10 Horror Movie Deaths That Get Worse The More You Think About It

While Death Proof might be the crowning jewel in another filmmaker’s oeuvre, it is nonetheless widely considered to be Quentin Tarantino’s worst film. A neo-grindhouse offering modelled after the exploitation flicks the director grew up with, the film was always going to attract a niche crowd.

Whether audiences warmed to it or not, Death Proof undeniably packs a punch, making the most of Kurt Russell as sinister Stuntman Mike, who uses his souped-up, “death proof” Chevrolet Nova as a deadly weapon, with the intention of maiming and murdering young women. And murder young women he does.

The mid-film car crash shows just what Stuntman Mike's capable of, driving head-on into the car of the four young women we took to be the film's protagonists, ending their screentime for good. Although the visuals are pretty gory, we think of the car crash as being one event, and a straightforward if grisly death for everyone involved (except Mike). And yet...

Arlene (Vanessa Ferlito), who is in the back seat, wearing her seatbelt, doesn't die on impact. She has her face gouged off by the Chevy's rear wheel, but this is not where her suffering ends. Out on a backroad at night, with barely any traffic, it would be a long time before anyone found them, and even longer before the ambulance got there. Meanwhile, she is left to die in agony, stuck in the wreck and bleeding out from whatever's left of her face.