Three Of The Best: Horror Weapons
Throughout horror films there have been all kinds of weapons – some obvious, some bizarre – designed to kill. Here are three classics, simple but effective!
Meat Hook (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
We all know he is famous for his chainsaw but who can forget those meat hooks he keeps in his basement? It would take some almighty strength and a very sharp hook to actually stick someone on a meat hook in real life, but of course Leather face does it like a pro in the films. It’s an extremely painful, awkward and a slow method of death. Bonus points are given for the nonchalant way in which he carries on with his house chores after the victim has been impaled.
Kandarian Dagger (The Evil Dead 2)
Ash’s chainsaw and Boomstick are just as famous as his one-liners, though a little generic. The Kandarian Dagger however is a beaut. This strange weapon was found alongside the Necronomicon by Professor Knowby and is a regular blade in the original film. By the remake it has evolved (for the better I think) into a blade that resembles a spine, and so not only does it look cool but there is something extra personal about getting stabbed by another piece of anatomy.
Chicken Wire (Audition)
The dark life of the character known as Asami brilliantly unfolds in Takashi Miike’s 1999 horror, Audition. The famous finale occurs when the hero’s nightcap is unknowingly spiked with something which produces locked-in syndrome. Cue some torture. Asami takes a special kind of pleasure in showing her former love interest that “pain doesn’t lie,” and no better is that illustrated than when she grabs the chicken wire. Once coiled around a leg she sadistically see-saws a leg off. The gradually manner of slicing through the skin, into the bone and then right through is truly wince-inducing, especially because of how much she likes it. Perhaps the most effective shot in this scene is the one from outside as we see the severed foot thrown at the patio window with a thud – imagine seeing something like that as you walk past!
