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A Top 10 of Amusing Movie Deaths
🕑 Added 2025-10-22 11:30:26 +0000 UTC"Dying is an art, like everything else." (Silvia Plath, Lady Lazarus)
"NO... NOT THE BEES... AAARGH!" (Nicolas Cage, The Wicker Man.)
**Apologies for describing The Field as British. Although technically a co-production, it really is more Irish.
Just a short listicle on a few amusing movie deaths. I know these short Top 10s are kind of frothy, but they're only meant as a bit of mindless fun.
This has been tricky to edit satisfactorily - I've realised many of the best deaths are gory (which YouTube hates) and long (which copyright owners hate). There is a family friendlier version, but as a Patreon cut it still includes a gory-ish additional entry that I can’t do much to censor. So if blood is your bête noire it might be worth going with the YouTube cut here.
I’m currently editing a more substantial video on the best worst martial arts movies, which is a subject I've wanted to tackle ever since I started this channel, so that will be next. (I'm also going to do a kind of behind-the-scenes video on the process of making a Borrowing Blockbusters for Patreon. It won't be like the usual stuff; no clips and no written script. I just thought it might be interesting to share, and as it's so simple it won't slow down the upcoming proper videos.)
Thank you as always!
Comments
Nick Thornley
A making of for your BB series sounds fantastic! Thanks Rob.
Kevin Greer
I love this - it made me take the Patreon plunge! Also how many of these cheapy deaths look like incredibly funny Monty Python sketches. Especially the fellow who blew up in the background of the ninja movie, by mind power.
wise wolf
Yeah this is a solid, social media friendly concept. More of these Top 10's for sure. One thing, that's your kid doing the countdown isn't it?
The Thinking Cat...Former Cthulhu Pofit Neo Normie and Masked fat guy but now a Cat ??
Actually you could include the many bizarre deaths of Anthony Zerbi as I'm a fan but if you consider the Omega Man, Licence to Kill and Star Trek inserraction alone it's like just ooph you see him on screen and think hope it's not another Milton Kriest death I think the only major role after star trek where he didn't die was the matrix reloaded
Darren Wood
Great stuff. How about an awkward/inappropriate love interest in vanity projects top 10 next.
Danny Ménard
Loved it. Been remixing that blood debt ending with so many movies I watched I can't count.
Nils Muninsheim
I just see the picture of Jimmy Williams in the thumbnail and my ears start ringing with 'TOOOOOOOONY!'.
Nicklas Thoft Jensen
Another glorious slowmotion death is provided by legendary character actor Christopher George, who as head villain Venarius in “Enter The Ninja” delivers quite the drawn out death spasm, when hit with a rather large ninja star.
ZeroZero Hero
Thats Mr. Bean!!!
Rob Hill
Mine too.
Rob Hill
I never know how much to get into a movie in videos like this. To be honest I don't really like just skipping over movies quickly, but I desperately wanted to avoid this video growing arms and legs!
Rob Hill
I squeezed that in right at the start. One of my favourites.
James Interactive
My suggestion. The little person having his eyeballs explode out of his head because of forgetting to put in his holy ear-plugs to prevent werewolf magic in Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUrZnua3qIY
Si
Yes, a series please Rob!
candidgamera
Prophecy (1979) has a great one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Sr_VBZNKo
The Thinking Cat...Former Cthulhu Pofit Neo Normie and Masked fat guy but now a Cat ??
Actually the most amazing death is actually in Animation Jaggy the pretender is killed by Ken Shiro in a fountain of blood gisering out the top of his head that was like a Scanner super cut it's far more impressive death of an utterly obnoxious guy and much more impressive then Chris Penn's Live action version.
Roger H.
I vote yes, more silly deaths, please!
Teddy2tuff
That "Deadly Friend" clip made me laugh out loud, I'm not sure what that says about me...
Timothy Liebe
Yes, I'd love to see more episodes like this, Rob! Only I'd also like a bit of context for why this ridiculous scenes are happening that way if known....
Timothy Liebe
Not quite as memorable as Leo Fong punching a guy's head so hard it turns into cake in LOW BLOW (Red Letter Media shows this scene at https://youtu.be/JPfamikeU3E?t=2501 )—but pretty good nonetheless.
Timothy Liebe
Rob could've done an entire list of just Sean Bean Death Scenes. As soon as I saw he was leading off with Sean Bean, you knew the Trope Was Strong....
Ned Raggett
A perfect fillip of life failures. As it were.
DocLantern85
Great video! The 2b one really caught me off guard, but the Deadly Friend death scene was quite a pallet cleanser. I also wonder if 10 was Sean Bean's first death scene in a movie or show. But my favorite one is Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
M Robert
well done rob. excellent writing and timing.
Matthew
We just can't get enough of Sean Bean dying in movies, apparently. He made it all the way through the Napoleonic wars with barely a scratch, but cows, game over man, game over...
Matthew
Oh happy day! I just managed to find a copy of the Bad Movie Bible for slightly less than the Bolivian national debt.
KnightmareAlpha
Considering overly long and drawn out death scenes, there is that one from Lethal Games, were a guy get shot over and over with a shotgun while practically "dancing" in slowmo over what sounds like the looping struggle of of a underpaid 80s composer torturing his Casio. Probably made it sound more interesting than it is, but here you go.
THE HAPPENING HOT DOG MAN
Every so often I find myself saying "Naughty this!" during conversation
Eli Harold
I have "Garbage Day!" set as my 6pm Thursday reminder to take my bin to the street and it never gets old.
Allan Hutton
So…..Bolo Yeung’s head…is a bowling/cannon ball…..that only looks like that after he’s been kicked to the ground….but is also a watermelon…..a black watermelon……a bald watermelon with no facial features…..but it’s definitely his head. Did I get that right?
Ricardo P-Man
Shocked to see Rekha bend her own wife in 2(b)
Matthew
Glorious stuff, thank you. Executed by slow-motion close-ups is how I always wanted to go.
THE HAPPENING HOT DOG MAN
Delighted to see Sean Bean's bovine denouement in there
Petteri Liimatainen
What an excellent snack, while we're waiting for the next main attraction. Martial arts films are my favorite way to consume trash films, by a considerable margin.
