| Slit throat | |
| Classification: | Injury |
| Genres: | Action; Horror |
| Franchises: | Conjuring film series Friday the 13th film series Halloween film series |
| Associated films: | Annabelle Bride of Chucky Freddy vs. Jason Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later |
| Character examples: | Annie Brackett; Crazy Ralph; Kia Waterson; Marion Chambers; Ned Rubinstein |
| Related articles: | Throat injury; Throat ripped out |
Slit throat is what happens when someone slices your throat open, causing you to bleed out. Such an injury is almost always fatal. This sort of gruesome method of death is common in the horror genre, as well as many dramas, particularly ones of the mobster subgenre. Many suspense thrillers will also feature a murderer that kills his victims by slitting their throat.
In gangster films, a popular weapon used to slice open someone's throat, or to strangle them, is a garrote. Such practices can be found in movies like the Godfather film series.
In film[]
- Annabelle: Cultist and Satanist Annabelle Higgins attempts to murder John and Mia. Failing that, she takes her own life by slitting her throat. Before dying, she paints a symbol on the wall behind her in her own blood.
- Bram Stoker's Dracula: Quincey Morris slices Dracula's throat open at the end of the film. It is actually Mina Murray who finishes the vampire off however.
- Bride of Chucky: Tiffany kills officer Robert Bailey by slitting his throat.
- Freddy vs. Jason: In a dream sequence, Jason Voorhees slices open the throat of a negligent camp counselor. In the real world, Jason used his machete to slice open the throat of a woman named Kia Waterson.
- Friday the 13th: Pamela Voorhees kills several people in this fashion between two different time periods including Annie Phillips, Bill, Claudette and Ned Rubinstein.
- Friday the 13th Part 2: Jason Voorhees uses a garrote to kill Crazy Ralph.
- Halloween: Michael Myers kills Annie Brackett by slitting her throat in the driver's seat of a car.
- Halloween: In the remake of Halloween, Michael Myers kills Mason Strode on the front porch of his home slicing his throat open with a butcher knife.
- Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later: Michael Myers kills Marion Chambers by slicing her throat open with a knife.