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As they set off, the army radio chattering into contact, Willard stares impassively into the darkness, the final words of Kurtz echoing forever in his mind.įew movie deaths have become as ingrained in the popular culture quite like the off-screen murder of Bambi’s mother in Disney‘s 1942 tearjerker. The horror.” Willard finds Kurtz’s writings, pays his respects and walks, in total silence through the awestruck crowd of tribespeople, to collect his drug-addled comrades and sail back up the river. Kurtz seems supernaturally resistant, and Willard goes into a frenzy, eventually dropping the enormous, bald-headed Colonel to the floor where the cacophonous soundtrack suddenly drops away into silence, and he utters the immortal line, “The horror. We see intercut flashes of the tribal villagers sacrificing a caribou, hacking the beast limb from limb. But their commanders won’t allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because… it’s obscene.” In a shifting twilight palette of deepest blacks and phosphorescent orange, Willard begins to hack the defenseless Kurtz to death with a machete. Brando’s extraordinary voice intones, seemingly to himself: “We train young men to drop fire on people. He creeps into the temple where, inevitably, Kurtz is waiting for him. The Doors’ “The End” drones endlessly and the sound of tribal ritual fills the air. He makes his way through the swamp stealthily to evade the tribesmen, who revere Kurtz as a god. Having acclimatised to the jungle complex where Kurtz has set himself up as a chief, Willard realises he has to kill the colonel if he is ever to leave. The death of Marlon Brando‘s Kurtz is pre-ordained from the first scenes of Francis Ford Coppola‘s “ Apocalypse Now,” where Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard is assigned a mission to “terminate with extreme prejudice” the rogue Colonel holed up in the war-torn depths of the Vietnamese jungle. Co-writer Dan O’Bannon said that he wanted to scare the men in the audience by including imagery meant to recall forced oral rape and having something born out of a man, instead of a woman. When “Alien” opened in 1979, it was two years after the holly jolly capering of “ Star Wars,” and this was a far nastier beast altogether. The rest of the Nostromo crew – and the audience – is left in stunned silence, shocked by what was just witnessed. At that point a slimy little monster squiggles out of his chest cavity and skitters across the table. Clutching his chest, Hurt starts to violently rock back and forth and then his chest explodes in a fountain of bright red blood – even more shocking against his white uniform (according to Veronica Cartwright - who plays Lambert - nobody told the cast how much blood there’d be, but the crewmembers were covering themselves in plastic sheets). Take a look below, and let us know your personal favorites in the comments section.Īs far as iconic death scenes go, it’s hard to beat the moment in Ridley Scott‘s “ Alien” when John Hurt, who has just been given a clean bill of health after being attacked by a multi-fingered alien parasite and falling into some kind of deep coma (because, obviously, that’s something that you just shake off), is eating dinner with the rest of the crew of the Nostromo when he has a bout of terribly awful indigestion. So, to celebrate the release of “The ABCs of Death,” we’ve put together a firmly non-comprehensive list of some of the most memorable, iconic demises in the history of cinema. Death is just about the most dramatic thing that can happen, and as such, is at the heart of many great films and some of cinema’s most iconic shots and moments involve one character or another popping off their mortal coil, either peacefully or not. From the apocalypse to Zetsumetsu, there’s all kinds of inventive ways to be offed across its two-hour running time, and it’s sure to keep gorehounds entertained, as our review suggested, even if horror neophytes might be left scratching their heads.īut for all the passings on screen in “The ABCs of Death,” it doesn’t seem likely that any will really enter cinema history. Tomorrow sees the release of “ The ABCs Of Death,” a new horror anthology from some of the top new names in the genre, with a fairly similar premise: 26 directors, 26 very short films, 26 very different ways to die.