A list of my worst movie deaths… the ones that still haunt me:
Volcano (1997): A rescue worker carrying an injured man on his shoulders leaps from a subway train into lava so he can toss the injured man to safety and then slowly melts to death in front of his friends.
Jack Reacher (2012): A low level bad guy has failed the big boss. The big boss explains that he survived a Siberian labor camp by chewing off his frostbitten fingers to avoid gangrene. If the low level bad guy can do the same, he gets to live. He tries but can’t. He is immediately killed.
Admittedly, I have not watched the gruesome horror movies of the last decade or two, so there are certainly horrific death scenes that I have thankfully not witnessed.
When it comes to television, there are also two:
The brutal murder of Abraham and Glen at the hands of Negan (and Lucille) in The Walking Dead:
I loved the show, but those deaths were so disturbing and haunted me for so long that I stopped watching the show and have yet to go back.
The death of Viserys Targaryen at the hands of Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones.
Though he certainly deserved to die, the means of death – molten gold poured over his head – was horrific. The image remained with me for weeks, and it still haunts me from time to time.
