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* Invoked in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent, so he kidnaps Martha Kent to force him to work for him. Luthor claims Superman is a devil, and since Martha is his mother, she must be a witch. The word "Witch" is etched onto her forehead and Luthor has a mook prepared to kill her with a flamethrower. Fortunately, Batman saves her.]]
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* In ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'', UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada and UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition track down and burn the Spanish Assassin Brotherhood at the stake like [[TheHeretic heretics]] in the wake of the Fall of Granada in 1491-1492. Torquemada is actually a Templar leader, the mortal enemy faction to the Assassins.
* Invoked in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.[[spoiler:Lex Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent, so he kidnaps Martha Kent to force him to work for him. Luthor claims Superman is a devil, and since Martha is his mother, she must be a witch. The word "Witch" is etched onto her forehead and Luthor has a mook prepared to kill her with a flamethrower. Fortunately, Batman saves her.]]
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* ''Film/CryOfTheBanshee'': Trying to extract the location of the witch Oona from the villagers, Lord Edward seizes a young woman someone accuses of being a witch, has her tied to a wagon wheel and burned on bonfire in the village square.
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BurnTheWitch in LiveActionFilms.
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* In ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', Wednesday chose an ancestor who was executed in this fashion for a school project about role models. Naturally, her teacher was more than a little concerned. Morticia explains that the ancestor in question danced naked in the streets and enslaved a minister.
-->'''Morticia:''' But don't worry. We've told Wednesday, "college first."
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Agora}}'', where the philosopher Hypatia, after being caught by the Christians who considered her a witch, was only burned after she was dead. Note that there is still some debate on whether the RealLife Hypatia was burned alive or stoned to death, though the general view is the one shown in the movie, that first she was stoned and then burned.
* Parodied in the 1979 Disney comedy ''Film/ASpacemanInKingArthursCourt'', wherein the eponymous astronaut is to be burned at the stake. He knows his thermal-insulated spacesuit will protect him, but then the suit's airconditioner is accidentally turned off and he must sweat it out until his bonds burn through.
* Invoked in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent, so he kidnaps Martha Kent to force him to work for him. Luthor claims Superman is a devil, and since Martha is his mother, she must be a witch. The word "Witch" is etched onto her forehead and Luthor has a mook prepared to kill her with a flamethrower. Fortunately, Batman saves her.]]
* In ''Film/BlackDeath'', Ulric saves a woman from this fate by giving her a mercy-kill. This serves as his EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* ''Film/CityOfTheDead'' begins with a witch burning in 17th century New England. Ironically enough the film was made in the UK, with the entire cast as {{Fake American}}s.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheCrimsonAltar'': Lavinia Morley was burned for witchcraft, and this event is recreated in Greymarsh every Witch's Night, with Lavinia being burned in effigy.
* ''Film/DarkShadows'': Invoked by Barnabas, as an (empty) threat against Angelique. She is really a witch. But she is also a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and now living in an age where witches are no longer persecuted... unlike murderers, such as the vampire Barnabas.
* In ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'', several Catholic priests are executed like this.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'' a judge laments that he is not able to sentence them to be burned at the stake, which he sees as an "illustrious, sterner justice".
* ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'':
** Fire is the most reliable method for killing witches, and the antagonists led by the HotWitch Muriel are looking to produce a potion that will make them fireproof. [[spoiler:And [[BarrierMaiden Gretel]]'s [[BloodMagic heart and blood]] is one of the keys for it.]]
** Even more: [[spoiler:Hansel and Gretel's MissingMom Adrianna was a good witch, and ended up dying like this. In the meantime, her husband/the siblings' father was hanged]]. It turns out [[spoiler:Muriel set them up to be executed so she could reach for Gretel and use her for her plans]].
* ''Film/HawkTheSlayer'' meets the first of his RagtagBunchOfMisfits when he rescues a witch from a couple of peasants who want to burn her cursing their hogs. She was actually trying to cure them, but they're not in the mood to listen. She replays Hawk by using her magic to locate the rest of his group and teleport Hawk to each one.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': When Connor [=MacLeod=] first discovers he is an immortal back in ancient Scotland, he's proclaimed a witch, and burning is mentioned as an option. (In the end, he's just run out of town by a howling mob instead.)
* Averted, of all places, in ''Film/HocusPocus'', where the three witches are hanged by the townsfolk just as they would have been in 17th Century Salem. (And the fact that they were ''actually guilty'' of witchcraft in this case.) They get better, but it's a little jarring to see historical accuracy in a movie about cartoonishly wacky witches. The revived witches are also locked in a large kiln and set on fire; the oven is a reference to "Literature/HanselAndGretel". They get better from that as well. The thing that finally kills them is sunlight, because the candle that brought them back only worked for the night of Halloween, and they were unable to obtain the potion that would have enabled them to survive.
* In the 80s-90s Icelandic film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juniper_Tree_%28film%29 The Juniper Tree]]'', the mother of two little girls, [[Music/{{Bjork}} Margit]] and Katla, is burned to death for witchcraft.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'', Toby thinks Alexei has strapped Angelica to cross and is planning to burn her as part of the Holy Week celebrations. [[spoiler:It is actually a delusion caused by Toby's slipping sanity. She is strapped to a cross, but what he sees as flames are just billows of cloth intended to simulate fire.]]
* Used straight -- and to hideously appropriate effect -- in ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil''. Within that film, several "witches" (all clearly innocent) are slowly burnt alive. This film presents various period tortures in historically accurate ways, which makes it rather disturbing...
* Played ridiculously straight in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. During the revolt, the workers burn [[RobotGirl Robot!]]Maria at the stake, since they decide she's to blame for the revolution ending badly. They were right... sort of. On a pyre made of [[IncendiaryExponent burning automobiles]], no less!
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' has the infamous "Witch Trial" scene where a rather vocally pyromaniac mob accuses a woman of being a witch and Sir Bedevere attempts to use logic to ascertain whether she actually is one.
* In ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose'', Brother Salvatore and Brother Remigio are burned at the stake as scapegoats by Father Bernardo Gui, leader of the Inquisition. Gui also tries to burn a local peasant girl, but she is rescued by [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebellious peasants]] who manage to kill Gui in the resulting chaos. In the book, Gui prevents this from happening by simply having the three of them transported away and executed elsewhere, where no rescue attempts can occur.
* This is basically what started the terror for the series ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. The families of Elm Street, justifiably, hunted down a child-killer and general bad guy who got OffOnATechnicality only to have him come back later rather upset about all of it.
* Averted in ''Film/TheOldGuard'', which correctly shows Andy and Quynh being hung as witches. However this doesn't work because they're immortal, so the trope is lampshaded when they assume their captors [[KillItWithFire will try burning next]]. Turns out they have a [[AndIMustScream far worse fate in mind...]]
* ''Film/TheOmegaMan'': After the Family capture Neville and put him through a KangarooCourt for "heresy" (namely, being a normal human and a scientist), they try to burn him at the stake in Dodgers Stadium. Fortunately, he's saved by Lisa and Dutch.
* Full Moon Entertainment's movie version of ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', taking place during UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, naturally invokes this trope a couple of times. Of particular note is a scene where an old woman, soon to be burned at the stake, manages to ingest some conveniently placed gunpowder before hand. This results in a very messy explosion once she catches aflame. In RealLife, sacks of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the necks of those condemned to the stake as an act of mercy.
* Averted in ''Film/PracticalMagic'', which begins with the (failed) hanging of the main characters' female ancestor. She was exiled instead.
* In ''Film/RedRidingHood'', everyone thinks Valerie is a witch because [[spoiler:she can understand the Wolf and everyone thinks the Wolf only wants her]], so she is offered up as a HumanSacrifice.
* Happens to Wanda Grubwart in ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'', when she was alive in the 1800s.
* Averted in ''Film/SeasonOfTheWitch'' which shows three accused women being hung off a bridge, then lowered into the water to drown just in case they survived the NeckSnap. Unfortunately for the priest carrying out the ritual, one of them is NotQuiteDead.
* Done in the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie twice on screen, and another one is mentioned. The ones on-screen were an adult and an 8-year old girl, and the burning of the 8-year old (and her surviving) is what sets off the plot of the movie. What's even worse is that they don't bother to put her burned, half-alive body [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090607071432/silent/images/4/42/Sharon249.jpg off-screen]].
* Subverted in ''Film/SolomonKane''. The villagers attempt to burn the witch, but the witch uses magic to not only survive, but burn the village and its inhabitants.
* ''Film/TheTempest2010'': Antonio spread rumours that [[GenderFlip Prospera]] used BlackMagic to kill her husband despite "knowing that others of my sex have burned for far less".
* In ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'', one of the sketches in the theatre involves Dani being burnt at the stake as a witch. For a moment, it looks as is Nicole is intending to burn her for real.
* Played straight in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MSTed]] movie ''Film/TheTouchOfSatan,'' where the heroine's sister is nearly burned at the stake after being accused of witchcraft... in 19th-Century California.
-->'''Mob''': BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!\\
'''Mike''': Oh, and Go Packers too, but mostly burn the witch.
* In ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', Lurkalot is accused of being a witch after having been seen flying (ItMakesSenseInContext). First he is dunked in the well till he confesses to being a witch, and then is placed on a pyre to be burned. The villagers have trouble lighting him because he is so waterlogged.
* The titular character in ''Film/ValerieAndHerWeekOfWonders'' is nearly burned at the stake for being accused of witchcraft. When told to repent, she childishly sticks her tongue out with a huge grin on her face.
* The (pseudo)historical/horror movie ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'', which definitely played fast and loose with history. Justified, in that burning was something new that Matthew Hopkins was trying out. The most common form of execution is hanging.
* In ''Film/WitchWayLove'', it is explained that some witches and sorcerers found ways around this problem. As a result, they can't die upon being burned and liquefy instead.
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BurnTheWitch in LiveActionFilms.
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* In ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', Wednesday chose an ancestor who was executed in this fashion for a school project about role models. Naturally, her teacher was more than a little concerned. Morticia explains that the ancestor in question danced naked in the streets and enslaved a minister.
-->'''Morticia:''' But don't worry. We've told Wednesday, "college first."
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Agora}}'', where the philosopher Hypatia, after being caught by the Christians who considered her a witch, was only burned after she was dead. Note that there is still some debate on whether the RealLife Hypatia was burned alive or stoned to death, though the general view is the one shown in the movie, that first she was stoned and then burned.
* Parodied in the 1979 Disney comedy ''Film/ASpacemanInKingArthursCourt'', wherein the eponymous astronaut is to be burned at the stake. He knows his thermal-insulated spacesuit will protect him, but then the suit's airconditioner is accidentally turned off and he must sweat it out until his bonds burn through.
* Invoked in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent, so he kidnaps Martha Kent to force him to work for him. Luthor claims Superman is a devil, and since Martha is his mother, she must be a witch. The word "Witch" is etched onto her forehead and Luthor has a mook prepared to kill her with a flamethrower. Fortunately, Batman saves her.]]
* In ''Film/BlackDeath'', Ulric saves a woman from this fate by giving her a mercy-kill. This serves as his EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* ''Film/CityOfTheDead'' begins with a witch burning in 17th century New England. Ironically enough the film was made in the UK, with the entire cast as {{Fake American}}s.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheCrimsonAltar'': Lavinia Morley was burned for witchcraft, and this event is recreated in Greymarsh every Witch's Night, with Lavinia being burned in effigy.
* ''Film/DarkShadows'': Invoked by Barnabas, as an (empty) threat against Angelique. She is really a witch. But she is also a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and now living in an age where witches are no longer persecuted... unlike murderers, such as the vampire Barnabas.
* In ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'', several Catholic priests are executed like this.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'' a judge laments that he is not able to sentence them to be burned at the stake, which he sees as an "illustrious, sterner justice".
* ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'':
** Fire is the most reliable method for killing witches, and the antagonists led by the HotWitch Muriel are looking to produce a potion that will make them fireproof. [[spoiler:And [[BarrierMaiden Gretel]]'s [[BloodMagic heart and blood]] is one of the keys for it.]]
** Even more: [[spoiler:Hansel and Gretel's MissingMom Adrianna was a good witch, and ended up dying like this. In the meantime, her husband/the siblings' father was hanged]]. It turns out [[spoiler:Muriel set them up to be executed so she could reach for Gretel and use her for her plans]].
* ''Film/HawkTheSlayer'' meets the first of his RagtagBunchOfMisfits when he rescues a witch from a couple of peasants who want to burn her cursing their hogs. She was actually trying to cure them, but they're not in the mood to listen. She replays Hawk by using her magic to locate the rest of his group and teleport Hawk to each one.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': When Connor [=MacLeod=] first discovers he is an immortal back in ancient Scotland, he's proclaimed a witch, and burning is mentioned as an option. (In the end, he's just run out of town by a howling mob instead.)
* Averted, of all places, in ''Film/HocusPocus'', where the three witches are hanged by the townsfolk just as they would have been in 17th Century Salem. (And the fact that they were ''actually guilty'' of witchcraft in this case.) They get better, but it's a little jarring to see historical accuracy in a movie about cartoonishly wacky witches. The revived witches are also locked in a large kiln and set on fire; the oven is a reference to "Literature/HanselAndGretel". They get better from that as well. The thing that finally kills them is sunlight, because the candle that brought them back only worked for the night of Halloween, and they were unable to obtain the potion that would have enabled them to survive.
* In the 80s-90s Icelandic film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juniper_Tree_%28film%29 The Juniper Tree]]'', the mother of two little girls, [[Music/{{Bjork}} Margit]] and Katla, is burned to death for witchcraft.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'', Toby thinks Alexei has strapped Angelica to cross and is planning to burn her as part of the Holy Week celebrations. [[spoiler:It is actually a delusion caused by Toby's slipping sanity. She is strapped to a cross, but what he sees as flames are just billows of cloth intended to simulate fire.]]
* Used straight -- and to hideously appropriate effect -- in ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil''. Within that film, several "witches" (all clearly innocent) are slowly burnt alive. This film presents various period tortures in historically accurate ways, which makes it rather disturbing...
* Played ridiculously straight in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. During the revolt, the workers burn [[RobotGirl Robot!]]Maria at the stake, since they decide she's to blame for the revolution ending badly. They were right... sort of. On a pyre made of [[IncendiaryExponent burning automobiles]], no less!
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' has the infamous "Witch Trial" scene where a rather vocally pyromaniac mob accuses a woman of being a witch and Sir Bedevere attempts to use logic to ascertain whether she actually is one.
* In ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose'', Brother Salvatore and Brother Remigio are burned at the stake as scapegoats by Father Bernardo Gui, leader of the Inquisition. Gui also tries to burn a local peasant girl, but she is rescued by [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebellious peasants]] who manage to kill Gui in the resulting chaos. In the book, Gui prevents this from happening by simply having the three of them transported away and executed elsewhere, where no rescue attempts can occur.
* This is basically what started the terror for the series ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. The families of Elm Street, justifiably, hunted down a child-killer and general bad guy who got OffOnATechnicality only to have him come back later rather upset about all of it.
* Averted in ''Film/TheOldGuard'', which correctly shows Andy and Quynh being hung as witches. However this doesn't work because they're immortal, so the trope is lampshaded when they assume their captors [[KillItWithFire will try burning next]]. Turns out they have a [[AndIMustScream far worse fate in mind...]]
* ''Film/TheOmegaMan'': After the Family capture Neville and put him through a KangarooCourt for "heresy" (namely, being a normal human and a scientist), they try to burn him at the stake in Dodgers Stadium. Fortunately, he's saved by Lisa and Dutch.
* Full Moon Entertainment's movie version of ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', taking place during UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, naturally invokes this trope a couple of times. Of particular note is a scene where an old woman, soon to be burned at the stake, manages to ingest some conveniently placed gunpowder before hand. This results in a very messy explosion once she catches aflame. In RealLife, sacks of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the necks of those condemned to the stake as an act of mercy.
* Averted in ''Film/PracticalMagic'', which begins with the (failed) hanging of the main characters' female ancestor. She was exiled instead.
* In ''Film/RedRidingHood'', everyone thinks Valerie is a witch because [[spoiler:she can understand the Wolf and everyone thinks the Wolf only wants her]], so she is offered up as a HumanSacrifice.
* Happens to Wanda Grubwart in ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'', when she was alive in the 1800s.
* Averted in ''Film/SeasonOfTheWitch'' which shows three accused women being hung off a bridge, then lowered into the water to drown just in case they survived the NeckSnap. Unfortunately for the priest carrying out the ritual, one of them is NotQuiteDead.
* Done in the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie twice on screen, and another one is mentioned. The ones on-screen were an adult and an 8-year old girl, and the burning of the 8-year old (and her surviving) is what sets off the plot of the movie. What's even worse is that they don't bother to put her burned, half-alive body [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090607071432/silent/images/4/42/Sharon249.jpg off-screen]].
* Subverted in ''Film/SolomonKane''. The villagers attempt to burn the witch, but the witch uses magic to not only survive, but burn the village and its inhabitants.
* ''Film/TheTempest2010'': Antonio spread rumours that [[GenderFlip Prospera]] used BlackMagic to kill her husband despite "knowing that others of my sex have burned for far less".
* In ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'', one of the sketches in the theatre involves Dani being burnt at the stake as a witch. For a moment, it looks as is Nicole is intending to burn her for real.
* Played straight in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MSTed]] movie ''Film/TheTouchOfSatan,'' where the heroine's sister is nearly burned at the stake after being accused of witchcraft... in 19th-Century California.
-->'''Mob''': BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!\\
'''Mike''': Oh, and Go Packers too, but mostly burn the witch.
* In ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', Lurkalot is accused of being a witch after having been seen flying (ItMakesSenseInContext). First he is dunked in the well till he confesses to being a witch, and then is placed on a pyre to be burned. The villagers have trouble lighting him because he is so waterlogged.
* The titular character in ''Film/ValerieAndHerWeekOfWonders'' is nearly burned at the stake for being accused of witchcraft. When told to repent, she childishly sticks her tongue out with a huge grin on her face.
* The (pseudo)historical/horror movie ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'', which definitely played fast and loose with history. Justified, in that burning was something new that Matthew Hopkins was trying out. The most common form of execution is hanging.
* In ''Film/WitchWayLove'', it is explained that some witches and sorcerers found ways around this problem. As a result, they can't die upon being burned and liquefy instead.
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