Top 20 Scariest Horror Movie Deaths

the device Timothy is strapped to his my personal favorite I call it the rack welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 scariest horror movie deaths [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for this list we're looking at the creepiest deaths in Horror history based on their level of fear their legacy and the influence they had on the genre obviously scary spoilers ahead which of these frightened you the most let us know in the comments below number 20 Jupe and The Spectators nope Jordan Peel's third horror film contains his scariest death sequence yet and that's saying something Jupe runs a theme park called Jupiter's claim and he hopes to exploit the alien for profit and fame he puts on a show for dozens of visitors who all hope to catch a glimpse of the Predator so as I said just under an hour star lasso experience It's Gonna Change you well they get a far more personal Glimpse than they were expecting the alien swoops down and devours everyone and they are slowly digested alive the sequence is horrendous utilizing realistic screams of panic and claustrophobic cinematography to its Advantage their remains are then poured over the Haywood house it is an unforgettable visual ripped straight from a nightmare [Music] number 19 the nurse The Exorcist 3 coming nearly 20 years after the original The Exorcist 3 is a worthy follow-up with one doozy of a jump scare tell the press and I am the Gemini Lieutenant final warning in the movie's most famous sequence viewers watch a nurse do her rounds in a hospital it's a very domestic scene and it lulls audiences into a false sense of peace and security about the time we ask ourselves why are we watching this a cloaked figure appears from a locked door and chases the nurse screen it's a brilliantly staged scene featuring a static camera and nearly a minute of Silence before it suddenly Zooms in with an awful Screech the contrast is pulled off amazingly well and is sure to give viewers a chilling jolt of adrenaline number 18 Glenn Lance A Nightmare on Elm Street Johnny Depp made one heck of a movie debut and he went out in a geyser of blood Depp plays Glenn Lance the boyfriend of protagonist Nancy Thompson the point is that everyone has a bad dream once in a while it's no biggie yeah next time you have one just tell yourself that's all it is right why are you having it you know once you do that you wake right up at least it works for me glen falls asleep watching TV and becomes another victim of Freddy Krueger who warps reality itself and pulls Glenn into his own bed what happens next we can't even show here but it sure leaves one heck of a mess the image of the blood geyser is Unforgettable and one of the most iconic in horror movie history but what makes this death scene work so well is that it leaves a lot to the imagination where was Glenn taken what did Freddie do to generate that obscene amount of blood maybe it's best that we don't know I don't know there's a car and I got to say he's in the John puking since he saw it number 17 Timothy young saw three it's really saying something that in the dozens of gruesome deaths that this series is known for this is the one that has us turning our heads in disgust a man whose life also changed the day your son died [Applause] [Music] Timothy young hit and killed Dylan while driving drunk and was targeted by jigsaw in response he's placed in the rack a malicious device that slowly twists his limbs actor umpo huahu does a fantastic job conveying the unimaginable pain that Timothy is going through and those snapping sounds are enough to make anyone wince fantastic acting mixes with vulgar sound design and a depraved imagination to create one of the scariest horror movie deaths of all time wow number 16 Beth O'Brien The Descent this claustrophobic horror movie from Neil Marshall concerns Sarah Carter a woman mourning the loss of her husband and daughter oh come here let me look at you wow everything's gonna be fine better it's gonna be great to help get her mind off the tragedy Sarah goes spelunking with her friends including Beth O'Brien the group is accosted by a band of bloodthirsty creatures inside the cave and when Beth accidentally scares Juno she is struck in the neck with a pickaxe she's in a panic but the grievously injured Beth is later found by Sarah who euthanizes her with a rock extremely difficult scene to watch with Beth bloody and weakened and begging Sarah to end her life both the performances and the makeup are top-notch conveying a palpable sense of panic [Music] number 15 Jack Goodman An American Werewolf in London who knew that John Landis of Animal House could direct one of the scariest movies of the 80s An American Werewolf in London starts with Jack and David being hunted on the Yorkshire Moors laughs it's moving it's circling us after a false jump scare gets the audience on edge Jack is attacked and brutally mauled by the werewolf where are we going I don't know I'll tell you when we get there you really scared me you [ __ ] you couldn't help me up or what what makes the scene so horrifying is it's realism Jack's blood curdling screams are full of convincing pain and fear and his body is completely torn to shreds leaving his corpse a bloody mess the scene plays on our Primal fears of large and dangerous creatures and it's arguably one of the scariest animal attack scenes Supernatural or otherwise in movie history number 14 the highway pileup Final Destination 2 an entire generation of people grew up fearing logging trucks and it's all thanks to this movie what there's gonna be a huge accident we're all gonna die I just saw it each Final Destination begins with a scene of Carnage and this one involves a highway pileup a large log falls off the truck and slams into a police car killing state trooper Thomas Burke instantly all hell then Breaks Loose with people getting crushed by motorcycles run over by transport trucks and blown up in cinematic explosions what makes this scene work so well are not the gruesome visuals although those certainly help but the relative realism this scene is just exaggerating a very real fear into cinematic language if there's gonna be a huge pile up I saw it there were bodies everywhere there were logs I saw it it just happened number 13 Frank Cotton Hellraiser with a title like Hellraiser you know you're getting into some pretty gnarly territory we just didn't initially know how gnarly cotton is a hedonist who meets his end at the hands of the cenobites they attack him with chains all of which Pierce themselves into his skin and well it's not pretty let's just say that props have to be given to the makeup Department here the visuals of Frank's demise are absolutely grotesque and they're not ones to leave the Mind anytime soon in fact this death scene is an all-time horror classic known far and wide for its terrible brutality I'm going to live when you're going to help me yes yes they'll never find us not in the whole wide world number 12 Katie Embry the ring crafting a memorable opening scene is an art form and the ring has one of the all-time best it follows Katie and Becca two teenage girls who gossip about a spooky urban legend your phone ranks someone knows you've watched it and what they say is you will die in seven days turns out it's not such a legend after all Katie has already watched the tape and is subsequently killed by an unseen Force the entire scene is a masterful bit of tension building we along with the characters slowly begin to realize that the legend is real and that these girls are in incredible danger and by keeping the death off screen it allows our Wicked imaginations to flourish that is until we see the aftermath in a jump scare edit for the ages I saw her number 11 Keith Jennings The Omen it doesn't get any better than 70s horror not only were these films constantly breaking new ground they also still hold up incredibly well to this day it's not a child how can he know that maybe he's wrong it's insane won't have anything to do with murdering a little boy he's not responsible I won't do it while attempting to retrieve a pair of discarded daggers Keith is decapitated by a pane of glass and his head spirals in the air before landing by his feet the suddenness of the death the gore and the eerie music combine to make this one of the most memorable death scenes in cinema at the time this was one of the most violent things ever seen in a mainstream Hollywood film and it helped pave the way for a wider acceptance of violence and Gore [Music] number 10. Casey Becker scream why do you want to know my name don't want to know who I'm looking at scream helped Revitalize the slasher and this scene in particular was a major reason for the renewed interest the opening of the movie famously sees Drew Barrymore's Casey Becker taunted by a mysterious and creepy caller kind of joke the calls begin rather playfully before spiraling into depravity and horror as Casey's boyfriend is murdered and Casey becomes the subject of malicious taunts she's then stabbed to death and hung from a tree for her parents to see the progression of the phone calls the sense of isolation and hopelessness that the scene conveys and the violence of the murder all combined to create one of the most memorable opening sequences in horror movie history foreign number nine Kirk The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hello anybody home Casey's death might have reinvigorated the slasher genre but Kirk's death arguably started it after entering a creepy house Kirk is suddenly taken out by Leatherface in one of the most surprising and scariest deaths in horror Leatherface scares both Kirk and the Audience by coming out of nowhere and the sheer brutality of the hit and Kirk's twitching body leaves you reeling ends with Leatherface slamming the door serving as an ominous exclamation point to the horror we just witnessed it's both shocking and shockingly realistic and it helped set the gram and violent tone for one of the most controversial movies ever made number eight Dr copper the thing while underappreciated in its day the thing is now rightfully regarded as a classic and it's all thanks to astonishingly creative scenes like this get it in here and bring the others copper is the resident doctor and it's up to him to treat the dying Norris unfortunately for him Norris has recently been assimilated by the thing during the medical procedure Norris's stomach suddenly opens up becomes a giant mouth with sharp teeth and Chomps down on Copper's arms copper quickly dies of blood loss and the other characters not to mention the viewers are left in a completely flabbergasted State of Mind when it comes to the greatest scenes in horror Cinema it's hard not to think about the man-eating stomach number 7. Charlie Graham hereditary Ari Astor's film gets a lot of love within the horror Community both for its frightening bits of horror and its heavy themes regarding depression and grief my mom died a week ago so I'm just here for trying it I have a lot of resistance to things like this both are encapsulated in the death of Charlie Graham Charlie goes into anaphylactic shock and leans her head out the car window to get some air only to slam into the telephone pole the shocking death is completely unexpected and the reactionary performance from Alex Wolf is nothing short of superb as if watching him in denial isn't painful enough viewers are then treated to the Unspeakable aftermath and the pain shrieks of Charlie's grieving mother I just wanted it is one of the most memorable death scenes of the modern era thanks to some Stellar acting and creative editing number six Judith Myers Halloween we watch from the perspective of an unknown assailant as he stalks two teenagers from outside the house we are alone aren't we Michael's around someplace we're then forced to witness the brutal murder of the woman Through The Eyes of her killer making us feel complicit in her death almost as if we're the ones carrying out this horrible display of violence the movie then goes in a completely unexpected Direction when the Killer is revealed to be the six-year-old brother of the victim the shot of the emotionless Michael standing amidst his shocked and horrified parents is now an iconic piece of horror imagery it showed us that Psychopaths can be anywhere and be anyone Michael [Music] number five Georgie denbro it hi her Georgie now this is how you open a horror movie while this scene was one of the mini series most famous the 2017 film turned the horror up to 11. Pennywise has made much more animalistic as he gleefully toys with Georgie staring at him with violent hunger in his eyes and Drool on his chin it's immediately clear that something isn't right you know aside from there being a clown in the sewer and then he proceeds to bite Georgie's arm off and drag him into the sewer as the young boy attempts to crawl away crying for help Sans arm it's a terrific and terrifying establishment of the brutality of Pennywise oh number 4. Heather The Blair Witch Project I'm scared to close my eyes for them love it or hate it there is no denying that this film has one stunner of an ending Heather and Mike are separated while investigating a creepy as all hell house in the middle of the Woods foreign Heather eventually finds Mike facing a wall before she's attacked from behind by an unseen Force the events leading up to the death are scary enough like the abandoned house and Josh's far-off cries but it's the images of Mike in the corner and Heather dropping the camera that really stick in our minds it's a bleak ending and its refusal to answer questions makes it all the more unsettling it leaves you and your imagination to fill in the blanks together number three Chrissy Watkins Jaws Chrissy where are we going swimming Chrissy's death is arguably the best opening scene in horror movie history Susan bacolini's acting is simply superb as she successfully sells every last scream gasp and plead Spielberg also made a fantastic decision in never showing us the shark we watch in sheer horror as this woman is dragged around by an unseen entity again allowing our imaginations to run wild the scene also ends on a spectacular note as the horrifying music abruptly ends as Chrissy is dragged under mid-scream leaving us with the seemingly peaceful and calming sounds of the ocean we knew better though and it made us never want to go swimming again number 2. Marion crane psycho Alfred Hitchcock certainly knew how to craft a scene Marion's death is perhaps the most famous death scene in movie history and it helped to usher in a new era of violence in cinema the violence was unlike anything seen in film at the time and the piercing music and frantic editing maximized the effectiveness of the horror [Music] [Applause] it bombards the viewer from every sense and angle and it makes us feel as if we're being attacked ourselves while Halloween put us in the mind of a killer psycho puts us in the mind of the killed and it's one of the most horrifying things you could possibly imagine before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Kane alien what's the matter baby and with this one scene sci-fi horror was changed forever in it Kane gives birth to an alien and it's one of Cinema's most disgusting and scariest moments the way the scene progresses from jovial dinner to unimaginable nightmare is genius and the effects of the alien bursting out of John hurt's chest are still effectively revolting today the fast-paced editing and genuine shock of the actors helped Place Us in The Surreal moment while the Practical effects make it feel oh so very real it's now rightfully regarded as one of the most memorable movie scenes of all time and arguably the scariest did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music] thank you

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Length: 19min 23sec (1163 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 10 2023