Death fascinates me, probably because I have watched too many Quentin Tarantino movies.

In a Tarantino movie, death is just a shoulder tap away, and it comes in such glory that you find yourself anticipating it, with bated breath. At the same time, he knows how to make you fall in love with bloodthirst and gore. There’s absolutely no denying that there’s a certain grace in the way Tarantino makes a kill.

While slasher movies are my death because I cannot stand the sight of blood, “Tarantino movie deaths” compilation videos are weirdly entertaining and relaxing to me.

In this article, let’s revisit some of the most iconic deaths (and kills) in Tarantino movies that make death seem like a sweet dream.

10 Iconic Deaths in Tarantino Movies 1. The Brittle Brothers—Django Unchained

This is how I’d prefer the tables to turn in my favor, even if it is for a brief hour.

After teaming up with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) sets out to look for the Brittle Brothers, his ex-masters and Schultz’s bounty targets.

In exchange for his help, Schultz agrees to help Django track down and save his wife from the plantation to which she was recently shipped. It takes a while and a few deaths before they finally find Bennett’s plantation.

As Schultz tries to distract the plantation owner with a ruse to extract information, Django goes around the plantation and finds what they had been looking for. Big John (M.C. Gainey), Lil Raj (Cooper Huckabee), and Ellis (Doc Duhame) were right there, a couple of bullets away.

Django pulls out his gun and shoots Big John, following it up with a witty punchline, “I like the way you die, boy.” He then whips the second brother with Big John’s own whip before shooting him, before Schultz arrives with a sniper gun to shoot the third, who is trying to get away on a horse.

There’s nothing sweeter in a revenge tale than a character serving justice with his own hand to the ones who wronged him.

2. Bill—Kill Bill: Vol 2

Tarantino takes two whole movies to kill Bill (David Carradine), but every second of screentime is worth the wait. The Bride (Uma Thurman) makes me extremely proud—it’s always a delight to see her make a kill.

For the last kill, we are served with a real treat. It’s barely 30 seconds long, but so satisfying. We all know Tarantino’s love for anime (which he shows in Kill Bill: Vol. 1), and the final fight between Beatrix and Bill is like a live-action anime.

Their kinetic sword fight ends with the five-point-palm exploding heart technique and blood oozing out of Bill’s mouth. In his dying moments, the Bride and her ex-lover have a last conversation, which I think is one of the greatest moments of closure in cinema.

3. The Four Girls—Death Proof

Four girls in a car after a night of clubbing race down the road with the stereo on high. Randomly, they’re picked by a serial killer, a former Hollywood stuntman called Mike (Kurt Russel), as his target of the night.

On a deserted road, in the dark, the girls’ car races down blazing music, all four oblivious of their end that’s about to greet them in mere minutes. The serial killer stomps hard on the accelerator of his car, speeds down the street, and collides head-on with the girls’ car. The former’s car halfway juts into the latter’s.

Tarantino takes us through every death in this scene in slow motion, as skulls get crushed, arms fly off, and the car swivels ominously, killing all four on the spot.

4. Brett—Pulp Fiction

Brett (Frank Whaley) dies an operatic death—traumatic yet swift, and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) surely is one dramatic man when it comes to doing his job.

The scene includes a “biblical” verse, Ezekiel 25:17 (which, by the way, has nothing to do with the Bible). I love how Tarantino justifies killing in the name of brotherhood—a theme that’s ever lingering in Vincent’s (John Travolta) and Jules’ timeline. The sequence is drenched in menace but somehow seamlessly establishes the two hitmen as anti-heroes rather than villains.

5. Marvin—Pulp Fiction

Deaths like Marvin’s (Phil LaMarr) in Pulp Fiction or those who are killed in the bar fight in Inglourious Bastards remind us of how sudden and chaotic death can be. Sitting in the back of the car, little did Marvin know that he was seconds away from death. Neither did Vincent, who accidentally shoots him.

A passionate conversation with Jules gets Vincent all worked up, who turns around to get Marvin’s opinion on the discussion when—BAM! The entire car and the two in front are painted in his blood, with the car racing down the busy city street in broad daylight.

6. Vincent Vega—Pulp Fiction

Vincent’s death is proof that he has run out of luck.

Butch (Bruce Willis) has left the apartment by the time Vincent arrives there to kill him. (So, in an alternate timeline, both would have been alive.) But Butch returns to grab his ancestral gold watch and finds Vincent’s gun in the apartment, and him inside the bathroom. Vincent steps out, unarmed, and Butch shoots him with his own gun.

So, basically, don’t take bathroom breaks in between your jobs, especially if you’re in the killing business. And don’t leave the freaking gun out if you do!

7. Calvin Candie—Django Unchained

Calvin Candie’s death makes you happy—he deserved something a bit more painful, maybe, but we’ll manage.

After Django and Schultz sign the papers to buy Broomhilda for $12,000 from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the brutal owner of the Candyland Plantation in Mississippi, he insists that Schultz shake his hand.

Schultz curtly refuses, after which Candie begins to threaten him with Broomhilda’s life. Losing his nerve, Schultz walks down to him and shoots Candie point-blank in his heart. Moments later, he is killed in the shootout that ensues after Candie’s death, but his act of violence continues to remain the highlight of the movie.

8. Matsumoto—Kill Bill: Vol. 1

O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) is on the Bride’s mortal enemy list; however, she’s a woman whom I really admire. The head of the Tokyo Yakuza, O-Ren, had a traumatic childhood. After witnessing the cold-blooded murder of her parents by the Yakuza at 11 years old, O-Ren takes a blood oath to kill the sleazy old Yakuza head, Matsumoto, who ordered the execution.

In two years, O-Ren avenges her parents’ death by killing Matsumoto after luring him into bed with her. The entire flashback is in anime, and we see a cold smile on O-Ren’s lips as Matsumoto shrieks in pain with a sword ripping into his abdomen. The blood splash at the end? Iconic!

9. The Nazis—Inglourious Basterds

Although this scene could not be any farther from actual history, the Nazi assassination planned by Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and the titular Basterds gives us a few moments of happiness to see the satanic dictator and his men meet their end like rats.

Throughout the movie, Shoshanna luckily survives Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) and makes her way to France. But losing her entire family in mere minutes, right before her eyes, is a scar that doesn’t heal in a single lifetime.

Shoshanna swears revenge on those who killed her kin, but fate has better plans for her. Even though she dies in the end, what she accomplishes leaves no room for regret.

10. Melanie—Jackie Brown

Knowing when to shut up is a real talent. If you’re as ill-fated as Melanie in Jackie Brown, your yammering might cost you your life.

To give you a little context, Jackie Brown follows the titular character, a flight attendant (Pam Grier), who works for an illegal gun runner, Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), to help him smuggle money in and out of the U.S. All is going well until the ATF nabs Jackie for the possession of illegal money and drugs.

In this scene, Melanie and Louis are supposed to swap a particular bag of cash, left behind for Ordell by Jackie in the mall’s changing room.

Melanie and Louis make a pitstop at the mall to pick up the money, right before their rendezvous with Ordell, during which Melanie, stoned out of her wits, continues to annoy Louis.

I’ll say he kept his calm for quite some time before shutting her up forever. He even warned her, so it’s technically on her.

Did your favorite death in a Tarantino movie make it to this list? Let us know in the comments which one is your favorite.