man what a way to go welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
worst ways to die in movies
for this list ranked the most painful
pilot for just downright cringe inducing
methods of death visualized in cinema
whether the on-screen deaths take mere
moments or are drawn out in sickening
detail these are the scenes which most
disturbed us as movie fans a major
spoiler alert is in order here as we
will likely be discussing major plot
points as the list rolls forward number
10 devoured by zombies Day of the Dead
it can be easy to forget given today’s
zombie friendly climate just how
shocking death by undead was back in the
genres earlier heyday
this style of demise is slow agonising
and demonstrated with vicious realism in
George a Romero’s 1985 classic day of
the dead as the villainous captain
Rhodes meets his end at the hands and
teeth of a zombie horde the best part
Rhodes is defiant tanta prowl Ghanim as
the heroic zombie soldier bub looks on
and salutes his fallen former tormentor
number nine when Carnac dis attack
King Kong director Peter Jackson’s
big-budget remake of the iconic King
Kong was notable for some pretty
impressive CGI set pieces including this
scene where Carl denims expedition to
Skull Island encounters some serious
bugs who don’t exactly take kindly to
visitors one member of denim’s crew
suffers are particularly nasty bait when
a slimy worm like creature swallows him
alive headfirst gruesomely digesting him
while his screams echo to his hapless
crewmates all of whom are fighting off
bug attacks at their own I’ll be careful
it’s a disturbing scene that still
manages to give us the willies every
time we watch
now break dinner for a tyrannosaurus rex
jurassic park keep absolutely still
squaring off against a Tyrannosaurus Rex
is never a battle anyone wants to endure
but it’s made exponentially worse when
one happens to be sitting on a toilet
unfortunately this is exactly what
happens to lawyer Donald Gennaro when a
devastating t-rex runs roughshod in the
original Jurassic Park where does he
think he’s gone
Gennaro is attempting to hide from the
rampaging dinosaur King but is soon
discovered and devoured in what is one
of the franchise’s most iconic scenes
Gennaro may live through Michael
Crichton’s original novel but his death
in this big-screen adaptation remains a
classic number 7 shark attack Jaws lower
much has been said of the mechanical
issues that director Steven Spielberg
encountered during the production of
John’s leading to the decision show as
little of the shark as possible until
the right moment for us that moment is
the shocking and sudden death of Quint
the gruff but lovable shark hunter
played by Robert Shaw
this brutal attack spares neither
feelings nor sentiment when the audience
is forced to witness this character
they’ve come to love and admire
suffering at the Sharks cruel
unrelenting jaws it’s a scene that
continues to shock and scare to this day
number six human sacrifice Apocalypto
Mel Gibson is no stranger to on-screen
violence or torture with the actor’s
gruesome demise in Braveheart still
ringing loudly in our memory but this
sequence from the writer directors 2006
film stands out as particularly
disturbing Gibson’s tale of the Mayan
cultures twilight years is notable not
only for its usage of indigenous actors
and authentic language but also for its
unflinching depictions of violence
particularly during the scenes of human
sacrifice it may be the close shots of
the victims eyes before the ceremonial
knife plunges down or it could be the
numerous shaking stab wounds but this
scene leaves us truly haunted number 5
bearing witness to the Ark of the
Covenant Raiders of the Lost Ark
there are some things that you just
can’t unsee and then there are those
other things that burn out your eye
sockets and melt the flesh off your
bones shut your eyes Marion don’t look
at it no matter what happens this was
the unfortunate Veda but not see bad
guys who were arrogant enough to open
the religious artifact known as the Ark
of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost
Ark it’s only thanks to the humility and
awe shown by the captive Indian Marion
who have their eyes tightly shut the
entire time that our heroes make it out
of this heavenly wrath alive those Nazis
though not so much
number four getting stabbed in the
shower psycho there are a few situations
more vulnerable and frightening than
being accosted while you’re taking a
shower but this legendary scene from
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho takes that
paranoia and amplifies a tentpole not
only does the lovely Janet Leigh show a
daring amount of skin for 1960 but her
iconic death has runaway criminal Mary
and crane also set the gold standard for
suspenseful slasher scenes for years to
come
the mysterious shadowed killer behind
the curtain the piercingly tragic scream
and the classic musical sting it’s all
the stuff of legend and definitely one
of the worst ways to die in a movie oh
God number three eaten alive the green
inferno director Eli Roth’s green
inferno was an omage to the grindhouse
Italian cannibal films of the 1970s and
80s and nowhere is that gruesomeness
more evident than in the chunk blowin
demise of Jonah on the cannibal altar of
sacrifice
the kind but tragically doomed activist
is literally ripped limb from limb and
devoured by the cannibals in shockingly
gruesome detail
the tribes female elder thinks nothing
of tearing out Jonah’s tongue eyes and
innards all while his friends watch
helplessly from their cages
it’s a scene torn straight from the
Cannibal Holocaust or cannibal ferox
playbook not for the weak of stomach or
faint of heart okay fine you up at five
number two
toxic waste car accident Robocop gotcha
man talk about two bad things that get
worse when you put them together not
only does one of Clarence Boddicker
henchmen get doused in radioactive toxic
waste in the original Robocop
but the mutated baddie is then
unceremoniously splattered by a car
driven by his own boss
talk about a horrible way to die made
all the worse by the wheezing pained
howls as his mutated skin literally
melts from his bones as the waste takes
its disastrous toll this one is just
gross before we take a look at our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
which is done to me number one chest
bursting alien the first thing that I’m
gonna do when I get back is to get some
decent food the Alien franchise has come
a long way since director Ridley Scott
first introduced us to the Xenomorphs in
the late 1970s YouTube one aspect of
these creatures that remains a constant
is their penchant for face-hugging their
victims laying eggs inside of their
human hosts and waiting for the
offspring to gestate before bursting
through their chests with bloody
disastrous results John Hurt remains the
most well remembered victim of chests
bursting as evidenced by his characters
iconic death in the original film Hurt
would even satirize the scene years
later in Mel Brooks’s Spaceballs
oh no no no yeah but for our money the
sequence still ranks as the worst way to
die in a movie do you agree with our
list then you tell me my business again
which cinematic matter of death do you
find the most horrifying
for more gruesomely fun top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
Oh
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
worst ways to die in movies
for this list ranked the most painful
pilot for just downright cringe inducing
methods of death visualized in cinema
whether the on-screen deaths take mere
moments or are drawn out in sickening
detail these are the scenes which most
disturbed us as movie fans a major
spoiler alert is in order here as we
will likely be discussing major plot
points as the list rolls forward number
10 devoured by zombies Day of the Dead
it can be easy to forget given today’s
zombie friendly climate just how
shocking death by undead was back in the
genres earlier heyday
this style of demise is slow agonising
and demonstrated with vicious realism in
George a Romero’s 1985 classic day of
the dead as the villainous captain
Rhodes meets his end at the hands and
teeth of a zombie horde the best part
Rhodes is defiant tanta prowl Ghanim as
the heroic zombie soldier bub looks on
and salutes his fallen former tormentor
number nine when Carnac dis attack
King Kong director Peter Jackson’s
big-budget remake of the iconic King
Kong was notable for some pretty
impressive CGI set pieces including this
scene where Carl denims expedition to
Skull Island encounters some serious
bugs who don’t exactly take kindly to
visitors one member of denim’s crew
suffers are particularly nasty bait when
a slimy worm like creature swallows him
alive headfirst gruesomely digesting him
while his screams echo to his hapless
crewmates all of whom are fighting off
bug attacks at their own I’ll be careful
it’s a disturbing scene that still
manages to give us the willies every
time we watch
now break dinner for a tyrannosaurus rex
jurassic park keep absolutely still
squaring off against a Tyrannosaurus Rex
is never a battle anyone wants to endure
but it’s made exponentially worse when
one happens to be sitting on a toilet
unfortunately this is exactly what
happens to lawyer Donald Gennaro when a
devastating t-rex runs roughshod in the
original Jurassic Park where does he
think he’s gone
Gennaro is attempting to hide from the
rampaging dinosaur King but is soon
discovered and devoured in what is one
of the franchise’s most iconic scenes
Gennaro may live through Michael
Crichton’s original novel but his death
in this big-screen adaptation remains a
classic number 7 shark attack Jaws lower
much has been said of the mechanical
issues that director Steven Spielberg
encountered during the production of
John’s leading to the decision show as
little of the shark as possible until
the right moment for us that moment is
the shocking and sudden death of Quint
the gruff but lovable shark hunter
played by Robert Shaw
this brutal attack spares neither
feelings nor sentiment when the audience
is forced to witness this character
they’ve come to love and admire
suffering at the Sharks cruel
unrelenting jaws it’s a scene that
continues to shock and scare to this day
number six human sacrifice Apocalypto
Mel Gibson is no stranger to on-screen
violence or torture with the actor’s
gruesome demise in Braveheart still
ringing loudly in our memory but this
sequence from the writer directors 2006
film stands out as particularly
disturbing Gibson’s tale of the Mayan
cultures twilight years is notable not
only for its usage of indigenous actors
and authentic language but also for its
unflinching depictions of violence
particularly during the scenes of human
sacrifice it may be the close shots of
the victims eyes before the ceremonial
knife plunges down or it could be the
numerous shaking stab wounds but this
scene leaves us truly haunted number 5
bearing witness to the Ark of the
Covenant Raiders of the Lost Ark
there are some things that you just
can’t unsee and then there are those
other things that burn out your eye
sockets and melt the flesh off your
bones shut your eyes Marion don’t look
at it no matter what happens this was
the unfortunate Veda but not see bad
guys who were arrogant enough to open
the religious artifact known as the Ark
of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost
Ark it’s only thanks to the humility and
awe shown by the captive Indian Marion
who have their eyes tightly shut the
entire time that our heroes make it out
of this heavenly wrath alive those Nazis
though not so much
number four getting stabbed in the
shower psycho there are a few situations
more vulnerable and frightening than
being accosted while you’re taking a
shower but this legendary scene from
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho takes that
paranoia and amplifies a tentpole not
only does the lovely Janet Leigh show a
daring amount of skin for 1960 but her
iconic death has runaway criminal Mary
and crane also set the gold standard for
suspenseful slasher scenes for years to
come
the mysterious shadowed killer behind
the curtain the piercingly tragic scream
and the classic musical sting it’s all
the stuff of legend and definitely one
of the worst ways to die in a movie oh
God number three eaten alive the green
inferno director Eli Roth’s green
inferno was an omage to the grindhouse
Italian cannibal films of the 1970s and
80s and nowhere is that gruesomeness
more evident than in the chunk blowin
demise of Jonah on the cannibal altar of
sacrifice
the kind but tragically doomed activist
is literally ripped limb from limb and
devoured by the cannibals in shockingly
gruesome detail
the tribes female elder thinks nothing
of tearing out Jonah’s tongue eyes and
innards all while his friends watch
helplessly from their cages
it’s a scene torn straight from the
Cannibal Holocaust or cannibal ferox
playbook not for the weak of stomach or
faint of heart okay fine you up at five
number two
toxic waste car accident Robocop gotcha
man talk about two bad things that get
worse when you put them together not
only does one of Clarence Boddicker
henchmen get doused in radioactive toxic
waste in the original Robocop
but the mutated baddie is then
unceremoniously splattered by a car
driven by his own boss
talk about a horrible way to die made
all the worse by the wheezing pained
howls as his mutated skin literally
melts from his bones as the waste takes
its disastrous toll this one is just
gross before we take a look at our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
which is done to me number one chest
bursting alien the first thing that I’m
gonna do when I get back is to get some
decent food the Alien franchise has come
a long way since director Ridley Scott
first introduced us to the Xenomorphs in
the late 1970s YouTube one aspect of
these creatures that remains a constant
is their penchant for face-hugging their
victims laying eggs inside of their
human hosts and waiting for the
offspring to gestate before bursting
through their chests with bloody
disastrous results John Hurt remains the
most well remembered victim of chests
bursting as evidenced by his characters
iconic death in the original film Hurt
would even satirize the scene years
later in Mel Brooks’s Spaceballs
oh no no no yeah but for our money the
sequence still ranks as the worst way to
die in a movie do you agree with our
list then you tell me my business again
which cinematic matter of death do you
find the most horrifying
for more gruesomely fun top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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