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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
I'll go with Suspiria. We're not debating the quality of the films they came from, but the kills themselves. There are kills in Savage Weekend and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers that are better than some in Halloween, and the kills in Suspiria are better kills than those in Psycho.
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You do make an excellent point, Doc. I'll go with
Psycho every time, though, because of what it meant at the time it was filmed. I look at
Suspiria and see some very gruesome death scenes, and many of them with grave originality. However, within the same decade movies like
Dawn of the Dead,
The Hills Have Eyes,
Halloween, and
Black Christmas were released, just to name a few. Needless to say, the gruesome death scene was certainly catching on.
Now rewind
seventeen years! Hitchcock shocks audiences everywhere with this soon-to-be-legendary shower scene. Not only was it more terrifying than anything that had been shown on the mainstream American silver screen before, but it completely pancaked the film; Alfred killed off his heroin before
Psycho was even halfway over!
To me, a death scene doesn't get more iconic than
Psycho's shower scene. But that's just my two cents.