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Top 10 Most Disturbing Movie Deaths
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11/12/2024
We're still shaken up about these character demises. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today weβre counting down our picks for the most haunting, creepy, and/or gruesome deaths in movie history.
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It's some kind of suit that Adrian has built, and it has cameras, and it was about... what?
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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most haunting,
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creepy, and or gruesome deaths in movie history.
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Some spoilers ahead for the following movies.
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10. Bee Stings β My Girl
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In this drama, Veda Soltenfuss and Thomas J. Sennett are inseparable friends.
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The latter goes back to the woods to find a ring and encounters a beehive.
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With a bad allergy, the boy tragically dies after a swarm of bees stings him.
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It's nothing short of a tragic end for the young character. You'd never expect a character played
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by Macaulay Culkin to die in such a graphic way, especially in a 90s coming-of-age movie.
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While the film cuts away, it does show the main character's emotional reaction to the news.
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The funeral scene alone will have you bawling your eyes out.
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If you saw this one as a kid, you're probably still traumatized by Thomas J.'s death.
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9. Head Smash β Pants Labyrinth
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The villain of this Guillermo del Toro film is the brutal Captain Vidal.
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When facing down several prisoners, he doesn't hold back his contempt for them.
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This includes the antagonist savagely beating one man's face to a pole,
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symbolizing the horrors of the Francoist government.
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Vidal's tyrannical streak is nothing short of terrifying.
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It's so disturbing that you'll likely have to look away at several points.
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Del Toro utilizes the R rating to depict evil incarnate,
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with the officer continuing his reign of terror by firing his weapon.
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Even though Pants Labyrinth is part fantasy,
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this particular death shows that the movie can also be all too real.
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8. Buried Alive β Buried
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Paul Conroy finds himself in a nightmare scenario when he's buried alive.
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The truck driver realizes he's being held for ransom,
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spending the rest of the film trying to get help.
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There's hope for the hero until the shocking and cruel twist at the end.
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Conroy's potential rescuers dig in the wrong spot and can't save him in time.
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If you're claustrophobic, this finale only makes everything that much scarier.
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The main character is then left to suffocate with no hope for his survival.
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If you're hoping for a fairy tale end to this thriller,
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you'll instead be greeted by a bleak and disturbing conclusion.
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7. Bear Burning β Midsommar
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This isn't exactly what you'd call an ideal vacation.
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Midsommar finds Danny and Christian in a pagan village,
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torn apart by the creepy and deadly traditions they find there.
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The main character's boyfriend is paralyzed and placed in a bear skin.
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His girlfriend then chooses whether or not to sacrifice him,
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letting him burn in a scary ceremony.
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8. Ari Aster β The Fall Out Of This Death
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Talk about a terrible way to go.
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Not only does the victim have to be rendered motionless,
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he has to be lit on fire as his lover watches.
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Ari Aster's horror film doesn't hesitate to push the envelope.
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In the final seconds, the heroine's facial expressions
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leave us with an uneasy feeling as we consider the fallout of this death.
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6. Mellish's Final Stand β Saving Private Ryan
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Being a graphic depiction of World War II,
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Saving Private Ryan is full of deaths that'll have you devastated.
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The final battle includes many violent ends to a squad we've come to know and love.
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Stanley Mellish helps man a machine gun,
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but a German soldier ends up overpowering him and getting ahold of his knife.
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The enemy slowly presses down on the weapon as he stabs Mellish.
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It's an incredibly tense scene, with the ally of him unwilling to help out his squadmate.
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It hurts even more knowing that this death could've been avoided
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altogether with some reinforcements.
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Steven Spielberg shows you the effects of close quarters combat,
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not holding back as he reveals the horrors of war.
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5. The Restaurant Knife β The Invisible Man
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After her abusive partner seems to die, Cecilia worries that he might still be around.
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She then reveals this theory to her sister Emily at a restaurant.
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It turns out that an invisible man is following the heroine,
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attacking the latter's sibling in a sudden and violent turn.
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A floating knife seems to slice the guest's neck and land in Cecilia's hand.
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The villain frames his target for a ghastly murder,
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sending the character into a full-blown breakdown.
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It's a terrifying and surprising death that's bound to linger in your brain.
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Not only is it awful to watch the family member die,
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it's even worse to see it all pinned on the innocent woman.
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4. Under Pressure β License to Kill
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While every James Bond film is violent to some degree,
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License to Kill isn't afraid to up the ante.
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The secret agent plays his enemy against each other in this 1989 entry.
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After making it look like villain Milton Kress stole money from Fran Sanchez,
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the latter shows how ruthless he can be.
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The drug lord then makes Kress' head burst in a decompression chamber.
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Bond movies don't often venture into the horror genre,
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but this moment could easily qualify with its scary effect.
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The victim's face splatters onto the window in one of the goriest deaths of the franchise.
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With an intense lead-up, the final result reminds you how diabolical Sanchez really is.
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3. Shower β Psycho
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Marion Crane steals some money from work and runs away,
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but little does she know what's in store for her.
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The scene in a Bates Motel bathroom starts off normal enough until it's completely frightening.
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While taking a shower, Crane gets stabbed by Norman Bates.
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Alfred Hitchcock turns this iconic death into an unforgettable and expertly edited sequence.
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You never see the knife strike the character,
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but the intense moment feels like one of the most violent scenes ever.
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It's hard to watch this and not reconsider taking a shower ever again.
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If all these elements aren't enough,
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Bernard Herrmann's score terrifies with his strange compositions.
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2. The Mentis and the Tree
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Furiosa β A Mad Max Saga
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As a prequel to A Mad Max Fury Road,
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this movie delivers an epic tale about the title character's origins.
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Furiosa's revenge story to kill her mother's killer ends in an unexpected way.
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She captures the Mentis, tortures him, and then grows a peach tree out of his body.
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It's certainly a unique punishment, but one that's certain to cause some nightmares.
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The reveal of the villain's new form puts some horror films to shame.
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Director George Miller could have given the heroine and her enemy a more traditional fight,
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but this complicated and disturbing finale seems more fitting for the series.
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1. Kane's Last Meal β Alien
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An encounter with a facehugger leaves Kane unconscious,
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but he seems to be okay during this scene.
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That all changes after the character starts to have an unexplained episode.
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His crewmates are worried and so are we, unsure of what will happen next.
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The crew's worst fears come true as their friend's chest bursts open.
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It's among the most disgusting and sickening deaths ever, with the young xenomorph escaping.
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Anyone afraid of blood or gore will have a tough time with this moment, but then again,
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the rest of the film doesn't offer much relief.
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It's easily one of the most iconic scares in sci-fi history.
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What's the most disturbing death that we forgot? Let us know in the comments down below.
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