Thursday, December 04, 2008

Thursday's Ways Not To Die

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In a film that doesn't really shy away from blood, this death is surprisingly blood-free. In fact, I remembered seeing more than you do here. I suppose it's that old chestnut of suggesting more than you're shown a la Psycho's shower scene. Making with the fake-out stab-stab.

Still this moment in Resident Evil's opening scene gets things going with a bang, and I love the way the evil computer system just for shits and giggles fucks with the poor girl for a sec, making her think she's safe, and then goes for the reverse head-whammy-ing. Consider that another life lesson learned: evil computer systems suck!

And if it's driving you crazy like it was me, trying to figure out who that actress is getting her head slammed off there, let me solve the riddle: her name is Indra Ové, and you may remember her from the following:


Yuppers, she was also the prostitute that is played as a blood pawn between Tom Cruise's Lestat and Brad Pitt's Louis that then dies so sadly and pathetically begging for her life in Interview With the Vampire. Credited delicately as "New Orleans Whore" of course.

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Previous Ways Not To Die: Decapitated Plucked Broiled & Sliced -- Head On A Stick! -- A Trip To The Ol' Wood-Chipper -- Pointed By The T-1000 -- Sucking Face With Freddy Krueger -- A Pen-Full Of Home-Brewed Speed to The Eye -- Motivational Speech, Interrupted -- A Freak Ephemera Storm -- When Ya Gotta Go... Ya Gotta Go -- Hoisted By Your Own Hand Grenade -- Having The Years Suction-Cupped Away -- Criss-Cross -- Turned Into A Person-Cocoon By The Touch Of A Little Girl's Mirror Doppleganger -- Satisfying Society's "Pop Princess" Blood-Lust -- Done In By The Doggie Door -- Tuned Out -- Taking the 107th Step -- Rescuing Gretchen -- Incinerated By Lousy Dialogue -- Starred & Striped Forever -- Vivisection Via Vaginally-Minded Barbed-Wire -- Chompers (Down There) -- Run Down By M. Night Shyamalan -- Everything Up To And Including The Kitchen Toaster -- Sacrificed To Kali -- Via The Gargantuan Venom Of The Black Mamba Snake -- Turned Into An Evil Robot -- The Out-Of-Nowhere Careening Vehicle Splat -- "Oh My God... It's Dip!!!" -- Critter Balled -- Stuff'd -- A Hot-Air Balloon Ride... Straight To Hell!!! -- Puppy Betrayal -- High-Heeled By A Girlfriend Impersonator -- Flip-Top Beheaded -- Because I'm Too Goddamned Beautiful To Live -- By Choosing... Poorly... -- Fried Alive Due To Baby Ingenuity -- A Good Old-Fashioned Tentacle Smothering -- Eepa! Eepa! -- Gremlins Ate My Stairlift -- An Icicle Thru The Eye -- Face Carved Off By Ghost Doctor After Lesbian Tryst With Zombie Women -- Electrocuted By Fallen Power-Lines -- A Mouthful Of Flare -- Taken By The TV Lady -- Bitten By A Zombie -- Eaten By Your Mattress -- Stuffed To Splitting -- Face Stuck In Liquid Nitrogen -- Crushed By Crumbling Church Debris -- Bitten By The Jaws Of Life -- A Machete To The Crotch -- Showering With A Chain-Saw -- In A Room Filled With Razor Wire -- Pod People'd With Your Dog -- Force-Fed Art -- Skinned By A Witch -- Beaten With An Oar -- Curbed -- Cape Malfunction -- In The Corner -- Cooked In A Tanning Bed -- Diced -- Punched Through The Head -- Bugs Sucking On Your Head
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1 comment:

Jwise said...

OMG, yes! I've always been flummoxed by where I knew her from.

JA, you're my hero!