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Remember that time you had that really deep discussion about which way you’d die given the choice between fire and ice? Well, there’s a reason water is never an option: drowning extremely painful. It’s also kind of pathetic and doesn’t exactly make for the most exciting cinematic death, usually. Sometimes it’s actually awesome, as you’ll [...]

Obviously, it’s very rewarding when a movie baddie gets his/her/its comeuppance in a really bad way. After all, if there a remotely good villain, we’ve just enduring at least an hour of their wacky antics, killing/pillaging/robbing/whatevering without sufficient retribution. Few bad guy deaths are as rewarding as melting, which blockbuster filmmakers seem to reserve for [...]

It says a lot about a movie when its most emotionally engaging moment is the death of an animal (for one it means that your human actors are truly awful). It could also mean that you’re watching an animated movie, whose moments of violence and death are all the more painful because you were just [...]

In movies like Die Hard (and even moreso with its various sequels), the number and pace of evil henchmen deaths tends to be a little hard to follow. Still, they’re all quite spectacular, and it would be nice to have some visual cue by which to remember all those cool kills (as was done with [...]

Unlike movie births – which tend to not inspire particularly iconic one-liners – movie deaths are among the most memorable of cinematic happenings. Maybe it’s because so many action films end with a spectacular death, maybe it’s because cinema is our collective fantasy life and all our repressed desires for death and destruction come out [...]