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So I'm sitting here reading the first chapter in my Intro to Accounting textbook when this commercial comes on the TV:

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


The first thing I thought when I saw it was: Murder weapon!
It could get the job done, but it'd be messy as hell.

What other unusual items have been used as murder weapons in movies?
Can you think of anything in your house that could be used?

Unusual? OK ...

I don't remember the movie, but I think blood (a blood wave out of someones mouth). No joke. I can't remember the movie though. I think it was a movie ... hmm.

Just like Godzilla spits radioactive fire, the zombie was spitting radioactive blood, long waves of it too.

Edit - sorry about that. no movie, that was from a METAL SLUG game. lol ... wow ...

I do however like the bed crunch scene. when Jason snaps the bed with the guy still on it. lol

Paper clip in Student Bodies.  Yeah, that was pretty unusual.

A dick in scary movie 2 :buggedout:

A vagina in Lady Terminator.

There was an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series where a woman bludgeoned her husband with a frozen leg of lamb.

I think it was Slumber Party Massacre 3, a guy gets impaled with a "For Sale" sign in front of a house.  Then the killer drags the guy through the yard, the sign is of course upright.  Good for a chuckle.

and Clockwork Orange (well the giant porcelain phallus...)

Chesty Morgan's breasts in Double Agent 73 (I haven't seen it, only a few clips, honest)

Drinks vending machine in Maximum Overdrive (although apparently drinks vending machines kill people every year IRL - presumably by toppling over, and not in the same way as in this film)

Well, there's the whole "Dr Phibes" thins, from Locusts, to statues, to bats, rats, snowcone makers, a mask, acid, and a few other things I just can't remember right now.

In 'Johnny Dangerously', Danny DeVito gets killed by a beer commercial, so to speak.

The football/sword in Graduation Day. Also, the beheading by basketaball in Deadly Friend.

I saw a movie called One-Eyed Monster where Ron Jeremy's penis was the killer and murder weapon at the same time.

Fun topic... :)


Savage Weekend (1979) ~ Death by a Hat Pin.

Mother's Day (1980) ~ Death by a Booby Pillow.

Burt Reynolds  [Malone 1987] ~ he can kill a man with a credit card [which is likely when credit cards were made of steel and you could open a locked door.] Although the idea that Burt Reynolds is a master assassin that could use any object as a deadly weapon is funny.

.The giant growing strangling peter in SOUL VENGENCE (see Andrews review!)
.In FRANKENSTEIN 1980 the Monster beats a chick with a bone in a meat locker.
.An Invisable ape(!!!) screws a girl to death in DR.ORLOFF AND THE INVISABLE MAN.
.KILLING SPREE-A guy gets decapped by a ceiling fan with machetes attached to the fan blades
.In HENREY-PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER-Henry stabs some slob with an ink pen and smashes a TV set over his head-then plugs it in!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6poEUcqaU

Circular saw blades (minus the saw) in Commando.

A carousel horse (maybe unicorn) and a poodle casserole in Theater of Blood.

Defibrillators in Dr. Giggles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cgVaZvlo3I

Boat Motor in Zombie Holocaust (or Dr Butcher MD)

Yeah, that's A Lamb to Slaughter based on a Roald Dahl story. A classic!


And then there's Death by Jean Hill's Ass in John Waters' DESPERATE LIVING:

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

And almost as good Liz Renay as the infamous 'Dog Fod Murderess' in the same movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMQbTt469Q

There is a scene where the lead singer of a rock band is killed by a weed whacker in Hard Rock Zombies that made totally no sense at all. I could see it killing him if the thing had a saw blade in the head but not that hard plastic line those things use.

Death by corn on the cob in Sleepwalkers.

Death by escalator in Terror Firmer.

Hey, I saw that one!  That's based on a short story called, "Lamb to the Slaughter".  What's crazy is after she kills her husband, she shoves the leg of lap into the oven and starts cooking it, goes off shopping, comes back, calls the police saying the house was broken into, then she offers them the lamb saying her husband wouldn't want it to go to waste.

Come to think of it, that would be an interesting idea... I wonder if someone killed someone with a frozen piece of meat, and then threw it away somewhere, and the police couldn't find it (because it gotten rotten) if they'd be able to convict said person without a murder weapon. 

Rev Powell, want to chime in on that?  :)

Shoot 'Em Up, death by carrot stick.

I believe in Die Hard 2 Bruce Willis kills someone with a large icicle. 

Come to think of it, that would also be an good murder weapon... I mean, stab someone with a large icicle, and then it would melt, evidence gone.

Damn, I'm morbid.

I once had a 5-minute mystery book with that very thing happening >.>

Anyhow, I don't think it has been done yet, but an egg beater would be fun, creative to see off someone... On the topic of something that's been done, I've seen screenshots of Ghoulies 3 in which a plunger is used to kill a chick in the shower (So it seems), yes, using it in the "plunger" way, not as a boring bludgeon or anything XD

Forgot one in my earler post: Man-eating elevator in The Lift.

The buzz saw yo-yo in Octop***y

The spitball creatures in Buckaroo Bonzai
Similarly, the disembodied, decomposed hand that Susan Swift vomits onto victims  in Burned at the Stake
Similarly, the projectile vomit method in Ninja Wars

Funny... In Columbo (one of the epsodes) a man was in a swimming pool and got bludgeoned by a block of ice, the weapon melted away. :)

The murder weapon's just another piece of evidence, there's nothing magical about it that says you have to let a killer go free if you can't retrieve it.  I'd cancel my trip to the butcher if I were you.  :wink:

As far as weird weapons, I thought of Cappy's death in TROMEO AND JULIET where he's attacked by a series of beauty appliances (hairdryer, curling iron, etc.) before finally biting it via computer monitor.

(http://www.badmovies.org/movies/tromeo/tromeo7.jpg)

Oh crap, missed your post initially, but that very thing was also used in 2004's Scarecrow XD . In the same film, a stick and I'm pretty sure some straw is used to kill someone XD

I've had several knuckleheads work for me that swear they are wrongfully imprisoned because a conviction can not happen if the body can't be found. What an ignorant way of logic that seems to be to me.

Well, that at least sounds semi-reasonable.  I mean, they're thinking, "Can't find a body, can't prove there was a murder!  She might be on tour in Europe or something..." 

Course, then they just have to explain away the several pints of the missing person's blood and DNA the police found all over the apartment, in the car, and other such evidence.

Speaking of unusual weapons, here's a REAL one I heard about from a book on forensics  (I think it was called What the Corpse Revealed or something like that, but I'm not sure.)  In this particular case a man was found dead with an injury that seemed like a bullet wound, but they could NOT find a slug in him.  Finally, they did some testing and found animal fat and bits of traces of bone inside the guy.  Turns out the murderer (a female if I recall correctly) had used a bullet that, instead of a metal tip, she put in a shard of animal bone sounded by animal fat.  The evidence was partial dissolved in the body by acid (not sure on the details, but thinking she shot the guy in the stomach), so at first glance, it appeared he to have no projectile inside him.

They also had a bit of a side note on this about ice bullets, something that Harry Houdini spent some time trying to create and, if one could get them to work, how effective of a weapon they could be.  (Course, the big is how do you keep them frozen before you want to use them.

I just love forensics stuff!

Death by Pencil (The Dark Knight).  It still gets me!

Death by Tanning Bed (Final Destination 3).  Heck with it, pretty much all the death scenes in that film series! 

Yea, but the idea that one should get a total walk just because they're good at disposing of a body is just retarded. 

Well, along those lines, If you traveled to a city you have no history in, pick a person at random, murder them, clean the obvious evidence, haul the body to another state and dispose of it in a fashion that would eliminate locating it, I think you'd have a good chance of getting away with it.  Maybe.

I don't know whether it's possible, the mention of the ice bullet, reminded me of that other classic mystery murder weapon made out of ice: the icicle. Supposedly, you stab someone to death with it, and then when it melts, there's no trace of a weapon.

Of course you would.  Keep this in mind: the majority of murders are never solved.

Right, but that's not what I was speaking of, but rather the opposite: Even with a preponderance of evidence, many feel there should never be a conviction without a body.

Death by cup of tea in Chronicles of Riddick is another good one.

(http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/gallery/8/2008/01/medium_2214523328_6ec71e4819_o.jpg)

Death by Heat Seaking Bullet


(http://www.planetvideo.com.au/blog/2008/11/08/GeneRunaway21984.jpg)

Death by Toy Robots (ok not really... but they dont look strong enought to actually put a man down)



Both images are from Runaway (1984)

A flare gun was used to kill someone in Final Justice if I remember correctly.

How has no one mentioned the drill guitar from Slumber Party Massacre 2?  Seriously, who would ever need a drill guitar in their daily lives?  Having a 40 minute jam session while your tunneling through solid rock just doesn't seem smart...

Famke Jansen's thighs in GoldenEye

And the eggplant.  And the Glad bags.  And the eraser.  And the prom queen crown.  And the sports trophy.  And the horsehead bookends.  Did I miss anything?

The flying CO2 canister beheading the guy in Street Trash.
A sheet of plexiglass in a rolling car chopping off David Warner's head in The Omen.
The death-by-pogo stick in Leprechaun 1 or 2, can't remember which.
Death by road flare and tourniquet in Friday The 13th Part V.
Death by party favor in F13 Part VII.

Spurs in Near Dark.

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975): That’s pretty unusual.

Monty Python’s And Now for Something Completely Different: The bit about the worlds funniest joke. The writer of the joke, after writing it, reads it and immediately dies laughing.  His mother comes in, reads it, thinking it’s a suicide note, and dies laughing.  The English army translates the joke in to German so that English soldiers who don’t know German can yell the joke out loud and the enemy can understand it.  Results in mass German casualties.  This was absolute genius comedy.

Oh man..  Time to name some silly kung fu weapons.

One character slips on a roller skate and lands face first on his own weapon in We Are Going To Eat You.  So, the roller skate.  Yeah.

I remember someone getting killed with a metal pinwheel in several kung fu films.

A guy gets killed by a sword that shoots poison gas bullets in Return of the One-Armed Swordsman. 

Failed, but a baddie tries to kill Ricky in the Story of Ricky with his own intestines!

In the remake of Dragon Gate Inn, someone's hand gets skeletonized and he STABS someone with it. 

In La Blue Girl, the girl shoots pubic hairs that kill people.

Sammo Hung alters a giant tropical leaf into a missile shooting weapon in Eastern Condors.

In Fudoh: The Next Generation a girl shoots a dart out of a tube to kill people.

What's unusual about that, you ask?

Well, she doesn't use her MOUTH to blow the dart out.

I'll let you think on that for a bit until it sinks in.

An IV tube cut, sticking out of the arm, and bleeding all over the floor, in Halloween II.  Also the scalding hot jacuzzi.
Decompression chamber in License To Kill and Men Behind The Sun.  Both deaths were rather messy.
Wooden splinter in Zombie.
Coat hanger in Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, used to pull the victim's brain out!

I don't remember exactly what film it was, but someone was kicked to death by someone else who was wearing ice skates.  Damn, now I want to go find out what that movie was...

I don't know if I've seen that one but that reminds me of Michael Meyers buring an ice skate in a kid's face in Halloween H20.

There was an episode of Case Closed in which a man is found stabbed to death with a knife in his back. They have several suspects, but all have alibies. Halfway through the investigation, someone notices that there are wet spots around the body, and the thermostat was turned way up. Turns out the victim faked his own murder. He froze the knife handle in a block of ice, then jumped backward onto the blade. The ice brick shattered, and with his last ounce of strength, turned himself over onto his back. The ice melted before the body was found.

Death by garage door in Scream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rk4nfYq87w

Whaaa???  Er.. why did he do that?  Was he planning on committing suicide and figured, "Hey, I'll frame someone for my murder while I'm at it!" or something?

Exactly. The body was found in the apartment of a woman that he (the "victim") was obcessed with. She was a pop star, and after supposedly being rejected by her, he decides to kill two birds with one stone - end his misery and drag her career down with him.

This is the end of the episode (keep in mind that, in Japan, this is actually a kid's show).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8diqJIzKGY

I don't think that was it.  It was more of a kick at the persons stomach.  I don't even remember that scene from Halloween H20.  I'll Youtube it.   :wink:

I remember that episode.  It was pretty good.

Since you mention Case Closed, one of the most interesting deaths is where a woman uses panio wire and a rollar coaster.  It was rather messy.

no one mentioned the sleepaway camp trilogy so i will :D

sleepaway camp 1: curling iron in the vagina + pillow suffocation

man shoved into a boiling pot of water

sleepaway camp 2: girl drowned in an outhouse, yep death by s**t so to say lol.

Death by BBQ pit, not sure if thats unusual but it was different


i cant remember anymore from that series, the 3rd movie in the series wasnt that good on unusual deaths, cept the woman who basicly wanted cocaine but instead got some chemicals or something given to her and snorted them and died.

Jumper cables & a car aerial in "Silent Night, Deadly Night 2"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xh7junyB2o

"Punish!"  :bouncegiggle:

Chandelier in Evilspeak.
The barrel of a shotgun in Halloween 4 (or maybe 5?).
Corkscrew in Halloween H20.
Baseball bat down the throat (!) in Identity.
Strangling by wheelchair in House Of Psychotic Women/Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll.
Beartrap on the head in Don't Go In The Woods and Straw Dogs.
Fist down the throat (well, justified murder, as it was done by the heroine) in Just Before Dawn.

A pair of inflatable boobs from Mother's Day.

A car dipstick in Decampitated.

Yeah, the boob thingys was the weirdest murder weapon I've seen.

Grain (used to drown a victim in a silo) in Dark Night of the Scarecrow.
Your own head (Lionel unwillingly head butts a zombie and shatters its skull) in Dead Alive/Brain Dead.

That was pretty cool. Actually, it was the pilot episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMv5Y5Jl9o&feature=PlayList&p=905895E745EED1D2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1