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- Marion Crane In Psycho (1960) Psycho’s bracing murder of Marion Crane is one of the definitive deaths of the entire horror genre. The shocking immediacy and violence of the act, which is perpetrated in the shower where the victim is most exposed, makes it one of cinema’s most enduring images.
- Boromir In Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. Of all Sean Bean’s many, many on-screen deaths, his demise as Boromir in The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring is among the most affecting.
- Casey Becker In Scream (1996) The opening scene of the original Scream remains one of the most terrifying in cinema history. The adept sequence establishes the Scream franchise’s unique knack for presenting a self-aware pastiche of the horror genre while simultaneously functioning as an excellent work of horror in its own right.
- Kane In Alien. Another memorable movie death from Ridley Scott is made possible by the scene's spontaneity. The chestburster dinner scene from Alien remains one of the most visceral creations of sci-fi horror ever filmed.
Nov 3, 2015 · Franco Origlia/Getty Images. "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini died of a heart attack while staying at Rome's Boscolo Exedra Hotel on June 19, 2013. After a day of sightseeing in extreme heat with ...
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- The Children in Medea
- Grendel in Beowulf
- Macbeth in Macbeth
- Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop
- Fantine in Les Misérables
- Beth March in Little Women
- Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem”
- Michael Furey in “The Dead”
- The Wicked Witch of The West in The Wizard of Oz
- The Little Prince in The Little Prince
Author: Euripides Year: 431 B.C. Original medium: Play Also: Opera, movie Imagine Imagine the horror in Athens’ Theatre of Dionysus at the premiere of Medea, as the audience heard the desperate cries of Medea’s two sons while she ruthlessly stabbed them to death. (As the story was commonly known at the time, the children were murdered by others, in...
Author: The Beowulf poet Year: Circa 975 Original medium: The oral tradition Also: Book, movie, opera The The great warrior Beowulf stakes his claim as the English tradition’s first recorded superhero in a bloody battle against a worthy foe: Grendel, a man-eating monster from the marshes, descendant of Cain, whose skin cannot be pierced by human sw...
Author: William Shakespeare Year: Circa 1606 Original medium: Play Also: Opera, movie Macbeth Macbeth may be a monster, but Shakespeare gives him the greatest of all Shakespearean deaths. His wife dead, Macbeth knows that life is meaningless—“a tale told by an idiot”—but decides, in his great fury, to go down swinging. We may recoil at Macbeth’s cr...
Author: Charles Dickens Year: 1841 Original medium: Book Also: Movie, TV show Perhaps Perhaps you’ve read the famous (and possibly apocryphal) tale that New Yorkers stormed the docks to learn of this beatific child’s fate in issues of Charles Dickens’ weekly serial arriving by ship. But it also made grown men and women weep openly throughout the En...
Author: Victor Hugo Year: 1862 Original medium: Book Also: Musical, movie It’s It’s a hard-knock life for a Parisian grisette, and the misfortunes piled atop beautiful Fantine are legion: her illegitimate daughter abused, her employment terminated, her hair and teeth sold, her virtue lost. She dies abed still waiting for Jean Valjean to bring her d...
Author: Louisa May Alcott Year: 1869 Original medium: Book Also: Movie, musical, play, TV show Sweet Sweet Beth dies a sweet death, fading away in her bed as her parents “guide her tenderly through the Valley of the Shadow.” For generations of young readers, Beth has provided an unmatchable example of a saintly, selfless life and its saintly, selfl...
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Year: 1893 Original medium: Short story Also: Movie, TV show Arthur Arthur Conan Doyle, desperate to write serious literature, was determined to kill off his most famous character. “I must save my mind for better things,” he wrote, “even if it means I must bury my pocketbook with him.” Holmes’ death—the great detective pl...
Author: James Joyce Year: 1907 Original medium: Short story Other medium: Play, movie, musical Most Most deaths in fiction are primarily about the mystery and finality of death: one character’s story coming to an end. Michael Furey’s death in “The Dead” is about the mystery of other living people. After a long night of revelry with family, Gabriel ...
Author: Victor Fleming Year: 1939 Original medium: Movie Other medium: Book, TV show, musical “I’m “I’m melllllting!” You remember Margaret Hamilton’s shriek. In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, the Wicked Witch’s death is less horrifying, more comic (“Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself,” she grumps to...
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Year: 1943 Original medium: Book Other medium: Play, movie, comic Generations Generations have loved and been very slightly bewildered by The Little Prince, a collection of veiled allegories disguised as a novel for children. But there’s nothing veiled about the Little Prince’s death, as on the anniversary of his ar...
- Drive death scene. Drive | Death in the Elevator. Drive has a few really memorable violent moments, but this death scene stands out partly due to the sheer brutality and juxtaposition you get when you share a first kiss, and then a brutal shift into killer instincts.
- Get Out death scene. Get Out | Death of Dean Armitage. Get Out has a few really great death scenes but the one that stands out the most is where Chris uses a stuffed stag’s head to stab Dean Armitage.
- Hacksaw Ridge death scene. Hacksaw Ridge | Screamer Scene. Hacksaw Ridge is a crazy movie that is almost entirely made up of death scenes, but this one, in particular, stands out.
- Silence death scene. Silence | Death of Garupe. If you’ve seen Silence you’ll know that there are many more death scenes in the film, but this is one of the most memorable in the film.
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- When the toon shoe got "dipped" by Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Here's the full scene: View this video on YouTube. Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com.
- When Inigo Montoya at long last got his revenge on the man who killed his father in The Princess Bride. Here's the full scene: View this video on YouTube.
- When the rampaging T-Rex devoured attorney Donald Gennaro while he was trying to hide in a toilet stall in Jurassic Park. Here's the full scene: View this video on YouTube.
- When John Coffey was executed for a crime he didn't commit in The Green Mile. Here's the full scene: View this video on YouTube. Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com.
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Feb 22, 2013 · 1. Death by pipe cleaner spider – The Beyond (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGBMVmgQpX0. A master of reliably gory horror, Lucio Fulci’s films are littered with some amazing deaths, but...
May 23, 2022 · A death scene is typically a big moment, and potentially one of the biggest in an entire film. Whether it's a hero or a villain, a triumphant moment or a tragic one, a major character's death can be one of the most memorable parts of a film, and one that sticks with the audience long after the credits roll.
