31 Days of Halloween: Death of the Day

[BrandonDaCollector]

I love Army of Darkness, it's one of the best ever and one of the last classic horror & classic comedy films. Sam Raimi is a huge Three Stooges fan hence why AOD was fill with TTS jokes & gags. My Grandpa loved Bruce Campbell and he's always been a name that is mentioned in the household. That scene you provided PB is from the special edition/extended cut. If you see the film again make sure you see that one, it has so many additional parts in it and it's nearly a perfect one. In fact that clip had a few minutes of deleted scenes that was not seen in the original version To coincide with it here's how you kill a witch in AOD's great scene

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See, this is why Pogo Balls caught on for a bit. You can't kill someone with a Pogo Ball unless it was from jumping too high. Look at this kid, I could barely get three inches off the ground when I was a wee lad.



Or off a cliff because you're Pogo Ball was made by ACME.



Sadly, Joe didn't have a Pogo Ball in his room. This poor schlub had it bad enough and then he got killed by a Leprechaun on a pogostick. I was always worried I'd slip and bust my jaw on the handlebar not get my chest cavity pogo'd in. Yeeshe.



Imagine your afterlife. That guy over there got cut in half by Jason. Michael Myers smooshed that guys face in. But poor poor Joe got done in by a wee little Irish cobbler and a kids toy.



Rod Stewart was right, some guys have all the luck.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Leprechaun was really good, Warwick Davis really changed around from being Wicket to Willow to him

Ash from Evil Dead 1

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Ah, 1980 was a simpler time. You didn't have to murder someone extravagantly. The ante wasn't yet raised to ad infinitum since the slasher flicks were still in their infancy. There was no Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, just a smoke, a bed, and an arrowhead, and poetry was written.



Heck, it wasn't even Jason who cut the Bacon.



So here's to you, Jack Burrell, as we honor you as today's Death of the Day, and just in time for that specialist of weekdays.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yep, that was his first major film and look what yet look where he's been and now

So here's this great scene of the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th when Jason finds his new mask

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Killin' in the camp site
Killin' in the diner
Gotta make my mind up
Which film can I pick?



It's Friday, Friday
Gotta pick a death from Friday
Jason's lookin' forward to the thirteenth, thirteenth
Friday, Friday
Killin' teens on Friday
Jason's lookin' forward to the thirteenth



Of course today's Death of the Day has to be from Friday the 13th, but with so many movies, and so much carnage, which one do I pick?



Well, here's to you, Adrienne Kart! Just when you thought they'd done everything you possibly could with a homicidal hockey mask wearing psycho and a camp ground someone somewhere had the brilliant idea of let's launch Jason into space and we'll give him a superpower upgrade!



Poor Adrienne didn't even get to break the promiscous rule before her death. Nope, she was just minding her own business doing space autopsy while her shipmates were off boinking and woke Jason up from his Major Tom nap.

"For here am I floating in my hockey mask. Far above the camp. Teenagers are in space and I have to stab their face. "



"Tell my mom I love her very much, she knows!"



Anyway, so Jason wakes up and finds himself all alone with a pretty young girl so he does what all hockey wearing masked maniacs do. Boys will be boys. But suddenly he's Mister Wizard too, because in space there are no limitations, so Jason gives her the cold shoulder, or cold head, or a head cold (hey, they can't all be great puns).





Oops, that's from the wrong horror movie. But now we just need the prequel to see how Jason got launched into space. That's a story just waiting to be told.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Patsy Cline

How about that...Erick Avari...he was good I love that gif, Jason & and Kevin

From 2010's Legion

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That was a real belly buster!

Speaking of belly busters, let's make today's Death of the Day...the iconic...Kane!



No, not him. I'm talking about when Rolaids just aren't enough. Plop plop fizz fizz.



In space no one can hear you scream but indigestion is another story. Xenomorphs are kind of like Sour Patch Kids, first they give you a hug.



And then they bust through your chest cavity. See? Kind of the same thing.



Hey, but at least you get dinner and a show!

[BrandonDaCollector]

Oh boy, you sparked an early one here, I wasn't going to do Alien & Predator till closer to Halloween because you know how much I love them and talk about them. OK, well it's good seeing somebody else do something I really like That was pretty good what you did with Kane and the scene from Spaceballs I was a wee youngster when My Grandpa first introduced Me to the Alien & Aliens films, I first saw Alien and it didn't scare Me, I loved it...in fact I was more afraid of the Dark Lord of the Universe in Howard the Duck for some reason and it still really boggles My mind like I've said before When I saw Spaceballs after it I totally got that scene I recall My Grandma was squeamish about the chest busters and the Xenomorphs themselves, I had to talk to her about how cool it was, later on she gave in to Me and watched them with Me & My Grandpa So this brings Me to Alien's counterpart...Predator Thanks to Dark Horse Comics in 1990 these are now inseparable and ever since are in the same universe. With that being said, when I first saw Predator I knew Arnold & Jesse "The Body" Ventura already, they were two of My heroes. As I said before, I knew Arnold as Conan from the Conan films and Matrix from Commando and I knew Jesse because of the WWF. Also I knew Carl Weathers, he was Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies which I really liked too as I have also pointed out previously, Now in My youngster mind these are big tough good guys and you don't think of anything bad happening to them. Well Predator changed that for Me mentally and it made Me think of about other types of aliens other than the Xenomorphs, the ones in Star Wars & E.T., Close Encounters and Star Trek. It showed Me no matter how big, bad and muscular you are, your really no match for a humanoid alien specie that's twice as big as you and is way more intelligent. Now all of the Predator films are filled with deaths however in the first Predator there are two scenes that I have always found horrible even though I have seen the film dozens of times over the decades, I still find them really bad visually and I mean that in a good way however.

First, here is Jesse's Blaine with his MTV Shirt, he get's ambushed and shot in the neck then get's his big torso shot clean through. When I first saw this way back then I was like Jesse's dead, that alien killed him I watch this now and I see Ventura did a good job here. It is totally awesome when you see The Predator's eyes light up meaning his power and it's kinda funny when his friend Mac used old painless and shoots up the jungle and the rest of the squad shoots with him even though they have no clue what he's shooting at nor why wasting all of that ammo



Now this is THE one, I absolutely hate this. After Carl Weather's Dillon discovers Mac is dead, he realizes that the creature is behind him...when he shoots I like but dread Weather's reaction when he loses his right muscular arm when the Predator blasted it off. When I see muscular men, I never dream of that but this film makes it so



I look to rejuvenate My Alien & Predator topic, I just haven't had the time or urge to do so yet but when I update it you'll know I'm in that mode now

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I was always stuck when Appolo Creed lost his arm. Some deaths like that are memorable. Some make you cringe because of how gruesome they are. And som...well...some...are...just plain...corny?



Not since Attack of the Killer Tomatoes had produce produced such carnage. My experience with most things Stephen King, movies, books, are the endings usually suck. Hey, I get it, it's not always easy to stick the landing. 1992's Sleepwalkers was the first Stephen King film not based on one of his books, but from a screenplay of his where he was obviously strung out on coke--vampires that feed on virgins almost done in by a cat scratch? I guess they can't all be The Shining.



I mean, this poor officer's death makes that security guards untimely demise in Killer Klowns from Outerspace look like Hamlet.



So here's to you, Office Horace, in a film full of vampires you weren't done in by a steak, but by a cob. It's a shame peas weren't on the menu instead.



To make matters even worse, you aren't even the best Horace in a horror movie.



The real kernel of truth is If only that family had eaten all their vegetables, you'd still be with us today.