Scream (1996)
The Movie: Self-referential post-modern slasher involving a group of horror movie-literate teens, trying to fend of a killer and fellow fan of the genre.
Playing up to the clichés of the stalker/slasher formula, Scream spawned two sequels (a third has been announced) and sold a million Ghost-face masks.
Death By: Garage Door – At a house party Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) heads off to the garage for more beer. Confronted by the killer, she fights back, trying to escape through the dog-flap in the garage door.
The killer takes his cue and opens the door as she’s half way through, suffocating her before snapping her neck.
If This Was The Real World: Three sheets to the wind and trying to get in your house, you go for the cat-flap in your front door. Managing to get your head in, you become stuck, and choke to death.
Your corpse remains there waiting for the neighbours to wake up and discover you (you never liked them anyway).
Repo Man (1984)
The Movie: Otto (Emilio Estevez) gets a job as a repossession agent, and the thrill of legally stealing cars is enough to make him give up his old punk-rock ways.
With the FBI on the hunt for a mysterious 1964 Chevrolet Malibu, he, and every other repo man in Los Angeles, joins the search.
Death By: Something In The Trunk – In the opening scene, a weird driver (Tracy Walter) gets pulled over by a highway patrolman, who asks to see what’s in the trunk.
The driver hands over the keys, and watches as the trunk opens, engulfs the officer in bright white light, turns him into an x-ray, then disintegrates him, leaving only a pair of smoking boots on the asphalt.
If This Was The Real World: For those of you who’ve had the pleasure of seeing The Hurt Locker, chances are if something in a trunk is going to kill you, it'll be a car bomb. Oh, joy.
Next: The Dark Knight, Seven
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ebrown2112
Jul 8th 2009, 9:33
Mr. Creosote didn't die...
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PadmanForever
Jul 8th 2009, 20:06
The writer did acknowledge that ;)
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Chaffro
Jul 8th 2009, 20:19
How on earth did you miss out Robert De Niro's demise in Terry Gilliam's incredible Brazil? Possibly the most bizarre of all movie deaths! Even more bizarre than being stabbed or shot! Come on TF!
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euanmcgrath
Jul 9th 2009, 10:22
basically it appears the guy in The Long Ships.. dies from falling over? ahh the old days..
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dgoodswen
Jul 9th 2009, 12:59
Yeah, if some modern director did a remake of The Long Ships, say Eli Roth, we'd get a 5 minute, all angles, slo-mo, re-capped, CG'd to buggery death scene showing the guy being cut in two... what happened to leaving things to the imagination?
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ojs99
Jul 10th 2009, 11:38
With Seven, I was thinking that the Sloth death would be more bizarre
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DanRose
Jul 10th 2009, 14:23
I think there are much better deaths out there then the ones you have mentioned! Slither fat bird, switchblade romance's head in the bannister and William Hurt in Alien to name but three...
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Apathygrrl
Jul 23rd 2009, 12:01
Hooray for Leland Orser
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QuicksilverFox
Aug 4th 2009, 18:41
Vagina dentata, what a wonderful phrase...vagina dentata, ain't no passing craze... *hums along*
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Faers
Sep 22nd 2009, 2:24
Thunder in Big Trouble in Little China
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gwobblewopkins
Dec 8th 2009, 2:14
This list could have been so many more than just 15... How about these: The football with the sword attached- Graduation Day (1981) The showerhead impalement- My Bloody Valentine (1981) Pulled down the sink- The Blob (1988) Shotgun impalement- Pumpkinhead (1988) Finger bullets- Shoot 'em up Carrots- Shoot 'em up Waterbed drowning- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Head punched off- Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan The ball- Any "Phantasm" film Razor frisbee- Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead Starfish shuriken- The Toxic Avenger: Part 2 Swordfish impalement- The Toxic Avenger: Part 2 Human milkshake- The Toxic Avenger (I hate to even involve this one, but you started it when you brought up "Teeth") p***s impalement- Scary Movie Double chest-burster- Alien Ressurection I just came up with a list of fifteen on my own, this topic could have been endless!
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