Really Cool Killing/Death Scenes SPOILERS most likely

IdleRich

IdleRich
This thread was inspired by watching this film called The Nun, it's part of The Conjuring "franchise" to give it the depressingly soulless term which they no doubt prefer.

Anyway, I'm home alone, The Nun comes on.... never mentioned it before but I am a bit of a coward with these things and I thought to myself "Hmmm, if I watch this will I scare myself? Will I be jumping at every noise, afraid to turn the light off when I should sleep, unable to sleep, then when I finally do, tormented by nightmarish nightnares?" suffice it to say, I need not have worried.

But, to my surprise SPOILER the final bit when they killed the demonic Nun was good. Basically the only way to kill her turned out to be the blood of christ or something (I wasn't really paying attention by that point) and luckily they managed to get hold of a glass vial of it. So, final scene, the goodie has the vial but The Nun manages to grab her and hold her under water until she is all but dead... and then the glass vial floats to the top of the water broken and empty... the blood is gone... the goodie is totally defenceless and The Nun knows it! Oh no, how can she get out of this one?

So she (The Nun) lifts her (the goodie - also a nun, but not THEE nun) out of the water by the throat, holding her up in triumph, gloating before delivering the coup de grace... except at the last minute, the goodie spits into her face - it turns out she had broken the glass herself and kept the blood in her mouth the whole time, holding her breath, hoping for that one opportunity which she seized perfectly. The blood hits The Nun and she sizzles and burns up and dies in horrible agony I guess.

It was a cool turnaround. It reminded me a little bit of Die Hard when Bruce Willis comes out SPOILER to surrender to the bad guy and he's got his hands on the back of his head and he's shirtless so there absolutely no way he can have a concealed weapon... except he's only fucking sellotaped it to his bare back and he grabs it and shoots Hans Gruber or whatever his name is and - after a bit more buggering around - he falls about a thousand storeys to his death. Yeah!

So yeah, more examples of that kind of thing please. Of course there will be loads of spoilers cos normally the big bad guy gets the best death. So this thread is often about the end of films. So please assume there are SPOILERS almost everywhere you look.

Hand in hand with Die Hard I have to mention Robocop. Long story short, Robocop has a secret command that means he can't kill executives from the company that made him, so as he tries to shoot the baddie he can't pull the trigger, but the biggest boss is there and he shouts "Dick you're fired" so he is no longer an employee and then Robocop shoots him and he falls through a window and plunges a thousand storeys to his death.

OK, those had to be got out of the way... more interesting ones to follow...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
The original Django has a good one. Over the course of the film the baddies have tortured the fick out of him and broken all his fingers so he can't fire a gun. At the end of the film theh have him pinned down helplessly behind a tombstone as they take potshots at him and taunt him.

As they do so Django painfully removes the trigger guard with his broken fingers and then when they give a final taunt he replies with the mot juste - actually I've seen more than one witty rejoinder depending on which dubbing you watch - and then he fans the hammer with one hand while using the gravestone to pull the trigger as he unerringly cuts down a the bad guys.

 

version

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The main guy in Tokyo Drifter chucking his gun on the floor during the final shootout so the goons come toward him then just picking it up again and shooting them all, also throwing it in the air, running and catching it like he's fielding then shooting his old boss.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
The main guy in Tokyo Drifter chucking his gun on the floor during the final shootout so the goons come toward him then just picking it up again and shooting them all, also throwing it in the air, running and catching it like he's fielding then shooting his old boss.
Is that that kind of annoying musical one?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I saw a great kill by Dave Bautista in a film.called Final Score - I was flicking through the channels and saw this great scene and thought "wow" so I rewound it and watched it from the start... there were no other good moments in the whole film.

Anyway, Bautista kills this one guy in the kitchen to the West Ham Stadium (think still at Upton Park) and during the fight the bad guy drops his knife into one of the deep fat fryers filled with boiling oil. Then Bautista is fighting this unfeasibly large terrifying beast of a man who is getting the better of him, slowly forcing his head towards the boiling oil, until big Dave remembers the knife is in there and, gritting his teeth against the pain, he thrusts his hand into the oil grabs the knife out and stabs the monster man in the neck and then drowns him in boiling oil for good measure. When his girlfriend - who is an unfeasibly beautiful and deadly Russian king foo master or something - finds him his face has been melted into a horrible twisted mess.

Edit; it's also worth noting that although the injury sustained from the oil would be enough to totally incapacitate a normal man for months - skin peeled from the arm back to the elbow, passed out if not dead from excruciating pain etc - it turns out that wrapping a handkerchief around the forearm is enough to allow super Dave to carry on as normal - by which I mean punching and kicking his way through an entire army of Chechnyan fanatics, racing motorbikes over the roof of the Boleyn Stadium, climbing the scoreboard, dangling from a helicopter, diving through bomb blasts and so on. When I say all that and think back it's amazing that the film is so boring really.
 
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catalog

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I always like the death of Magua in Last of the Mohicans.

Chingachgook has lost his son Uncas to Magua and goes on the warpath (Hawkeye is support).

You feel a bit worried, at least I did, quite sure that Magua is gonna do him cos he's done his obviously much younger son and Chingachgook is heading towards him in a very rash manner.

And then at the last second, as he approaches, Chingachgook pulls out this ridiculous roll that means he gets a second ahead of Magua and puts the knife in.

 

william_kent

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Kitano in Brother - yeah, I know everyone goes on about Violent Cop, or that dull one about playing baseball, but this co-production has the best death scenes

Kitano's a bad yak, forced into exile where he finds a relative who is into petty crime - too petty for Kitano who instigates a war with the "cartel" who then convene some sort of meeting where they're going to tell the foreign guy who's boss - it's not looking good, the guns that Kitano hid in the toilets can't be retrieved for "reasons", but...



added bonus! - also includes this scene, one of the most unpleasant ways to go?


I can't find a clip of the scene where Kitano shows his "brother" how to take out 5 guys with 5 bullets only - so much quality violence - not a killing, but turning the tables on a mugger is another memorable moment from this film


edit: I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of "age restricted" black boxes appearing on this thread

edit: I'm no stranger to chopstick killings, I've watched HK CAT III films, but the one in Brother stands out - I've watched it in a room full of men who all turned their heads at the same time while making some primal ugh noise... really demonstrates the power of cinema
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
Yeah that first one is blocked out... isn't there one where Kitano takes out an eyeball with a chopstick too?

But I think it's the turning the tables ones I like best.

I always like the death of Magua in Last of the Mohicans.

Chingachgook has lost his son Uncas to Magua and goes on the warpath (Hawkeye is support).

You feel a bit worried, at least I did, quite sure that Magua is gonna do him cos he's done his obviously much younger son and Chingachgook is heading towards him in a very rash manner.

And then at the last second, as he approaches, Chingachgook pulls out this ridiculous roll that means he gets a second ahead of Magua and puts the knife in.


I never watched that film cos I could never get past the first page but the book.

Speaking of books, there is a brilliant tables-turning one that comes to mind... I can't remember what it is from but it's one of those true life of crime things like Pimp or something but not that - any ideas what it could be? - the narrator is in prison and, when he goes for a shower, inevitably this huge beast moves in to bum him.... our hero tricks the aggressor into letting his guard down to the extent that the guy has actually got his dick up his arse before he retaliates by grabbing the guys balls and ripping them right off.

Edit; maybe Soul on Ice
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
I'm not particularly asking for ultraviolent here though by the way (despite the example I just picked) - I'm more after clever and inventive ones. That bit in The Nun was genuinely surprising, the more so cos that scene contained more inventiveness than the entirety of the preceeding film...
 
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william_kent

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Speaking of books, there is a brilliant tables-turning one that comes to mind... I can't remember what it is from but it's one of those true life of crime things like Pimp or something but not that - any ideas what it could be? - the narrator is in prison and, when he goes for a shower, inevitably this huge beast moves in to bum him.... our hero tricks the aggressor into letting his guard down to the extent that the guy has actually got his dick up his arse before he retaliates by grabbing the guys balls and ripping them right off.

the Brother scene is sort of turning the tables - unarmed at a cartel meet, lots of heavily armed cholos standing outside the door, the cartel is not going to let them leave alive...I would have been carried out in bin bags, but not Kitano...

could the shower scene be from a Donald Goines novel? I'm thinking "White Men's Justice, Black Man's Grief" - that's his "prison" book - I've not read that one though.. ( although from the ones I have read, it sounds like the sort of thing he would write.. )
 

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Kitano in Brother - yeah, I know everyone goes on about Violent Cop, or that dull one about playing baseball, but this co-production has the best death scenes

Honourable mention to Sonatine, for the bar scene:



I think it's great for the combination of tension and unpredictability - we're inside the Kitano character's head, and he knows that there are people after him and his crew, but when the attack does come it's completely out of the blue with no cinematic buildup or telegraphing to let him or us know that it's coming.
 
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WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Rewatching the Sopranos, some gems. Janice doing Richie Aprile, marone. The dialogue, tone shift, everything that leads up to it....



Haven’t even got to Adriana‘s hit. The way she falls for Christopher’s gifts while getting regularly beaten is grim as fuck. Then the Feds get into her. Her stomach slowly corrodes itself, until finally she comes clean to Christopher. You think for maybe 5 mins there’s an out, just enough to reset the viewer. But TS phones telling her Christopher has taken an overdose, so she has to see him but slowly her lift w/Silvio driving further and further off-road indicates otherwise



The hit on the Shah of Iran/Phil Leotardo is good, but his brother’s previous murder where Silvio gets sprayed with blood and the sound mutes is quality

 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Both Baccala deaths. The first for betrayal, dialogue, blood, the way he waits too long and “let the water run and make sure it’s cold”



Bobby Jnr. His daft train set hobby. One tragic figure who should’ve had another life but you go deep enough the air runs out. The camera on the train, model faces aghast, its sense of menace, quality

 

catalog

Well-known member
yeah those are all classics. tony's sister doing richie was brilliant, he was such an annoying twat. adriana one pretty dark.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
You read my mind, swap chainsaw for black swan though


Fun thread, got to drive to fuckin Selly Oak, sure Craner has a file on Eurocult killings. Anthems to death in Suspiria

 
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