Thom Beers
Director
1000 Ways to Die (2009)
Specials
The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists, herpetologists, and other experts offer eloquent explanations of mortality.
Released Feb. 8, 2009
Episode 23 min
14+
Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Horror
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, tmdb.urban-legend, tmdb.death, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.blood-spatter, imdb.stupid-victim, imdb.freak-accident + 21 more, imdb.wilhelm-scream, imdb.sex-scene, imdb.expert-analysis, imdb.expert, imdb.reenacting-an-accident, imdb.title-spoken-by-character, imdb.death, imdb.reenactment, imdb.urban-legend, imdb.murder, imdb.violence, imdb.interview, imdb.gore, imdb.voice-over-narration, imdb.doctor, imdb.brutality, imdb.corpse, imdb.body-horror, imdb.blood, imdb.accidental-death, imdb.splatter-horror
Production Companies: Original Productions, Spike TV
Network: Spike
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Life Will Kill You
Way to Die #208: Semi-cide: A man working on his car is run over and bisected by an 18-wheeler. Way to Die #422: Constriction Accident: A construction worker who comes to work drunk comes to work with a hangover. Way to Die #92: Fang Banged: A drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. Way to Die #832: Lesbocution: After being involved in a series of bad relationships, a woman decides to become a lesbian. Way to Die #125: Love Bugged: A reclusive French amateur entomologist and herpetologist is bitten by his black widow spider in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. Way to Die #640: Tumble Die (a.k.a. Dried Off): A repairman is accidentally trapped inside an industrial clothes dryer and dies of being battered around and excess heat within minutes causing hyperthermia.
Escaped Death #1: Mike Staley: A cautionary look-back at the infamous accident of Daytona driver Julius David Johnson III ('Slick' Johnson) in 1990.
May 14, 2008, midnight
S0E2 - Hard Lives, Easy Deaths
Way to Die #293: Freeze Died
A man working at a mafia-owned South Philadelphia meat packing company is deliberately locked in a walk-in freezer, and dies of hypothermia.
Way to Die #713: Dive Bombed
A group of friends fly themselves home from Cabo San Lucas in a private plane shortly after going scuba diving. Way to Die #91: De-Coffinated
A land dispute between two brothers in Haiti ends with one brother asking a witch doctor to poison the other with tetrodotoxin, causing paralysis. Way to Die #606: Wet Dream
A man who wants to live like a fish constructs a fish suit out of waterbed material and attempts to use it. Way to Die #112: Fur Burger
In the 2nd century, one method of execution was wrapping the victim in freshly killed animal skins, tying him to a tree, and leaving him to be eaten alive by whatever carnivores happened to be in the area (a flock of vultures in this case).
Escaped Death #2: Shayna Richardson
See the chart about Escaped Deaths.
May 21, 2008, midnight
S0E3 - 1000 Ways to Lie - Natural Born Liars
A drug smuggler uses her womanly assets to hide the goods; a celebrity seeker pulls a bunny out of her rabbit hole; an ex-con cleans up the streets; a henpecked hubby winds up wishing he was dead; a horny horn player plays his heart out and a con man discovers he's cut out for the job.
March 3, 2010, midnight
S0E4 - Death By Request Special
A special one-hour episode that highlights all the goriest, sexiest, and most delightfully horrible deaths that 1000 Ways To Die has to offer! Death on Death with a delicious side of Death!
Oct. 24, 2011, midnight
Network: Spike
Episode Runtime: 23 min.
Season Runtime: 1656 min.
Released: Feb. 8, 2009
Last Air Date: July 15, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14
Common sense age: 14+
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