Best Death Scenes in a Movie

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Was this done before. If so sorry.

 

Sean Connery The Untouchables

 

Al Pacino in Scarface

 

John Amos in Die Hard 2

 

James Caan in Godfather

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Scarface ... 'nuff said.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

All the deaths in Terror Firmer are great.

 

Frenchy Cabazonne in Cannibal! The Musical.

 

Marcus in The Dead Hate The Living! (if only for how REAL the effects look).

 

HEAD-CRUSHING SCENE~!~ from The Toxic Avenger.

[Guest godthedog]

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i think the best death scene ever would have to go to tommy (joe pesci) from 'goodfellas'. that's just off the top of my head, there may be others.

 

other contenders:

 

baptism scene from 'the godfather' (ALMOST nudges out 'goodfellas').

 

'reservoir dogs' is filled with great death scenes. almost every character in that movie has a great death scene.

 

*special bonus, worst death scene in a great movie* vertigo, easily. it just kinda happens, and you're like "wait, what the fuck?" and then suddenly it's over.

[Guest cabbageboy]

Cagney had about 4 that you can call awesome death scenes:

 

Spoilers:

 

Public Enemy: he kills 6 dudes and falls in the gutter saying "I ain't so tough." Then he's delivered to his house on a slab.

 

Angels with Dirty Faces: He feigns cowardice as he goes to the chair as a favor to the priest.

 

Roaring 20s: He dies on the steps of the church after killing Bogey and his men.

 

White Heat: Best one, "Top of the world, ma!" Nuff said.

[Guest Harry Hood]

For horror movies, which should be held to a different regard from the movies listed here:

 

the bikers in Dawn of the Dead

Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead

Tina in Nightmare on Elm Street

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

Terminator - The Terminator

[Guest Youth N Asia]

We have this thread every couple months. Always fun.

 

Pee Wee's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer...gets staked then takes forever to die. "Ahhhh...ouch....owww....ahhhh..." and so one, very funny.

 

Both priest deaths in The Omen...one gets spiked and the other gets beheaded.

 

Jason X...campers...heh

 

Then of course...the last 5 minutes of Beware, Children At Play anyone else see this?

Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead

"Choke on it! Choke on it!"

[Guest J*ingus]

Both priest deaths in The Exorcist...one gets spiked and the other gets beheaded.

You mean The Omen? (And even then, they weren't both priests.)

 

My favorite death of all time is the flashback to Sharon Stone's father's death in The Quick & The Dead... too funny for words. The little girl in Assault On Precinct 13 is a close second, though. (I think extreme movie violence involving young children is funny as hell.)

[Guest Youth N Asia]

You mean The Omen? (And even then, they weren't both priests.)

Shit, even as I was typing it I was thinking to myself "Don't confuse this with the Exorcist"

 

Bah, I am tired

 

And the death from that turkey The Quick and the Dead was funny...shouldn't have been, but was. What a crappy movie.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Pesci getting pounded with bats and buried alive in Casino.

[Guest Lethargic]

The little dog in Komodo.

[Guest SP-1]

I'm probably going to get flamed out of the folder for it, but . . .

 

*Moulin Rouge Spoilers*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satine's death at the end. Not so much for Kidman's acting, but because McGregor does grief like few can. The theater was just in stunned silence throughout when I saw it, and it just leaves you with a heavy feeling in the air.

 

 

 

And the Baptism in Godfather. One of the greatest sequences I've ever seen.

 

SP

[Guest Black Tiger]

The Dario in Licence To Kill, stuck into a shredder FEET FIRST.

 

In horror movies it would have to be Crispin Glover in F13 part 4, when he gets the corkscrew stuck in his hand and then knifed in the face, or the guy in F13 3, who gets sliced in half while walking on his hands.

[Guest Harry Hood]

or the guy in F13 3, who gets sliced in half while walking on his hands.

oh , touche!

 

How about in FF7, sleeping bag...ahhhhhhhh good memories from my camp days...

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

A good one from I think Lethal Weapon 2, the cop that gets blown up as she jumps into her swimming pool. Just looked cool

 

Most of the others I like are taken.

 

Actually, both Don Corlenones in The Godfather had superb deaths that kind of mirror each other and show the opposites of each at the time of their demises. Vito dies while playing with his grandchild who runs off to find someone and tell them that Grandpa isn't doing so well, while Michael is utterly alone and just keels over with just a dog as the only witness

 

BTW I'm surprised no one mentions this but what about Boba Fett's in ROTJ? At least Jango had a more fitting end.

 

Khan goes out in a great Blaze of Glory in Star Trek II TWOK, not too many great Trek movie deaths. Borg Queen in First Contact maybe, gets her skin ripped off by Data "Resistance IS FUTILE!" and neck is snapped by Picard.

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

This one isn't even debateable: Robert Deniro at the end of Heat.

 

All others pale in comparison.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I like all the deaths in 15 Minutes a lot...

[Guest cabbageboy]

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Really? I thought De Niro's death in 15 Minutes was really bizarre. I almost was expecting a punchline, like him turning up in the last scene and saying "Haha, I'm not really dead!" His death was about 75m into the movie, which stunned me.

 

Here is one I saw not too long ago: George Murphy's death scene in Border Incident, he gets crushed by a combine!

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I liked it, cabbage, because it WAS bizarre. Here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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...you have a legendary actor in Robert DeNiro as a headliner. However, he plays a character that is, for all intents an purposes, a supporting player (albeit a HUGE supporting player). He gets off'd half an hour before the end of the movie, and by being stabbed. It's GREAT in the sense that him being wasted is COMPLETELY unexpected, especially with the last-minute struggle before he gets stabbed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest Prototype450]

BTW I'm surprised no one mentions this but what about Boba Fett's in ROTJ? At least Jango had a more fitting end.

 

 

Not to sound like a complete asshole but in the Star Wars books

 

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Another Bounty hunter somes and rescues Boba Fett from the stomach of that worm. Boba Fett goes on to compete in the Bounty Hunter tournament to the duh,duh,duh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEATH

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I'm probably going to get flamed out of the folder for it, but . . .

 

*Moulin Rouge Spoilers*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satine's death at the end. Not so much for Kidman's acting, but because McGregor does grief like few can. The theater was just in stunned silence throughout when I saw it, and it just leaves you with a heavy feeling in the air.

 

 

 

And the Baptism in Godfather. One of the greatest sequences I've ever seen.

 

SP

They tell you she's dead at the beginning of the movie though. It would have been a better impact if they had not.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I always liked Marco's death in Die Hard, where McClane shoots him from underneath the table. Then his corpse gets tossed out the window and lands on Powell's police cruiser.

 

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