Nastiest Kills in Horror (and Beyond)

Poor John, aka Dr. Death, betrayed by his own protege in the dark arts, a man whose soul now inhabits the body of a plastic doll. We love Chucky's pint-sized reign of terror in the original Child's Play, which includes throwing a hammer at a babysitter's face and giving a child psychiatrist a taste of his own electroshock therapy, but Chucky's masterpiece might be this "death by voodoo doll" scene. The sounds of the poor bastard's bones snapping... shudder! 

Horror isn't the only genre that can have nasty kill scenes, you know. Dystopian sci-fi satires have been known to send someone into the great blue yonder in horribly gruesome ways, too. The death of Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) in RoboCop remains one of the most unsettling scenes in the history of cinema, a scene of such unparalleled violence and cruelty that this poor Irish flatfoot simply had to come back as a cyborg and lay waste to these unforgivable scumbags. "Does it hurt?" Oh, it's not going to end well for any of you Old Detroit sumbitches.

No, not Blaine! Jesse 'The Body' Ventura had barely claimed "I don't have time to bleed" in Predator before he got greased by a creature from outer space that likes to hunt and kill big dudes with big guns. Like the scene in Alien before it, this moment qualifies as quite the "chestburster" as well -- that MTV logo got sprayed all over the damn jungle. The death of his buddy Blaine would cause poor Mac (Bill Duke) to lose his head -- until he literally lost it at the hands of the Predator.

Summer 1990 was quite a time for a bit of the ol' cinematic ultraviolence, what with RoboCop 2 laying waste to Old Detroit and John McClane returning for another very bad Christmas Eve in Die Hard 2. Director Renny Harlin loved to linger on every kill moment in this sequel, shoving our faces into every bullet wound -- or, in this case, impalement. Ouch. Big time ouch.