The 10 Best Head Wounds in Movie History
Posted by Danny Gallagher (danny@filmschoolrejects.com) on May 31, 2007
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A long time ago, movies weren’t allowed to have any violence, not even blood. Some monster would drag its hapless victims off screen and your mind would have to fill in the bloody blanks. These days, we have “Hostel,†the director’s cut. Enough said.
Head injuries will always get a wince out of your audience because it’s the most visceral injury a human being can watch. Even though they aren’t real, they will always feel the pain. Who knows the psychological causes or the weird, subliminal connections behind them? It’s probably because we all have the same thought when we see a mob goon getting his head bashed in or a zombie’s head being blown apart six ways from Sunday with a double barrel boomstick - “Phew, sucks to be that guy.†So whip out the Band Aids and wear an extra thick helmet because here are the movies’ 10 best cranium crackers…
10. “Dead Alive†(1992), Death by Puree
Before he started making epic, CGI enhanced films that cost more and lasted longer than the national deficit, Peter Jackson was hosing his cast down with Karo syrup with violent splatter comedies like “Bad Taste,†“Meet the Feebles†and “Dead Alive.†During the film’s climatic scene when our hero Lionel (Timothy Balme) gets into a scuffle with the zombies with his trusty lawnmower, half of a head gets kicked around in the ensuing onslaught and then into an industrial strength blender where it gets totally gooified. Man, am I the only one who’s craving a smoothie right now?
9. “Hot Fuzz†(2007), Splat the Rat
There’s a very strange irony to the fact that director Edgar Wright’s British cop shoot’em up “Hot Fuzz†is twice as violent as his British zombie rom-com “Shaun of the Dead.†But when it comes to Wright’s work, the best moments are the ones you never see coming. The death of newspaper reporter Tim Messenger (Adam Buxton) is one of those moments. Just before he’s about to spill the town’s secret to Sgt. Nick Angel (Simon Pegg), a shadowy figure drops a part of the town church on his head. It completely destroys his head making it looked like the church steeple is wearing Messenger as a turtleneck sweater.
8. “jackass: the movie†(2002), Hit Me Baby One More Time
Depending on what kind of movie snob who are and how much alcohol you’ve consumed, “jackass: the movie†can either be a multimillion dollar snuff film or one of the funniest things you’ve ever seen. For me, it’s the latter and I’m stone sober. But a reenactment of the TV show’s famous “Department Store Boxing†stunt with Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine replaced with super, super heavyweight boxer Butterbean was one of the most cringe inducing head injuries ever. Knoxville goes down faster than a boxer taking a dive, hits his head on the corner of a display counter and suffers a deep concussion. Then in true “jackass†style, the camera lets us watch the doctor put the stitches in Knoxville’s scalp.
7. “Goodfellas†(1990), Tommy Gets Made in the Face
When it comes to gratuitous mob violence, director Martin Scorsese wrote the book, inked in blood and bound in bruises. Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), Jimmy Conway (Robert DeNiro) and Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) think Tommy’s about to get made, but it quickly becomes the set up for a hit. Tommy gets shot in the back of his head creating an exit wound on his face that goes by so quick, you don’t have a second to look away. There’s probably a hundred gorier moments we could include on this list from Scorsese’s resume, but Tommy’s death goes above the rest because it made everyone in the theater jump like their butt checks were made of bedsprings.
6. “Grindhouse†(2007), Zombieheaded
More people may have seen a solar eclipse with their bare eyes than Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s drive-in tribute “Grindhouse,†but those who didn’t missed out on some of the best grindhouse cinema violence since, well, the days of the grindhouse cinema. Towards the end of Rodriguez’s zombie holocaust “Planet Terror,†a zombie jumps out of nowhere after the survivors make their escape to the coast and Cherry Darling (Rose McGowen) whips out her new and improved chain gun leg and blows the bejesus out of the zombie’s head into more pieces than the crumbs at the bottom of a Lay’s Potato Chip bag.
5. “Hostel†(2005), The Kindest Cut of All
The story may have been ludicrous and an excuse to push the gore envelope harder than any other movie in recent memory, but no other movie in recent memory made us want to look away from the screen more than director Eli Roth’s bodily fluid bath, which is about to get the sequel treatment this summer. It dared you not to look away especially during the film’s close to climatic moment when Paxton (Jay Hernandez) tries to save a poor Japanese girl who gets blow torched in the face and then ease her pain by cutting off her dangling eyeball. Be thankful you can look away.
4. “Raiders of the Lost Ark†(1981), The Incredible Melting Men
There wasn’t a lot of blood throughout Steven Spielberg’s triumphant beginning to the Indiana Jones legacy but the climatic scene at the end of the movie when the Ark of the Covenant is finally opened made up for lost time in sheer liquid volume. The evil spirits in the ark literally wipes out all of Indy’s enemies in one divine swoop causing their heads to melt and the evil Belloq’s (Paul Freeman) head to explode silencing his piercing screams. “South Park†did a brilliant parody of the movie to protest Hollywood’s short lived tendency to digital manipulate the classics, which Matt Stone and Trey Parker said is rumored to have stopped a similar remake of “Raiders,†according to a DVD commentary. I guess Spielberg didn’t want to risk having his face melted off.
3. “Scanners†(1981), Bald Headed Blow Up
Go to Google, type in the phrase “head explosion†and hit the search button and you’ll find a hundred hits to a video of a poor bald guy’s big head bloodily blowing up in slow motion. It’s from director David Cronenberg’s sci-fi masterpiece “Scanners.†This five second piece of film footage is so well know that it’s overshadowed the whole movie after it became a historic piece of viral violence on the Internet. It’s a shame because both are hard not to watch the whole way through.
2. “Dawn of the Dead†(1978), Helicopitation
George Romero’s zombies set the standard for modern horror, satire and violence in just about every modern movie. “Dawn of the Dead†is so iconic and loved that even some of the zombie’s deaths have made them stars and no one is more is more famous than the “helicopter zombie.†Roger (Scott Reiniger) tries to refuel the helicopter when a zombie goes after him. The zombie stands up on some boxes and gets his undead head knocked clean off by the rotating helicopter blade. Man, just think, where we would be without the “Dead†trilogy? Well, we’d probably be better sleepers, more sensitive to violence and less critical about society at large. God bless George Romero.
1. The Three Stooges’ Columbia Movie Shorts (1934-1957), “Pick two…â€
When it came to gratuitous skull smashing and cranium cracking, I tried to find a singular moment in the Stooges’ career that stood out. But when it comes right down to it, nothing can top their trademark double finger eye poke. Shemp (Shemp Howard) is rumored to have created the Stooges’ most famous move during a poker game when he accused Larry of cheating and went after him with both fingers blazing. It’s not only been in almost every Stooges short since the beginning of time, but it’s been copied relentlessly, the most famous and best duplicated of the group being Ash’s duel with an army of undead arms in “Army of Darkness.†It’s so well known that everyone even knows how to defend themselves from it. If you don’t, then wear sunglasses where ever you go.
Think you’ve got a beat on the best Head Wounds of All Time? Drop them in the comment box below…
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June 1st, 2007 at 1:47 am
An honorable mention needs to be made for JOHN RAMBO - the trailer. When that Machine Gun manned by our man John goes off point blank in the driver’s face, it sprays blood and brains everywhere in a wonderful show of red.
Also, Eli Roth is over-rated and Hostel was boring. And while I love KNB Effects, I thought the eye cutting scene looked pretty fake. That’s just me though.
June 1st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Lunch is out of the question now. Gag a maggot, this was a sick read but very well done. But my head hurts.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
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June 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am
Don’t forget the “head disintegrated by cannon ball” moment at the beginning of Glory, or the caved-in head near the start of Saving Private Ryan. Oh, and who can forget the “smash in guy’s face with wine bottle” move in Pan’s Labyrinth. Yep, nothing grabs a viewer’s attention like the clever obliteration of a character’s head, either in whole or in part.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am
What about Steve Buscemi in Fargo, or Edward Norton in Fight Club? Those are especially bad since both of them survive their wounds, you can almost feel their pain.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am
I know it wasn’t on screen for the first one, but pulp fiction had that crazy gun going off in car shooting man in face scene that made an entrance for harvey keitel’s character. Also, only available on the dvd, but when the cop gets his ear cut off in reservoir dogs (dvd has two or three different angles with full gory prosthetics) is one of the sickest things I have seen ever.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
American History X’s curb stomping shulda been #1, no questions asked
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
How is the curb stomp in American History X not even mentioned?
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
What about the lead character of Memento?
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:42 am
The scene from Children of Men where Sid pokes his head out the door of a building while trying to get to Theo and Theo cracks him in the head with a battery he picked up off the ground. It was so brilliantly done, I cringe every time I see it.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:47 am
This list is pointless without photos.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:50 am
No body mentioned Riki-oh? The board with nails to the face, or claping on the head and it explodes (as seen in 5 questions when Craig Kilborn hosted The Daily Show)
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:52 am
Hey, great list, but you’re forgetting one crucial head wound:
American History X.
Anyone that has seen it knows what I’m talking about. The infamous “curb-stomping” scene. I held my hand over my mouth for a good week after I saw that. *Shudders*
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am
Pics would have helped
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am
Although the Goodfellas scene is a good choice for a Scorsese moment, I prefer the scene in Casino where Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and Frank Marino (Frank Vincent) stick Tony Dogs’ (Carl Ciarfalio) head in a vice where we see his head bulging like a grape about to pop. That scene has always stuck out in my mind. Being beaten to a bloody pulp before the vice must have felt like a massage with a happy ending compared to having his head flattened and eye popping. Ouch!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:03 am
LIES - The best by far is Full Metal Jacket :)
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:26 am
I don’t think they “spirits” in Raider’s were”evil” spirits but rather supposed to “justice spirits” ala angel of death kind of spirits. As punishment for breaking into the Ark. The Ark was supposed to represent the glory of God and to approach it in an unworthy manner was akin to blasphemy.
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:27 am
Das Boot - The eyes have it!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:32 am
I think Irreversible wins hands down over all of these. I have not been able to watch the rest of that movie to this day, I am so scarred.
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 am
Irreversible definitely takes the cake, it’s the only time I have had to turn away it was so brutal. There’s a very similar event in a recently released film which is still running in the theaters, I have seen so many films lately I cant recall it but it may be in Lynch’s Inland Empire.
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 am
Honerable mention to Kill Bill vol 1- when O-ren assassinates the guy in the limo. It’s anime, but still pretty cool. Now that I think of it, Kill Bill vol 2 when the Bride takes out Elle Driver’s remaining eye is a pretty good head wound as well.
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 am
Irreversible definitely takes the cake, it’s the only time I have had to turn away it was so brutal. There’s a very similar event in a recently released film which is still running in the theaters, I have seen so many films lately I cant recall it but it may be in Lynch’s Inland Empire. Also the scene in which Roy Batty relieves Tyrell of his eyes is very memorable in Blade Runner!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:55 am
Bad Taste…. Peter Jackson.
Several massive headwounds ….. some of which were fatal.
PJ’s first movie BTW. No film beats this.
R
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 am
What about the T1000 from Terminator 2, after Arnold shot him in the face at close range? ;)
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
As Karen said, “irreversible” would be number one in this list, although it was a really crappy film.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 am
What? Where in the HELL is Maniac? I mean come on!
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 am
At the end of the Departed when Leo gets shot made me jump too, but by the time we got to Matt’s demise I was used to it…but the sheer volume of head shots packed into 10 minutes should count for something.
Oh, and that scene in Pans Labyrinth, the one at the beginning with the bottle and then at the end with the knife…they will haunt my memory.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 am
Ey! what about marvin??
pulp fiction deserve something, dont you think?
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:58 am
Irreversible would top the list for me. I liked the T2 shotgun blast to the head as well. Also when Dennis Hopper loses his head in “Speed”.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:59 am
Dead bodies Everywhere Riki !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAvMZ90h0Xw
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 am
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June 2nd, 2007 at 4:18 am
As mentioned previously, the Full Metal Jacket suicide scene has to be one of the most graphic ever shot (no pun intended).
And you mentioned the Three Stooges, but no love for Wile E Coyote? He’s had his face imprinted into shovels, inch thick steel, had anvils and all sorts of flotsam and jetsam land on his head, and squeezed in through a tiny water pipe.
Honorable mention to Tom of Tom and Jerry fame, as long as we are talking cartoons.
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:36 am
I can think of two: Aaaahnuld in Commando. He is trapped in this shed with all these guys shooting at him. One guy comes to the shed door, and the Guvernator’s character does a frisbee trick with a circular saw blade. Takes the top of the guys head clean off.
The other one: Wanted Dead of Alive with Rutger Hauer. (Spoiler Alert on movie ending)
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Hauer’s character places a grenade in the terrorist leader’s (Gene Simmons) mouth - says he’s not going to pull the pin - then changes his mind…..pulls the pin…..camera goes to long shot…..you can guess the rest….head explodes….body just sort of falls…..
Don’t forget Men in Black….where one alien get’s his head blown off and there’s green slime all over the place…..
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:12 am
I’d like to add Cube– “The Rennes” being killed by a jet of molecular acid in the face. When it was done melting him, his mug was just a bloody, bony crater. Yak!
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 am
Delicatessen.
One of the true classic head wounds.
“Have I got something? Just there?” (points to three bladed knife embedded in forehead)
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 am
Vince, you’re right.
In the history of movie moments, considering the scope of classics such as Goodfellas, the fact that you left out Full Metal Jacket almost offends me. That’s like… having a Top 10 Role Playing Games and leaving out something like Final Fantasy VII. Seriously.
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:12 am
what about mr brown in reservoir dogs. he gets shot in the head a stays alive long enough to get mad at his wound
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 am
The Palmer atrocity in the John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’
The propellor head slicer in Raiders of the Lost Ark
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:09 am
How bout scene from Equlibrium when Bale neatly parts his partners head ?
… slidey !!
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
As some others have pointed out the curb stomp in American History X needed a mention. So brutal.
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
Peter Jackson’s “Bad Taste” should definitely be an item of its own in your list: tying your belt around your head so that you can keep together the two halves of your cracked open skull and keep walking and shooting aliens has been unsurpassed on the screen.
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:34 am
what about the car scene in pulp fiction when Vincent lets off a round in the guys head in the back seat.
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
weird…
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
What about movies where the headless victim isn’t human (or ex-human). I refer specifically to underworld 2; when the “original werewolf” dude had his head ripped right off, by hand!
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Phhhtt.
Pretty much any scene in Munich will top anything you guys have to offer.
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:29 am
An American Werewolf in London - in the theater where Jack tells David he has to kill himself, all while his head is rotting. Awesome
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:40 am
the curb stomp scene in American History X wasn’t really that graphic
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am
Isn’t there a brutal ‘friendly fire’ incident in Starship Troopers?
Carl
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 am
Licence to Kill - James Bond
Bad guy gets pushed into decompression chamber. Result = Head Asplode.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 am
What.. No screencaps? :(
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
GLORY, the civil war film. I have just one thing to say: cannonball to the head!
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 am
American History X’s jaw-breaking head stump.
Pulp Fiction’s accidental brain piece massacre.
Pi’s brain drain do it yourself style.
Fight club’s let shoot ourselves in the face.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 am
What about:
High Tension: head through railing, then using piano to remove head - that had me wincing for a few days
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
I think the poor girl being held down and slowly being beaten to death with a hammer by a hundred-year-old man in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre should be on the list. Shame she escaped, It would have been a better movie if there was just a half hour of him finishing the job.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
american history xs head stomping, pulp fictions backseat accident should be number 1
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
The beginning of the movie “Glory” on the battlefield when a cannonball blows the guy’s head up like a melon.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
What about that nast head wound from near the end of the Apocolypto movie with the blood gushing from the side of the head.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
What about the scene in that movie “Brick” where the guy gets shot in the head and smoke come out the back of his head?
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
WOW, I can’t believe that no one (and I read a ton of comments) has mentioned the Phantasm series. Isn’t that all those movies are - flying balls with knives on the end that stick in people’s heads and drain their blood out. That always gave me chills as a kid because it is pretty graphic when you don’t notice the cheesiness so much.
Also, props to the people who mentioned the Story of Riki - man, that is one of the all-time best b-movies because of the over-the-top violence and head smashing-goodness.
And finally… Where was Toxic Avenger at!!!
That scene where the cool kids are driving around in the camaro and drive over the kid’s head - DOUBLE POINTS!!! Man, that was a good movie.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Im going to also have to mention the scene from Pulp Fiction when Vincent shoots that guy on accident and his head gets splattered all over the back window. This scene is also one that is hard to look away from, as the first time you watch it, its very sudden. Anyway, good list, would be hard to just pick 10 =).
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Full Metal Jacket! How could this not be in the top ten? !
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I think the explosive charge inserted into the brain in Mission Impossible 3 was pretty messed up. It wasn’t gory really. It was more psychological. You know their brain just got splattered all over the inside of their skull….WTF? And the eyes were all messed up too.
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
You clearly haven’t seen Irreversible. *vomits a little bit*
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
What about the brain soup in Hannibal, now THAT is a classic head wound. I second Pulp Fiction also.
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
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June 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
This post would have been so much better with pictures of video clips.
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
What about Day of the Dead when they cut a zombies head in half with a shovel that was nasty, and the part when the zombie puts his thumb in the guys eye and rips his head apart.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Oh come now…remember the scene in Braveheart where the guy is dreaming and WW comes riding up on his horse and smashes his face in with a flail? I watched that frame by frame so many times. And while we’re talking about Mel Gibson movies, in the Patriot, a soldier gets his head taken off with a canon ball.
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
One head wound imprinted in my mind comes from 3 seconds in the movie “The Messenger” (about Joan of Arc). During a battle scene, where Joan’s team overtakes a castle, they meet a rotating morning star, that takes a man’s head piece by piece in big chunks. Now that’s moviemaking.
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 am
Some I would suggest:
1) Fargo: the trooper taking a round in the crown of his head
2) Schindler’s list: any number of blood-gushing headshot scenes
3) Deadlock: another Rutger Hauer movie set in a prison without walls where the inmates wear explosive collars that are paired to their buddy. If they go out of range of their buddy, the collar explodes.
4) Caligula: the scene in the colleseum with the guys buried up to their neck and a combine that reaped heads. Let’s not let the Jihadi’s get ahold of that machine!
5) This scene from House of the Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGUhtdTIKA
6) not from a movie but an internet classic worthy of mention in this list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09SozE8_tKA
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 am
Speed. Dennis Hopper’s character.
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Not counting gore flicks, “Irreversible” has the most realistic head-bashing (and arm-breaking too) scene. Thank God the scene wasn’t in the daytime.
… and yes, clips would be nice.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:55 am
would have loved some pics to go with the movie list …
good list …
June 4th, 2007 at 8:21 am
the beginning of IRREVERSABLE
if you dont know that movie,
watch it asap.
June 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
what about the infamous eyeball scenes from Lucio Fulcis, Zombi and The Beyond
June 4th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
kill bill vol 1 o ren’s head scalped to the brain
June 4th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
What about Deerhunter…..?
June 4th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
How about in Flags of our Fathers when an Artillery Canon Lands on that One Guy and
the Head Roles Down Ira’s Body?
June 4th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
An oldie but goodie…Deadly Friend w Kristy Swanson. She’s a robot in human flesh and she takes a basketball to someone’s head and splatters it to pieces. Horrible movie but great scene.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Deadly Friend Clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KowM2NSNIcY
June 5th, 2007 at 8:01 am
The curb stomp scene in American History X
Irreversible
Zapruder’s 8 mm color home movie
June 5th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Just wanted to stress that Zapruder’s film shows a tragic loss and that JFK was a great politician who among other things averted an atomic war and fought for civil rights. I did not mean any disrespect for the great man that JFK was. It was a traumatic event for the world. When I saw the list it was the first image that came to my head and I added it without thinking. It was not my intention and I think it is of extreme bad taste to call it a “best scene”, and I apologize if it appeared so. Just wanted to call attention to what was probably the first graphic head shot viewed by the general public.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
The commenters have a better grasp on possible top 10 then the author..
June 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Re-ANIMATOR! Not only was Dr. Hill’s head cut off with a shovel, it was brought back as a zombie, still sepereated from his body, which had to carry it around in a bowling ball bag. And Hill’s head managed to make out with a bubbleheaded blonde co-ed before being squished by a vengeful fellow zombie.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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June 12th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
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June 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Not nearly as gory but a pivotal film;
The American Friend , an early Wim Wenders.
Bruno Ganz wanders around with a hankee pressed to
his forehead most of the film.
Making it hard to drive and make love.
It has never been adequately explained.
Best,
Jay
June 12th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
how can you forget scarface??? helloo??? CHAINSAW ACTION in the tub???
June 13th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Nuh nuh nuh. You’re all wrong. Lost Highway has the best one. Man is whupped upside the head, falls over, and impales his forehead onto the corner edge of a glass coffee table. Full close up, the works. And I think Rammstein is playing in the background, what more could you want?
June 14th, 2007 at 11:53 am
The Toxic Avenger when they two baddies run over the kid in the street for points but he s still moving. What do they do?…Give him the old run the tire over his head move. Excellent effects for that time period…you know, the 80’s
June 14th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
You just need to start over and do a Top 100 list. There are so many spectacular head wounds on film that a list of 10 doesn’t even scratch the surface.
June 14th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
how about:
1) William L.Petersen taking one thru the forehead in ‘To Live and Die in LA’
2) David Warners character being decapitated in ‘The Omen’
3) The girl marine having her head sliced off by the laser in ‘Resident Evil’
4) several good decapitations in ‘Sleepy Hollow’
June 15th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Hello, you seem to be relly aware on that subject.
Could you help me ?
I am looking for the movie with this chopped off head
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/888/pdvd025ip4.jpg
Any idea ?
July 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Bobby Peru´s self inflicted “wound” is great!!
July 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Bobby Peru´s self inflicted “wound” is great!! david lynch´s “wild at heart”
July 26th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Could you help me ?
I am looking for the movie with this chopped off head
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/888/pdvd025ip4.jpg
it’s… Evil dead trap (JAPAN)
July 28th, 2007 at 4:05 am
You people must all be of the post-babyboomer generation, no disrespect intended. Two movies before your time to check out, 1.) The Island (keep an EYE out for the SPLINTER scene) & 2.) Phantasm (beware of the metalic flying spheres). Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I second thyrist. Saw this movie as a child and have since been weary of any angry, hot ladies with a basketball. Seen lots of gore but this one’s in my head for good on the basis of creativity. (Too bad I can’t count on net flix to refresh my memory of the scene…the don’t have it!)
thyrist says:
June 4th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
An oldie but goodie…Deadly Friend w Kristy Swanson. She’s a robot in human flesh and she takes a basketball to someone’s head and splatters it to pieces. Horrible movie but great scene.
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April 4th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I would love if you can include some photos with the list. If it’s because of copyrights, then it’s too bad.