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* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' series is full of these, such as being impaled on a light fixture, shredded by a tractor harrow, and having one's head exploded by a fuse box. |
* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' series is full of these, such as being impaled on a light fixture, shredded by a tractor harrow, and having one's head exploded by a fuse box. |
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* A low-budget film called ''The Devil's Bedroom'' is a nasty story about two brothers. Norm covets brother Jim's oil-rich land. When Jim won't sell, Norm and his wife Della conspire to have Jim committed to an insane asylum, but he escapes. The accidental deaths of Norm and Della are blamed on Jim because Jim is a Loner and everybody knows that [[Loners Are Freaks]]. (Because Jim has always declared he will never marry, there's [[Mistaken for Gay]] in it, too). The townspeople come after Jim with [[Torches and Pitchforks]] and the whole gruesome spectacle ends with Jim being set on fire and burning to death. Every bit of it on camera. |
* A low-budget film called ''The Devil's Bedroom'' is a nasty story about two brothers. Norm covets brother Jim's oil-rich land. When Jim won't sell, Norm and his wife Della conspire to have Jim committed to an insane asylum, but he escapes. The accidental deaths of Norm and Della are blamed on Jim because Jim is a Loner and everybody knows that [[Loners Are Freaks]]. (Because Jim has always declared he will never marry, there's [[Mistaken for Gay]] in it, too). The townspeople come after Jim with [[Torches and Pitchforks]] and the whole gruesome spectacle ends with Jim being set on fire and burning to death. Every bit of it on camera. |
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* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', Toons react with ''terror'' upon even ''seeing'' Dip, so dying from it likely fits. {{spoiler| Judge Doom's death scene certainly suggests it was agonizing, even if he deserved it.}} |
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* ''[[Sick Nurses]]'' is rife with these, sometimes reaching [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and [[Refuge in Audacity]] status. [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl|Vengeful spirit Tawaan]] comes up with some [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|spectacularly gruesome methods of murder]]: |
* ''[[Sick Nurses]]'' is rife with these, sometimes reaching [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and [[Refuge in Audacity]] status. [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl|Vengeful spirit Tawaan]] comes up with some [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|spectacularly gruesome methods of murder]]: |
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** Ae has her own handbag sewn onto her head and neck in such a way that, when fellow nurse Nook tries to help by undoing the stitches, it [[Off with His Head|causes her head to fall off]]. |
** Ae has her own handbag sewn onto her head and neck in such a way that, when fellow nurse Nook tries to help by undoing the stitches, it [[Off with His Head|causes her head to fall off]]. |
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* In the film version of [[Doom]] Duke, one of the most likeable and sympathetic characters in the film, gets the most brutal and horrible death out of the entire cast. In the middle of a firefight, an Imp grabs his feet and pulls him ''through'' the metal grate he was unlucky enough to be standing on, shredding him. |
* In the film version of [[Doom]] Duke, one of the most likeable and sympathetic characters in the film, gets the most brutal and horrible death out of the entire cast. In the middle of a firefight, an Imp grabs his feet and pulls him ''through'' the metal grate he was unlucky enough to be standing on, shredding him. |
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* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and its sequels revel in this, taking full advantage of its dream world killzone to make some of the most ludicrous and creative deaths in cinema history, and then upping the ante by having the victim's actual body reacting to the death in a (usually) more realistic manner. Some particularly fun examples include: arms getting torn off, replaced by beetle legs, then being trapped inside a roach hotel which is crushed by Freddy; having flesh torn out of your arms and legs and used as puppet strings, then being led up to a high point and dropped to your death; getting reduced to a comic book paper human by one slash, wherupon your ink drips out of you entirely and you are immediately slashed into a whirlwind of paper strips; having a hearing aid dig itself into your ear, and then amplify sounds to such a level that they cause head-exploding pain; and of course, being pulled into your bed and winding up reduced to more blood than the average body can hold, which is splattered all over the ceiling. Yow. |
* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and its sequels revel in this, taking full advantage of its dream world killzone to make some of the most ludicrous and creative deaths in cinema history, and then upping the ante by having the victim's actual body reacting to the death in a (usually) more realistic manner. Some particularly fun examples include: arms getting torn off, replaced by beetle legs, then being trapped inside a roach hotel which is crushed by Freddy; having flesh torn out of your arms and legs and used as puppet strings, then being led up to a high point and dropped to your death; getting reduced to a comic book paper human by one slash, wherupon your ink drips out of you entirely and you are immediately slashed into a whirlwind of paper strips; having a hearing aid dig itself into your ear, and then amplify sounds to such a level that they cause head-exploding pain; and of course, being pulled into your bed and winding up reduced to more blood than the average body can hold, which is splattered all over the ceiling. Yow. |
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== Literature == |
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