Unnecessary RoughnessLists about the most shocking scenes and moments in film, TV, comics, and even children's cartoons — because in today's world, kids can see anything as long as it's not a bare breast.
Vote up the movie demises that were tough to clean up.
Modern audiences expect a body count even in the most chill of MCU films, but certain movies crank up the brutality like there's an Academy Award for bloodshed. It's one thing when someone mows down a bunch of baddies with a machine gun, but to see a character blown to bits or chopped up by an airplane propeller in a big-budget bloody movie scene is genuinely shocking.
Many of these super violent scenes are reserved for unlikable characters, but they're also found when a filmmaker is adapting a splatter-heavy comic book. All of the following movie deaths are grisly, but some of them are more horrific than the others. It's up to you to let us know which of these is going to be the hardest to clean up.
The Evil Dead series is chock-full of unhinged ends for its characters - most of them involve being exploded or beheaded and dismembered in one way or another, but Army of Darkness opens with a twist on the time-honored horror movie device of blood and guts.
When Ash arrives at Lord Arthur's castle, he watches on as a helpless captive is tossed into a giant pit infested with Deadites. After a brief moment of nothing happening, a massive geyser of blood explodes out of the hole. So much blood sprays out of the hole you might think, “Wow, they really murked that guy.”
Fargo tells the story of Marge Gunderson, the police chief of a small Minnesota town investigating a series of highway slayings. The crimes Marge is investigating have been carried out by two criminals, Gaear Grimsrud and Carl Showalter, who were hired to kidnap the wife of a local car salesman and hold her ransom.
The kidnapping goes about as wrong as a crime can go, and the two criminals turn on one another once things go south. Gaear takes an ax to Carl, but then he has to get rid of the body.
While all of this is happening, Marge shows up at the cabin the criminals are using as their hideout to investigate a car with dealer plates. She stumbles upon Gaear shoving pieces of Carl's body through a wood chipper and hoo-boy, is it nasty. This isn't just a good way to get rid of a body - it's a brutal way to hide the identity of a victim. Even though Gaear dismembered Carl before shredding him, it's still painful to watch.
Tropic Thunder follows a group of prima-donna actors who decamp to the jungles of Thailand to film a Vietnam epic "guerrilla style" with director Damien Cockburn. Already behind schedule, Cockburn hopes the run-and-gun style of filming will capture genuine realism and get everyone on board.
Moments before getting an actual take out of his cast of miscreants, Cockburn steps on a landmine and gets blown into a thousand little pieces of entrails and things that were once bone. Not only is this the last thing audiences expect in a fairly straightforward comedy, but its brutality is commendable.
The Blob's whole deal is killing people and leaving nothing behind. It doesn't just grind their bones to make its bread, the Blob dissolves their bodies and uses them to grow larger and larger. The most upsetting “nothing left behind” death in the movie occurs when a woman runs to a phone booth to call for help, but all she gets is Blobbed.
As she picks up the phone, the Blob launches itself onto the phone booth, smashing one of the dissolving faces of its victims against the window. Just as the woman lets out a magnificent ‘80s horror movie scream, the Blob smashes the phone booth and swallows this poor lady whole.
In District 9, the South African government sticks a group of malnourished shrimp-like aliens into a slum, which leads to severe unrest. When a multinational corporation sends in middle manager Wikus van de Merwe to relocate the creatures, he's sprayed in the face with some alien goo and starts to transform into one of them. Yikes.
After Wikus is held captive by a group of mercenaries, he gets his alienized hand on an alien weapon and blows everyone away so he can escape, but the mercenaries aren't just zapped away - they're completely destroyed. The alien weapon sends out a massive shockwave that blows the target away, then just sort of disintegrates them. It's pretty wild.
Is there a more iconic horror movie death than Glen's final moments in A Nightmare on Elm Street? Throughout the rest of the film, the desecrated bodies of Freddy Krueger's victims are left to be discovered by the authorities, but when Glen falls asleep while waiting to help Nancy trap the dream demon in the real world, he's turned into a fire hydrant full of blood.
In the scene, Glen is pulled down into his bed by an unseen Krueger, and rather than show the audience what's happening, an Old Faithful amount of blood sprays out of the middle of the bed, leaving nothing to bury of this poor teen.
