Traxan

Inspired by the awful demise of BDH's assistant in Jurassic World...

What movie death struck you as a particularly harsh or awful way to go? Besides Jurassic World, the one I always remember is in "Total Recall" Arnold edition. It takes place after Quaid arrives on Mars. THe disguise malfunctions and he has to run.

As he's charging up an escalator, some cops appear at the top and start shooting. Quaid grabs some schlub in front of him and uses him as a shield. Within seconds he's got a shitload of bullets in him and Quaid is holding up a dead body. All i could think was damn, that's awful.

Yours?

RichC2

Out of Sight: It isn't particularly bad, but it was just a silly and memorable way to go.

E Unit

Well damn, I thought Richter's death in Total Recall was a hell of a lot worse, losing your arms like that. But for me, Sam MuthaFucka Jackson's death in Deep Blue Sea was da bomb.

Crocker Jarmen

To be fair, the cops had already shot and killed that guy before Quaid used him as a shield.

Michael Corvin

You could probably fill a list with Final Destination and Saw deaths alone.

Why So Blu?

ED-209 turning Kinney into swiss cheese in Robocop. The unrated version is way worse.

majorjoe23

Toilet lawyer in the first Jurassic Park.

dom56

Ants carry that russian baddie back to the anthill in Indiana Jones 4 had me laughing. Yeah, it was that bad.

rw2516

The guy getting mauled by bear in Back Country
Bone Tomahawk

DWilson

In Roland Emmerich's "2012", John Cusack's rival for his wife/ex-wife's attentions (I haven't seen it in a few years so I'm fuzzy on the details) is polished off in a kind of silly (but grisly) fashion, just to get him out of the way. The same thing happens in "San Andreas" where his rival for Carla Gugino is gotten rid of in a pretty ho-hum fashion, again just to get him out of the way. I'd much rather see a Richard Chamberlain in "The Towering inferno" end, where the big giant "rat" goes out in a big way.
Speaking of which, in "Inferno" you have former big star Jennifer Jones as a sweet older woman who saves some kids and makes a love connection with con man Fred Astaire only to be thrown out of an elevator during the final reel.

Disaster movies are full of these kind of deaths....

inri222

EddieMoney

^^^

We may have a winner.

redtornado

In a similar vein...

hbilly

I always thought Mary Ellen Trainor's death in Action Jackson (1988) was brutal, vicious and unnecessary.

Traxan

That wasn't so much ignoble/undignified as just plain fucking horrible. I'm used to horror movies that kill someone and move on. Here, those savages butchered a man alive.

Maz Kanata

That dude getting disemboweled in Valhalla Rising.

EddieMoney

Just watched "Green Room" and that has quite a few. I have to go with Big Justin getting choked out and then being disemboweled while unconscious is right up there.

Rad14

William Wallace being hung, drawn and quartered in Braveheart.
Although nothing was really visible in the latter stages, you seemed to feel every cut!

OldBoy

Kelly Preston, bare breasted, getting shot in 52 Pick-Up always stuck with me.

OldBoy

also, the little girl from Witch Mountain in the original Assault on Precinct 13.

emachine12

Jurassic World beats the toilet lawyer...

Mondo Kane

Day of the Dead

^That poor guy goes through an awful lot

EddieMoney

Franklin in TCM dies a real sad bastard death...chainsawed in his rolling legs.

"Jeeeerrrryyyy!!!"

GoldenJCJ

Franklin is one of the most annoying characters in film history. It may have been undignified but it was a pleasure to see his whiny ass go!

EddieMoney

I think he was frustrated because he wanted to bang his sister. Too bad for him, he wasn't able to bang anything, not even livestock.