Lost Highway - Head vs Table

The Lynchster does it again. This time it's an off screen death by Andy(Michael Massee), who is accidentally impaled through the forehead on the corner of a glass coffee table while attempting to attack Pete(Balthazar Getty).

Blue Velvet - Frank's Last Puff

Much like Jeff(James Stewart) in Rear Window, Jeffrey(Kyle MacLachlan) becomes the ultimate voyeur in the 1986 film Blue Velvet. As Frank(Dennis Hopper) storms in looking for Jeffrey, he sees the closet and laughs knowing that's where he's hiding. Frank takes one last puff of nitrous oxide and throws open the closet door. Jeffrey is waiting for him and blasts a hole through Frank's forehead, killing his instantly.

Wild at Heart - Don't Fuck with Sailor Ripley

The first scene in Wild at Heart has to be one of the most brutal beatings in film history. Sailor Ripley(Nicolas Cage) is attacked by a man with a knife hired by Lula Fortune's(Laura Dern) mother. Accompanied by a metal guitar riff and his girlfriends shrieks, Sailor doesn't even hesitate, but beats his head into a bloody pulp against the marble floor. He then pays her back by pointing his bloody finger over the corpse at Lula's mother Marietta. The close-up shot of Sailor repeatedly smashing the guy's head into the floor is not for the faint of heart, but it certainly gets the point across--don't fuck with Sailor Ripley.

Early test screenings for Wild at Heart did not go well; Lynch estimated that 80 people walked out of the first test screening and 100 in the next.

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