10 of the Most Outrageous Death Scenes in Horror
Dead Alive: When Lionel Cosgrove went full-on ape shit and broke out that wicked lawnmower, we all knew shit was about to get real, as the kids say. And real it got. Five minutes of severed limbs, shreds of stringy, mangled flesh, and to the best of my knowledge (research was conducted; I was unable to definitively find another film that spilled more buckets of the sticky stuff), more bloodshed on screen than in any other instance. If you haven’t seen this scene, you haven’t lived… as odd as that sounds.
Hellraiser: Holy hell… Frank gets torn to fucking pieces!! Think about that! Imagine insanely sharp hooks – attached to thick, sturdy chains – piercing your skin, stretching to that point of bursting, and pausing. Only to rip the skin from the body in one grotesque explosive sequence of blood, flesh, and palpable sadism. It’s a scene that has long haunted me and will likely never cease to do so.