The beloved Jurassic Park franchise has been thrilling audiences for well over a quarter of a century now and the shocks just keep coming. While there are a lot of different stakes within the movies, the real tension comes from simply not wanting your favorite character to get eaten.
The franchise has produced a number of memorably gruesome deaths so far and these are the 10 most grisly and gory of them all from the classic Jurassic Park movies to the modern Jurassic World movies.
10 Ken Wheatley (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
The "Great White Hunter", Ken Wheatley, is a thorough heel in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom who earns his demise at the claws of the Indoraptor.
Wheatley attempts to pry a tooth from what he believes is a tranquilized Indoraptor so he can add it to his trophies. Unfortunately for him, the Indoraptor has tricked Wheatley into believing it was unconscious so he would open its cage. After he watches it bite off and swallow his arm, it gets up close and personal before starting on the rest of him.
9 Victor Hoskins (Jurassic World)
The main human antagonist of Jurassic World, Victor Hoskins gets a fitting comeuppance at the hands of a velociraptor after spending the movie underestimating their primal power.
After attempting to reach out his hand and control the velociraptor, as hero Owen Grady does after painstaking work raising them, Hoskins is shown the foolishness of his hypocritical corner-cutting ways when the raptor simply chows down on his arm and then the rest of him.
8 Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)
The only real human villain of the original movie, Dennis Nedry speeds up the inevitable downfall of the ill-fated park by shutting down power in an effort to help him steal valuable embryos for a competitor company.
After becoming lost during his escape, Nedry comes face to face with several Dilophosauruses and their demonically pitch-black spitting venom.
7 Robert Muldoon (Jurassic Park)
Probably the most iconic death in all of the Jurassic Park movies, security advisor Robert Muldoon essentially sacrifices himself to draw the velociraptors away from Dr. Ellie Sattler so that she can restart power to the park and engages in one final hunt with the ultimate predators.
It looks like he's doing okay until he realizes he's been successfully baited and flanked, prompting the famous line "Clever girl." The audience doesn't see much of Muldoon's mauling by the raptors but his screams aid the imagination in picturing something more horrific than Spielberg could have ever gotten away with showing on-screen.
6 Donald Gennaro (Jurassic Park)
Sure, the guy was a "bloodsucking lawyer" but getting eaten alive by a giant dinosaur while you're cowering on the toilet is not a fate that you'd wish on anybody. Even if you had just abandoned several small children to that same giant dinosaur.
Gennaro's death is probably the most satisfying of the original movie, barring the T-Rex's big finale against the velociraptors that is, and, even after the satisfying chomp, the audience gets some comments that suggest that the T-Rex wasn't so much interested in eating Generro as it was just tearing him to pieces.
5 Dr. Robert Burke (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
The sellout paleontologist to the group of hunters hired to round up the dinosaurs in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Dr. Burke seems like he's got enough brains to make it out of the perilous situation on Isla Sorna but is undone by his overwhelming fear of smaller reptiles.
Once cornered by a T-Rex underneath a waterfall, it appears that the predator can't reach the main characters but Burke panics when he notices a snake on his shoulder and it's just enough for the T-Rex to grab him. True to Spielberg's don't-show style, the audience never sees him die but gets the grisly image of his blood turning the waterfall red. It's similar to a cruel hunter's off-screen death earlier in the movie at the hands of a group of tiny Compsognathuses though more impactful, and heavier with the blood flow.
4 Zara Young (Jurassic World)
A fairly shocking death for what amounts to a background character, the assistant to the park's operations manager is suddenly grabbed and lifted off the ground by a passing Pterosaur and dropped into the enclosure of the gigantic Mosasaurus.
After she's terrorized by the Pterosaurs a bit more, she's finally swallowed whole along with her attacker by the Mosasaurus. It's a pretty undignified end for a character that was shown doing little to nothing to deserve it.
3 Peter Ludlow (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
The slimy nephew of the park's original founder, John Hammond, Peter Ludlow is ultimately foiled in his attempts to exploit the dinosaurs of Isla Sorna and is finally eaten by the baby T-Rex, and adult mother, that he attempted to cage.
To teach her baby how to hunt, the mother encourages the infant to go in for the kill after incapacitating Ludlow and it would almost be a sweet moment if it weren't for the screams.
2 Eli Mills (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
One of the most villainous of the franchise's human antagonists, Eli Mills gets what's coming to him at the end of the movie but in a manner that feels excessive even for someone shown to be a psychotic murderer.
Thinking that he's escaped any kind of justice from a stampede of dinosaurs, Mills is suddenly snatched up by a hungry T-Rex and the audience can hear his screams as the top half of his body is repeatedly chewed before the T-Rex pins his leg on the ground with its foot so it can rip his leg off.
1 Eddie Carr (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
During the most memorable scene from the first sequel, Eddie Carr sacrifices his own life to save the group of heroes dangling over a cliff in their mobile lab. You'd think that this would afford him some dignity in death but the poor guy's pulled apart like a wishbone by two T-Rexes.
Considering that Eddie was an all-round nice character and only died because of his bravery and selflessness, the death feels tremendously out of place and could even be said to be the moment that sours the experience of the entire movie.
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April 30, 2020 at 05:30AM
