Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
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Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
Well, it is the month.
Since it’s fresh on my mind, when Michael kills the wife in Halloween Kills with the broken long fluorescent light bulb. Michael has some great kills. But this one he actually thought about and broke the light and shoved it in her neck. How she survived, I’ll never know.
Jason has had some god kills.
Of course the Alien chestburster scene was amazing. I might go with that as my favorite.
I also cringed in a good way, when, in High Tension, Marie, kills the father with the piano shove. The way his head just came off was nightmarish.
But, what do you think is the most creative or inventive kill in a horror movie?
Since it’s fresh on my mind, when Michael kills the wife in Halloween Kills with the broken long fluorescent light bulb. Michael has some great kills. But this one he actually thought about and broke the light and shoved it in her neck. How she survived, I’ll never know.
Jason has had some god kills.
Of course the Alien chestburster scene was amazing. I might go with that as my favorite.
I also cringed in a good way, when, in High Tension, Marie, kills the father with the piano shove. The way his head just came off was nightmarish.
But, what do you think is the most creative or inventive kill in a horror movie?
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
Most recent one was the naked woman hanging upside down then cut in half.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
For my answer, I would say the entire Final Destination franchise, but that's a cheat.
But the real first thing that came to mind was in the first Hatchet when Crowley opened that one guy's mouth backwards.
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The way the boy died in that recent movie that I have trouble recalling title. He was pushed over by a door from, I think the babysitter and he was flown and contorted in the most horrific way. What movie am I blanking out in?
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
That’s part 1 or 2, that kill?
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the horse in The Cell.
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^ sounds similar to the opening kill in Wrong Turn 2. That was awesome.
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That was a good one too. But it was over pretty quick and you don't actually see it. In Terrifier, he does it slowly with a saw, groin to head, and you see him do it. It's much more gory and gruesome.
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Bone Tomahawk and Ghost Ship were interesting in that regard.
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From what I remember of Ghost Ship it kinda shot it's load with the opening scene. But it was a helluva way to open a movie.
Thir13en Ghosts had that guy sliced in half by glass and you could see his insides through the glass as his frontside slides down.
You can see the scene if you search "13 ghosts split lawyer" on YouTube since I can't post due to nudity.
Thir13en Ghosts had that guy sliced in half by glass and you could see his insides through the glass as his frontside slides down.
You can see the scene if you search "13 ghosts split lawyer" on YouTube since I can't post due to nudity.
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Oh yeah I was totally referring to the opening sequence with Ghost Ship, it was all downhill from there.
I feel like I would have been blown away by the 13 Ghosts thing if I hadn't seen The Cell prior to it.
I feel like I would have been blown away by the 13 Ghosts thing if I hadn't seen The Cell prior to it.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
i like the one in the original Resident Evil movie where the officer guy is trying to dodge the red lasers and then all 5 horizontal lasers come out and he is sliced and you see the parts of his body just slip away from one another. that always stuck with me.
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Did you ever see the first Cube movie?
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One of my favs was from that Fear Street series on Netflix, where some kid got their head pushed through some kind of deli slicer. Gruesome!
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The final act of Bone Tomahawk has a troglodyte annihilating a prisoner in one of the most graphic onscreen kills in a mainstream film that I have ever seen. Such an underrated western-thriller-horror film, as well.
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Dead Alive (Braindead): One word - Lawnmower
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i saw Terrifier last night and that is a pretty gory scene, but WT2 was just shocking to me.
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I don't have a fraction of the knowledge or appreciation for horror movies or "kills" that most on the forum do, but I always loved the sleeping bag scene from Friday the 13th part VI.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?
One that still cracks me up is Jason in one of the Friday the 13th flicks taking some kid zipped in a sleeping bag and swinging them into a tree. 







