What makes death “cool” in a horror movie? Is it the blood, gore, absurdity and sheer savagery of it all? Absolutely! But it could also be about how influential it is, how iconic it has become, or even how scary it is. Things can be cool for so many different reasons that it’s almost impossible to set parameters for what makes something “cool.” So, I won’t.
Instead, I’ll follow the Supreme Court’s opinion on pornography and simply say, “I know it when I see it.” And really, that’s all you can do. Why do we enjoy watching a saw rip apart someone’s face? saw, Why do we love watching Leatherface stick a chainsaw through someone’s groin? the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Why do we find these things so nice and interesting to look at? Who knows. I just know that they are, and that’s enough for me. So, here are seven undeniably spectacular deaths in horror movies. They may not be the scariest or most famous. ..but they are definitely very good.
“I’m Hungry” – Slyther (2006)
James Gunn is best known for his blockbuster superhero films. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3But in 2006 he released a low-budget horror film to roll, The film was reminiscent of classic body horror films of the 1980s and featured a lot of gross-out-and-disgusting fleshy grossness. to roll managed to earn rave reviews even from high-brow publications like BBC And this Los Angeles Times,
In the film, an alien parasite lands on Earth after hitching a ride on a falling meteorite. Its mission is to reproduce using humans as breeding vessels for its slug-like alien children. The best death in the movie is that of poor Brenda. Pregnant and chained in a barn, she is now host to thousands of alien slugs.
Constantly hungry, Brenda keeps eating and eating as the slugs grow inside her. Within no time, she grew to the size of a shipping container, trapped helplessly by its own size. When the slugs are ready to hatch from the eggs, they literally burst, causing Brenda to pop like a balloon. This is body horror at its best. It’s very gross, but also very cool to look at.
A Traveller’s Worst Nightmare – Final Destination (2000)
at the start of Final Destination, a group of students boards a 747 bound for Paris. But soon after takeoff, the plane hits severe turbulence, which (somehow) causes an electrical fire, causing an explosion and blowing a hole in the side of the plane, destroying entire rows of passengers. Are going. Ultimately, the entire plane burst into a giant ball of fire, engulfing everyone on board and burning to ashes.
There is something undeniably captivating about plane disasters. Hey, there’s actually a whole series called may Day This has been going on for literally 20 years and does nothing but repeat plane crashes. Flying 30,000 feet above the ground, going over 500 mph, all while trapped in a metal tube, is incredibly unnatural, and our brains know it. Every time we step onto an airplane we can’t help but wonder (and worry). But that fear also creates such interest. We can’t help but be fascinated by plane disasters, and that’s why the opening scene of Final DestinationWhich shows the explosion of an aircraft immediately after take off, remains so horrifying.
The Pale Lady – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
For a PG-13 horror movie, scary stories to tell in the dark It deserves credit for creating one of the most spectacular and terrifying scenes we’ve seen in recent horror history. In the scene, a teenager named Chuck is trapped in a nightmarish hospital and is pursued by the “Pale Lady”, a giant, deformed, bloated woman. She hugs Chuck close, slowly absorbing him into her body.
Is this the scariest scene in horror history? No, but for a PG-13 horror film that came out in 2019 (a year when we weren’t getting any good horror movies), this was very satisfying and really bizarre. This was also proved Horror Stories This wasn’t just some overpriced Nickelodeon movie, but deserved its place in the horror genre. The film was a surprise hit and grossed over $104 million at the box office.
Gothic Girl Sex – Urban Legend (1998)
urban legend A controversial entry in horror history. Some people like it, while others think it is schmaltzy. Personally, I love it, and you should too. It’s a unique take on the slasher genre where the killer’s MO is murdering people based on classic urban legends. The craziest, creepiest, coolest, and saddest death in the movie is the “aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the lights” murder.
As urban legend goes, a young college student returns to her dorm late at night and doesn’t turn on the lights because she doesn’t want to wake her roommate. When she wakes up the next day, she finds that her roommate has been murdered, and a scrawled scrawled in blood reads, “Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?”
But urban legend This story is taken to a whole other level as the film’s final girl, Natalie, returns to her dorm and hears that her punk-goth roommate is being murdered… but Natalie thinks she just heard something. Having very wild sex. So, before opening the door, she puts her headphones and toes on her bed without turning on the lights and falls asleep, while her roommate is killed just a few feet away. It’s morbid, it’s crazy, and it feels a little taboo, but that’s what makes it such a good murder scene.
Tina’s Gravity-Free Murder – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
While Johnny Depp’s death is arguably the more famous murder scene A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tina is the best ever. Fans need to remember that Tina was First Death in film. We start off seeing her having nightmares, thinking she is the final girl, assuming the film revolves around her. But then, Freddy catches him – and as we all know, when Freddy kills you in dreams, he kills you in real life too.
Suddenly, Tina starts jumping on top of the bed, covered in blood, before she is thrown onto the ceiling. This was shocking. In the 1980s, slasher films generally started small and grew in audience as the film progressed. But like most of Wes Craven’s work, A Nightmare on Elm Street I wanted to change the standard look and reinvent the genre.
By having such a wildly chaotic murder scene at the beginning, the audience knew that this was not Halloween Or friday the 13th, This was a completely different level. Plus, the view looks great. Nowadays, Tina on the rooftop would probably have been achieved using CGI (which is never that good), but Bad Experience Practical effects were used to create the scene, making it look incredibly realistic and extremely cool.
“It’s heading right towards you!” – Alien (1979)
In ForeignerDallas is the second person killed by the fully grown Xenomorph, but this is the scene that really gives audiences the first good glimpse of what the alien actually looks like. Dallas searches the ship’s ventilation system in hopes of killing the alien, but discovers that he is the one being hunted.
The entire time, the crew is listening, communicating with Dallas on his headset. Lambert (played by the brilliant Veronica Cartwright) begins to go crazy with fear, especially when she sees that Dallas has accidentally taken a wrong turn and is now heading straight for the alien. As she screams, Dallas turns and his flashlight illuminates the giant black xenomorph as he extends his arms to capture it. It’s terrifying, but it’s also an incredibly well-crafted scene, cleverly using the claustrophobic vent system to create undeniable tension.
Fun Fact: This scene doesn’t actually show the alien killing Dallas because in the director’s cut, Dallas is still alive, holding him captive in a cocoon where facehugger larvae are eating him alive from the inside. Despite this, the vent scene is scary because Helland is in one of the best, most memorable scenes in the entire franchise.
No, Casey…it was Mrs. Voorhees! , the Scream (1996)
It’s one of the most iconic scenes in horror history, and to this day, it remains as terrifying, suspenseful, and undeniably cool as it was in 1996. As all horror fans know, Drew Barrymore is periodically stalked and killed early on. First the Scream Movies. The pacing, the banter between her and Ghostface on the phone, and the disgusting and twisted games they play with her work perfectly together.
It was one of those lightning-fast moments that will never be replicated, where everything came together to form something flawless. Although all horror fans can remember that scene from their memory, many people do not know about it hollywood reporterIt was basically Harvey Weinstein (who, sadly, ran Dimension and was involved in many of our favorite horror movies) who was hated and almost eliminated. the Scream Several cuts also had to be made to avoid receiving an NC-17 rating. Luckily, everything worked out in the end and audiences got to see one of the coolest, most well-crafted scenes in cinema history.