THERE are a lot of horror films that we're memorable to us because of the unique way they dispatched their characters. Some of them were so unique that they really stick to your mind. I mean, who would forget the iconic opening scene of Wes Craven's Scream (1996) featuring Drew Barrymore as high school student alone in their house, waiting for her boyfriend to come over. She receives a flirtatious phone call from an unknown person who asks her, "What's your favorite scary movie?" The scene then escalates out of control as the caller threatens her life, reaveling that he holds her boyfriend hostage, and that she needs to answer his movie trivia questions to save her boyfriend and her own life. The scene ended with her boyfriend being killed by the unknown caller and her parents finding her body, stabbed to death, hanging from a tree.
Another iconic death scene will be from Steven Spielberg's Jaws. Quint (Robert Shaw) slips down the deck of their boat and gets eaten alive by the giant Great white shark.
Another memorable death scene would be the Chestburster scene from Ridley Scott's 1979 hit sci-fi thriller Alien. Or the Chest Defibrillation from John Carpenter's 1982 classic horror The Thing.
Another would be from the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. As dozens of wealthy passengers dance in the ballroom and upon the deck of the Italian ocean liner, Antonia Graza, someone intentionally releases a thin wire cord from a pool that snaps and slices its way through the dancefloor, bisecting all the dancing passengers in half (except for a young girl who was spared due to her height).
And of course, we will never forget the infamous death sequence in Final Destination (2000) featuring an airplane accident, together with it's respective sequels.
These are just few examples of those memorable death scenes that we have fell in love with over time. And in addition to these classic killings, I have decided to come up with my own list of the Top 10 Best death sequences from my favorite horror movies.
10. You're Next (2013) Blender in the head.
One of the better slasher films of this generation, You're Next features killers who came up with cool, inventive ways to dispatch their victims (one includes a piano wire trap that is just totally nerve-wracking).
But the best part of the film perhaps is its victim-turned-victor protagonist Erin (played by horror gem Sharni Vinson) as she reveals her dark nature and uses her killer instincts to avenge her family's death. Here she created a wonderful killing tool : made out of a blender in their kitchen.A totally bloody kill.
9. The Thing (2011) Adam's assimilation with the Thing.
John Carpenter's The Thing was considered as one of the best classic sci-fi horror films by many. Featuring very nasty and gory special effects that were way ahead of it's time, the film earned the hearts of horror fans over time.
And on 2011, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr brought us his prequel to the cult classic, this time starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen as part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica. Soon, they are confronted by the shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
Truly disgusting but amazing to watch at the same time.
8. Sorority Row (2009) Charlene "Chugs" Bradley's murder.
A remake of the 1983 cult classic, this film helmed by Stewart Hendler, stars Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Margo Harshman, Audrina Patridge, Caroline D'Amore and Carrie Fisher. A group of girls pulls a prank on their sororrity sister's boyfriend after finding out he's cheating on her. The prank spins out of control after their sorority sister ended up being killed for real. They hide the body and return to their normal lives. Eight months later, a killer starts hunting them down, intent on killing off everyone who knows about the secret.
This is actually one of the best slasher remakes I've seen alongside Prom Night (2008), featuring really scary scenes and grizzly deaths. One of which features Margo Harshman as Charlene "Chugs" Bradley, the sorority's drunken, slightly slutty sister as she goes to her therapist and finds him handcuffed to his bed, revealing he was seduced by an earlier client. He asks if she would like a shot, and she agrees entering the bathroom to prepare. As she does so the therapist is killed by an unknown assailant using a tire iron that was the original tool used to kill their sorority sister eight months ago. Chugs enters the living room and lies down, drinking beer. Suddenly the killer appears and shoves the beer bottle down her throat choking her. Then, the killer slices her throat open with the tire iron. Her beer goes red with her blood as she dies.So sadistic.
7. The Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Kris Fowles' Dream murder.
The 2010 remake of Wes Craven's 1984 classic, Katie Cassidy stars as Kris Fowles, one of the teens being haunted in their dreams by your friendly child molester and killer Freddie Krueger (played by Jackie Earl Haley).
In one of her dreams, she finds herself inside a dilapitated classroom, with Freddy clawing the board, saying "Ready or not, hear I come." She wakes up to find out that it was just a dream, so she went to get herself a glass of water and decided to go back to sleep. But Freddy appears beside her in bed, and turned out that she was still dreaming.His boyfriend who was sleeping with her woke up to find her screaming while asleep. He tries to wake her up but she wont. Her body levitates in the air and is thrown around the room. Then, her body is sliced by what appears to be Freddy's claws. Her boyfriend is sprayed all over with her blood as her lifeless body fall to her bed.
The best kill in the movie!
6. Hansel & Gretel : Witch Hunters (2013) Finale Witch Massacre.
The film highlights gratuitious gore and violence, all of which are thrown into the audience in 3D.
The film's final act includes a coven of witches being massacred by Hansel, together with their friends, as they save Gretel and the rest of the kidnapped children.
One of the best kills? Escaping witches flying high speed into a web of of blessed wires that slice through them.
Perfect cut!
5. Saw 3D (2010) The Garage Trap.
The seventh and final film of the franchise that started it all, Saw 3D features one of the most gruesome deaths in movie history. One of my favorites include the Go-Kart trap, with Betsy Russell tied in a rail track and a Go-Kart with a pointed blade in front running high-speed into her, ripping her body out.
But who would forget the Garage trap, featuring a bunch of Skinheads. Their leader, Evan wakes up to find himself inside a car, his back glued to the driver's seat. He needed to break free from the super-glued seat (tearing his skin in the process) and pull the red lever on the car hood to stop the car being released from the jack crushing Kara's head lying in front of the vehicle's wheels, ripping the jaw off of Dan positioned behind the car and crashing into Jake, who was tied to the wall.
Obviously it didn't ended well, and Evan gets thrown out of the car into a pile of wreck.
Love the chain reaction leading to their demise!
4. Carrie (2013) Prom night massacre and Chris Hargensen's death.
I know a lot of you, guys loved the 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek, but there's something in the 2013 remake featuring Chloe Garce Moretz in the titular role that had me head over heels over this new adaptation.
As we all know, Carrie White, an awkward, not-so-popular girl gets the hottest jock in school as her date to the prom, but a prank to humiliate her involving a bucket of blood set to be dumped unto her as she gets to be crowned Prom Queen gets out of control when she unleashes her telekinetic powers. She kills off all the rest who have treated her badly before and laughed at her while she's on stage, humiliated. Flying props in flames thrown to people. Live wires dancing in the air to electricute some. Bleachers crushing every student trying to climb over it. All of which makes the Prom Night Massacre of one my favorites.
Watch this scene as Chris' face smash into the glass, with shards of glass penetrating her skin in slow motion made it more glorious!
3. Final Destination 5 (2011) Bridge accident.
I love all the installments of the Final Destination, and most especially, their opening premonition sequences. From the first one (2000) which opened with an airplane accident, the second one (2003) which started with a highway pile-up, the third (2006) with the roller-coaster Devil's Flight derailment, up until the fourth (2009) released in 3D, which opened with the laughable race car crash.
But my most favorite of all is the fifth installment, later revealed to be a prequel, to the series. Final Destination 5 goes back to it's serious roots with this film, featuring an opening premonition that really blew my mind.
Passengers from Bus 1282 flee the vehicle, except for Isaac, who was inside the comfort room, busy talking to one of his girls. Candice gets trapped, and chunks of the road where she was standing at fell into the lake below. She hangs onto the railing of the bridge far off to the side, but it eventually detaches, sending her to fall off the bridge and is impaled on the mast of a sailboat passing by. Isaac comes out of the comfort room unaware of what's happening. The bus then falls off the bridge and Isaac is thrown against the windshield, crushed as gushing water floods the bus.
The bridge then starts to collapse from the middle, forcing everyone to find an alternative route around to escape. Sam helps Molly cross a beam that connects with the other side of the Bridge and she managed to get to the safe half of it. Meanwhile, Olivia trips, and her glasses are kicked into the water by nearby bystanders. Sam helps Olivia along the beam, but due to her poor eyesight, she is left helpless and falls into the water below. She resurfaces, but is crushed by a falling car from the bridge.
Nathan runs to Sam, but one of the cables detaches and strikes Nathan, threwing him away. The bridge then starts to tilt right, and Dennis tumbles off of the bridge but he grabs the edge of the bridge at the last second.
He tries to climb back up, but a car slides onto a tank causing it to fall over, and splashing Dennis with hot molten asphalt, melting and burning his flesh, and killing him. Half of the bridge then starts to collapse, and Peter and Sam jumps onto a suspended guard rail. Finally, the other side bridge collapses completely. A truck carrying steel bars then tips over, and it's contents fell and skewer Peter, who falls onto the concrete below and smashes his head in the ground. Molly, who made it to the other side of the bridge, screams as a large metal sheet slides off the truck, bisecting Sam in half.
With it's unique and multiple ways of finishing off it's characters (we're just in the opening act, guys ) this film is a sure fire hit with horror fans out there.
2. SCRE4M (2011) The film within a film within a film opening.
Wes Craven revisits his classic horror franchise with Scream 4. This time, it features an opening scene that already gives us a high body count to start with and the expected all-star cameos.
The film opens with two girls talking about the other's Facebook stalker. They are eventually killed off by the killer clad in a black robe and the infamous Ghostface mask. This turns out to be the opening scene of Stab 6, being watched by another pair of girls. One of them(Anna Paquin) tells her friend how the film sounds so stupid with the idea of a Facebook stalker, deducing that the horror genre is already dying. Her friend (Kristen Bell) gets pissed off with her talking too much, and stabs her in the stomach.
The film offers a lot of dark humor and pop culture references making it hip.
Witty, grizzly, and fun to watch at the same time, this is the reason why Scream 4 is one of my all time favorite horror flicks ever.
1. Piranha 3D (2010) Lake Victoria Massacre.
A reboot of the 1978 flick, this time helmed by Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) and stars Steven R. McQueen, Jessica Szohr, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Kelly Brook, Riley Steele, Ving Rhames and a special role by Eli Roth.
On top of my favorite horror movies of all time, this B-movie summer classic gives horror fans all the goods: blood, nudity, and gore.
Campy tone looms all over the film, as it shows in the opening scene itself, featuring Richard Dreyfuss as a fisherman ( a parody and a near-reincarnation of Matt Hooper, the character he played in the 1975 classic Jaws) who gets eaten up by a swarm of piranhas.
The film gets more fun after Jerry O' Connell gets thrown out in the water full of piranhas who ate up his waist down below. Two piranhas soon fight over a chunk of his junk.
But the highlight of the film appears in it's climax, featuring a lake packed with a thousand students on their Spring break, partying in the water. The lake turned red with blood as packs of hungry piranhas attack the partygoers, with close-up looks on these fishes chewing off their victim's flesh. The chaos turned more deadly as more people try to save themselves from the piranhas. some getting run over by boats.
While a girl gets her head pulled into the blades of the motor of another boat as her hair gets stuck on them.Karma gets the owner running that boat as it more people tried to climb over it, causing the boat to flip over and throwing him into the water where he gets chewed up by a swarm of piranhas. Well, he deserves it anyway.
The massacre ends up in high note as the floating stage used in the party starts to tilt over due to the number of people climbing over it, resulting in all of them being thrown back to the lake, into the waiting packs of piranhas.
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