Movies that end with the villain impaled on a sharp object

[Paragon]

Trying to make a comprehensive list of movies containing this ridiculously overused cliche...help!

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. The Passio... never mind.

I keed, I keed.

[T Roosevelt]

2. No Escape

with Ray Liotta...

[everythingsxen]

3. Spider-Man

Hand that rocks the Cradle


thats all for now

[codegreen]

4. Star Trek: Nemesis (totally sucked, full of bad cliches)

[boxster]

12. You know, I didn't think it was that bad. And, I think the clichés were

mostly intentional.

There were a *ton* of references to other movies (Star Wars and the version of Flash Gordon released in the early 80's, to name two), and I think they were intended, albeit clichéd.

[Deja Q]

23. and also full of:

Bad dialogue

Bad action

Bad space scenes

Bad camerawork

Bad writing

Bad copout...

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. Possibly in the top ten of shittiest movies of all time

and I would automatically exclude all those cheesy B movies from that top ten list, because they KNEW they were cheesy. I'm talking movies that wanted/pretended/assumed they were legitimate, but were pieces of shit.

Nemesis is that movie.

[Salviati]

5. Dark City

[salinen]

6. Most Dracula movies

but that's the only way to kill those suckers.

[Twillig]

51. LOST BOYS; big time vampire impaling in that one.

carried out in fine style I might add.

[Bluzmann57]

7. The reign of evil. the gw bush story

Ah forget it, just a fantasy.

[codegreen]

8. The Little Mermaid and Ghost, i think...

oh, and i assume you're not including swords... that would be just silly

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. In The Line of Fire and Bringing Out The Dead are two I can

think of right off hand.

[Paragon]

10. Here's three more:

Offhand, I can think of two crappy Denzel Washington movies:

Virtuosity - Russell Crowe impaled on glass sculpture
Ricochet - John Lithgow impaled on something

...and then there's Sean Bean, who gets shoved onto a pointy object by Harrison Ford at the end of Patriot Games.

[DrWeird]

11. Dodged a bullet with LOTR.

Apparently they filmed Saruman falling and landing on a large spiked wheel.

The most tragic use of this cliche was The Name of the Rose, where the villian inquistor's carriage careens off a cliff ejecting the villian onto some sort of farm equipment. Sean Connery and Christian Slater give the requisite wince. Otherwise it was a pretty good movie.

The worst villian death was Con Air; where the villian, Cyrus the Virus (was that Malkovitch? Good God!) survives the main plot plane crash, a fire truck chase sequence down the Las Vegas strip, the subsequent crash that flings him through the air, and finally succumbs when the pile driver he lands on smashes his head. Nick Cage as Lead Wincer.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Whoops - posted in the wrong spot

Mever mind

[EstimatedProphet]

13. Flash Gordon!

Defeated Ming with the battleship Ajax.

[salinen]

14. Every Shirley Temple movie.

[Zhade]

15. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

NT!

[Spirochete]

16. Eye See You

with Sylvester Stallone

[muchacho]

17. The Crow

eom

[Paragon]

18. Ladyhawke

nt

[Robb]

19. Broken Arrow

Travolta gets it from the pointy end of a nuclear weapon. Hard to top, actually. :)

[gristy]

20. In The Omen didn't someone end up impaled on a steel picket fence?

"Beautifully" done. It wasn't the villain though.

[Twillig]

21. the believers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092632/

[Burma Jones]

22. The Devil in Miss Jones?

[Whitacre D_WI]

25. Ba-dum-bum!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Several of the Hammer Dracula movies. Prince of Darkness for sure.

[Jade Fox]

27. Danny Glover in "Switchback"

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. One of Brosnan's Bond movies

One of the Brosnan Bond movies - Bond ends up impaling that one guy in the submarine with the metal thingy the bad guy was trying to shove into the nuclear reactor.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

30. Ghost.

...broken window.

[liberalhistorian]

31. Sudden Impact,

a very typical, predictable, cliche-ridden Dirty Harry film. Actually, it was kind of fun to see because the villian was SOOOOO bad and SOOOOO horrible, that you wanted to jump up and cheer when he fell onto a Carousel and was impaled on the pole of a horse.

Then there was Carl from Ghost, who succumbed to a pane of window glass that sliced through him and nailed him to the window, then had the pleasure of devils coming up, grabbing him, then whisking him off to hell where he belonged.

[Twillig]

38. what he means when he said that the villian was--

'SOOOOO bad and SOOOOO horrible'

In other words, the villian sucked. Died well, but was shite whilst breathing.

Gimme Andrew Robinson anyday.

[DS1]

32. Agent Smith ended up being impaled ~by~ Neo

[Hell Hath No Fury]

33. Dead Again...

with Kenneth and Emma when they were still married.

Bad guy Derek Jacobi ends up impaled in a wicked-ass scissors sculpture.

[MrSlayer]

34. Commando

Really bad Arnold movie. Villain ends up impaled on a steam pipe.

[liberalhistorian]

36. "Really bad Arnold movie?"

Is there any other kind of Arnold movie? Isn't that an oxymoron, lol!

[MrSlayer]

49. No, I like some of his shit.

I liked the Conan movies even if they were a bit cheesy. I'm all into the Swords and Dragons shit. I also liked True Lies, Predator and Total Recall.

[stopbush]

42. As Ah-nold tells the guy to "let off some steam"

as he writhes on the steam pipe protruding from his chest.

[kiahzero]

35. Princess Bride (n/t)

[doubleplusgood]

37. "The Prize" (1962)

...evil-looking bad guy falls onto sharp sculpture of some kind.

[Lisa]

39. Lair of the White Worm

Tacky, yes -- but fun, in a warped kind of way.

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Wyrm, isn't it? And yeah, really cool movie!

I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking, Wow, not what I expected but EXCELLENT!

Been meaning to get a copy on DVD if it's out.

Lovely movie, really.

[Vittorio]

40. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle?"

:shrug:

[absyntheNsugar]

43. "Bringing in the Dead"

Well not THE villian, one actually feels sympathy for the drug dealer by the end of the movie....but he does end up impaled on a sharp object.

[wickerwoman]

44. Con Air, a few of the Terminator movies I think

Seems to happen to poor John Malkovich quite often.

[leftyandproud]

45. that one with Denzel Washington..

I forget what it was called...they have a fight on a big radio antenna..sorta like the end of "Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey..

I remember "Ice Tea" was in the movie as well...It was about some killer who threatened Denzel's family...videotaped his walk through his house, up to the family bedroom to scare Denzel...

In the end, Denzel faked his death...pretending to go insane from the mind tricks played on him by the bad guy...The killer thought he was dead, then Denzel called him out, and they had the final fight up in the tower...
boy..I know this makes no sense to those who haven't seen the movie...these are the only fragments I can remember, and I forget the name..

but yeah, the bad dude ends up impaled

oh, and I believe "The Crow" with Branden Lee...they had a fight on top of the church...I think the bad dude in the end was impaled too..

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

58. Virtuosity

BUt the impalement is not the bad guy's (an android) real death -- he dies when his processor is grabbed by Denzel and smashed in the pavement.

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RUSSELL CROWE!

[BurtWorm]

46. The Stranger

with Orson Wells winding up impaled on a fence.

Dead Again, with Derek Jacobi winding up impaled on a giant scissor.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

47. Orson Welles in the Stranger

is impaled on the sword of a moving figure in a clock tower.

[BurtWorm]

48. That's right! So who was impaled on a fence?

Someone who falls off a tower.

[hlthe2b]

50. Ghost (glass dagger from broken window) & Dead Again (Giant Scissors)

didn't see either of these listed.

[mockmonkey]

52. Memory fading fast.....

"Flesh for Frankenstein", aka "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" the Baron gets a pole run through his chest.

"Trog" if you consider said creature a villain, it meets its end as it falls onto a stalagmite....I think it was trying to avoid Joan Crawford. (the real villain)

I imagine there were various bad guys harpooned in the James Bond films but I can't remember which ones...maybe all of them?

Elizabeth Taylor gets impaled at the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"........alright that one is an outright lie....it was Sandy Dennis that was impaled...no wait nevermind...I need sleep.

[Mick Knox]

53. Cobra

Didnt cobra end with that guy on a hook.. hard coming up with one that u guys didnt..

[leftistagitator]

54. The Hand that Rocked the Cradle

[FloridaJudy]

55. "The List of Adrian Messenger"

A real oldie.

[Kinkistyle]

56. Gladiator and Lethal Weapon 4

Jet Li gets a metal rod driven through his ribcage by Danny Glover which Mel Gibson later uses to lift him off the ground. Great fight scene.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

57. Broken Arrow

Travolta is impaled by a nuclear missile (!!!)