Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Dalton (A) on May 02, 2012 at 11:01:01

In Reply to: RE: Most evil death scene . . . posted by mr grits on April 24, 2012 at 22:58:24

This is probably not what you intended, but for some reason the following movie murders have stuck with me. Probably because they were intended to be campy or funny, while I found the very thought of them to be revolting:

- In a horrible 90s comedy called "Nothing But Trouble", a group of New Jersey stereotypes is pulled over for speeding, convicted in a kangaroo court and summarily sentenced to death. A trap door opens and they fall through into a contraption out of an evil Tim Burton film. We hear heavy metal music while a roller coaster from hell transports them to an abattoir (called the "Bonestripper") run by fire-belching hot rod engines. They are dumped onto a conveyor belt and shredded by rotating blades and pistons; their bleached white bones are shot out the back into a target, falling into a large pile of other victims below. Hilarious? Um, no.

- In "The Naked Prey", a group of hunters is subjected to tortuous deaths at the hands of an angry African tribe. One of the men is hog-tied, encased in a thick layer of clay with a breathing tube in his mouth and rotated on a spit over a fire to be cooked alive. Seems kind of silly to remember this, but I saw the movie as a child and it haunted me.

- There is an old Vincent Price movie (can't recall the name) where he plays an actor (I think) seeking revenge against critics who gave him bad reviews. One critic owns a couple of white miniature poodles. Price kills the poodles and force-feeds them to the critic through a pastry bag, including balls of white fur. Blech!