re: Movie deaths that still screw with your head

Some of the ones already listed that have always stood out to me

The fricking kid in Doctor Sleep being murdered. Where in the hell did that come from? I get it's a Stephen King movie but I wasn't ready for that at all. I thought surely he's gonna get away but nope, ended that little leaguer right there

The lake stabbing in Zodiac has always been maybe the most realistic and disturbing murder I've ever seen. No scary music, no menacing threats from the killer, no strange metal on metal sound you always get in movie stabbings. It was calm and peaceful, he's just going to take our money, then all of a sudden a rapid thud sound and you and the victims realize oh frick he's plunging a steak knife into their backs as calmly as you and I would tenderize meat. It was like watching a snuff film of an actual murder

And Quint in Jaws. It's half disturbing to watch and half fascinating because of Robert Shaw's eerily realistic acting, the cuts, and the special effects. He didn't just scream the typical actor scream of I'm being killed, you could hear the panic in his voice trying to kick away from that shark after he'd slid down the boat toward its mouth, you could feel it and imagine exactly what it would be like. And the one last desperate "ehhHHH" before the shark bit down and the blood came gurgling up out of his mouth and you're like "Jesus that's what it's actually like to be bit in half". It's the most amazingly filmed death/attack scene I've ever seen

The kid getting runover by the steamroller in "Maximum Overdrive" was pretty disturbing.

Going way back, does anyone remember the Dennis Quaid / Lou Gosset movie "Enemy Mine", one of the bandit miners fell into the drilling machine, pretty awful.

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Go watch just about every death scene in any of the first 3 Saw movies. The one that stands out to me is the device that the black man that was strapped into that twisted his arms and legs and eventually his head to were everything snaps

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this is the scene that came to mind first when I read the thread title. F**k that scene.

Only one that ever stayed with me is Saving Private Ryan where the Jewish dude stood aside and let the German guy killed the American.

G-Baby from Hardball...poor dude never made it to the Ship

Gus

Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove. That was an exceedingly odd way to check out.

Jack Black in The Jackal

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The fricking kid in Doctor Sleep being murdered. Where in the hell did that come from? I get it's a Stephen King movie but I wasn't ready for that at all. I thought surely he's gonna get away but nope, ended that little leaguer right there

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Jacob Tremblay's acting in that scene was so good it emotionally disturbed the cast that was supposed to be killing him Kid is highly decorated and definitely sold that scene.

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I've never seen Doctor Sleep, but just watched that scene. Um...movies don't normally affect me very much, but that scene just fricked me up big time. BIG time. And that's just watching the few-minutes-long scene on fricking youtube and not the actual movie itself. I don't know if it's because I have a little boy of my own now or what, but holy shite. I'm traumatized.

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The Lake Berryessa murder in Zodiac. I know it was a true story, but that whole scene just freaks me out.

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"Brian and I were here on the blanket, down by the water and we're just enjoying the afternoon having a nice time talking, and I saw this guy, he was coming down the hillside and he seemed to stop and watch us, looking at us, about 200-300 yards away."

"And then as we continued, I glanced and noticed he would get closer and closer, and pretty soon he was within 75-100 feet away."

She then looked again and he had gone, stepping behind a tree.

The man was observed adorning himself with a black executioners hood and a waistline bib, decorated with a crossed circle, along with a pair of sunglasses, gloves, and military-style boots. He then approached the young couple, to which Cecelia would alert Bryan, "Oh my God, he's got a gun."



Later, per an investigator, "When I went to the roadway I saw their white Karmann Ghia, and I saw tracks leading away from it. On the passenger door there were several dates, which were our crimes, so he had left his calling card — what he had done. I recognized the symbol on the door as being the same symbol she had described on the hood."

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