Top 10: Washroom bits #2

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

There are always rooms in a
house that gives people the creeps at night. The attic, the basement, and walk
in closets are the most obvious rooms that invoke fear, because they are the
rooms where most killers and monsters lurk in horror films.

I, on the other hand was
always creeped out by the washroom. (Don’t laugh!) The washroom is the hardest
place in the house to escape from. It’s a small enclosed space, there are
usually no windows, (unless you’re on the second or third floor) you’re at your
most vulnerable, and most importantly, there’s nowhere to hide. (Unless you
think an intruder is going to be too stupid to look behind the shower curtain.)

Obviously I’m not the only one
who shares the same fear, for horror filmmakers have been exploring and/or
exploiting washroom deaths on screen for decades. Here’s my list of the most
memorable death scenes in washrooms that have either given me goose bumps,
nightmares, and many laughs.

READ
PART 1 OF THIS LIST HERE

WARNING – SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!

5.
Species

One thing I hate about nightclubs is the constant
competition with other women. When a girl happens to steal a guy I’ve been
talking to, I usually: a) trip her or step on her brand new shoes, b)
“accidentally” spill my drink on her, or c) shove her out of the way while
calling her a ‘slut.’ Although if you’re a human-alien hybrid like Sil in
Species, revenge is a “little” different. When she had a man stolen from
her at a club, she calmly followed the woman into the public washroom and ripped
out her spine in the stall. (OUCH!) Thank god women don’t think like that,
because in that case there would be a lot of dead bitches in nightclubs every
night.

4.
Ghoulies 2

I used to love the
Ghoulies franchise when I was little. Nothing in the series really gave me
nightmares, until I saw the “infamous toilet kill” in the second installment. A
man runs into the amusement park washroom and sits on the toilet, only to meet a
grisly death by one of the ghoulies who was hiding in the toilet bowl. Sure, it
was funny and not at all gory, but that seriously f*cked me up as a kid. I
constantly thought something was going to bite my ass off if I went to the
bathroom, and to this day, I avoid the washrooms at amusement parks.

3.
Evil Breed/Samhain

I watched this movie
drunk with a couple of my guy friends last year who were all hoping the movie
was a porno disguised as a horror film. (The cast is full of popular pornstars)
While my buddies were ogling Jenna Jameson and while I was continuously
complaining about how awful Richard Grieco looks now, we watched a scene that
made us shut up and stare at the screen in bewilderment. In the slasher, a man
gets attacked by a monstrous cannibal and ends up getting his intestines ripped
out through his ass! At first, we were laughing hysterically, but then the scene
just kept going and going, and it went from being extremely hilarious to
extremely f*cked up. It definitely killed our buzz to say in the very least.

2.
Jack Frost

This movie made it on
my top ten list last year for the most ridiculous kill in a horror movie, and
yet it may be ridiculous and absurd, it sure is a notable death scene in a
bathroom. You can’t forget a killer snowman killing and raping a then unknown
Shannon Elizabeth with his carrot in the bathtub. It’s one of those memories
that will never fade away….no matter how hard you try.

1.
Psycho

No matter how old you are,
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic has most likely popped in your head when you take a
shower from time to time. Psycho is the reason why I have a bathmat in
my shower. Before I had the mat, I would nearly kill myself trying to jump out
the shower every time I heard a slight noise in the bathroom. It may be the
most obvious choice, but Janet Leigh’s death is by far the most memorable death
scene in a washroom on film.

READ PART 1 OF THIS LIST HERE