With exploding heads, chainsaw-wielding lunatics, karate-chopping, rocket launchers and high-speed blow jobs - we present 27 of the greatest movie kill scenes ever to hit the silver screen. So sit back, relax, grab a bottle of cold beer and enjoy our video homage to slaughter and mayhem. Lovely.
#27 - Planet Terror: McGowan’s machine gun leg
Is there anything more satisfying than a sexy woman with a machine gun for a leg? In this scene Cherry (Rose McGowan) realistically floats through the air and then single-handedly (or should that be single legedly?) kills a bunch of guys with a rocket launcher and machine gun for a leg. Cue explosions and sexy back arches from our heroine. Fabulous.
#26 - Smokin’ Aces: Whoops, I’ve sat on a chainsaw
The inbred-looking trailer trash Tremor Brothers shoot up a hotel and slice people up with machete knives until a guard shoots one of them dead. The remaining hillbilly grabs a giant chainsaw and furiously tries to chop said guard to pieces. Maybe it’s the lack of co-ordination that comes with being inbred, but he hits a chandelier instead, giving the guard time to shoot up in the arms and legs, causing him to fall back and sit on the aforementioned chainsaw. It’s another possibility for Beyoncé to consider next time she considers losing some weight for a movie - although it seems a bit more extreme than the Lemonade Diet.
#25 - The Big Boss: Bruce Lee karate chops through his stomach
In the final fight scene, the bad guy flings a knife at Bruce Lee. Brucey kicks it straight back into his opponents stomach, then karate chops both hands right inside the guys gut. He then leaps atop the fallen foe and delivers a flurry of 8 punches to the head. Although, oddly, there are 9 punch noises in the scene which suggests the FX guy got a little carried away!
#24 - Con Air: “Why couldn’t you put the bunny back in the box?”
When Billy Bedlam finds a parole letter in Poe’s (Nic Cage) personal belongings, he discovers the former US Ranger is a free man. Poe politely asks Bedlam to put the bunny back in the box, but Bedlam kindly refuses. A bit of a scrap ensues and ends with Bedlam skewered by an exposed steam pipe, leaving Poe to utter his cinematic gold line “Why couldn’t you put the bunny back in the box.” What’s also amazing is that not one of the serial killers on the plane even so much as heard a struggle below them.
#23 - Deep Blue Sea: Samuel L. Jackson is shark bait
In the midst of a motivational and inspiring speech about how they can beat the sharks and survive, up pops old sharky in ironic fashion to grab hold of Mr Jackson and drag him down into a watery, and bloody, grave. Classic.
#22 - Hot Fuzz: The falling church steeple
Journalist Tim Messenger is waiting to spill the beans on the huge conspiracy surrounding the seemingly pleasant crime-free village of Sandford, when he meets his unfortunate demise. His death? A giant stone block is pushed off the church steeple right onto his noggin. Ouch.
#21 - Commando: The tool shed scalping
Arnie is surrounded by an army in a tool shed. So what does he do? Takes them on with garden tools. The best kill is when he flings a circular saw blade that scalps a guy as if he were a boiled egg. To see what happens after this scene, check it out here. As one of the comments says, “If this was an XBox 360 game, Matrix would have got an achievement somewhere during this.”
#20 - Crank: High-speed oral sex
Thanks to a poison in his system, Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) has to keep his adrenaline pumping to prevent his heart from stopping. His city-wide rampage drags his girlfriend into it. So how to keep his adrenaline up? Oh, I know. Let your woman suck you off while blasting away at baddies in a high-speed pursuit.
#19 - Doom: First Person Shooter scene
After being injected with Chromosome 24, instead of becoming one of the monsters, Reaper is endowed with superhuman strength and speed, as well as near instantaneous healing ability. He then proceeds to go postal on everything and anything in this awesome FPS sequence.
#18 - Total Recall: “Hey Benny….Screw yooooooooooooou!”
As digger driver Benny tries to turn Quaid (Arnie) and his lady friend into a smoothie, Arnie picks up a massive drill, bores through the fuel line and then drills straight through the digger and skewers Benny like a shish kebab, yelling the immortal line, “screw yoooooooooooooou!” as he does it.
#17 - Goldfinger: Shocking bath scene
In arguably the best Bond movie ever made, Goldfinger, Sean Connery throws a bloke in the bath during a fight scene. The guy reaches for a gun and, with quick thinking, Bond hits an electric heater in too, frazzling the guy. All this before the opening credits! The clip is long, with the best bits between 4 and 5 minutes.
#16 - Scarface: Tony’s still standing
Tony Montana destroys anything in his way, while getting hit with a few bullets himself. The entire scene is quoteworthy: “Who you think you’re fu*kin’ with, man?”. After getting pumped full of lead he stands screaming: “I’m still standing!” Unfortunately for Tony, an assassin blasts him from behind with a shot gun, sending him plummeting into his pool. A giant splash of watery blood, and he’s not standing anymore.
#15 - Shoot ‘Em Up: Multi-tasking shooter
The opening scene sees our hero, known only as Smith, not only save a pregnant woman (who later dies anyway), but also deliver and protect the baby, all while killing anything that moves with a sub-machine gun.
#14 - Fist Of Fury: Bruce Lee destroys a dojo full of baddies
As if kicking the crap out of an entire dojo isn’t man enough, Bruce then grabs a set of nunchucks and cracks domes like he’s making an omelette. Legendary.
#13 - Escape From L.A: Bangkok rules shoot out
One-eyed anti-hero Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell) plays bangkok rules in a shoot out with four baddies. No one is to draw until the can is thrown in the air and hits the ground. Of course, Snake takes them all out before the can hits the ground and when it does, he proclaims in his raspy tone: “Draw.”
#12 - Glimmer Man: “Is that the best you got?”
Steven Seagal runs around slitting mobster throats with a blade hidden inside a credit card throughout this flick. The best kill however is this scene where he chucks the guy out of a window onto a spiked steel fence. “You don’t look like you’re gonna be wakin’ up happy now.”
#11 - Out For Justice: Bad guy must have a screw loose
Seagal once again delivers his own form of justice against a baddie. This time he’s kicking the living crap out of the guy before he batters him with a frying pan, a pepper mill and then slams a corkscrew right into his bonce.
#10 - Equilibrium: Saving the puppy
Cleric John Preston stops taking his medication to prevent emotion and feeling, which leads to him trying to protect a puppy from a SWAT team. When he’s discovered he destroys the first two SWAT guys with shotgun blasts to the face and then annihilates everyone else with some sweet gun katas.
#9 - Sin City: Jackie Boy gets a headache
Miho slices up Jackie Boys entire gang after chopping off his hand with a ninja star. Then, after blocking the barrel in his gun, he goes to shoot Dwight but instead gets a backfire straight into his skull. Miho then finishes him off with a slash across his throat. Nice.
#8 - Missing In Action 2: Chuck vs. The Rat
When Colonel Yin tortures Braddock (Norris) by hanging him upside down and shoving a sack over his head complete with a ravenous rat inside, blood flows. But who copped it? Watch the video to find out. Here’s a hint.
#7 - Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Sword vs. Gun
If you had a gun and some Arab chap was swinging a sword round in a ceremonial black dress ensemble what would you do? You’d shoot him, of course!
#6 - The Terminator: He copped it!
The scene that brought the world the legendary phrase, “I’ll be back” as a cop is flattened against the police station wall like an annoying fly.
#5 - Commando: Arnie lets off some steam
In a total display of manliness, Arnie rips a pipe off the wall and harpoons Bennett to a hot water tank, resulting in a comedy jet of steam gushing through the cadaver. As always with Arnie, there is a corny one liner, “Let off some steam, Bennett.”
#4 - Goldfinger: Electrified Oddjob
After getting battered by the seemingly unbeatable hat-throwing baddie that is Oddjob, Bond flings Oddjob’s hat into iron railings. As Jobby goes to retrieve it, 007 grabs a conveniently located live electric cable and uses it to fry the chubby cheeked one to a crisp.
#3 - True Romance: My grandmother did what??
After Clifford (Dennis Hopper) tells Don Vincenzo (Christopher Walken) a supposed home-truth, the imminent death is merely a formality just waiting to happen.
#2 - True Lies: You’re fired!
When a terrorist is on the wing of a Harrier jet Arnie is piloting and he slides down to a straddled position atop a Tomahawk missile; Arnie does what any man in that position would do. He delivers the smirking line, “You’re fired” then fires the missile through a building and into the baddies helicopter, toasting all and sundry.
#1 - Rambo IV: Turret time!
At the 2-and-a-half minute mark, Rambo decapitates a guard with a machete, then turns the gun turret onto the unfortunate truck driver from point blank range, turning him into 180lbs of slush. It’s a pretty intense 3 seconds.
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