funny sceans.....
1)Godfather I- when vito Corleone dies of a stroke while freaking his nephew out with like a orange, sonnys death, and luca brazies death just cause it was funny as shit.
1)God father II- when vito kicks that one mob guys ass during the flashback. I just loved it becuase Robert Denero seemed so nice but then *bam* he kicks this guys fuckin ass.
Godfather III- i didnt really like this movie as much as the others, but hell its better than the crocodile hunter movie. ok when michel like get shot but doesnt die and then he chews on a carrot and gets sent to the hospital (may i add that they are running out of ideas i mean come on like father like son) and then he just dies at the end while falling out of his chair.
***good stuff ITALIAN PRIDE BABY*
~marianne~
Chestnuts roasted by almostblonde007 @ 10/14/2004 07:11 PM EST
Okay, A lot of mine have been mentioned (especially the generally awesome deaths in "The Kiss of the Dragon"; big german dude having his neck snapped is a personal favourite), so I'll nominate just these three:
1) Cheesy, yes but hilarious: in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", Jones is chasing some guy through a market where he bumps into some completely random crazy guy who waves swords at him for (at least) 30 seconds. Without stopping for breath, Jones shoots him once in the chest and then keeps running.
2) "Terminator 2"; I've forgotten the O'connor kid's name, but the seen where he rings home and the molten-metal man is impersonating his mom; pans out to see him sticking his blade/hand right through the kid's foster dad's throat. Alway's freaked me out that one.
3) And the greatest? Definitely the CritterBall seen in "Critters 2"; the movie was worth it just for the bit where the CritterBall rolls over some poor farmer/hillbilly, and we see his flesh-stripped corpse with all the red stringy bits (still steaming I recall) spat out the other end.
Chestnuts roasted by Desmos @ 10/14/2004 07:39 PM EST
Some of your cookies look like multiplying cells.
Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 10/14/2004 07:43 PM EST
YOU BASTARD! NOW I WANT COOKIES!
Chestnuts roasted by The Dragonrider @ 10/14/2004 08:05 PM EST
Can't believe I forgot to mention the dude getting his heart ripped out in Temple of Doom
Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/14/2004 08:28 PM EST
What about in sleepaway camp when the dude sticks the hot curling iron in the chick's hooch? That always makes me cringe, and I don't even have a vergina! Also in Full Metal Jacket when Gomer shoots himself. And pretty much any death from the Jasons esp. the sleeping bag against the tree. And from elm st. the marionette death, still creeps me out. Last but not least, anyof them from Killer Klowns, including but not limited to the vantriliquist dummy and when the cute clown uppercuts the dude's head into the cotton candy.
Chestnuts roasted by gimpy421 @ 10/14/2004 08:37 PM EST
I have to say one my favorite death scenes is in Suspiria where the one dancer is being chased down and she escapes into a room where she thinks she's safe. The killer is fucking with her causing her to climb through a window into a room filled with barbed wire. Good stuff.
Chestnuts roasted by plasmo @ 10/14/2004 09:12 PM EST
I try NOT to think of death, much less remember watching it, so I'll pass on the survey. I've seen the Pumpkin cookies and Brownie versions of the chocolate chips at the grocery store where I work. The Pumpkin cookies are particuarly popular, partially I think because some of them have a coupon on the front. No one in their right mind is going to pass up pumpkin cookies that are fifty cents cheaper.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/14/2004 09:15 PM EST
How about when in the first Blade movie Blade kills Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) by injecting him with a blood-clotting serum that's bad for vampires. He just inflates,and blows up in a orgy of blood.
Speaking of Friday the 13th deaths,the one that always made me wince was in part V when Jason (or his imposter) killed that girl who was sunninng herself naked after a lovemaking session with her boyfriend by taking hedgeclippers to her eyes. Yeeouch.
Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 10/14/2004 09:18 PM EST
Suprised nobody mentioned Titanic, especially when the boat starts to tip over and that one guy falls and hits the railing on the way down. OUCH!
Chestnuts roasted by Marc79 @ 10/14/2004 10:20 PM EST
The horse that falls over the side of the boat in the Ring. That was scary.
Jabba the Hutt getting choked out by a skinny broad on his own boat.
The nurse being drowned in the whirlpool of Halloween II.
Those are all I have right now.
Chestnuts roasted by bdsghost @ 10/14/2004 10:48 PM EST
Maybe it's just me, but mentioning an "awesome death" from the movie Titanic is kind of like saying there was a great death in the movie Schindler's List.
Chestnuts roasted by 1drland @ 10/14/2004 10:51 PM EST
best death scene is definately in scarface when angel gets sawed up with the chainsaw at the start of the movie.
Chestnuts roasted by diarrhea dave @ 10/15/2004 12:00 AM EST
When the dad dies in Big Fish. Its the only movie to make me cry.
Chestnuts roasted by gougeaway1026 @ 10/15/2004 12:54 AM EST
The mention of American History X's curb scene makes me remember one of the greatest movie watching experiences I can remember:
Me and my friends were watching that scene and somebody said something that made us laugh for about ten minutes. We had to pause the movie, just so we could get the laughing out of our systems. Even thinking about it now, I'm giggling like an idiot.
Anyway, the next time you watch the movie and see that scene, here's what to do. There's a part where a police officer aims his gun at Norton and tells him to put his hands on his head. In a dark and serious scene, Norton places both of his hands over the back of his bald head. His face is straight and very sinister looking.
Now, then. While watching this bit, imagine if he just started gyrating his hips like Ravishing Rick Rude
Chestnuts roasted by Gavok @ 10/15/2004 03:17 AM EST
I'm with you on Big Fish. Gets me every time.
Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 10/15/2004 09:34 AM EST
I agree w/ DD, the Scarface scene w/ the the chainsaw kicks serious ass!
Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 10/15/2004 10:37 AM EST
Kristian:
I agree w/ Story of Ricky, but the best death scene from that movie is when that dude rips out his own intestines in an attempt to strangle Ricky. Ricky then delivers the knockout blow and we're treated to an x-ray of the dudes skull being shattered. Classic stuff.
Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 10/15/2004 02:08 PM EST
How can anyone forget Bambi's mom?!? Well, that's more depressing than anything...but tell me you didn't expect that! She runs into the woods, and the BAM!
Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 10/15/2004 02:18 PM EST
The "evil laser waffle-maker of death" scene in the first Resident Evil is my favorite, cause it's one of the few that makes me noticably grossed out.
Props go also to Lord Gemma's "I'm drowning in gold!" scene in Ninja Scroll.
Chestnuts roasted by Sam R @ 10/15/2004 03:42 PM EST
umm.. theyre ghosts. not witches.
Chestnuts roasted by Ghost Advocate @ 10/15/2004 03:44 PM EST
ALso, the scenes in the Green Mile where they give that guy with the mouse and John Coffee the chair. IT's just so sad. I was bawling like a baby when they died.Well, so maybe technically it's not a death scene in the tradition of horror films, but it's still a classic (I don't watch that many horror films because my dad wont let me).
Chestnuts roasted by TOM @ 10/15/2004 04:26 PM EST
don't know if anyone has seen it, its a bit on the obscure side, but my favorite death scene has to be from slaughter high (1986), a real low-budget slasher, but gore/cheese fans should seek it out.
The death scene in question involves one of the characters underneath of a mowing tractor that has been jacked up so he can repair it. The murderer sneaks into the garage, and kicks out the jacks, so the guy is left to hold up the tractor by himself. then the murderer turns on the mowing blades, and as the guys strength gives out, the result is unavoidable. He has to let down the mower onto his own body, and boy does the gore fly.
first post, by the way.
word.
Chestnuts roasted by jim. @ 10/15/2004 05:11 PM EST
The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ni!
Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 10/15/2004 06:41 PM EST
Oh, I guess he doesn't die. Well, give the knights points for trying anyway.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 10/15/2004 06:42 PM EST
I can't believe I forgot to mention Cabin Fever when shawn from "boy meets worlds" bludgeons his chick to shit with the shovel. Every time he hits her I imagine him saying "see bitch that's what you get for being a cock tease!"
Chestnuts roasted by gimpy421 @ 10/15/2004 10:25 PM EST
A-wel, in the Japanese version of Kill Bill, the House of Blue Leaves massacre stays in full color for the entire duration (and has a few very tiny alternate edits).
The curb-bite scene in American History X is intense, but I think we have to assume the victim didn't die, since I think murder would carry a heavier sentence than Ed Norton's character got. Best aggravated assault scene.
I'm kinda ashamed I didn't mention Quint or Judge Doom. And how about Nedry in Jurassic Park?
The little red shoe from Roger Rabbit and the horse in Neverending Story are both still tearjerkers. Another death that's not "best" as in funny or gory, but in that it's very moving is Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/15/2004 11:28 PM EST
I did an article on the pumpkin ones somewhere else.
And, for just 1/3 of the material, my article was actually longer. I strained.
Chestnuts roasted by Max @ 10/15/2004 11:45 PM EST
Death scenes that made me jump out of my seat:
Shotgun head explosion in "Maniac"
-Had to back that one up a few times.
Girl vs Bus in "Final Desination"
-Totally, totally unexpected
Suicide Girl at beginning of new "Chainsaw Massacre"
-Camera pulls back through her head!
Chestnuts roasted by Deckard @ 10/16/2004 02:11 AM EST
Part of why I love David Cronenberg films are the ideas and philisophical concepts dealt with. But I have to say I'm amazed only "Scanners" has been mentioned so far. Most of his films could easily make this list.
"Shivers" - When Joe Silver (the big guy with the glasses) runs to the sink to yank the aphrodisiac slugs off his face with pliers and the slugs' original host runs up to save them and stuff them back in his body. I love telling people about this movie.
"Rabid" - Any scene in which Marilyn Chambers uses her new appendage, but also one scene in which a rabid maniac jumps on the hero's car and is shot by soldiers. The blood splatters on the windshield and the soldiers thoughtfully wipe it off.
"The Brood" - The climax between the estranged husband and wife. Still the most frightening "evil kids" movie in my book.
"Videodrome" - When Barry Convex is shot with what FX artist Rick Baker called "cancer bullets."
"The Dead Zone" - Enough said.
"The Fly" - The death of Brundlefly. Still makes me cry.
"Dead Ringers" - We don't actually see the details, but I'd include the final scene between Jeremy Irons and his twin brother (played by Jeremy Irons).
"Naked Lunch" - The eventual fates of Judy Davis and Kiki.
I would also include the end of "Easy Rider," the climax of "Blue Velvet," and the death of RAM from "TRON" ("Forget it Mr. High and Mighty Master Control!"
. And any list of death scenes has to include the nuclear war films "The War Game" and "Threads," both of which could be defined as excrutiatingly long death scenes.
Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 10/16/2004 04:19 AM EST
In the sense of coolness, Boris the Bullet Dodger's death in Snatch. You don't get to really see it, but it takes a full magazine of .50's at near point blank to take him down and put him away. In between the shots he and Bullet Tooth Tony exchange dialogue. It is the final part to the greatest scene in cinema history.
The scene in the hospital in Akira when Tetsuo liquefies the soldiers is quite awesome as well.
The first time you see an agent die in the Matrix is great too. The agent dodges everything Neo shoots, only to be shot from behind by Trinity. Nice.
This isn't a movie, but when Gattsu goes berserk in Berserk for the first time. He walks up some stairs and through a division of soldiers bisecting people left and right with a 7 foot blunt sword. The scene is somewhat brief, but too awesome to be adequately described.
I guess you can tell I don't watch very many horror movies.
Chestnuts roasted by MasterGakke @ 10/16/2004 04:34 AM EST
I'm vegan. 
Never had carrot cookies, though! But if it's anything like carrot cake, I wouldn't mind that recipe.
Yeah, I think I read Matt saying somewhere that it meant Gen X, but I also agree with the "porn" sounding name. hehe. I always say X-E, too.
Best death scene... geeze, I dunno. For some reason I can't think of anything except Interview with the Vampire and how Lestat got his throat cut my Claudia and all the blood poured out of him until he was nothing but a husk. But, we all know that Lestat didn't REALLY die! (yay!) Now, I'm thinking of the part where Claudia gets burnt up into a cinder by the sun.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/16/2004 11:51 AM EST
There were good deaths in Freddy Versus Jason, like the one where Jason stabbed that guy repeatedly through the back, and then folded up the cot he was on. The there was the part where Jason sliced that one kid Freddy posessed in half.
Chestnuts roasted by Number 5 @ 10/16/2004 12:28 PM EST
Best horror movie death: Had to be from Leprechaun (I think it was the first, may be the second) when the horny teenager goes into the garage and sees a "hot chick". Pans in close on her boobs, he walks up, thinks he's burying his face in her boobs...then we cut to reality and see he's really sticking his face into lawnmower blades. Damn that Leprechaun!
Best "normal" movie death: If anyone has sat through the VERY slow In The Bedroom, they'll surely remember the boy getting shot in the face by the ex-husband. Comes out of nowhere, and when they pan in on his face, truely gruesome. Definately one of the most realistic special FX's I've witnessed on film. *Shudder*
Chestnuts roasted by WhiteTrash @ 10/16/2004 01:13 PM EST
I can't believe the best movie death ever has been left out, Scarface, Tony Montana's final demise.
Chestnuts roasted by RonBurgandy @ 10/16/2004 04:18 PM EST
In the classic 2002 movie black knight when nalty dies and magically appears alive again to help martin lawrence kill the evil son of a bitch
Chestnuts roasted by Martin Lawrence @ 10/16/2004 08:10 PM EST
Clicheman, I belive that was the end of Casino, not Goodfellas.
My favorite death scene is from Total Recall when Richter, Michael Ironside, gets his arms ripped off on the elevator shaft in the alien mine, and Ahnold says "See you at the party Richter!".
Chestnuts roasted by FredEx @ 10/17/2004 08:26 AM EST
I can't believe no one else has mentioned the scene from Alien, where the thing pops out of the guy's chest. I know it's been done a bunch of times since then, but no one acted it out better than John Hurt did. He just totally committed, made it look and sound like he was in such agony, before the sweet moment where the baby alien pops out and sprays blood everywhere, even soaking that crybaby Veronica Cartwright played.
I saw a documentary once, and it said that after they did that scene, Yaphet Kotto (Parker) had the creeps for two weeks. He would go into his room, and not come out for two whole hours.
Chestnuts roasted by Number 5 @ 10/17/2004 09:41 AM EST
Why am I not surprised that I seem to be the only one who's ever seen this movie.
--Johnny Mnemonic, when the guy uses his ring weapon (the amazing device that produces a thin lazer-string) to slice the guiy up in two places. You see the guy stand there for a second looking perplexed, and then his body slides apart in three pieces. Nice.
--Any death perpretrated by the brothers in Bookdock Saints.
"That prayer is awesome! Can you teach me that?!?"
"No, it's a family thing. Father taught it to us, and he taught it to his father's father sort of thing."
Chestnuts roasted by J. Michael @ 10/17/2004 07:17 PM EST
Naked Blood - Two words: Self cannabalization.
Ichi the Killer - God, so many good scenes in this one. If you like Kill Bill, try and find Ichi the Killer. Tarantino actually was inspired by this movie and some of the scenes in Kill Bill seem to be homages. The best scene has got to be when Ichi uses the blades on his heel to slice that guy in half. Awesome.
Suicide Circle - Right at the beginning, about fifty or so school girls are lined up next to some subway tracks. They join hands and jump... BAM. That's an opening scene that grabs your attention.
Chestnuts roasted by luciferchan @ 10/17/2004 09:35 PM EST
I felt really sorry when Murphy was slaughtered by Clarence and the gang in Robocop.
Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 10/20/2004 11:12 PM EST
The fat kid in Friday the 13th V. It was a real pleasure watching hime die.
The bitch that gets the curler in Sleepaway Camp.
Mufasa's death in the Lion King.
Chestnuts roasted by nothingman @ 10/21/2004 12:14 PM EST
Seeing Helena Bonham Carter die horribly twice was definitely the best thing about "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (the otherwise fairly sucky version with Kenneth Branagh.) Once by getting her still-beating heart ripped out, and once by being set on fire.
Other deaths nominated here are probably superior, but that one made me feel positively jolly for days.
Chestnuts roasted by MetaphorMonster @ 10/21/2004 08:44 PM EST
I think the best deth Scene Ever was that when that bike ridding kid in "Toxic Avenger" got hit by the car and then they backed over his head. To be honest... ever death scene in that movie is memorable.
Chestnuts roasted by Wayne in Hell @ 10/22/2004 04:24 PM EST
