Psycho scene is 'best movie death' ?
 

Psycho scene is 'best movie death'

Janet Leigh's famous shower scene in the Hitchcock thriller Psycho is still the "best movie death", according to experts.

The 44-year-old flick has topped a poll of 50 movies carried out by Total Film magazine.

Psycho comes ahead of other iconic movies such as The Godfather (22nd) and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (23rd). Even favourites like Bambi (6th) and The Wizard of Oz (13th) make it on to the list.

Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) comes second, with the surreal end of Slim Pickens when he rides the bomb.

The ape's fall to earth in the 1933 Fay Wray movie King Kong comes third.

Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman's) plunge from a 30-storey building comes fourth in Die Hard (1988), followed by the fatal scene in Bonnie And Clyde (1967).

The off-screen death of Bambi's mother puts the 1942 film in sixth place.

Scream (1966) comes seventh, followed by Gladiator (2000), Star Wars (1977), and White Heat (1949).

Total Film magazine deputy editor Simon Crook said: "Some of the deaths in the poll, like The Wicked Witch melting in The Wizard Of Oz, are iconic but laughable, but nearly 45 years on, Psycho's shower scene is still distressing.

"It's the sheer violence of the edit rather than any explicit gore - 70 different angles, over 90 cuts and those shrieking violins. It's a masterclass in montage and audience manipulation."

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they just dont make em like this anymore.

a very good scene and powerful cinematics.

:thumbsup

yeah psycho really is the best death scene it set the standard for all screen death scenes to follow

and while Slim pickens was funny as hell on that bomb I don't think it shoulda been #2

The psycho house is right up the street. Although its not a real house, but rather a 15 foot replica of a house on a hill.

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ya now they spend to much time trying to perfect things in the computer room. just not the same for horror films.

it was also a classic example of things being more effective if you don't actually see the contact. Your brain can think up much more pain than can be shown.

I also think the lack of color played a very important role.

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Its memorable.. I'm not sure if I would agree that its the best though.

I guess I don't remember another death scene from a film that old. Trying to think of another one as famous anyway.

No vote for Friday the 13 part (2?) when Jason traps that girl in the sleeping bag and BANGS it against a tree?

Yeah no shit. I can think of tons of better death scenes than the Psycho shower scene.

the psycho shower scene did have quite the effect.


I wonder if they include the death of Boromir from the Fellowship of the Ring in that list. That was a hell of a good death.

After seeing Psycho at a pretty young age I refused to shower and took baths instead for about a week. :1orglaugh

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originally guts were supposed to fly out of th bag too, but the fucking MPAA would have none of that nonsense

If it were up to me the top 2 would include the opening scene in Ghost Ship where all the people were ballroom dancing on the deck of the ship and were cut in half by a wire. The movie was horrible but that scene alone was worth the price of admission.

Also the scene at the beginning of Irreversible where a rapist fag gets his face smashed in with a fire extinguisher. You keep expecting them to cut away from his face but they never do, after about 30 hits with the fire extinguisher his face is completely crushed but you can still see his bottom jaw moving like he is trying to talk.

Both very cool scenes.

I can think of a lot better movie deaths:

Peter Jackson falling from the ceiling THROUGH the alien leader with a chainsaw (and coming out the guy through the bottom) in "Bad Taste"

Lionel + lawnmower + a houseful of zombies in "Dead Alive"

the bus in "Finale Destination"

the opening murder in "Suspiria"

the bullet through the keyhole in "Terror Of The Opera"

"roll out the barrel" in "2000 maniacs"

the leech-infested outhouse drowning in "Sleepaway Camp 2"

Tina in "A Nightmare On Elm Street"

one of the very few scenes to ever make me queasy

hitchcock rocks

Haha. Same here. I thought about that movie for a few days afterwards. The only real "disturbing" movie I think I've ever seen.

no Scarface ?