Highest-Rated Movies about 'Death By Impalement'

Serenity (2005), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003), The Omen (1976), Excalibur (1981), The Return of the Living Dead (1985), ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilĂ  (1981), Friday the 13th (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Death By Impalement movies.

#1. Serenity (2005)

Storyline: In the future, a spaceship called Serenity is harboring a passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an awesome action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything - or anyone - to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But, the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

Plot Keywords: on the run, smuggler, spacecraft, megacorporation, space opera, future war, cannibalism ...

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#2. The Name of the Rose (1986)

Storyline: 1327. After a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William von Baskerville, a respected Franciscan friar, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

Plot Keywords: middle ages, monk, male rear nudity, multiple murder, murder investigation, secret room, serial killer ...

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#3. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Storyline: Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent showdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.

Plot Keywords: hit on the head, shot in the chest, slashing, slaughter, stabbed in the back, stabbed in the chest, stabbed in the hand ...

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#4. The Omen (1976)

Storyline: Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

Plot Keywords: death by impalement, american abroad, airplane trip, good versus evil, christianity, catholic priest, catholic church ...

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#5. Excalibur (1981)

Storyline: The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.

Plot Keywords: knight, rise and fall, death of main character, hand to hand combat, combat, massacre, tragic event ...

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#6. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Storyline: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.

Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, naked dead woman, punk, cemetery, undead, paramedic, poison gas ...

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#7. ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilĂ  (1981)

Storyline: The cellar of an old hotel is built on top of the door to the beyond. Bloody zombies roam there. A young woman who is heir of the hotel wants to restaurate it. She is confronted with strange events. A painter has a lethal fall, the plumber vanishes and her friend breaks his neck. When she escapes to the hospital of a friendly doctor she doesn't know what a nightmare is waiting there...

Plot Keywords: hell, spider, eye gouging, surrealism, tarantula, blindness, cult director ...

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#8. Friday the 13th (1980)

Storyline: One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

Plot Keywords: 1970s, surprise ending, mother, slasher, actual animal killed, bare chested male, machete ...

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#9. Centurion (2010)

Storyline: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Plot Keywords: violence, mushroom, mute, tribe, witch, gore, death of child ...

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#10. Scream 2 (1997)

Storyline: Two years after the events of Scream, Sidney Prescott and Randy are attending Windsor college. They are trying to get on with their lives...Until a new Ghostface killing spree begins. With the help of Dewey and Gale, Sidney must find out who's behind the murders. As the body count goes up, the list of suspects goes down.

Plot Keywords: villain, satire, self referential, necklace, character says i love you, police chief, suspicion ...

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#11. Final Destination 2 (2003)

Storyline: Whilst heading onto the highway, Kimberly Corman has a vision of a huge car accident. Bringing the traffic to a halt, Kimberly is horrified when the accident actually happens. Kimberly links the occurrence with a similar event a year earlier: the Flight 180 disaster. After speaking with Clear Rivers, the only remaining survivor of the Flight 180 disaster, Kimberly discovers that Death's pattern has been disturbed, meaning everyone who was originally supposed to die will now be killed in separate freak accidents. Kimberly and the rest of the survivors must work with Clear to try and stop Death from repeating its process.

Plot Keywords: woman in jeopardy, single mother, cleavage, scantily clad female, breasts, female nudity, female frontal nudity ...

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#12. No Escape (1994)

Storyline: Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you leave only when you die. Since nobody ever leaves the prison, nobody knows what the prison is like. The prison manager realizes this and buys himself an island playground called "Absolom," where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule...a living hell. Robbins is sent to Absolom after he almost kills the prison manager.

Plot Keywords: island, jungle, all male cast, ex soldier, prisoner, prison, dystopia ...

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#13. Lord of Illusions (1995)

Storyline: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader Nix. 13 years ago, Nix was gunned down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a popular illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. A short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over, and it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour.

Plot Keywords: neo noir, private detective, magician, magic, child uses a gun, occult, adaptation directed by original author ...

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#14. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Storyline: Tommy Jarvis returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.

Plot Keywords: severed head, flashback, returning character with different actor, villain not really dead cliche, friday the thirteenth, 1980s, looking at the camera ...

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#15. The Green Berets (1968)

Storyline: U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to both the war and the means by which it is executed. Kirby's firebase is overrun and his troops fight bravely to retake it. Kirby and a select group of his men are then ordered on a special mission to capture a high-level Viet Cong officer.

Plot Keywords: propaganda, special forces, u.s. military, vietnam war, vietnam, revisionist history, nco ...

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