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We all know that horror movies don’t get much of anywhere without conflict. Someone fights someone, someone fights something, something fights something else---whatever flavor it comes in, we all know that the brawls help make the horror movie.
Thus, this time around, we take a look at the ten greatest horror movie fight scenes! Shark Vs. Zombie from Fulci's Zombi 
You may not consider this much of a fight scene, but come on--when you stop and think about it this really was one hellacious brawl. The first time I saw it my jaw hit the floor as I watched the undead Steve Irwin-prototype tangle with a shark. It's a freaking SHARK. What more can you possibly want? Well, that's easy--more. Which is exactly what you'll get with the rest of this list. That's right--shark brawl is just for starters. Now brace yourselves as we head headlong into number nine! Ash Vs. His Hand in Evil Dead 2 
Considering how much damage that hand did, you have to wonder how anything stood up to Ash himself for very long. Watching Ash brawl with his own hand brought both the sinister and the smiley into play--though the brawl was with his own right hand, and it eventually cost him that hand, you still got plenty of Three Stooges moments thrown in. Father McGruder in Dead Alive 
I kick arse for the LORD! Or so goes the battle cry of Dead Alive's classic pugilist Father McGruder. Though he didn't exactly last very long against the reanimated hordes, it was still a delight to watch this holy father put some brand new holes in some zombies with a series of downright balletic moves. The rolling weapon brawl in Freddy's Dead: A Nightmare on Elm Street 
The...heh heh...LAST Nightmare on Elm Street film was pretty much more of the same--run around, do stuff, fall asleep, Freddy kills just about everybody, yadda yadda. But this was also the first one that suggested maybe all anyone ever needed to do was just pull him into the real world, where he's just another putz with a lot of scarring. The final fight in this one featured a brawl in the secure lockup room of a sort of child hostel / orphanage / counseling center that had more homemade weapons in it than a garage sale in Baghdad. And all of them were put to use against Freddy, including a surprisingly satisfying encounter with a pipe bomb. The one-sided gun battle in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 
This one was just a pure-T winner. Why, you ask? Simple. Because not only did it reinforce the concept that Jason was some kind of horrific undead juggernaut, it was the fight that actually STARTED the movie. No sir, this was not the LAST ten minutes--this was the FIRST ten minutes. As Jason stalks into a clearing, a series of floodlights fire up, pinning him in place as several hundred rounds of small arms fire--everything from 9mm to NATO 5.56--slam into his animated corpse body. And to top it all off, one particularly overenthusiastic FBI operative lobs a hand grenade at Jason, causing his head to shoot probably a couple hundred feet...straight up. And this was only the beginning. Martian prize fight in Mars Attacks 
Okay, maybe watching a has-been prize fighter working the casino floor in Mars Attacks wasn't the most inspiring thing...but watching him come out of retirement to pummel one of those big-brained monstrousities into insensate oblivion was just FUN. Jim Brown versus a CG Martian may not take the place of Ultimate Doomsday Death Dismemberment League MMA Cage Barbed Wire Battle 2008, but it's fun. And fun counts for a lot on this list. The castle brawl in Army of Darkness 
Ha! Hoo! Ha! Yah! Ha! Hoo! Ha! Yah! Who would've thought that that would be a viable battle tactic? Leave it to our very own bad-Ash to come up with that one. The castle brawl in Army of Darkness features everything the movie could possibly throw at you--gunpowder arrows, catapults, a tricked-out Chevrolet / windmill hybrid, and of course, an army of the nigh-indestructible dead. Actually, as Army of Darkness' castle brawl proved, the dead were actually pretty easy to destroy as long as you didn't get so freaked out by them that you let them hit first. The pie fight in Dawn of the Dead 
For raw surrealism in the midst of a movie that was neck-deep in Zombie Apocalypse, watching a biker gang stage a pie fight with the walking dead in the middle of an abandoned shopping mall had to be one of the great moments in horror humor history. Fighting zombies is never really supposed to be fun and games--the sheer lack of fun in "Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green" was proof enough of that--but when you've got a bunch of well-costumed, scruffy-looking bikers tearing around the center court of a mall wielding pies and seltzer bottles to take on the walking dead, you've got one fantastic fight scene on your hands. The lawn mower battle in Dead Alive 
One of the great granddaddy fight scenes ever unleashed on the viewing public had to be the lawn mower battle in Dead Alive. You'd never think of a lawn mower as being a weapon until, like our hero here, you lift it to your chest, yank the pull starter, and hold that thing up running hell-bent for leather through the crowd of walking, pus-filled corpses that have suddenly taken up residence in your foyer because your idiot relatives blackmailed you into throwing a party. And when that one row of corpses has been reduced to a chunky orange mess and the remainder are just standing there, staring bleakly at the implement of their demise, it's a laugh riot moment. And the absolute top horror film fight scene? Freddy Vs. Jason’s final Crystal Lake bout 
This must be, by sheer default, the single greatest fight scene ever unleashed by man, folks. Not only does it take its sweet time, with a runtime of roughly ten minutes or more, but it also brings in some downright insane moments. Just to set the scene for you, Freddy is about to get his final revenge against the terrifyingly hot Monica Keena in his standard lecherous fashion when suddenly a burn injury wakes her up and she drags Freddy out with her. Now, you know from practical experience (or at the very least this list) that when Freddy hits the real world, it never goes well for him. And indeed, this time will be no exception. The look on Freddy's face as he notices that he's now in the real world, and as he turns around to see undead juggernaut Jason Voorhees standing not far behind him in a partially burning cabin at Camp Crystal Lake, is a look that's familiar to all of us. It's that look you get when you realize your tax papers are still on your to-do pile and it's now April 17th. It's that look when you try to start your car and go to work, only all you get is a grinding chug. It's that look that can only be associated with one phrase: Oh, shit. And when Jason picks up Freddy, slams him through a window, and then begins to run through the cabin, dragging Freddy along with him, running him through an entire cabin wall LENGTHWISE, you know we're in for one hellacious brawl. Somewhere, Neo and Agent Smith were watching in dread and alarm, wondering how they ever got away with calling their little schoolyard scuffle the "Super Burly Brawl". With a run time of at least ten minutes, the ideological culmination of two decade-spanning careers, and sheer lunatic fighting, the final titular brawl in Freddy Vs. Jason must be the best fight scene in horror film history. - Steve Anderson |
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