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The Thing - Bennings Infection Scene It’s a 3.5+ minute clip, but the “good part” is over by the 2 miunte mark.
I was all set to declare you the thread winner, until I realized that you didn’t link to the defibrillator scene.
Meh; Copper just got his arms ate off. Pick any SyFy Monster-of-the-Week “movie” and you’ll see the same.
Bennings was…absorbed…by something…with bloody tentacles…
:shudder:
Now if you’re referring to a certain perambulatory disembodied head, then yeah, okay, but technically, that wasn’t dead, until it got shot by a flamethrower.
Again, meh; I watched a guy with a flamethrower get shot and go kablooey on D-Day in Saving Private Ryan.
Now I have to see The Thing.
Yeah, he got his arms ate off - when the guy he was trying to ressucitate spontaneously transformed his torso into a giant mouth, and then tried to escape by detaching his own head. How many SyFy movies do you see *that *happen in?
I always thought of that scene as the creature trying to imitate Bennings, but not having enough time to get the hands right. Although I guess, with this creature, it works out pretty much the same. But if I wanted a good tentacle-oriented death scene from The Thing, I’d have gone with the dogs in the cage over Bennings.
Well, by that standard, Bennings wasn’t technically dead either, until they doused him with gasoline and threw a lit flare at him.
Which raises an interesting question - when exactly did Bennings die? When he was set of fire, or when the thing infected him? Does being infected by the thing count as dying, or are you still alive in there somewhere, screaming?
I vote for still alive and screaming, because that’s way more fucked up.
Nothing, but nothing ever scared me more than this scene.
Too bad the rest of that movie sucked.
It just occured to me that I’m not counting “creature deaths” in my selection criteria; I have no idea why, other than an unrecognized ('til now) humanocentric viewpoint.
Counting creature deaths, then yeah, Norris-Thing eating a guy’s arms and then popping his head off so it can turn into a spider-Thing is pretty bitchin’.
Yeah, the Kennel scene gets full props for “introductory shock value,” but for me, personally, seeing Bennings being absorbed alive, twitching feebly, has a certain squick factor. TV Tropes calls it something like Body Horror or Nightmare Fuel.
That wasn’t Bennings that got doused by gas; it was Bennings-Thing. At least, I’m pretty sure it was. And I reckon a victim dies sometime during the absorption process.
I don’t even wanna think about “alive-and-screaming.”
I hope the planned prequel goes a little further into the details of the absorb/duplicate process.
In case anyone’s interested - Outpost 31.
You BASTARD. Thanks for not warning me what scene that was, from what movie.
Okay, try this one for size.
Here’s a whole slew of them from 30 Days of Night. For the purposes of this thread, I’m counting the entire town as one “kill.” Note particularly the overhead tracking shot at about the one minute mark.
A personal fave is from the 2008 Mirrors
The Bathroom Jaw Ripping Scene
NB no sound and mediocre quality but good enough to appreciate.
There is a higher res version Here with sound BUT the uploader has screwed up the aspect ratio.
Gotta go with the opening scene in JAWS.
Eh, I was going to say Quint’s death. Every time I see that it gives me nightmares. Slipping, sliding inexorably towards the maw of the beast, kicking at it in futility, being subsumed and bitten in the chest, gurgling blood as those massive teeth shear open your heart…brrrrr…
It’s not particularly harrowing, but the cameraman death scene in the original Omen has always stood out to me as the only worthwhile moment in that movie, and it’s still my go-to “cool” movie death.
I’ve got to go with the deaths of the last three (? it’s been awhile) soldiers in Day of the Dead. Classic.
Then there’s the numerous deaths in Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, if that still qualifies as a “horror” film. Hell, the slippery aftermath of the lawnmower scene was perfect, just by itself. 