List of films by gory death scene

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This is a list of films with gory death scenes, i.e. a list of films in which characters die graphically violent, gory deaths, often depicted using special effects. While standards for gore differ, films on this list depict on-screen human deaths with graphic detail, rather than off-screen and implied, depicting loss of blood and body parts (flesh, limbs, internal organs) in large quantity.

Contents 1 Death by bisection or dismemberment (excluding decapitation) 2 Death by blendering 3 Death by burning or other extreme heat exposure 4 Death by chainsaw or other saw-bladed machine 5 Death by crushing 6 Death due to contact with a caustic or otherwise deadly substance 7 Death from being consumed 8 Death from decapitation 9 Death from decompression or over-pressure 10 Death by desiccation and/or disintegration 11 Death by exploding head 12 Death from explosion 13 Death by fluid extraction 14 Death by freezing 15 Death by excessive and/or graphic gunfire 16 Death from immersion or falling into a molten substance 17 Death from impact with a blunt object 18 Death by impalement or crucifixion 19 Death from ocular trauma 20 Death from slicing by a sharp object with delayed separation 21 Death by strangulation or asphyxiation 22 Death by sword/knife (or any other bladed weapon) 23 Death by violent organ removal 24 Miscellaneous Deaths 25 References 26 See also 27 External links

[edit] Death by bisection or dismemberment (excluding decapitation)

• Akira, in which several people are torn apart.
• Blade II, in which one character is bisected from top to bottom.
• Blind Fury, in which the villain is split into half and falls, with the two halves separating while falling.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which a man is impaled, shot, and hacked apart with axes.
• Carrie, in which gym teacher Miss Collins is bisected by the basketball hoop in the gym at the fatal prom.
• Catch-22, in which a character is bisected by an aeroplane propeller.
• Cube, in which an unfortunate victim is shredded by a wire trap.
• Cut and Run, in which a man is torn in half by vines being pulled by two trees.
• Damien: Omen II, featuring a death by elevator counterweight.
• Dead Dudes in the House, featuring a young chap who is cut in half by a possessed window. Another young fellow has his hands severed.
• Die Hard With a Vengeance, in which a henchman is cut in half by a cable.
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, in which Amy (Chasey Lain) is cut in half.
• Equilibrium, in which the main character slices off his new partners face using a katana.
• Deep Star Six, in which a character is bitten in half by a giant predatory crustacean.
• The Doom Generation, in which a character is castrated by a skinhead with garden shears.
• The Evil Dead, in which a ghoul is brutally hacked apart with an axe.
• Final Destination 2, in which a barbed wire fence flies at Rory and slices him in three.
• Final Destination 3, in which Ian (Kris Lemche) has a crane fall on him from above, and the sign bisects him vertically, spilling his organs onto the ground and leaving his intact half twitching briefly, the spasms causing his middle finger to extend.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job where a character's upper body is cut in half vertically by a runaway chainsaw. This happens following a brutal mutilation that doesn't kill him immediately.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Andy is sliced in half with a machete.
• From Dusk Till Dawn, featuring many instances during "The Vampire Feast."
• Ghost Ship, in which a large number of people are bisected by a steel cable.
• Gladiator, in which a female gladiator is cut in half by a sharp blade attached to a chariot axle.
• Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood, a fake snuff film, in which a woman is tortured, dismembered, and partially eaten by a samurai.
• Hardware, in which a character is chopped in half by a violently closing pair of sliding doors.
• Hellraiser (film series), in which at least one character in all 8 films has their body and face torn apart by hooks embedded throughout.
• The Hitcher (1986 film), in which a girl is tied between a semi-tractor and a trailer and pulled apart by the villain.
• Interview with a Vampire, in which the vampire Santiago, is bisected diagonally from shoulder to hip by Louis (Brad Pitt).
• Ichi the Killer, in which a pimp is rudely interrupted from beating a prostitute by being sliced from groin to crown by the title character's boot-blades.
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, in which a girl is stabbed with a fencing post which then goes upwards, ripping her partly in half.
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which a character is split into three by a razor-sharp futuristic whip.
• May, at the end of the movie, May dissects her victims to make a new friend.
• John Carpenter's Vampires, in which a man is torn in half by the hand of a master vampire, also numerous bisections/dismemberments.
• Kill Bill v.1, in which numerous people's limbs are cut off with a sword and one henchman is cut in half from the head down.
• The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, many occasions.
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, in which Adam, armed with an axe, splits a creature in half that is guarding 'The Greater Power.'
• Mission to Mars, in which a character is ripped to pieces by a vortex on the Martian surface.
• The Mummy, in which a re-animated mummy is cut in half with a sword to prevent it from killing a man with a large stone block.
• Pieces, in which a young woman is cut in half with a chainsaw.
• Predator 2, in which a member of the Predator catcher team is bisected by Predator's disc weapon.
• Re-Animator, in which a character gets sliced by a bonesaw through the chest.
• Resident Evil, in which three characters are shredded by lasers.
• Rob Roy, in which the movie's villain is cut vertically almost in half by the title character (Liam Neeson).
• The Running Man, in which the hunter Buzzsaw is bisected with his own chainsaw.
• Saturn 3, in which a character is torn apart by a grid of fine wires in space.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which a male lead character stands by a window and is grabbed by zombies and ripped apart. This is an homage to a similar scene in Day of the Dead.
• Silent Hill, in which Christabella is ripped in half by barbed wire.
• Sin City,"Recut, Extended, Unrated", in which Miho slices a man in half during the extended version of "The Big Fat Kill."
• Sleepy Hollow, in which a character is bisected by a pair of axes.
• Slither, in which a hunter is slashed in half by the slug-beast's tentacle.
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in which Obi Wan Kenobi cuts Darth Maul in half with his lightsaber.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character is lifted off the ground and bitten in half by a giant alien insect and another is killed by a closing door.
• Terror Tract's 'Come to Granny' segment, Jasmine is dismembered all the way to have her ex-boyfriend, Sean Goodwin find her head sitting on a table.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which one character is bisected along the Coronal Plane by a glass door.
• Total Recall, in which Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) holds a man by his arms so that they are ripped off by the edge of an elevator shaft (he subsequently falls to his death).
• Underworld, in which vampire lord Viktor's head is split in half.

[edit] Death by blendering

• A View to a Kill, in which Max Zorin has a KGB agent thrown into a sea water pump.
• Alien³, in which the alien sprays acid in the face of a prisoner and he slides into a huge fan.
• Braindead, a.k.a Dead Alive, in which a group of zombies get blendered via a lawnmower. Also a baby zombie is stuffed in a blender.
• The Brothers Grimm, in which a fluffy white kitten is kicked into swirling metal blades which are about to come down over tied prisoners.
• Child's Play 3, in which the evil doll Chucky is thrown in to a large fan used to blow air through a haunted funhouse effect and is cut to pieces.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which Mad Cowboy is thrown into a meat blender.
• Die Another Day, in which a character is sucked into a jet engine.
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder, in which during a fight with John McClane on an aircraft wing, Major Grant slips into a rotating jet-engine. Strangely, this has no effect on the engine whatsoever.
• Fargo, in which Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) is fed to a wood chipper in an often parodied scene.
• Frankenfish, in which the main fish monster jumps into the propeller of a flatbed swamp air boat.
• Gremlins, in which a Gremlin monster is dropped into blender and pureed.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in which a Gremlin is dispatched via a paper shredder.
• The Incredibles, in which the main villain, "Syndrome" gets his cape caught in a jet engine and is sucked in.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which a large German soldier (probably a boxer) meets a larger propeller.
• The Last Boy Scout, in which an assassin falls off a lighting platform and into an ascending helicopter's blades.
• Licence to Kill, in which Dario (Benicio del Toro) is dragged through a machine that crushes bricks of cocaine.
• The Mangler, in which various people get chewed up by a homicidal laundry folding machine.
• On Deadly Ground , in which MacGruder (John C. McGinley) has his head pushed into a spinning helicopter blade by Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal).
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which a villain skis into a snowblowing machine.
• Prom Night III: The Last Kiss, in which a teacher is killed by having a blender stuck in his mouth.
• Riki-Oh, in which a man is ground up in an industrial meat press.
• Rumble in the Bronx, in which a gang member is fed into a wood chipper.
• Severed Ties, in which several corpses are mulched in a giant blender and two of the main characters are liquified as part of the finale.
• Speed 2: Cruise Control, in which two unlucky cruise passengers are sucked under and killed by the ship's propellers. Also, the captain is sent overboard and also was sucked into the ship's propellers.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which the lovable Toxie kills a thug with a fast-food shop blender.
• Tomorrow Never Dies, in which the villain is shredded by a sea drill.
• Underworld: Evolution, in which the evil vampire Markus is knocked into a helicopter blade turned sideways.
• Universal Soldier in which Andrew Scott/GR13 (Dolph Lundgren) is put through a woodchipper.

Nightmare on Elm Street in which Nancy's boyfriend (played by Johnny Depp) is sucked into his bed, blended up and spewed up on the ceiling.

[edit] Death by burning or other extreme heat exposure

• Alien³, ten convicts are burned to death when a plan to catch the alien goes wrong and the fire is set off prematurely.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film), in which numerous gang members are burned to death when one of the main characters fires a bullet into an acetylene tank, which then explodes.
• Batman, in which the Joker fries a gangster to death through a handshake with a concealed joy buzzer.
• Blade, in which Deacon Frost kidnaps the leader of the vampire council, takes the leader's fangs out with pliers, and exposes him to the rising sun.
• Braindead, in which a zombie suddenly cause to catch fire, caused by a lightbulb embedded in her head.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which where a character commits suicide by deliberately stepping into a burning wind.
• The Day After, in which people are incinerated by nuclear explosions.
• Dragonslayer, in which a priest is burned to death by the dragon's breath.
• Earthquake, in which a cook is killed when a large pot of boiling water falls on him during the quake.
• Final Destination 2, in which two people burn to death when a hospital room's oxygen tank explodes.
• Final Destination 3, in which two topless girls burn to death while trapped in tanning beds.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which a gangbanger's face is shoved into a steam pipe and burned.
• Gattaca, in which the genetically perfect paraplegic (Jude Law) commits suicide in an incinerator.
• The Green Mile, in which a man is roasted by a sabotaged electric chair.
• Ghost in the Machine, in which a man is cooked alive by a possessed microwave oven.
• Godzilla, films show him burning people with his atomic breath. He also burns enemy monsters.
• Godzilla vs Hedorah, Hedorah is eletrified to death by giant electric generators.
• Halloween II, in which Ben Tramor crosses the street wearing a Michael Myers mask and is incinerated after being hit by a car that explodes when it hits a van broadside in a motor vehicle accident. In a later scene, Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis are also presumably incinerated after Dr. Loomis ignites a hospital room full of flammable gas (a staggering Michael Myers is seen completely engulfed by fire, with the film ending with a close-up of flames coming out of the eye sockets of Myers' skull). Nevertheless, both return in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
• Independence Day, in which millions are incinerated during the initial alien attack.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which a human sacrifice is lowered into a volcano.
• Jaws 2, the woman driving the ski boat tries to fight off the shark by dousing it in fuel while she herself gets covered with it. She fires a flare gun which sets the boat on fire, burning her, and scarring the shark's face. She is then killed when the boat explodes. She is one of the few shark victems who is not killed directly by the shark (i.e. eaten).
• Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, in which various orphenochs burst into flames after being killed by various characters.
• Layer Cake, in which a clothes iron is placed on a man's chest, which causes his heart to boil and burns a hole through his chest. Also, in another scene, another man is brutally beaten and then has a pot of hot tea poured on his face.
• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, in which Tex is doused in gasoline in a fight with Benny. Benny then backs up and throws a lit lighter on Tex, causing him to go up in flames.
• Manhunter, in which a tabloid journalist is strapped into a wheelchair, set on fire and rolled down a parking garage ramp. He dies in the hospital, but not before being questioned by police. He says something to the effect of "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" This death also appears in the remake Red Dragon.
• Mars Attacks!, in which humans are disintegrated by Martian heat beams.
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, in which a living weapon called a God Soldier shoots energy beams at a herd of giant armored insects called Ohmu. The first shot fired completely vaporized the front lines of Ohmu in a massive atomic bomb-like explosion.
• Natural Born Killers, director's cut, in which convicts start a riot, throwing one cop in an oven and watching him burn alive, and throwing one in a washing machine, watching his skin burn off.
• Poseidon, in which many crew and passengers are burned to death by a flash fire.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which several Nazi troops are melted by fire coming from the Ark of the Covenant.
• Saw, in which one of Jigsaw's victims had been completely coated with a flammable substance, then accidentally lit himself on fire with a candle.
• Saw II, in which Obi is burned to death in a furnace.
• Seed of Chucky, in which "Tiffany" sprays hairspray at a character then lights a lighter, engulfing her in flames. She then falls over the bannister and burns to death.
• Silent Hill, in which Cybil Bennett is burned alive as a witch. Alessa Gillespie is nearly burnt to death, but survives with severe burn wounds.
• Star Wars, all six films, Many characters are killed in ships, most notably the various pilots who get killed in starfighters. But the most "extreme" scene is then Anakin/Darth Vader is lying on the side of a flood of lava with all limbs cut off. Another graphic scene is from Episode IV, when Luke returns to the Lars homestead to find it burned down, and Owen and Beru Lars reduced to charred remains.
• The Core, in which Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzleton goes on a suicide mission to try to disengage the master hydraulic controller for the compartments emergency release mechanism, accessible only through the ship's impeller "crawl" space trough where the magma flows for propulsion, which also doubles as the access way for The Virgil. He dies when he finishes the mission, not being able to return inside; the extreme heat weakened him too much. Once the impeller is restarted, the magma flow engulfs him.
• The Hills Have Eyes (both the 1977 film and 2006 remake), in which Big Bob Carter is crucified, doused in petrol stolen from his gas tank and burned alive by the resident area cannibals. Also, Jupiter is exploded after accidentally setting off a book of matches in a mobile home filled with gas.
• The Towering Inferno, in which Dan Bigelow burns up while trying to run across a blazing lobby. Several partygoers burn to death when an elevator opens on a floor that is on fire. Also, the flaming body of a fireman falls down an elevator shaft.
• The Thing, in which several characters as well as the alien antagonist are burned alive.
• The Wicker Man, 1973, in which Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) burns in the Wicker Man as the film ends.
• Volcano, in which several people are burnt to death when a volcano erupts in Los Angeles.
• Young Sherlock Holmes, in which young abducted women are sacrificed by covering them with hot wax or oil.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which Sarah Connor has a nightmare in which she and others are incinerated by thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion.

[edit] Death by chainsaw or other saw-bladed machine

• A.I., in which a character is cut in half with a chainsaw wielded by a motorcycle rider.
• American Psycho, in which a prostitute has a live chainsaw dropped upon her from above.
• Army of Darkness, in which Ash kills a witch with a chainsaw in a pit-battle.
• Bad Taste, in which a character chainsaws a hole in the floor before diving chainsaw-first through the lead alien (on the floor below) with the line "I'm born again!".
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which a character cuts a zombie in half, but later accidentally kills another character with the chainsaw when the bus they are in turns over.
• Dead Alive, in which the main character slices through hundreds of zombies using the business end of a lawnmower.
• Evil Dead II, in which Linda's possessed (and headless) body tries to kill Ash with a chainsaw, but slips and is partially sliced down the neck. Ash then uses the chainsaw to finish off Linda's possessed head (shown in shadows). Near the end he buries the chainsaw blade in the "Rotten Apple Head".
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (uncut version), in which Dr. Crews is killed with a tree-trimming saw.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job, in which a chainsaw is dropped on the ground while running and forces itself into an unfortunate victim on the floor.
• Intruder (unrated director's cut), featuring an infamous "bandsaw lobotomy."
• Last House on the Left, where the main killer is chainsawed by a victim's father.
• High Tension, in which a man is cut in to the stomach by a concrete saw.
• Motel Hell , in the climactic battle on chainsaws, Farmer Vincent dies from being chainsawed in the torso.
• Phantasm II, in which a silver ball drills itself through a henchman's body, ripping his mouth open as it tries to exit.
• Pieces, in which several women are killed by a slasher wielding a chainsaw.
• Premutos: Lord Of The Living Dead, featuring many gory deaths by chainsaw, including a quadruple amputation.
• The Running Man, (See bisection above.)
• Scarface (1983 film), in which Tony Montana's associate is hacked to bits by a Columbian drug dealer.
• Smokin' Aces, in which one of the Tremors Brothers sits on his own chainsaw.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series and remakes. In the 1974 film only one person is killed by a chainsaw (one dead character is dissected with one), while in the later installments and the remake (including the prequel to the remake), many are sliced to pieces by Leatherface's chainsaw.
• Saw 3, in which Jigsaw is slashed in the throat by a circular saw.

[edit] Death by crushing

• The 51st State, in which a character is accidentally squashed by a freight container.
• The Abyss, in which Lt. Coffey is crushed when his damaged and sinking minisub implodes.
• Akira, in which a soldier is crushed by a slab of concrete when Tetsuo unleashes his powers. Tetsuo later accidentally crushes his girlfriend when his powers get out of control.
• Alien: Resurrection, in which a soldier's head is crushed by the alien/human hybrid.
• American History X, in which neo-Nazi Derek Vineyard kills a black car thief by curb stomping him.
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, in which a security guard is run over by a steamroller.
• Band of Brothers, in which a wounded German soldier is crushed by a tank.
• The Beast of War, in which an Afghan rebel is crushed by a tank.
• Blade Runner, in which Roy Batty the lead replicant kills his creator Dr Tyrell by crushing his head between his hands.
• Brotherhood in which a North Korean soldier is crushed by a falling concrete segment of a building whilst retreating.
• The Castle of Cagliostro, in which Count Cagliostro is crushed to death by the hands on a clock tower. Earlier, one of his men was crushed after being caught between the large gears inside the tower.

• Child's Play 3, in which a garbage truck driver is crushed to death in the back of his garbage truck.
• Con Air, in which Cyrus ends up having his head crushed in a piledriver.
• The Core, in which a section of the ship breaks loose, crushing its occupant when it implodes.
• Final Destination 2, in which a kid is crushed by a large piece of construction glass which unhooks to the ground.
• Final Destination 3, in which one of the characters has his head crushed between two weights which swoop down from a machine.
• The Fly (1958), in which the mutated scientist Andre Delambre has his head crushed in a metal press.
• The Fly II, in which a security guard's head is crushed under a lift. Interestingly, the head, despite being crushed flat, displays no trace of brain matter, only lots of blood.
• Epic Movie, in which various characters are crushed by Jack Swallows (running on a massive water-wheel).
• Ghost Ship, in which a character is crushed between two large gears.
• Various Godzilla movies, in which bystanders are crushed by the titular giant reptile.
• Goldeneye, in which Alec Trevelyan is crushed by the falling GoldenEye satellite antenna.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers grabs a person by their head, lifts them off the ground, and squeezes their head to the point where blood actually leaks from the person's eyes.
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II, in which one of the motocrossers narrowly escapes a booby trapped trip wire, only to shout in victory and be crushed by a falling boulder seconds later.
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, featuring two scenes in which a woman bystander is crushed underfoot of tripod machines.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character's head is burst by a stone spire dropped from a church tower. The spire then becomes impaled between the character's shoulders and he continues to walk around for several seconds before falling over.
• Hostel, in which Kana's head is crushed by a passing locomotive during her suicide.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which a man is drawn into a rock crusher.
• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, in which a character is crushed to death in a locker.
• Various King Kong movies, in which bystanders are crushed by a giant ape.
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, in which one of the heroes is executed by an elephant stepping on his head and crushing it.
• Krull, in which a cyclops is crushed trying to hold open a closing door.
• Lethal Weapon 2, in which a henchman in crushed by a cargo container.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, in which several Orcs are crushed by a falling ladder and falling stones after the blast at Helm's Deep. Orcs are also crushed by the Ents at Isengard.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in which warriors are crushed by Oliphaunts. Many Orcs are crushed by stones hurled from catapults atop the walls of Minas Tirith.
• Lost Voyage, in which a man gets his head crushed under an anchor.
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in which a man is crushed underfoot by a T-Rex.
• Jurassic Park III in which Nash is crushed by a Spinosaurus, then eaten off-screen.
• Maximum Overdrive, in which a Little League player is killed by a "rebelling" steamroller.
• Monster Man, in which a man has his head crushed in a vice in the opening scene, though only blood pouring from his mouth is seen.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, in which a girl named Debbie is turned into a cockroach by Freddy Krueger, then crushed to the death in a roach motel.
• On the Waterfront, where a load of whiskey crates are dropped on a dock worker.
• One Night at McCool's, in which a man gets crushed by a falling waste container.
• Poseidon, in which Valentin, a waiter, falls down an elevator shaft on a spike and the elevator falls down, crushing his body and exploding the shaft as a whole. Another scene, a drunk is crushed by a falling piece of engine.
• The Proposition, in which a police officer's head is repeatedly and forcefully stomped upon (aborted decapitation).
• Return of the Jedi, in which the Rancor is crushed when a massive gate closes on it.
• Riki-Oh, in which a character crushes a head with his hands, and a character is crushed by a stone ceiling contraption.
• Scary Movie 4,the male lead's former boss has a metal container dropped directly on him.
• Scream, in which Tatum's head is crushed by a garage door after she gets stuck in the catflap.
• Sin City, in which Marv kills a man by crushing his head.
• Snakes on a Plane, in which a character is crushed (presumably to death) by a boa constrictor before being swallowed whole.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character is crushed when an airborne arachnid is shot down and crashes on him, leaving behind a smear of blood and entrails.
• Suicide Circle, in which 54 schoolgirls jump in front of a subway train.
• A Tale of Two Sisters, in which a girl is crushed to death by a falling armoire.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where the villain, The Shredder is thrown off a rooftop by Splinter into a garbage truck in which he is crushed to death when Casey Jones activates the truck's compactor.
• Terror Firmer, in which an obese gentleman is crushed in an escalator in an extended sequence in which his colon also falls out.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, where Vilmer kills a girl by crushing her head with his bionically-enhanced leg.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which a character is crushed to death between two heavy panes of glass.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which an 12 year old's head is backed over by a group of rowdy "teenagers" in a car.
• Time Bandits, in which Fidgit is crushed by a chunk of column. (He is later revived by the Supreme Being.)
• The Towering Inferno, in which the water pressure from a water tank explosion causes a statue to fall over and a chunk breaks off and falls on the chest of Carlos the bartender crushing him.
• The Terminator, in which Sarah Connor kills the Terminator by crushing him in the Cyberdyne factory.
• Starship Troopers, in which a crew member races to get out of the room before the door closes, but didn't make it and got crushed in the torso area (There's alot of blood in this scene).

[edit] Death due to contact with a caustic or otherwise deadly substance

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, in which Vulnavia has a vat of acid poured on her that was meant for Dr. Vesalius. Later in the film, Dr. Phibes embalms himself next to his wife's corpse.
• A.I., in which a lifelike robot is melted in a dunk tank-like carnival machine by three buckets of hot acid.
• Alien Nation, in which salt water is like acid to the "Newcomers".
• Beyond (alias E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà), in which, at the beginning of the movie, the Sorcerer has multiple buckets of acid thrown over him. Later a woman is knocked unconscious and acid falls onto her face.
• Class of Nuke 'Em High, in which the class 'geek' drinks radioactive water from a drinking fountain. He later excretes green at the mouth and ears, tries to strangle classmates and throws himself out of a window, then promptly dissolves.
• Cube, in which an unfortunate fellow is sprayed in the face with acid.
• Cube Zero, in which an unfortunate fellow is sprayed with a water-like substance which in actuality is an extremely quick-acting strain of necrotizing fasciitis which changes the flesh and skin to liquid state.
• Dante's Peak, in which a lady jumps into a highly acidic and near-boiling spring which causes severe damage to the flesh of the lower half of her body; she dies shortly thereafter.
• Dark City, in which the Stranger, Mr. Book, is killed in a collision with a water tower. Water is corrosive to the Strangers.
• The Day of the Triffids, in which salt water is poisonous to the invading aliens.
• Dr. No in which the titular character is knocked into a vat of heavy, radioactive water.
• The Fly II, in which a compound security guard is sprayed in the face with corrosive enzymes by the transformed son of Seth Brundle.
• Face/Off, in which an Alcatraz guard is burned (presumably to death) by a large bottle of sulphuric acid.
• Ghost Ship, in which a large portion of the passengers are poisoned with the soup on board.
• Godzilla vs Hedorah, over 1600 people die from hedorah's gasses. The acidity melts the body until there's only bones and the cloths they were wearing.
• Hardware, where a reactivated droid injects its victims with a potent toxin that causes them to enjoy the experience of dying.
• Heathers, in which Heather Chandler is tricked into drinking a mug of liquid drain cleaner as a hangover cure.
• Hospital Massacre, in which the killer forces a janitor's face into a sink full of acid, causing his face to melt into a bubbly mass of flesh.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which the villain (having chosen "poorly") drinks from a false grail, causing himself to age hundreds of years in seconds.
• Jack Frost, in which a serial killer is melted by anti-freeze.
• The Jackal, in which a man touches a highly toxic substance on the villain's van and immediately dies.
• Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, in which a victim is shoved into a deep fat fryer and then thrown on a grill.
• Leonard Part 6, in which numerous vegetarians are killed after ingesting, or coming into contact with, meat products.
• The Lost Boys, in which a vampire is killed when he falls into a bathtub of holy water.
• Magnum Force, in which a pimp kills a prostitute by forcing a can of drain cleaner down her throat.
• The Mummy, in which several men are sprayed with "salt acid" (likely hydrochloric acid) when they open a chamber in Hamunaptra, the ancient city of the dead.
• The Man with the Golden Gun, in which Krau, one of Scaramanga's thugs falls into a vat of liquid nitrogen after being clubbed.
• Mindhunters, in which one of the junior profilers smokes a cigarette which had been impregnated with a type of acid (not LSD), resulting in their lungs and chest hemorraghing.
• Nikita, in which a diplomat is drenched in acid in a bathtub.
• Phantasm II, in which the Tall Man is injected with embalming fluid.
• RoboCop, in which Emil drives into a tower full of toxic waste and begins to melt. (He disintegrates after being hit by a car).
• The Rock, in which a soldier died from mishandling containers of VX gas. Another one has a VX ball broken in his mouth and is dissolved by the toxin.
• Runaway, in which several people are injected with acid by small, spider-like robots used by the villain.
• Scotland, Pa., in which Norm Duncan's head gets shoved into a friolator.
• Seed of Chucky, in which a man has a bottle of sulphuric acid dropped onto his head.
• Signs, in which an alien creature is destroyed by coming into contact with water, which dissolves its skin.
• Slaughter High, in which one man drinks a poisoned beer causing his intestines to expand and explode. Later acid is fed into the running bathwater of a woman, whose flesh is burned off, leaving a bloody skeleton.
• Slither, in which an infected Trevor spits an acidic goo onto Margaret, and her neck swells up and she dies; also, another character is spit upon by many affected people, and he dies screaming in pain.
• Starship Troopers, in which two soldiers are sprayed with a flammable substance by a "tanker" insect.
• Star Trek: First Contact, in which the Borg queen is exposed to a coolant that dissolves organic tissue on contact.
• Street Trash, in which a large number of tramps melt after drinking bottles of mystery booze.
• Terminator 2, in which T-1000 and T-101 are destroyed in molten lava.
• Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, in which the main villain's skin and flesh melts off after being thrown into a pool of acid.
• Underworld, in which several lycans are killed by silver bullets or other silver materials, a vampire is killed by ultraviolet ammunition, and another vampire dies after being exposed to sunlight (flashback sequences).
• Urban Legend, in which a character is forced to drink a variety of cleaning products, followed by a whole package of pop-rocks.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which Judge Doom is dissolved by a high-pressure spray of his "Dip", which is composed of acetone, turpentine, and benzene.

[edit] Death from being consumed

• American Werewolf in London, in which Jack Goodman is maimed and partially eaten by a killer werewolf, after which he remains undead for the rest of the movie. Six other victims die in the same way during the film.
• Anaconda, in which Jon Voigt's character is eaten by the anaconda, regurgitated while still alive and conscious, winks at the camera.
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, in which one of Dr. Evil's henchmen dies when his head is eaten by mutated, ill-tempered sea bass.
• The Beastmaster, in which a man is caught and rapidly digested by a humanoid creature with leathery digestive 'wings'.
• Beyond (alias E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà), in which a blind woman gets her throat eaten by her dog. The film also features a man falling from a ladder and being eaten by tarantulas.
• The Blob, in which many people are eaten by a gelatinous blob.
• The Bone Collector, in which a man is eaten by rats.
• Biohazard 4D Executer, in which some of the soldiers and other characters were eaten.
• Braindead aka Dead Alive, in which numerous characters are eaten alive.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which several individuals are devoured by cannibals.
• Cannibal Ferox, in which numerous characters are eaten by cannibals.
• Critters (film series), in which many characters and animals are eaten by ravenous, toothy aliens that invade Earth.
• Dawn of the Dead, in which the zombies tear apart several biker gang members who invade the shopping mall.
• Day of the Dead, in which a character is torn apart and eaten by zombies.
• Dead Alive, in which a man's flesh is completely consumed from the waist down, showing his skeleton as he is still alive.
• Deep Blue Sea, in which numerous characters are eaten by sharks.
• Deep Rising, in which many people are eaten by a multi-tentacled sea creature which later excretes their skeletal remains. One man dies after being disgorged from the monster, partially digested and still conscious.
• The Descent, where several characters are gruesomely eaten by crawlers.
• Dreamcatcher, in which a character is eaten in a single bite by an alien, with blood spurting in all directions.
• Eaten Alive (aka. Death Trap), in which a serial killer's victims are fed to a crocodile.
• Feast, in which several characters are eaten by monsters.
• The Edge, in which a character is eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
• Ghoulies II, in which a clown has his arm eaten by a Ghoulie, and a man had his buttocks devoured by a Ghoulie.
• Hannibal, in which three characters are eaten by boars (two eaten alive, one already dead). In addition, a character has the top of his head removed and is fed a portion of his frontal lobe, the remainder of his brains being used by Hannibal Lecter to make a packed lunch.
• Haunted Boat, in which a character is presumably eaten by a shark.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which Mola Ram and many of his henchmen are eaten by crocodiles.
• Into the Blue, in which Amanda has her thigh bitten nearly in two by a large shark. She dies shortly thereafter in a hospital.
• The Jaws series, in which many characters are eaten by sharks.
• The Jurassic Park series, in which several characters are eaten by dinosaurs.
• Meat Market, in which many people are torn apart and eaten by zombies.
• Meat Market 2, in which even more people are eaten by zombies.
• The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, many people are killed and eaten by scarab Beatles.
• Living Dead series in which numerous characters are eaten by zombies.
• Pitch Black, in which bounty hunter Johns has his head bitten off by a winged creature.
• Razorback, numerous people are eaten by a giant razorback boar in the Australian outback.
• Redneck Zombies, in which the 'sons of the dirt' go on a rampage, often eating their victims.
• Resident Evil films, in which numerous people are eaten by zombies and monsters. In one notable scene, a guy is eaten by a mutated zombie, spreading a lot of blood everywhere
• Return of the Living Dead films, in which people get their brains eaten by the Trioxin zombies.
• See No Evil, in which a vegetarian teenager (suspended from a firehose bungee while trying to escape from the killer) is devoured by a pack of feral dogs.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which one of the characters is torn open and eaten by zombies.
• Sin City, in which one of the characters has his arms and legs cut off and is eaten by a dog.
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, in which two characters are fed to Jabba the Hutt's Rancor, and several of his guards die later when consumed by the Sarlacc.
• Tremors, in which several people are sucked underground and are eaten by giant, sightless worms known as "graboids".
• TerrorVision, in which Grampa Putterman is eaten by an alien in a living room.
• The Thing, in which characters are swallowed by a shape-shifting alien.
• Thunderball, in which one of Largo's henchmen (while fighting with James Bond in a pool) is eaten by sharks.
• The Spy Who Loved Me, in which villain Karl Stromberg feeds his disloyal assistant to a conveniently located shark.
• Suddenly, Last Summer, in which a character is eaten by Italian teenagers.
• The Vikings, in which a Viking leader is thrown into wolfpit.
• The Uncanny, in the final sequence Peter Cushing is attacked and eaten by a pack of cats.
• You Only Live Twice, in which two people are eaten by piranhas.
• Zombi 2, in which victims of the zombies are graphically eaten.

[edit] Death from decapitation

• 300, in which one of the spartan's head it cut off with a sword by a Persian on horseback.
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which a character is decapitated with a sword while speaking. The severed head flies through the air, lands several feet away, finishes the sentence and dies.
• Audition, in which Asami kills her abusive ballet teacher by wrapping a piece of piano wire around his neck and pulling hard on opposite ends.
• Battle Royale, in which a student is decapitated with a sword by the main villain, who then stuffs a grenade in the victim's mouth to use as a bomb.
• The Beast Within, in which a man has his head ripped off by a transformed teenager.
• Black Christmas, in which the girls find Eve decapitated in her car. Later they show Eve's head on top of the Christmas tree.
• Black Rain, featuring a drive-by beheading by a Yakuza lieutenant.
• Blade, in which the hero kills a henchman with a thin wire.
• Braveheart, in which William Wallace's head is cut off by an executioner. Wallace himself also slices the head off an English Army officer in battle.
• Caligula, in which several prisoners of Caligula are buried to their necks in the floor of an arena and a giant machine with spinning blades clips them off.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which a woman is beheaded after being gang raped
• Conan the Barbarian, in which Thulsa Doom decapitates Conan's mother in front of him. Conan later decapitates Thulsa Doom and throws his head down a flight of stairs.
• Cube 2: Hypercube, in which the detective's head is detached by an abruptly growing piece of cylinder glyph.
• Dawn of the Dead, (partial), featuring the top of a zombie's head cut off by helicopter rotor.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which various zombie heads are splattered by a truck backing up down a ramp.
• The Dead Next Door, in which a man from a zombie squad cuts off the head of a zombie with his machete.
• Dead Alive, in which a nurse's head is partially ripped off by a zombie, leaving her throat fully exposed.
• Deadly Friend, in which an elderly woman is decapitated by a basketball; the headless body walks several feet before collapsing.
• Dementia 13, in which a hunter is beheaded by an axe.
• Demon Seed, in which a man is surrounded by a geometric device and decapitated.
• Doom, When an agents head is knocked off by a monster, splashing blood everywhere.
• Evil Dead II, in which Ash uses a shovel to cut off his zombie-girlfriend's head, which is seen flying in slow-motion. Later he decapitates another zombie with a chainsaw and blows it up with a shotgun.
• Final Destination, in which Billy Hitchcock (Seann William Scott) is decapitated at the mouth by flying debris, following an auto/train accident.
• Final Destination 2, in which a character gets her head stuck in an elevator door which then goes up, decapitating her in the process.
• Final Destination 3, in which a character has the back side of his head ripped off by an engine blade.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job, in which Klaus loses his head.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which Jason severs a character's head with his machete. Later, Freddy survives being decapitated himself.
• Friday the 13th, in which killer Mrs. Voorhees has her own machete used against her.
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, in which Junior is decapitated by a cleaver while riding around the house on his motorcycle.
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, featuring a triple decapitation of three paintball players with a machete. Later, Jason twists a character's head all the way around and then tears it off.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Julius duels Jason in an epic fist fight, dealing a devastating series of blows in a combo until Jason responds by taking one punch, knocking Julius' head off as it rolls across multiple rooftops and finally into a dumpster which closes promptly after.
• From Dusk Till Dawn has four occurrences of decapitation. One isn't witnessed, only the head is seen rolling about during the feeding frenzy. The character Sex Machine is decapitated by Seth Gecko when he becomes a vampire by tying the former's bullwhip round his neck and pulling it off. The remaining two are not in the film at all. They are deleted scenes where a biker has his head eaten by a gremlin-like vampire with a mouth in her stomach and one where Salma Hayek's character kills a man when a huge monster-snake erupts out of her mouth promptly biting his head off in a gory explosion.
• Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, in which the renegade gynoids' preferred method of killing people is by kicking a human being's head off. This tactic is used against two police officers early in the film, as well as against the Locus Solus security forces on the factory ship.
• Ghost Ship, (partial) in which a wire cuts through the ballroom floor, after which a female character watches the top part of the captain's head slide off onto the floor.
• Ghosts of Mars, in which a female police soldier is decapitated by a flying disc.
• Gladiator, featuring the decapitation of a number of enemy fighters.
• Glory, in which a soldier is decapitated by a cannonball in the battle at Antietam.
• Godzilla Final Wars, Gigan is decapitated twice, the second time was not fatal.
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, in which Michael Myers is decapitated by an axe in the end.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers cuts off a teen's head at the top of the stairs while her friends think its a joke.
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II, in which the top of a Cenobite's head is torn off by the large tentacle attached to it.
• Highlander, featuring multiple decapitations of characters who would not be The One.
• High Tension, in which Alex's father is decapitated by a bookcase.
• Hot Fuzz, in which two characters are decapitated with an axe.
• House of Wax, in which Dalton is decapitated twice, once when he is alive, and once when he is dead (after he is decapitated the first time, Vincent puts his head back on with some type of metal contraption).
• Ichi the Killer (partial), in which a character loses face...literally.
• Jeepers Creepers, in which a male officer is pulled through the roof of the police car and is decapitated by the Creeper's huge axe (also, the Creeper later eats his tongue from the head as the two main characters watch in horror).
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which the villain at the end is killed by decapitation with its own razor-sharp whip.
• The Incredible Melting Man, in which a Bill Gates look-alike has his head ripped off by the melting man.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which a character is beheaded by giant blades, causing his head to roll along the ground. Several heads are also shown on the ground from previous decapitations.
• Kill Bill, in which a Japanese mob boss loses his head; O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) is also partially decapitated.
• Land of the Dead, in which a zombie attacking the main character is thrown into and decapitated by a closing metal door. Also, when the zombies take over the city, a soldier is shown having his head pulled off, along with his entire spinal column.
• The Lift, in which a security guard has his head trapped by lift doors while the lift car stopped at the next level above descends slowly until his head is severed, whereupon the lift doors close
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, in which Aragorn slashes an Orc named Lurtz's head off. Earlier, he beheads another Orc during a fight in Moria.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, in which Aragorn decapitates a Warg rider while fighting alongside the Rohirrim.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition), in which Aragorn beheads the Mouth of Sauron at the Black Gate of Mordor.
• Lost Highway (partial) in which a character falls forehead-first onto the edge a glass coffee table.
• Kingdom of Heaven, featuring the decapitation of a Saracen pilgrim, later a Saracen messenger, and finally Raynald de Chatillon.
• Master of the Flying Guillotine, throughout which a martial artist is using an exotic weapon to decapitate his foes.
• Marked for Death, in which the villain is decapitated by a sword-wielding Steven Seagal.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which Sir Bors has his head bitten off by the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
• Mortal Kombat (partial), in which the character Scorpion has a portion of his head sliced off before exploding.
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, in which the character Jade has her head eaten by a demon.
• Motel Hell, in which multiple victims are buried up to their necks in a garden, forced fed to fatten them up, and then have their heads removed by rope and tractor.
• Nekromantik, in which a man's head is partially severed by a shovel.
• The Omen (1976 film) , in which a man is decapitated by a piece of sheet glass which slides into him.
• The Omen (2006 film), in which a man is decapitated by a swinging ladder whilst trying to get holy knives.
• One Missed Call, in which an unseen force first twists a girl Natsumi's arm around many times, clearly breaking it at many places, then turns her head around and around until it completely tears off and falls to the floor, after which her body walks around dazed for a few seconds and then also falls to the floor.
• Pathfinders, in which Phil Hacksor gets decapitated by a jinxed branch.
• The Patriot (2000 film), in which an American revolutionary soldier is decapitated by a cannonball.
• Prom Night, in which a character is decapitated with an axe.
• Python, in which a woman is decapitated in her basement by the giant snake's tail.
• Ran, in which the beheaded body of Lady Sue is found in the grass, and the beheading of Lady Kaede with a katana.
• Re-Animator, in which a character is decapitated only to be resurrected as a bodiless head.
• Resident Evil, in which a soldier's nurse is decapitated by a laser beam.
• Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, in which a Hybratech security guard has his head ripped off by escaping zombies while shooting them with a shotgun.
• Rose Red, in which a falling pane of glass decapitates a construction worker.
• Scarface (1983 film), in which a chainsaw is misused in the shower.
• Seed of Chucky, in which a character is decapitated very graphically.
• Sin City, in which Miho decapitates one of Jackie Boy's buddies.
• Sleepaway Camp, in which a character is decapitated at the end of the film.
• Sleepy Hollow, in which many different characters lose their heads.
• Speed, in which a mad bomber, while on top of a moving subway train, has his head forced up into the path of a hanging light that decapitates him.
• Stargate, in which Col. Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) kills an alien Serpent Guard by forcing its head into a teleportation device and activating it without the rest of the body inside.
• Starship Troopers, in which several soldiers lose their heads from the sharp wings of flying "Bugs".
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, in the Battle of Geonosis, Jango Fett's head is removed in battle with Mace Windu.
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which Anakin Skywalker uses two lightsabers to remove Count Dooku's head. Obi-wan and Yoda behead a few clones, and Darth Vader beheads a few members of the Separatists.
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in which Luke Skywalker beheads an apparition taking the form of his father Darth Vader
• The 13th Warrior, featuring various decapitations.
• Theatre of Blood, in which Arthur Lowe's head ends up on a milk bottle.
• Thriller - en grym film, in which the villain has his head torn off by a noose tied to a horse's reins.
• Thursday, in which Casey pulls Nick's head out of a bag.
• Tromeo and Juliet, in which Tyrone Capulet is hit by a ladder hanging out of a car, whereupon his arm is ripped off, and then he hits the back of a truck and is decapitated, his head flying into the air and causing the car crash of a happy family driving by.
• Wedlock, in which a prisoner's head is blown off by an exploding collar designed to prevent prisoners from escaping.
• Wild Wild West, in which a scientist is killed by a flying saw blade attracted to the magnetic collar he is forced to wear.
• Wild Zero, in which zombie heads (living-dead) explode frequently. (A drinking game is associated with taking a drink every time this happens.)
• Windtalkers, in which Sgt. Anderson's head is removed by a Japanese soldier wielding a katana blade.
• Wrong Turn, in which Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is decapitated at the mouth with an axe.

[edit] Death from decompression or over-pressure

• Blade, in which Blade injects a vial of his serum into two enemy vampires, building enough pressure in the blood stream to cause their entire bodies to burst.
• The Core, in which a scientist is killed when the compartment of the ship he's travelling on crushes due to extreme pressure within the Earth's core.
• Deepstar Six, in which a character ascends from the ocean floor too rapidly in a bathysphere, causing fatal decompression.
• Licence to Kill, in which a character is locked into a recompression chamber and explodes when the pressure conduit is axed.
• Mission to Mars, in which an astronaut removes his helmet in space.
• Men Behind The Sun, in which an experiment subject in a hyperbaric chamber is exposed to such intense atmospheric pressure that his intestines squirt from his anus.
• Outland, in which various characters suffer from explosive decompression from exposure to vacuum of space.
• Project: Shadowchaser 3000, in which a wheelchair-bound character is forcibly locked inside an air decompression chamber on a space station.
• The Ring Two, Aiden (who is possessed by Samara Morgan) uses his mentally profound psychic powers to force a mental-help doctor to commit suicide by injecting a syringe filled with air directly into her neck.
• Total Recall, in which Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox) dies from lack of air/decompression in the thin atmosphere of Mars.
• The Omen, in which Damien injects a syringe filled with air into his baby sitter.

[edit] Death by desiccation and/or disintegration

• The American Astronaut, in which Professor Hess kills without reason using a gun that turns people into sand.
• Blade, in which vampires disintegrate into dust when killed with a silver object.
• Constantine, in which Balthasar's crumbled body is scattered by Gabriel's breath.
• The Evil Dead, in which Ash's possessed friends begin to disintegrate after Ash burns the Book of the Dead.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, in which Harry touches Quirrell, who then turns to dust and crumbles.
• Hellboy, in which an explosion knocks a Nazi scientist against an energy field. His flesh disintegrates, and then what's left of his body is absorbed into the energy field.
• Hellraiser: Bloodline, in which a demon dog is trapped in a depressurizing room and explodes.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Walter Donovan drinks out of a decoy Holy Grail, ages several hundred years in a few seconds and turns to dust.
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), in which a woman's body collapses into itself after it has been duplicated by an alien pod.
• Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, in which several orphenochs, humans and other characters disintegrate or crumble to ashes on death.
• Land of the Little People, in which a giant turns to dust after being defeated. Later, the same giant falls to the ground after a second defeat and shatters into herds of some indiscernible creatures.
• The Lawnmower Man, in which Jobe uses his telekinetic powers to disintegrate several people.
• Jason X A girl is sucked out of the spaceship through a tiny hole that Jason punched through the wall. Jason also smashes a woman's head into pieces after it is frozen.
• Mars Attacks!, in which many humans (including Jack Black's character and all of Congress) are disintegrated by the Martians' red and green death rays.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture, in which two people are killed by a malfunctioning transporter. The crews of three Klingon Birds of Prey and a Starfleet monitoring station are disintegrated by the V'ger cloud's plasma weapons. About halfway through the film, Lieutenant Ilia is disintegrated by an energy-based probe invading the USS Enterprise.
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in which two people (one self-inflicted) disintegrate via a phaser weapon set to vaporize.
• Star Trek: Nemesis, in which the entire Romulan senate is assassinated by thalaron radiation, which causes them to turn to ashes and crumble away.
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which the villain, composed of a burlap sack filled with insects, is unravelled and the insects fall away.
• Van Helsing, in which Dracula (as well as his three brides) disintegrate after Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) finishes with them.
• War of the Worlds (2005 version), in which hundreds of humans are turned to ash by the heat-ray of an alien tripod.
• Wizard of Oz, in which the wicked witch of the west disintegrates when Dorothy pours water on her.
• X-Men: The Last Stand, in which Jean Grey's alter-ego, the Phoenix, kills Professor X, numerous soldiers and mutants, and it is also implied for Cyclops (off-screen) via telekinetic disintegration.

[edit] Death by exploding head

• Bad Taste, in which an Alien in human form, is shot in the head causing half of it to explode off.
• Big Trouble in Little China, in which one of the storm gods becomes enraged after finding Lao Pan dead, his head swells to an enormous size before exploding.
• Child's Play 2, where, in the end, Chucky's head explodes after a loose air hose is shoved into his mouth.
• Chopping Mall has a scene in which a teenager is shot by a security robot's laser, causing her head to explode.
• Cube Zero, in which a man's body and head explode from sonic energy.
• Dawn of the Dead (1978), in which a man's head is blown off violently with a shotgun. Similar things happen in the remake.
• Dogma, Ben Afleck's head explodes when he becomes mortal and is exposed to the power of God's voice.
• Fist of the North Star, in which numerous fighters are killed by Kenshiro after he strikes pressure points on their bodies, causing their heads to explode.
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, in which Michael Myers kills a man by holding him up to electric wires and electrocuting him until the point where his head explodes and blood and brains are sprayed everywhere.
• Leonard Part 6, in which a vegetarian's head explodes after taking a bite of a "magic" sausage.
• Mars Attacks!, where the aliens' heads explode when listening to yodeling music.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark features a scene of Belloq's head exploding after looking at the opened Ark of the Covenant. In order to secure a PG rating, the gory explosion had to be covered by flames.
• The Running Man, in which a prisoner's head explodes after a restraint collar detonates during a jailbreak.
• Saw 3, in which a doctor has a "shotgun collar" (collar with shotgun shells attached) strapped around her neck which blows her head away.
• Scanners, which features an infamous scene in which a man's head explodes due to a Scanner's mind powers.
• Spy Hard, in which "Weird Al" Yankovic's head explodes while holding a very long note during the opening theme song.
• Tears of the Black Tiger, in which a police informant named Somjit is shot by gang leader Fai (Sombat Metanee). The bullet must pass through a hole in a coin, which Fai flipped into the air. The bullet break the coin and goes into Somjit's brain, and his head then explodes.
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny shows a man's head exploding due to the power of a note Jack Black holds during a song.
• Maniac, in which a man sitting in a car gets his head blown up by a shotgun to the face.

[edit] Death from explosion

• The 51st State, in which The Lizard (Meat Loaf) explodes after drinking an explosive cocktail.
• Bad Boys 2 in which the main villain is shot in the head and his body falls on a mine, blowing his arms, torso and head into pieces.
• Battle Royale, in which the main villain is killed when the control collar placed on his neck is detonated (after a shotgun blast). Earlier on in the film, another character is killed in the same manner when his collar is detonated via a remote control.
• Battle Royale II: Requiem, in which a student is killed when the control collar placed on her neck explodes.
• Black Hawk Down, in which one of the soldiers has his lower abdomen blown off by an RPG.
• Death Wish 3, in which Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) obliterates the main villain with a mail-ordered M72 LAW rocket launcher.
• Event Horizon, in which Sean Pertwee's character searches for a bomb and finds it with only four seconds remaining.
• Executioners, In which Michelle Yeoh's character, after being shot with an explosive crossbow bolt which doesn't detonate, grabs the bolt and detonates it, heroically blowing herself to pieces and taking the villain's arm with her.
• A Fistful of Dynamite, in which one of the bandits didn't know about the short fuse.
• Heathers, Christian Slater's character commits suicide in the final scene by detonating the explosives he has strapped around his waist.
• Flesh & Blood, in which a bomb made from a wine barrel explodes too soon after the fuse is lit, killing the soldier who was placing it.
• Ghost in the Shell, in which a camouflaged Major Kusanagi shoots delayed action explosive rounds into a foreign official's body. Several seconds later the rounds detonate, splattering the official's innards all over the room.
• Godzilla final wars, gigan gets killed when mothra blows up, but mothra survives in the credits.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character falls upon and activates a naval mine.
• Land of the Dead, in which a soldier, while attempting to prime and throw a grenade, has his throwing hand hacked off by a zombie. The grenade falls to the ground, and the soldier, coiling in pain, falls on it.
• Letters from Iwo Jima, in which many Japanese soldiers commit suicide by holding activated grenades close to their body.
• Live and Let Die, in which, during an underwater fight, James Bond places a compressed air bullet into the villain's mouth, causing him to inflate like a balloon, float up to the ceiling and burst.
• The Lost Boys, in which a vampire is pinned to a stereo system by an arrow & explodes from electrocution.
• Man on Fire, in which C4 is improperly placed inside the rectum of an individual and ultimately detonated.
• The Naked Gun, where a suspect, chased by Frank Drebin, crashes into a fireworks store while riding a missile.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, in which a pirate (in skeleton form) has a stick of dynamite inserted into his ribcage and is then pushed out of the moonlight, causing him to take human form and thereby sealing the dynamite inside him.
• The Punisher, where the Punisher chains the main villain to a car, next he places a satchel charge on the car, and sends it rolling into the parking lot full of cars. He casually walks away and pushes the charge button, and sends all the cars around the main villain into fiery explosions and roasting him in the process. The main villain dies screaming as the car drags him across the pavement, into a fire, before exploding.
• Raising Arizona, in which the hell-biker dies when he can't get an activated hand-grenade from his vest after a character pulls the pin.
• Saving Private Ryan, in which a soldier waits too long to insert a sticky bomb into a tank's track.
• Saw 3, in which a bomb goes off in a room which kills Troy as he tries to get the last chain out of his mandible.
• Scream 3, in which a character lights a lighter to read a fax from the killer. The lighter sets off a gas explosion, exploding Jennifer's entire house, and the character that was in it.
• Swordfish, in which two hostages are blown to smithereens by explosive belts.
• Tears of the Black Tiger, in which a policeman is struck by a rocket propelled grenade and pinned against a wall.
• The Thin Red Line, in which Woody Harrelson's character grabs a grenade by the pin during action and dives on it to save his battalion.
• The Thing, in which Crazed Norwegian foolishly fumbles a grenade, then panics around looking for it in the snow, detonating himself and his helicopter.
• Underworld: Evolution, in which a character is stabbed by his own son, then denotates the ship with him on it.
• Vertical Limit, in which several characters die from dropping, exposing to sunlight, or otherwise improperly caring for canisters of nitroglycerin.
• A View to a Kill, in which one of the criminals accidentally drops a lit explosive while in an airship, and cannot retrieve it before it explodes.
• Videodrome, in which, in an attempt to reprogram Max Renn via his chest slit, Harlan's hand has been transformed into a "hand grenade", which explodes and kills Harlan.
• Wanted: Dead or Alive, in which Gene Simmons character head explodes after Rutger Hauer pulls the pin on a grenade stuck in his mouth.

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[edit] Death by fluid extraction

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, in which Vincent Price's insane physician dispatches a victim by hypnotizing him, then draining his blood, pint by pint.
• Dr. Giggles, in which the Doc puts a sucking tube with blades down a patient's mouth filling a bowl with blood, etc.
• Exorcist III, in which a patient in the hospital has all his blood drained into Dixie cups lined up neatly next to his bed.
• Halloween II, in which Michael Myers puts an arm pump around a nurse's arm in a hospital and cuts a tiny hole under the pump. Later, victims running from Michael enter the room, and a man slips on the blood from the drained and lifeless nurse.
• Interview with the Vampire, in which various minor characters have their blood drained by vampires.
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space, in which various characters have bodily fluids sucked out by sippy straws.
• Tank Girl, in which characters have all water from their body extracted.
• The Thing From Another World, in which two scientists are hung upside-down with their throats cut so their blood will be food for the monster's offspring.
• The Tuxedo, in which Peter Stormare's character tests his bioweapon on an underling. This deadly bacteria completely dehydrates the man within seconds, leaving him a brittle and dried-out corpse. The main villain also dies this way.

[edit] Death by freezing

• Alien: Resurrection, in which a soldier is frozen to a wall by icy vapors.
• Airborne (1998). in which a man is frozen to death by liquid nitrogen venting from a ruptured pipe in a plant. His legs freeze first, snapping off at the knees and toppling him to the floor, where the rest of his body quickly succumbs.
• The Day After Tomorrow, in which a helicopter pilot freezes solid in seconds upon contact with supercooled air in the eye of a hurricane.
• Decoys, in which young men are seduced and then frozen from the inside out by female extra-terrestrials (an inevitable consequence of mating).
• Demolition Man, in which Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) is frozen by liquid nitrogen, then has his head kicked off by John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), which then shatters when hitting the ground.
• Flushed Away, in which Toad and Le Frog are sucked up into a gear shaft by the tongue, and are promptly frozen solid by liquid nitrogen, before being destroyed in the machine's explosion.
• GoldenEye, in which Boris Grishenko is frozen by exploding tanks of liquid nitrogen.
• Godzilla vs Destroyah, in which Destroyah get killed by freezing lazers.
• Identity, in which a man is found frozen inside a freezer and falls out, dead.
• Jason X, in which Jason grabs the victims hair and submerges her face into a vat of liquid nitrogen, then slams her face onto the table, shattering it into pieces.
• Mindhunters, in which a character gets blasted by a ruptured tank of liquid nitrogen, and then falls and breaks into many pieces.
• Mortal Kombat, in which a combatant is frozen in mid-air by Sub-Zero's Ice Blast, then shatters. Later, when Sub-Zero attempts to use this same ability during a fight with Liu Kang, Kang throws a bucket of water at him; the end result is an icicle that impales Sub-Zero and freezes him, presumably to death.
• Saw 3, in which Danica freezes to death in the "Ice Shower."
• The Shining, in which Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) freezes to death in the end.

[edit] Death by excessive and/or graphic gunfire

• American Beauty, in which Lester Burnham is killed by a gunshot to the back of the head.
• Akira, featuring multiple instances, including a revolutionary shooting a police dog, the same revolutionary being pulped by automatic weapons fire from riot police, Kei shooting a police officer in the face in order to save herself and Kaneda, a tunnel infiltrator being mowed down by a vulcan cannon-armed flying platform, leaving only his arm holding a submachinegun, and rioters being hit with a laser rifle.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film), featuring multiple instances, including a little girl shot in the chest by a gang member and numerous gang members cut down by shotgun fire.
• Band of Brothers, featuring many scenes in which soldiers are shot and killed.
• Battle Royale, featuring multiple instances, the most notable ones being two schoolgirls being machinegunned by an ambushing character, killing one outright, and then finishing off the mortally wounded survivor with another burst, and a gunfight where a character's head is blown off when his explosive collar is set off with a shotgun blast.
• The Beyond, in which a possessed girl's head is blown through with a pistol shot.
• Black Mask, featuring various gruesome deaths by gunfire in martial arts style.
• Blade Runner, in which the replicant Leon is shot from behind and in the head, forming a large exit wound in his forehead.
• Bad Boys 2, in which the main villain is shot in the forehead, then subsequently falls onto a live minefield, destroying his entire upper body.
• Blue Velvet, in which Jeffrey Beaumont discovers in Dorothy's apartment the bodies of Dorothy's husband and the corrupt police detective Tom Gordon. Dorothy's husband is without an ear, bound and shot in the head. Gordon continues to stand even though he's dead. Jeffrey later ambushes Frank Booth, shooting him in the head, leaving a mess of brains.
• Bonnie and Clyde, in which the titular characters perish in a spectacular hail of bullets.
• Boogie Nights, in which Little Bill shoots himself after shooting (off-screen) his wife and another man. Later, Buck Swope walks into an armed robbery in which the robber, the counter clerk and a bystander kill one another. Also, during Todd's attempt to rob Rahad Jackson, Rahad shoots Todd in the chest with a shotgun.
• Brazil,In which Jack is shot in the head while wearing a baby mask, he removes the mask, which reveals a gaping wound.
• Cannibal Holocaust, which features several scenes consisting of stock footage of real firing squad executions in a third world African country.
• Chinatown, in which a woman is shot in the back of the head while driving. When the car door is opened, a gaping bullet exit wound is revealed where her eye socket had been.
• Constantine, in which John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) explodes multiple assailants using a shotgun.
• Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), featuring (in particular) the "Ghetto Holocaust" scene, in which SWAT member Wooley blows off the head of a housing project resident with an SPAS shotgun.
• The Deer Hunter, in which one character loses while playing Russian Roulette with the Viet Cong.
• The Departed, in which Mr. French shoots himself from under the chin before his car explodes. Also, many characters are murdered by gunshots to the head nearing the movie's end.
• The Devil's Advocate, in which Keanu Reeves' character shoots himself in the head.
• The Devil's Rejects, in which multiple characters are killed by gunfire.
• Dog Day Afternoon, in which John Cazale's character is shot in the forehead while attempting to board his plane.
• The Dirty Dozen, in which everyone dies of gunfire except two Nazi soldiers who are clubbed to death and one admiral, who is stabbed in the back.
• End of Evangelion, in which various characters are shot by the JSSDF, a few JSSDF agents are shot by Misato Katsuragi, and Ritsuko Akagi is shot by Gendo Ikari.
• Epic Movie, in which Mr. Tumnus is shot repeatedly by Silas while trying to stop his own heroic last stand.
• The Executioner's Song, in which Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad.
• Fargo, in which a state trooper is shot through the top of his head.
• Fight Club, in which Robert Paulsen is unmasked, revealing he's been shot in the head.
• The Frighteners, in which special agent Milton Dammers' head is blown to chunks by a shotgun shell, leaving a ghost behind.
• Full Metal Jacket, in which various, but with notable deaths being the murder of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and suicide of Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence, who puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself, and a scene later in the film, where a sniper almost eliminates a Marine squad by putting them in a "honey pot" situation.
• The Godfather, featuring multiple instances, the most notable being Sonny Corleone's demise from a fusillade fired by Tommy gun-wielding hitmen at a tollbooth on the New Jersey turnpike. One hundred forty-seven squibs, a record number at the time, were placed on James Caan's body to simulate being hit by multiple bursts of automatic weapons fire.
• Goodfellas, in which Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) gets shot in the back of the head.
• Hamburger Hill, in which American soldiers are hit by friendly artillery fire and a Viet Cong guerrilla suffers from a M60 machinegun burst at point blank range to the face.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which a gas station attendant commits suicide by taking a shotgun to his chin and blowing his brains out. Also, Lizard shoots Ethel in the chest and Lynne graphically in the head.
• Jarhead, in which an anonymous Marine is shot through the helmet during training with live gunfire.
• JFK, in which John F. Kennedy is assassinated. The footage of the assassination shown in this film comes mostly from the Zapruder Film.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1, in which first a man's shin is blown apart and then he is shot again, in the head
• Kiss the Girls, in which Dr. Alex Cross shoots Casanova in a room full of natural gas by shooting through a milk carton that covers the muzzle flare of the shot.
• Last House on the Left, in which Mari (Sandra Cassell) is shot in the head by Krug (David Hess). Later, Krug's son is forced to shoot himself through the mouth.
• Left Behind, in which Joshua Todd-Cothran and Jonathan Stonagal are shot in the head by Nicolae Carpathia during a UN meeting.
• Memento, in which the opening scene of a man being shot in the head runs in reverse.
• Miami Vice, in which two undercover agents are torn apart inside their vehicles by high calibre guns.
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico, in which nearly all characters are killed by gunfire. In one scene, a character is shot once in each kneecap with a sawn-off shotgun, exposing both knee joints.
• The Outsiders, in which Dally is shot to his death by the police after threatening them with his gun, which wasn't even loaded. :(
• The Proposition, in which a tribesman is partly decapitated by rifle fire.
• Pulp Fiction, featuring (amongst others) Vincent accidentally discharging his pistol into Marvin's face, covering the rear windshield and the interior with blood and brain matter and leaving unrecognizable gore in Jules' hair.
• RoboCop, in which a hapless OCP executive is shot repeatedly by the ED-209 during a botched demonstration. Alex Murphy is also felled with multiple shotgun blasts, one which destroys his right hand and severs his right arm.
• Saving Private Ryan, featuring various gruesome deaths by gunfire during World War 2.
• Saw, in which Detective Sing steps on a tripwire connected to a shotgun which blows his head off.
• Saw 2, (See ocular trauma below).
• Saw 3, in which Jeff reaches for a key with a chain connected to a shotgun which blows not Jeff, but Judge Halden in the side of his head. Later, Amanda shot in the neck by Jeff.
• Scream, in which Billy Loomis is shot in the head, showing a huge bullet hole.
• Scream 2, featuring three instances: Derek hangs from a fake cross and is shot in the chest by Mickey, Mickey is shot around 17 times by Gale and Sidney (also earlier by Mrs. Loomis), and Mrs. Loomis is shot in the neck by Cotton and again in the head by Sidney.
• Scarface (1983 film), many instances, most notable when Tony Montana is shot numerous times by machine guns, but still keeps fighting until he's shot in the back by a sawed-off shotgun.
• Starship Troopers, in which a Federation soldier is shot in the head during a live-fire training exercise.
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, when Order 66 is carried out, Ki Adi Mundi, Aayla Secura and other Jedi Masters around the galaxy are shot dead by the Clone Troopers under their command. On Coruscant, hundreds more Jedi are gunned down as Darth Vader and the 501st Legion launch a massive raid on the Jedi Temple.
• Suicide Circle, in which Detective Kuroda, after his family commits suicide, quickly puts his handgun into his mouth and pulls the trigger.
• Tears of the Black Tiger, featuring many deaths by excessive gunfire in the film.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which a police officer and a gangster are both shot by Sheriff Hoyt.
• The Thing, in which MacReady shoots Clark in the head.

[edit] Death from immersion or falling into a molten substance

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, in which a henchman falls into liquid hot magma.
• King Solomon's Mines, in which several villains get incinerated by fallin into a hot lava pool.
• Crack in the World, in which an engineer falls into molten lava.
• Death Wish V: The Face of Death, in which Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) kills the main villain by pushing him into a vat of chemicals.
• Halloween II, in which Michael Myers scalds a nurse's face by submerging it over and over again in a scalding water in a hot tub.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which a man is lowered into lava where he is burned alive while his heart simultaneously combusts in Mola Ram's hand, a scene some credit for causing the creation of the PG-13 rating.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in which Gollum falls into molten lava in the Crack of Doom.
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, in which Klingon Commander Kruge (Played by Christopher Lloyd) falls from a cliff into an emergent volcano on the geologically unstable Genesis Planet following hand to hand combat with Admiral James T. Kirk.
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day, in which the T-1000 plunges into a vat of molten metal and slowly melts.
• Volcano, in which a rescue worker saves a life by jumping into lava and throwing the man he was carrying into the arms of other workers as he melts.

[edit] Death from impact with a blunt object

• Army Of Darkness in which an Oldsmobile, with careful modification, is given a large set of rotating blades which are used to smash a large group of zombiefied "Deadites".
• Casino depicts brothers Nicky and Dominique Santoro brutally beaten to death with baseball bats by fellow mafioso friends.
• Braveheart, in which several people are killed with a war hammer and one is killed with a flail.
• Children of Men, in which Theo kills a man by hitting him in the face with a car battery.
• Conan the Barbarian, in which the character Thorgrim smashes several people with a heavy war hammer.
• Deep Cover, in which a drug dealer is beaten to death with a pool cue.
• Demon Knight, in which the Collector smashes his fist through the head of a state trooper.
• End of Days, in which Satan (in the guise of a priest) punches his fist through a subordinate's head.
• Escape From New York, in which Snake Plissken kills an opponent in a death match with a baseball bat studded with nails.
• F/X, in which Rollie Tyler kills an assassin with a steam iron.
• Final Destination, in which the antagonist gets hit with a falling billboard sign.
• Final Destination 2, in which a wooden log that falls off a truck during a dream sequence smashes through Officer Burke's windshield and 'splatters' his head.
• Fried Green Tomatoes, in which kidnapper Frank Bennett is killed by black house servant Sipsey with a blow to the head from a frying pan.
• Gangs of New York, in which several people are killed by Monk who wields a shillelagh. Monk is later killed with his own weapon. Also, Priest Vallen is seen beating many natives to death with a stone crucifix before dying.
• Gladiator, in which the head of a slave is hit by a swinging warhammer just after entering the arena.
• Grosse Pointe Blank, in which Martin Blank smashes a television over Grocer's head.
• The Haunting (1999), in which Owen Wilson's character is decapitated by a heavy swinging lion's head sculpture.
• Heavenly Creatures, in which Honora Parker is continually smashed into the head with a half brick in a stocking, by her daughter Pauline Parker, and her daughter's best friend Juliette Hulme.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character is beaten over the head with a blunt object. His house is then blown up, causing the body to fly out.
• Irréversible, in which a man's face is repeatedly smashed by another man wielding a fire extinguisher.
• Land of the Dead, in which Cholo beats to death a suicidal zombie with a metal spike and crushes his skull.
• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, in which a woman is killed in the opening scene by a sledgehammer to the face. A man is later killed by a swinging sledgehammer while hanging upside-down in the Sawyer family's kitchen.
• Maximum Overdrive, in which a Little League baseball coach is hit in the head with a soda can shot from a "rebelling" vending machine. Another character dies when a truck hits him head-on.
• Platoon, in which Sergeant Barnes kills several men with an Army-issue shovel. Earlier, Bunny kills a Vietnamese villager with the butt of his shotgun.
• Rocky IV, in which Apollo Creed is killed by a vicious punch from Ivan Drago that breaks his neck.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 film), in which Leatherface kills two hapless teenagers with hammer blows to the head.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), in which Kemper is hit in the back of the head with a sledgehammer by Leatherface.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, in which L.G. McPeters has his skull crushed in with a ball peen hammer.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which a man is hit several times with a sledgehammer by Leatherface.
• The Untouchables, in which Al Capone beats a man to death with a baseball bat.
• Sin City, featuring multiple instances, most notably John Hartigan punching a character's head until it is crushed.
• Slaughter Disc, in which Andromeda Strange pulps a man's head by repeatedly smashing it with a hammer.
• UHF, in which Mahatma Gandhi punches his fist all the way through a man's torso.
• Valentine, in which one victim is beaten to death with an iron.

[edit] Death by impalement or crucifixion

• 1900, in which Attila (Donald Sutherland) is impaled on a wrought iron fence.
• Apocalypto, in which the main villain, Zero Wolf, gets impaled by a tapir trap.
• Braindead, in which a priest, after dispatching numerous zombies by means of karate, is thrown onto a statue and impaled on its finger.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which the title character impales an enemy on his spear during an early battle sequence.
• Braveheart, in which an English soldier is headbutted and thrown onto a sharpened post.
• Cannibal Ferox, in which a woman is hung by hooks which pierce her breasts.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which an impaled cannibal girl is filmed by the documentarians.
• The Catcher, in which one player is crucified on the pitcher's mound and battered to death by baseballs hurled at him by a pitching machine.
• Con Air, in which Billy Bedlam (Nick Chinlund) gets pushed onto a pipe in the belly of the plane after refusing to put Cameron Poe's (Nicholas Cage) daughters present back in the box.
• Conan the Barbarian, in which Thorgrim is impaled by Conan's trap.
• Charlie Muffin (aka A Deadly Game), in which a character is impaled by a construction machine.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which Ron Jeremy is impaled through the head with a cross.
• Commando, in which the main villain is impaled through his chest by a metal tube. Another thug is killed when he lands on a table leg that impales him through the chest.
• The Core, in which a man is impaled through the head by a large falling amethyst crystal.
• The Crow, in which the villain is pushed off the roof and impaled on a stone gargoyle's horns.
• Cube, in which a character is impaled by another with a broken-off door handle.
• Cyborg, in which the main character is crucified and survives to kill his attacker by stabbing him through the chest with a knife and impaling him on a meat hook.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which a zombie is impaled through the jaw with a broken polo mallet and another zombie is impaled through the eye socket with a fireplace poker.
• Dead Again, in which the bad guy is impaled on a huge pair of scissors.
• Dead Alive, in which a woman is impaled by a mutated zombie's fist through the back of her head and out of her mouth.
• Death Warrant, in which the back of a man's head is impaled by the valve of a pipe.
• Die Another Day, in which Zao is impaled by a falling chandelier.
• The Edge, in which the kodiak bear is impaled by a spear, having landed directly on it.
• End of Days, where a priest is stabbed in the forehead with a crucifix.
• Enter the Dragon, in which the antagonist is impaled on a spear.
• Final Destination 2, in which a young woman is impaled by PVC piping through her head.
• Final Destination 3, in which a girl gets impaled with a flagpole.
• Flash Gordon, in which Ming the Merciless is run through by the spike (antenna?) on the front of the war rocket Ajax. Earlier in the film, Klytus is impaled to death when Flash and Barin gang up on him, and throw him unto a spiked platform.
• Freddy vs. Jason, featuring three instances: Trey is impaled numerous times with a machete and then folded in half, two ravers are double-impaled on a large pipe, and another raver is impaled on a flaming machete.
• Friday the 13th, famously featuring a young Kevin Bacon receiving an arrow forced through his throat.
• Friday the 13th Part 2, where Jeff and Sandra are double-impaled on a spear while having sex.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Chili is impaled with a hot fireplace poker.
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, in which Demon is impaled with a spear through an outhouse wall, and Roy falls from a barn and is impaled on several spikes.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which a character is thrown off a ladder and is impaled on a deck post.
• Ghost, in which a character is gruesomely impaled by falling glass.
• Grosse Pointe Blank, in which Martin kills Felix La PuBelle aka "Sidney Feldman" by puncturing his jugular with a pen.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers lures a woman into a dead end, lifts her up and impales her onto a sharp point sticking out of the wall.
• The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, in which character Peyton Flanders in pushed out of a window and is impaled on the white picket fence.
• Happy Birthday to Me, in which a character is impaled through his palate with a metal shish-kabob skewer.
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II, in which a motocrosser rides into an iron spear which pierces his intestines.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character is stabbed through the neck with a pair of garden shears.
• House of Wax, in which Paris Hilton has an iron pole thrown through her head, then slides down it.
• Identity, in which a character is impaled by a truck and slammed against the wall of a building, impaling him and crushing him at the same time.
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, in which Nancy is impaled with a spear along with Estes' corpse (Estes was also killed by the same weapon shortly before).
• I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, in which PJ falls off a roof and is impaled on a tractor.
• Jason X, in which a soldier is picked up and dropped onto an oversized rock drill, while another is impaled against a swinging girder.
• Jesus Christ Superstar, in which Jesus is crucified.
• Killer Bikini Vampire Girls 3: A New Hope, in which Danny is stabbed through the mouth with a clarinet.
• The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Jesus is crucified.
• Live Wire, in which person falls onto spikes on top of metal fence.
• Lord of the Flies, in which a character is stabbed with several long pointed sticks.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, extended DVD release, in which Saruman falls from his tower and abruptly lands on a spiked wheel. (In the original theatre version, Saruman remains trapped in the tower.)
• The Matrix Revolutions, in which Trinity is impaled with a trio of rebars after crash-landing her ship.
• Midnight Express, in which a guard in the prison is thrown against a wooden coatpeg that plunges into the back of his head.
• Mimic 2, the man-sized cockroach impales most of his victims.
• The Mission, in which a missionary is crucified, and the cross is sent floating head first over a waterfall.
• No Escape, in which an outsider gets impaled by a swinging booby trap and Marek gets impaled by a stake after being knocked off a tower.
• The Omen (1976 film), in which a lightning rod impales a clergyman.
• Once Upon a Time in China, in the second sequel of Once Upon a Time in China, Antagonist Priest Kung is kicked towards a buddha-like statue by Wong Fei Hung and ends up impaled.
• The Passion of the Christ, in which Jesus is crucified.
• Pumpkinhead, in which a man is impaled with a rifle.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which a man is seen after being killed by multiple spikes in a booby-trap.
• Rambo, in which the title character shoots several enemy soldiers with arrows, one through the head.
• The Rock, in which a terrorist is impaled on a pole after being shoved through a window by a rocket.
• Scarecrow Gone Wild, in which one character is impaled with a volleyball net pole, and another impales himself with a crucifix.
• Serenity, in which the pilot Wash is suddenly impaled by a Reaver harpoon seconds after a rocky but successful landing of the Serenity. Also, a minor character is rendered immobile and falls on the killer's sword.
• The Silence of the Lambs, in which a security guard is disemboweled and crucified.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night, in which Denise is picked up and impaled on a hanging pair of deer antlers.
• Snakes On a Plane, in which a man is impaled through the ear with a high-heeled shoe after falling and being trampled by the passengers running to the back of the plane.
• Spartacus, in which Spartacus and his followers are crucified.
• Spider-Man, in which the Green Goblin is impaled by his own glider.
• Star Trek: Nemesis, in which the villain is impaled by a length of steel molding.
• Strange Things Happen At Sundown, in which a man is impaled with an 8 foot stake.
• Sudden Impact, in which the antagonist is impaled on the horn of a carousel unicorn.
• Tales from the Hood, in which a corrupt cop is crucified by a black zombie, his body pinned to the cross with hypodermic needles.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which the T-1000 (imitating John Connor's stepmother) impales John Connor's stepfather through the mouth and the milk carton he was drinking from.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 film), in which a girl is gored on a meat hook.
• The World is Not Enough, in which one of the villains, Renard, is impaled with a nuclear reactor fuel-rod in a fight with James Bond.
• Thunderball, in which several characters are killed by harpoon guns.
• Total Recall, in which a man is impaled by a hard rock mining drill.
• Troy, in which a soldier is impaled through the head with a spear. Also, the hero, Achilles, is shot through the ankle with an arrow and dies.
• Very Bad Things, in which a stripper is thrown against a wall hook in a hotel bathroom.
• Village of the Damned, in which a man is forced by demonic children to jump from a roof while holding a broom to his abdomen.
• The Virgin Suicides, in which Cecilia Lisbon jumps and lands on a pointy fence outside the Lisbon home.
• Virtuosity, in which the antagonist is impaled on large shards of glass.
• Wrong Turn, in which Scott is shot 3 times with arrows, one which impales him through the chest.

[edit] Death from ocular trauma

• 28 Days Later, in which Jim gouges a soldier's eyes out with his thumbs.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film) in which a corrupt police officer is impaled in the eye by an icicle.
• Bad Boys II, in which Mike Lowrey's character shoots a Haitian man in the eye as he is looking through a hole.
• Battle of Britain, in which various Lutwaffe pilots are shot through the eyes with machine guns.
• The Battleship Potemkin, in which a mother is shot through her glasses by Tsarist soldiers during "the Odessa Steps" sequence. This scene is rather iconic and has been imitated in several films, including some entries on this list.
• The Beyond, in which a woman's eye is gouged with a large wooden splinter.
• Black Christmas (2006 film), in which Clair (Leela Savasta), Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), and Megan (Jessica Harmon) have their eyes gouged out and eaten by the killer.
• Blade Runner, in which Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) is murdered by replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) by insertion of his thumbs into Tyrell's eyes.
• Brazil, in which a cleaning lady is shot through her glasses and falls down stairs.
• Bulletproof, in which Adam Sandler pretends to trip and shoots a bodyguard in the eye through his glasses.
• Casino Royale, in which Bond shoots Gettler in the darkened lense of his glasses with a nailgun, killing him.
• Child's Play 2, in which a security guard for the toy factory is killed when a machine stabs doll eyes into his real eyes.
• Demolition Man, in which a character has his eye removed with a fountain pen. He dies from this (as well as other injuries) a few minutes later.
• Demon Knight, in which all the lower level demons die from the destruction of their eyes (windows to their souls).
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder, in which John McClane uses an icicle to kill a sentry.
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, in which Vincent Price uses a trick microscope with blades in the eyeholes.
• Donnie Darko, in which "Frank" is shot in the eye by Donnie.
• Evil Aliens, in which a farmer has his eyes poked out by an alien.
• Flesh & Blood, in which a marauder is stabbed through the eye by a spear and dies.
• Flyboys, in which the main character shoots the German ace in both eyes with his "suicide" pistol in mid-flight.
• Final Destination 2, in which a character is impaled through his right eye by a falling fire escape ladder.
• The Fog (1980 film), in which one of the fishermen on the Seagrass has both eyes stabbed out by a zombie leper.
• The Faculty, in which Queen Alien is killed by stabbing a vial of caffeine in its eye.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Vera is shot through the eye with an arrow. Later, Jason squeezes Rick's head until his eyes pop out.
• The Godfather, in which casino owner Moe Green is shot through his glasses. This is reminiscent of the scene from "The Battleship Potemkin".
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch, in which a man is killed in his hospital bed by an automaton who thrusts a finger into each eye and cracks his skull.
• Hard Boiled, in which a character is shot through an eye.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which Doug kills a mutant by slamming the pick of the axe into his eye.
• Horrors of the Black Museum, in which a character is killed by spikes hidden in a pair of binoculars.
• In Dreams, in which a character is killed with an ice pick through the eye.
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, in which Darick the Dockhand has his left eye gouged out by a hook.
• Masters of Horror (Dreams in the witch house), the witch has her eyes shoved far in to the back of her head.
• Mission: Impossible, in which a man sitting on top of an elevator pierced through his eyes by a metal spike on the ceiling as the elevator rockets out of control.
• The Phantom, in which a librarian is tricked into stabbing his own eyes with a rigged microscope.
• Robo Cop 2, in which Robo Cop shoots a henchman in the eye.
• Saw 2, in which Gus looks through an eyehole and is shot as a gun goes off behind it.
• Saving Private Ryan in which a German sniper is shot in the eye by an American sniper.
• See No Evil, in which the psychopathic serial killer Jacob Goodnight graphically and grotesquely rips out his victims eyes and keeps them stored in jars of liquid.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which zombie and former flatmate Pete takes a rifle blast to the right eye.
• Sniper, in which Tom Berengers character, Thomas Beckett, shoots another sniper through his rifle scope (this scene, much like the one in Saving Private Ryan, was based on an actual shot taken by Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam).
• The Street Fighter, in which Sonny Chiba kills an opponent by gouging his eyes.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which a security guard at an insane asylum is lanced through the head (via the eye) by the modified finger of the T-1000 (who is imitating him at the time).
• Tromeo and Juliet, in which Harry is stabbed in the eye with a tattoo needle.
• True Lies, a terrorist is killed when a surgery tool is thrown into his eye by the main character.
• The Unborn, in which a disgusted father is stabbed in the eye with a knitting needle by a mutant baby.
• Universal Soldier, a character shot through his glasses by GR-13.
• Wrong Turn, in which a police officer is impaled through the eye by an arrow.
• Zatoichi, in which Zatoichi blinds the gang leader with his katana sword.
• Zombi 2 (a.k.a. Zombie Flesh Eaters), in which a wooden splinter impales a woman's eye.

[edit] Death from slicing by a sharp object with delayed separation

• 300, in which the captain's son gets his head sliced off at the neck by a Persian on a horse with an axe, he then stands for a moment before his head slides off.
• Bless the Child, in which Christina Ricci's head falls off after Kim Basinger tries to speak to her.
• Cube, in which a character is sliced into small cubes then slowly disintegrates.
• Cube Zero, in which a man is cut in pieces by sharp wires.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, in which a soldier salutes an officer after a battle and then falls apart into thin slices.
• Equilibrium, in which a character's face is sliced by a sword, and slowly slides off.
• Final Destination 2, in which a character is hit by a flying piece of barbed wire fence, slicing him into several chunks.
• Fortress, in which the villain slashes a bladed object against a lackey's neck, leaving the lackey standing for a few seconds before his head falls off.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which the character awakens from a dream to find his father sitting next to him on the porch, and when he touches him the top of his head slides off.
• Ghost Ship, in which a cruise ship's patrons are sliced in half by fast-moving wire.
• Highlander, in which a villain's neck is severed, but his head remains in place long enough for villain to chuckle.
• Ice Pirates, in which a ruffian is struck by a sword so sharp that it takes a few moments for him to realize that he has been beheaded.
• Ichi the Killer, featuring several slow bisections and arterial cuts with a delayed reaction.
• Interview With the Vampire, Louis slices a vampire diagonally from the left shoulder to the right hip with a scythe, leaving him to stand for a moment before sliding apart.
• Izo, in which Bob Sapp's character is sliced in half diagonally with a katana.
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which a character's torso (Ralfie) is sliced by a nanothread. (falls slowly into 3 pieces)
• The Last Samurai, in which a man is sliced with a samurai sword and his head falls off a few seconds later.
• Mindhunters, in which after the team wakes up after drinking coffee laced with sleeping medicine, LL Cool J's character attempts to wake up Will Kemp's character, causing his head to separate itself from his neck, as it had already been cut with a hacksaw.
• Resident Evil, in which a character is sliced into small cubes by a moving grid of laser beams.
• Samurai X, in which Seijuro Hiko cuts a bandit into several dozen pieces before he has time to fall.
• Silent Partner, in which Christopher Plummer's psycho villain slits a woman's throat by running her neck along the edge of a broken fish tank.
• Sin City, the uncut edition DVD, in which Miho slices a man in half and his body takes a few seconds to split apart lengthwise during extended version of "The Big Fat Kill." She also kills another man by throwing her swastika-shaped shuriken through the top of his head.
• Slither, in which one character is sliced down the front by the main bug, and slowly opens up to have his guts fall out.
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, in which Darth Maul is bisected by Obi-Wan Kenobi and falls several meters down a vast pit before his lower and upper body separate.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which one character is bisected along the Coronal Plane by a glass door.
• Underworld, in which Victor's head is bisected by a very thin sword. There is first no sign of this having occurred, Victor turns around, Selene holds up her sword showing that there is blood on it and then a segment of Victor's head slides off.

[edit] Death by strangulation or asphyxiation

• Black Christmas where the character Claire is suffocated by a plastic bag placed over her head and strangled
• Deathwatch, Two of the lost platoon are engulfed and 'strung up' by animated barbed wire.
• Final Destination, in which a victim slips on a wire that he used to hang up clothes and is strangled.
• Dr. Giggles, in which Dr. Giggles suffocates a girl by attaching a gigantic Band-Aid to her face. He later kills a doctor by strangling his with a blood pressure cuff.
• Faces of Death 4, in which a cocaine dealer is suffocated with a plastic bag.
• The Godfather, in which Luka Brazi is garroted by Salazzo. Carlo Rizzi is garroted as well by Clemenza after being forgiven by Michael, during the scene he kicks the windshield out.
• Halloween, in which Michael Myers hides in the back seat of a car and strangles a woman who climbs into the driver's seat. Later, another girl is strangled to death with a phone cord as she is calling her friend.
• My Little Eye, in which Charlie is suffocated with a plastic bag by Matt.
• Lucky Number Slevin, in which "The Boss" and "The Rabbi" are asphyxiated by Slevin with a pair of plastic bags.
• Natura Born Killers, in which corrupt cop strangles a prostiture in a hotel room
• A Nightmare On Elm Street, in which an inmate is strangled by an invisible Freddy Kruger using a bedsheet.
• Saw 3, where it is revealed that Adam was suffocated by Amanda with a plastic bag in the first Saw.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night, in which Billy garrotes one of his co-workers with a long string of Christmas lights.
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, in which a Black cat forces its way down a man's throat. It later re-emerges in a very bloody fashion.
• Tourist Trap, in which a character is smothered by application of plaster to the face.

[edit] Death by sword/knife (or any other bladed weapon)

• 28 Days Later, in which Selena is forced to hack her companion to pieces with a machete before he can become one of those people infected with the Rage virus.
• Apocalypse Now, in which Colonel Kurtz is hacked to pieces with a machete by Captain Willard.
• Axe, in which Lisa kills one of the three people holding her hostage by sliting his throat with a pocket knife and then choping him up in the bath tub with an axe.
• Black Mask, in which several gangs are killed by flying discs to their throats.
• Black Rain, in which the yakuza, Sato, slices the throat of another mob associate in a restaurant.
• Battle Royale, in which a student uses a sickle to slit the throats of several of her classmates.
• Braveheart, which features numerous violent scenes with cutting tools, knives, swords.
• Carrie, in which Carrie's mother is speared with numerous kitchen knives.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which Riddick jams a knife into an enemy's head and snaps the handle off, lodging the blade inside their head.
• Children of the Corn, in which many victims meet their end to a large knife, scythe, or axe.
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, in which a man's throat is slit by a gangster.
• Commando, in which Matrix scalps a man to death by throwing a blade from a circular saw at him.
• The Devil's Advocate, in which Mary Ann Lomax (Charlize Theron) commits suicide by slitting her own throat.
• Eraserhead, in which the lead character cuts open the bandages clothing his grotesque mutant baby, revealing unprotected internal organs. He then stabs one of the organs as the baby screams.
• Frailty, in which the father uses a large axe (named Otis) to carry out God's will.
• Final Destination, in which Ms. Lewton struggles for a cloth (which has knives underneath it) and a butcher knife falls on her chest. A chair then lands on it, pushing the knife deeply into her.
• Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, in which the main villain Sephiroth is speared many times with a sword.
• The Fog (1980 film), in which six victims meet their end to a knife, hook, or sword.
• Friday the 13th (film series), in which many characters throughout the series are murdered with various bladed weapons.
• Gangs of New York ,which features numerous violent scenes mainly involving various knives and bladed weapons.
• Halloween (film series), in which Michael Myers murders several people with a kitchen knife.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which four mine workers are killed with a pick-axe and Pluto is axed in the head by Doug.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer and it's sequels, in which the killer murders with a fish hook.
• I Spit On Your Grave, in which one man is killed with a blow to the back with an axe.
• Kill Bill Vol. I & II, featuring multiple kills in sword fights.
• The Punisher (2004 film), in which the Punisher (Tom Jane) stabs a henchman with a knife, through the bottom of the mouth. He also lodges the detached blade of a paper cutter into a henchman's head.
• Psycho (1960 and 1998), in which two characters are killed by a butcher knife-wielding maniac.
• The Rage: Carrie 2, in which a large number of people are killed with flying discs to their throats (this death scene is similar to Black Mask listed above).
• RoboCop, in which Clarence Boddicker is killed after the title character stabs him in the throat with his interface spike.
• Saw 2, in which Xavier's throat is slashed with a hacksaw by Daniel.
• Scarface, in which Tony Montana kills Emilio Rebenga with multiple stabs.
• Scream films, in which the serial killer murders with a knife.
• The Shining, in which Halloran (Scatman Crothers) is thumped in the chest with a fireman's axe, swung by Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson).
• Suicide Circle, in which a woman is raped and then stabbed in a bowling alley.
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, in which a mummy stabs a woman in the back, then proceeds to stuff the wound with flowers, thus imitating his own mummification ritual.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), in which Andy has been hanging by the skin on the back of his neck on a meat hook for hours, until his friend Erin finds him. He begs Erin to kill him, and reluctantly, she picks up a kitchen knife and stabs him in the gut.
• Total Recall, in which a midget-hooker stabs Helm in a Martian bar.
• V for Vendetta, in which V kills most of his opponents with knives, either by slashing them or by throwing the knives at them.
• Valentine, in which a character has her throat slit with a knife while hiding in a body bag in a morgue.
• Wrong Turn, in which Francine (Lindy Booth) has barbed wire pulled up her mouth.
• Zatoichi, in which Zatoichi kills off the yakuza with his sword.
• Zombie Holocaust, in which a cannibal has a machete chopped into his skull.

[edit] Death by violent organ removal

• Apocalypto, where sacrificial victims have their hearts removed.
• Braindead, in which an unfortunate victim's entire ribcage is ripped out in one go.
• Braveheart, in which William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is disemboweled alive as punishment for treason.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which many minor characters are murdered by having organs removed, while The Noxious Offender is finally killed after having his liver, colon, heart and other organs removed one-by-one.
• Dawn of the Dead, in which several characters are violently torn apart by zombies and have their internal organs eaten.
• Day of the Dead, in which several characters are torn apart by zombies.
• Dumb and Dumber, in which Jim Carrey (in a dream sequence) kills a karate-trained chef at a restaurant by pulling his heart out with his bare hand.
• Event Horizon, in which Sam Neil's character disembowels a man by slicing him open and hanging him from the ceiling so that his organs fall out.
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, in which Jenna Jameson's character's silicone implants are violently removed and then her internal organs are pulled out.
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, in which a newly resurrected Jason Voorhees punches through a victim's body, holding his heart out the other side (uncut version of the film features the character's guts being pulled out as well).
• Hannibal, in which a character is sliced open and hanged from a balcony, causing his intestines to fall out.
• I Spit On Your Grave, in which a male character dies of blood loss due to the heroine slicing off his penis, as revenge for raping her. In the same movie, another male character is disemboweled after he begs the heroine not to kill him. He is flailing in the lake near her summer house and grabs on to the motor of her boat, only to have her restart the engine and kill him.
• Jeepers Creepers, in which a police officer has his heart ripped out by the Creeper from behind.
• Kill Bill Volume 1, in which Gogo Yubari disembowels a would-be suitor.
• The Last House on the Left, in which Sadie reels out Phyllis's intestines after the rapists have stabbed her.
• The Last of the Mohicans, in which a man's heart is cut out.
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which Elizabeth's (Helena Bonham Carter) heart is ripped out by the Creature.
• Masters of Horror (Cigarette Burns), in which a movie collector kills himself by cutting himself open and inserting his intestines into a film player and turning it on which yanks them out of his body.
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, featuring ritual disemboweling (seppuku).
• Monty Python's Meaning of Life, in which Graham Chapman and John Cleese remove Terry Gilliam's liver.
• Phantasm, in which a man has his brain sucked out by a flying silver sphere that drills into his head.
• Queen of the Damned, in which the queen of the vampires rips out the heart of a male vampire and drinks from it.
• Re-Animator, in which a character dies after having his brain removed from his head.
• Road House, in which a character dies after having his throat ripped out by another character's bare hands.
• RoboCop 2, in which RoboCop kills RoboCop 2 after a lengthy battle by ripping out his organic brain and smashing it on the street.
• Saving Private Ryan, in which a disemboweled soldier lies on the beach in Normandy screaming for his mother.
• Saw, in which a thought-to-be-dead person is disemboweled by Amanda to retrieve a key inside.
• Saw 3, in which the female detective has her ribcage violently removed.
• Scream, in which a male character is killed by having his internal organs removed in front of his girlfriend, and his girlfriend is gutted and hung on a tree.
• Seed of Chucky, in which Tiffany stabs Redman in the gut, leaving his intestines to fall on the floor.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which David has his entrails pulled out by a crowd of zombies.
• Silent Hill, in which Anna has her skin torn from her body by Pyramid Head.
• Species, in which a character has her spine ripped out in a public bathroom.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character has his brains sucked from his skull by an alien.
• The Street Fighter, in which Terry Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) kills a man by tearing off his penis with his bare hands.
• The Terminator, in the beginning of the film, the Terminator rips a punk's heart out after he fails to give the terminator his clothes.
• Trinity Blood Genesis, in which a man is cut in half, telekinetically controlled to remove his beating heart and squish it in the palm of his hand.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which the final surviving villain has his stomach violently torn out by the Toxic Avenger.
• Turistas, in which Amy is laying on a table while having her liver, intestines, and kindneys removed, but dies when her liver is taken out.

[edit] Miscellaneous Deaths

These are deaths that do not necessarily fit into the above categories, and are usually deaths that involve mysterious methods (not through means available in real life).

• Alien series, several people are killed by chestbursters: when an alien breaks out of a person's chest after they have been implanted with eggs. Many others are killed by the Alien's signature "tongue", a second mouth that can shoot out and pierce a human skull.
• Braindead, featuring numerous deaths, including a girl whose head is ripped in two by a zombie baby burrowing inside from behind.
• Cabin Fever, where several characters die from a flesh-eating virus.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which Riddick kills a convict with a sharpened soup cup.
• Date Movie, in which a man shoots himself in the head with a nail gun because he can't take Julia's horrible striptease.
• Dead Heat, death by reanimation. The main antagonist kills himself. Not satisfied with this end, the protagonists re-animate him, bringing him back to life. Then he is re-reanimated, which causes a violent and bloody explosion.
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again, in which a man is killed by having his flesh torn off with a sandblaster.
• Final Destination 3, in which a girl is hit from behind by an automatic nail gun, which sends a dozen or so spiked-sized nails into the back of her skull and which are seen poking out of her face.
• Ghost Ship, in which a character is struck by flying debris and inexplicably explodes.
• Halloween III, in which a little boy's head turns into pile of maggots underneath a Halloween mask.
• House of Wax, featuring a character being incapacitated by having both his achilles tendon and pectoral muscles severed, then being boiled alive in hot wax; he later has part of his face removed with an axe.
• Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, in which Walter Donovan drinks from the wrong chalice then rots away to a skeleton.
• Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, in which a character is freed from possession of Jason Voorhees's demonic soul, only to have his flesh melt away.
• Marked for Death, in which the villain Screwface has his eyes gouged out, his back broken over Steven Seagal's knee, and is thrown out of a tall building's window, only to land on a sharp pole, impaling him. It is unclear which of these killed him.
• Nightmare on Elm Street, death by carnivorous bed: Johnny Depp's character is sucked into his double bed and (presumably) minced, judging by the high volumes of blood that fountain out from the bed once Johnny has disappeared.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, In Sheila Kopecky's dream, Freddy literally "sucks face" with her, sucking all the air out of her body, causing her to die from a fatal bout of asthma in the real world.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which Toht and many other Nazis are melted by the Ark of the Covenant.
• Saw 2, in which Addison puts both of her hands through a box that has razors near two openings big enough for her hands. She dies off screen, but it is clear that she dies of severe blood loss, from the razors cutting into her wrists.
• Saw 3, in which a man is graphicly killed by slowly having his limbs and head twisted 180 degrees by a cross type device.
• Sleepy Hollow, in which the main character's mother is placed in an Iron maiden.
• Slither, in which Brenda is impregnated with parasites by the Grant monster. She becomes an enormous blob with an unstoppable compulsion to eat meat, who then explodes due to 27,000 slithering parasites fighting their way out. Many other characters in this movie die due to parasites burrowing their way into their brains.
• Starship Troopers , in which a character has his brains sucked out through the top of his head by a giant insect.
• Straw Dogs, in which a hayseed gets his head caught in a bear trap being swung by his wayward opponent.
• Suicide Club, in which a group of students jump from the top of their school onto the ground below, killing all of them.
• Timecop, in which the villain is killed by touching a version of himself from another time, creating a space-time paradox that causes both versions to fuse and melt into a pile of goo.
• Slaughter Disc, in which Andromeda Strange commits suicide by slitting her wrist and throat with a straight razor. An undead Andromeda later kills a man by slicing his throat with a straight razor.
• Valentine, in which the character Lily is shot in her stomach with 3 arrows, right after she falls from a 5 story building and lands in a dumpster.
• Road Warrior, in which a madman decides to slice the tires of a speeding truck. As his arm gets caught, he's quickly twisted, mangled up around the wheel.
• Slither, in which a man is sliced in half by a creature and falls apart while every organ in his body falls to the ground.

[edit] References

• De Coulteray, Georges: Sadism in the Movies, New York, Medical Press, 1965.

[edit] See also

• Fangoria (magazine)
• Graphic violence
• Splatter film
• Violence

[edit] External links

• www.moviedeaths.com The Movie Deaths database allows film deaths to be searched by category.