List of films by gory death scene  

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This is a list of films with gory death scenes, i.e. a list of films in which characters die graphically violent and/or gory deaths, often depicted using special effects. While standards for gore differ, films on this list depict on-screen human deaths with graphic detail, rather than off-screen and implied, depicting loss of blood and body parts (flesh, limbs, internal organs) in large quantity and other types of sadistic deaths.

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List of films by gory death scene [1], a Wikipedia article which did not survive its third deletion request in 2007.

Death by bisection or dismemberment (excluding decapitation)

major productions

• Akira, (1988) an anime film in which several people are torn apart.
• 300 (film) (2007), in which there are 3 beheadings and and several other scenes in which the soldiers are cut into pieces.
• Saw IV, in which a rapist fails to blind both eyes (for being a voyeur) and is violently dismembered.
• Saw V, in which a murderer crushes both his hands to survive a pendulum blade swinging above him, but the pendulum cuts him in half anyway.

minor, cult, or low-budget productions

• 2000 Maniacs, (1964) in which the character of Kitty is tied between 4 horses, which are then whipped in separate directions, ripping off her arms and legs, leaving only the head attached to the torso.
• Allegro non troppo, (1977) in which a marathon runner (animated) is sliced in half by the finish line tape, his lower half continuing to run while his torso falls and bounces.
• Blade II, in which one character is bisected from top to bottom.
• Blind Fury, in which the villain is split into half and falls, with the two halves separating while falling.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which a man is shot, castrated and hacked in half with axes.
• Cannibal Ferox, in which a woman is hung by hooks through her breast and dies slowly.
• Carrie, in which gym teacher Miss Collins is bisected by the basketball hoop in the gym at the fatal prom.
• Catch-22, in which a character is bisected by an aeroplane propeller.
• Cube, in which an unfortunate victim is shredded by a wire trap.
• Cut and Run, in which a man is torn in half by vines being pulled by two trees.
• Damien: Omen II, featuring a death by elevator counterweight.
• Die Hard With a Vengeance, in which a henchman is cut in half by a cable.
• Evil Aliens, in which a man has his genitals brutally ripped off, and his girlfriend gets impreginated by aliens by cutting her stomach open and placing in a baby. It was also implied she may have been raped.
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, in which Amy (Chasey Lain) is cut in half.
• Equilibrium, in which the main character slices off his new partners face using a katana.
• The Doom Generation, in which a character is castrated by a skinhead with garden shears.
• The Evil Dead, in which a Deadite is brutally hacked apart with an axe.
• Final Destination 3, in which Ian (Kris Lemche) has a crane fall on him from above, and the sign bisects him vertically, spilling his organs onto the ground and leaving his intact half twitching briefly, the spasms causing his middle finger to extend.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job where a character's upper body is cut in half vertically by a runaway chainsaw. This happens following a brutal mutilation that doesn't kill him immediately.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Andy is sliced in half with a machete (this scene was cut for an "R" rating, but can be seen in the R1 DVD).
• From Dusk Till Dawn, featuring many instances during "The Vampire Feast."
• Ghost Ship, in which a large number of people are bisected by a steel cable.
• Gladiator, in which a female gladiator is cut in half by a sharp blade attached to a chariot axle.
• The Grudge,in which the caretaker Yoko is possibly killed by having her bottom jaw ripped off, although it's possible that she was killed another way and simply mutilated in the process.
• Hardware, in which a character is chopped in half by a violently closing pair of sliding doors.
• Hellraiser (film series), in which at least one character in all 8 films has their body and face torn apart by hooks embedded throughout.
• House of 1000 Corpses, in which Bill is cut in half by Otis, and his organs are combined with a large fish tail
• Interview with the Vampire, in which the vampire Santiago, is bisected diagonally from shoulder to hip by Louis (Brad Pitt).
• Ichi the Killer, in which a pimp is rudely interrupted from beating a prostitute by being sliced from groin to crown by the title character's boot-blades.
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, in which a girl is stabbed with a fencing post which then goes upwards, ripping her partly in half.
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which a character is split into three by a razor-sharp futuristic whip.
• May, at the end of the movie, May dissects her victims to make a new friend.
• John Carpenter's Vampires, in which a man is torn in half by the hand of a master vampire, also numerous bisections/dismemberments.
• Kill Bill v.1, in which numerous people's limbs are cut off with a sword and one henchman is cut in half from the head down.
• Mermaid in a Manhole, in which a rotting mermaid metaphoric for the killer's pregnant wife is cut into a dozen pieces.
• Mission to Mars, in which a character is ripped to pieces by a vortex on the Martian surface.
• Pieces, in which a young woman is cut in half with a chainsaw.
• Pitch Black, in which one of the characters is torn in half from the waist.
• Predator 2, in which a member of the Predator catcher team is bisected by Predator's disc weapon.
• Re-Animator, in which a character gets sliced by a bonesaw through the chest.
• Resident Evil, in which three characters are shredded by lasers.
• Rob Roy, in which the movie's villain is cut vertically almost in half by the title character (Liam Neeson).
• The Running Man, in which the hunter Buzzsaw is split in two with his own chainsaw.
• Saturn 3, in which a character is torn apart by a grid of fine wires in space.
• Severance, when a woman is tied to a tree, has been brutally beaten and has blood streaming down her face. One of the army-psychos comes along and kills her.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which a male lead character stands by a window and is grabbed by zombies and ripped apart. This is an homage to a similar scene in Day of the Dead.
• Silent Hill, in which Christabella is ripped in half by barbed wire.
• Sin City,"Recut, Extended, Unrated", in which Miho slices a man in half during the extended version of "The Big Fat Kill."
• Sleepy Hollow, in which a character is bisected by a pair of axes.
• Slither, in which a hunter is slashed in half by the slug-beast's tentacle.
• Spencer, in which a man has his leg cut off. another man chops his own foot off. man cuts his finger off. man has his leg and arm cut off.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character is lifted off the ground and bitten in half by a giant alien insect and another is killed by a closing door.
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in which Darth Maul is cut in half during a duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Terror Tract's "Come to Granny" segment, in which Jasmine is dismembered all the way to have her ex-boyfriend, Sean Goodwin find her head sitting on a table.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which a gangster, in a fight with Leatherface, lands on top of the chainsaw blade, Sheriff Hoyt holds him down on it and Leatherface activates the chainsaw, cutting him in half.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which one character is bisected along the Coronal Plane by a glass door.
• UHF, in which Conan the Librarian slices a customer in half vertically after they returned some books overdue.
• Underworld, in which vampire lord Viktor's head is split in half.
• Venom (2005 film), in which Ray (undead) gets hit by his truck driven by Eden and broken in half. Also, Ricky dies while getting his arm ripped off.

Death by burning or other extreme heat exposure

• Alien 3, ten convicts are burned to death when a plan to catch the alien goes wrong and the fire is set off prematurely.
• Anaconda, the anaconda tries to kill the main character and is burned alive in a huge chimney like furnace.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film), in which numerous gang members are burned to death when one of the main characters fires a bullet into an acetylene tank, which then explodes.
• Batman, in which the Joker fries a gangster to death through a handshake with a concealed joy buzzer.
• Blade, in which Deacon Frost kidnaps the leader of the vampire council, takes the leader's fangs out with pliers, and exposes him to the rising sun.
• Braindead, in which a zombie suddenly cause to catch fire, caused by a lightbulb embedded in her head.
• Class of 1984, in which punk accomplice nicknamed Drugstore get set on fire. His burned corpse is later shown smoking.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which where a character commits suicide by deliberately stepping into a burning wind.
• The Core, in which Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzleton goes on a suicide mission to try to disengage the master hydraulic controller for the compartments emergency release mechanism, accessible only through the ship's impeller "crawl" space trough where the magma flows for propulsion, which also doubles as the access way for The Virgil. He dies when he finishes the mission, not being able to return inside; the extreme heat weakened him too much. Once the impeller is restarted, the magma flow engulfs him.
• Damien: Omen II, Ann Thorn is burned to death by exploding boiler.
• The Day After, in which people are incinerated by nuclear explosions.
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, in which a bigalow, while on a tanning bed, was locked by the "killer" and his corpse was found inside by Deuce's friend, played by Eddie Griffin.
• Diamonds Are Forever, in which James Bond sets Mr. Kidd on fire after Mr. Kidd tries to burn Bond alive. Earlier in the film, two Chinese soldiers are briefly shown burning to death after being set on fire by a space-based laser weapon hijacked by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
• Dracula, in which Jonathan Harker forces the title character into the sunlight on board ship. Dracula suffers a slow and painful death as the solar rays burn his body to ashes.
• Dragonslayer, in which a priest is burned to death by the dragon's breath.
• Earthquake, in which a cook is killed when a large pot of boiling water falls on him during the quake.
• Fanny and Alexander Bishop Vergeus is burned alive by Alexander's magical dream
• Final Destination 2, in which Clear & Eugene burn to death when a hospital room's oxygen tank explodes.
• Final Destination 3, in which Ashley & Ashlyn burn to death while trapped in tanning beds.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which a gangbanger's face is shoved into a steam pipe and burned.
• The Green Mile, in which a man is roasted by a sabotaged electric chair.
• Ghost in the Machine, in which a man is cooked alive by a possessed microwave oven.
• Halloween II, in which Michael Myers drowns Nurse Karen in scalding water in a hot tub.
• The Hills Have Eyes (both the 1977 film and 2006 remake), in which Big Bob Carter is crucified, doused in petrol stolen from his gas tank and burned alive by the resident area cannibals. Also, Jupiter is exploded after accidentally setting off a book of matches in a mobile home filled with gas.
• Jaws 2, the woman driving the ski boat tries to fight off the shark by dousing it in fuel while she herself gets covered with it. She fires a flare gun which sets the boat on fire, burning her, and scarring the shark's face. She is then killed when the boat explodes. She is one of the few shark victims who is not killed directly by the shark (i.e. eaten).
• Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, in which various orphenochs burst into flames after being killed by various characters.
• Layer Cake, in which a clothes iron is placed on a man's chest, which causes his heart to boil and burns a hole through his chest. Also, in another scene, another man is brutally beaten and then has a pot of hot tea poured on his face.
• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, in which Tex is doused in gasoline in a fight with Benny. Benny then backs up and throws a lit lighter on Tex, causing him to go up in flames.
• Legend, in which Jack burns Darkness' evil cooks to death with steam by spilling a giant cauldron full of boiling water over.
• Licence to Kill, in which James Bond sets the gasoline-soaked villain Franz Sanchez on fire, using a cigarette lighter given to him by Felix Leiter's murdered wife, at the end of their climactic battle. The burning Sanchez stumbles into a tanker truck leaking gasoline, causing an explosion that kills him.
• Manhunter, in which a tabloid journalist is strapped into a wheelchair, set on fire and rolled down a parking garage ramp. He dies in the hospital, but not before being questioned by police. He says something to the effect of "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" This death also appears in the remake Red Dragon.
• Natural Born Killers, director's cut, in which convicts start a riot, throwing one cop in an oven and watching him burn alive, and throwing one in a washing machine, watching his skin burn off.
• Omen III: The Final Conflict, A monk is burned in plastic trying to assassinate Damien.
• Poseidon, in which many crew and passengers are burned to death by a flash fire.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, in which a character is incinerated by an exploding ship.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which several Nazi troops are melted by fire coming from the Ark of the Covenant.
• Saw, in which one of Jigsaw's victims had been completely coated with a flammable substance, then accidentally lit himself on fire with a candle.
• Saw 2, in which Obi is burned to death in a furnace.
• Seed of Chucky, in which "Tiffany" sprays hairspray at a character then lights a lighter, engulfing her in flames. She then falls over the bannister and burns to death.
• Silent Hill, in which Cybil Bennett is burned alive as a witch. Alessa Gillespie is nearly burnt to death, but survives with severe burn wounds.
• Starship Troopers, in which the last two troopers try to get onto the lifeboat and are incerated by the big fire breathing beetle.
• Sweeney Todd , in which Sweeney hurls Mrs. Lovett into a furnace.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which Sarah Connor has a nightmare in which she and others are incinerated by thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion.
• The Thing, in which several characters as well as the alien antagonist are burned alive.
• The Towering Inferno, in which Dan Bigelow burns up while trying to run across a blazing lobby. Several partygoers burn to death when an elevator opens on a floor that is on fire. Also, the flaming body of a fireman falls down an elevator shaft.
• The Wicker Man (1973 film), in which Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) burns in the Wicker Man as the film ends.
• To Live and Die in L.A., in which the film's chief villan, Eric Masters (Willem Dafoe) burns to death after dropping a flame he was using to set fire to John Vukovich.
• Volcano, in which several people are burnt to death by contact with lava when a volcano erupts in Los Angeles.
• Young Sherlock Holmes, in which young abducted women are sacrificed by covering them with hot wax or oil.

Death by chainsaw or other saw-bladed machine

• A.I., in which a character is cut in half with a chainsaw wielded by a motorcycle rider.
• American Psycho, in which a prostitute has a live chainsaw dropped upon her from above.
• Army of Darkness, in which Ash kills a witch with a chainsaw in a pit-battle.
• Bad Taste, in which a character chainsaws a hole in the floor before diving chainsaw-first through the lead alien (on the floor below) with the line "I'm born again!".
• Class of 1984, in which Professor Andy Norris severs Fallon's right arm off with a rotary saw before shoving him onto the rotary blade, splitting his vertebrae in half.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which a character cuts a zombie in half, but later accidentally kills another character with the chainsaw when the bus they are in turns over.
• Dead Alive, in which the main character slices through hundreds of zombies using the business end of a lawnmower.
• Evil Dead II, in which Linda's possessed (and headless) body tries to kill Ash with a chainsaw, but slips and is partially sliced down the neck. Ash then uses the chainsaw to finish off Linda's possessed head (shown in shadows). Near the end he buries the chainsaw blade in the "Rotten Apple Head".
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (uncut version), in which Dr. Crews is killed with a tree-trimming saw.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job, in which a chainsaw is dropped on the ground while running and forces itself into an unfortunate victim on the floor.
• High Tension, in which a man is cut into the stomach by a concrete saw.
• Intruder (unrated director's cut), in which a character's head is shoved into a high-powered meat slicer, a type of bandsaw.
• Last Exit, Nigel saws up his wife when he finds out she's pregnant, and drops her parts in bins all over the city.
• Last House on the Left, in which the main killer is chainsawed by a victim's father.
• Motel Hell , in the climactic battle on chainsaws, Farmer Vincent dies from being chainsawed in the torso.
• Phantasm II, in which a silver ball drills itself through a henchman's body, ripping his mouth open as it tries to exit.
• Pieces, where several women are killed by a slasher wielding a chainsaw.
• The Running Man, (See bisection above.)
• Saw 3, in which Jigsaw is slashed in the throat by a circular saw.
• Scarface (1983), in which Tony Montana's associate is hacked to bits with a chainsaw by a Colombian drug dealer.
• Smokin' Aces, in which one of the Tremor Brothers sits on his own chainsaw.
• Spencer, in which a man has his head, left arm and right leg cut off with chainsaw. another man has top of head cut off with chainsaw.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series and remakes. In the 1974 film only one person is killed by a chainsaw, while in the later installments and the remake (including the remake's prequel), many are sliced to pieces by Leatherface's chainsaw.

Death by chopping or grinding

• 28 Weeks Later, in which a horde of Rage-infected zombies are cut into chunks by the blades of a low-flying helicopter.
• Alien 3, in which the alien sprays acid in the face of a prisoner and he slides into a huge fan.
• Braindead (aka Dead Alive), in which a group of zombies get blendered via a lawnmower. Also a baby zombie is stuffed in a blender.
• The Brothers Grimm, in which a fluffy white kitten is kicked into swirling metal blades which are about to come down over tied prisoners.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which Mad Cowboy is thrown into a meat blender.
• Die Another Day, in which the main villain Gustav Graves is sucked into a jet engine.
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder, in which during a fight with John McClane on an aircraft wing, Major Grant slips into a rotating jet-engine.
• Fargo, in which Carl (Steve Buscemi), a major character is axed to death by his partner in crime (Peter Stormare) and then fed through a wood chipper.
• For Your Eyes Only in which a skier (hunting James Bond) falls into a snow-grinding machine that sprays snow mixed with blood.
• Frankenfish, in which the main fish monster jumps into the propeller of a flatbed swamp air boat.
• Gremlins, in which a Gremlin monster is dropped into blender and pureed.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in which a Gremlin is dispatched via a paper shredder.
• Grindhouse, in "Planet Terror", when several zombies get sliced apart with a helicopter blade.
• The Last Boy Scout, in which an assassin falls off a lighting platform and into an ascending helicopter's blades.
• Licence to Kill, in which Dario (Benicio del Toro) is dragged through a machine that crushes bricks of cocaine.
• The Mangler, in which various people get chewed up by a homicidal laundry folding machine.
• On Deadly Ground , in which MacGruder (John C. McGinley) has his head pushed into a spinning helicopter blade by Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal).
• Pet Sematary 2, in which half of Clyde's face is ground on his bike's accelerating wheel by a zombified Gus.
• Prom Night III: The Last Kiss, in which a teacher is killed by having a blender stuck in his mouth.
• Riki-Oh, in which a man is ground up in an industrial meat press.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which a large German soldier (probably a boxer) meets a larger propeller.
• Rumble in the Bronx, in which a gang member is fed into a wood chipper.
• Severance, when a woman is tied to a tree, has been brutally beaten and has blood streaming down her face. One of the army-psychos comes along and kills her.
• Speed 2: Cruise Control, in which two unlucky cruise passengers are sucked under and killed by the ship's propellers. Also, the captain is sent overboard and also was sucked into the ship's propellers.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which the lovable Toxie kills a thug with a fast-food shop blender.
• Underworld: Evolution, in which the evil vampire Markus is knocked into a helicopter blade turned sideways.
• Universal Soldier in which Andrew Scott/GR13 (Dolph Lundgren) is put through a woodchipper.

Death by contact with a caustic or otherwise deadly substance

• 2001 Maniacs, in which one of the college boys is fed acid under the impression that it's moonshine and his torso melts.
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, in which Vulnavia has a vat of acid poured on her that was meant for Dr. Vesalius. Later in the film, Dr. Phibes embalms himself next to his wife's corpse.
• A.I., in which a lifelike robot is melted in a dunk tank-like carnival machine by three buckets of hot acid.
• Alien Nation, in which salt water is like acid to the "Newcomers".
• The Beyond, in which, at the beginning of the movie, the Sorcerer has multiple buckets of quicklime thrown over him. Later a woman is knocked unconscious and acid falls onto her face.
• Class of Nuke 'Em High, in which the class 'geek' drinks radioactive water from a drinking fountain. He later excretes green at the mouth and ears, tries to strangle classmates and throws himself out of a window, then promptly dissolves.
• Cube, in which an unfortunate fellow is sprayed in the face with acid.
• Cube Zero, in which an unfortunate fellow is sprayed with a water-like substance which in actuality is an extremely quick-acting strain of necrotizing fasciitis which changes the flesh and skin to liquid state.
• Dante's Peak, in which a lady jumps into a highly acidic and near-boiling spring which causes severe damage to the flesh of the lower half of her body; she dies shortly thereafter.
• Dark City, in which the Stranger, Mr. Book, is killed in a collision with a water tower. Water is corrosive to the Strangers.
• The Day of the Triffids, in which salt water is poisonous to the invading aliens.
• The Fly II, in which a compound security guard is sprayed in the face with corrosive enzymes by the transformed son of Seth Brundle.
• Face/Off, in which an Alcatraz guard is burned (presumably to death) by a large bottle of sulphuric acid.
• Ghost Ship, in which a large portion of the passengers are poisoned with the soup on board.
• Hardware, where a reactivated droid injects its victims with a potent toxin that causes them to enjoy the experience of dying.
• Heathers, in which Heather Chandler is tricked into drinking a mug of liquid drain cleaner as a hangover cure.
• Hospital Massacre, in which the killer forces a janitor's face into a sink full of acid, causing his face to melt into a bubbly mass of flesh.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which the villain (having chosen "poorly") drinks from a false grail, causing himself to age hundreds of years in seconds.
• Jack Frost, in which a serial killer is melted by anti-freeze.
• The Jackal, in which a man touches a highly toxic substance on the villain's van and immediately dies.
• Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, in which a victim is shoved into a deep fat fryer and then thrown on a grill.
• The Lost Boys, in which a vampire is killed when he falls into a bathtub of holy water, causing his flesh to be slowly burned off of his body and his blood to explode outward, shooting down the drain of the tub and out of seemingly every other drain in the house.
• Magnum Force, in which a pimp kills a prostitute by forcing a can of drain cleaner down her throat.
• The Mummy, in which several men are sprayed with "salt acid" (likely hydrochloric acid) when they open a chamber in Hamunaptra, the ancient city of the dead.
• Mindhunters, in which one of the junior profilers smokes a cigarette which had been impregnated with a type of acid (not LSD), resulting in their lungs and chest hemorraghing.
• Nikita, in which a diplomat is drenched in acid in a bathtub.
• Phantasm II, in which the Tall Man is injected with embalming fluid.
• RoboCop, in which Emil drives into a tower full of toxic waste and begins to melt. (He disintegrates after being hit by a car).
• The Rock, in which a soldier died from mishandling containers of VX gas. Another one has a VX ball broken in his mouth and is dissolved by the toxin.
• Runaway, in which several people are injected with acid by small, spider-like robots used by the villain.
• Scotland, Pa., in which Norm Duncan's head gets shoved into a friolator.
• Seed of Chucky, in which a man has a bottle of sulphuric acid dropped onto his head.
• Signs, in which an alien creature is destroyed by coming into contact with water, which dissolves its skin.
• Slaughter High, in which one man drinks a poisoned beer causing his intestines to expand and explode. Later acid is fed into the running bathwater of a woman, whose flesh is burned off, leaving a bloody skeleton.
• Slither, in which an infected Trevor spits an acidic goo onto Margaret, and her neck swells up and she dies. Also, another character is spit upon by many affected people, and he dies screaming in pain.
• Starship Troopers, in which two soldiers are sprayed with a flammable substance by a "tanker" insect.
• Star Trek: First Contact, in which the Borg queen is exposed to a coolant that dissolves organic tissue on contact.
• Street Trash, in which a large number of tramps melt after drinking bottles of mystery booze.
• Thinner, in which the main character's wife is all gory looking the next morning, after eating a slice of the pie given by the evil Gypsy.
• Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, in which the main villain's skin and flesh melts off after being thrown into a pool of acid.
• Underworld, in which several lycans are killed by silver bullets or other silver materials, a vampire is killed by ultraviolet ammunition, and another vampire dies after being exposed to sunlight (flashback sequences).
• Urban Legend, in which a character is forced to drink a variety of cleaning products, followed by a whole package of pop-rocks.
• Venom (2005 film), in which Tammy (Bijou Phillips) gets sprayed in the face with a sandblaster.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which Judge Doom is dissolved by a high-pressure spray of his "Dip", which is composed of acetone, turpentine, and benzene (which is essentially paint thinner, but is obviously lethal to a Toon).

Death by contact with a molten substance

• Alien 3, in which Ripley plunges into a vat of molten metal, thus killing herself and the alien within her chest.
• King Solomon's Mines, in which several villains get incinerated by falling into a hot lava pool.
• The Core, in which the captain has a blob of molten rock drop onto the top of his head and burns through his suit.
• Crack in the World, in which an engineer falls into molten lava.
• Death Wish V: The Face of Death, in which Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) kills the main villain by pushing him into a vat of chemicals.
• Enemy Mine, in which the film's villain, Stubbs, falls down into a vat of boiling liquid metal and burns to death, shortly after being shot in the back by an elderly Drac.
• Halloween II, in which Michael Myers scalds a nurse's face by submerging it over and over again in a scalding water in a hot tub.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which a man is lowered into lava where he is burned alive while his heart simultaneously combusts in Mola Ram's hand, a scene some credit for causing the creation of the PG-13 rating.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in which Gollum falls into molten lava in the Crack of Doom.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which T-1000 is destroyed in molten metal.
• Volcano, in which a rescue worker saves a life by jumping into lava and throwing the man he was carrying into the arms of other workers as he melts.
• X-Men 2, in which Lady Deathstrike has molten Adamantium pumped into her by Wolverine.

Death by crushing

• 2001 Maniacs, in which a girl is crushed in the head with a large bell.
• The 51st State, in which Durant is accidentally squashed by a freight container.
• The Abyss, in which Lt. Coffey is crushed when his damaged and sinking minisub implodes.
• Akira, in which a soldier is crushed by a slab of concrete when Tetsuo unleashes his powers. Tetsuo later accidentally crushes his girlfriend when his powers get out of control.
• Alien: Resurrection, in which a soldier's head is crushed by the alien/human hybrid.
• American History X, in which neo-Nazi Derek Vineyard kills a black car thief by curb stomping him.
• Band of Brothers, in which a wounded German soldier is crushed by a tank.
• The Beast of War, in which an Afghan rebel is crushed by a tank.
• Blade Runner, in which Roy Batty kills his creator Dr. Tyrell by crushing his head between his hands.
• Brotherhood in which a North Korean soldier is crushed by a falling concrete segment of a building whilst retreating.
• The Castle of Cagliostro, in which Count Cagliostro is crushed to death by the hands on a clock tower. Earlier, one of his men was crushed after being caught between the large gears inside the tower.
• Child's Play 3, in which a garbage truck driver is crushed to death in the back of his garbage truck.
• Cloverfield, in which Jason Hawkins is crushed by the monster's tail on the Brooklyn Bridge, along with many others.
• Con Air, in which Cyrus ends up having his head crushed in a piledriver.
• The Core, in which a section of the ship breaks loose, crushing its occupant when it implodes.
• The Departed, in which Capt. Queenan is crushed on the ground after he is dropped from a roof.
• The Devil's Rejects, in which Wendy Banjo is run over by a truck while wearing Adam's
• Dodgeball in which Patches O'Houlihan is crushed by an air conditioner.
• Final Destination 2, in which Timothy Carpenter is crushed by a large piece of construction glass which unhooks to the ground.
• Final Destination 3, in which Lewis has his head crushed between two weights which swoop down from a machine.
• The Fly (1958 film), in which the mutated scientist Andre Delambre has his head crushed in a metal press.
• The Fly II (sequel to remake of the 1958 film), in which a security guard's head is crushed under a lift.
• The Legend of Zorro, in which Armand (Rufus Sewell) is hooked onto the front of a train. Moments later, the train plows him into a large pile of rails blocking the end of the track.
• The Mask of Zorro, in which Captain Love (Matt Letscher) is crushed by a falling wagon full of gold bars.
• Ghost Ship, in which a character is crushed between two large gears.
• GoldenEye, in which Alec Trevelyan is crushed by the falling GoldenEye satellite antenna. Xenia Onatopp is also crushed while she was trapped in a fork of a tree.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers grabs a person by their head, lifts them off the ground, and squeezes their head to the point where blood actually leaks from the person's eyes.
• Happiness of the Katakuris, in which a young woman is crushed by an obese man during sexual intercourse.
• Hellboy, in which three of the film's main villains are crushed (two are crushed by an enormous monster's tentacle, and another is crushed by a giant cog after being impaled on a spike).
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II, in which one of the motocrossers narrowly escapes a booby trap trip wire, only to shout in victory and be crushed by a falling boulder seconds later.
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, featuring two scenes in which a woman bystander is crushed underfoot of tripod machines.
• Hostel, in which Kana's head is crushed by a passing locomotive during her suicide.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character's head is burst by a stone spire dropped from a church tower. The spire then becomes impaled between the character's shoulders and he continues to walk around for several seconds before falling over.
• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, in which a character is crushed to death in a locker.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which a man is drawn into a rock crusher.
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, in which one of the heroes is executed by an elephant stepping on his head and crushing it.
• Krull, in which a cyclops is crushed trying to hold open a closing door.
• Lethal Weapon 2, in which a henchman in crushed by a cargo container.
• Jurassic Park III in which Nash is crushed by a Spinosaurus, then eaten off-screen.
• Maximum Overdrive, in which a Little League player is killed by a "rebelling" steamroller.
• Monster Man, in which a man has his head crushed in a vice in the opening scene, though only blood pouring from his mouth is seen.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, in which a girl named Debbie is turned into a cockroach by Freddy Krueger, then crushed to death in a roach motel.
• One Night at McCool's, in which a man gets crushed by a falling waste container.
• Poseidon, in which Valentin, a waiter, falls down an elevator shaft on a spike and the elevator falls down, crushing his body and exploding the shaft as a whole. Another scene, a drunk is crushed by a falling piece of engine.
• The Proposition, in which a police officer's head is repeatedly and forcefully stomped upon (aborted decapitation).
• Return of the Jedi, in which the Rancor is crushed when a massive gate closes on it.
• Riki-Oh, in which a character crushes a head with his hands, and a character is crushed by a stone ceiling contraption.
• Saw 4, in which Eric Matthews' head is crushed between two large blocks of ice when Rigg enters the room with one second remaining of his 90-minute time limit (in other words, he was supposed to enter the room after the 90 minutes expired).
• Saw V, in which Peter Strahm is crushed very slowly by two converging walls after disregarding a warning to enter a box full of broken glass.
• Scream, in which Tatum's head is crushed by a garage door after she gets stuck in the catflap.
• Sin City, in which Marv kills a man by crushing his head. Also, "Yellow Bastard" has his head punched repeatedly by John Hartigan until it is crushed.
• Snakes on a Plane, in which a character is crushed (presumably to death) by a Burmese python before being swallowed whole.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character is crushed when an airborne arachnid is shot down and crashes on him, leaving behind a smear of blood and guts. Also, a crew member races to get out a room before the door closes, but didn't make it and got crushed in the torso area.
• Suicide Circle, in which 54 schoolgirls jump in front of a subway train. Also,
• A Tale of Two Sisters, in which a girl is crushed to death by a falling armoire.
• The Terminator, in which the Terminator endoskeleton is crushed by a hydraulic press.
• Terror Firmer, in which an obese gentleman is crushed in an escalator in an extended sequence in which his colon also falls out.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, where Vilmer kills a girl by crushing her head with his bionically-enhanced leg.
• Thinner, in which the Gypsy's daughter is ran over by Billy's car, with very bloody results.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which a character is crushed to death between two heavy panes of glass.
• Time Bandits, in which Fidgit is crushed by a chunk of column. (He is later revived by the Supreme Being.)
• The Towering Inferno, in which the water pressure from a water tank explosion causes a statue to fall over and a chunk breaks off and falls on the chest of Carlos the bartender crushing him.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which an 12 year old's head is backed over by a group of rowdy "teenagers" in a car.
• The Toxic Avenger Part II, in which Toxie crushes a villain with a wheelchair.
• Vacancy, in which the two masked villains are run over by a car, driven by Amy (Kate Beckinsale).

Death by decapitation

• 300 depicts various humans and creatures getting decapitated by the sword, including the son of the Spartan general.
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which a character is decapitated with a sword while speaking. The severed head flies through the air, lands several feet away, finishes the sentence and dies.
• Audition, in which Asami kills her abusive ballet teacher by wrapping a piece of piano wire around her neck and pulling hard on opposite ends.
• Battle Royale, in which a student is decapitated with a sword by the main villain, who then stuffs a grenade in the victim's mouth to use as a bomb.
• The Beast Within, in which a man has his head ripped off by a transformed teenager.
• Black Christmas (2006 film), in which the girls find Eve decapitated in her car. Later they show Eve's head on top of the Christmas tree.
• Black Rain, featuring a drive-by beheading by a Yakuza lieutenant.
• Blade, in which the hero kills a henchman with a thin wire.
• Blades of Glory, when a North Korean ice skater is decapitated by the blade on an ice skate while attempting the Iron Lotus stunt.
• Braveheart, in which William Wallace's head is cut off by an executioner. Wallace himself also slices the head off an English Army officer in battle.
• Caligula, in which several prisoners of Caligula are buried to their necks in the floor of an arena and a giant machine with spinning blades clips them off.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which a woman is beheaded after being gang raped.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which Toxie punches a member of the Diaper Mafia's head off, after shoving his head up his rectum.
• Conan the Barbarian, in which Thulsa Doom decapitates Conan's mother in front of him. Conan later decapitates Thulsa Doom and throws his head down a flight of stairs.
• Cube 2: Hypercube, in which the detective's head is detached by an abruptly growing piece of cylinder glyph.
• Dark Ride, in which Jen the Hitchhiker is slowly decapitated with a machete after "sucking off" Jim.
• Dawn of the Dead, (partial), featuring the forehead of a zombie's head cut off by helicopter rotor.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which various zombie heads are splattered by a truck backing up down a ramp, and being shot-off.
• The Dead Next Door, in which a man from a zombie squad cuts off the head of a zombie with his machete.
• Dead Alive, in which a nurse's head is partially ripped off by a zombie, leaving her throat fully exposed.
• Deadly Friend, in which an elderly woman is decapitated by a basketball; the headless body walks several feet before collapsing.
• Dementia 13, in which a hunter is beheaded by an axe.
• Demon Seed, in which a man is surrounded by a geometric device and decapitated.
• Doom, When an agents head is knocked off by a monster, splashing blood everywhere.
• Evil Dead II, in which Ash uses a shovel to cut off his zombie-girlfriend's head, which is seen flying in slow-motion. Later he decapitates another zombie with a chainsaw and blows it up with a shotgun.
• Felidae, Felicitas' head is torn off by Pascal.
• Final Destination, in which Billy Hitchcock (Seann William Scott) is decapitated at the mouth by flying debris, following an auto/train accident.
• Final Destination 2, in which Nora Carpenter gets her head stuck in an elevator door which then goes up, decapitating her in the process.
• Final Destination 3, in which Frankie Cheeks has the back side of his head ripped off by an engine blade.
• Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job, in which Klaus loses his head.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which Jason severs a character's head with his machete. Later, Freddy survives being decapitated himself.
• Friday the 13th, in which killer Mrs. Voorhees has her own machete used against her (This scene does not appear onscreen in any US releases).
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, in which Junior is decapitated by a cleaver while riding around the house on his motorcycle.
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (uncut version), featuring a triple decapitation of three paintball players with a machete. Later, Jason twists a character's head all the way around and then tears it off.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Julius duels Jason in an epic fist fight. Dealing a devastating series of blows in a combo, Jason responds by taking one punch, knocking Julius' head off as it rolls across multiple rooftops and finally into a dumpster which closes promptly after.
• From Dusk Till Dawn, has four occurrences of decapitation. One isn't witnessed, only the head is seen rolling about during the feeding frenzy. The character Sex Machine (Tom Savini) is decapitated by Seth Gecko (George Clooney) when he becomes a vampire by tying the former's bullwhip round his neck and pulling it off. The remaining two are not in the film at all. They are deleted scenes where a biker has his head eaten by a gremlin-like vampire with a mouth in her stomach and one where Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) kills a man when a huge monster-snake erupts out of her mouth promptly biting his head off in a gory explosion.
• Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, in which the renegade gynoids' preferred method of killing people is by kicking a human being's head off. This tactic is used against two police officers early in the film, as well as against the Locus Solus security forces on the factory ship.
• Ghost Ship, (partial) in which a wire cuts through the ballroom floor, after which a female character watches the top part of the captain's head slide off onto the floor.
• Ghosts of Mars, in which a female police soldier is decapitated by a flying disc.
• Gladiator, featuring the decapitation of a number of enemy fighters.
• Glory, in which a soldier is decapitated by a cannonball in the battle at Antietam.
• Godzilla Final Wars, Gigan is decapitated twice, the second time was not fatal.
• Grindhouse, in the faux trailer for "Thanksgiving", which features three different decapitation scenes in quick succession.
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, in which Michael Myers is decapitated by an axe in the end.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers cuts off a teen's head at the top of the stairs while her friends think its a joke.
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II, in which the top of a Cenobite's head is torn off by the large tentacle attached to it.
• Hellraiser: Hellworld, in which a teen is decapitated with a cleaver by Pinhead.
• Highlander, featuring multiple decapitations of characters who would not be The One.
• High Tension, in which Alex's father is decapitated by a bookcase.
• Hot Fuzz, in which two characters are decapitated with an axe.
• House of Wax (2005 film), in which Dalton is decapitated twice, once when he is alive, and once when he is dead (after he is decapitated the first time, Vincent puts his head back on with some type of metal contraption).
• Ichi the Killer (partial), in which a character loses face...literally.
• Jeepers Creepers, in which a male officer is pulled through the roof of the police car and is decapitated by the Creeper's huge axe (also, the Creeper later eats his tongue from the head as the two main characters watch in horror).
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which the villain at the end is killed by decapitation with its own razor-sharp whip.
• The Incredible Melting Man, in which a Bill Gates look-alike has his head ripped off by the melting man.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which a character is beheaded by giant blades, causing his head to roll along the ground. Several heads are also shown on the ground from previous decapitations.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1, in which a Japanese mob boss loses his head; O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) is also partially decapitated.
• Land of the Dead, in which a zombie attacking the main character is thrown into and decapitated by a closing metal door. Also, when the zombies take over the city, a soldier is shown having his head pulled off, along with his entire spinal column.
• The Lift, in which a security guard has his head trapped by lift doors while the lift car stopped at the next level above descends slowly until his head is severed, whereupon the lift doors close.
• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, an orc is decapitated during the first stage of the fight in the Mines of Moria. Also, the Urak-Hai in the last battle of the movie is decapitated after losing an arm.
• Lost Highway (partial) in which a character falls forehead-first onto the edge a glass coffee table.
• Kingdom of Heaven, featuring the decapitation of a Saracen pilgrim, later a Saracen messenger, and finally Raynald de Chatillon.
• Master of the Flying Guillotine, throughout which a martial artist is using an exotic weapon to decapitate his foes.
• Marked for Death, in which the villain is decapitated by a sword-wielding Steven Seagal.
• Mortal Kombat (partial), in which the character Scorpion has a portion of his head sliced off before exploding.
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, in which the Jade has her head eaten by a demon.
• Motel Hell, in which multiple victims are buried up to their necks in a garden, forced fed to fatten them up, and then have their heads removed by rope and tractor.
• Nekromantik, in which a man's head is partially severed by a shovel.
• The Omen (1976 film) , in which a man is decapitated by a piece of sheet glass which slides into him.
• The Omen (2006 film), in which a man is decapitated by a swinging ladder whilst trying to get holy knives.
• One Missed Call, in which an unseen force first twists a girl Natsumi's arm around many times, clearly breaking it at many places, then turns her head around and around until it completely tears off and falls to the floor, after which her body walks around dazed for a few seconds and then also falls to the floor.
• Pathfinders, in which Phil Hacksor gets decapitated by a jinxed branch.
• The Patriot (2000 film), in which an American revolutionary soldier is decapitated by a cannonball.
• Prom Night, in which a character is decapitated with an axe.
• Ran, in which the beheaded body of Lady Sue is found in the grass, and the beheading of Lady Kaede with a katana.
• Re-Animator, in which a character is decapitated only to be resurrected as a bodiless head.
• Resident Evil, in which a soldier's nurse is decapitated by a laser beam. In another scene, a Raccoon City employee attempts to escape from a stuck elevator, only to have the doors close around her head, which is subsequently severed when the lift drops (the moment of death is more implied than shown).
• Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, in which a Hybratech security guard has his head ripped off by escaping zombies while shooting them with a shotgun.
• Rose Red, in which a falling pane of glass decapitates a construction worker.
• Scarface (1983 film), in which a chainsaw is misused in the shower.
• Seed of Chucky, in which a character is decapitated very graphically.
• Sin City, in which Miho decapitates one of Jackie Boy's buddies.
• Sleepaway Camp, in which a character is decapitated at the end of the film.
• Sleepy Hollow, in which many different characters lose their heads.
• Speed, in which a mad bomber, while on top of a moving subway train, has his head forced up into the path of a hanging light that decapitates him.
• Spencer, in which a man is decapitated by an axe and another man by a chainsaw.
• Stargate, in which Col. Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) kills an alien Serpent Guard by forcing its head into a teleportation device and activating it without the rest of the body inside.
• Starship Troopers, in which several soldiers lose their heads from the sharp wings of flying "Bugs".
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which Anakin Skywalker decapitates Count Dooku on Greivous's flagship.
• Strait-Jacket, in which a few characters get their heads chopped off with an axe.
• The 13th Warrior, featuring various decapitations.
• Theatre of Blood, in which Arthur Lowe's head ends up on a milk bottle.
• Thriller - en grym film, in which the villain has his head torn off by a noose tied to a horse's reins.
• Thursday, in which Casey pulls Nick's head out of a bag.
• Tromeo and Juliet, in which Tyrone Capulet is hit by a ladder hanging out of a car, whereupon his arm is ripped off, and then he hits the back of a truck and is decapitated, his head flying into the air and causing the car crash of a happy family driving by.
• Wild Wild West, in which a scientist is killed by a flying saw blade attracted to the magnetic collar he is forced to wear.
• Windtalkers, in which Sgt. Anderson's head is removed by a Japanese soldier wielding a katana blade.
• Wishmaster, in which a man is decapitated with piano wires.
• Wrong Turn, in which Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is decapitated at the mouth with an axe.

Death from decompression or over-pressure

• Blade, in which Blade injects a vial of his serum into two enemy vampires, building enough pressure in the blood stream to cause their entire bodies to burst.
• The Core, in which a scientist is killed when the compartment of the ship he's travelling on crushes due to extreme pressure within the Earth's core.
• Deepstar Six, in which a character ascends from the ocean floor too rapidly in a bathysphere, causing fatal decompression.
• Hellraiser 4, in which the Chatterbeast is lured into an airlock in deep space. As the air is pumped out of the chamber the creature whimpers, and then explodes.
• Licence to Kill, in which a character is locked into a recompression chamber and explodes when the pressure conduit is axed.
• Mission to Mars, in which an astronaut removes his helmet in space.
• Men Behind The Sun, in which an experiment subject in a hyperbaric chamber is exposed to such intense atmospheric pressure that his intestines squirt from his anus.
• Outland, in which various characters suffer from explosive decompression from exposure to vacuum of space.
• The Ring Two, Aiden (who is possessed by Samara Morgan) uses his mentally profound psychic powers to force a mental-help doctor to commit suicide by injecting a syringe filled with air directly into her neck.
• Total Recall, in which Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox) dies from lack of air/decompression in the thin atmosphere of Mars. In the process, his eyes and tongue slowly bulge out of his head.
• The Omen (2006 film), where the possessed babysitter injects a syringe filled with air into Damien's mother.

Death by desiccation and/or disintegration

• Agent Cody Banks, in which Dr. Brinkman is destroyed from the inside out by an ice cube containing nanobots.
• The American Astronaut, in which Professor Hess kills without reason using a gun that turns people into sand.
• Blade, in which vampires disintegrate into dust when killed with a silver object.
• Constantine, in which Balthasar's crumbled body is scattered by Gabriel's breath.
• The Evil Dead, in which Ash's possessed friends begin to disintegrate after Ash burns the Book of the Dead.
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, in which Doctor Doom disintegrates General Hager via a cosmic energy blast.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, in which Harry touches Quirrell, who then turns to dust and crumbles.
• Hellboy, in which an explosion knocks a Nazi scientist against an energy field. His flesh disintegrates, and then what's left of his body is absorbed into the energy field.
• Hellraiser: Bloodline, in which a demon dog is trapped in a depressurizing room and explodes.
• House on Haunted Hill, in which Evelyn (Famke Janssen) and Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush) disintegrate when they are sucked into the shadow of the house.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Walter Donovan drinks out of a decoy Holy Grail, ages several hundred years in a few seconds and turns to dust.
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which a woman's body collapses into itself after it has been duplicated by an alien pod.
• Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, in which several orphenochs, humans and other characters disintegrate or crumble to ashes on death.
• The Lawnmower Man, in which Jobe uses his telekinetic powers to disintegrate several people.
• Jason X A girl is sucked out of the spaceship through a tiny hole that Jason punched through the wall. Jason also smashes a woman's head into pieces after it is frozen.
• Mars Attacks!, in which many humans (including Jack Black's character and all of Congress) are disintegrated by the Martians' red and green death rays.
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, where Cyrax shoots a disintegrating net at Sonya Blade, only to hit one of his companioned assassins, completely disintegrating both flesh and bone.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture, in which two people are killed by a malfunctioning transporter. The crews of three Klingon Birds of Prey and a Starfleet monitoring station are disintegrated by the V'ger cloud's plasma weapons. About halfway through the film, Lieutenant Ilia is disintegrated by an energy-based probe invading the USS Enterprise.
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which the villain, composed of a burlap sack filled with insects, is unravelled and the insects fall away.
• Van Helsing, in which Dracula (as well as his three brides) disintegrate after Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) finishes with them.
• War of the Worlds (2005 film), in which hundreds of humans are turned to ash by the heat-ray of an alien tripod.
• Wishmaster, in which a woman turns into glass and explodes into pieces that go flying to wound and/or kill others.
• The Wizard of Oz, in which the wicked witch of the west disintegrates when Dorothy pours water on her.
• X-Men: The Last Stand, in which Jean Grey's alter-ego, the Phoenix, kills Professor X, numerous soldiers and mutants, and it is also implied for Cyclops (off-screen) via telekinetic disintegration.

Death by dismemberment with delayed separation

• 300, in which the captain's son gets his head sliced off at the neck by a Persian on a horse with an axe, he then stands for a moment before his head slides off.
• Bless the Child, in which Cheri Post's (Christina Ricci) head falls off after Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) tries to speak to her.
• Cube, in which a character is sliced into small cubes then slowly disintegrates.
• Cube Zero, in which a man is cut to pieces by sharp wires.
• Dark Ride, in which a police officer gets his head sliced in half. His eyes roll up, then his head slowly splits open.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, in which a soldier salutes an officer after a battle and then falls apart into thin slices.
• Equilibrium, in which a character's face is sliced by a sword, and slowly slides off.
• Final Destination 2, in which a barbed wire fence flies at Rory and slices him in three. It takes a few seconds for him to split.
• No Escape, in which the villain slashes a bladed object against a lackey's neck, leaving the lackey standing for a few seconds before his head falls off.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which the character awakens from a dream to find his father sitting next to him on the porch, and when he touches him, the top of his head slides off.
• Ghost Ship, in which a cruise ship's patrons are sliced in half by a steel cable.
• Godzilla Final Wars, in which mothra causes gigan's flying blades to turn around and attack gigan's neck. Gigan turns around and his head falls off shortly after.
• Highlander, in which a villain's neck is severed, but his head remains in place long enough for villain to chuckle.
• Ichi the Killer, featuring several slow bisections and arterial cuts with a delayed reaction.
• Interview With the Vampire, Louis slices a vampire diagonally from the left shoulder to the right hip with a scythe, leaving him to stand for a moment before sliding apart.
• Izo, in which Bob Sapp's character is sliced in half diagonally with a katana.
• Johnny Mnemonic, in which a character's torso (Ralfie) is sliced by a nanothread (Falls slowly into 3 pieces).
• The Last Samurai, in which a man is sliced with a samurai sword and his head falls off a few seconds later.
• Mindhunters, in which after the team wakes up after drinking coffee laced with sleeping medicine, Gabe Jensen (LL Cool J) attempts to wake up Rafe Perry (Will Kemp), causing his head to separate itself from his neck, as it had already been cut with a hacksaw.
• Resident Evil, in which a character is sliced into small cubes by a moving grid of laser beams.
• Samurai X, in which Seijuro Hiko cuts a bandit into several dozen pieces before he has time to fall.
• Silent Partner, in which Christopher Plummer's psycho villain slits a woman's throat by running her neck along the edge of a broken fish tank.
• Sin City, "Recut, Extended, Unrated", in which Miho slices a man in half and his body takes a few seconds to split apart lengthwise during extended version of "The Big Fat Kill." Miho also kills another man by throwing her swastika-shaped shuriken through the top of his head.
• Slither, in which one character is sliced down the front by the main bug, and slowly opens up to have his guts fall out.
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, in which Darth Maul is bisected by Obi-Wan Kenobi and falls several meters down a vast pit before his lower and upper body separate.
• Thir13en Ghosts, in which one character is bisected along the Coronal Plane by a glass door.
• Underworld, in which Victor's head is split by a very thin sword. There is first no sign of this having occurred. Victor turns around, Selene holds up her sword showing that there is blood on it and then Victor's head splits open.

Death by excessive and/or graphic gunfire

• Akira, multiple instances, including a revolutionary shooting a police dog, the same revolutionary being pulped by automatic weapons fire from riot police, Kei shooting a police officer in the face in order to save herself and Kaneda, a tunnel infiltrator being mowed down by a vulcan cannon-armed flying platform, leaving only his arm holding a submachinegun, and rioters being hit with a laser rifle.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film), featuring multiple instances, including a little girl shot in the chest by a gang member and numerous gang members cut down by shotgun fire.
• Band of Brothers, featuring many scenes in which soldiers are shot and killed.
• Battle Royale, featuring multiple instances, the most notable ones being two schoolgirls being machinegunned by an ambushing character, killing one outright, and then finishing off the mortally wounded survivor with another burst, and a gunfight where a character's head is blown off when his explosive collar is set off with a shotgun blast.
• Be Cool, in which the Russian Mob Boss is shot twice by Sin's decorated Colt Python after being called a nigger and delivering a speech on how Negroes helped America from music-fashion.
• The Beyond, in which a possessed girl's head is blown through with a pistol shot.
• Black Mask, featuring various gruesome deaths by gunfire in martial arts combat.
• Blade Runner, in which the replicant Leon is shot from behind and in the head, forming a large exit wound in his forehead.
• Bad Boys 2, in which the main villain is shot in the forehead, then subsequently falls onto a live minefield, destroying his entire upper body.
• Blue Velvet, in which Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers in Dorothy's apartment the bodies of Dorothy's husband and the corrupt police detective Tom Gordon. Dorothy's husband is without an ear, bound and shot in the head. Gordon continues to stand even though he's dead. Jeffrey later ambushes Frank Booth, shooting him in the head, leaving a mess of brains.
• Boogie Nights, in which Little Bill shoots himself after shooting (off-screen) his wife and another man. Later, Buck Swope walks into an armed robbery in which the robber, the counter clerk and a bystander kill one another. Also, during Todd's attempt to rob Rahad Jackson, Rahad shoots Todd in the chest with a shotgun.
• Brazil, in which Jack is shot in the head while wearing a baby mask, he removes the mask, which reveals a gaping wound.
• Cannibal Holocaust, featuring several scenes consisting of stock footage of real firing squad executions in a third world African country.
• Chinatown, in which a woman is shot in the back of the head while driving. When the car door is opened, a gaping bullet exit wound is revealed where her eye socket had been.
• Constantine, in which John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) explodes multiple assailants using a shotgun.
• Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), featuring (in particular) the "Ghetto Holocaust" scene, in which SWAT member Wooley blows off the head of a housing project resident with a shotgun.
• Days in Hell in which a soldier is shot through the neck and stays alive in agony for a prolonged period of time.
• Dead Presidents, many instances, most notably the bank robbery.
• The Deer Hunter, in which one character loses while playing Russian Roulette with the Viet Cong.
• The Departed, in which two characters are executed by gunshots point-blank to the head by Frank Costello, Costello is later shot repeatedly by Detective Dignam, Costello's men are shot down by police, Mr. French shoots himself under the chin before his car explodes, and 4 people are murdered by gunshots to the head nearing the movie's end.
• The Devil's Advocate, in which Keanu Reeves' character shoots himself in the head.
• The Devil's Rejects, in which multiple characters are killed by gunfire.
• End of Evangelion, in which various characters are shot by the JSSDF, a few JSSDF agents are shot by Misato Katsuragi, and Ritsuko Akagi is shot by Gendo Ikari.
• Epic Movie, in which Mr. Tumnus is shot repeatedly by Silas while trying to stop his own heroic last stand.
• The Frighteners, in which special agent Milton Dammers' head is blown to chunks by a shotgun shell, leaving a ghost behind.
• From Dusk Till Dawn, in which a Texas Ranger is shot from behind by Seth Gecko.
• Full Metal Jacket, with various, but with notable deaths being the murder of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and suicide of Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence, who puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself, and later, where a sniper almost eliminates a Marine squad by putting them in a "honey pot" situation.
• The Godfather, featuring multiple instances, the most notable one being Sonny Corleone's demise from a fusillade shot by Tommy's gun-wielding hitmen at a tollbooth on the New Jersey Turnpike. One hundred forty-seven squibs, a record number at the time, were placed on James Caan's body to simulate being hit by multiple bursts of automatic weapons fire.
• Grindhouse, in which several boil-covered sombies are shot to death, and Abby (Naveen Andrews) apparently gets his head blown into pieces, and Tony Block accidentally shoots himself in the head.
• Hamburger Hill, in which American soldiers are hit by friendly artillery fire and a Viet Cong guerrilla suffers from a M60 machinegun burst at point blank range to the face.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which a gas station attendant commits suicide by taking a shotgun to his chin and blowing his brains out. Also, Ethel and Lynn are shot by Lizard.
• The Hitcher (1986 film), in which several police officers are shot by John Ryder. In the end, Ryder is shot repeatedly by Jim Halsey with a SPAS shotgun.
• Hostel, in which a German surgeon is shot in the head by Paxton (Jay Hernandez) after cutting his own leg off with a chainsaw.
• Jarhead, in which an anonymous Marine is shot through the helmet during training with live gunfire.
• JFK, in which John F. Kennedy is assassinated. The footage of the assassination shown in this film comes mostly from the Zapruder Film.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1, in which first a man's shin is blown apart and then he is shot again, in the head
• King of New York, in which David Caruso's character while driving from a funeral is blown away by Walken's shot in the head.
• Kiss the Girls, in which Dr. Alex Cross shoots Casanova in a room full of natural gas by shooting through a milk carton that covers the muzzle flare of the shot.
• Land of the Dead, in which several zombies are shot to death from the beginning to the end, and there is one scene in which a female zombie shoots a man to death with his own gun.
• Last House on the Left, in which Mari (Sandra Cassell) is shot in the head by Krug (David Hess). Later, Krug forces his son to shoot himself through the mouth.
• Left Behind, in which Joshua Todd-Cothran and Jonathan Stonagal are shot in the head by Nicolae Carpathia during a UN meeting.
• Memento, in which the opening scene of a man being shot in the head runs in reverse.
• Miami Vice, in which two undercover agents are torn apart inside their vehicles by high calibre guns.
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico, in which nearly all characters are killed by gunfire. In one scene, a character is shot once in each kneecap with a sawn-off shotgun, exposing both knee joints.
• The Outsiders, in which Dally is shot to death by the police after threatening them with his gun, which wasn't even loaded.
• Pan's Labyrinth, in which Dr. Ferrario is shot by Captain Vidal, Ofelia is shot in the chest, and Captain Vidal is shot in the head.
• The Proposition, in which a tribesman is partly decapitated by rifle fire.
• Turistas, in which Dr. Zamora gets shot in the head in the climax.
• Pulp Fiction, featuring (amongst others) Vincent accidentally discharging his pistol into Marvin's face, covering the rear windshield and the interior with blood and brain matter and leaving unrecognizable gore in Jules' hair.
• RoboCop, in which a hapless OCP executive is shot repeatedly by the ED-209 during a botched demonstration. Alex Murphy is also felled with multiple shotgun blasts, one which destroys his right hand and severs his right arm (Both of these scenes were trimmed in the R-rated version, but are seen entirely in the director's cut).
• Romper Stomper, in which a 16-year-old skinhead is shot by police, after waving a gun with the barrel blocked.
• Saving Private Ryan, featuring various gruesome and realistically graphic deaths by gunfire during World War 2.
• Saw, in which Detective Sing steps on a tripwire connected to four shotguns which blow his head off.
• Saw 2, (See ocular trauma below).
• Saw 3, in which Jeff reaches for a key with a chain connected to a shotgun which blows not Jeff, but Judge Halden in the side of his head. Later, Amanda is shot in the neck by Jeff.
• Saw 4, in which Jeff, in a mental state and searching for his daughter, is shot twice by Peter Strahm.
• Scarface (1983 film), many instances, most notably when Tony Montana is shot numerous times by machine guns, but still keeps fighting, killing several of Sosa's men. Eventually, he is shot in the back with a shotgun at point-blank range.
• Scream, in which Billy Loomis is shot in the head, showing a huge bullet hole.
• Scream 2, featuring three instances: Derek hangs from a fake cross and is shot in the chest by Mickey, Mickey is shot around 17 times by Gale and Sidney (also earlier by Mrs. Loomis), and Mrs. Loomis is shot in the neck by Cotton and again in the head by Sidney.
• The Shawshank Redemption, in which a prisoner is shot 3 times by a guard after talking to the Warden. The Warden later kills himself by shooting himself under the chin.
• Starship Troopers, in which a Federation soldier is shot in the head during a live-fire training exercise.
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which Obi-Wan shoots General Grievous with a blaster until his entire body bursts into flames.
• Suicide Circle, in which Detective Kuroda, after his family commits suicide, quickly puts his handgun into his mouth and pulls the trigger.
• Taxi Driver, in which a heavily armed Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) shoots a pimp point-blank in the stomach, blows half of another man's hand off, empties a semi-auto pistol into another man's face and chest, and finally blows the second guy's brains out.
• Tears of the Black Tiger, many instances.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which a police officer and a female biker are both shot by Sheriff Hoyt.
• The Thing, in which MacReady shoots Clark in the head.
• Vacancy, in which the main villain is shot 3 times in the chest.
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley, in which the protagonist, Damien O'Donovan, is killed by a firing squad that fires several shots into his chest (his heart is presented as a target with a ribbon).
• Wolf Creek, in which a man is sniped in the eye and Kristy is shot while trying to evade Mick.

Death by exploding head

• Bad Taste, in which an Alien in human form, is shot in the head causing half of it to explode off.
• Big Trouble in Little China, in which one of the storm gods becomes enraged after finding Lao Pan dead, his head swells to an enormous size before exploding.
• Child's Play 2, where, in the end, Chucky's head explodes after a loose air hose is shoved into his mouth.
• Chopping Mall has a scene in which a teenager is shot by a security robot's laser, causing her head to explode.
• Cube Zero, in which a man's body and head explode from sonic energy.
• Dawn of the Dead (1978), in which a man's head is blown off violently with a shotgun. Similarly, Andy (Bruce Bohne) has his head blown off by a shotgun blast in the 2004 remake.
• Dogma, Bartleby's (Ben Affleck) head explodes when he becomes mortal and is exposed to the power of God's voice.
• Fist of the North Star, in which numerous fighters are killed by Kenshiro after he strikes pressure points on their bodies, causing their heads to explode.
• The Fly (1986 film), in which the Brundlefly's head explodes in the very end of the movie.
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, in which Michael Myers kills a man by holding him up to electric wires and electrocuting him until the point where his head explodes and blood and brains are sprayed everywhere.
• Maniac, in which a man (Tom Savini) sitting in a car gets his head blown apart by a point-blank shotgun blast to the face.
• Mars Attacks!, where the aliens' heads explode when listening to yodeling music.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark features a scene of Belloq's head exploding after looking at the opened Ark of the Covenant. In order to secure a PG rating, the gory explosion had to be covered by flames.
• The Running Man, in which a prisoner's head explodes after a restraint collar detonates during a jailbreak.
• Saw 3, in which a doctor has a "shotgun collar" (collar with shotgun shells attached) strapped around her neck which blows her head away.
• Scanners, which features an infamous scene in which a man's head explodes due to a Scanner's mind powers.
• Stay Alive, in which a detective's head explodes after it is ripped open. This is partially seen in the rated cut, but the unrated DVD features this scene in its entirety.
• Spy Hard, in which "Weird Al" Yankovic's head explodes while holding a very long note during the opening theme song.
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny shows a man's head exploding due to the power of a note Jack Black holds during a song.

Death from explosion

• The 51st State, in which The Lizard (Meat Loaf) explodes after drinking an explosive cocktail which contained a drug that detonates at standard body temperature.
• Bad Boys 2, in which the main villain is shot in the head and his body falls on a mine, blowing his arms, torso and head into pieces.
• Battle Royale, in which the main villain is killed when the control collar placed on his neck is detonated (after a shotgun blast). Earlier on in the film, another character is killed in the same manner when his collar is detonated via a remote control.
• Battle Royale II: Requiem, in which a student is killed when the control collar placed on her neck explodes.
• Black Hawk Down, in which one of the soldiers has his lower abdomen blown off by an RPG.
• Blade, in which vampire villain Deacon Frost is injected with several vials of EDTA, causing him to turn into a massive red ball and explode. This death was foreshadowed by two Asian vampires earlier in the film.
• Blade II, in which traitor Scud is blown to smithereens by a bomb believed to be a dud.
• Death Wish 3, in which Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) obliterates the main villain with a mail-ordered M72 LAW rocket launcher.
• Diamonds Are Forever, in which Mr. Wint is blown up by the same bomb with which he and Mr. Kidd intended to kill Bond and Tiffany Case.
• Event Horizon, in which Sean Pertwee's character searches for a bomb and finds it with only four seconds remaining.
• Executioners, In which Michelle Yeoh's character, after being shot with an explosive crossbow bolt which doesn't detonate, grabs the bolt and detonates it, heroically blowing herself to pieces and taking the villain's arm with her.
• Final Destination 2, In which Brian is blown to bits while getting his Shish-Kebobs from the Grill. The Grill explodes causing Brian to explode into many pieces. After the mom freaks out, Brian's arm lands right in front of her.
• A Fistful of Dynamite, in which one of the bandits didn't know about the short fuse.
• The Fury, in which a character is killed when a girl mentally makes him explode.
• Flesh & Blood, in which a bomb made from a wine barrel explodes too soon after the fuse is lit, killing the soldier who was placing it.
• Ghost in the Shell, in which a camouflaged Major Kusanagi shoots delayed action explosive rounds into a foreign official's body. Several seconds later the rounds detonate, splattering the official's innards all over the room.
• Hellboy, in which the Behemoth explodes after swallowing the titular character along with a live belt of grenades.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character falls upon and activates a naval mine.
• Jason X, in which Kinsa dies in a spaceship explosion (self-inflicted).
• Land of the Dead, in which a soldier, while attempting to prime and throw a grenade, has his throwing hand hacked off by a zombie. The grenade falls to the ground, and the soldier, coiling in pain, falls on it, blowing him into pieces.
• Letters from Iwo Jima, in which many Japanese soldiers commit suicide by holding activated grenades close to their body.
• Live and Let Die, in which, during an underwater fight, James Bond places a compressed air bullet into the mouth of the villain Mr. Big, causing him to inflate like a balloon, float up to the ceiling and burst.
• The Lost Boys, in which a vampire is pinned to a stereo system by an arrow & explodes from electrocution.
• Man on Fire, in which C4 is improperly placed inside the rectum of an individual and ultimately detonated.
• The Naked Gun, where a suspect, chased by Frank Drebin, crashes into a fireworks store while riding a missile.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, in which a pirate (in skeleton form) has a stick of dynamite inserted into his ribcage and is then pushed out of the moonlight, causing him to take human form and thereby sealing the dynamite inside him.
• Premonition (2007 film), when Jim dies in the car explosion.
• The Punisher (2004 film), where the Punisher chains the main villain to a car, next he places a satchel charge on the car, and sends it rolling into the parking lot full of cars. He casually walks away and pushes the charge button, and sends all the cars around the main villain into fiery explosions and roasting him in the process. The main villain dies screaming as the car drags him across the pavement, into a fire, before exploding.
• Q&A, Drug dealers' yacht is blown up by Det Brennan in gasoline infested dock waters
• Raising Arizona, in which the hell-biker Leonard Smalls dies when he can't get an activated hand grenade from his vest after the lead character Hi McDonnough pulls the pin.
• Saving Private Ryan, in which a soldier waits too long to insert a sticky bomb into a tank's track.
• Saw 3, in which a bomb goes off in a room which kills Troy as he tries to get the last chain out of his mandible.
• Saw V, in which Charles dies when he is left in a room set to explode. His remains are later shown.
• Scream 3, in which a character lights a lighter to read a fax from the killer. The lighter sets off a gas explosion, exploding Jennifer's entire house, and the character that was in it.
• Swordfish, in which two hostages are blown to smithereens by explosive belts.
• The Terminator, in which a future Resistance soldier literally explodes after being shot by the cannon of a ground HK (hunter-killer) tank.
• The Thin Red Line, in which Woody Harrelson's character grabs a grenade by the pin during action and dives on it to save his battalion.
• The Thing, in which a crazed Norwegian foolishly fumbles a grenade, then panics around looking for it in the snow by his helicopter. It detonates, killing him and propelling his body upward into the spinning helicopter blades. The helicopter explodes immediately afterward.
• Underworld: Evolution, in which a character is stabbed by his own son, then denotates the ship with him on it.
• Vertical Limit, in which several characters die from dropping, exposing to sunlight, or otherwise improperly caring for canisters of nitroglycerin.
• A View to a Kill, in which the henchman Carl Mortner accidentally drops a lit explosive while in an airship, and cannot retrieve it before it explodes.
• Videodrome, in which, in an attempt to reprogram Max Renn via his chest slit, Harlan's hand has been transformed into a "hand grenade", which explodes and kills Harlan.
• Wanted: Dead or Alive, in which Gene Simmons' character's head explodes after Rutger Hauer pulls the pin on a grenade stuck in his mouth.
• Wrong Turn, in which the three cannibals are presumably killed after Chris fires a shotgun bullet into a gasoline tank attached to the back of a car, exploding their entire cabin (it is revealed in the end credits that only one of them actually survived)

Death by fluid extraction

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, in which Vincent Price's insane physician dispatches a victim by hypnotizing him, then draining his blood, pint by pint.
• Dr. Giggles, in which the Doctor Giggles (Larry Drake) puts a liposuction pump down a woman's throat and sucks out some of her insides and siphons them into a bowl of ice cream.
• The Exorcist III, in which a patient in the hospital has all his blood drained into Dixie cups lined up neatly next to his bed.
• Halloween II, in which Michael Myers puts an arm pump around a nurse's arm in a hospital and cuts a tiny hole under the pump. Later, victims running from Michael enter the room, and a man slips on the blood from the drained and lifeless nurse.
• Interview with the Vampire, in which various minor characters have their blood drained by vampires.
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space, in which various characters have bodily fluids sucked out by oversized crazy straws while encased in cotton candy coccoons.
• Mindhunters, in which one of the profilers gets drugged, decapitated and has the blood drained from his entire body. The blood is then used to write a cryptic message on the walls for the remaining profilers to decipher.
• Tank Girl, in which characters have all the water from their body extracted.
• The Thing from Another World, in which two scientists are hung upside-down with their throats cut so their blood will be food for the monster's offspring.
• The Tuxedo, in which Dr. Simms (Peter Stormare) tests his bioweapon on an underling. This deadly bacteria completely dehydrates the man within seconds, leaving him a brittle and dried-out corpse. The main villain also dies this way.

Death by freezing

• Alien: Resurrection, in which a soldier is frozen to a wall by icy vapors.
• Airborne (1998), in which a man is frozen to death by liquid nitrogen venting from a ruptured pipe in a plant. His legs freeze first, snapping off at the knees and toppling him to the floor, where the rest of his body quickly succumbs.
• The Day After Tomorrow, in which a helicopter pilot freezes solid in seconds upon contact with supercooled air in the eye of a hurricane.
• Decoys, in which young men are seduced and then frozen from the inside out by female extra-terrestrials (an inevitable consequence of mating).
• Demolition Man, in which Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) is frozen by liquid nitrogen, then has his head kicked off by John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), which then shatters when hitting the ground.
• GoldenEye, in which Boris Grishenko is frozen by exploding tanks of liquid nitrogen.
• Jason X, in which Jason grabs the victim's hair and submerges her face into a vat of liquid nitrogen, then slams her face onto the table, shattering it into pieces.
• Mindhunters, in which a J.D. (Christian Slater) gets blasted by a ruptured tank of compressed liquid nitrogen, and then falls and breaks into many pieces.
• Mortal Kombat, in which a combatant is frozen in mid-air by Sub-Zero's Ice Blast, then shatters. Later, when Sub-Zero attempts to use this same ability during a fight with Liu Kang, Kang throws a bucket of water at him; the end result is an icicle that impales Sub-Zero and freezes him, presumably to death.
• Saw 3, in which Danica freezes to death in the "Ice Shower."
• Sunshine, in which Harvey (Troy Garity) freezes in the vacuum of space.
• The Shining, in which Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) freezes to death in the end.
• Titanic, in which Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) slowly freezes to death after rescuing Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) from the deep, icy Atlantic waters.

Death from impact with a blunt object/bludgeoning

bludgeoning

• Apocalypto, in which the character of Middle Eye has the side of his head split open by a blow from a wooden club. He then receives a killing blow to the chin. A few other characters also have their heads smashed in after they've already been mortally wounded.
• Army Of Darkness in which an Oldsmobile, with careful modification, is given a large set of rotating blades which are used to smash a large group of zombiefied "Deadites".
• Casino depicts brothers Nicky and Dominique Santoro brutally beaten to death with baseball bats by fellow mafioso friends.
• Braveheart, in which several people are killed with a war hammer and one is killed with a flail.
• Children of Men, in which Theo kills Syd by hitting him in the face with a car battery.
• Conan the Barbarian, in which the character Thorgrim smashes several people with a heavy war hammer.
• Deep Cover, in which a drug dealer is beaten to death with a pool cue.
• Demon Knight, in which the Collector smashes his fist through the head of a state trooper.
• End of Days, in which Satan (in the guise of a priest) punches his fist through a subordinate's head.
• Escape from New York, in which Snake Plissken kills an opponent in a death match with a baseball bat studded with nails.
• F/X, in which Rollie Tyler kills an assassin with a steam iron.
• Gangs of New York, in which several people are killed by Monk who wields a shillelagh. Monk is later killed with his own weapon. Also, Priest Vallen is seen beating many natives to death with a stone crucifix before dying.
• Gladiator, in which the head of a slave is hit by a swinging warhammer just after entering the arena.
• Goodfellas, in which a character is beaten to death with a baseball bat and also stamped on repeatedly.
• Grosse Pointe Blank, in which Martin Blank smashes a television over Grocer's head.
• Heavenly Creatures, in which Honora Parker is continually smashed into the head with a half brick in a stocking, by her daughter Pauline Parker, and her daughter's best friend Juliette Hulme.
• Hostel, in which a henchman has the side of his head literally dented by a child wielding a soup can.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character is beaten over the head with a blunt object. His house is then blown up, causing the body to fly out.
• Irréversible, in which a man's face is repeatedly smashed by another man wielding a fire extinguisher.
• Jason X, in which the character of Dallas has his head smashed against a concrete wall repeatedly by Jason.
• Knight Rider (2008 film), in which the films main villians are killed after a collision with KITT.
• Land of the Dead, in which Cholo beats to death a suicidal zombie with a metal spike and crushes his skull.
• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, in which a woman is killed in the opening scene by a sledgehammer to the face. A man is later killed by a swinging sledgehammer while hanging upside-down in the Sawyer family's kitchen.
• Maximum Overdrive, in which a Little League baseball coach is hit in the head with a soda can shot from a "rebelling" vending machine. Another character dies when a truck hits him head-on.
• Pan's Labyrinth, in which a farmer's son is smashed repeatedly in the face with a champagne bottle.
• Platoon, in which Sergeant Barnes kills several men with an Army-issue shovel. Earlier, Bunny kills a Vietnamese villager with the butt of his shotgun.
• Rocky IV, in which Apollo Creed is killed by a vicious punch from Ivan Drago that breaks his neck.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which two zombies are bludgeoned repeatedly to death with a shovel and a cricket bat by Ed and Shaun, respectively.
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), in which Leatherface kills two hapless teenagers with hammer blows to the head.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), in which Kemper is hit in the back of the head with a sledgehammer by Leatherface.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), in which L.G. McPeters has his skull crushed in with a ball peen hammer.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which Ed (Leatherface's boss) is beaten to death with a sledgehammer by Leatherface.
• The Untouchables, in which Al Capone beats a man to death with a baseball bat.
• Sin City, multiple instances.
• Slaughter Disc, in which Andromeda Strange pulps a man's head by repeatedly smashing it with a hammer.
• Valentine, in which one victim is beaten to death with an iron.
• Saw, in which the character Zep Hindle, believed to be the Jigsaw Killer, is brutally beaten to death with a toilet lid, courtesy of Adam.

Death by impalement

• 300, featuring various impalements in battle sequences.
• 1900, in which Attila (Donald Sutherland) is impaled on a wrought iron fence.
• Apocalypto, in which the main villain, Zero Wolf, gets impaled by a tapir trap. Another character is impaled in the back of the head and out through the mouth with an arrow.
• Black Christmas (2006 film), in which Ms. Mac is impaled in the eye with an icicle
• Braindead, in which a priest, after dispatching numerous zombies by means of karate, is thrown onto a statue and impaled on its tip. Also, a woman is impaled by a zombie's fist through the back of her head and out of her mouth.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which the title character impales an enemy on his spear during an early battle sequence.
• Braveheart, in which an English soldier is headbutted and thrown onto a sharpened post.
• Blade II, in which Blade partially impales Jared Nomak with part of his sword. Unable to finish the job due to injuries, Nomak finishes the job himself.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which an impaled cannibal girl is filmed by the documentarians.
• Con Air, in which Billy Bedlam (Nick Chinlund) gets pushed onto a pipe in the belly of the plane after refusing to put Cameron Poe's (Nicolas Cage) daughters present back in the box.
• Conan the Barbarian, in which Thorgrim is impaled by Conan's trap.
• Charlie Muffin (aka A Deadly Game), in which a character is impaled by a construction machine.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which Ron Jeremy is impaled through the head with a cross.
• Commando, in which the main villain is impaled through his chest by a metal tube. Another thug is killed when he lands on a table leg that impales him through the chest.
• The Core, in which a man is impaled through the head by a large falling amethyst crystal.
• The Crow, in which the villain is pushed off the roof and impaled on a stone gargoyle's horns.
• The Crow: Salvation, in which the crow picks up the villain's girlfriend and throws her on deer horns.
• Cube, in which a character is impaled by another with a broken-off door handle.
• Cyborg, in which the main character kills his attacker by stabbing him through the chest with a knife and impaling him on a meat hook.
• Dark Ride, in which Jonah is impaled on a wall of spikes.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), in which a zombie is impaled through the jaw with a broken polo mallet and another zombie is impaled through the eye socket with a fireplace poker.
• Dead Again, in which the bad guy is impaled on a huge pair of scissors.
• Death Warrant, in which the back of a man's head is impaled by the valve of a pipe.
• Die Another Day, in which Zao is impaled by a falling chandelier.
• Dracula, in which an undead Mina Van Helsing is impaled with a stake. Also the title character impales Abraham Van Helsing with a stake intended for the vampire.
• The Edge, in which the kodiak bear is impaled by a spear, having landed directly on it.
• End of Days, in which a priest is stabbed in the forehead with a crucifix.
• Enter the Dragon, in which the antagonist is impaled on a spear.
• Final Destination 2, in which Kat Jennings is impaled by PVC piping through her head.
• Final Destination 3, in which Perry gets impaled with a flagpole. Also, Erin Ulmer is hit from behind by an automatic nail gun, which sends a dozen or so spiked-sized nails into the back of her skull and which are seen poking out of her face.
• Flash Gordon, in which a character is thrown spread-eagled unto a spiked platform, is impaled and his face almost bursts.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which two characters are double-impaled on a large rusty pipe by Jason.
• Friday the 13th, famously featuring a young Kevin Bacon receiving an arrow forced through his throat.
• Friday the 13th Part 2, in whichJeff and Sandra are double-impaled on a spear while having sex.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Chili is impaled with a hot fireplace poker.
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, in which Demon is impaled with a spear through an outhouse wall. Near the end, Roy falls from a barn and is impaled on a tractor harrow.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which a character is thrown off a ladder and is impaled on a deck post. In an earlier scene, a character is stabbed by a harpoon gun after Jason fails to figure out how to fire the device.
• Fright Night, in which "Evil" Ed Thompson is impaled on a wooden railing.
• Ghost, in which a character is gruesomely impaled by falling glass.
• Godzilla Final Wars, in which godzilla tosses Kamacuras onto a metal tower.
• Grosse Pointe Blank, in which Martin kills Felix La PuBelle aka "Sidney Feldman" by puncturing his jugular with a pen.
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, in which a woman is impaled through a wall with a rifle by Michael Myers.
• Halloween: Resurrection, in which Michael Myers lures a woman into a dead end, lifts her up and impales her onto a sharp point sticking out of the wall.
• The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, in which character Peyton Flanders in pushed out of a window and is impaled on the white picket fence.
• Happy Birthday to Me, in which a character is impaled through his palate with a metal shish-kabob skewer.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which one of the three mine workers is pick-axed in the back and slammed several times on a rock until he is impaled.
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II, in which a motocrosser rides into an iron spear which pierces his body.
• Hot Fuzz, in which a character is stabbed through the neck with a pair of garden shears.
• House of Wax (2005 film), in which Paige Edwards (Paris Hilton) has an iron pole thrown through her head, then slides down it.
• Identity, in which a character is impaled by a truck and slammed against the wall of a building, impaling him and crushing him at the same time.
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, in which Estes (already dead) and Nancy are double impaled on a spear.
• I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, in which PJ falls off a roof and is impaled on a tractor.
• Jason X, in which a soldier is picked up and dropped onto an oversized rock drill, while another is impaled against a swinging girder.
• Live Wire, in which person falls onto spikes on top of metal fence.
• Lord of the Flies (1963 film), in which a character is stabbed with several long pointed sticks.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, extended DVD release, in which Saruman falls from his tower and abruptly lands on a spiked wheel.
• The Matrix Revolutions, in which Trinity is impaled with a trio of rebars after crash-landing her ship.
• Midnight Express, in which a guard in the prison is thrown against a wooden coatpeg that plunges into the back of his head.
• Mimic 2, in which the man-sized cockroach impales most of his victims.
• No Escape, in which an outsider gets impaled by a swinging booby trap and Marek gets impaled by a stake after being knocked off a tower.
• The Omen (1976 film), in which a lightning rod impales a clergyman.
• Once Upon a Time in China, in the second sequel of Once Upon a Time in China, Antagonist Priest Kung is kicked towards a buddha-like statue by Wong Fei Hung and ends up impaled.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, in which a character is impaled by the mast of an exploding ship.
• Pumpkinhead, in which a man is impaled with a rifle.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which a man is seen after being killed by multiple spikes in a booby-trap.
• Rambo, in which the title character shoots several enemy soldiers with arrows, one through the head.
• The Rock, in which a terrorist is impaled on a pole after being shoved through a window by a rocket.
• Scarecrow Gone Wild, in which one character is impaled with a volleyball net pole, and another impales himself with a crucifix.
• Scream 2, in which a police officer is impaled on a sharp pole while crashing a car into a construction site, while fighting with the film's killer.
• See No Evil, in which Margaret is impaled on a wall of spikes.
• Serenity, in which the pilot Wash is suddenly impaled by a Reaver harpoon seconds after a rocky but successful landing of the Serenity. Also, a minor character is rendered immobile and falls on the killer's sword.
• Shaka Zulu, in which many people are impaled "bottom-up" on a large pole (a death-sentence alike crucifixion)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night, in which Denise is picked up and impaled on a hanging pair of deer antlers.
• Snakes On a Plane, in which a man is impaled through the ear with a high-heeled shoe after falling and being trampled by the passengers running to the back of the plane.
• Spencer, in which a man falls on a wooden spike on a tree stump, the spike goes threw his mouth and sticks out the top of his head.
• Spider-Man, in which the Green Goblin is impaled by his own glider.
• Spider-Man 3, in which Harry Osborn is impaled on his own glider, and dies a while afterwards.
• Star Trek: Nemesis, in which the Romulan Praetor Shinzon (played by Tom Hardy) is impaled by a length of steel molding.
• Sudden Impact, in which the antagonist is impaled on the horn of a carousel unicorn.
• Tales from the Hood, in which a corrupt cop is crucified by a black zombie, his body pinned to the cross with hypodermic needles.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which the T-1000 (imitating John Connor's stepmother) impales John Connor's stepfather through the mouth and the milk carton he was drinking from.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which Eric, Dean, and Chrissie are impaled with Leatherface's chainsaw (Explicit shots of these deaths are not included in the R-rated DVD, only the unrated DVD).
• Total Recall, in which a man is impaled by a hard rock mining drill.
• Troy, in which a soldier is impaled through the head with a spear. Also, the hero, Achilles, is shot through the ankle with an arrow and dies.
• Venom (2005 film), in which Rachel gets impaled on a tree branch.
• Very Bad Things, in which a stripper is thrown against a wall hook in a hotel bathroom.
• Village of the Damned (1995 film), in which a man is forced by demonic children to jump from a roof while holding a broom to his abdomen.
• The Virgin Suicides, in which Cecilia Lisbon jumps and lands on a pointy fence outside the Lisbon home.
• Virtuosity, in which the antagonist is impaled on large shards of glass.
• The World Is Not Enough, in which James Bond rigs a nuclear reactor on a hijacked Russian sub to shoot a control rod into the chest of one of the two main villains, Renard.
• Wrong Turn, in which Scott is shot 3 times with arrows, one which impales him through the chest.

Death by ingestion

• 28 Days Later, in which Major Henry West was being savagely eaten and torn apart by an infected soldier zombie.
• An American Werewolf in London, in which Jack Goodman is maimed and partially eaten by a killer werewolf, after which he remains undead for the rest of the movie. Six other victims die in the same way during the film.
• Anaconda, in which Jon Voight's character is eaten by the anaconda, regurgitated while still alive and conscious, winks at the lead character.
• Apocalypto, in which a character is attacked and has his face eaten and his skull crushed by a jaguar .
• Austin Powers in Goldmember in which Mr. Roboto is fed to "sharks with frikkin lasers on their heads."
• The Beastmaster, in which a man is caught and rapidly digested by a humanoid creature with leathery digestive 'wings'.
• The Beyond, in which a blind woman gets her throat eaten by her dog. The film also features a man falling from a ladder and being eaten by tarantulas.
• The Blob, in which many people are eaten by a gelatinous blob.
• The Bone Collector, in which a man is eaten by rats.
• Bones, in which Maurice is torn apart by the demonic black dog guarding the haunted house
• Braindead aka Dead Alive, in which numerous characters are eaten alive.
• Cannibal Ferox, in which numerous characters are eaten by cannibals.
• Cannibal Holocaust, in which several individuals are devoured by cannibals.
• Critters (film series), in which many characters and animals are eaten by ravenous, toothy aliens that invade Earth.
• Cloverfield, in which Hud, whilst filming the creature, is attacked and partially eaten. Also, Marlena noted seeing the monster eating people earlier in the film.
• Dawn of the Dead, in which the zombies tear apart several biker gang members who invade the shopping mall.
• Day of the Dead, in which a character is torn apart and eaten by zombies.
• Days in Hell, where several characters are eaten alive by zombies.
• Dead Alive, in which a man's flesh is completely consumed from the waist down, showing his skeleton as he is still alive.
• Deep Blue Sea, in which numerous characters are eaten by sharks.
• Deep Rising, in which many people are eaten by a multi-tentacled sea creature which later excretes their skeletal remains. One man dies after being disgorged from the monster, partially digested and still conscious.
• The Descent, where several characters are gruesomely eaten by crawlers.
• Dreamcatcher, in which a character is eaten in a single bite by an alien, with blood spurting in all directions.
• Eaten Alive (a.k.a. "Death Trap"), in which a serial killer's victims are fed to a crocodile.
• Exorcist: The Beginning, in which a little boy's older brother is torn apart and eaten by vicious hyenas.
• Feast, in which several characters are eaten by monsters.
• The Edge, in which a character is eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
• Ghoulies II, in which a clown has his arm eaten by a Ghoulie, and a man had his buttocks devoured by a Ghoulie.
• Grindhouse, in "Planet Terror", when Stacy Ferguson's character is eaten by a couple of infected zombies that devour her brain clean.
• Hannibal, in which three characters are eaten by boars (two eaten alive, one already dead). In addition, a character has the top of his head removed and is fed a portion of his frontal lobe, the remainder of his brains being used by Hannibal Lecter to make a packed lunch.
• Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Creepers 2 in which the main villain eats parts of his victims.
• The Jaws series, in which many characters are eaten by sharks.
• The Jurassic Park series, in which several characters are eaten by dinosaurs.
• Living Dead series in which numerous characters are eaten by zombies.
• Pitch Black, in which bounty hunter Johns has his head bitten off by a winged creature.
• Razorback, numerous people are eaten by a giant razorback boar in the Australian outback.
• Redneck Zombies, in which the 'sons of the dirt' go on a rampage, often eating their victims.
• The Resident Evil films, in which numerous people are eaten by zombies and monsters.
• The Return of the Living Dead films, in which people get their brains eaten by the Trioxin zombies.
• Rottweiler, in which people are eaten by the robotic dog.
• See No Evil, in which a teenager (suspended from a firehose bungee while trying to escape from the killer) is savaged by a pack of feral dogs.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which one of the characters is torn open and eaten by zombies.
• Sin City, in which one of the characters has his arms and legs cut off and is eaten by a dog.
• The Spy Who Loved Me, Stromberg's treasonous assistant fed to a shark
• Suspiria, in which a blind pianist is savaged by his own guide dog.
• Tremors, in which several people are sucked underground and are eaten by giant, sightless worms known as "graboids".
• TerrorVision, in which Grampa Putterman is eaten by an alien in a living room.
• The Thing, in which characters are swallowed by a shape-shifting alien.
• The Vikings, in which a Viking leader is thrown into wolfpit.
• You Only Live Twice, in which Blofeld sends one of his henchmen into a pool filled with piranha, and Bond throws another Blofeld henchman into the same pool at the end of a fight.
• Zombi 2, in which victims of the zombies are graphically eaten.

Death from ocular trauma

enucleation of the eye

• 28 Days Later, in which a soldier has his eyes gouged by Jim.
• 28 Weeks Later, in which Don, after becoming infected, gouges out his wife's eyes with his thumbs.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film) in which a corrupt police officer is impaled in the eye by an icicle.
• Bad Boys II, in which Mike Lowrey shoots a Haitian man in the eye as he is looking through a hole.
• Battle of Britain, in which various Luftwaffe pilots are shot through the eyes with machine guns.
• The Battleship Potemkin, in which a mother is shot through her glasses by Tsarist soldiers during "The Odessa Steps" sequence (This scene is rather iconic and has been imitated in several films, including some entries on this list).
• The Beyond, in which a woman's eye is gouged with a large wooden splinter.
• Black Christmas (2006 film), in which Claire (Leela Savasta), Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), and Megan (Jessica Harmon) have their eyes gouged out and eaten by the killer.
• Blade Runner, in which Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) is murdered by replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) by insertion of his thumbs into Tyrell's eyes.
• Brazil, in which a cleaning lady is shot through her glasses and falls down stairs.
• Bulletproof, in which Adam Sandler pretends to trip and shoots a bodyguard in the eye through his glasses.
• Casino Royale, in which Bond shoots Gettler in the darkened lense of his glasses with a nailgun, killing him.
• Child's Play 2, in which a security guard for the toy factory is killed when a machine stabs doll eyes into his real eyes.
• Demon Knight, in which all the lower level demons die from the destruction of their eyes (the windows to their souls).
• The Descent, in which Sarah kills one crawler by eye-gouging and another by driving a broken deer antler into its eye.
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder, in which John McClane uses an icicle to kill a sentry.
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, in which Vincent Price uses a trick microscope with blades in the eyeholes.
• Donnie Darko, in which "Frank" is shot in the eye by Donnie.
• D-Tox, in which the wife of FBI Agent Jake Malloy (Sylvester Stallone) dies when she looks through a peep-hole in her frontdoor, and the murderer uses a drill to impale her eye.
• Eraser, in which a railgun sniper in a crane is shot through his own scope with by a character with a traditional sniper rifle on the ground.
• Evil Aliens, in which a farmer has his eyes poked out by an alien.
• The Evil Dead, in which the main charactar gouges out the eyes of a possessed friend.
• Flesh & Blood, in which a marauder is stabbed through the eye by a spear and dies.
• Flyboys, in which the main character shoots the German ace in both eyes with his "suicide" pistol in mid-flight.
• Final Destination 2, in which Evab Lewis is impaled through his right eye by a falling fire escape ladder.
• The Fog (1980 film), in which one of the fishermen on the Seagrass has both eyes stabbed out by a zombie leper.
• The Faculty, in which both Professor Furlong (Jon Stewart) and the Queen Alien are killed by stabbing vials of caffeine in their eyes.
• Friday the 13th Part 3, in which Vera is shot through the eye with an arrow. Later, Jason squeezes Rick's head until his eyes pop out.
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, in which a girl is stabbed in the eyes with a pair of shears. Later when her boyfriend returns, the killer wraps his belt around his eyes and pulls until they bleed.
• Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood, in which Kate has a party horn jammed into her eye by Jason (Gore was cut from this scene to get an "R" rating, but this can be seen in its entirety as an extra on the Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan boxset. The picture quality is very poor).
• The Godfather, in which casino owner Moe Green is shot through his glasses (this is reminiscent of the scene from "The Battleship Potemkin", but also probably alludes to the death of Bugsy Siegel).
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch, in which a man is killed in his hospital bed by an automaton who thrusts a finger into each eye and cracks his skull.
• Hard Boiled, in which a character is shot through an eye.
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which Doug kills a mutant by slamming the pick of the axe into his eye.
• Horrors of the Black Museum, in which a character is killed by spikes hidden in a pair of binoculars.
• In Dreams, in which a character is killed with an ice pick through the eye.
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, in which Darick the Dockhand has his left eye gouged out with a hook.
• Last Exit, in which one of the President's henchmen scoops a man's eye out with a spoon and squishes it with his shoe.
• Mission: Impossible, in which a man sitting on top of an elevator pierced through his eyes by a metal spike on the ceiling as the elevator rockets out of control.
• The Phantom, in which a librarian is tricked into stabbing his own eyes with a rigged microscope.
• Psycho Cop 2 (aka Psycho Cop Returns) (unrated version), in which a man has his eye gouged with a pencil.
• Saw 2, in which Gus looks through an eyehole and is shot as a gun goes off behind it.
• Saving Private Ryan in which a German sniper is shot in the eye by an American sniper.
• See No Evil, in which Jacob Goodnight graphically and grotesquely rips out his victims' eyes and stores them in jars of liquid (holy water?).
• Shaun of the Dead, in which zombie and former flatmate Pete takes a rifle blast to the right eye.
• Shoot 'Em Up, in which the maint character blasts the eyes of some of his enemies with a carrot.
• Sniper, in which Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) shoots another sniper through his rifle scope (this scene, much like the one in Saving Private Ryan, was based on an actual shot taken by Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam).
• Spencer, in which a woman and a man have there eyeballs ripped out by hand.
• The Street Fighter, in which Terry (Sonny Chiba) kills an opponent by gouging his eyes.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which a security guard at an insane asylum is lanced through the head (via the eye) by the modified finger of the T-1000 (who is imitating him at the time).
• Tromeo and Juliet, in which Harry is stabbed in the eye with a tattoo needle.
• True Lies, in which a terrorist is killed when a surgery tool is thrown into his eye by the main character.
• The Unborn, in which a disgusted father is stabbed in the eye with a knitting needle by a mutant baby.
• Universal Soldier, a character shot through his glasses by GR-13.
• Wolf Creek, in which a man's eye explodes after it is shot from a far distance
• Wrong Turn, in which a police officer is impaled through the eye by an arrow.
• Zombi 2 (a.k.a. Zombie Flesh Eaters), in which a wooden splinter impales a woman's eye.

Death by strangulation or asphyxiation

strangulation in popular culture or asphyxiation

• Black Christmas (1974 film), in which Claire is suffocated by a plastic bag.
• Class of 1984, in which Timothy Van Patten's character is hanged with a rope tied around his neck before an orchestral audience.
• Deathwatch, Two of the lost platoon are engulfed and 'strung up' by animated barbed wire.
• Dr. Giggles, in which Dr. Giggles suffocates a girl by attaching a gigantic Band-Aid to her face. He later kills a doctor by strangling him with a blood pressure cuff.
• Final Destination, in which Tod Waggner slips on a wire that he used to hang up clothes and is strangled.
• Friday the 13th Part 2, in which Crazy Ralph is garroted with barbed wire by Jason.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Eva is held up and strangled by Jason's bare hands.
• Faces of Death 4, in which a cocaine dealer is suffocated with a plastic bag.
• The Godfather, in which Luka Brazi is garroted by Salazzo. Carlo Rizzi is garroted as well by Clemenza after being forgiven by Michael, during the scene he kicks the windshield out.
• GoldenEye, in which henchman Xenia Onatopp kills Canadian Admiral Chuck Farrell by crushing his chest between her legs while they are having sex. During the scene, Farrell gasps, "Xenia... I can't breathe!", and it can be inferred that he dies from compressive asphyxia.
• Halloween, in which Michael Myers hides in the back seat of a car and strangles a woman who climbs into the driver's seat. Later, another girl is strangled to death with a phone cord as she is calling her friend.
• House of Sand and Fog, in which Col Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) commits suicide by wrapping a plastic bag around his head.
• Lucky Number Slevin, in which "The Boss" and "The Rabbi" are asphyxiated by Slevin with a pair of plastic bags.
• My Little Eye, in which Charlie is suffocated with a plastic bag by Matt.
• Natural Born Killers, in which a corrupt cop strangles a prostitute in a hotel room
• A Nightmare On Elm Street, in which an inmate is strangled by an invisible Freddy Kruger using a bedsheet.
• Pick Me Up, in which Walker strangles the bus driver using a dead roadkill snake.
• Saw 3, in which Adam is suffocated by Amanda with a plastic bag (flashback sequence).
• See No Evil, in which a girl chokes to death when Jacob shoves her cell phone down her throat.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night, in which Billy garrotes one of his co-workers with a long string of Christmas lights.
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, in which a black cat forces its way down a man's throat. It later re-emerges in a very bloody fashion.
• Tourist Trap, in which a character is smothered by application of plaster to the face.

Death by sword/knife (or any other bladed weapon)

• 28 Days Later, in which Selena is forced to hack her companion to pieces with a machete before he becomes infected with the rage virus.
• American Me, in which Santana's son is brutally raped in prison and then killed by a vicious-looking knife that's shoved into his anus.
• Apocalypse Now, in which Colonel Kurtz is hacked to pieces with a machete by Captain Willard.
• Black Christmas (2006 film), in which Dana (Lacey Chabert) is stabbed in the head with a weeding fork.
• Black Rain, in which the yakuza, Sato, slices the throat of another mob associate in a restaurant.
• Battle Royale, in which a student uses a sickle to slit the throats of several of her classmates.
• Braveheart, featuring various violent scenes with cutting tools, knives, and swords.
• Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story, in which Oliver (Thomas Kretschmann) severs Simon's penis with a knife, leaves him to bleed out in a bath tub, then takes him to a butcher's table and stabs him in the neck until he is decapitated. He is then carved and eaten.
• Cabin Fever, in which one of the three homicidal hillbillies is stabbed in the head with a screwdriver.
• Carrie, in which Carrie's mother is speared with numerous kitchen knives.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which Riddick jams a knife into an enemy's head and snaps the handle off, lodging the blade inside his head.
• Children of the Corn, in which many victims meet their end to a large knife, scythe, or axe.
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, in which a man's throat is slit by a gangster.
• Commando, in which Matrix scalps a man to death by throwing a blade from a circular saw at him.
• Damien: Omen II Ann Thorn stabs husband Richard with Meggido daggers, revealing herself as Damien's ally.
• The Dark Knight, in which The Joker kills a man with a pencil.
• Dark Ride, in which Jim is stabbed to death by Bill.
• The Devil's Advocate, in which Mary Ann Lomax (Charlize Theron) commits suicide by slitting her own throat.
• The Devil's Rejects, when Charlie Altamont is axed to death by Sheriff Wydell.
• Dressed to Kill, in which the killer murders with a straight razor.
• Eraserhead, in which the lead character cuts open the bandages clothing his grotesque mutant baby, revealing unprotected internal organs. He then stabs one of the organs as the baby screams.
• Final Destination, in which Ms. Lewton struggles for a cloth (which has knives underneath it) and a butcher knife falls on her chest. A chair then lands on it, pushing the knife deeper into her.
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, in which the main villain Sephiroth is speared many times with a sword.
• Frailty, in which the father uses a large axe (named Otis) to carry out God's will.
• Freddy vs. Jason, in which several people are killed by Jason. The most notable of these is when Trey is stabbed numerous times with a machete while lying face down on a bed, then the bed is forcefully folded in half, snapping Trey's spine in two. Multiple ravers are also killed and one is even impaled with a flaming machete thrown by a flame-engulfed Jason.
• Friday the 13th (film series), in which characters throughout the series are murdered with various bladed weapons, most notably Jason Voorhees' trademark machete (Gore was actually excluded from almost all of these kinds of death scenes throughout the entire series to obtain an "R" rating).
• Gangs of New York, featuring various violent scenes, mainly involving knives.
• Halloween (film series), in which Michael Myers murders with a kitchen knife (Michael isn't shown in Halloween III).
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), in which three mine workers are killed with a pick-axe by Pluto. Later, Pluto is axed in the head by Doug.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequels, in which the killer murders with a fish hook.
• I Spit On Your Grave, in which one man is killed with a blow to the back with an axe.
• Kill Bill Vol. I & II, featuring multiple kills in sword fights.
• Near Dark, in which a barmaid has her throat slit with a butterfly knife and the bartender is slashed up with a vampire's boot blades.
• Penny Dreadful, in which Orianna is stabbed in the back repeatedly by the hitchhiker.
• Play Misty for Me, when Birdie is repeatedly wounded with a butcher knife and bleeds to death, and a guy is stabbed in the chest with scissors.
• Prom Night, inwhich one character has their throat slashed and another is stabbed in the neck.
• The Prowler (aka Rosemary's Killer), in which the killer murders with a pitchfork and a sword.
• The Punisher (2004 film), in which the Punisher (Tom Jane) stabs a henchman with a knife, through the bottom of the mouth. He also lodges the detached blade of a paper cutter into a henchman's head.
• Psycho (1960) and its 1998 remake, in which two characters are killed by a butcher knife-wielding maniac.
• Reincarnation, in which the hotel guests and employees are apparently shown stabbed to death by the murderer. Afterwards, the murderer commits suicide by stabbing himself in the throat.
• RoboCop, in which Clarence Boddicker is stabbed in the throat by the title character's interface spike.
• Saving Private Ryan, In a close quarters fight between an American and a German soldier, the American is stabbed in the heart.
• Saw 2, in which Xavier's throat is slashed with a hacksaw by Daniel.
• Scarface (1983 film), in which Tony Montana kills Emilio Rebenga with multiple stabs.
• Scream trilogy, in which the serial killer murders with a knife.
• See No Evil, in which an officer is axed repeatedly by Jacob Goodnight after finding an eyeless woman. Also, Frank Williams is hooked in the chin and dragged up the ceiling.
• The Shining, in which Halloran (Scatman Crothers) is thumped in the chest with a fireman's axe, swung by Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson).
• Slaughter Disc, in which Andromeda Strange commits suicide by slitting her wrist and throat with a
• Spencer, in which a woman has her ears cut off. A girl has her throught slit then is stabed threw the neck with a pencil. a man is stabed in the throught with a screwdriver then gets a hachet in his farhead. Boy is stabbed in throught with knife.

straight razor. An undead Andromeda later kills a man by slicing his throat with the same weapon.

• Stay Alive, in which October Bantum (Sophia Bush) has her throat slashed with calipers.
• Suicide Circle, in which a woman is raped and stabbed in a bowling alley.
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, in which a mummy stabs a woman in the back, then proceeds to stuff the wound with flowers, imitating his own mummification ritual.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), in which Andy has been hanging by the skin on the back of his neck on a meat hook for hours, until his friend Erin finds him. He begs Erin to kill him, and reluctantly, she picks up a kitchen knife and stabs him in the gut.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in which Bailey has her throat slit with scissors by Leatherface.
• Total Recall, in which a midget-hooker stabs Helm in a Martian bar (the shot of the knife slicing up Helm's stomach was trimmed for an "R" rating).
• V for Vendetta, in which V kills most of his opponents with knives, either by slashing them or by throwing the knives at them.
• Valentine, in which a character has her throat slit with a knife while hiding in a body bag in a morgue.
• Venom (2005 film), in which CeCe has her neck wounded with a knife, Eric gets stabbed in the head, and Deputy Turner, Ricky, and Sean die at the hands of a crowbar.
• Wolf Creek, when Liz gets stabbed in the back, then her fingers and her spinal cord are severed.
• Wrong Turn, in which Francine (Lindy Booth) has barbed wire pulled up her mouth.
• Zatoichi, in which Zatoichi kills off the yakuza with his sword.

Death by violent organ removal

• Apocalypto, where sacrificial victims have their hearts ripped out.
• Braindead, which features several instances of this gory and elaborate death, including a man who has his entire ribcage removed from his chest and shown to him, a woman who has one of her ovaries ripped out, and a man who's entire lower half is completely skinned down to the bones.
• Braveheart, in which William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is disemboweled alive as punishment for treason.
• The Cell, in which a man is disemboweled during torture.
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, in which many minor characters are murdered by having organs removed, while The Noxious Offender is finally killed after having his liver, colon, heart and other organs removed one-by-one.
• Dark Ride, in which a mental institution doctor gets punched through the stomach and gets his intestines pulled out
• Dawn of the Dead, in which several characters are violently torn apart by zombies and have their internal organs eaten.
• Day of the Dead, in which several characters are torn apart by zombies.
• Dead Silence, in which several characters have their tongues ripped out by Mary Shaw.
• Dumb and Dumber, in which Jim Carrey (in a dream sequence) kills a karate-trained chef at a restaurant by pulling his heart out with his bare hand.
• Event Horizon, in which Dr. William Weir (Sam Neil) disembowels a man by slicing him open and hanging him from the ceiling so that his organs fall out.
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, in which Jenna Jameson's character's silicone implants are violently removed and then her internal organs are pulled out. Also, another character has his intestines pulled from his body through his rectum, and then is strangled by them.
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, in which a newly resurrected Jason Voorhees punches through a victim's body, holding his heart out the other side (uncut version of the film features the character's guts being pulled out as well).
• Hannibal, in which a character is sliced open and hanged from a balcony, causing his intestines to fall out.
• Hostel: Part II, in which Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) has her skin torn apart by a nude woman below her carrying a scythe.
• I Spit On Your Grave, in which a male character dies of blood loss due to the heroine slicing off his penis, as revenge for raping her. In the same movie, another male character is disemboweled after he begs the heroine not to kill him. He is flailing in the lake near her summer house and grabs on to the motor of her boat, only to have her restart the engine and kill him.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, featuring a human sacrifice in which the victim's heart is removed.
• Jeepers Creepers, in which a police officer has his heart ripped out from behind by the Creeper.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1, in which Gogo Yubari disembowels a would-be suitor.
• Land of the Dead, just like all zombie films, people are disemboweled as well as eaten alive by zombies.
• The Last House on the Left, in which Sadie reels out Phyllis' guts after the rapists have stabbed her.
• The Last of the Mohicans, in which a man's heart is cut out.
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which Elizabeth's heart is ripped out by the Creature.
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, featuring a ritual suicide by disembowelment (seppuku).
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, in which Graham Chapman and John Cleese remove Terry Gilliam's liver.
• Phantasm, in which a man has his brain sucked out by a flying silver sphere that drills into his head.
• Queen of the Damned, in which the queen of the vampires rips out the heart of a male vampire and drinks from it.
• Rambo, in which John Rambo disembowels the main villain with his machete.
• Re-Animator, in which a character dies after having his brain removed from his head.
• Road House, in which a character dies after having his throat ripped out by another character's bare hands.
• Saving Private Ryan, in which a disemboweled soldier lies on the beach in Normandy screaming for his mother.
• Saw, in which a thought-to-be-dead person is disemboweled by Amanda to retrieve a key inside the stomach.
• Saw 3, in which the female detective has her ribcage ripped out, which spills her organs on the floor.
• Scream, in which a male character is disemboweled in front of his girlfriend, and his girlfriend is gutted and hung on a tree (her guts are seen below her hung body).
• Seed of Chucky, in which Tiffany stabs Redman in the gut, leaving his intestines to fall on the floor.
• Shaun of the Dead, in which David has his entrails pulled out by a crowd of zombies.
• Silent Hill, in which Anna has her skin torn from her body by Pyramid Head.
• Species, in which a woman has her spine ripped out in a public bathroom.
• Starship Troopers, in which a character has his brains sucked from his skull by an alien.
• The Street Fighter, in which Terry Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) tears off a man's penis with his bare hands.
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, a man's brain is yanked out through his nose with a wire hanger.
• The Terminator, in the beginning of the film, the Terminator rips a punk's heart out after he fails to give the terminator his clothes.
• Trinity Blood Genesis, in which a man is cut in half, telekinetically controlled to remove his beating heart and squish it in the palm of his hand.
• The Toxic Avenger, in which the final surviving villain has his stomach violently torn out by the Toxic Avenger.
• Turistas, in which Amy is laying on a table while having her liver, intestines, and kindneys removed, but dies when her liver is taken out.

Deaths by other means

These are deaths that do not necessarily fit into the above categories, and are usually deaths that involve mysterious methods (not through means available in real life).

• Alien (film series), where several people are killed by chestbursters: when an alien breaks out of a person's chest after they have been implanted with eggs. Many others are killed by the Alien's signature "tongue", a second mouth that can shoot out and pierce a human skull.
• Braindead, featuring numerous deaths, including a girl whose head is ripped in two by a zombie baby burrowing inside from behind.
• Cabin Fever, where several characters die from a flesh-eating virus.
• Chronicles of Riddick, in which Riddick kills a convict with a sharpened soup cup.
• Dark Ride, in which Liz is beaten to death and thrown against a wall
• Date Movie, in which a man shoots himself in the head with a nail gun because he can't take Julia's horrible striptease.
• Dead Heat, death by reanimation. The main antagonist kills himself. Not satisfied with this end, the protagonists re-animate him, bringing him back to life. Then he is re-reanimated, which causes a violent and bloody explosion.
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again, in which a man is killed by having his flesh torn off with a sandblaster.
• Dune in which the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen removes the heart plug of a servant and drinks his blood.
• Ghost Ship, in which a character is struck by flying debris and inexplicably explodes.
• The Grudge, when numerous people fall victims to the deadly curse in different ways.
• Halloween III, in which a little boy's head turns into pile of maggots underneath a Halloween mask.
• House of Wax, featuring a character being incapacitated by having both his achilles tendon and pectoral muscles severed, then being boiled alive in hot wax; he later has part of his face removed with an axe.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Walter Donovan drinks from the wrong chalice then rots away to a skeleton.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Elsa Schneider hangs perilously over an abyss with Indiana holding her gloved hands. She rips one of her hands free to reach for the Holy Grail below her, instead of letting him pull her up. As she is reaching, the glove on her other hand starts slipping off. Right as Elsa is about to grasp the chalice with her gloved fingers, her other hand is undone from its glove. Elsa plunges into the abyss of nothingness, destroyed by her greed.
• Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, featuring very unusual deaths involving icicles and snowballs.
• Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, in which a character is freed from possession of Jason Voorhees's demonic soul, only to have his flesh melt away.
• The Lost Boys, in which one of the vampires is impaled on an arrow, which goes through his chest and into the stereo behind him, causing loud music to play while he is electrocuted. 'Death by stereo' as one of the characters puts it.
• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, in which a madman decides to slice the tires of a speeding truck. As his arm gets caught, he's quickly twisted, mangled up around the wheel.
• Marked for Death, in which the villain Screwface has his eyes gouged out, his back broken over Steven Seagal's knee, and is thrown out of a tall building's window, only to land on a sharp pole, impaling him. It is unclear which of these killed him.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street, death by carnivorous bed: Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp) is sucked into his double bed and (presumably) minced, judging by the high volumes of blood that fountain out from the bed once Glen has disappeared.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, In Sheila Kopecky's dream, Freddy literally "sucks face" with her, sucking all the air out of her body, causing her to die from a fatal bout of asthma in the real world.
• Play Misty for Me, when David punches Evelyn and she falls out of a window, and drowns in the ocean afterwards.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which Toht and many other Nazis are melted by the Ark of the Covenant.
• Reeker, in which Cookie (Arielle Kebbel) is killed by having a motorized drain-cleaning brush inserted into her vagina by the monster, who is hiding in an outhouse toilet.
• Saw 2, in which Addison puts both of her hands through a box that has razors near two openings big enough for her hands. She dies off screen, but it is clear that she dies of severe blood loss, from the razors cutting into her wrists.
• Saw 3, in which a man is graphically killed by slowly having his limbs and head twisted 360 degrees by a cross type device.
• Sleepy Hollow, in which the main character's mother is placed in an Iron maiden.
• Slither, in which Brenda is impregnated with parasites by the Grant monster. She becomes an enormous blob with an unstoppable compulsion to eat meat, who then explodes due to 27,000 slithering parasites fighting their way out. Many other characters in this movie die due to parasites burrowing their way into their brains.
• Spencer, in which a man has his ears ripped off.
• Straw Dogs, in which a hayseed gets his head caught in a bear trap being swung by his wayward opponent.
• Suicide Club, in which a group of students jump from the top of their school onto the ground below, killing all of them.
• Timecop, in which the villain is killed by touching a version of himself from another time, creating a space-time paradox that causes both versions to fuse and melt into a pile of goo.
• Valentine, in which the character Lily is shot in her stomach with 3 arrows, right after she falls from a 5 story building and lands in a dumpster.
• Cloverfield, in which the character Marlena is bitten by a parasite-like creature and later explodes after being pulled behind a curtain. This death was foreshadowed by a scene in which Hud videotaped a soldier whose abdomen appeared to have exploded.

References

• De Coulteray, Georges: Sadism in the Movies, New York, Medical Press, 1965.

See also

• Assassinations in fiction
• Fangoria (magazine)
• Graphic violence
• Splatter film
• Violence