12/1/07

My Top 5 Favorite Movie Deaths...

Here's a list of five of my favorite movie deaths. Not all of them our from a horror film and these are the best I could think of off the top of my head. It's difficult to pick just five, but here's some of my favorites.

5. Thir13een Ghosts- Nasty lawyer gets sliced like bread. It happens quickly when a glass pane comes straight down vertically on his head cutting him in half. His glasses and tie fall off first as you quickly realize that the door went all the way through. His body slides down with trails of blood.

4. Jurassic Park- The toilet scene. I must have a theme going here with lawyers biting the dust. This guy hides in a bathroom stall from a T-Rex on route leaving the kids to fend for themselves. Walls come down and he goes down the dinosaur's stomach. Hope he finished while he was in there.

3. Batman- Joker's death. Very odd choice on my part. I have a fear of heights and when Jack Nicholson falls from the top of the bell tower. Ouch. The fall seems like it takes forever, but happens relatively quick. When the police approach his body they hear an eerie laughter emanating from an object in his pocket.

2. The Godfather- Toll booth scene. Lots of great deaths in this film. Probably the most iconic being Sonny getting splattered by bullets at a toll booth. Sonny leaves to defend his sister and set up for one of the ultimate ambushes in movie history. Very reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde's death.

1. Psycho- Shower scene. Need I say more? One of if not the most iconic death scenes in film history. People recognize it without having ever seen Hitchcock's masterpiece. The camera work leaves the stabbing of Marion Crane up to the viewers interpretation when the knife is never shown actually in her flesh. Most people you ask believe that to be the end of the film when it is merely only one third into the film. Hitchcock kills off the main actress Janet Leigh with two-thirds to go. Impressive. Even more impressive is the fact chocolate syrup was used as fake blood. Fooled me and everyone else.

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