When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. But the only way Cody can get the assignment is to go undercover – uncovered – at the club.
Carlye Byron is lassoed with a wire and strangled from above. She’s then hoisted off the ground and her corpse is attached to the underside of a truck right before it drives off.
Comments
Scenes like this are why I lost interest in traditional gallows and platform hangings years ago. I grew tired of the prep and ceremony in favor of seeing protagonists taken by surprise as they go about their routines. I also prefer seeing them claw at the ligature.
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Deborah Everton is strangled while brushing her teeth.
Comments
This is the second strangling in the movie and my favorite among them. It was filmed in what I believe is Grand Central Station. It’s one of the best stranglings I’ve ever seen, despite the fact that we don’t see Deborah’s face after the initial attack. If I had a Top 5 list of favorite stranglings, this scene would be on it, right under Amy Parrish’s scene in American Gothic.
After another run-in with Merlyn, Sheriff Buck conjures up the spirit of the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, to deal with her once and for all. But DeSalvo has an appetite for some other females in town, including Gail. Lucas goes off to a convention out of town, meanwhile, and Ben fills in as sheriff.
The Strangler decides to have a bit of extra fun while in corporeal form, and is masquerading as a Janitor at the local Hospital when he sees Amy. Later that night, she arrives home and is getting comfortable when the Strangler knocks, posing as a delivery driver dropping off medical supplies. He talks her into letting him in so he can leave the supplies at her place, and then strangles her from behind with one of her own stockings as she’s signing the release form.
The attack itself is rather brief. She gasps, and then the camera quickly pans down to her feet as she’s lifted off the floor. We see her kick for a second before the camera cuts to an exterior shot of the attack looking in through her front door window. The camera then pulls away as the Strangler pulls her down to the floor out of view from us, and then the scene fades to a commercial break.
Comments
My favorite kind of protagonists are professional women, and I have an especially soft spot for Nurses in classic white uniforms. Amy is a gorgeous actress who looks stunning in this episode. Seeing one of her character’s white stockings wrapped around her neck was an absolute delight, and her performance was icing on the cake.
Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high-school students headed to Manhattan, New York.
Tiffany Paulsen is impaled with a harpoon after Jason finds her hiding place.
Comments
This movie should’ve been called Jason Takes a Boat En Route to Manhattan because 3/4 of the movie takes place on a boat… en route… to Manhattan. I remember seeing the trailer the first time and thinking, “Ooh, asphyxiated socialites!” That’s what I was hoping for, anyway… alas, such was not to be. Thankfully, this scene made up for an otherwise shattered dream of Jason snuffing out New York’s rich and beautiful.
Kelly Hu is strangled while trying to evade Jason in a dance hall.
Comments
I don’t know about you, but when I’m watching a movie in which someone’s about to get killed, I often scan the setting for anything the director might’ve decided to use to kill the character with, all the while getting my hopes up for an asphyxia-related death. When Jason grabbed Kelly’s throat, all I could think was, “Lift her up! Please lift her up!” as if trying to will how the scene played out. Sure enough, up she went, right up against the ceiling. The scene proved to be one of the best I’d seen in the entire franchise. Her performance was spot on. Once she’s dead, Jason just tosses her corpse onto the floor. I once read that was her getting tossed for real.
Fetish Elements
Throatlift
Edits
Most of the lead-up to her death is a needlessly long cat-and-mouse game, so I edited the clip to start just seconds before she’s attacked.
