Film: Hot Fuzz (2007)
Moment: Tim’s head is crushed by the stone pinnacle of a church
While Hot Fuzz does contain some horror elements, mostly it functions as a deft parody of action movie clichés from the ’80s and early ’90s. Nevertheless, the gore is more extreme than anything featured in the majority of those films, and perhaps the bloodiest moment is when Tim Messenger’s head is gruesomely crushed from above by a Gothic church’s severed stone pinnacle. The impressive gag is pulled off with director Edgar Wright’s typically adroit mix of splatter and outright comedy; you can’t help but laugh even while you’re wincing.