Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. You may remember I ran a quick interview with ABCs of Death 2 director Jim Hosking (and premiered a photo from his darkly comic entry G is for Grandad). Now we have the final bit of word from Mr. Hosking, a cherry on top of that series showing my appreciation for his nutty, highly entertaining segment.
Each ABCs 2 director has picked a favorite cinematic death scene, ranging from the comically absurd to the disturbingly real, and has written a little piece about it for various cool movie-centric places around the net. Jim Hosking sent us the death that jumped to his mind and I also have a video for you that is essentially a supercut of all the favorite movie deaths picked by all ABCs 2 directors.
Hosking went with a very fucked up onscreen death. I'll let him tell you a little more about that below!
I found it hard to think of a movie death for some time. Honestly. I couldn't even think of one! I don't watch loads of horror films, or violent films. I did think of a few David Lynch scenes, he's a favourite of mine. And then was trawling through films in my mind when I remembered a scene in Caché or Hidden as it was called in the UK, by Michael Haneke. It's totally real, shocking, and surprising. The reality, even banality of the scene is what is really striking. It reminds me of when I took two unwitting female friends to see Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer in Madrid, I was unwitting too. That shocked me more than any film I had seen before or have seen subsequently. The lack of sensationalism, the drabness. I think death in films needs to be more than just torture porn or death porn. It needs to have a reason to exist. To push the film along, or because it's funny (Misery), accidental (Pulp Fiction) or deeply unsettling (Audition). I may have written too much. I like the bit in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey pulls the guy's heart out. What can I say? I'm a cinephile! So sue me!
So, Hosking hedged his bet a little bit by throwing in a few different movie deaths, but the one he focused on was Haneke's Cache, which is a crazy disturbing one.
You'll see it in the supercut below if you haven't seen the film and don't know how brutal it is in its simplicity and bluntness. You'll also see what all the other directors picked, which in a weird way comes off as a super personal reveal. You find out a lot about a person when you are told their favorite movie death. What's yours? Let's get some truly Halloween season appropriate discussion going on in the talkbacks below, shall we?
Greatest Movie Deaths of All Time from Drafthouse Films on Vimeo.
-Eric Vespe
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