BEST Death Scene
Ok, so we've got the sickest death scenes, how about the BEST death scenes? I'm thinking, those scenes where the monster or villain really gets a terrific comeuppance. Which ones really WOW'd you? I...
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SPOILERS GALORE Joel McCrea in Ride the High Country Joe Mantegna in House of Games Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man Timothy Van Patten in Class of 1984 Bette Davis in Dark Victory Mel Gibson in...
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Great call on James Cagney! Angels With Dirty Faces, White Heat, and The Roaring Twenties come directly to mind!
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Always thought Charles death scene in Omega man was a sad one and also the invisible man when he got shot in the snow. More sad than great but great that it impacted in my memory to recall them now.
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Annette Vadim impaled on the fence post in Blood & Roses. Udo Kier trying to shove his severed hand back on, shouting 'It's all your fault!' at Joe Dallesandro, and tossing it at him in a snit in...
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Quote:If a TV death can count, then the Slayer's plunge off the tower to save her sister (and the world) in the fifth season Buffy The Vampire Slayer finale "The Gift" was as perfect a farewell that I...
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I like it in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME where Bond turns on the large overhead magnet and snags Jaws by his metal teeth, remarking "How does that grab you?" and then dropping him into the shark pool. Not...
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The death of Edward Lionheart (in THEATER OF BLOOD) right at the moment the fire flares up and engulfs him still is impressive to me. Not the subsequent fall (by stand-in or dummy), just that moment...
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When Ash's pesky disembodied hand stabs the heroine in the back in Evil Dead II, it manages to be goofey and shocking all at the same time. The demises in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2-- which...
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I can't disagree with Tim Lucas about PSYCHO, but I'm surprised he didn't mention any of the superb scenes directed by Mario Bava. I'd suggest the execution of Barbara Steele at the start of BLACK...
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Andy's sad, pathetic demise at the end of DEATHDREAM and the shattering climax of WITCHFINDER GENERAL are great ones.
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John Cassavetes' death scene at the end of THE FURY is pretty cool. When Amy Irving gives him the old psychokinetic whammy or whatever it is, putting all her body English into it, and snarls, "You go...
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The re-animated rat fighting the re-animated, um, penis during the end credits of Beyond Re-Animator. Well, they're both DEAD, after all (or had been, once). ... Reed
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I always found the ending of OMEGA MAN embarrassingly bad myself. I mean, Chuck Heston's character dies with his side pierced and his arms out in a Christ posture, while his blood contains the serum...
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>>I always found the ending of OMEGA MAN embarrassingly bad myself. >> The last ham on earth gets skewered for our sins. Well, at least it's in keeping with the rest of the movie.
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Wonderful, tragic, poignant ending for THE OMEGA MAN! :) I like the death scene for Sir Cedric Hardwicke in THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS.------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
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I'm going to put in my vote for some of the most entertaining death scenes (these are not horror either, but so what?): Yaphet Kotto's death scene as the pimp, Harvard Blue, in the black action film...
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One that really affected me was Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. They had been heroic for so three films at that point, and their murder was shocking to me.
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From relatively recent years, my favorite death scene, and the one that is most satisfying, is the death of Doyle Hargraves in SLING BLADE. Played brilliantly by Dwight Yoakam, this a**hole has it...
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Quote:One that really affected me was Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. They had been heroic for so three films at that point, and their murder was shocking to me....
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