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Old 10-22-22 | 05:19 PM
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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?
Old 10-22-22 | 06:33 PM
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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.
Old 10-22-22 | 06:39 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Originally Posted by TomOpus
Most recent one was the naked woman hanging upside down then cut in half.
For us sheltered folks, can you name the 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.
Old 10-22-22 | 06:45 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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?
Old 10-22-22 | 07:04 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Originally Posted by TomOpus
Most recent one was the naked woman hanging upside down then cut in half.
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For us sheltered folks, can you name the movie?
That's from Terrifier. I was going to post the same one. I don't think I've ever seen a kill like that.
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Old 10-22-22 | 07:23 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

That’s part 1 or 2, that kill?
Old 10-22-22 | 07:25 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

the horse in The Cell.
Old 10-22-22 | 07:40 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Originally Posted by OldBoy
That’s part 1 or 2, that kill?
The first Terrifier.

Terrifier 2 had some kills that were even gorier. But sawing the upside-down naked chick down the middle was pretty unique.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

^ sounds similar to the opening kill in Wrong Turn 2. That was awesome.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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^ sounds similar to the opening kill in Wrong Turn 2. That was awesome.
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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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Originally Posted by Kurt D
For us sheltered folks, can you name the movie?
Shit, I thought I did. Sometimes what I'm thinking, doesn't make it to the keyboard. Big Dave already identified it.
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Old 10-23-22 | 07:40 AM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Bone Tomahawk and Ghost Ship were interesting in that regard.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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.

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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.
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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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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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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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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Dead Alive (Braindead): One word - Lawnmower

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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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Old 10-23-22 | 01:27 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

Originally Posted by TheBigDave
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.
i saw Terrifier last night and that is a pretty gory scene, but WT2 was just shocking to me.
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

The gal with the brittle bone disease in Old.
Old 10-24-22 | 02:52 PM
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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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Dead Alive (Braindead): One word - Lawnmower

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First one I thought of. But man, that Terrifier scene sounds nuts.

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Re: Most inventive kill in a horror movie?

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.


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