The execution scene was in Angels with Dirty Faces, and it didn’t strike me as at all comical.
At the end of White Heat, Cagney’s character yells “Made it, Ma! Top o’ the world!” just before the giant oil tank he’s standing on blows up, which was pretty cool, I must say.
Indeed. In fact, my impression is that he (the character) did that because he’d heard and listened to his old friend the priest’s plea that he do something so that the kids who were hero-worshipping him would rethink that and maybe make better choices than he had.
Probably the guy from Enter the Ninja. “Oh, well!”
I would nominate the bad guy’s death in Ghost. First, they had to make some incredibly convoluted Ruben-esque series of accidents so Swayze wouldn’t kill him directly. Then, the animation was so terrible it appeared to me like black colored smurfs dragged him to hell.
Jet Li’s death in Lethal Weapon 3 was pretty bad too. Apparently, you can defeat a master martial artists by jumping on him and holding his arms/legs down. Also, how did they get the gun to fire underwater?
I also crack up for every death scene where the person gets cubed, like the Alice hallway scene in Resident Evil 1. I wonder why they always stick together for a dramatic second or two before falling into perfectly sized tofu cubes, when actually they should fall apart in long thin cubs like a jinga game, or they should look like one of those restaurant blooming onions. Or, the way the black guy’s face dramatically slides off after being sliced by christian bale in Equillibrium. I’m thinking it should fly off like when you’re chopping a cucumber or carrot.
The death scenes in Scream 1 were awesomely bad too, because the actors being killed were terrible actors to begin with. My personal razzie goes to Rose McGowan who has no right to be an actor in the first place getting doored to death.
I hadn’t seen the movie for awhile, so I checked and you’re right. The victim is not standing in the chest. My mistake.
So I guess I’ll have to change my vote to Unfaithful where a music box is the weapon of choice. The guy must’ve had a skull made of peanut brittle.
Is this clip from the 1973 Turkish film “Kareteci Kız” (Karate Girl") the worst movie death scene ever? A Reddit user who recently posted the clip thinks so. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks. :D:D:D
That scene cemented my atheism.
Actually, you can fire guns underwater, but the shockwave is especially dangerous, particularly to one’s ears.
I haven’t seen this movie, but I’m highly amused at the thought of a movie where getting “cubed” is the method of execution. It sounds more like cooking than slaying. Cube, julienne and lightly fry the victim … just like Hannibal would do. 
Although you have to watch taking in context the acting styles of the time, I would say its one of the best death scenes ever. The fact that people still debate if he was begging for his life just to help the kids proves that.
I’m sorry, but you can’t beat the death-by-hamster scene from the Turkish movie 3 DEV ADAM, also known as “Evil Spider-Man Vs. Captain America and a Mexican Wrestler.”
Except for one, what was the movie(s) where the kids accidentally cheat death, then they all die in a grisly manner? When that girl stepped off a curb and then suddenly she gets creamed by a bus… well, I believed that she was most definately departed. 
That’s one hungry hamster.
Wasn’t that a guinea pig? And are they omnivores?
Shouldn’t it have been a starving rat, just to be more classically set? There was more than one time in the Fu Manchu series that someone was executed or tortured by being eaten or threatened by starving rats. [I need to revisit the series, great winter in front of the fire reading!]
Thanks..I had the two flicks mixed up! “White Heat” did have aneat ending!
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Any death scene where a blue screen background is promient…so usually falling deaths in older movies just look just look stupid.
Hans Gruber in Die Hard springs to mind as well as the lead nazi in IJ: The Last Crusade.
Well, there’s Shakespeare. Somebody gets stabbed in the heart, then gives a 300-line speech about how much that sucked. 
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Somebody’s going to protest and say they love this, or that they think it’s great, but when Akira Kurosawa did the final death svcene for Sanjuro, he wanted to respond to all the critics who complained that the death scenes in his samurai epics (*Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, * arguably Rashomon) were too clean and bloodless, so he gave them all the blood they wanted, and more. When the bad guy gets sliced open with Toshiro Mifune’s sword, it’s as if he hit the Aorta. Of an Ox. There’s a spray of blood to rival the staking of Lucy in Mel Brooks’ Dracula…Dead and Loving it, except that this is a nominally serious film.
I tried to post a link, but Toho had the Youtube video of this scene taken down.
What about the grumpy doctor in ER who survived getting his arm chopped off by helicopter only to have one dropped on him a few months later. That’s way worse than falling down an elevator shaft.
Doesn’t somebody get bus-creamed in every Final Destination movie? I thought it was a running gag or something.
Short earlier thread, in which I’m rather proud of my contribution