10 Classic Movies Ruined By Just One Scene

4. Zara’s Death In Jurassic World

No doubt that one of the main motivators behind watching any of the films in the Jurassic Park franchise is getting to see people eaten by dinosaurs, but there’s one death scene in Jurassic World that audiences found particularly hard to stomach.

Zara, personal assistant to the permanently high heel clad park operations manager Claire Dearing who gets lumped with the unenviable task of looking after her boss’s nephews, is given a gruesome end – snatched by a pteranodon, dropped in the mosasaurus tank, scooped back out by another pteranodon before both are finally, fatally chomped by the mosasaurus – quite unbefitting of a character who didn’t really do anything wrong the entire film.

Compare it to Vic Hoskins’ death. Though he’s the character most deserving of the villain distinction (and therefore arguably the most gruesome death) and does meet a befitting and sticky end presumably eviscerated by a raptor, all the audience gets are his anguished cries and a brief splatter of blood whereas Zara’s death is prolonged, up-close and pretty nasty.

Yes, she may not have been that enthusiastic about playing babysitter and did manage to lose her young charges at one point and yes, it was the first onscreen death of a female in the franchise so maybe director Colin Trevorrow wanted it to go with a bang, but her comeuppance was a little drastic nonetheless.