If there's a universal theme in the movies, it's death. Sure, sure, there's all the good old standbys: love, betrayal, ostrich attacks, but really, the most serious of all subjects, and one of the most commonly used, is death. What's interesting is the way it's used. Death in a serious Shakespeare adaptation is very different than death in a Pee Wee Herman movie (the kind he made, not the kind he watched). Some onscreen deaths will make you cry, others will make you sick, others will make you bust out laughing. But one thing's for sure, just like in real life, death is never good for the poor person doing the dying. So who had the best (or rather, the worst) death in the MRFH archives?

Well, while I'm thrilled few people chose to honour The Doom Generation for its rather horrific death to Jordan (death by castration at the hands of skinheads), I'm a little disappointed that The Machine from The Princess Bride didn't rank higher (they tied at 8%). The second runner up was the classic sci-fi way to buy it that only a certain lucky few suffered, the emergence of a baby Alien from your chest (9.9%). First runner up went to a true example of overkill (no pun intended). Mel Gibson's William Wallace in Braveheart was finally wiped off the Scottish map by being hung, stretched, castrated (a lot of that running around in this topic!), and finally decapitated (10.5% of the vote). Rough way to go, indeed.

Oh, but what a gruesome winner made it all the way to the top of the Worst Way to Die category. With 27.8% of your vote, top honours for nastiest way to bite it goes to the Lust Victim in Se7en. Hoo boy. There's not a lot of setup to this death method, but man it's a doozy. A prostitute is selected to die at the hands of a random John, who is held at gunpoint. But as with all the deaths in Se7en, this one is particular to her sin, and she is thus treated to the nastiest strap-on sex device in history: a butcher's knife. If you've seen this, it's legs-crossingly terrible to think about, and if you haven't seen it, well, I've just described it, so I have a feeling I know how your legs are arranged right now anyways. Definitely not a fun way to go, and definitely worthy of Worst Way to Die.

Final Tally
1. "Lust" skewered in sex, Se7en (27.8% of votes)
2. Hung, stretched, castrated and decapitated, Braveheart (10.5%)
3. Alien eating its way out of your rib cage, Alien (9.9%)
4. Castrated by skinheads, The Doom Generation; The Machine, The Princess Bride (tied at 8%)
Dead Last: Choked in your dorm room while your roommate ignores you, Urban Legend (0%)

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