TEN of TERROR: 10 Best Death Scenes

Ah, Halloween. Is there a more fun time of the year? No. October is the one month a year when it’s ok to be scared and let lose and have some fun. And nothing says October like horror films. Trust me, there is a lot of those out there, and some of them have some really, really good death scenes. There are those iconic ones everyone puts on all of their top ten lists, and then there are those that are so obscure that putting them on a top ten list will bring them to the light that they deserve. My list here is kinda a mix of the two. It represents all the best, most fun ways to die in cinema.

#10

Number 10 on my list is from Alien. Yep, that poor sap who had the little cute blood thirsty alien pop out of his chest. There has got to be some serious lack of intelligence on that ship. I mean come on, this guy has an alien organism on his face that mysteriously dies and you do not keep him in some sort of quarantine? Seriously people. But that aside, what a way to go.

#9

Number 9 is a particularly nerve wracking and gruesome death scene. Remember the doctor from Saw III? The one with the shotgun collar on? I do. That woman was forced to work not knowing when or if she’d be on the receiving end of that untold destruction. And when it went off? Glorious gruesome brutality. Now that was an insidious death scene. SPOILER WARNING: The link below shows the ending for Saw III.

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#8

Next up at #8 is a movie I like but will be scoffed at, and no I haven’t seen the original. I know REC is a great movie, but I really liked Quarantine. The entire ending when it was a little spot light of night vision and Dexter’s Sister got drug off into the darkness suddenly was just awesome.

#7

Number 7 for me is the cameraman in Cloverfield. The dude was an idiot for not hearing the giant monster come up behind him. Loser. He deserved to die. I hope that when he died, he also exploded like the others did when scratched by those mini monsters. But still, he got eaten. Alive. On camera. For being stupid. Great times had by all.

#6

#6 is a group award. When I think back to a kid and watching horror movies I had awful pieces of crap like Ghoulies to hold me over. But I really gotta give my #6 place to anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who got eaten in any of the Critters movies. I salute you all who got eaten by evil space hamsters. What a fun and embarrassing way to go.

#5

So for my number 5 choice I gotta hand it to Chrissie in Jaws. Don’t know who she is? She’s the beach babe that gets eaten in the first five minutes. Why was she swimming in the dark anyways? Who knows, but she bit it good with no one around to see it.

#4

On to number 4. Nothing grosses me out more than when The Fly ate that guy by throwing up on him and eating him. Eww. Guess it didn’t pay off to be such a douche bag that day. And I gotta wonder what his family was thinking that night cause something tells me ‘daddy got dissolved by a giant fly and eaten’ was not the first thing on their minds. Editor’s note: technically he didn’t die, but this is still a worthy scene.

#3

Number 3 is a classic and I love it. It is one of the most iconic scenes in cinema and it deserves to be on every list out there, including mine. It needs no explination. You know it just by these few words – Psycho, shower, death, scene. Enough said. But it’s not my number one choice for best death scene. How do you top that scene? Keep reading.

#2

I am a fan of the Hostel movies, and number 2 comes from that series’ number 2 – The bloody bath scene. Wow. How messed up would it be to be that poor, poor girl who goes on vacation only to be hung naked upside down and cut open so some freak woman can bathe in your blood? Guess she should have gone to Disneyland.

#1

And now for my number one best death scene in a movie. Ever. It comes from one of the best, most horrible movies ever. We watched it simply cause on the back of the box was a small pic of this death scene and that was all we needed. Since then it has become one of my groups favorite movies ever, and it even spawned a sequel. I am of course talking about Jack Frost. No, not that family friendly Michael Keaton one, the b movie ‘serial killer mutates into a killer snowman’ one. Yep, you read it right. But it gets better. Not only is the movie full of horrible lines to quote, but it also has the best death scene ever. It involves Shannon Elizabeth, Nadia from American Pie, getting sexed to death in a bath tub by said killer snowman with a carrot. You have got to see it to believe it. And she has to put this on her resume. But it is worth every penny from beginning to end so go get Jack Frost TODAY.

So that’s my list of best death scenes in horror movies. What are yours? Hit up the comments below and let us know.