Worst on-screen death? First of many Halloween Week threads.

[FunBobbyMucha]

I watched that EW thing last night with Bruce Campbell. Got me thinking--what was the most gruesome, heartbreaking death in a horror film? All the examples I can think of are more survivors than deceased (the guy with the razordildo strapped to him in Seven and the senator's daughter pleading from the well in Silence immediately came to mind, but they both lived).

[Burma Jones]

1. Jesus - Passion of the Christ

[FunBobbyMucha]

2. Only a horror film if you want separation of church and state. Oh, wait...

I guess maybe it is.

And here I expected the first non-horror film ironic reference would be "Bowling for Columbine" (Columbine footage) or "F 9/11" (Iraqi footage).

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Mr. Orange- Reservoir Dogs

Because it was so slow and agonizing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Spoiler (well, of course it is ...)

Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hitcher. She is tied between a truck cab and its trailer - and she doesn't live.

Another one, recently on British TV: in 'Spooks', one of the (apparently main) characters had her head plunged into boiling oil.

[LibLabUK]

11. Hmm..

"Another one, recently on British TV: in 'Spooks', one of the (apparently main) characters had her head plunged into boiling oil."

Oh, yes.

That has to be one of the more horrific things I've ever seen in a fictional movie/programme. First her hand and then her head...

But that pales in comparison to images seen nightly on the news of bombs going off etc, or the sight of people leaping to their death from the WTC.

[Anaxamander]

5. Mary from "Last House on the Left"

The sexual abuse is shocking, and then they seem to drag it out forever before they kill her.

[FunBobbyMucha]

7. Is that the one that involves a woman peeing her pants and walking into

a river? Or am I thinking of "spit on your grave?"

[Anaxamander]

12. Nope, you've got the right flick

although the two are very similar in theme.

[DemWitch]

6. The Biker Dudue in the original Dawn of the Dead

Where about a dozen Zombies ganged up and ripped him wide open and were eating him inside out... alive...

YEEEEECHHHHHHHH....

[LibLover]

9. Shaun ofthe Dead

That whiny boyfriend of Shaun's girlfriend's roommate in "Shaun of the Dead".

[CanuckAmok]

8. the hero in the original version of "The Vanishing"

I won't give it away, but it's terrible because it was inevitable throughout the movie. You just want to scream at him to not do what he does next...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. The Hitchhiker. Two trucks. Foot on clutch. (nt)