On the 13th Day of Halloween, the Best Horror Movie Deaths

Seeing people die in movies is certainly nothing new. Legend has it that even the Lumière brothers shot a scene for one of their earliest cinématographes in which horse carriages and steam engines transformed into warring robot factions who then kill innocent humans in the course of their intergalactic war. And the fact is, seeing death in the movies has caused us to become numb and desensitized, our squeamishness pummeled beyond all recognition from our darkly bored hearts.

Which is why it’s so very important – really, imperative – to see someone stab their fingers into the eyes of a zombie. Or to watch a well-meaning doctor have his hands chewed off at the wrists by a malevolent, shape-shifting alien.

Maxim Online has compiled a very nifty list of the Best Horror Movie Deaths – 10 quick clips of some of the nastiest, most graphically unsettling cinematic dispatchings that you’ve probably laid your eyes upon in some time. It’s by no means a definitive list, but the choices they’ve made here are pretty outstanding and you’re likely to see a few bits (ha! ha!) that you’ll fondly recall, thinking “Ah yes, that is an excellent way to clear an entire room of flesh eating zombies.”

Some of these scenes may be NSFW; it entirely depends upon your employer’s level of tolerance when it comes to severed body parts and the gratuitous splattering of blood and fleshy bits.

Today begins the 13 Days of Halloween here at Burbanked, in which we’ll take a spooktastic stroll through some delectable treats from across the Internet and the bloguverse. Will all of it be movie-related? Will you get your fill of goblins and ghouls and high-volume sugary excess? Will I actually post every single day – even on the precious weekends – from now until October 31st?

Eh, who knows? I’ll try my darnedest, so I hope that counts for something. Besides, leaving a bit to the unknown dovetails rather neatly into the Halloween theme, I’d say. Yeah. I’ll go with that.