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Top 50 Best Movie Deaths

Rich

27th January 2009

40. NICE ONE GEYSER
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
It's always interesting when you see a big star in a flick from early on in his career, and here unlucky Glen is, of course, portrayed by a pre-Captain Jack Jonathan Depp. As Freddie Kruger pulls young Johnny into hell, he does what any tough guy would do in the situation: call for his mum. What follows is a startling display of '80s excess, as gallons of type AB are used to redecorate the teenager's bedroom.



39. THE MUTANT WRONG-ICLES
ROBOCOP (1987)
They say pride comes before a fall. Robocop proves that pride comes before crashing your van into a silo, getting doused with toxic waste, starting to look like a cross between Pete Postlethwaite and the Elephant Man, and getting turned into mush by Topher Grace's Dad from That '70s Show. "DON'T TOUCH ME, MAN!" Don't worry, we won't.



38. THAT AIN'T YOUR KID
DON'T LOOK NOW (1973)
Pity poor Donald Sutherland. In seminal '70s horror Don't Look Now, he spends the whole movie searching for his supposedly dead kid after a bum psychic gives him bad juju. Then, at the movie's climax - and these are most definitely spoilers - he catches up with the little munchkin in the red jacket only to be stabbed in the neck by a dwarf. Which of us can honestly say that has never happened to us?



37. A SPIRE TO GREATNESS
HOT FUZZ (2007)
Tim Messenger, the atroshus speler from Sanford's local rag, gets absolutely devastated by falling masonry in Edgar Wright's buddy cop flick. Even though we'd already seen some severed heads, Messenger's body staggering around without its command centre ratcheted the gore factor up tenfold. Shit just got real.



36. DANCE WITH THE REAPER
BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY (1991)
C'mon, you had to be expecting this one. You might think we're better than a gag like this, but you'd be wrong. So, so, wrong. Whether he's attempting to Grim Reap the Wyld Stallyns or rocking out on the double bass, William Sadler created a great movie Death. Even though he is totally rubbish at Twister. "You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later, you dance with the Reaper."



35. LOVING THE BOMB
DR STRANGELOVE (1964)
Hell, if you're gonna go out, make sure you take a lot of innocent people with you. Major TJ 'King' Kong plummets to his doom at the close of Stanley Kubrick's apocalyptic political comedy, but he won't be the only fatality - there's every chance his last-gasp butt-stomp on his plane's nuke kicks off the Third World War. Eat satire, Russia!



34. TOILET TROUBLE
JURASSIC PARK (1993)
If there's a more convenient place to be while facing certain death from a 20 foot tall, Cretaceous-era monster, then we'd like to hear about it. A few minutes after seeing giant dollar signs over John Hammond's genetic creations, the blood-sucking lawyer abandons the two sprogs and sprints for the safety of an outhouse. Gennaro gets instant karmic comeuppance as the Rex opens the building like you would a Big Mac box, then munches on Donald, turning him from crapper to crappee.



33. EAT LEAD, DEER BITCH
BAMBI (1942)
If you watch this and it doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you are officially dead inside and we want nothing to do with you. Go on, bugger off - we don't want your hits. It's another one where the death itself is off-screen, but again it's a seminal movie fatality. As you'd expect from Disney, the animation is gorgeous and the whole thing tugs at the heartstrings like an inept cardiovascular surgeon. Now if you'll excuse us for a moment, we have something in our eyes.



32. CROSSING OVER
MEET JOE BLACK (1998)
You know how it is. You've just met a pretty girl. You've done a little flirting. Things seem to be going really well. You have totally awesome hair. Then suddenly you're fatally injured in a car crash wake up feeling like Death. We've all had days like that. Anyway, Brad Pitt's Joe obviously never learned his Highway Code, as being bounced off a people carrier into the path of an oncoming taxi is number 7 on the 'What Not To Do As A Pedestrian' list on page 37. It's only three seconds long, but you'll watch it more than once.



31. SLICED AND DICED
CUBE (1997)
Ice Cube can only dream of being a fraction as cool as Vincenzo Natali's movie; a flick that defined the mathematical labyrinth genre (a genre we would surely all agree was desperately in need of defining). Various folks are trapped in a maze that would put David Bowie to shame, and have to figure out all manner of puzzles to ensure that they don't share the fate of this poor little bugger, who ends up as a less than subtle pun on the flick's title.

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