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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.
* ''[[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.
* Art the Clown from the [[Terrifier]] franchise ''LOVES'' this trope and may be the most sadistic slasher in movie history. For him, it's not even about the body count, but how long he can make someone suffer before they die. If he lets you live, chances are it's because he's put you in a state where [[Fate Worse Than Death|death is preferable]].
** In the first Terrifier film, he saw Dawn in half, from the crotch with a rusty saw, with her screams covered by duct tape while forcing Tara to watch.
** In the [[Terrifier 2|sequel]], Allie gets possibly the most violent death in horror history, getting her eye sliced in half, her head scalped with scissors, has her back flayed, her arm broken and torn off, her other hand split in half, and slashed repeatedly. Art then leaves and leaves a [[Hope Spot]] where Allie might be able to phone for help, only to return and pour bleach on her wounds along with some salt and then tears off half her face. By the time her mother gets home, Art is cutting chunks out of her legs, and she's still barely alive, only able to call out to her mother very weakly.
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