Start SlideshowStart SlideshowThe Jurassic Park movies (including the Jurassic World movies) are ridiculous examples of human hubris. Dinosaurs are cloned, genetically engineered to be better entertainment attractions, and hunted for sport. But absurdity aside, a few of those films have some surprisingly gruesome deaths, especially for a franchise aimed at family audiences.An Indominus Rex casually flings a soldier into a tree before ripping through the rest in Jurassic World. A raptor pounces from the shadows to end Dieter Stark’s (Peter Stormare) creepy demise in The Lost World. And who could forget Zara Young’s (Katie McGrath) wildly over-the-top air-and-sea takedown by Pteranodons and a Mosasaurus—still the franchise’s most elaborate (and strangely beautiful) execution. With Jurassic World Rebirth ushering in a new era of dino disasters on July 2, let’s see which of its predecessors captured the imagination and snatched our breaths away best with its deaths.Previous SlideNext Slide2 / 8List slides6. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)List slides6. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Mills gets eatenNo Jurassic Park or World movie takes a bigger nosedive in quality purely because of how absurd its death scenes are than Fallen Kingdom. This is the movie where a random mercenary gets his arm chomped off by a tranquilized raptor because he casually walks into its cage—as if he forgot he was in a dinosaur movie and not working security at a mall. Then there’s the rich auction guest who stands motionless under a cage as the Indoraptor lines up the kill like it’s posing for a horror movie poster. And let’s not forget the rooftop scene where the Indoraptor literally stalks a child like Dracula before impaling itself on decorative horns. These aren’t just far-fetched deaths—they’re cartoonishly choreographed in a way that makes it hard to take any of them seriously. It’s like the writers asked, “What’s the dumbest way someone could die?” and then made it canon.Previous SlideNext Slide3 / 8List slides5. Jurassic Park III (2001)List slides5. Jurassic Park III (2001)Jurassic Park 3 (5/10) Movie CLIP - They Set a Trap (2001) HDJurassic Park III isn’t the worst movie in the franchise, but it’s hanging onto second-to-last by the claws of a raptor—and even those feel a little dulled here. The deaths just don’t hit as hard. Sure, there’s a moment or two worth replaying, like the Spinosaurus tearing through a plane crash like it’s made of tinfoil and then slamming its teeth into M.B. Nash (Bruce A. Young) mid-sprint. And the raptor snapping Udesky’s (Michael Jeter) neck after using his screams to lure the others to its trap was terrifyingly cool, and a chilling introduction of the dinosaur’s enhanced strategic intelligence. But when you stack it against the rest of the franchise, where people get ripped in half, stomped into the dirt, or juggled mid-air like chew toys before being swallowed by sea monsters, this one feels tame. It flirts with the chaos, but never commits to the carnage—and in a franchise famous for spectacular deaths, that just doesn’t cut it.Previous SlideNext Slide4 / 8List slides4. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)List slides4. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)T-Rex & Therizinosaurus VS Giganotosaurus | Jurassic World: Dominion Final Fight | DINOSAUR Movie Few Jurassic movies waste their potential quite like Jurassic World: Dominion. It’s not that it lacks dino action—on the contrary, the Therizinosaurus vs. Giganotosaurus showdown is an apex predator brawl worthy of the franchise’s legacy, and the locust swarm burning across farmland like biblical vengeance is straight-up haunting. But when it comes to the franchise’s trademark death scenes? Dominion blinks. Characters are snatched, mauled, or incinerated—and yet somehow, we’re usually watching it from behind a tree or right as the camera cuts away. In a series that once let a raptor tear into Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) offscreen because it was the ‘90s, it’s wild that a 2022 blockbuster felt the need to censor itself. For all its scale and spectacle, Dominion ends up in the bottom half of the franchise rankings simply because it forgot what made the chaos so thrilling in the first place: letting us watch.Previous SlideNext Slide5 / 8List slides3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)List slides3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)Jurassic Park:The lost World (1997) Eddie’s DeathIf there’s one Jurassic sequel that leans into the brutality, it’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Eddie Carr’s (Richard Schiff) death is both gruesome and gutting—after heroically holding the trailer in place to save Ian and Sarah from falling, he’s yanked from his SUV by two T-Rexes and torn in half like a rag doll. Dieter Stark’s is slower but no less disturbing—separated from the group, he’s stalked through the jungle by Compies that chip away at him bite by bite until his screams fade into silence. Also, poor Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard) gets dragged into the juvenile Rex pen by the adult and left to be mauled, whimpering, by the baby in what feels more like a training session than a kill. Where other films glance away from the gore, The Lost World stares straight at it, making every death feel earned, brutal, and unforgettable.Previous SlideNext Slide6 / 8List slides2. Jurassic World (2015)List slides2. Jurassic World (2015)Mosasaurus eats Woman - Jurassi’c World (4K)Look, no Jurassic Park/World film’s ranking on this list is as dependent on the majesty of one death as Jurassic World. But, there was no one death in this movie (and arguably any other movie from the franchise) than the choreography of Zara being tossed around in mid-air by two Pteranodons, dropped into the sea where another Pteranodon dives in to snatch her up (THEY CAN SWIM TOO?!) before a fucking sea-dwelling Mosasaurus emerges from the sea to swallow them both whole in a gorgeously executed example of the cycle of life. The fact all of that happened in less than 40 seconds is a testament how much gruesome detail you can pack into a scene when you don’t cut away from the mayhem. Previous SlideNext Slide7 / 8List slides1. Jurassic Park (1993)List slides1. Jurassic Park (1993)Jurassic Park; Tyrannosaurus Rex eats man on toiletCompared to the glossy CGI bloodbaths that would follow in future Jurassic Park/World films, the OG that started all looks almost prehistoric, and that’s what makes it the most gruesome. Without advanced special effects producing swarms of Pteranodons and Quetzalcoatluses or toothy battles between gigantic T-Rexes, Steven Spielberg relied on giving us an unflinching look at the struggle to live. A man being snatched off the toilet and into the jaws of death feels more visceral than one computer generated dinosaur gorging on another. The stakes feel more real. Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck) stealthily being outsmarted by a Velociraptor in the jungle, before conceding the she’s a “clever girl” as his final words, might be the most iconic death in Jurassic Park/World history. In Jurassic Park’s case, less is more: human suspense will always trump CGI theatrics when it comes to blood and gore.