Movie Deaths Database, the best and worst Hollywood Homicides *:-)

Welcome to the MDDB, a tongue-in-cheek movie reviews site dedicated to documenting deathscenes in films.

We love films, we enjoy critiquing the cinematography, the musical score, the script, plot and more.

But there are thousands of sites that do that.

So, we decided to concentrate on a key component of most dramatic works, the Death-Scene.

This is a powerful tool in the script-writer and director's utility belt, and we'd like to think they agonise over the best way to dispatch a character who may often have been built up over a period of several hours.

Sadly though, over the years we've come to realise that the Death-Scene leaves most directors reaching for their generic Plot-by-Numbers book as the same tired clichés are used over and over again.

This site then, aims to show up the worst offenders and also to recognise those scenes where the creative team went to that little bit of extra effort to make the scene stand out in our memory.

First time to the site? We now have 927 reviews for you to enjoy!

To give you an idea of the flavour of the site, here are some links you might like to try:

• Most entertaining reviews to read - as rated by our visitors, with funny and/or insightful ones tending to do the best....
• Favourite deathscenes of all time - again, rated by our visitors.
• Which scenes have the most categories in them? - We do like our categories...
• Actors with the most killings - the baddest movie stars!
• Actors who have died the most - these may have poor life expectancies, but you still wouldn't want to mess with the top ranks!
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about MovieDeaths.com

New reviews get added regularly, so we hope you'll bookmark the site and check back often! If you enjoy what we're doing, please register for free and rate some reviews yourself.

Site News:
24th March 2009 - Old Bluffer and Mr Mouseburger write an article about the MDDB for film24

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Newest Entries from the Movies:
4th Feb 2010 - Conan the Destroyer (1984)
43%: Written by Kooshmeister The horn [...]
4th Feb 2010 - Conan the Destroyer (1984)
27%: Written by Kooshmeister Schwarzenegger [...]
3rd Feb 2010 - Book of Eli, The (2010)
73%: [You need to read the
3rd Feb 2010 - Book of Eli, The (2010)
52%: Eli is a religious man in a post-apocalyptic dystopia that [...]
3rd Feb 2010 - Road, The (2009)
4%: There isn't too much to say about this death really. A [...]
3rd Feb 2010 - Conan the Destroyer (1984)
72%: Written by Kooshmeister The Dreaming [...]
3rd Feb 2010 - Conan the Destroyer (1984)
50%: Written by Kooshmeister Toth-Amon is a [...]
9th Dec 2009 - Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
74%: It is ten years since the wholly unsavoury Clarence Darby [...]
9th Dec 2009 - Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
71%: Clyde Shelton is sitting at home minding his own business [...]
24th Nov 2009 - Taken (2008)
64%: Taken is a film with a simple premise; 17 [...]

Recent Comments
Re: X-Men: The Last Stand: Scott \'Cyclops\' Summers (James Marsden) 02/07/2010 by SPKuja   [+-]

Actually, the only death that makes sense in the film is that of Jean Grey/Pheonix. Though, originally she was never killed by Logan, but I guess they had to re-write it to make it fit in with the film. Either way, killing Scott off so soon was a bad move...

Re: Outsiders, The: Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) 02/04/2010 by Cynthia   [+-]

i love the book;

Re: Conan the Destroyer: Dagoth (Andre the Giant) 02/03/2010 by Kooshmeister   [+-]

Another quick submission of one of my writeups! I shall have to get screencaps. Thanks for putting these up. I've been in a Conan mood lately.

Re: Book of Eli, The: Carnegie (Gary Oldman) 02/03/2010 by COSS   [+-]

seems more clear to me that Eli was only partially sighted or blind in one eye (since there's only a close up of his right eye). More likely he was blind in his right eye and partially sighted in his left, he still could be a proficient marksman in this state (if you doubt me look up Joseph Paul Franklin on Wikipedia).

Re: Two Towers, The: Ugluk (Nathaniel Lees) 02/03/2010 by gult   [+-]

Iv just watched the special extended edition and could nott spot anything of the sort, are you just making this up by any chance?

Re: Screenplays: Number of scenes in a film? 02/03/2010 by blah blah   [+-]

Anonymous User Wrote:
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> I'd always thought it would be best to write just
> for the number of Scenes a Film has choose as many
> Scenes that you want
> say 24 Scenes will make it 1 H 38 Mins.
>
> Maybe Hollywood needs to come up with a new way of
> writing Screenplays or let new comers and
> experienced writers in
> Hollywood choose how they want to write their
> Screenplays without having it to look outstanding
> and 100 pages.
>
> Longs you and the writer knows what your dialogue
> and scene writing is saying then that all that
> matters.
>
> A new way like that idea of mine in this message
> would probably save time and Money and Ink. What
> happens if you run out
> of trees one day cause of using it for paper and
> chewing gum then your going to need an alternative
> way of writing Screenplays
> instead maybe just from a Computer and send
> attachments then convert them onto portable
> handheld LCD Screens where you
> can adjust settings and high light words and fonts
> and writing styles.
>
> That's probably why they came up with Computers in
> the first place to save the trees from getting
> chopped down all the time
> for paper and Screenplays and books.
>
> Don't forget trees help to keep us alive without
> them we'd perish.
>
> It's like everything else soon run out of
> componments for household equipment such as Video
> Machines and Typerwriters and things
> like that.
>
> Wouldn't be a bad idea.

This in a Writers' thread.

Wow. Just wow.

Re: R.I.P. Mako (Conan Wizard) 02/02/2010 by Lord Damon   [+-]

Indeed... I am of the younger generation, and I know him as Aku in Samurai Jack and Uncle from Avatar: The Last Airbender. I actually cried when I heard that he was dead. R.I.P. Mako

Re: Tormented: Darren Mullet (Calvin Dean) 02/01/2010 by Backman   [+-]

OMG! Calvin, you were awesome in tormented! tell me, is April Pearson as hot offscreen as she is on? Was the director nice? Sorry, you must think i'm an awefull busybody, but i loved tormented so much!