10 INSANE Kills From Recent Horror Movies

If there's one thing that you can reliably expect to see in just about every horror movie, good or bad, it's death. Like, a lot of it.

What's more terrifying to people than the prospect of having your life unexpectedly ended by a rampaging serial killer, for example?

Horror is at its core an examination of our own fear of both mortality and the unknown, and we as viewers can find that ultra-violent exploration enormously cathartic.

Horror fans generally love nothing more than a creatively gory death scene that lodges itself firmly in their memory forever more - a kill that's either deeply unsettling on a gut level or just ludicrously, entertainingly over-the-top.

And so, poring over the most recent horror movies both big and small, these are the most gloriously unhinged and brilliantly executed kills you absolutely need to see.

In almost every case the movie as a whole is definitely worth watching too, but these kills were pulled off with such nasty, deranged panache that they beg to be seen any which way.

These movies threw the gauntlet down to the rest of the genre and begged them to try and one-up these delirious death scenes...

Method of Death: Set on fire and shot repeatedly.

The fifth Scream film boasts a number of memorably gnarly deaths, but none more so than the fate that befalls one of its two Ghostface killers, Amber (Mikey Madison), in the film's climax.

During a tussle with Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Gale (Courteney Cox), Amber gets riddled with bullets by Gale, causing her to fall backwards onto a lit stove.

To make matters worse, because Amber was hit with a bottle of hand sanitiser moments earlier, her entire upper torso immediately goes up in flames.

Though Amber's charred body collapses to the floor, seemingly dead, she returns for "one last scare" after the other killer, Richie (Jack Quaid), has been dealt with.

Amber, now sporting a severely burned, half-melted head, runs towards the survivors with a knife, before she's finally put down for good by Tara (Jenna Ortega).

Even with the absolutely wild deaths that have been meted out to Ghostface killers in the past, this was certainly up there with the best of them.

Plus, considering that Amber actress Mikey Madison was previously set aflame in the climax of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in America, doing the same again here feels like a sly nod to that unforgettable kill.