Best murder scene in a film
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Juice Terry
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ooh yes and Bryn Cartwright getting hung on the automatic garage door was a good one too. You've reminded me to watch this again. I fucking loves it!rosa said:
For sheer nastiness, I'd go for a scene in 'The Wild Geese'.
Roger Moore is working as a drug mule for a young Mafia chap, and finds out he's being used to carry smack, having made it clear that he doesn't do drug trafficking.
He walks into the back room of a club, shoots a bodyguard between the eyes, and then forces the mafia chap to eat an entire bag of heroin.
Best bit is when the mobster is lying on the floor screaming, and Moore says: "It's no use praying for a stomach pump. That had strychnine in it."
Nice...
Roger Moore is working as a drug mule for a young Mafia chap, and finds out he's being used to carry smack, having made it clear that he doesn't do drug trafficking.
He walks into the back room of a club, shoots a bodyguard between the eyes, and then forces the mafia chap to eat an entire bag of heroin.
Best bit is when the mobster is lying on the floor screaming, and Moore says: "It's no use praying for a stomach pump. That had strychnine in it."
Nice...
i_hate_beckham
Him From A Village
Two murders in "The Pianist" The old jewish guy in the wheelchair that is lifted above the balcony then tipped out. Also where everyother jew is made to lie down and the german officer walks down the line shooting them all in the head and when he reaches the last man runs out of ammo and slowly reloads whilst stood over him before killing him.
Not gory but very powerful.
Not gory but very powerful.
i'd go for al pacino in the godfather, where he's in the restaurant with the police chief and the gangster. the camera pans in on his face while he's eating, there's a subway train going overhead and the gangster's talking to him in italian. beautifully built up and shocking... and it's got sexy young al.
mwgdrwg said:
I had that one in mind for 'best' murder.................Of course, under the assumption that 'best' murder must be the most brutal.
Equally the scene near the end of 'The Long Good Friday' when Bob Hoskins let's Charlie from Casulty have it is pretty nasty!!
Good thread
Thunderponce
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goat
Hows about the scene in Sin City where Marv (Mickey Rourke) cuts Kevin's (elijah wood) arms and legs off and lets the dog disembowl him whilst Kevin stares silently and smilingly at him the whole time - pretty sinister, but it is all good 'comic book' violence.
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
Theatre of Blood - Robert Morley being force fed his poodles. That film freaked me out as a youngster, especially the winos.
i_hate_beckham
Him From A Village
Groucho said:
Why doesnt he escape? Its made of wicker not steel for gods sake.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Origianl Texas Chainsaw Massacre, when Grandpa tries to dispatch a teen with a slaughterhouse mallet.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
The bit in Les Diaboliques when Paul Meurisse rises up out of the bath and Vera Clouzot has a heart attack.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Actually I reckon that whole film is probably the best murder/suspense film I have ever seen. Hitchcock owes a lot to that film...during the scene I mentioned I could hardly breathe it was so scary, and it was beautifully drawn out.
They don't make them like that any more. It's all splat and gore these days
They don't make them like that any more. It's all splat and gore these days
Rock Bottom
Second Wind
Cheesypoof said:
Cheesypoof! How can you mention "Best murder scene in a film" and "Hitchcock" in the same sentence without talking the about the necktie murder / rape in his much overlooked classic Frenzy! Shame on you!
Lovely........Lovely...........Lovely......Lovely..LOVELY
gsv
liminally queer
Lots of interesting choices. My God - such a wide variety of tone to murder by 
I'm going to add the death of Fredo at the end of The Godfather Part II, for its chilling inevitability and its detatchment - a single gunshot out on the lake, witnessed in a wide shot from way back on the shore.
GS(v)
I'm going to add the death of Fredo at the end of The Godfather Part II, for its chilling inevitability and its detatchment - a single gunshot out on the lake, witnessed in a wide shot from way back on the shore.
GS(v)
Rock Bottom
Second Wind
madamv said:Mmmm and I'm going to add Casino. Wonderfully violent film. Cant think of a specific tho sorry
*toddles off to make note to re watch tonight when bubba is in bed*
Yes, good choice. Joe Peschi has to dig his own grave as I remember, before being beaten to death with spades or something.
On the same lines of grave-digging, The Vanishing must surely be mentioned, although, giving away to many details would spoil it for others. Another grave digging great is of course Blood Simple.
For cinematic grace and style, the death of the woman at the start of Kiss me Deadly is wonderful, as the feet dangle in the air, slowly becoming lifeless.......
madamv said:Mmmm and I'm going to add Casino. Wonderfully violent film. Cant think of a specific tho sorry
Head in a vice, blatently . . .
stereotypical
hospitality king
pacmanray said:
House of Wax that is. When Paris get speared in the head with a metal bar thing is definetly the best bit (the rest is shite).
When Sunny gets tommy gunned big time in Godfather part 1 is pretty good I reckon, and the shower scene is psycho is classic.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
fear-n-loathing said:
This was the one that first entered my thoughts when I saw the thread title!
Thing is,iirc,you never see anything just the blood splattering on Pacino so the murder itself is all in the mind of the viewer which makes it even mor gruesome!
Another one that springs to mind is the stabbing of Jack the Hat Mcvitie in The Krays! Mind you it may be a shit murder but Ive never actually seen the stabbing,I always turn away when he lunges with the knife!!
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