The Best Death's in Movie History
There are many deaths in movie history, some very gory, some emotional, some funny. But a factor that remains in all deaths in movie history is that, well, they're not real, but in some cases, we'd like to think they are!
Some of the greatest deaths in movie history however, come from the horror genre. Many slasher series such as Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre involve some excrutiatingly gory and horrific deaths which continue to splatter our shoes and eyes with fake blood even in these days of low quality 'trendy horror movies.'
This page will give you the goriest, the bloodiest, perhaps even the funniest slices and dices in horror movie history. Expect knives, hammers, machetes, masks, girls, guys, blood, guts and horror in this claret smeared page dedicated to deaths in horror movie history!
Commence Death!
Rhodes: Day of the Dead
This has to be one of my favourite deaths in horror movie history of all time. In George A. Romero's classic Day of the Dead (1985) the main bad protagonist, Rhodes, gets ripped apart in blood-letting extreme fashion. The animal guts used for this scene had been previously left in an unplugged fridge for 2 weeks mistakeningly, so while the zombies used nose-plugs, Joe Pilato was forced to scream and bear it, fainting after the scene was shot. Famous line involved: "Choke on 'em!" was an on the spot ad lib by Pilato as the zombies drag his severed legs away from his body and drag them off down the hallway as blood gushes everywhere.
Shelly: The Evil Dead
In Sam Raimi's classic gore-fest "The Evil Dead" (1982) Shelly is at first possessed by a Candarian demon and then proceeds to attack her boyfriend and Ash whilst getting her face burnt badly in a fire as she screams in wild pain. She eventually is stabbed in the back and she even chews off her own hand as white gunk spews from her orifaces and wounds like rivers. Then, finally, she is hacked into pieces by her boyfriend, Scott, leaving a pile of wobbling body parts and pools of blood all over the floor.
Guy doing hand stand: Friday the 13th: Part 3
In this scene from the mostly plain sequel to Friday the 13th, Jason uses no energy to quickly slice this not-so-happy-camper in two with the help of his trusty machete. The body was constructed from foam which was sliced in half and stuck together with velcro. A previous attempt at this scene was to involve a fully-mechanical version of the actor, but this was scrapped in favour of the foam replica. After his demise, he is strung up on the beams in the ceiling area of his bedroom where he drips blood onto his pregnant girlfriend who also soon feels the cold steel of Jason's knife. In that scene, a shot of the body strung up on the rafters was cut by the BBFC on Friday 13th: Part 3's first submission in the 1980's. However, this scene has been restored by the now, very liberal BBFC of the modern era.
Guy hanging upside down: Friday the 13th: Part 2
This death from Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981) at first seemed like a practical joke being played on the character, but eventually, it became clear it wasn't, when after the girl accompanying him went to get a knife to cut him down, Jason appears out of the shadows and slashes his throat with his machete, letting blood fly silly across his neck. When the girl comes back, she finds him still hanging upside down by the rope, but when she turns him round, she screams as his blood soaked face opens a world of horror and pain for her as Jason bursts out of the shadows once more.
Guy in a wheel chair: Friday the 13th: Part 2
In this scene, the last thing you'd expect would happen, happens. Very infrequently does a disable person get slaughtered in a horror movie, but in this scene from Friday the 13th: Part 2, it becomes apparent that the killing machine that it Jason will not let anyone live no matter what, he has no compassion, nothing. As this guy in thw wheel chair rolls himself out onto the porch of the cabin in search of his next sexual conquest, he does not care to look around when up behind him comes Jason who in a flash, smacks his trusty machete into this guy's face, sending him rolling back and crashing down the stone stairs behind him in the rain.
Janet Leigh: Psycho
Ah, what page of death would be complete without the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic slash-fest, Psycho (1960)? In this scene, Janet Leigh (mother of later Scream Queen, Jamie Lee Curtis) takes her last shower in the Bates Motel as a quiet Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) watches her through a hole in the wall of the room next door. Soon, the curtain is whipped back in a flash and before she knows it, Norman slashes her several times in the most famous horror movie death of all time! As the killer escapes, she pulls down the famous curtain and collapses on the floor as blood drains down the plug-hole in the bath in classic, gurgling fashion.
Judy Rose: Night of the Living Dead 1990
Thank god the zombies in Tom Savini's remake of George A. Romero's 1968 classic got to Judy Rose. Thanks to the putzy effort of her boyfriend to refill the gas tank while spilling petrol all over the burning torch in the back, he sets fire to the truck and subsequently......BOOM! Judy Rose is dead! Yippie!! The actress who played her was the worst actress in history of zombie films what with the constant mood swings that only a hormonal teen could equal, and the seriously annoying voice as she whines back and forth between acting as dumb as any person defending themselves against the dead could be. As we can see in this still, her body is put to good use as the zombies soon crowd in to feed.
'Daddy': Hellraiser
This classic film from the late 1980's was one of the few gore-fest horror flicks that was actually worthwhile watching. Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" is a blood-drenched gore-fest-bonanza that leaves even the most hard-core of gore-fans reaching for the sick bag with haste. This scene shows how the father of the small family is grabbed by the flesh with metal hooks and chains whist being pulled slowly in all directions. As the strain takes hold he utters one sentence to his watching daughter - "Jesus wept," and in true gore-movie fashion, he explodes in a hail of blood and guts. A true gore-film worthy of it's time, "Hellraiser" still stands proud today over it's sometimes gorier, but never better sequels in which not one death could proudly stand in the dead hall of fame.
Man sucked dry: Hellraiser
Another gore-filled death scene from "Hellraiser" (1987) makes it into the death hall of fame. This time, the evil father has achieved muscular form and has now drank the blood of a work collegue of the mother-of-the-household, leaving a some what drained and saggy bag of bones which later reveals itself in a rather gruesome moments involving many maggots crawling from many an oriface.
Woman: Zombie Flesh Eaters
In this gore-filled scene from Lucio Fulci's "Zombie Flesh Eaters" (1979) this woman gets first of all, dragged towards a shard of wood which subsequently stabs her in the eye and pulls it out too and is then dragged out to become the dinner for a group of flesh eaters. Although cut from the British version still, some uncut prints can be found dodging around in market stalls and basement video stores in a bargain bin. This film is clearly a rip-off of Romero's efforts in the zombie genre which in 1968, re-shaped an ailing hammer-horror and hollywood movie topic involving men painted in white! Although this film is cheap and tacky, you can still get a thrill from it, and this death is definately a good one.
Jack: Friday the 13th
This classic scene from Friday the 13th (1980) involves the gore-ific killing of Jack (Kevin Bacon in his first movie role) by the as yet, unknown killer. After indulging in the delights of the flesh with his girlfriend, he then indulges in some illegal substances. So, as he lays there smoking his pot, a drop of blood lands on his head. (Blood from the dead body of his friend who lays flat out, throat slashed on the bunk above has seeped through the matress.) As he picks it off, he gasps and then, a large spike is shoved through his neck splattering blood all over the shop. The actual effects behind this scene when it was shot initially went to pot, but due to the quick thinking of Tom Savini's special effects assistant, who blew the blood through the pipe used, saved the shot and in the process created a much more realistic effect of blood gushing.
Marcie: Friday the 13th
This is yet another classic from Friday the 13th in which Jack's girlfriend also succumbs to the after-effects of committing an act of sin. After going to the girl's bathroom to wash up, Marcie soon becomes aware of another's presence in the room with her. When she goes to investigate a strange movement of a curtain across from her, she finds nothing. But as she turns round, she is confronted with the unknown killer who quickly buries an axe into her face. Another master death from the veritable Splatter King, Tom Savini.
A Not So Happy Camper: Friday the 13th
Yet another classic death from Friday the 13th, this time involving one of the quietest members of Camp Crystal Lake's staff. After going out to check the generator, he never comes back. When the one survivor of the whole film goes to check what's taking so long, she enters the generator room to find nothing out of the ordinary. But when she closes the door, she soon finds the guy's body stuck to the door with several arrows piercing his body, including one to the eye! Yet again, Tom Savini, King of Splatter, wins the prize for another Best Death.
Mrs Vorhees: Friday the 13th
Finally, this last death from Friday the 13th involves the death of the film's, until this point unknown killer, who happens to be the mother of Jason Vorhees who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake many years ago. (Unluckily for many more raucus teenage councillors, Jason was to appear in many a sequel to slay and trample his way through the film industry.) In this scene, Mrs Vorhees is decapitated with her own machete and this makes for another horrific and splatter-filled death from the classic gore-fest slasher movie, Friday the 13th.
Jason Vorhees: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
In this final scene from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) Tom Savini rejoins the production team to provide the again astonishing effects sequences for the film, including this ultimate scene in which little Tommy Jarvis uses Jason's own machete against him. The machete is embedded into Jason's skull and he falls on it, embedding it even more. Blood flies everywhere, but when Jason tries to come back one last time, Tommy picks up the machete again and proceeds to massacre Jason until Jason finally dies. However, it wasn't that easy, in Part 6: Jason Lives, guess who comes back to life? And who's the reason for it, Tommy Jarvis.
Man: The Mutilator
In this scene from the largely unknown of slasher-fest, an unknown killer massacres a man in terrifically brutal and gory fashion, embedding a large knife in his face! Marvellous, fantastic throw away tosh for those seeking no-brainer action and mindless death. The effects seem good and withstanding, and as coming from an era when film makers remembered to turn out the lights, the darkness adds a nice atmostphere.
Man 2: The Mutilator
Another death from the annals of horror movie history, also coming from the largely unknown The Mutilator. In this scene, an unsuspecting man is impaled on a pitch-fork through his neck as he tries to scream in pain. Another hilarious death from this throw away tosh movie, but still, it's movie violence at it's most 1980's extreme in creative flair. I've seen better deaths, but there's always room for a good ol' pitch-forkin'.

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