Most memorable and/or painful deaths in an MST Movie. This popped in my head after seeing Wilson getting shot with a flare gun. Examples: the guy who gets impaled with a giant hypodermic needle in “The Amazing Colossal Man,” Hubbs getting eaten by thousands of ants in “Phase IV” and the residents of Fly Creek becoming worm food in “Squirm.”
I’d pick the extended death of the evil researcher guy in “Devil Fish,” the one that prompted Crow to note: “Please! Francisco Franco died quicker!”
What would you pick?
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The astronaut who lost his head in Hangar 18. Probably painful and definitely memorable for all of Joel and the ‘bots’ “head” puns.
Assassin Lincoln taking a dive out the hotel window in Danger!! Death Ray. “Ole!”
I’d have to go with the young lady in the towel who gets strangled right at the beginning of BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, especially since it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL MOVIE. Apparently, it’s just there to set a mood.
Or how about the weird old guy in RED ZONE CUBA who runs the restaurant where the entire menu is written on the outside of the building in whitewash? The one who keeps escaping and running, then escaping again and finally gets thrown down a well, right cheek twitching spasmodically. That was fun, wasn’t it?
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but that punk kid in Zombie Nightmare who gets a baseball bat through his gut. We don’t get to see it, but it sounds pretty nasty, that’s for sure.
Since Sampo mentioned “Devil Fish,” the death that sticks out in that movie for me is the Rob Reiner guy who got his legs chomped off. There are countless scenes of him screaming in pain, and you know the mobbed-up doctors didn’t help that much.
On a lighter note, my favorite “death quote” from MST3K is from Time Chasers: “He died as he lived: Mud-stained and splaying!”
Kobras from Pumaman. “Burning old man, singed all his flesh off…”
The Giant Gila Monster getting a hit with jalopy full of nitro. “They killed the only likable character!”
Just watched The Undead again, and there are some pretty undignified deaths in that one. Scroop the innkeeper gets his head whacked off by a wimpy effort from Livia the witch; then Billy Barty puts his head in a breadbasket to give to Satan. Later, Barty seems to spasm himself to death. Helene and the officious Quintus also seem to die, although we don’t see it. I love this episode!
Maybe it’s only because I just watched it recently, but my first thought was of lovable tiny henchjockey Joe from Racket Girls. You don’t see many gunshots to the head on MST3k. Pretty shocking after a snooze-inducing hour of unsexy grappling. “Today the sidekick community mourns…”
#50 Eegah reminds me of another:
The ending of the Gumby Short Robot
Rumpus. Not only for Gumby’s parents extreme tough love
towards Gumby and his robot but also for the years
of powerful Adlerian Therapy that Crow
and TS presumably had to undergo.
The telephone phone pole guy in The Black Scorpion 113. :shock:
I agree…no one had it worse or more drawn out than the Melting Man (or “Melt” to his friends).
The double-death at the end of Time Chasers is pretty hilarious.
Adam West being dragged into hell was fantastic.
Mitchell: Merlin and Martin.
Funny topic…
Dr. Ted Nelson; who proves that telling some people your name is the most fatal thing of all.
The one old guy that got train crushed because that other guy was having a heart attack/stroke in The Days of our Years. If the two other guys had died, there would have been two more memorible deaths. But, no! They had to live. Jerks!
I would have to go with the killing of Space Gyaos by Guiron in Gamera vs. Guiron. First, he loses a leg, then a wing, then Guiron slices him like a meatloaf. Even though he’s a monster, I always thought this was a horrible way to go.
the death of “Kermy” (???) From ‘Colossus and the Headhunters.’ Getting sttabed either in the heart or the gut can take a bit of time, but he dragged it out cause he “needed the screen time.”
Also any of those poor civilians from the train who got eaten or stung by the giant scorpions from ‘The Black Scorpion.’ they were probably on their way home when these giant nasties decided to snack of them. Poor guys.
Most memorable AND painful death in the Kaiju Category I nominate Space Gaos (?) from Gamera vs Guiron. Guiron first quarters the still screaming Gaos, then decapitates and finally slices the remains to order. It was a mix of humor and horror, luckily the remains looked like spray painted styrofoam.
The clones from Clonus seemed to have a truly grisley fate, slow vivasections, brrrrrrrr. Can’t blame them for being so whiny and needy.
Magicvoice beat me to it. Love how this happens so often.
Magicvoice, never liked the way they ignored you in the Sci Fi years.
The first that came to my mind was the Chief’s death in Final Justice. I mean, to be shot twice in the same exact spot in the same exact way!
The first that came to my mind was the Chief’s death in Final Justice. I mean, to be shot twice in the same exact spot in the same exact way!
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702 brute man: He trust only one person a blind woman who then turns him in and then get shot in sizzler. Then his death scene take forever. It kinda sad and painful.
@64, Fart Bargo
The clones from Clonus seemed to have a truly grisley fate, slow vivasections, brrrrrrrr. Can’t blame them for being so whiny and needy.
I was just thinking of the climactic fight between Peter Graves and The Guy Who Played His Brother. “He’s not done; the poker didn’t come out clean.” And Keenan Wynn and Random Actress’s death; when they blow up, you can hear her scream.
Oh, and the blonde camper who gets submerged in The Blood Waters of Dr. Z. That was just death without dignity. Having an Estevez in the room would’ve added class.
@27 – For a group, I always LMAO when the Slime People would consistantly roll down hills when exposed to sunlight & die.
Not to mention their dramatic staggering in the climax:
“Oh, but that a man might…(falls)”
(two in unison) “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a…(falls)”
The father driving to his quick death at the start of EARTH VS THE SPIDER. This is the very moment when we learn that the movie is not about him.
Post 16 mentioned the one I first thought of: City Limits and Robby Benson being smooshed to death by a desk….
/that’s the way I wanna go….
I don’t know, the werewuff security guard car crash was definitely one of the goofier deaths I have seen. It’s rare to see a sick canine put himself down….
@ 24
That movie I can watch on it’s own, so that scene always makes me wanna cry, knowing the fact that the hero dies at the end, and that’s that. :cry:
What about TV’s Frank’s death? I will never forget.
The Indestructible Man takes quite a while to die and it’s spread out over multiple scenes, first with him getting fried with fire and then electricity. It’s fairly protracted for a movie death.
Then there’s the monster in Monster A-Go Go, except that he’s saved by the fact that in the end “there was no monster”.
Ditto on poor chopped-up Space Gaos in Gamera Vs Guiron. I’ve seen my share of kaiju movies, over the years and that’s the only one to make feel a little sorry for the monster. (Well, and maybe the original Gojira.)
As for Mr and Mrs Wynn in Parts, that’s easily my pick for funniest death. They died as they lived – bickering.
The hair dying guy (think his name was yuri?) in Werewolf gets it pretty bad. It’s one of those times where you really want to see him get it and it’s good.
The astronaut in the Crawling Hand is blown to pieces except for his hand, which survives for a few days, only to be eaten in a dump by stray cats. That’s just horrible. :smile:
I don’t think anyone has said it yet but i believe Dr. Eric Vornoff’s death in E.D. Wood Jr’s stinker Bride of the Monster was very memorable. the editing was crazy, first off, he gets boulder dashed, octo-pussed, and fried up by GOD in a delicious kalamari-esque soup. Plus Joel and the bots re-enactment will always have a close place in my heart.
“He tampered in God’s domain.”
How about Professor Javorski at the end of The Beast of Yucca Flats? As he lays dying a random, cute little bunny hops up out of nowhere to check on The Beast and gets a little pat on the head before The Beast succumbs to his injuries. Of course it wasn’t scripted that way. It just happened while filming.
And JC’s girlfriend in Sidehackers has to be one of the stupider people to be offed. She taunts her murderous psychopath of a “boy friend” instead of just keeping quiet and agreeing with everything he says and just leaving at her earliest possible opportunity. Not too smart.
There’s that other death in Slime People when a drunken bum who was found in a screening room was told by the heroes th emonsters were coming. He yelled shut up, then died a painful death that sounded like Sam Kinison screaming.
There’s also the climax of Leech Woman where the title character jumped to her death, and Tom Servo yelled “Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddd”
I have to go with Time Chasers as well, a movie where all the main characters die and there’s still a happy ending is pretty memorable.
The silent, but deadly, death of Peter Grave’s mute scientist buddy in BEGINING OF THE END
Let us not forget the several dozen rednecks, oops, crackers burned to death by the mobbed up “Floridians” in the climax of “Devil Fish”.
Proves once again that any european is willing to heroically fight to the last american.
“The silent, but deadly, death of Peter Grave’s mute scientist buddy in BEGINING OF THE END”
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Well he did sign “AHHHHH!” ;-)
#70 – I can’t stop laughing when Keenan Wynn and his bickering wife explode at the end of Clonus. She just goes on screaming for so long after the trailer explodes!
Also, I think Merlin Olsen gets a pretty nice death in Mitchell. Lots of good facial expressions.
All the people who were gently massaged to death by the Professor. Not painful–quite the opposite, actually, but memorable, ’cause if I gotta go, I’d like it to be by neck rub. My shoulders are killing me.
I vote for the multiple stupidity of The Violent Years. Two of the girls in the gang get wiped out because their leader’s brilliant plan to avoid getting arrested for petty vandalism is to start shooting at the cops (and only then to point out that they’re short on ammo.) Then you have the boss, Sheila, dying because of her brilliant plan of turning her back on Paula after threatening her with the police. Most memorable of all though was the car accident that kills Paula’s last surviving sidekick. We see the car start forward, then there’s a shower of glass (flying perfectly horizontally) on a flat grey background and Paula’s face looking sad. Brilliant filmmaking, that.
And who can forget the death of the villain at the end of The Screaming Skull (particularly because it’s practically the only memorable thing in the movie?) We all know about how the actors in Bride of the Monster had to pretend they were being killed by an inert rubber octopus but John Hudson had a worse job, writhing and screaming while holding a skull to his neck to make it look like it was flying at him. Hudson failed, but really, would anyone have succeeded?
#25: “George accidentally killing his best friend in Last Clear Chance; it was memborable for George at least.”
Now that’s a little unfair. The cop never said anything about doing intensely stupid things. Seriously, though, you’ve got a traffic safety movie that spends all its time haranguing us about the commonplace little mistakes that might possibly cause a fatal accident. Then how does its victim die? Does he make one of those commonplace errors? No, he drives like an utter moron. Memorable but not very educational.
Luther Strickland #45, thedumpster #47 You are both correct. Congratulations. But I must argue that regardless of the outcome, it was still a “death scene” since his survival was mere coincidence. Also, one could also argue that even though Kalgan wasn’t dead when the end credits rolled, what is to keep us from believing that he died shortly afterwards as a result of his injuries from the crash, thus fully justifying my nomination?
Poom!!!
The death of the evil mastermind at the end of Secret Agent Super Dragon is pretty memorable, in a comical sort of way. He commits suicide to take the formula for anti-Synchron with him to the grave, and as he is dying Super Dragon taunts him by saying he stole the formula from him earlier. Soooo smooooth…
#91
Or maybe they were planning on a sequel.
“Space Mutiny II: This time it’s personal! :twisted:”
Wherein grandma’s kids (professional body builders, of
course) battle Kalgan and his Bellerian vampire followers,
Biff Hardcheese’s kids being helped by the undead (see the
woman lieutenant who was right back at work after being
killed).
T’s mother’s death in Quest of the Delta Knights- “PACKERS!”
The Deputy from the Touch of Satan. Dragged off with a meathook. Ugh! If only he had listened to Luther Strickland and gotten drunk on walnut cider and filed a false report, he’d be in Florida now enjoying his retirement! It’s a outrage, I tell you!
Interesting! Never relised how many episodes deal with death. Perhaps on the next run through of the episodes Sampo you may want to add a body count in the summery. With that said and having just watched Horror of party beach, the slumber party slaughter of 20 young girl was fairly grisly. Very dark and scary subject matter. :???:
You know, with the Manos sequel coming along and a Time Chasers sequel rumored, why not a Space Mutiny sequel? And I like the way you blended Space Mutiny, Samson v. Vampire Women, and Deathstalker. Fun!! :mrgreen:
@90 Re your remarks about @25, you refer to cop and traffic safty film. Not to speak for 25 but George who killed his best friend was not in the flick you seem to refer to, Last Clear Chance. 25 is refering to the Train Safty flick Days of our Years. I get confused too.
Bela Lugosi’s dramatic death at the tentacles of the rubber
octopus in Bride of the Monster.
After learning the prop had no motor to move the arms, it’s
fascinating watching Bela improvise.
The scientist’s foamy death at the end of Agent for H.A.R.M. I briefly find Adam Chance to be likable when he is, at first, happy about the doctor’s survival and then truly saddened to learn that he has died.