I'm not sure this was ever posted but but I figured I'd start this thread. GangreneWidescreen.com usually has a section in their reviews for people they wanted most to see killed in the film. Has there ever been a victim in a horror film who's death made you cheer? One I can think is Kelly Rowland's character in Freddy Vs. Jason. It happened at the right time too.
Ellis in Die Hard.
The blonde chick in Ice Queen. She coudn't act and was a quite a slapper but even though her death was satisfying to me, she couldn't even act scared or regretful about it. :lookingup:
Smile? I effing lost it. This description doesn't do it justice, but . . .
"Captain Kronos" The Captain sees a man, who has been ran over by a wagon, lieing in a field. He goes to the man and picks him up to see, if he can help. The man's arm falls off, where it has been severed by the wagon wheel. ROTFL!
:smile: Good topic, DS.
SPOILER ALERT
[trevor spits in hands, rubs them together and then gets his fingers stuck on the keyboard] sxwfit3efy9e8ydiweuowiy2re......sorry. :wink:
Ellis (Hart Bochner) getting his in "Die Hard": also Hans Gruber taking a dive. I saw "Die Hard" on a huge curved screen which made this all the more frightening.
The insane murderer Judith (Nadia Fares) in "The Crimson Rivers"
Stewart Granger in "The Wild Geese" :teddyr:
The death of the drug dealer in "Lullaby" (not released yet, but this made me :smile:)
Edward Woodward in "Hot Fuzz". Ouchies :buggedout:
Matt Clark in "An Eye For An Eye". Double ouchies. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Though you could make the argument it technically wasn't a death scene, seeing that whiny little emo turd Hayden Christiansen graphically scorched near the end of Revenge of the Sith gave me the satisfaction I'd been waiting for ever since they introduced him in Attack of the Clones.
Also, though I love the character, Herbert West's "death" at the end of Re-Animator will always be a classic. Strangled to death by p**sed-off intestines?! Brilliant! :teddyr:
Lucy in the 92' Dracula. That b!^*h was ANNOYING.
-Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) being crowned by a railway signal at the end of "The Ladykillers".
-Man being eaten off the toilet by the T-Rex in "Jurassic Park".
The one little annoying kid in 1981's The Boogeyman.
Also, John Lovitz's character in Little Nickey, idiot.
feyd rautha and the beast rabban - dune
ming the merciless
black guy from 'equilibrium' - "don't ruin the suit" *face cut off* lol
the twitching feet guy from 'the rock'
main bad guy -'kiss of the dragon'
street preacher - 'johnny mnemonic'
I can think of a couple that elicited cheers from the audience in the theatre, with Annie Wilkes in Misery at the top of the list. Everybody whooping and cheering as James Caan beats Kathy Bates to death with a blunt object. Hard to explain that to somebody who hasn't seen the movie.
General Chang in Star Trek VI got a cheer I could hear in the cinema next door 15 minutes before it happened. You could sense the anticipation on our side of the wall after that.
And the audience seemed quite delighted with the conclusion of Con Air, with Cyrus the Virus being dispatched in a manner that would make Wile E. Coyote wince.
I smile every time someone dies in a slasher film. I can't help it, they're funny.
The kid in the sleeping bag in Prophecy: (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/prophecy/)
Click Here (http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/moviesl/prophecy1.mpg) (If you haven't seen it before, make sure you are not drinking anything.)
Quote from: Andrew on April 16, 2008, 05:06:05 PM
The kid in the sleeping bag in Prophecy: (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/prophecy/)
Click Here (http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/moviesl/prophecy1.mpg) (If you haven't seen it before, make sure you are not drinking anything.)
That one didn't make me smile so much as giggle uncontrollably. The irony is that I was a kid when I first saw it, and the movie actually did scare me - except for the bouncing banana disappearing in a puff of feathers.
The D&D nerd in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 is classic.
Hmm... Lessee...
*some spoilers*
The annoying emo girl in Minotaur. Can't remember her name, but she gets a horn through the back of her head that sticks out her mouth.
The trio (can't remember their names, but the two chicks and a guy) in Hostel that sold the characters out. Especially the last one, who gets royally owned by her own cohorts.
Bill Gates in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
While on the subject of South Park characters...
All of the pedophiles that killed themselves on the tourrettes episode.
and of course Kenny.
One of the few redeeming features in SCARECROW SLAYER was when characters died, seeing as they were all totally unlikeable, hell I wish all of them bit it, the main girl... ESPECIALLY the irresponsible bastard doctors.
When the "bully soldier cadet dude" is the human you cheered for the most you know you've got a cast of stinkers. I'm not saying people created to be "evil and nasty" to make the audience cringe, I'm talking about "mean and stupid" enough to make you want to kill them yourself. We have to settle for the dumbass-possessed scarecrow himself offing them in a painfully tedious, just-well-made-enough-to-not-be-happily-laughed-at-time-frame.
The blonde chick, I believe her name was "Sheila", was a MAJOR ditz-b***h who was by far the best (worst?) example of such a character to ever grace the screen, if Paris Hilton herself had made an appearence next to her, well, the latter could not have been much worse B(. With about 15 minutes left, most of the comparatively-likeable characters are dead, and the aforementioned cadet (Who I actually rooted for wildly as he fried the scarecrow) having just been offed by the a***ole monster, I was left an even-more ticked viewer, I was however, hopeful as the uber-witch Sheila(?) herself reappeared, reminding myself of her previous a***olery and left me eagerly awaiting her demise, hoping HARD that she would not escape like the doctors apparently did.
I was ready as she stood whining and moaning to the slightly-more-tolerable main-girl, expecting something slow, painful, and just bloody enough to be shown in it's entirety on cable TV. Needless to say the filmmakers (DAVID MICHAEL LATT of the ASSylum :hatred:) were not on my wavelength, but instead gave me something totally unexpected and strangely satisfactory. As miss Sheila stood out in the open grass, yelling like a moron, and I sulked nearly puking in anticipation on my bed, the Scarecrow dropped from a window, and, despite a scarecrow's average weight (perhaps offset by the cliche physique of such types :tongueout:), my nemesis was CRUSHED VERTICALLY FLAT :teddyr: :teddyr:
That one guy's girlfriend in Candy Stripers, b@#$%
I second the toilet death from Jurassic Park!
Sleepaway Camp 2 had one girl get forced down the hole of an outhouse and beaten into the crap at the bottom. You had to laugh to avoid being disgusted!
Almost all of the deaths in Night of the Lepus
The computer nerd from Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2
That saluting guy from Alien Resurrection
The Mola Ram in The Temple of Doom
I can't pin it down to any one title but the character death that makes me grin the most would have to be the Arrogant Criminal. You watch them for two hours, grinding your teeth as they go about their sinister ways only to watch them get paid back in full plus change and interest.
The second Star Destroyer commander after apologizing to Vader for losing the Millennium Falcon. :teddyr:
The two backwoods 'citified' brothers in MOTHERS'"S DAY. And Ma, of course. If any sick basterds needed to die slowly...it was this trio!
SPOILERS:
One inbred s**thead (Addly) gets a hatchet in the nuts,the other (Ike) gets draino poured in his mouth,a TV smashed over his head,and finally,carved up with an electric knife!!! YAY! :drink:
Finally Ma gets smothered with a transparent,inflated boobie! Awright! :cheers:
Dick Jones in Robocop would be another one. Bob Morton too for that matter, but only because Kurtwood Smith did it with so much style.
Has anybody mentioned the scimitar-swinging baddy in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Lincoln Weinberg Jr's demise in Hardware.
"You won't be able to see Santa Claus."
The b***h from Friday the 13th part 7. she looked like my home ec teacher in 7th grade.
she told us we all needed sowing more than math because all of us were gonna end up on a sowing gameshow someday. we were all pretty sure she was on shrooms or something.
Col. Tavington in THE PATRIOT.
"My sons were better men!"
Go Mel!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm for Paris Hilton in the House Of Wax remake. :thumbup:
The annoying mother in "troll 2":
(http://www.centralmediaserver.com/KUTV/rosen/Troll%202%20Shots.jpg)
(she's on the left)
Trinity in Matrix Revolutions-3 hour movie and 65% of it was her death scene. Actually when Neo died was pretty good, because that meant there would be no more sequels.
Rain in Mortal Kombat 2. They just killed off one of my least favorite MK characters. In fact that death scene was so good, the movie used it twice.
Any main X-Men charater from X-Men 3. That movie just ruined so many of them.
I'm a big fan of any death scene in a Schwarzenegger movie. They always come with a one liner.
Stick around.
Screw you!!!!!
See you at the party, Richter!
It's beautiful. As though Arnold has some contract clause that legally binds the filmmakers to allow him to write a couple of lines for each movie.
Quote from: AndyC on April 16, 2008, 06:13:51 PM
Quote from: Andrew on April 16, 2008, 05:06:05 PM
The kid in the sleeping bag in Prophecy: (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/prophecy/)
Click Here (http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/moviesl/prophecy1.mpg) (If you haven't seen it before, make sure you are not drinking anything.)
That one didn't make me smile so much as giggle uncontrollably. The irony is that I was a kid when I first saw it, and the movie actually did scare me - except for the bouncing banana disappearing in a puff of feathers.
Him die funny! :cheers:
Quote from: RapscallionJones on April 20, 2008, 10:33:38 PM
I'm a big fan of any death scene in a Schwarzenegger movie. They always come with a one liner.
Stick around.
Screw you!!!!!
See you at the party, Richter!
It's beautiful. As though Arnold has some contract clause that legally binds the filmmakers to allow him to write a couple of lines for each movie.
Most definitely.
Let out some steam Bennett.
You're Fired
Quote from: RapscallionJones on April 20, 2008, 10:33:38 PM
I'm a big fan of any death scene in a Schwarzenegger movie. They always come with a one liner.
Stick around.
Screw you!!!!!
See you at the party, Richter!
It's beautiful. As though Arnold has some contract clause that legally binds the filmmakers to allow him to write a couple of lines for each movie.
"Remember when I said I would kill you last? I lied."
Gotta love those Arnoldisms.
"He had to split."
"Consider that a divorce."
"Well, that hit the spot."
Haha, as soon as I saw this topic title, I thought "That Destiny's Child chick in Freddy vs. Jason!", and low and behold, it was the first one mentioned! Have some positive +Karma from me, DarkSider, not just for that fact but also for an awesome topic idea.
Back to the review of "Prophecy" -- I had sort of avoided it in the stores, as I didn't care for the box cover, making it look like just another Alien or Evil Child ripoff (So many very bad ones of those out there, folks!), but now that I finally read the review, yeah, I guess I'll have to see it now --
By the way, the principle that a developing foetus reflects Darwinian Evolution is an old one: "Ontogeny recapitulates philogeny", which holds that the mammalian foetus goes through piscean, amphibian, and reptilian phases in the womb before becoming mammalian. It's sort of dismissed these days as an oversimplification, but still has its adherents.
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While I forget the actor's name, I always found some cheer in the death-by-flaregun end of the psycho villian in the Australian "Dead Calm". A truly awful villian deserves a truly epically awful end . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
Deep Core - Wil Wheaton (aka Wesley Crusher from Star Trek) gets buried in molten lava. Man that felt good!
Quote from: Jack on April 23, 2008, 03:26:59 PM
Deep Core - Wil Wheaton (aka Wesley Crusher from Star Trek) gets buried in molten lava. Man that felt good!
Indeed, almost as enjoyable as watching him getting smacked around by Claude Akins in The Curse :cheers:
I had some vague memories of a film I saw long ago with Claude Akins and his family on a farm, and apples that had worms in them. The Curse! That's it! I was about ready to ask about it on the What was the Film board. Ah, another one for the wishlist.
The father from The Woman. When she gets her revenge on him (and his son).
Arjen Rudd from Lethal Weapon 2 :teddyr: :teddyr:
Rudd: "Diplomatic immunity!"
Murtaugh [shoots Rudd in the forehead] "It's just been revoked!"
Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff) from Toy Soldiers (1991) getting his forehead re-arranged. :teddyr:
Arthur Galt (Jack Starrett) from First Blood (1982) connecting with some rocks after a helicopter fall :buggedout:
Frank Nitti (Billy Drago) from The Untouchables (1987) thrown off the roof :teddyr:
Bernard (David Roya) from Billy Jack (1971): a chop to the throat. :cheers:
Quote from: peter johnson on April 23, 2008, 01:40:03 PM
While I forget the actor's name, I always found some cheer in the death-by-flaregun end of the psycho villian in the Australian "Dead Calm". A truly awful villian deserves a truly epically awful end . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
Wasn't that Billy Zane?
(https://c.tenor.com/OfMqA-OtQVQAAAAd/hans-gruber-falling-slow-motion.gif)
Quote from: Ted C on August 15, 2022, 01:08:41 PM
Quote from: peter johnson on April 23, 2008, 01:40:03 PM
While I forget the actor's name, I always found some cheer in the death-by-flaregun end of the psycho villian in the Australian "Dead Calm". A truly awful villian deserves a truly epically awful end . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
Wasn't that Billy Zane?
He's in the cast. Hope so. :wink: :thumbup:
I personally never found it funny, but a lot of other people tend to laugh at Tom Conti's death at the end of Reuben, Reuben (1983)
The end of There Will Be Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-9wXFQRgA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-9wXFQRgA)
Kanga in Live and Let Die is just insanely funny :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetaIVyl6zsp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetaIVyl6zsp)
Joe Montague - The Galaxy Invader (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQ-X9t58pI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQ-X9t58pI)
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 15, 2022, 01:41:42 PM
Quote from: Ted C on August 15, 2022, 01:08:41 PM
Quote from: peter johnson on April 23, 2008, 01:40:03 PM
While I forget the actor's name, I always found some cheer in the death-by-flaregun end of the psycho villian in the Australian "Dead Calm". A truly awful villian deserves a truly epically awful end . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
Wasn't that Billy Zane?
He's in the cast. Hope so. :wink: :thumbup:
Yes, it is him. Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman also star in it. When the film was released, people unfairly compared it to the Orson Welles film which had not been completed. :question:
Quote from: WingedSerpent on April 20, 2008, 07:12:42 PM
Trinity in Matrix Revolutions-3 hour movie and 65% of it was her death scene. Actually when Neo died was pretty good, because that meant there would be no more sequels.
Well, that quote aged poorly.
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Quote from: WingedSerpent on April 20, 2008, 07:12:42 PM
Trinity in Matrix Revolutions-3 hour movie and 65% of it was her death scene. Actually when Neo died was pretty good, because that meant there would be no more sequels.
Well, that quote aged poorly.
I think that quote is spot-on... unless there were more sequels... :bluesad:
Quote from: Cult_Moody_Movies on August 15, 2022, 10:46:11 PM
Joe Montague - The Galaxy Invader (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQ-X9t58pI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQ-X9t58pI)
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
ROAD HOUSE (1989)
BEN GAZZARA as villain Brad Wesley, 4 or 5 shots in, sits down hard on a glass coffee table... and goes thru it arse first. :smile:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Road-house-poster.jpg)
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 15, 2022, 01:39:30 PM
(https://c.tenor.com/OfMqA-OtQVQAAAAd/hans-gruber-falling-slow-motion.gif)
In the book
Die Hard is based on,
Nothing Lasts Forever, the villain falls like that but he has the cop's daughter with him and they both fall to their deaths :buggedout:
When the Marlon Wayans's character finally goes away in DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, what an annoying guy. Boy that was a really, really bad movie. Thank God for LORD OF THE RINGS, or the fantasy genre would've died a while ago.
The way they killed Chef off on South Park was so personal and absurdly gratuitous I had to smile. (Not from a movie, I know....)
Samuel L Jackson's character getting chomped in Deep Blue Sea, right after his 'we're going to make it together' speech.
Pieter Vorstedt in Lethal Weapon 2: having a huge crate dropped on his head. :teddyr: :teddyr: