Film deaths

avatar · 20-10-2004 10:13pm #1

Ok people, what are your favourite scenes where somebody bites the big one?

For me, it has to be Tony Montana in Scarface. What a way to go.

OLDYELLAR · 20-10-2004 10:26pm

i cant rightly remember this but in one of the dirty harry films , callaghans partner the woman who was then in cagney and lacey died and i was so upset about it i really didnt want her to die, ou gotta go think about my favourite though

elivsvonchiaing · 20-10-2004 10:49pm

Richard Gere in "Intersection" probably doesn't count as you kinda know he's dead for most of the movie - but a good twist nonetheless.

Steven Seagal in "Executive Decision" - was just so sick of seeing him wipe out armies with a Swiss Army knife or something - only to end up without a scratch.

John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction" - just takes you completely by surprise.

A terrible movie: "Mission to Mars" can't remember the actor - but when he opens his helmet- (er helmet on his space suit okay) and he's freezes solid - just so maccabre.

Most Gruesome: Willem Dafoe in "Wild at Heart" - David Lynch is up there with the sickest methinks.

smiaras · 20-10-2004 11:29pm

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MrPinK · 20-10-2004 11:47pm

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All the post-mortem one-liners made most of the deaths in that film classics

"Don't disturb my friend. He's dead-tired"

"Let off some steam, Bennett."

ObeyGiant · 21-10-2004 9:21am

There's a fantastic death in Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight, where Billy Zane punches someone so hard, he goes right through their head. Then he has to shake the head off his fist, so he can go after everyone else.

bringitdown · 21-10-2004 10:00am

Another cheeeesey one: implaling a mercenary in Predator - Arnie says "Stick around"

plastic membrane · 21-10-2004 12:29pm

Ronny Cox and Michael Ironside in Total Recall. Ronny dies out in the airless wasteland of Mars, eyes popping out of his skull and screaming. Mike goes his arms pulled off by a combo of Arnie and an elevator shaft.

Post Mortem One Liner: "See You at the party Richter!"

Love that movie...

Kain · 21-10-2004 1:24pm

When Cypher got toasted in The Matrix. I love watching his body fly into the pipework in the background.

Fysh · 21-10-2004 4:50pm

Best death ever? The one towards the end of Brian Yuzna's "Society", where billy is being pinned down by some big guy, and grabs the big guys hand and shoves it up his ass, getting it far enough to push his eyeballs out and then crush his face from the inside....

loz_the_boz · 21-10-2004 4:56pm

saving Private Ryan - when the guy gets slowly knifed in the bell tower - very painful to watch

Optikus · 21-10-2004 4:58pm

Magnolia... when teh guy tries to commit suicide, whilst a couple are arguing in the apartment below.. they are arguing husband pulls out a shot guns shoot at the window and actually kill suicide guy before the pavement dose.. what a coincident.

Highlander · 21-10-2004 4:59pm

Edward Woodward going up in flames in The Wicker Man

RuggieBear · 21-10-2004 5:01pm

bambi......hunter's shot :eek:

elivsvonchiaing · 21-10-2004 11:45pm

Highlander wrote:

Edward Woodward going up in flames in The Wicker Man

Good call! No idea how this slipped from my list.

Etain · 22-10-2004 2:53am

The death of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather

The murder/ suicide in Full Metal Jacket.

fragile · 22-10-2004 3:18am

The beating death and burial (still alive) of Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and his brother by a gang of club-wielding thugs in Casino

Quint's sliding into the mouth of the great white shark in Jaws

Most drawn out death scene: The passion of the Christ

Eye · 22-10-2004 3:31am

worst one i can recal was american history x when ed norton get's this fella to bite on the kirb on the side of the road and then *bam* stomps on his head :eek: freaked me out for ages i tell yeah.

most memorable for me was final destination 2, after the car goes off the road and the girl in the drivers seat is still trapped, fireman comes along with his cutting tool to cut the log that has gone through the door and is trapping her in her seat, she leans forward to light a ciggy and then *blam* firefighter went a bit too rough and tripped the car sensor setting off the airbag and impaling her on a piece of piping that was piercing through her head rest

all the other deaths i had expected in that film and you knew they were gonna happen but that one caught me off guard, i jumped, then realising what happened i nearly pi**ed myself laughing, D'oh was so obvious

jill_valentine · 22-10-2004 5:21am

I'm shocked and appalled by the conspicuous absence of Platoon.

The puppet kid in Nightmare on Elm Street.

And, an admittedly otherwise questionable film, but in Wrong Turn, the barb wire garrote was rather memorable, and there's a deleted scene where the girl that ate the axe... blinks which gave me quite a few nightmares.

billy the squid · 22-10-2004 5:31am

Best death I seen in a movie, morgan freedman in Deep Blue See, you know the scene where they are all feeling desparate and he decides to give them a pep talk "we are going to beat this thing yadda yadda yadda and as he is mid sentence the shark comes out of the pool he is standing in front of and pulls him in.

another death is at the start of cliffhanger where you can see the woman (think its supposed to be stallones girlfriend) falling.

Mel Gibsons death in Braveheard was pretty grusome too.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2004 9:38am

billy the squid wrote:

Best death I seen in a movie, morgan freedman in Deep Blue See, you know the scene where they are all feeling desparate and he decides to give them a pep talk "we are going to beat this thing yadda yadda yadda and as he is mid sentence the shark comes out of the pool he is standing in front of and pulls him in.

That one was great. A bit like psycho were they kill off the biggest star in the film early on and you weren't expecting it.

However I think it was sammy that died not morgan freeman.

koneko · 22-10-2004 11:04am

Ah yeah that scene in Deep Blue Sea was the best part about the film. Big pep talk speech, and WHAMMO he's dead. Loved that (and yeah it was Samuel L Jackson not Morgan Freeman).

Most memorable in a bad/horrible way is the American History X eat the curb scene.

Final Destination 2 has some pretty cool death scenes, but you can't go wrong with Italian horror. Cannibal Holocaust / Cannibal Ferox, anything by Fulci, sweeeet.

begbie · 22-10-2004 11:08am

When Ed Norton gets the guy to bite the curb in American History X. Very memorable.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2004 11:55am

Even though cannibal holocaust is available don't really want to see it. Don't think I could stomach it.

The deaths in Final Destination were great fun especially the 'He's going to die! Oh, no he hasn't' way it was presented. Have to say none of them surprised me but I was laughing after everyone of them especially the BBQ one.

seamus · 22-10-2004 12:06pm

fragile wrote:

The beating death and burial (still alive) of Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and his brother by a gang of club-wielding thugs in Casino

Yeah, that's the first one that I thought of. It haunted me for ages, very disturbing.

Death of the Drill Sergeant and Private Pile in full metal jacket (I never though he'd do it) and also where Joker euthanises the Vietnamese girl near the end.

Fysh · 22-10-2004 12:15pm

Retr0gamer wrote:

Even though cannibal holocaust is available don't really want to see it. Don't think I could stomach it.

The deaths in Final Destination were great fun especially the 'He's going to die! Oh, no he hasn't' way it was presented. Have to say none of them surprised me but I was laughing after everyone of them especially the BBQ one.

The one that made me laugh most was the teacher's death in Final Destination 1 - I mean, talk about overkill...(as I recall, the computer blew up and shot shards of glass into her throat, a bunch of knives fell on her edge-down and stabbed her, a chair fell on her to make the knives go in deeper, and then the entire house blew up).

Although thinking about it, the hanging death of the first victim in the shower near the beginning was pretty harrowing - they even showed the veins in his eyeballs bursting....

ferdi · 22-10-2004 12:18pm

loz_the_boz wrote:

saving Private Ryan - when the guy gets slowly knifed in the bell tower - very painful to watch

yeah jesus that was terrible.

Cactus Col · 22-10-2004 12:28pm

Apollo's death in Rocky 3, man I hate mr T

KlodaX · 22-10-2004 1:01pm

begbie wrote:

When Ed Norton gets the guy to bite the curb in American History X. Very memorable.

that one gets my vote two. did anyone watch it on RTE last friday? I think they cut that bit out of it... mind you I was wandering in and out of the room when it was on.

Does anyone know if that bit was cut out?

ixoy · 22-10-2004 1:07pm

KlodaX wrote:

Does anyone know if that bit was cut out?

It seems so. I switched over during the "bite the curb" scene and was horribly riveted again only to see it not actually shown. It also gets my vote for one of the nastiest deaths put to celluloid.

The Final Destionation deaths were hilariously inventive so kudos to the writers who clearly had a bit of fun in butchering their victims.

Cactus Col · 22-10-2004 3:13pm

I thought RTE had a policy of not censoring films, although I didn't watch it on RTE, I did watch it the day after on dvd, and the bite the curb scene happens a lot later in the movie then people realise, happens pretty close to the end.

impr0v · 22-10-2004 5:00pm

I'll go with the infamous encounter between Tony's friend Angel Fernandez and a chainsaw in Scarface, or Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein) in Aliens. Nothing spectacular about that particular one, but there was something admirable in the no-nonsense way in which she pulled the pin on the grenade and then wrapped her hands around it.

Earthhorse · 22-10-2004 5:06pm

Don't know the name of the character but Kevin Spacey's death in LA Confidential has to be the best acted death scene I've ever um, seen.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2004 5:21pm

The leprauchan being reborn and exploding out of some guys genitals in Leprauchan 4: in space. What an embarassing way to go. 'Wheres me pot of gold!'.

mycroft · 22-10-2004 6:35pm

The Blob, the remake.

The kid (Donovan leitch) who is set up as the hero in the first fifteen minutes gets killed, after fifteen minutes. That and both the dog and the cute kid get eaten, don't see enough of that in horror films.

Respect to anyone who suggested Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man "Oh dear God Jesus No"

The whole, Alison Munro, Uncas, and Magua death blood bath at the end of last of the Mohicans.

Jim Malone (Connery) in the untouchables (although I reserve a special place in the dark hole of my heart's hatred for Brian DePalma and all his films)

Pretty much the whole of the end of The Mission.

Karl Hungus · 22-10-2004 6:36pm

"This... is... from... ...Matilda..."
*BOOM!*

You all know what I'm talking about! Shocked nobody mentioned it yet.

ObeyGiant · 22-10-2004 6:44pm

Cactus Col wrote:

Apollo's death in Rocky 3, man I hate mr T

Apollo dies in Rocky 4. He's killed by Ivan Drago, not Mr. T.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-10-2004 7:41pm

Blood Simple when they are burying yer man and he ain't dead yet.

Some nice touches in the blob remake, like where the older woman is trapped in the phone box ringing the sheriff for help.

The silver streak, leaning out of the engine door with the other train approaching.

Dune, when the guild navigator threatens the Emperor with spending the rest of his days in a pain amplifier.

Course for real creapiness you can't beat a real internal parasitic infection, the thought makes my skin crawl.

ShiverinEskimo · 22-10-2004 9:33pm

ObeyGiant wrote:

Apollo dies in Rocky 4. He's killed by Ivan Drago, not Mr. T.

Affirmative on this one. Think Ivan Drago then says into the mic in his best russian accent "If he dies, he dies" and rocky looks at him swearing his revenge...aw yea. One great big bucket of mature cheese...

Creature · 22-10-2004 11:18pm

Joe Pilato as Rhodes in Day Of The Dead, where at the end of the film gets literally pulled apart and has his innards eaten by zombies. Hardly the sort of scene you'd forget

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Choke on 'em!

Makaveli · 23-10-2004 12:29am

Although you don't actually see him die, and it's a cartoon, I always found the end of Watership Down pretty freaky, especially when you're a kid. Seeing the dog covered in blood going to bite the General also covered in blood.

Also, as mentioned the bat scene in Casino and curb biting scene in American History X.

MrPinK · 23-10-2004 1:06am

King Kong in King Kong.

Always made me cry when I was a kid, why did they have to shoot the monkey?

SpoonOg · 29-01-2005 11:44pm

I may be mistaken, But I'm surprised that the "Whats that Coming out of Kane's (John Hurt) :eek: Belly" Scene in the original Alien has'nt been mentioned.

Spacedog · 30-01-2005 3:27am

Rutger Hauer's speech in Blade Runner:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain...time to die."

Dick Hallorann in The Shining

Spends the whole film getting back to the house to save everyone, he's only in the door, AXE in the back! YEAH! way to play on the cliché!

Tiriel · 30-01-2005 3:29am

Thelma and Louise.. awhhhh
oh and the electric chair death in The Green Mile..

Reef · 30-01-2005 1:52pm

I can't believe nobody mentioned Billy Zanes death in Dead Calm. That was an absolute classic. :eek:

Pigman II · 30-01-2005 5:30pm

Vic Morrow in the Twilight Zone Movie.

pauldeehan · 02-02-2005 11:04pm

Emil in Robocop. Gets all that chemical stuff dropped on him, starts melting. He stumbles around a bit looking like the toppings sliding off a pizza before a car hits him. He SPLASHES.

talking_walnut · 04-02-2005 2:17pm

The Big Lebowski

"Donnie who loved bowling"

Why'd they have to kill poor Donnie? He never hurt anyone

MariaRyan · 04-02-2005 6:32pm

When Brendan Gleeson's Dad is dying in Braveheart - then Brendan Gleeson says ina v. optimistic tone - "You're going to Live" , which completely convinced me and then he dies - Trés Traumatic

elivsvonchiaing · 05-02-2005 1:00am

talking_walnut wrote:
The Big Lebowski

"Donnie who loved bowling"
Why'd they have to kill poor Donnie? He never hurt anyone

He was a peripheral character; and they needed a death for the urn to ashes tossing sequence - that was class!

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