31 Days of Halloween: The Halloween Advent Calendar
Oct 11, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
Sometimes we just come to scary movies for the visceral excitement of a creative kill. That's our topic today. What are some of your favorite kills in the spooky realm?
We even like the kills in scary movies, which is what we're gonna talk about today.
This is a category I was very anxious to talk about.
Yeah, what's a scary movie without really good kills?
Exactly.
Um, was gonna say Psycho, but that even has a really good kill in it.
[laughs]
So never mind.
Uh, but yeah, our, our favorite kill, and again, I've got a couple that I wanna talk about-
Yeah, this was hard
... and I assume you probably do as well.
This was hard to-
So this is one where-
Yeah
...
there are definitely ties allowed.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Um, did you have any parameters? Like, is there something that makes a kill particularly memorable for you, other than just, like, the ingenuity of it or the inventiveness?
I think the inventiveness just-
Kind of trumps everything?
W- yeah.
I mean, 'cause a slasher, you- you're s- slashing, knives or whatever.
Spoilers, my favorite kill is not from a slasher movie.
[laughs]
[laughs]
We even like the kills in scary movies, which is what we're gonna talk about today.
This is a category I was very anxious to talk about.
Yeah, what's a scary movie without really good kills?
Exactly.
Um, was gonna say Psycho, but that even has a really good kill in it.
[laughs]
So never mind.
Uh, but yeah, our, our favorite kill, and again, I've got a couple that I wanna talk about-
Yeah, this was hard
... and I assume you probably do as well.
This was hard to-
So this is one where-
Yeah
...
there are definitely ties allowed.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Um, did you have any parameters? Like, is there something that makes a kill particularly memorable for you, other than just, like, the ingenuity of it or the inventiveness?
I think the inventiveness just-
Kind of trumps everything?
W- yeah.
I mean, 'cause a slasher, you- you're s- slashing, knives or whatever.
Spoilers, my favorite kill is not from a slasher movie.
[laughs]
[laughs]
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