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76. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World

 

 

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Cause if you gotta go, death by orgasm wouldn't be a bad way to go.

 


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post #102 of 148

77 Beneath the Planet of the Apes

 

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Taylor is mortally wounded. He decides if he has to go, he is taking EVERYBODY with him and he activates the alpha omega bomb and destroys the planet Earth. Sadly I couldn't find the scene on youtube.

post #103 of 148

78.  The Hitcher (1986)

 

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One of the grimmest cases of an innocent bystander caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jennifer Jason Leigh's character has the misfortune of getting involved with C. Thomas Howell right when a psychopathic stranger is trying to kill him.  Yes, folks, a random act of kindness may result in you getting pulled apart!   This was actually shocking back in the day that a mainstream movie would go that route, but it's important to learn early on life is hard and to never help strangers ever.  

 

post #104 of 148

79.  American History X

 

 

A killing that perfectly encapsulates the movie.  Pointless but necessary to the character.

 

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Not the Murder you were thinking of?  The gut puch that puts a cap on a movie that blows me away any time I watch it.

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79.  American History X

 

 

A killing that perfectly encapsulates the movie.  Pointless

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78.  The Hitcher (1986)

 

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One of the grimmest cases of an innocent bystander caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jennifer Jason Leigh's character has the misfortune of getting involved with C. Thomas Howell right when a psychopathic stranger is trying to kill him.  Yes, folks, a random act of kindness may result in you getting pulled apart!   This was actually shocking back in the day that a mainstream movie would go that route, but it's important to learn early on life is hard and to never help strangers ever.  

 

 

You might have just won this. 

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You might have just won this. 

 

There are no winners in MURDER!!!!

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There is, however, a rather definitive loser.

post #110 of 148

All true.  Which brings us to this cheerful motherf***er...

 

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80.  Near Dark (1987)

 

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When the killer vampire family arrives at shitkicker heaven, the locals don't quite know what's come for them.  Severen, played with gleeful relish by the great Bill Paxton, lets them know one by one, against a soundtrack of rotating roadhouse standards on the juke.  First he cracks the skull of a luckless biker ("I hate it when they ain't be shaved!"), then the bartender, who knows he won't be escaping this party, gets his neck ventilated by Severen's spurs.  It's a gruesome scene, acted with subtlety by everyone but Paxton, paced deliberately slow to reveal to Caleb and to us that this is what they do, and amounts to something of a last hurrah for the gang because it's all going to hell anyway.  Naughty naughty.

post #111 of 148

81. The Untouchables 1987

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Ness throws Nitti of a building. This completes Ness's arc. He came to Chicago to take out Capone while sticking to a strict moral code. He slowly, but surely realizes he can't take down Capone that way. By the end he can throw an unarmed man to his death and it only kinda bothers him.

 

post #112 of 148

I was thinking about putting another one (Baseball!) on the list.  The Untouchables has an inordinate amount of really memorable kills.  At least five that I can remember.

post #113 of 148

82. A Nightmare On Elm Street - 1984

 

 

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Tina, the first death of the movie. The way the slashes just appear on her body. How she gets thrown around the room and drug up the wall all while screaming for help. Also because the last part of her dream that you see is when she is still outside and she pulls off his face. By cutting to the bedroom in the real world you are left to wonder what in the hell exactly it is that Freddy Krueger is doing to her that would cause her to go up the wall and to the ceiling. It scared the shit out of me when I was a youngin

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82. A Nightmare On Elm Street - 1984

 

 

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Tina, the first death of the movie. The way the slashes just appear on her body. How she gets thrown around the room and drug up the wall all while screaming for help. Also because the last part of her dream that you see is when she is still outside and she pulls off his face. By cutting to the bedroom in the real world you are left to wonder what in the hell exactly it is that Freddy Krueger is doing to her that would cause her to go up the wall and to the ceiling. It scared the shit out of me when I was a youngin

 

True.  This is the only time the series ever gets truly nightmarish.  

post #115 of 148

83. Twin Peaks TV series 1990

 

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Death of Maddy by Leland/Bob

How the hell this got broadcasted on a prime time network tv show (in 1990!) , I'll never know. Were the network censors off sick that day?

This is first time I watched it in a quite awhile and it's still pretty freaky.

 

post #116 of 148

84.  Jackie Brown (1997)

 

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Louis and Melanie turn out to be a bad pairing even on a job as simple as picking up a bag of money from a mall and taking it to Ordell.  His skills are dulled from prison and too much pot, and she can't keep herself from making fun of him for it, like a kid poking at a snake with a stick.  When he can't find the van, she needles him just a little bit more.  "Is it that aisle, Louis?  Loooo-isssss?"  Ordell is being outmaneuvered by Jackie Brown and his band of fuck-ups isn't helping.  Boom, boom.  "See?  It's where I said it was."  And scene.

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78.  The Hitcher (1986)

 

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One of the grimmest cases of an innocent bystander caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jennifer Jason Leigh's character has the misfortune of getting involved with C. Thomas Howell right when a psychopathic stranger is trying to kill him.  Yes, folks, a random act of kindness may result in you getting pulled apart!   This was actually shocking back in the day that a mainstream movie would go that route, but it's important to learn early on life is hard and to never help strangers ever.  

 

  

I've always counted this movie as the beginning of HBO's ascension into cable greatness.  As I recall, the movie was made for them originally.  I watched its first showing and between the aforementioned scene and some funny french fries I found myself hooked hard.  You can tell the movie didn't cost much to make (production values were sparingly doled out for the most part) but you got some good actors and competent talent behind the camera.  More so, I think, than in made-for-tv movies at the time.   Nearly thirty years later we take for granted that HBO will do high-quality original projects.  Back then we had no idea.

post #118 of 148

85. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000)

 

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Coolest kill from one of the coolest movies ever made, cribbed from Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill.

 

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I was thinking about putting another one (Baseball!) on the list.  The Untouchables has an inordinate amount of really memorable kills.  At least five that I can remember.


That was the first one that came to mind, but I couldn't think of a better description other than its brutal.

post #120 of 148

86.  Jason X  (2001)

 

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPVtQJWZn8

 

Pity the poor bimbo space coroner.   Slaving at a boring autopsy table in her skimpy outfit just waiting for The Big Score.  Well, she gets it when a frozen "thing" comes aboard her spaceship, and she has to figure out the cause of (ahem!) death.  

 

Turns out Jason don't wants to be autopsied!  Bimbo Coroner never had a chance what with all the liquid nitrogen around!  This is Jason at his most resourceful!

 

post #121 of 148

87. Boardwalk Empire 2010

 

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There are quite a few from this series that could be on this list. I would choose Chalky White's 'discussion' with one of the guys who hung one of his men.

As a  bonus, you have Jimmy's "you kinda talked me into it" moment.

 

 

post #122 of 148
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Not that the twofer there isn't good, but I don't see how you could bring up Boardwalk Empire and not go with the big one from Season 2.

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Not that the twofer there isn't good, but I don't see how you could bring up Boardwalk Empire and not go with the big one from Season 2.

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing but when it comes to this show, you have to pause for a moment and think "hmm...which one" ? :)


yeah, but the one(s) I included were a little more unexpected and 'creative'....

post #124 of 148
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Okay, the one I was thinking of was one of the most shocking moment's of the last TV season.  Much more than the gangster protagonists offing a couple of random thugs, anyway.

post #125 of 148

"I'm NOT LOOKING FOR FORGIVENESS."
 

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88. Quite surprised nobody's snagged 'Heavenly Creatures' yet as it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread.
 

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An absolutely savage scene which contrasts brutal realism against the fantastical stuff that happens earlier. The clip below doesn't show the journey to the murder scene, where the mother is shown as incredibly likeable and you end up feeling like a helpless voyeur as she gets bashed to death. It's very nasty stuff and the whole film's an impressive step up for Jackson the filmaker, previously known for Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Brain Dead.

There's a definite tonal similarity between this scene and the Smeagol murder in 'The Return of the King'. I always like how Jackson revisited his previous films in the LOTR trilogy, with the animalistic Angel of Death in the Frighteners influencing the Ringwraiths being another good example.

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Okay, the one I was thinking of was one of the most shocking moment's of the last TV season.  Much more than the gangster protagonists offing a couple of random thugs, anyway.

 

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It was a good ending to the season but given Jimmy's downward spiral, I kinda saw it coming. It didn't strike me as very 'unique'.

post #128 of 148
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Well, different strokes I guess.  I still don't understand how "uniqueness" was the standard that brought you to those fairly straightforward gangland killings.  Not that the "you kind of talked me into it" moment wasn't darkly funny.

post #129 of 148
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89.  Deadwood 

 

 

 

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Graham Greene wrote that "you cannot conceive, nor I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."  That is a great thought, but not one that is easy to express dramatically.  David Milch (and Ian McShane, and Brad Dourif, and Sean Bridgers and Ray McKinnon) managed to show us, in Deadwood's first season finale, exactly what it might look like: a cold-blooded killer tenderly snuffing out the life of a man of God while the doctor who cannot help him begs that God to relieve his suffering a few doors down.  This is the type of perspective I talked about in the original post, where fiction allows us to pull back far enough to see an act of premeditated murder as one of unwitting grace.

 

post #130 of 148

Fucking Hell, Dourif there. The man's a force of nature, untapped by Hollywood.

post #131 of 148
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It probably looks a bit histrionic if you haven't seen just how restrained he plays the previous 12 hours.  Shame that they started to run out of stuff for him to do around the end of the 2nd season. 

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Season one of DEADWOOD is probably his best-ever work. Which is high praise indeed.
 

post #133 of 148

90. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 

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Blofeld and Bunt kill Tracy Bond. In this scene we see that Bond is a human being who is trying and failing to keep it together as his world has been destroyed. Lazenby is damn good in this scene. For as much as I like Moore, I still think its a shame that Lazenby only starred in one Bond movie.
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post #134 of 148
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91.  The Thing (1982)

 

The Thing is endlessly inventive in its creature design and the ways in which it uses them to destroy humans.  By about the halfway point, we essentially know what the creature is and what it is capable of, and should be settling into the more generic slasher portion of the monster movie as it picks off the survivors one by one.  And that is, more or less, what happens.  But damn, no one could've been ready for sustained insanity of this sequence watching it for the first time.

 

 

Is there a more perfect movie moment than "You've gotta be fucking kidding??"  That right there encapsulates why I love the The Thing so much, even though I'm not a huge horror buff.  My disconnect with most horror movies is that we are so far removed from the mindsets of the protagonists we are supposedly sympathizing with (i.e. we've seen the 3 sequences of the killer stalking and offing people before The Virgin realizes she's in danger), but with The Thing we're right there with the characters every step of the way, to the point where they can say exactly what we're thinking and it's totally natural in the moment.

post #135 of 148

92. The Omen
 

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David Warner's been making a nuisance of himself and evil isn't very impressed. We know it's coming* and we just don't know how. The suspence is building, then we see the truck backing into him and we're led to believe his death will be pretty prosaic. However what we see next is both surprising and morbidly delightful, almost singlehandedly kickstarting the Final Destination franchise! It's a brilliantly inventive kill, in a movie with several memorable ones.


*build up sadly missing on clip below


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93. Highlander 1986

 

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Not till Inglorious Basterds was there a scene where seeing a Nazi whacked brought so much joy!
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94. House of Games

 

 

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Bad idea #1 - hanging out with con men

Bad idea #2 - asking them to "teach you"
Bad idea #3 - conning the everloving shit out of someone and then rubbing their face in it
 
I guess this one sticks out for me because not only is it a bit of a shocker to watch the movie's lead kill someone in cold blood, but Joe Mantegna's Mike goes down swinging after she shoots him in the leg and doesn't hold back:
 
 
DR. FORD: Beg me for your life.
 
MIKE: Fuck you! This is what you always wanted, you crooked bitch!
You thief! You always needed to get caught cos you know you're bad.
 
I never hurt anybody.  I never shot anybody. 
This is what you always wanted.
I knew it the first time you came in.  You're worthless, you know it?
You're a whore.  You came back like a dog to its own vomit, you 
sick bitch!  I'm not gonna give you shit.
 
(Dr. Ford shoots him again, this time in the chest)  
 
MIKE: Thank you, sir. May I have another?
 
(Dr. Ford shoots him several more times)
 
 
 
Apologies, couldn't find a video for this scene. 
post #138 of 148

I want to clarify something. Are TV selections okay for this thread? It says "cinematic" in the title, but it looks like there are some TV selections in here. I was thinking of starting a thread for great TV murders, but I can stick them here if it's fine with everyone.

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Yeah, they've accounted for a good chunk of them so far (and I expressly said so in the original post).

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95. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" 

 

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Scenes like these are why I love science fiction. Here's a genre where a concept like cloning makes possible a shocking murder that doubles as both a perfect gag and a great character moment.

 

So there are these two villains, Weyoun and Damar, who are technically on the same side, but have an adversarial relationship. Weyoun is domineering and bossy, Damar is cocky and doesn't like being pushed around.

 

Weyoun makes a snotty comment, so Worf, in one swift notion, snaps his neck and kills him for it. Damar thinks this is hilarious both because he hates Weyoun and because he knows Worf's action is ultimately futile since Weyoun is from an alien race that is perpetually being cloned. 

 

As expected, the latest Weyoun clone shows up shortly after, to the amusement of Damar, who greets him with a laugh and a sarcastic remark. A marvelously funny murder that both reinforces what a terrific badass Worf is, and builds some affection for Damar, who was slowly evolving at this point from a one-note arrogant jerk into an actually likable character.

 

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96. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - "Passion"

 

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Speaking of neck snapping...for me, it doesn't get more 100% disturbingly shocking than this, probably the most daringly violent thing I'd ever seen on a TV series when it happened (circa 1998). Angel, the kind, gentle, and romantic vampire with a soul had turned evil shortly before this episode. This episode, however, brought the moment when it seemed like there was truly no turning back for him. The moment when he truly arrived as one of the most heinously cruel and diabolical villains this series would ever produce.

 

He stalks Jenny Calender with arrogant glee, letting her run ahead of him knowing she has no chance of outrunning him. Then he meets her on the stairs in a brilliantly framed shot where he snaps her neck in front of a window. Right before he does, he quips "Sorry Jenny, this is where you get off".

 

I couldn't have imagined Angel could be such a cold-hearted son of a bitch, even though the show had brought up his dark past. Never have I seen such a good-hearted character take such a stunning 180 into evil. His sadism here was unbelievable. I, like so many fans of the series, loved to hate the character from that moment on. A "shit just got real" moment for both the 'Evil Angel' story line and the TV series as a whole, which never before reached the level of intensity it hit in this episode. 

 

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97.  Batman '89

 

 

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I know that opinion is divided on Nicholson's Joker, and while it's hard to dispute that he's just cranking up his "crazy Jack" persona that we've become quite familiar with several notches, I think that's a perfectly good take on the character.  But I don't see how you can argue with this moment as being pure Joker.  It's shocking and funny and makes him seem more dangerous even as he loses his best muscle going into the climax.  What really sells it is how he manages to frown through it with the rictus smile still plastered on his face.

 

This is a moment that flipped a little switch in my 8 year old brain, as it was the first time I can remember consciously appreciating dark comedy.  That a laugh can mean "that's so fucked up" just as easily as "that's so funny," and both are perfectly valid reactions.

post #143 of 148

98. The Exorcist III

 

(yes, I said The Exorcist III)

 

 

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The slow, quiet build to the nurse being beheaded. It's an amazing scene, jarring and scary, and you don't even see the actual kill.

 

post #144 of 148

99. Batoru Rowaiaru (Battle Royale), 2000

 

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The students receive the rules of their survival game. They must kill or be killed until the sole survivor can be declared winner. The head teacher then brutally whips a knife into one student's head with pinpoint accuracy, killing her instantly. Then he chuckles and feigns clumsiness as he quips, "Sorry! It's against the rules for me to kill, isn't it!?!".

 

This sets the tone for the rest of the movie perfectly with the first of many moments in which I go in seconds from being shocked to laughing. The audaciousness of the violence in such a context is exhilarating. Dark humour at its finest.

 

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98. The Exorcist III

 

(yes, I said The Exorcist III)

 

 

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The slow, quiet build to the nurse being beheaded. It's an amazing scene, jarring and scary, and you don't even see the actual kill.

 

 

Didn't we already have this one?

post #146 of 148

Indeed we did.

post #147 of 148

My bad. I swear I read the thread, too. Put me in internet jail.

post #148 of 148
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Your love of murder got the better of you.  It happens to all of us from time to time.

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