Wolf Creek - Head on a Stick

Liz gets into a car in an attempt to escape, but Mick announces himself with a sinister chuckle and stabs her through the driver's seat with a large bowie knife. She attempts to defend herself with a pen knife, but he proceeds to cut off some of her fingers and finishes her off by severing her spinal cord, what Mick calls "a head on a stick."

Thirst - New Red Band Trailer

Yes, I am excited. Park Chan-wook, vampires, Song Kang-ho, all these things equal win.

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Madness!

Classic scene where Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson(Alec Guinness) falls on the detonator plunger as he dies, just in time to blow up the bridge and send a train full of Japanese soldiers and important officials hurtling into the river.

Let The Right One In - The Pool Scene

Sometimes the best horror is what your mind sees and not your eyes. The same goes for movie deaths, an off-screen death can be just as effective if not more than seeing it happen. Take this scene from Let The Right One In for example, little Oskar is a 12-year-old-boy who is constantly bullied at school. He befriends a mysterious child, Eli, who turns out to be a vampire. The moral of the story is...don't fuck with a vampire's best friend.

Platoon - Sgt. Elias death

After being wounded and left for dead by Staff Sergeant Barnes(Tom Berenger). Elias(Willem Dafoe) emerges from the jungle, running from a large group of NVA soldiers. Thinking that Sgt. Elias Grodin had already been killed in action, the platoon can only watch from the chopper as he is shot repeatedly by Viet Cong troops.

The famous scene depicting Elias with his hands in the air is a recreation of a 1968 photograph by Art Greenspon

Terminator 2 - Thumbs Up

I'm not usually for posting non-human death scenes, but this is one for the books. The Terminator sacrifices himself, asking Sarah to lower him into a vat of molten steel so that his technology cannot be used to create Skynet.

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Independence Day - Checkmate

The scene that relaunched the disaster movie genre. Independence Day was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film resurgence of the 90s. The film used miniatures and in-camera special effects more often than CGI to create a scene that would've even made the late great Irwin Allen proud.

Enemy at the Gates - Headshot

König(Ed Harris) goes to inspect the body he just shot, but belatedly realizes that he has fallen into a trap. Put into a checkmate position, he pauses, removes his field cap and faces Vassili(Jude Law) before being shot down.