Favorite kill scene in a movie (horror, action, drama)

[JRPGChris]

For me, the spider scene in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond is the greatest kill scene in any genre of film.

 

Sofia Coppola getting killed in The Godfather Part III is also up there, but that was because she was such a horrible actress in that role.

 

This thread is about letting out our inner sociopaths when it comes to our movie watching.

[Neocarleen]

Nothing can beat the liquid nitrogen head smash in Jason X!

[JRPGChris]

22 minutes ago, Neocarleen said:

Nothing can beat the liquid nitrogen head smash in Jason X!

I have to agree with you on that one.

[EDJ3DG]

Although his death wasn't technically completed until Alien 3, Bishop being torn apart by the Queen in Aliens is some next level shit.

[exit3_sk]

Favorite Death scene is still Final destination 2 when Tim gets crushed by the glass pane.

 

Favorite kill scene is a lot harder to decide as the only movies I tend to watch have an abundance of murder in them!  I would have to say the Scene in Terrifier when Art the clown Hand saws the women in half from pelvis to head.  Terrifier 2 topped that with the insane scene with Allie though.

[Glorious Fury]

80's action movies always had my favorite kills, mainly due to the comedic one liner which follows. Arnold was the king of this: 'Let off some steam Bennett' (Commando, which is filled with hilarious one liners), 'See you at the party Richter' (Total Recall) and 'Here is Sub-Zero, now Plain-Zero' (The Running Man) are a few favorites of mine lol.

Edited December 20, 2022 by Glorious Fury

[Lil-Gameboy123]

2 hours ago, Neocarleen said:

Nothing can beat the liquid nitrogen head smash in Jason X!

That kill was creative, not gonna lie. But I’ve seen worse.

 

My favorite kills are definitely from the Adam Green’s Hatchet films. There’s 4 in total and their kills are what Friday The 13th would be like if it were NC-17 rated or stepped up on the violence. The one kill that stood out to me was in the first film, where he uses a hatchet to chop an injured tourist in half from the shoulder down to his stomach area. He then runs after his wife (I think, don’t remember), takes her by the mouth, and completely rips open her entire mouth where the top of her head is basically behind her neck. So brutal, but so awesome to see with the visual effects. (The killer is Victor Crowley, portrayed by Kane Hodder, the same guy that was Jason Voorhess in Friday The 13th Parts VII, VIII, Jason Goes To Hell, and Jason X, including the Friday The 13th multiplayer game in 2017).

[Floorkiller74]

2 hours ago, Neocarleen said:

Nothing can beat the liquid nitrogen head smash in Jason X!

 

 

This was the 1st thing that popped in my mind when I saw the thread title!

[danceswithsloths]

The lawyer's death in 13 ghosts. Absolutely gruesome lol.

[the1andonly654]

The original John Wick's club scene, the kill with the knife through the bottom of the jaw was the first thing that came to my mind. With the hand on the guy's mouth and the eye contact. 

Oh, and Sin City, Marv killing Kevin. The former's eyes and the latter's smile. Chills. 

 

[LastMinuteSavior]

I love a good standoff, and this one is pretty memorable:

 

 

 

Saw this with friends at the movie theater back in 2004, and we laughed our asses off because of the zombie who picks up the propane tank:

 

 

 

Every kill in this movie is spectacular:

 

Very disturbing:

 

 

And two very memorable anime kill scenes:

 

 

 

[Redgrave]

The scene in RoboCop where the malfunction with ED-209 is funny to me because of how over the top it is. Paul Verhoeven really mastered the art of people getting shot up.

 

 

I also like the cut-off screams while getting vaporized by a phaser in the Star Trek movies. I don't know why but cut-off screams while someone gets vaporized is really funny to me.

 

 

Lastly I haven't seen the movie this is from but I finally have an excuse to post this ?

 

 

[NMErickson]

Would be tough to think about one kill from all the (mostly horror) movies I have seen so I’ll go with a kinda recent killer scene that was memorable.
 

 

It’s from the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Netflix where Leatherface just walks up

*SPOILER*

in a party bus full of influencers and slices through them like warm butter. Very satisfying.

”Try anything and you’re cancelled, bro” ?

 

Edited December 22, 2022 by NMErickson
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[Solid-Fisch]

Well... lets see. I'm just dropping here the first things that come to mind.

 

Favorite death scene:

The Chestbuster in Alien. A must see. Cinematic history.

 

Favorite kill scene:

From the fantastic Joker movie from 2019, Joaquin Phonenix telling Robert de Niro a killing joke.

 

 

Not a real killscene actually, but maybe the coolest gun knockout ever:

(Side note: almost every kill in this movie was and still is spectacular)

Edited December 20, 2022 by Solid-Fisch

[Fluffythexeno]

The movie seed. I mean the whole movie is messed up but the hammer scene in the living room is something else. It's not quick and it does make you feel a little messed up watching it. 

[James Tiger]

The first Resident Evil moive has a lot of good death scenes, like the elevator scene at the beginning.

 

And the laser hallway.

 

[neospoon]

it has to be this one for me!

Edited December 21, 2022 by neospoon

[NMErickson]

10 minutes ago, James Tiger said:

And the laser hallway.

 

Good call on the laser hallway. I remember thinking that was so cool back then. They catch a lot of flak but I genuinely enjoyed the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill films. Before they got silly.

[Jamescush147]

 

Classic head explode.

[rednaxnxam]

6 hours ago, JRPGChris said:

Sofia Coppola getting killed in The Godfather Part III is also up there, but that was because she was such a horrible actress in that role.

This.  This.  This.  Her acting was absolutely Godawful in that movie.

 

One of my favorite kill scenes is in the remake of The Last House on the Left, toward the end, where they nuke the jerk's head in the microwave.

[Trancexistence]

The opening sequence from Ghost Ship is a classic. Not a particularly great movie but this scene was inventive:

 

 

[StewartBros]

There are a few definite classics that come to mind, like Quint's death in Jaws, or the scene in the fourth Rambo where Rambo rips out a guy's throat with his bare hands.

 

One of my personal favourites, though, is the finale from the 1986 road/horror movie The Hitcher, where Rutger Hauer's psychopathic villain meets his end.  It's not so much that the death scene is overly gruesome (despite the film being blasted at the time for its "horrible violence"), but more for its symbolism and the way in which the film handles the scene.  There's very little dialogue between the protagonist and antagonist, there's no cheesy wisecrack right before the kill, and the whole scene features stunning cinematography, with relatively little music.

 

Hauer gives a truly terrifying performance in this film, which makes it all the more satisfying to see him receive his just desserts at the end.

 

 

[Slava]

Rama killing the baseball bat guy in The Raid 2 with his own weapon was memorable:

 

 

 

And this whole fight was insane. It gets more and more violent and ends with a brutal kill.

 

 

[Solid-Fisch]

Everytime I see all these martial art fighting scenes I feel like...

 

 

[JRPGChris]

I also feel the need to include the final battle in The War of the Roses.  That movie is more brutal than Gladiator was.