The Top 12 Coolest Movie Knives (#8 – 5)

The Top 12 Coolest Movie Knives: #8-#5

Before I get into the second week of this feature, I just want to briefly talk about the total lack of Danny Trejo’s Machete character from the list because it seems like a list about cool movie knives should probably include a guy named after a knife. Machete was on the list until late in the game, but I decided that, as cool as Machete and his various machetes are, I wanted to talk about other knives from other movies. Had the list been longer, like “The Top 13 Coolest Movies Knives,” Machete definitely would have appeared on the list.

I just wanted to clear that up, just in case you were wondering.

And in case you missed it, here’s the link to the first part of the list: Top 12 Coolest Movie Knives: #12-#9

And now, The Top 12 Coolest Movie Knives list continues with slots #8- through #5:

The Top 12 Coolest Movie Knives: #8-#5

8- -The Assassin’s Curved Knives The Raid 2: The Assassin, as played by Cecep Arif Rahman in the badass action sequel, uses these two knives against the movie’s hero Rama (Iko Uwais) towards the end of the movie in the big hooha fight in the kitchen. The knives, apparently called karambits in real life, are absolutely terrifying. And that’s before he, or later Rama during the fight, starts using them. I think it’s the whole curved part that’s scariest. The way the knife comes to a point is also pretty nasty because it looks like if you get hit by that part you’re screwed and you won’t survive. You might be able to survive a slice, but a full on puncture? My God, I don’t want to find out. If you saw a guy like The Assassin show up with even one of these knives how long do you think you would last? Five seconds?

7—Michael Myers’ Kitchen Knife Halloween: As far as I can tell the knife used by Michael Myers/The Shape in just about all of the Halloween movies is your standard kitchen butcher knife. It seems like a rather mundane weapon when you describe it or think about it. I mean, butcher knives like the one he typically uses are everywhere: in every house, in every store that sells kitchen equipment, every restaurant. But then you start to think about how, despite being mundane and typical, it’s incredibly deadly in the right (wrong) hands, and if Michael Myers is after you he could get that knife literally anywhere. He could even get it in your house. How fucked up is that, getting killed with a knife from your own house? The “stiffness” of the knife is also unsettling as hell. It’s a perfect knife for stabbing, both with a forward thrust and a downward thrust. It’s incredibly useful in that sense. Jesus, that’s messed up, too.

6- The “Shower Scene” Knife- – Psycho: This is another instance of a common, random household item, a butcher knife, being used as a deadly weapon. We see it used when Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is murdered in the shower by a killer in shadow (I believe it’s also used later on in the movie against Martin Balsam but it isn’t as fear inducing as the shower scene). Now, because the shower scene is so iconic and director Alfred Hitchcock is righty revered the world over as a master of cinema, it could be that the overall dangerousness of the knife is all about the way Hitchcock filmed the scene. I mean, it’s just a knife, right? Just a regular, normal knife. But in the hands of Hitchcock it’s truly something lethal, more lethal than anything else. I’d suspect that the knife’s use in Psycho is likely why John Carpenter used it in Halloween. It can’t be a coincidence, can it?

5- Jason’s Machete- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives!: I don’t know how many times Jason Voorhees uses a machete in the entire Friday the 13th/Jason franchise but I think it’s safe to say that, when most people think of Jason they think of him wielding a machete. I know I do (and that seems pretty weird when that weed wacker thing he uses in The New Blood is pretty iconic, too). But which machete is the most iconic in the franchise? To me, that would be the one Jason uses in part six, Jason Lives!. Once he takes it away from douchebag Burt (Wallace Merck) in the woods, Jason uses it to decapitate three people at one time. Holy shit! Jason then uses it to kill the hapless Roy (Whitney Rydbeck) but we don’t get to see that. You can imagine what it was like, though, dismembering that poor bastard. Truly horrific. Iconic, too. You don’t mess around with Jason and his machete.

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Next issue: The list concludes with big knives. Really big ones.

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