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Post by paulfinch on Apr 26, 2012 18:50:04 GMT
How about that death scene in the first series of GAME OF THRONES (sorry, haven't read the books, so don't know if it's in there), when the dragon prince with ambitions to control the barbarian horde, is 'crowned' from a pot of molten gold? That one's absolutely horrific. For anyone who hasn't seen it, here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwH_8tPOGg
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 26, 2012 19:07:18 GMT
The fate of John Cassavetes in Brian De Palma's THE FURY (1978) has always been remarkably satisfying to me. The whole film is wonderful, in fact.
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oatcakeredux
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Post by oatcakeredux on Jun 23, 2012 19:53:59 GMT
I'm gonna bring up Tim Stout's "Jelly Baby" again. The death of the dad in that is truly un-nerving stuff.
I forget who wrote the novelisation of "Hallowe'en III", but kudos to them also for turning the little brat's death by Silver Shamrock mask into a Lovecraftian scene of impossible horror which the film's budget just couldn't match.
The smug, philandering elder brother's death in that swimming pool in that Book Of Pan Horror Stories always gets me, too. In a similar vein, there's a corrupt businessman in one of Christopher Fowler's short stories lying low in a very hot location overseas. So hot, in fact, that the tar pit under a thick layer of sand very near to where he's sunbathing liquefies...yech...
Yeah - great idea for a thread!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 24, 2012 15:04:10 GMT
In a similar vein, there's a corrupt businessman in one of Christopher Fowler's short stories lying low in a very hot location overseas. So hot, in fact, that the tar pit under a thick layer of sand very near to where he's sunbathing liquefies...yech... Squelchy. Been going crazy trying to remember the title as i've not long ago read it, just couldn't think where, but it's Cooking The Books from Pan Horror 30. Good to hear from you again, oatcake.
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oatcakeredux
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Post by oatcakeredux on Jun 24, 2012 15:09:27 GMT
Thanks, demonik - good to be back!
Yeah, "Cooking The Books", that's the one. I first came across it in the "Flesh Wounds" collection.
Another nasty demise comes from a Ray Bradbury short that I can't recall the title of - an unpleasant guy gets trapped and paralysed in a mechanical coffin which then proceeds to bury itself...
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Post by dem bones on Jun 24, 2012 15:26:04 GMT
i know the one, and i agree, it's a beauty. Tony Goodstone includes it in Wake For The Living The Pulps: Fifty Years Of American Pop Culture as Wake For The Living but something tells me it's been reprinted under a different title.
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oatcakeredux
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Post by oatcakeredux on Jun 24, 2012 17:29:19 GMT
That's the one! It has been reprinted since, under the more prosaic title of "The Coffin"...
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