10 Awesome Recent Horror Movie Kills You Probably Missed
Sleep no longer on these absolutely WILD death scenes.
What's the one thing that you can surely expect from just about any horror film? Death, of course.
No genre is more innately in touch with our mortality, with the delicate nature of our existence. In fact, horror's popularity is often attributed to the fact that it finds an accessible and entertaining way for audiences to engage with the idea that, yes, one day they're going to die.
Great kills can elevate an otherwise mediocre, even terrible horror film and perhaps even make it downright iconic when it's sufficiently creative and well-executed. But with the sheer number of horror flicks releasing every week, it's also fair to say that not even the most dedicated genre fan can catch everything.
And so, with box office numbers suggesting that audiences largely slept on these recent horror movies, there's a good chance you missed them too. While many of these films were wildly divisive affairs, each nevertheless served up at least one unforgettably brilliant death scene - one which justified the price of admission alone.
Above all else, the following kills are among the most stupendously brutal and exceptionally imaginative the genre has delivered in recent times.
10. Emily - Opus
The recently released Opus was a rare swing and a miss for A24, given that Mark Anthony Green's horror-thriller about a cult led by a legendary pop star, Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich), flopped at the box office and scored mixed reviews from critics. Once all hell inevitably breaks loose, though, the film does deliver a gnarly death scene you won't soon forget.
Midway through the picture, Emily (Stephanie Suganami), an influencer who was invited to Moretti's secluded compound to sample his new album, falls ill and disappears. She reappears near the end of the movie, emerging from a beanbag chair which she's been inexplicably stuffed inside.
Emily's face is also grotesquely swollen, a result of being injected with an unknown substance by one of Moretti's followers. This substance makes Emily's face and tongue swell, causing her to slowly suffocate as protagonist Ariel (Ayo Edebiri) and the other invitees look on.
It's a skin-crawlingly prolonged death made even worse by some nauseating makeup effects. Nobody in the movie bit it worse than this.