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* Near the start of ''Film/{{SWAT}}'' Alex Montel cuts the throat of his uncle Martin Gascoigne for stealing from their crime organization.
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* In ''Film/TheManWhoCameBackk'', Paxton kills the first of the vigilantes he finds following his escape by slitting the man's throat while he sleeps.
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* ''Film/AmericanNightmare1983'': Tina is tackled by [[spoiler:Tony]] and subsequently killed by having her throat slashed.
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* ''Film/OldPeople'': After Kim performs her HeroicSacrifice to save Ella, the old people kill her by slitting her throat.
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* Karen's body is found with a slit throat in ''Film/TheBurning''.
* In ''Film/TheConIsOn'', Irina casually slits the throat of a gambler who makes the mistake of [[MistakenForServant thinking she is a waitress]].
* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' has Bond's ally Ferrara suffer this fate while Bond is busy fighting in an ice rink.
* In ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', Mr. Gustave's cellmates have a SinisterShiv they call a "throat-slitter". They make use of it during their escape.
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* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' has Bond's ally Ferrara suffer this fate while Bond is busy fighting in an ice rink.
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* Done in the opening of ''Film/AssassinationGames''. The blood is very understated with the victim taking a while to realize their throat has been cut.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the alien chef mocks the captive Giles by doing the throat slit gesture with a knife that he has in his hand. A mook named Robert attempts to mimic the gesture with his sharpened bayonet but accidentally cuts his own throat.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the alien chef mocks the captive Giles by doing the throat slit gesture with a knife that he has in his hand. A mook named Robert attempts to mimic the gesture with his sharpened bayonet but accidentally cuts his own throat.
* In the prologue of ''Film/TheButchers'', Luther kills Simon's mother by slitting her throat while Simon watches.
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Mila tries to escape when the gang storms Daria's house, but is caught and has her throat slit.
* ''{{Film/Cure}}'': One of the only things tying the murders together is the "X" slashed across the throats of the victims.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Joseph kills one the sentries at the bank by slitting his throat: the first of a lot of deaths to follow.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Joseph kills one the sentries at the bank by slitting his throat: the first of a lot of deaths to follow.
* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'': This is how Gurerro kills Washington: silently taking him out at the back of the group while the rest of the gang looks down the mine tunnel.
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* In the prologue of ''Film/TheButchers'', Luther kills Simon's mother by slitting her throat while Simon watches.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Mila tries to escape when the gang storms Daria's house, but is caught and has her throat slit.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Joseph kills one the sentries at the bank by slitting his throat: the first of a lot of deaths to follow.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Mila tries to escape when the gang storms Daria's house, but is caught and has her throat slit.
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* ''Film/Cadaver2020'': Hans [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] in front of [[TheProtagonist Leonora]] and her husband Jacob by slicing his throat open. [[spoiler:Except it was just an act. He turns up later, alive and well, still wearing the fake skin on his neck, with the tube for the fake blood sticking out.]]
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* ''Film/{{Kruel}}'': In the film's climax, Willie gets Jo's dad to back off and drop his weapon by [[HostageSituation holding a knife to Jo's throat]]. Even then, however, [[ShootTheDog Willie decides to just slit Jo's throat anyway]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Jo survives it.]]
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* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': Deville reveals that he's a vampire along with his guests after the butler Mr. Field casually slits the throat of a maid to serve them her blood. He later tells Evie he'd murdered her great-grandfather using this method as well.
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* ''Film/NutcrackerMassacre'': In a {{Flashback}} scene, after the 19-century German soldier has swallowed a gem and driven himself mad thinking he's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', he kidnaps two girls (one of whom he thinks is his Princess Clara, and the other the evil sister), and kills one of them by slashing her across the throat with a knife.
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* ''Film/{{Belly}}'': Lennox, the Jamaican drug kingpin is killed in this manner by a female assassin sent by a rival drug lord.
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* ''Film/Elves2017'': When killing the TropaholicsAnonymous group late in the movie, the red-haired girl pulls out a red-and-white striped swiss army knife and slashes the old lady's throat.
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* ''Film/KildTV'': When Leland, the studio head, comes to look into what the crew are doing (they've been broadcasting for help and urging people to call the police to catch the killer they're trapped there with), the killer gets him stuck in the door, slits one of his arms, then his throat.
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* ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'': The Bowery King has a massive scar on the right side of his neck from one of John's knives. He relates how John deliberately left him the SadisticChoice of either holding the wound closed and surviving, or pursuing him and dying, mirroring what John did moments earlier to his pursuer Cassian (a knife in the aorta that he may survive if he goes to an ER instead of trying to follow John out of the subway car).
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* ''Film/TheRetreat2021'': Renee finishes off Gavin this way.
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* ''Film/Compulsion2016'': Both human sacrifices are killed by a single cut across the throat.
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series, this seems to be Michael Myers' favorite method of killing.
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* ''Film/CappsCrossing'': David takes a couple of lives by slitting their throats.
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* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': The hooded members of the MalevolentMaskedMen kill Riccardo and Sofia by slitting their throats after adding Riccardo's ears and Sofia's eyeballs to their giant wicker man.
* Dean cuts his own throat in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' remake due to Freddy's influence.
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* In ''Film/TheThing1982'', the Americans discover a frozen corpse in the remains of the Norwegian camp whose throat and wrists have been slashed. In the ''Film/TheThing2011'', a deleted scene shows why and how it happened. [[spoiler:He did it to himself when he was trapped in the room with a Thing.]]
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* ''Film/TwentyFirstCenturySerialKiller'': Charles opens up a woman's throat in front of [[TheProtagonist Aaron]].
* ''Film/SixtyEightKill'':
** Liza murders her sugar daddy Ken by sneaking up on him [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown while he is masturbating]] and slashing his throat.
** Later, Violet is murdered offscreen by Monica the same way.
* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': The hooded members of the MalevolentMaskedMen kill Riccardo and Sofia by slitting their throats after adding Riccardo's ears and Sofia's eyeballs to their giant wicker man.
* Dean cuts his own throat in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' remake due to Freddy's influence.
* ''Film/AmericanScarecrow'': The killer manages to do this to Joey in the barn.
* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': Rooker has his number two slash Stephen's throat in front of Alice.
* ''Film/AshesOfTime'': Tony Leung's Blind Swordsman dies in this manner when the leader of the bandit army he's fighting slices his jugular while he's busy fending off several mooks.
* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': One of the intruders kills a cop by slitting his throat.
* ''Film/{{Belly}}'': Lennox, the Jamaican drug kingpin is killed in this manner by a female assassin sent by a rival drug lord.
* ''Film/{{Bethany}}'': Aaron accidentally does this to Dr. Brown when he thinks he sees Bethany strangling him.
* ''Film/BloodBags'': Near the start of the movie, the killer catches Tony and cuts his throat open with a knife.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': [[BigBad Emma]]'s first victim is her mother, who she kills by slashing her across the throat with a knife.
* ''Film/BloodRansom'': At the start of the movie, Mr. Manningham gets his throat opened up. However, only the side of his neck is shown with blood on it.
* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', the PlotTriggeringDeath that carries William Wallace through the entire film. Wallace's secret wife Murron gets her throat cut [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]] by the Magistrate. Following his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Wallace kills the Magistrate the same way, this time shown in vivid detail, [[ArtisticLicenseHistory kicking off a Scotland-wide rebellion]].
* ''Film/CainHill'': One of the crew gets killed by having their throat sliced open.
* ''Child's Play'':
** Chucky gives one to barber Botnick with a straight razor in ''Film/ChildsPlay3''.
** The officer who fetches Chucky's fragments in ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' gets one from Tiffany when he tries to look inside the bag.
* ''Film/ClownKill'': [[MonsterClown Charlie Boy]] kills Colin by running a blade along his throat. He's also revealed to have killed much of the cast when [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable their bodies are revealed sitting at a table]].
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has a more realistic example: there's some thrashing around and it takes quite a while for the mook to go down. On the other hand, [[Film/ConanTheDestroyer its sequel]] features a man getting his throat slit, then ''yelling''.
* The killer in ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels'' kills Nicole's father and Vanessa by slitting their throats.
* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' has a quite shocking one of these when the protagonist's wife kills herself this way right in front of him.
%%* ''Film/EasternPromises'' features a fair number of these.
* If you are watching a ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film, there's a 75% chance of this happening to someone. It is one of Jason's favorite ways to kill people, though he tends to get more brutal with other means of killing.
* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': A lot of people get killed by having their throats slit open, since the attraction's been invaded by [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] who's murders are [[AllPartOfTheShow mistaken for being part of the act]].
* ''Film/GhostNote'': Ashley slits her own throat when [[spoiler:she senses that [[BigBad Eugene Burn]] has woken up]].
* Happens in ''Film/GhostShip'' as Katie Harwood is being forcibly dragged back to her cabin, and she witnesses someone get his throat slit with a straight razor by one of the crazed crew members.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series, this seems to be Michael Myers' favorite method of killing.
* Kurgan in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' has his throat cut by Ramirez during their duel in Connor's home. Unfortunately, the cut wasn't deep enough, and though Kurgan bore a scar and had his voice ruined for the rest of his Immortal life, he survived to take Ramirez's head.
** Earlier in the film, during the battle between the two clans, a priest kills a man slashing his throat from behind, then does the sign of the cross.
** Mirrored with Duncan's own arch-nemesis, Kalas, in [[Series/{{Highlander}} the TV series]]. Kalas has his throat slashed by Duncan during a fight in the 1920s. He survived but had his voice permanently ruined, (at the time Kalas was an opera singer) leaving him unable to sing again. He didn't take it well.
* In ''Film/HostelPartII'', this is how [[Creator/HeatherMatarazzo Lorna]] is finished off. Also, Josh in the first movie, but that one isn't ''nearly'' as graphic.
* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', Wiress dies this way. Particularly creepy when you take into account nobody would have noticed except for the fact she was singing 'Hickory Dickory Dock' but fell silent.
* Done to a robot in ''Film/IAmMother''. The woman throws herself onto Mother's back and cuts the [[MachineBlood hydraulic tubes]] of her neck, but the effect is only temporary, presumably because a robot could simply shut down the pumps to that area.
* The ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' used this a few times. It's also speculated that Lt. Raine survived one of these, hence his scar.
* Big Daddy from ''Film/KickAss'' does this to a mook in the warehouse raid scene.
* This happens to Reynald de Châtillon in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', after being captured after the Battle of Hattin. Saladin offers Guy de Lusignan a cup of ice, indicating that [[SacredHospitality he is sparing his life]]. When Reynald, who has gained notoriety by attacking caravans and killing Saladin's sister, gets handed the cup by Guy, Saladin states that the cup was not offered to him, then promptly kills him.
** TruthInTelevision as well. This scene is true to the historical aftermath of the Battle of Hattin.
* For a kaiju-sized version, the climax of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' sees Kong slashing the lead Skullcrawler's throat with a ''boat propeller''. It managed to defeat the Skullcrawler, but only for a few seconds.
* ''Film/LAConfidential'': "The proof had his throat cut."
* ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'': After being stabbed InTheBack by Colonel Holt, Joshua's dying act is to slash Beal's throat with a razor as the scout bends over him.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'': The second movie's duel between Fei-Hung and General Nap-lan ends with Fei Hung slashing Nap-lan's throat. With a ''wooden splint''. This somehow results in a fine spray of PinkMist from Nap-lan's throat.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', one fellow who refuses to join Davy Jones's crew gets killed this way.
* Dana Hadley in the first ''Film/PuppetMaster'' was killed this way by Blade.
* Happens to some of the Repo Man's victims in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''. The film's first live-action kill starts off with a slashed throat that renders a woman unable to speak or breathe as the Repo Man takes the still-beating heart from her chest.
* ''Film/RiotGirls'': Poor Fish is killed this way by a Titan.
* One of the most iconic movie deaths ever is Clarence Boddicker's dataspike to the throat in ''Film/RoboCop1987''.
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': When two jihadists have Tessa cornered in the shed and are advancing on her, Sam grabs on of them from behind and slashes his throat before stabbing the second one repeatedly in the neck.
* A stoned camper gets his throat slit by TheJerseyDevil in ''Satan's Playground'', causing it [[HighPressureBlood to]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank explode]].
* ''Film/{{Splatter}}'': Johnny Splatter can kill Krule by slashing her throat with a [=CD=].
* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': In a FantasySequence, [[Creator/JonahHill Seth]] receives this fate [[ItMakesSenseInContext via security guard]] while trying to purchase some vodka. This is the "fantasy/comic violent image" in the R-Rating label.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney Todd's primary method of murdering his customers was slashing the throat.
** For any who the throat didn't do it for, being dropped down a shaft headfirst would finish them off.
* One of the organ traffickers in ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' is killed this way. His mother tells him not to remove the knife, [[TooDumbToLive but he does so anyway]] and ends up bleeding to death.
* In ''Film/{{Train}}'', Gregor [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] Alex while she is StrappedToAnOperatingTable. Alex manages to get hold of a scalpel and uses it to slash his throat.
* V himself, in the ''Film/VForVendetta'' movie, just ''can't get enough'' of this.
* The Chang Cheh movie ''Film/Vengeance1970'' climaxes with the protagonist finishing off the BigBad this way after [[PlayingPossum feigning death]] to draw him close.
** ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', the SpiritualSuccessor of the aforementioned ''Vengeance!'', shows loads and loads of faceless mooks getting their throats sliced throughout the movie. TheHero even lampshades this, by telling his protege during a fight scene that "Its easier to kill if you go for the throat"!
* Angel of ''Film/TheWildBunch'' is killed quite graphically this way immediately before the final shootout of the movie.
* Rather in an out-of-character manner, Wonder Woman does this to two security guards in ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009'' - by throwing her tiara, boomerang-like, at the unaware guards, who fall dead instantly as their throats are slashed.
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Mystique gives one to Apocalypse, but the wound doesn't kill him because he has a HealingFactor.
* How ''many'' {{Mooks}} meet their end in ''Film/{{Logan}}''. Hell, one of [[BadassAdorable Laura's]] first onscreen kills has her turning a [[EvilInc Transigen]] soldier's throat into a bloody PEZ dispenser.
* A pretty bloody one is seen in ''Film/DieHard2'' (SWAT member who wasn't in on a secret) and ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' (Bank security guard who was attacked by a female knife user).
* In the first ''Film/LoneWolfAndCub''[[note]]Released as ''Shogun Assassin'' in the US[[/note]] film, the last surviving Master of Death gets his throat slit and thinks on it poetically as he dies. See the page quote.
* Apparently how Juno (Sylvia Sidney) died in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' - not entirely obvious until she takes a drag off a cigarette. I think that's supposed to be a Tracheotomy hole, she died of throat cancer. All civil servents in the afterlife are stated to be suicides. Appererently smoking counts.
* Near the start of ''Film/{{SWAT}}'' Alex Montel cuts the throat of his uncle Martin Gascoigne for stealing from their crime organization.
* In the final battle of ''Film/PacificRim'', [[TheAce Striker]] [[AwesomeAussie Eureka]] inflicts this on [[FinalBoss Slattern]]. [[MadeOfIron It doesn't even notice the wound.]]
* Several particularly bloody ones occur in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', when the titular Wolfman tears through peoples' throats with his long claws, to the point of [[OffWithHisHead tearing off his father's head]].
* In ''Film/TheThing1982'', the Americans discover a frozen corpse in the remains of the Norwegian camp whose throat and wrists have been slashed. In the ''Film/TheThing2011'', a deleted scene shows why and how it happened. [[spoiler:He did it to himself when he was trapped in the room with a Thing.]]
* Happens to one of the characters in ''Film/{{Triangle}}''. The slashing doesn't kill him straight away, and he ends up being stabbed repeatedly. He lives long enough to [[DyingClue attempt to scrawl the name of his killer]] in [[CouldntFindAPen his own blood]], but dies partway through.
* In ''Film/TreasureIsland1990'', the pirates' first morning on the eponymous island is a rough one as they find few of their number with their throats slit, courtesy of the local hermit Ben Gunn.
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the alien chef mocks the captive Giles by doing the throat slit gesture with a knife that he has in his hand. A mook named Robert attempts to mimic the gesture with his sharpened bayonet but accidentally cuts his own throat.
* Majid's suicide in ''Film/{{Cache}}''. It's the fact that the death is self-inflicted that is shocking, as well as the apparent lack of motivation for doing so.
* Done in the opening of ''Film/AssassinationGames''. The blood is very understated with the victim taking a while to realize their throat has been cut.
* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'': This is how Gurerro kills Washington: silently taking him out at the back of the group while the rest of the gang looks down the mine tunnel.
* In ''Film/GoodNeighbors'', Louise does this to Valérie with a straight razor. It does take a while. We do hear Valérie choking to death on her own blood. A reasonable (but large to Louise) amount of blood spurts out in jets from the severed arteries.
* In ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', Mr. Gustave's cellmates have a SinisterShiv they call a "throat-slitter". They make use of it during their escape.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2'', Voldemort does this to Severus Snape with his wand and orders Nagini to attack him further. Voldemort did this because he assumed Snape would be the master of the Elder Wand after he killed Dumbledore.
* How all of the Ripper's victims (except Orville) are killed in ''Film/KnifeForTheLadies''.
* In ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', Shelley, the first girl to die, is done in by having her throat cut.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke kills Steve by slashing his throat with a boxcutter. She mentions that she wants his death to be slow and painful.
* In ''Film/PromNight2008'', Lisa and Bobby both have their throats slashed by Fenton.
* Done to a family in ''Film/{{Sinister}}''. It shows the mother and father being killed, but the video gets out of focus when the kid is about to suffer the same fate.
* ''Film/MysteryRoad'': All of the girls are murdered by having their throats slashed with a hunting knife.
* In ''Film/{{Whiteout}}'', Mooney is killed by having his throat cut. When Carrie finds him at Vostok base, he is still trying to speak and blood is still gushing from the fresh wound.
* ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'': The Quaker Psychopath, after [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking]] his daughter's murderer for years and [[DrivenToSuicide driving him to suicide]], does this to ''himself'' so that he could ''follow the man into hell''. It's later revealed that the Quaker was [[Creator/ChristopherWalken Hans]], and [[BungledSuicide he didn't die]], though he has a nasty scar to show for it.
* The killer takes an agonizingly long time to cut Tony's throat with a cleaver in ''Film/{{Vlog}}''.
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': The chances of a character getting their throat slashed (among other ImpromptuTracheotomy variants) is just as common as them dying in a DeathTrap. Specific examples include Tapp in the [[Film/SawI first movie]], Xavier in ''Film/SawII'', Jigsaw in ''Film/SawIII'' and Erickson in ''Film/SawVI''[[note]]Although it was targeted to the jugular vein in this case.[[/note]], to name a few.
* In the prologue of ''Film/TheButchers'', Luther kills Simon's mother by slitting her throat while Simon watches.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Mila tries to escape when the gang storms Daria's house, but is caught and has her throat slit.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Joseph kills one the sentries at the bank by slitting his throat: the first of a lot of deaths to follow.
* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', Kira is murdered by the ghost slitting her throat, but she remains defiant to the end.
* In ''Film/TheConIsOn'', Irina casually slits the throat of a gambler who makes the mistake of [[MistakenForServant thinking she is a waitress]].
* ''Film/FearInc'': At the 'wrap party', the head of Fear, Inc. slits Lindsey's throat will Joe watches.
* In ''Film/SixtyEightKill'', Liza murders her sugar daddy Ken by sneaking up on him [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown while he is masturbating]] and slashing his throat.
* In ''Film/TheNightComesForUs'' the Operator kills Alma [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard with their own garotte]] by wrapping it around an air conditioner unit and kicking it out the window. Cue a good two or three minutes of choking and gagging, until the garotte slices through their carotid [[HighPressureBlood amid a shower of blood]].
* Karen's body is found with a slit throat in ''Film/TheBurning''.
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': In her dream in her first night in Hadley Hope, Ruth sees UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper kill Sadie with a single slash across her throat.
* ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'': While shaving, Martin is compelled to cut his own throat with a straight razor. But was he forced to do so by the ghost of Colochez, or did he go mad and do it to himself?
* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' has Bond's ally Ferrara suffer this fate while Bond is busy fighting in an ice rink.
* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Mrs. Kent is killed by [=McKayla=] this way.
* ''{{Film/Cure}}'': One of the only things tying the murders together is the "X" slashed across the throats of the victims.
* ''Film/TheOldGuard''. Nile Freeman dies [[HealingFactor for the first time]] after an enemy insurgent [[TakingYouWithMe she has just shot slashes her throat]]. Her squad-mates are shocked when they look at her neck and find that there's no trace of the wound.
* The first kill of ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'' happens when Raina slits Ernesto's throat from behind while he is in the sauna.
* ''Film/TheLocals'': After getting their car bogged, Grant and Paul approach a farmhouse to see if the farmer can tow them out. However, the wind up witnessing Bill murder his wife by cutting her throat.
* Veteran Shaw Brothers badass Creator/DavidChiang seem to do this a lot (he's the same guy from ''Vengeance!'' and ''Duel of the Ironfist'' above), in a later film ''Film/TheYoungRebel'' he kills a mob boss by slashing the throat with a ''shaving razor'' hidden in his shoe.
* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Charlotte uses a piece of paper to cut a security guard's throat with one slice.
* In ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "I Love You", Axel cuts his own throat after discovering that he has murdered Mo.
* ''Film/{{Scarred}}'': Jonah Kandie kills his first on-screen victim in the movie by slicing her across the throat.
* In ''Film/TheRipper1997'', The Ripper kills one of the policemen guarding Inspector Hansen's flat by slitting his throat.
* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'':
** Roscoe is revealed to have killed his first victim in the movie by slashing her throat, as revealed by the blood on her neck.
** He's later shown actually doing this to one of the police detectives investigating him... with a knife.
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* ''Film/SixtyEightKill'':
** Liza murders her sugar daddy Ken by sneaking up on him [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown while he is masturbating]] and slashing his throat.
** Later, Violet is murdered offscreen by Monica the same way.
* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': The hooded members of the MalevolentMaskedMen kill Riccardo and Sofia by slitting their throats after adding Riccardo's ears and Sofia's eyeballs to their giant wicker man.
* Dean cuts his own throat in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' remake due to Freddy's influence.
* ''Film/AmericanScarecrow'': The killer manages to do this to Joey in the barn.
* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': Rooker has his number two slash Stephen's throat in front of Alice.
* ''Film/AshesOfTime'': Tony Leung's Blind Swordsman dies in this manner when the leader of the bandit army he's fighting slices his jugular while he's busy fending off several mooks.
* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': One of the intruders kills a cop by slitting his throat.
* ''Film/{{Belly}}'': Lennox, the Jamaican drug kingpin is killed in this manner by a female assassin sent by a rival drug lord.
* ''Film/{{Bethany}}'': Aaron accidentally does this to Dr. Brown when he thinks he sees Bethany strangling him.
* ''Film/BloodBags'': Near the start of the movie, the killer catches Tony and cuts his throat open with a knife.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': [[BigBad Emma]]'s first victim is her mother, who she kills by slashing her across the throat with a knife.
* ''Film/BloodRansom'': At the start of the movie, Mr. Manningham gets his throat opened up. However, only the side of his neck is shown with blood on it.
* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', the PlotTriggeringDeath that carries William Wallace through the entire film. Wallace's secret wife Murron gets her throat cut [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]] by the Magistrate. Following his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Wallace kills the Magistrate the same way, this time shown in vivid detail, [[ArtisticLicenseHistory kicking off a Scotland-wide rebellion]].
* ''Film/CainHill'': One of the crew gets killed by having their throat sliced open.
* ''Child's Play'':
** Chucky gives one to barber Botnick with a straight razor in ''Film/ChildsPlay3''.
** The officer who fetches Chucky's fragments in ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' gets one from Tiffany when he tries to look inside the bag.
* ''Film/ClownKill'': [[MonsterClown Charlie Boy]] kills Colin by running a blade along his throat. He's also revealed to have killed much of the cast when [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable their bodies are revealed sitting at a table]].
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has a more realistic example: there's some thrashing around and it takes quite a while for the mook to go down. On the other hand, [[Film/ConanTheDestroyer its sequel]] features a man getting his throat slit, then ''yelling''.
* The killer in ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels'' kills Nicole's father and Vanessa by slitting their throats.
* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' has a quite shocking one of these when the protagonist's wife kills herself this way right in front of him.
%%* ''Film/EasternPromises'' features a fair number of these.
* If you are watching a ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film, there's a 75% chance of this happening to someone. It is one of Jason's favorite ways to kill people, though he tends to get more brutal with other means of killing.
* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': A lot of people get killed by having their throats slit open, since the attraction's been invaded by [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] who's murders are [[AllPartOfTheShow mistaken for being part of the act]].
* ''Film/GhostNote'': Ashley slits her own throat when [[spoiler:she senses that [[BigBad Eugene Burn]] has woken up]].
* Happens in ''Film/GhostShip'' as Katie Harwood is being forcibly dragged back to her cabin, and she witnesses someone get his throat slit with a straight razor by one of the crazed crew members.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series, this seems to be Michael Myers' favorite method of killing.
* Kurgan in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' has his throat cut by Ramirez during their duel in Connor's home. Unfortunately, the cut wasn't deep enough, and though Kurgan bore a scar and had his voice ruined for the rest of his Immortal life, he survived to take Ramirez's head.
** Earlier in the film, during the battle between the two clans, a priest kills a man slashing his throat from behind, then does the sign of the cross.
** Mirrored with Duncan's own arch-nemesis, Kalas, in [[Series/{{Highlander}} the TV series]]. Kalas has his throat slashed by Duncan during a fight in the 1920s. He survived but had his voice permanently ruined, (at the time Kalas was an opera singer) leaving him unable to sing again. He didn't take it well.
* In ''Film/HostelPartII'', this is how [[Creator/HeatherMatarazzo Lorna]] is finished off. Also, Josh in the first movie, but that one isn't ''nearly'' as graphic.
* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', Wiress dies this way. Particularly creepy when you take into account nobody would have noticed except for the fact she was singing 'Hickory Dickory Dock' but fell silent.
* Done to a robot in ''Film/IAmMother''. The woman throws herself onto Mother's back and cuts the [[MachineBlood hydraulic tubes]] of her neck, but the effect is only temporary, presumably because a robot could simply shut down the pumps to that area.
* The ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' used this a few times. It's also speculated that Lt. Raine survived one of these, hence his scar.
* Big Daddy from ''Film/KickAss'' does this to a mook in the warehouse raid scene.
* This happens to Reynald de Châtillon in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', after being captured after the Battle of Hattin. Saladin offers Guy de Lusignan a cup of ice, indicating that [[SacredHospitality he is sparing his life]]. When Reynald, who has gained notoriety by attacking caravans and killing Saladin's sister, gets handed the cup by Guy, Saladin states that the cup was not offered to him, then promptly kills him.
** TruthInTelevision as well. This scene is true to the historical aftermath of the Battle of Hattin.
* For a kaiju-sized version, the climax of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' sees Kong slashing the lead Skullcrawler's throat with a ''boat propeller''. It managed to defeat the Skullcrawler, but only for a few seconds.
* ''Film/LAConfidential'': "The proof had his throat cut."
* ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'': After being stabbed InTheBack by Colonel Holt, Joshua's dying act is to slash Beal's throat with a razor as the scout bends over him.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'': The second movie's duel between Fei-Hung and General Nap-lan ends with Fei Hung slashing Nap-lan's throat. With a ''wooden splint''. This somehow results in a fine spray of PinkMist from Nap-lan's throat.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', one fellow who refuses to join Davy Jones's crew gets killed this way.
* Dana Hadley in the first ''Film/PuppetMaster'' was killed this way by Blade.
* Happens to some of the Repo Man's victims in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''. The film's first live-action kill starts off with a slashed throat that renders a woman unable to speak or breathe as the Repo Man takes the still-beating heart from her chest.
* ''Film/RiotGirls'': Poor Fish is killed this way by a Titan.
* One of the most iconic movie deaths ever is Clarence Boddicker's dataspike to the throat in ''Film/RoboCop1987''.
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': When two jihadists have Tessa cornered in the shed and are advancing on her, Sam grabs on of them from behind and slashes his throat before stabbing the second one repeatedly in the neck.
* A stoned camper gets his throat slit by TheJerseyDevil in ''Satan's Playground'', causing it [[HighPressureBlood to]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank explode]].
* ''Film/{{Splatter}}'': Johnny Splatter can kill Krule by slashing her throat with a [=CD=].
* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': In a FantasySequence, [[Creator/JonahHill Seth]] receives this fate [[ItMakesSenseInContext via security guard]] while trying to purchase some vodka. This is the "fantasy/comic violent image" in the R-Rating label.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney Todd's primary method of murdering his customers was slashing the throat.
** For any who the throat didn't do it for, being dropped down a shaft headfirst would finish them off.
* One of the organ traffickers in ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' is killed this way. His mother tells him not to remove the knife, [[TooDumbToLive but he does so anyway]] and ends up bleeding to death.
* In ''Film/{{Train}}'', Gregor [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape]] Alex while she is StrappedToAnOperatingTable. Alex manages to get hold of a scalpel and uses it to slash his throat.
* V himself, in the ''Film/VForVendetta'' movie, just ''can't get enough'' of this.
* The Chang Cheh movie ''Film/Vengeance1970'' climaxes with the protagonist finishing off the BigBad this way after [[PlayingPossum feigning death]] to draw him close.
** ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', the SpiritualSuccessor of the aforementioned ''Vengeance!'', shows loads and loads of faceless mooks getting their throats sliced throughout the movie. TheHero even lampshades this, by telling his protege during a fight scene that "Its easier to kill if you go for the throat"!
* Angel of ''Film/TheWildBunch'' is killed quite graphically this way immediately before the final shootout of the movie.
* Rather in an out-of-character manner, Wonder Woman does this to two security guards in ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009'' - by throwing her tiara, boomerang-like, at the unaware guards, who fall dead instantly as their throats are slashed.
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Mystique gives one to Apocalypse, but the wound doesn't kill him because he has a HealingFactor.
* How ''many'' {{Mooks}} meet their end in ''Film/{{Logan}}''. Hell, one of [[BadassAdorable Laura's]] first onscreen kills has her turning a [[EvilInc Transigen]] soldier's throat into a bloody PEZ dispenser.
* A pretty bloody one is seen in ''Film/DieHard2'' (SWAT member who wasn't in on a secret) and ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' (Bank security guard who was attacked by a female knife user).
* In the first ''Film/LoneWolfAndCub''[[note]]Released as ''Shogun Assassin'' in the US[[/note]] film, the last surviving Master of Death gets his throat slit and thinks on it poetically as he dies. See the page quote.
* Apparently how Juno (Sylvia Sidney) died in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' - not entirely obvious until she takes a drag off a cigarette. I think that's supposed to be a Tracheotomy hole, she died of throat cancer. All civil servents in the afterlife are stated to be suicides. Appererently smoking counts.
* Near the start of ''Film/{{SWAT}}'' Alex Montel cuts the throat of his uncle Martin Gascoigne for stealing from their crime organization.
* In the final battle of ''Film/PacificRim'', [[TheAce Striker]] [[AwesomeAussie Eureka]] inflicts this on [[FinalBoss Slattern]]. [[MadeOfIron It doesn't even notice the wound.]]
* Several particularly bloody ones occur in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', when the titular Wolfman tears through peoples' throats with his long claws, to the point of [[OffWithHisHead tearing off his father's head]].
* In ''Film/TheThing1982'', the Americans discover a frozen corpse in the remains of the Norwegian camp whose throat and wrists have been slashed. In the ''Film/TheThing2011'', a deleted scene shows why and how it happened. [[spoiler:He did it to himself when he was trapped in the room with a Thing.]]
* Happens to one of the characters in ''Film/{{Triangle}}''. The slashing doesn't kill him straight away, and he ends up being stabbed repeatedly. He lives long enough to [[DyingClue attempt to scrawl the name of his killer]] in [[CouldntFindAPen his own blood]], but dies partway through.
* In ''Film/TreasureIsland1990'', the pirates' first morning on the eponymous island is a rough one as they find few of their number with their throats slit, courtesy of the local hermit Ben Gunn.
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the alien chef mocks the captive Giles by doing the throat slit gesture with a knife that he has in his hand. A mook named Robert attempts to mimic the gesture with his sharpened bayonet but accidentally cuts his own throat.
* Majid's suicide in ''Film/{{Cache}}''. It's the fact that the death is self-inflicted that is shocking, as well as the apparent lack of motivation for doing so.
* Done in the opening of ''Film/AssassinationGames''. The blood is very understated with the victim taking a while to realize their throat has been cut.
* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'': This is how Gurerro kills Washington: silently taking him out at the back of the group while the rest of the gang looks down the mine tunnel.
* In ''Film/GoodNeighbors'', Louise does this to Valérie with a straight razor. It does take a while. We do hear Valérie choking to death on her own blood. A reasonable (but large to Louise) amount of blood spurts out in jets from the severed arteries.
* In ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', Mr. Gustave's cellmates have a SinisterShiv they call a "throat-slitter". They make use of it during their escape.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2'', Voldemort does this to Severus Snape with his wand and orders Nagini to attack him further. Voldemort did this because he assumed Snape would be the master of the Elder Wand after he killed Dumbledore.
* How all of the Ripper's victims (except Orville) are killed in ''Film/KnifeForTheLadies''.
* In ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', Shelley, the first girl to die, is done in by having her throat cut.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke kills Steve by slashing his throat with a boxcutter. She mentions that she wants his death to be slow and painful.
* In ''Film/PromNight2008'', Lisa and Bobby both have their throats slashed by Fenton.
* Done to a family in ''Film/{{Sinister}}''. It shows the mother and father being killed, but the video gets out of focus when the kid is about to suffer the same fate.
* ''Film/MysteryRoad'': All of the girls are murdered by having their throats slashed with a hunting knife.
* In ''Film/{{Whiteout}}'', Mooney is killed by having his throat cut. When Carrie finds him at Vostok base, he is still trying to speak and blood is still gushing from the fresh wound.
* ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'': The Quaker Psychopath, after [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking]] his daughter's murderer for years and [[DrivenToSuicide driving him to suicide]], does this to ''himself'' so that he could ''follow the man into hell''. It's later revealed that the Quaker was [[Creator/ChristopherWalken Hans]], and [[BungledSuicide he didn't die]], though he has a nasty scar to show for it.
* The killer takes an agonizingly long time to cut Tony's throat with a cleaver in ''Film/{{Vlog}}''.
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': The chances of a character getting their throat slashed (among other ImpromptuTracheotomy variants) is just as common as them dying in a DeathTrap. Specific examples include Tapp in the [[Film/SawI first movie]], Xavier in ''Film/SawII'', Jigsaw in ''Film/SawIII'' and Erickson in ''Film/SawVI''[[note]]Although it was targeted to the jugular vein in this case.[[/note]], to name a few.
* In the prologue of ''Film/TheButchers'', Luther kills Simon's mother by slitting her throat while Simon watches.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Ronin/Hawkeye slices the throat of a Yakuza boss in a sword duel. As he quickly starts to beg for his life, Ronin finishes him off.
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Mila tries to escape when the gang storms Daria's house, but is caught and has her throat slit.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Joseph kills one the sentries at the bank by slitting his throat: the first of a lot of deaths to follow.
* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', Kira is murdered by the ghost slitting her throat, but she remains defiant to the end.
* In ''Film/TheConIsOn'', Irina casually slits the throat of a gambler who makes the mistake of [[MistakenForServant thinking she is a waitress]].
* ''Film/FearInc'': At the 'wrap party', the head of Fear, Inc. slits Lindsey's throat will Joe watches.
* In ''Film/SixtyEightKill'', Liza murders her sugar daddy Ken by sneaking up on him [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown while he is masturbating]] and slashing his throat.
* In ''Film/TheNightComesForUs'' the Operator kills Alma [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard with their own garotte]] by wrapping it around an air conditioner unit and kicking it out the window. Cue a good two or three minutes of choking and gagging, until the garotte slices through their carotid [[HighPressureBlood amid a shower of blood]].
* Karen's body is found with a slit throat in ''Film/TheBurning''.
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': In her dream in her first night in Hadley Hope, Ruth sees UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper kill Sadie with a single slash across her throat.
* ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'': While shaving, Martin is compelled to cut his own throat with a straight razor. But was he forced to do so by the ghost of Colochez, or did he go mad and do it to himself?
* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' has Bond's ally Ferrara suffer this fate while Bond is busy fighting in an ice rink.
* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Mrs. Kent is killed by [=McKayla=] this way.
* ''{{Film/Cure}}'': One of the only things tying the murders together is the "X" slashed across the throats of the victims.
* ''Film/TheOldGuard''. Nile Freeman dies [[HealingFactor for the first time]] after an enemy insurgent [[TakingYouWithMe she has just shot slashes her throat]]. Her squad-mates are shocked when they look at her neck and find that there's no trace of the wound.
* The first kill of ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'' happens when Raina slits Ernesto's throat from behind while he is in the sauna.
* ''Film/TheLocals'': After getting their car bogged, Grant and Paul approach a farmhouse to see if the farmer can tow them out. However, the wind up witnessing Bill murder his wife by cutting her throat.
* Veteran Shaw Brothers badass Creator/DavidChiang seem to do this a lot (he's the same guy from ''Vengeance!'' and ''Duel of the Ironfist'' above), in a later film ''Film/TheYoungRebel'' he kills a mob boss by slashing the throat with a ''shaving razor'' hidden in his shoe.
* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Charlotte uses a piece of paper to cut a security guard's throat with one slice.
* In ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "I Love You", Axel cuts his own throat after discovering that he has murdered Mo.
* ''Film/{{Scarred}}'': Jonah Kandie kills his first on-screen victim in the movie by slicing her across the throat.
* In ''Film/TheRipper1997'', The Ripper kills one of the policemen guarding Inspector Hansen's flat by slitting his throat.
* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'':
** Roscoe is revealed to have killed his first victim in the movie by slashing her throat, as revealed by the blood on her neck.
** He's later shown actually doing this to one of the police detectives investigating him... with a knife.
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