The Death: Peter Stormare plants an axe into fellow crook Steve Buscemi’s face before feeding his body into a woodchipper. Nice.
Why It’s Shocking: It comes somewhat out of the blue, and is terrifically brutal. Plus, the idea of using a woodchipper as a receptacle for an inconvenient corpse is a messily inspired notion.
If They’d Survived: We would have been treated to more of Buscemi’s marvelously sleazy hoodlum. As much as we love this scene, it’s a poorer film once he’s departed.
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Heisenberg
Aug 30th 2011, 8:39
I think for sheer shock as in "jaysus i didnt expect that" i think the judge from law abiding citizen was a pretty good one, made more than a few people jump in the cinema.
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Hadouken76
Aug 30th 2011, 9:47
Tommy Williams in Shawshank Redemption, BIll Murray in Zombieland, both i did not see coming.
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devilsfoxes
Aug 30th 2011, 11:51
I would have traded all on this deaths for the most shocking one I've ever seen in a movie that still haunts me to this day. In The Manchurian Candidate (1962) when Raymond shoots his girlfriend Jocelyn while hypnotized. So f****d up in so many ways. It's sudden, unexpected, tragic, cruel and absolutely shocking. Another biggie is the end of Chinatown and the slaying of Evelyn Mulwray. It's by far the most shocking gutpunch of an ending in movie history and the shooting is a big part of the f****d upness of it all. Also of course Tommy in Goodfellas. Beautifully distracting build up by Marty with the voiceover and music. An interesting pick would have been Josh Brolin in No Country. No explanation needed as to why that woulda been interesting. Brad Pitt in burn After Reading another. Those HAVE to be better choices then Rachel's very telegraphed exit via fireball in TDK.
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ChrisWootton
Aug 30th 2011, 12:16
Oooh bad mistake on the thing. Copper is human and has nothing to do with the head detaching from the body.. the body and head belong to Norris
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gwales
Aug 30th 2011, 12:26
Quite right Chris - brain-freeze on my part. Duly amended.
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ChrisWootton
Aug 30th 2011, 13:38
Nice one
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FireFriendly
Aug 30th 2011, 14:32
The original Assault On Precinct 13. Young girl + ice cream + psycho with a silenced pistol = a traumatised youth
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Murphy0806
Aug 30th 2011, 15:37
Quint in Jaws. Or indeed Cassie's death. Ken Leung,s death in Saw. Far more shocking than any of the other deaths in Saw, or the dire sequels. Also, as Robocop came up why not spare a thought for poor old Emil "Meelp mee"
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Exarun63
Aug 30th 2011, 23:07
Duane Jones's character had turned into a zombie by the end of the original Night of the Living Dead in 1968. He had been bitten before he holed up in the basement. When he emerges from the house in the morning, he's obviously a zombie and is shot. However, Tony Todd played the same character in the 1990 re-make and he was NOT a zombie at the end when he was shot.
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Hadouken76
Aug 31st 2011, 1:20
Smrgol in Flight of Dragons ....noooooo!
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FBTLee
Aug 31st 2011, 17:09
Surely Thomas Jane sparing his son in The Mist should be on here. That one is truly awful.
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airguitar57
Sep 8th 2011, 14:34
Ofelia wasn't shot in the face, that was Capt. Vidal. Ofelia got shot in the stomach.
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