15 Best Movie Deaths Of 2017
2. Mother! – The Baby
If you were a movie character under the age of 13, 2017 was most likely not your year or at least within the horror genre that is. From young Georgie’s gory demise in It to the shock deaths of the kids in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and It Comes at Night, the whippersnappers haven’t had an easy time in horror films of late but none of those deaths were quite so shocking as that of the baby in Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 horror-cum-religious allegory Mother!
As we’re nearing the end of Aronofsky’s insane fever dream of a film, we see the titular Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) have her newborn baby ripped away from her by her terrible poet-husband Javier Bardem who subsequently serves up his son – who we’re pretty sure is a representation of Jesus – to a baying crowd of his bloodthirsty fans. They then proceed to crowd-surf the doomed little mite before breaking his neck with a sickening snap and devouring him.
Yes, you read that last part right: they eat the baby.
It was definitely one of 2017’s darkest and most controversial movie deaths but one that got everybody talking, pausing, re-watching and questioning just what the f**k they’d just scene. Morbid and deliberately provocative? Maybe. Memorable? Definitely.