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Sure, death scenes can make you laugh.  Is it wrong?  Maybe.  But it feels soooooo right!  I think it's mostly the timing, that and I've watched so much Bugs Bunny and Road Runner that violence just seems hilarious.

Final Destination- The Bus Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BOOp5E3EY

Psycho 2- Shovel to the Head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6chrslAfo

Prophecy (1979)- Giant Mutant Bear Clothesline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aty2bKKp4CI

SPOILERS



Al Pacino smiling at Colin Farrell in The Recruit and then getting shot.
The poor idiots in the limo getting a bullet each in The Package
The guy who dies twice in The Wild Geese.

Call me a bad person, but the scene in The Mist where Thomas Jane blows his child away, and the finds out everything was under control, which was supposed to be a "dark, nihilistic" twist ending... just made me laugh out loud in the theater.

I am an awful, awful human being.

Yes, you are. And that that's why we love ya, Will. :cheers:

There's a guy in Titanic who falls off the back of the ship and hits the propeller and then spins into the water. :thumbup:

Troll 2


need i say more?

I didn't laugh at that bit, but I thought to myself, "Whoops!"

I thought that the scene in The Ring of the horse leaping overboard to its death was quite funny.  Why'd it have to hit the railing?!  If it had been a clean jump I don't think it would've tickled me in any way.  This clip is too long so you might want to skip ahead a minute into it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zre4vqDMc

When Pearl Harbor was out in theaters, I watched watched the ending many times while working as an usher, and one of the main characters has a big death scene and I always thought it was humorous.  "I'm so cold..."

I think the ending of Reuben, Reuben (1983) was supposed to be funny, but I never thought so.

When I saw that scene (as Naomi was trying to pet the horsie and freaking it out) the though going through my mind was "Does this bug you? I'm not touching you! Does this bug you?".

There are a couple others I remembered, but alas, I cannot find videos for them.

Gamera, Guardian of the Universe
There's a scene where Gyaos swoops down as a dog barks at him.  All you see is Gyaos fly by the camera, followed by a shot of the dog chain fully extended and being violently pulled off the screen with this ungodly YEEEAAAALP!  The chain eventually breaks...

Turistas
The scene where the Swedish chick falls off the cliff and brains herself on the cliff wall.

 :bouncegiggle:

All I could think of as she landed were Olympic judges holding up numbers.

I found a montage of movie deaths on YouTube that have some of the ones that I was going to post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y3hvd0bFQ

 

In what is considered by many an homage to The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms eating a cop is the scene from Jurassic Park where the huge Tyrannosaurs eats the laywer (which I suppose proves they're really not all bad )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azf2qycQ5bg&feature=related

In Sleepwalkers when the woman stabs the cop with the corn on the cob always makes me chuckle.

I remember somebody showing me that.  :teddyr: :lookingup: Pretty ridiculous stuff.

Loved the Troll 2 bit...

Some classic examples from NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980)

WARNING: NSFA (Not Safe For Anybody)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxM7IG6mdPM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIllJabols4&feature=related

I actually saw THE GOOD SON at a theater. The audience cheered and laughed when Macaulay Culkin bit it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EntEmR7vSa8

How about the innkeeper/villain in MOTEL HELL . . . talk about famous last words!

"I was the biggest hypocrite of all . . . I used . . . preservatives!"

That is the coolest line ever!

The opening death scene from Wrong Turn 2 made me laugh with its comic gruesomeness. I actually woke up my roommates and made them watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pwYR2LeSw

The rest of the movie was terrible.

NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMNiQdwKMFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg5Wi_Ygzk0

i looked for a while, but i couldn't find a clip of robert englund's classic death scene from the end of the mangler.

This goes down as one of the more memorable theater experiences in my life. I went to see "Sleepwalkers" on premiere night and everyone was excited, packed house. Stephen King movie..you know.  Then the akward scene with the mother and son making out.

Halfway through the film we realized it was clearly a b-movie. The audience started actually booing and hissing, some left. But something happened, people realized they could have fun watching this. So the next thing you know we were laughing and cheering at the worst moments.

One which included a climactic corn cob stabbing scene which had the audience on it's feet..lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91w3Nvq55-k

Karl's 911 call in "Slingblade" , the matter of fact way he politely tells the dispatcher that he's killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade always makes me laugh, the fact that by that point in the film Doyle so richly deserves what he gets is just icing on the cake.

At the start of Miami Blues, Alec Baldwin's character kills a Hare Krishan by breaking his finger  :teddyr:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmbFpNOZIc

This classic scene from Deadly Friend made me laugh hysterically...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW2pPlZF-M

That is one lethal pumpkin!!!!!!!!!!!!

here's a less jerky version of the Deadly Friend one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1DzGlBxmL0

Hey, thanks, thought the jerkiness was my computer acting up...

If you're referring to the Deadly Friend clip, actually, that's a BASKETBALL.

Is that funny, or what?

:teddyr:

Funniest Movie Death Scenes

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y3hvd0bFQ

Almost all of the death scenes in the original Toxic Avenger are pretty funny.  Except for the head-crushing scene early on...that's pretty sick.

I don't think there's ever been a death in a Final Destination movie that hasn't made me laugh..

The infamous head explosion in Scanners always cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA

While looking for that Scanners clip, I also found a cool montage of nothing but exploding head scenes from various movies. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axmJ5BQz_f0&NR=1

For me, the scene where all those people get killed in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon.  You know, horrible greenscreen effect where somehow the shark swallows a raft, a guy on a jet ski riding straight into the shark's mouth, and another guy jumps ship and fall straight into the shark's mouth.  It's not the funniest death scene, but I find it amusing and horribly bad at the same time.

I didn't find most of these death scenes funny, but found them extremely ridiculous.  The movie to which I refer to is Frogs.  Pretty much every scene where a person gets killed is stupid, funny, makes you spit out your food or water, or combonation of all three.  The one that sticks with me is where the woman gets killed by the snapping turtle.  I mean, come on!

In Raiders of teh Lost Ark, where the big guy gets into the airplane prop. That was pretty funny, as are most of the killings in Boondock Saints.

I thought it was hysterical in that scene in Bad Dreams where the doctor hits the guy with his car and yells, "Touchdown!"

Technically, it doesn't count as death since that turns out to be a hallucination. 

(Sadly, can't find a youtube video of it.)

There's a Vincent Price revenge movie. One of the people he takes revenge on is a food critic, if I recall correctly, who is killed by being force fed a meal made of his pet poodle.

Ah, here we go (I love YouTube's search engine): Theater of Blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFtw4PYZAeo

Wow, didn't realize there were that any exploding head scenes out there in movies.  And what's crazy, is I can only identify about half of those clips!  AHHH!

BTW, anyone know where 2:26 is from?  (Asian guy getting ready to take a picture, blond girl turns around, smiles, and then her head explodes.)

Heh, Rawhead Rexx kills kids...  :bouncegiggle:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LzZBcgcZDuA&feature=related

I laughed when the guy in Titanic pinged against the mast of the ship while it was sinking which I admit is rather horrible for me to do. 

Grizelda to the rescue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlPngvLUe7U

Best death scene ever.

wow... that was...awe inspiring

I'll have a list later, but first, I just want to ccorrect something. The actor there, who was British character actor Robert Morely, was not a food critic in the film, but a theater critic. The other theater critics in the film being played by British character actors: Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne (who later married Price), Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, and Dennis Price. Each one, except for one, being murdered by Price's character in the film. And each murder being based upon one of Shakespeare's plays. Morely's death being based on Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," where one of the female characters unknowingly eats her two sons, who have been baked into a pie. A good film and a favorite of most actors.

According to the creator, 2:26 is Jack Frost 2.  Funny, I must not have been paying attention to that part.

Daria Nicoladi's death in Phenomena is a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeHkKwwbi4

Said scene happens around 3:10...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_-sRQRPgss

I believe the movie was 'Return of the Street Fighter', and the main character (forget his name), was fighting these guys on a snowy mountain. Well, he somehow punches this guy in the back and his eyes pop out of his head. It looked so bad, but hey, it was the 70's.

I forgot about this scene.  As I was watching it, I thought to myself, "Self, I am agitating the horse for some reason.  Maybe I should just leave the horse alone and maybe walk the other direction.  Just something I would do.  But I am not some silly lady who played some weird tape with no label on it.   :bouncegiggle:  My two cents.

Later,

JOHN

I believe this is what you're speaking of. Awesome movie BTW!   :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQjepGauWM

WOW....that was insanely epic!!!!!!

I don't know if it is a death scence.It is the very last scene so I don't know if the character died from it.
What am I talking about?PIECES.
The college campus super stud reaches for his coat and suddenly a hand squeezes his yams so tight that they bleed.Cut to the guys face as he howls in pain.
I laughed my ass off.

Not a death per se but still funny to watch! I love the way he "slid" off the car after getting shot and Marshall Lucky's reaction was priceless.  (profanity warning)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHZWdFVyyQ

wow... what movie is that from?  That was hilarious!

The movie is Used Cars starring Kurt Russel , Jack Warden, an Edsel and a surprise guest star Al Lewis! :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698/

I laugh at Ewoks dying during the Return Of The Jedi. 

The final battle in the movie Stargate when the retarded kid gets blown away and all you see is his military helmet rolling down the ramp.
HA!   :bouncegiggle:

Bahahaha!  Oh, that scene used to scare the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.  I thought something like, "OH noes!  Monsters eat kids, too?" 

Of course, that death scene is a lot worse in the short story.  I don't think the kid puts up much of a fight there, because he somehow knows that resistance is futile. 

I love the "NOOOOO".
Every monster film has to have one  :teddyr:

Oh god, every death scene in the Transporter was hillarious, especially the scene where some bad dude goes sledding to his death down an overpass on a truck-door!

Or how about the scene in Psychomania when a gang member in speedos chains himself to a boulder and drowns himself in a lake!

As I said previously, here is my list of "Death Scenes That Made You Laugh." Two for me, and one for everybody else.

For me, the scene that--I think--was meant to be funny.

"Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter"
Kronos, seeing a man lieing in a field, goes to him, to see if he can help him. As he gets closer, he and we, see that the man has been ran over by a wagon. Kronos picks the man up to help him, and the man's arm falls off, where it has been severed by the wagon wheel. ROTFL! That is so wrong, but so right.

For me, the scene that--I am sure--was not meant to be funny.

"Siren of Bagdad"
While attacking the city gates, one of the attacking outlaws is shot off of his horse, by an arrow in the stomach. I don't know whether it was the way the man fell off his horse, or the sound he made, as he fell off, but ROTFL!

For everyone else

"Lair of the White Worm"
I've never found the scene funny, but I've been with groups of people watching the film, who have laughed throughout the death of the boy scout in the film.

Enjoy!

The death of the hitchhiker in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter always makes me chuckle.  It's just so random and she gets killed for no reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MffHDFXjiok

The whole story in Creepshow 2: The Hitchhiker is hillarious!

Thanks for the ride lady!
SPLAT
Thanks for the ride!
SMASH
Thanks for the ride lady!
ect......

The 2 old people that get killed in the slasher flick Hatchet always makes me laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_SWEpy0No

My last roommate and I were watching that movie, and we thought about Friday the 13th's death scenes as a whole.  We both noticed that most (not all, but most) of the characters died after having committed some sinful or socially unacceptable act.  We decided the roadside hippie's crime was gluttony.  Still a funny death scene, though.  I actually laughed at that as a kid. 

Hatchet...wow...

Nicholas Cage At The End Of VAMPIRE'S KISS

I haven't seen it but I've been told that the "Not the bees!" scene in the remake of The Wicker Man is pretty funny...

The first set of girls (Jungle Julia, Shanna, "Butterfly" and their dealer) in DEATH PROOF.  I nearly lost control of my bladder when the tire hit Butterfly's face. 

When William Forsythe Gets Shot In The Face With A Shotgun And His Head Explodes In The Movie HACK!

Shaolin Executioner - Freeze Frame death of cotton beard old guy flying off the temple steps for no reason at end of the film.
Revenge of the Ninja - opening scene...menacing ninjas just get shot off rooftops by renegade agent w/ a .38 special...totally laughable flailing deaths.
Bruce Lee Super Gang (still can't find original film name, stars bruce lei, bolo yeung) - guy's head gets stomped on....cut of guy jumping back to guy on ground....who's head is now a watermelon that gets splattered. Also awesome freezeframe death of bruce lei get his eyes gouged out, then a dummy goes hurtling off a cliff.
Shogun's Ninja - girl coming through trees on a vine/trapeze-type apparatus in slo motion....suddenly gets ripped apart out of nowhere by about 20 shots from enemy blackpowder handgunners...catches me off guard everytime I watch this film.
Street Fighter - Sonny Chiba tears off a dude's nuts...which kills him. First usage of that "x-ray death" vision that was so common in films such as Romeo Must Die when Sonny Chiba drop kicks a dude in a speeding car.

Last fight scene in Casino Royale: Guy gets it through the eye with a nail gun. I was watching this on the train and that one made me laugh out loud.

The "bowels in or bowels out" scene from "Hannibal" (and just about every other scene in that movie for that matter)  That was a great flick.

every death scene in the movie THE GORE GORE GIRLS is a laugh

Just thought of two more that are prime targets for the Darwin Awards.

In Hard Target, bad guy Lance Hendriksen, is trying to diffuse a grenade by screwing off the top.  When he does he laughs, but the the cap (plunger, detonator, whatever its called) sparks.  It's close enough to the body of the grenade that it ignites it, causing it to explode.  Lance even lets out a "Whoops" just before getting blowing up.  He would have been spared had he moved his had a few extra inches to one side

The other is in The Black Scorpion (an under-rated classic, even among bad movies).  The Mexican general is trying to spear the giant scorpion.  The harpoon is attached to a generator designed to deliver a massive amount of electricity-in hopes of killing the monster.  They miss with the first shot, so the general PICKS UP the still active spear.  Naturally, he gets electrocuted.  Dead, because his mishandled a weapon designed to kill a 150 ft prehistoic arachnid.

Did anyone mention the magic trick/pencil scene from The Dark Knight?

The death of that one random girl from Troll II.
She turns into what looks like a left-over prop from Can Of Worms.

"They're eating her! Then they're going to eat ME!"

"Oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!"

It was so stupid! I had to laugh!  :bouncegiggle:

No and on that scene, I thought it was more awesome then funny.  Now if we are talking about funny, how about all the death scene at the beginning from Hobogoblins?  That was good.

In the movie CHOPPING MALL when the robot shoots the girl in the head with a laser and her head explodes

Don't think it's been mentioned but the scene in Pulp Fiction when they hit a bump in the car and accidentally blow the dudes head away. That still makes me laugh.  :smile: