Top 20 Unique Horror Movie Kills
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- This epic horror movie kills are legendary! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most creative and inventive kills that the genre has to offer. Our countdown includes “Jason X”, “The Mist", “The Omen”, "Saw", “Alien”, and more! Which of these is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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A TOP OF ALL FREDDY KRUEGER MOVIES.
The Nitrogen
For unique horror kills in Final Destination, the 2 scariest ones for me is in Final Destination 2 - the elevator death or Final Destination 2, the whole train sequence. It seems like that could actually happen with an elevator that's badly controlled.
Also, with Final Destination 1's train sequence - I've actually beaten a train while in Driver's Ed (seriously, what IRL Driver's Ed instructor, besides mine, was dumb enough to cover the rearview mirrors with her hands while crossing train tracks? None to my knowledge), so I can relate to Carter being more and more freaked out as the train comes closer. Beating a train is scary enough but literally having it so the car literally won't move and/or allow you to bail out must be worse.
The guy that got his head chopped off due to Carter's survival had the better potential death due it being quick.
The Ghostship opening scene is one of the best that's ever been. And Alien chestbuster...no others need to apply for first place.
can't decide which is my favorite but i can tell you i honestly didn't like sitting through a commercial directed towards trans people. if you can't look down after a shower and accept what God has made you then i can't accept what you have decided to be. after watching the video to number 1 i guess the 1 and 2 are the best creative wose but twang from ghost ship is my favorite
Fun fact there used to be an award show for horror movies called the horror hall of fame and the host was Robert England aka Freddy Krueger.
Good times
We should bring that back but with James A. Janisse
Yes
I remember that one!!!!
Scream awards
“I’ll give the Golden Chainsaw for Coolest Kill to-“
“Dull machete for Lamest Kill goes to_”
"Platinum Punji-sticks for coolest trap goes to_"
That's nice
Only James knows his kills than anyone else does!
Don’t forget Primo Premonition and Coolest Corpse!!
People really downplay the absolute fucked nature of that tanning bed kill in Final Destination 3. In an earlier scene it's shown the girls stripped off their underwear before getting in the beds. Then it goes step by step into the process of them being sunburned from first degree(screaming with red marks all over their body), second degree(their skin starts sticking and tearing from every part of them touching the tanning bed), and then third degree they start producing boils from everywhere on their body simultaneously as their blood is boiling under their skin. This whole time they're experiencing this on the ENTIRE SURFACE OF THEIR BODY, ALL OF IT, YES INCLUDING THEIR VAJ. Then finally the temperature ramps up so much that their skin actually bursts into flames and THEY'RE STILL ALIVE and can probably feel all of this as they finally start burning to actual death. This whole ordeal lasted for 5 minutes as they slowly experienced every form of sunburn on every inch of their body. This whole time they're trapped, unable to escape. As far as ways to die that is easily one of the most nightmarish.
Dude yes I remember seeing this as a kid, absolutely terrified the shot outta me man, but I couldn't stop watching tho, safe to say prolly never using a tanning bed
Yeah. That one and the guy getting his insides sucked out by a pool pump really get me.
Yeah those 2 really had it bad, especially since many of the Final Destination deaths are so sudden, the premonition survivors barely had time to feel it. It's not even like they deserved a drawn out death like the skinhead in the next movie either
I see those deaths & raise you what I call the Gymnastics Spinal Adjustment.
Once thé nerve endings are dead there is no pain 3rd degree burns dont Hurt
In Alien, the cast hadn't been told what was going to happen to John Hurt's character in that scene. The reaction you see on screen is genuine. The director did it because he wanted a more natural reaction. I'd say he did quite well.
My grandmother walked out because of that scene
i love when people watch youtube videos the use the knowledge on others like their smart 😂
Fun fact: Ridley Scott didn't tell the rest of the cast about how John Hurt's Kane was going to die, so when the chestburster effect happened all that screaming and panicking from the rest of the cast is actually their real reactions. They weren't acting, it TERRIFIED them
Somebody said in another comment that one of the actors actually fainted. Must have been some damn good props/affects if it had that insane of a reaction to it.
Jaws’ opening scene (I think) was another one where the director (Spielberg so not surprising lol) didn’t tell the actress what would happen. So her screams were genuine as she thought she was gonna drown from the diver pulling her legs too hard, and borderline actually drowning her. Pretty sure it traumatized her, or she just didn’t expect it to be so fear inducing/frightening.
Probably one of the best ways to get a genuine reaction, but morally kinda fucked up imo.
As an honorable I would say the lawyer splitting in thirteen ghosts, a well done and ironic kill.
That was one of the first ‘unique’ deaths I thought of when I read the title!
I thought the exact same thing - and figured it would be high on the list after they mentioned the Ghost Ship party kill, because they were done by the same effects house.
Glad they included “John Carpenter’s The Thing” on the list because that movie had some crazy effects and pretty much every death in it was horrific.😱
Kinda surprised it wasn't higher up on the list honestly. Of all the disturbing, gory, shocking, disturbing films that I watch, it's probably still one of the most unexpected, creative kills in my book. Much better than freaking Ghost ship at the very least. 🤪lol
The most scarred me when I was a kid
The Sinister scene is why I hate using loud noises to trick me into being scared. I like the mystery of wondering what I saw, not the sudden jumping form loudness because something supposedly scary happened.
The bannister decapitation in High Tension is one of my all time favorite kills. It actually sent a shiver up my spine. When you think of potential death scenes involving furniture you picture being crushed... not this. Love it!
There is a pretty good kill in "Freaky"
When Alan Ruck's character is sliced in half with a table saw.
Character's name is Mr Bernardi
There definitely needs to be an uncensored version of this list
They’re too afraid of being demonetized
just watch dead meat
Dead Meat can fix that for you!
Missing at least one of the Leprechaun kills, they were also creative if I recall correctly. And the colon kill in Hatchet, that was just over the top grotesque xD
I know how the Wicker Man ends, but my head canon will always say what did him in wasn't the fire. It was the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
NOT THE BEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me reading this comment with my Nick Cage voice
Well if he really was allergic he would have died long before fire killed him.
Oh bother
Like if you get the reference😉
R.I.P. John Hurt, he's the best actor from Alien, and among many other films.
Of course these are the best, they’ve gotten golden chainsaws
Except the tanning beds
I can hear “I’ll give the Golden Chainsaw for coolest kill” in my head on repeat lol
@@Barrie96 Nice Dead Meat Reference, Bois.
Dead Meat is wicked!
Ah final destination series. Nothing like giving a whole generation both trauma and a fear of wood trucks.
Always gotta get out from behind one as fast as you can.
I swear that haunts you forever , it’s just something ya never forget lol
Other fun fact: they took fake trees to film that famous scene cause the real ones wasn't bouncing that high.
Fr
and rollercoasters
It's all trucks for me, but trucks carrying lumber (and pick-up trucks carrying gardening gear and ladders) are at the top.
That death from The Mist reignited my fear of spiders
That death from The Mist proved/exacerbated/justified my fear of spiders :)
Mine never left. Lol
God I remember watching Arachnophobia as a kid with my sister, already scared of spiders but I can at least can watch them in movies because, hey it's a work of fiction right? It isn't sitting in front of me, I'm good.
*Like... Hell!* Mid way through the movie this sneaky little butthole took a feather pen and ran it up my arm durring one of the barn scenes. I still don't know how that movie ended! 😱🤪😂😂
I totally agree. Spiders are disgusting
Yep, and the end of the movie is the worst.
@@pattierotondo1108 yeah I agree. Did you know Stephen King actually prefers the movie ending over his original ending in the book?
I love seeing so many of these kill! My three favorites on here are the mattress/A Nightmare on Elm Street, chest burster in Alien and the beheading in The Omen. Thanks WatchMojo!
I think The Rack Trap from Saw 3 should have been on the list instead of The Reverse Bear Trap from Saw 1. It was so unsettling to watch, just like the Tanning Bed kills from Final Destination 3.
Not to mention the victim actually dies in that trap. Amanda survived the reverse bear trap.
When I heard unique kills I automatically thought of the liquid nitrogen kill from Jason X
Same
I remember that scene because the girl is hot.
I thought of Jason X liquid Nitrogen right away too but it was my second thought after BONE TOMAHAWK and poor Deputy Nick getting scalped (alive), his scalp shoved in his mouth (to muffle his screams) and a stake hammered in his mouth to keep his scalp in there (still alive), then he's flipped upside down with his bare ass facing the camera and with a Troglodyte holding each ankle, then head-honcho Trog hacks Nick's taint with a bone tomahawk until each Trog can pull his ankles like a wishbone to split him in half (from his ass/taint) up to his chest so all his guts spill out and he's ready to eat!!
With such an INCREDIBLE practical effect, it looks SO good and is def the most grisly death I've ever seen on screen!
The Jason X nitrogen kill would not work in real life.
@@standheaykic66 not anymore
I remember seeing Aliens in the movie theater and it scarred (and scared) me for a very long time. It was brutal and magnificent.
How is the Jason X kill only #20??? That's the best kill in the entire franchise
And Jason gets to cop quite the feel as well!
@@linda10989 mmmmm rewatch that scene, he does not grope her. Kane Hodder is a *gentleman* not some groping pervert.
No it is the second best the sleeping bag kill takes the cake
And the fact that Amanda from Saw is above it and she didn’t die until the 3 one
@@adiahaalexander9359 nobody said he “was” a pervert. Kane Hodder is indeed a gentleman but fr who said he was a pervert? Like c’mon 😂
Cloning people while they sleep in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is creepy.
We watched the original and the 1970s version in summer school, with the 1970s one really freaking me out (especially the ending).😰
The bread slicer kill from Fear Street part 1 is a pretty gruesome one
Character's name is Kate
Surprised to not see Tatum’s demise in “Scream” on this list. The garage scene is a classic
You make a great point
Hey dya mind passing me the wrench?
7:58 I think the segue from the girls burning to death side-by-side in the sunbeds to their coffins laying side-by-side at their funeral is a GENIUS DIRECTING DECISION!
The black guy's death in Underwater. Seeing someone explode from the outside in like that was terrifying and makes me even more scared of the deep sea.
How did Final Destination 2 highway scene not on here? Maybe not as creative but damn, that scene scared entire 2 generations into not driving behind a log truck after that 😅
Technically none of those characters died
@@KRIZ·TEEgood point but the glass pane will always be horrifying since the mom watched it in person
I love the scene in Jason x where they play out the sleeping bag death scenerio
"You want to have premarital sex and smoke some pot?" A line that's both cheesy and hilarious!
The pool suction scene still keeps me from swimming too close to the bottom of the pool.
The Ghost Ship opening scene was the only thing I saw of the movie because I was a child, and my parents immediately turned it off. XD
The pool scene was an amazing scene considering it sucked out Hunt's intestines, it got a golden chainsaw. The ghost ship scene was also pretty surprising too and it might scare me a bit more each time I watch it.
Ruby deagle's death will always be my favorite because of how creative it was
That evil hag Mrs. Deagle’s death in Gremlins and John Strode’s death in Halloween 5. I loved the bad mattress death in Nightmare on Elm Street. It was so over the top. I also loved the death of the pervert in Final Destination 5.
John Strode's death was in Halloween Pt. 6 Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers
@@themadhatter622 you’re right. 😎My bad.😓
The lift kill in Gremlins has tickled the absolute F^ck out of me since I was a child yo.
She wasn't readyyyyyy
@@gears4life476 nah she wasn’t yo. She got slipping yo.
😂😂😂
I still wanna know how tha lil bastards knew it would do that 😂😂😂
Her dying words: Kiss my grits!
The Collector and The Collection had a bunch of good ones too. The opening multi-kill scene of The Collection in the club was in my opinion even better than the Ghost Ship multi-kill! Crazy creative
"here's 20 movie deaths we'll talk about about and not really show"
I mean yeah, that's how TH-cam works
@@JsteveIsMe no. That's not how youtube works. Especially since I youtube'd the scenes they didn't show. And watched the full scenes. On TH-cam.
@@DevilDoc1988 yeah but they wanted to avoid maybe a 13+ rating but idk
Final destination 2 Airbag kill went crazy too. Traumatized about airbags fr.
There’s no way the curling iron kill from sleepaway camp wasn’t on here. I was waiting for that the whole time
They sleep on sleep away camp especially when they did videos on plot twist
Lesson learned in the Tanning Bed scene: Don't put the slushy above your tanning bed to prevent the sweat from the cup of the drink.
Kane Hodder has stated that the sleeping bag death is the rare occasion where the censored version is better than the version they filmed. He felt the single hit is more effective.
Yeah, shows just how powerful Jason is when he can kill her in one swing.
@@MajorTeag I mean the dude is like the god damn Terminator.😂🤣 Not even a what? 10 plus force of police officers with shotguns, and long rifles was able to actually fully stop him.
Between his size/build, and the fact he has supernatural strength, and cannot be fully killed, he has no problem throwing a short stack girl around like a sack of potatoes.😂 Still a gruesome death imo, impact kills are some horrible shit to listen to.
“Ghost Ship” had the freakiest intro scenes of any movie I’ve seen. It went from zero to “Holy crap!” in no time flat.
Death no.3 actually happened to an unfortunate resident in his condominium swimming in my neighbourhood a few years back. The ironic part is, the man was 1.8m tall, but he drown in a 1.2m deep pool due to a malfunctioning draining system
The death by sleeping bag kill is my all time favorite Jason kill.
Literally every kill in the Final Destination franchise: *“Am I a joke to you?”*
The final destination Taning bed scene scared me seriously. So much that I didn’t use a tanning bed for years 🤣
About the Wicker Man kill, there was a reference to this in an episode i believe is called "lost" where the whole city of Bikini Bottom abandons Spongebob to go on a vacation away from him and on the island they were staying on; they burnt a wooden statue of Spongebob to celebrate being away from him. Pretty cool reference
The glass door slicing the guy in half in Thirteen Ghosts.
That pool scene actually happened to a small girl. She survived but is now permanently disabled and is getting constantly operations done.
A list like this definitely needed an Honorable Mentions section
I watched Gremlins for the first time in a second or third grade class and was confused af about whether I should have laughed at that scene or not 😂😂
Mrs. Deagle’s death made me laugh so hard I threw up on my grandma’s carpet the first time I watched it.
That was a really nice cut at the end of the “Final Destination 3” sequence.
the ghost ship run away cable one of the best scenes ever and the music in the movie was pretty good as well
Missed the Mirror opening jaw scene. That was absolutely disturbing
Calling Ghost Ship mediocre is a bit harsh. Desmond Harrington’s performance was phenomenal in my opinion. The scene when he drops the nerdy sweet guy facade and goes full “Ferry man” still gives me chills.
I still like Ghost Ship. The opening is possibly my favorite kill scene.
The Ghost Ship runaway cable haunted me for days
Freddy Krueger killed Spencer in a video game in Nightmare on Elm Street 6.
And he killed Mark Grey in a comic book in Nightmare on Elm Street 5.
You don’t see kills like that in other movies. Those kills are unique.
and don't forget that squicky marionette kill in ANOES 3
Well waddya know I beat my high score!!!!
The 2015 Japanese film Tag (I think it was originally released in Japan as Real Onigokko ) has some pretty wild deaths in it.
Who else started watching Mojo and now couldnt stop watching him? 😀🍪
#13--->> DEFINITELY one of my absolute 💯% FAVORITE kills in horror movie.. even watching how they made that scene was awesome. What they did to get that scene was an absolute and complete fact of genius!
There was a unique kill in the 13 ghosts where a glass wall would cut someone in half for one of the most gruesome scenes i had seen in a movie back then.
The pool scene in final destination really happened which makes it scarier
Great list , all brilliant and iconic kills . I find the wicker man scene and the final destination 3 sunbed scene kill my faves as I find fire deaths disturbing and scary .
BRAVO MOJO!!!! Some absolutely fantastic kills in your Top 20. Love it!!! Alien & The Thing are cinematic masterpieces!!!! So much fun!!!!
7:50 I always remember the Rollercoaster song in this scene 😆
I’m glad I am not the only one.
Honestly any sort of head explosion in a horror movie is pretty satisfying to watch
6:22 bro my ear started throbbing after seeing this
Freddy didn't mean to cause all that red juice erupting from the mattress...
All he wanted was the TV, but "accidentally" dragged the guy down with it.
I'd give a nod to The Rack from Saw 3, The Sentinel Sphere going through the guy's back and coming out his mouth on Phantasm 2, and Jason bending the officer over backwards on Friday the 13th Part 6.
Dangit officer Leroy Jenkins i told you not to back up so hard!!😡
The death of Mrs. Deagle always cracks me up.
Love your videos. Keep it up! 🔥🔥
The liquid nitrogen from Jason is better than the movie itself
It's a cool death.
Poor Adrienne. She worked so hard that day, she was absolutely shattered by the end of it...
Livid that the bread slicer kill isn't on here! Completely took me by surprise!
David Warner’s death in The Omen is one of my favorite scenes in any movie
Why is the image of Gremlins in scarves, hats, earmuffs and more so adorable?
Ghost Ship is a great film and I loved it when I was a preteen.
Watch mojo never disappoints. Some of my favorites.
Human Mary in ent. A nightmare on elm street 3. Phillips death.
Bad mattress. A nightmare on elm street 1. Glenn's death.
Glass shards. Bride of chucky.
The angel death trap. Saw 3
Head explodes. A nightmare on elm street 6. Carlos's death.
I'm surprised that big death scene from Slither wasn't on the list.
Good picks, u guys go way back too the classic films. Those were the days!
I think this Top 20 video would be interesting if WatchMojo did the honors of allowing a crossover vid featuring James A. Janisse reading up on these creative kills!
Father Brennan’s impaled by lightning rod death in The Omen was the most memorable for me!
Why does no one ever mention that the little girl in that infamous opening scene of Ghost Ship is Emily Browning who went on to do Lemony Snicket, Sucker Punch, Legend and American Gods
Ghost ship has the best opening ever
Top 10 times a person choose the hard way to get something done
The lady can't get off the chair, instead continue screaming until the ride finishes 😂
“Killed by leaches”
We’ve seen those incidents in my dad’s village from people working in the rice field that has leaches
The sleeping bag kill was still creative, but the fact that it was cut to one smack on the tree was imo a goog choice.
Great list Mojo🙌
0:40 Jason really did her dirty
You mean when he feels her up 😏 Naughty boy!
Freddy Krueger transformed into a TV is also a great kill
And does the Freddy torture chair or Freddy bitting someone in half counts?
I will never forget ghost ship. I was like 8 when I saw it on tv for the first time
The liquid nitrogen death always bugged me… Just because traditionally Jason’s kills typically were of all the people “doing the wrong thing”… the jerks, the promiscuous couples, druggies… Etc. this girl was the only one behaving and doing her job.
It bugged me mostly because it was the first kill of the movie. Typically that type of character lasts the longest in the films.
And he went gropy with her
Totally amazing video of the best horror death in horror movies watch mojo and fantastic job
“Censorship ruining creativity.” Ironic seeing as every scene in this countdown has been censored.
that bc youtube would demonitize or age restrict this video
Oh yes! Jason's liquid nitrogen facial kill was the best.
I would love to see a part 2 of this list but with Dead Meat as a guest
11:40 Gary Oldman has got to be the greatest actor ever. His ability to transform himself is second to none.
One of the greatest horror movie actors, yes.
@@rebeccamcnallyiiiuiiioothj6743 Just horror?
#3 That one is the reason why I have a serious mistrust of public pools to this day. Brutal as hell.
Yup. The opening sequence of Ghost Ship is often cited as "Best Opening Scene in a Horror Film."
When I saw that scene in Ghost Ship I got scared to watch the rest of the movie.