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Friday the 13th (part Whatever) death by harpoon in the eye: "Bobby is that you? C'mon stop playin' SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSFPLOP!

What about Meet Joe Black? Not a horror movie, you say?

I beg to fucking differ.

Otherwise, spot-on. Although, any of the Final Destinations win. Additional honorable mention should go to Johnny Depp's death from Nightmare on Elm Street, though.

Additional honorable mention should go to Johnny Depp's death from Nightmare on Elm Street, though.

Posted by: TK at October 27, 2008 1:06 PM
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Oh yes, definitely, fountain of blood and gore has to be ranked right up there.

Still holds up as genuinely chilling and not in a comical way.

How about an honourable mention to the Kevin Bacon arrow-through-the-neck scene in Friday the 13th?

I was always partial to the guy getting bisected by the pane of glass in Thirteen Ghosts.

Is that Drama in "The Blob" scene? bc thats just pure fantastic.

Looking at Rowles' honorables again I'm left wondering:

Are the Final Destination movies really horror...? You know what I mean?

eeeeeh...

Oh common. Best death scene ever . . . Frankenfurter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

How about the Abominable Dr. Phibes? I secretly harbor a hope that my official cause of death will be Impalement By Brass Unicorn Head from Long Range.

As soon as a I saw the title my mind immediately went to Deep Blue Sea. That's seriously the WORST way to die.

Say it with me people...The Omen. Three awesome deaths (spoiler alert):

1. The nanny hanging herself out the window.
2. The priest being pierced in the chest.

And saving the best for last..drum roll please...

3. The reporter's decapitation.

paul reubens in buffy the vampire slayer

enough said

OK, seriously, the coolest death scene I saw in a horror movie was in Frankenhooker when the whores all blew up from the supercrack. Then their parts all came alive in the freezer and killed Zorro the pimp. I hope I'm not ruining anything.

The Jason X cryo-freeze kill always gets big props on every list, but I really feel like it's kind of over-rated. I agree that the triple decapitation of Friday the 13th part VI was better (its up for free on demand on comcast in my area right now- i did a double feature of that and pumpkinhead with the roommate the other night...it was fucking amazing). I would also like to submit the Backwards fold in the bed from Freddy vs. Jason, Jesse Ventura getting his chest blown the F out in Predator, and Day of the Dead's graphic zombie dismemberment at the climax. Beat those hotshots.

As a Horror connoisseur, I can agree with your idea for the list and even some of the films on them...but definitely not the ones chosen.

1. What about the original SHOCK death in Final Destination 1 with the bus????

2. Jason X - The giant auger death.

3. Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - "Welcome to primetime, bitch!"

4. Dead Alive - Lawnmower Massacre

5. Day of the Dead - Capt. Rhodes getting his torso ripped open. (I have a REALLY good story about on-set reactions)

6. Alien - John Hurt and the original Chest Popper scene.

7. John Carpenter's The Thing - Toss up between the Double Kill when Norris's chest opening up and then eating Dr. Copper's arms or when Palmer get his blood test and then he eats Windows.

Scream I.

Girl stuck in garage's dog door.

My friends and I applauded that scene.

Any of the Final Destination movies have GREAT death scenes that are comical as well as rather scary because you realize you can totally die anywhere, anytime due to freaky weird accidents.

Beside that, I am so glad I didn't pay money to see House of Wax. One of my friends was trying to convince me to do so and I told her to shove it, I'll watch Paris die on YouTube.

I'm sorry, but this list kinda sucks. You don't give many parameters other than Best Horror Movie Death Scenes. I think it should encompass more than gore. Here's a quick listing, though we could add more:

1) The Thing in the dog cage
2) Ripley ejecting the queen alien in Aliens
3) Another vote for the bathroom scene in Final Destination, that was some intense shit, kinda can't watch it
4) The dad/zombie mom/zombie baby scene in Dawn of the Dead
5) Cillian Murphy gouging that soldier's eyes out at the end of 28 Days Later
6) Sarah Connor crushing the Terminator in a hydraulic press in the first movie
7) Just about any of the deaths in Shaun of the Dead, highly entertaining
8) When Jeff Goldblum goes through the portal thing one last time in The Fly
9) The chick in the garage door in Scream, can't believe she thought her big boobs would fit through that tiny dog door
10) End of American Werewolf in London

I seem to remember a pretty terrifying 'scene from troll 2' on youtube. Look it up, you'll agree.

I agree, the laser room of death in Resident Evil was pretty badass.

1. Witchboard. I can still see that weird psychic lady getting impaled on the fence, many years later.

2. Carrie. Her Mom bit it in SUCH an awesome, Jesus-y way, getting crucified by the kitchen knives.

3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Am I the only one who was a little giddy to watch the kid get it when the mask turned into a rotting, snake-filled pumpkin?

And finally, though it's a TV show...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Willow skins and fries Warren, I actually find great pleasure (I loved Tara). It was so gory and so graphic for a television series at the time, yet so NOT gratuitous, given the nature of his crimes.

Oh, I had to add the scene from Psycho when the cop plunges down the stairs to his death. Not bloody, but really cool in that you're falling with him. Much better appreciated on the big screen.

Phillip>> That boxing match was the first thing that came to mind for me, and I'm not even a Friday the 13th fan. A great morbidly comedic moment.

Any Creepshow fans around here? The original has a couple good deaths - Hal Holbrook luring Adrienne Barbeau to the creature in "The Crate" is a good one, as is that cockroach death at the end.

Also, someone mentioned Creepshow 2 last week and that segment "The Raft." That had a great death scene when the guy starts feeling up the girl only to realize she's covered in the deadly carnivorous goop.

There was this terrible movie called Firecracker - really cheesy 80s martial arts movie. Anyway, the final death when the woman pokes her bo sticks through the bad guy's eyes always stuck with me.

And here's a really obscure one. Terrible movie, as well: Carnosaur. The creature grabs Clint Howard from above and tears his head off.

I'm sure I could come up many more of these. I grew up watching a lot of bad, bloody movies.

When Julia Roberts dies in Steel Magnolia.
What a bloody mess.

Word. Deep Blue Sea. Word.

Most of you won't remember an old horror movie
called Frogs. There is a fantastic scene in this movie in which a man is slowly entombed, alive,
in a cocoon of spiderwebs by dozens of tarantulas. The goosebump factor is immense.
If you're an arachnophobe, you'll have a case of the willies that will last for a whole day.

The chest buster scene HAS to be mentioned. Also the sleeping bag kill from Friday the 13th is particularly nasty. I am also pretty fond of Jack putting the axe in the guy's chest from The Shining.

Agree about the Sam Jackson death scene. Maybe have it lead off a new category for "Best End to a Monologue".

ARRGGGHHH! I AM FUCKING PISSED THAT YOU DIDN'T CALL ME FOR THIS! This is my area, this is what I love, and you, you can't do me the courtesy of asking my opinion on these matters? I have extensive horror movie knowledge, vast experience- from the time I was eight- and I could have complied a better list then. Fine. That's how you want it? Fine.

I need to take my meds now.

Vince>> "Toxic Waste Man" as we called him in junior high. That's the one - can't believe I forgot it!

PissBoy>> "The Raft" wasn't my first tit-shot, but I was definitely at a point when I was extremely hormonally charged and got excited by the prospects of breasts in a scene. (Actually, my hormones aren't markedly different today.) I think I found that death particularly traumatic because it was a cruel switcheroo - the concept of things going so terribly wrong with this hot, half-naked woman was very jarring. Whenever there's a scene in a movie in which a guy basically gets lured to his doom by overtly sexual feminine wiles, it always freaks me out, because I know I would be equally powerless (and dead).

Thank for that honorable mention to House of Wax....god help me, I love that movie.

Laughner>> I recently caught a double feature of Alien and Aliens on the big screen. Packed theater. Lots of fans and some first-time viewers. Without a doubt the biggest jump moment was Dallas' death. It was cool to experience that having not been old enough to see it with an audience back in 1979.

Tossup between Halle Berry getting it in Last boyscout and Jordana Brewster in Texas chainsaw massacre the beginning.