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[Kill of the Week] That Damn Exploding Soccer Ball in ‘Death Wish V’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
Eli Roth’s Death Wish has the goriest death in the entire franchise, a scene that was heavily featured (albeit always cut off before the good stuff) in the new film’s marketing. Hint: it involves Bruce Willis, another guy and Bruce’s friend “Jack.” The goriest in the series, no doubt, but it’s Death Wish V that has the honor of having the silliest kill.
Charles Bronson played Paul Kersey for the fifth and final time in The Face of Death, released in 1994. Kersey, by that point a full-on slasher killer-by-way-of-vigilante-hero, took on the mob in the franchise’s fifth outing, a film that starred Land of the Dead and The Hills Have Eyes‘ (2006) Robert Joy as mobster Freddie Flakes.
Flakes, as his name suggests, has a dandruff problem. Kersey cures him. Forever.
In the film’s most out-there kill scene, Kersey rigs up an ordinary-looking soccer ball with explosives, operating it via remote control to blow Freddie’s head to kingdom come.
“I’m gonna take care of your dandruff problem for you,” a monotone Bronson quips, before hitting the kill switch. A dummy, and then a real stuntman, fill in for Joy.
Oddly enough, the clip features nudity, so be aware it’s NSFW!
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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