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lakelady
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Best Movie Death
« on: May 21^st, 2004, 8:10am »

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Poll: 'Psycho' Has Best Movie Death
May 20, 11:52 AM EST

The Associated Press

In the gore stakes, Janet Leigh's shower scene in "Psycho" is the "best movie death" of all time, according to a critics' poll published Thursday.

The 44-year-old Hitchcock thriller beat other iconic movies such as "The Godfather" (22nd) and Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (23rd) in the poll by Total Film magazine.

Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" (1964) came second, with the surreal ending when Slim Pickens rides an atomic bomb.

Other highly rated movie deaths were the fatal plunge to earth of the ape in the 1933 Fay Wray movie "King Kong," in third place, and the demise of Bambi's mother (6th) in the 1942 Disney movie of the same name.

Alan Rickman's fall from a 30-storey building in "Die Hard" (198 Cool

comes fourth, followed by the killing of the title characters in "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967).

"Some of the deaths in the poll, like The Wicked Witch melting in 'The Wizard Of Oz' (13th), are iconic but laughable, but nearly 45 years on, 'Psycho's' shower scene is still distressing," said Total Film deputy editor Simon Crook.

"It's the sheer violence of the edit rather than any explicit gore 70 different angles, over 90 cuts and those shrieking violins.

It's a masterclass in montage and audience manipulation."

Crook added: "Knowing that the blood is Bosco's chocolate syrup and that a pulped casaba melon stood in for the stabbing noises does nothing to reduce the impact."

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Re: Best Movie Death
« Reply #1 on: May 21^st, 2004, 8:11am »

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One of my faves was in Scarface, I think. Isn't that where Al Pacino was shot so many times and went over the balcony? Awesome! I am not normally into alot of violence but the scene and the acting were incredible.

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« Reply #2 on: May 21^st, 2004, 8:45am »

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I liked first Friday the 13th when Mom was beheaded but Psycho is a great one love the blood going down the drain

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« Reply #3 on: May 21^st, 2004, 8:50am »

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Hmmmmm....I'll have to think about this one....so many killings over the years... Embarassed

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Re: Best Movie Death
« Reply #4 on: May 21^st, 2004, 1:26pm »

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You can't forget Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid where they come storming out to a hail of gunfire.

That will always be a classic in my mind.

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« Reply #5 on: May 21^st, 2004, 1:32pm »

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I like the death in the Exorcist....*spoiler alert for those who haven't seen*

I thought that tumble down those stairs after the smashing through the window says it all....

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« Reply #6 on: May 21^st, 2004, 1:37pm »

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I think one of my favorites...but definately not the single most favorite.....was when Arnold kills the Predator in "Predator".....when the alien initiates the self destruction device to explode in a nuclear detonation....and that haunting laugh....yeah...that was cool!! Cool

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