All 11 Deaths In The Bondsman Season 1, Ranked By Brutality

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Bondsman.The Bondsman follows a simple, straightforward narrative, but keeps viewers hooked with its brutal action sequences and over-the-top character death scenes. Starring Kevin Bacon, The Bondsman features a familiar story where a character returns from hell and is forced to hunt down demons in the hope of salvation. While its plot may seem a little too predictable and redundant, the show ensures that it never leaves viewers with a dull moment by featuring some bizarre and violent character death scenes.

Since The Bondsman unfolds more like a comedy horror series, it intentionally adopts a campy tone and ensures its action sequences stretch one's suspension of disbelief. Instead of easing into its action and brutality, the Amazon Prime Video show immerses viewers in its wild, chaotic world from the start by featuring a disturbing scene in its opening episode itself. With what follows, the stakes get higher and the show gradually ups the ante by taking a no-holds-barred approach towards portraying violence and exaggerated death sequences.

11 Hub Uses Marphos' Own Element Against Him

The Demon Nearly Drowns Hub

After Hub tracks Marphos down and arrives at the local high school in episode 3, the demon almost gets him and drowns him to death in a swimming pool. However, before losing his consciousness underwater, Hub manages to stab the demon's host in the eye. The show establishes that destroying a host's brain ensures that the demon is expelled and sent to hell. Therefore, after Hub plunges his knife into Marphos' host's eye, the demon returns to hell while the host catches fire despite being in the water.

10 Marphos Drowns His Human Target

The Episode 3 Demon Drowns His Host In A Bathtub

Like all demons in The Bondsman, Marphos also looks for a human host after arriving in the human realm. It targets a high school cheerleader and kills her by drowning her in her own bathtub before possessing her body. While this sequence is not as brutal as the other demon kills in the series, it highlights how Marphos represents water, which is one of the 5 elements portrayed in the inverted pentagram.

9 Erdos Takes Over Deputy Sheriff Briggs' Body

Briggs' Seems Helpless Against The Overpowered Demon

Midway through The Bondsman season 1, another demon, Erdos, emerges from the depths of hell and sets its eyes on a local Deputy Sheriff. As soon as the Sheriff enters his car, he sees the demon through the rare-view mirror. However, before he can even react to the situation, the demon slashes his throat and enters his body.

8 Hub & His Mother Join Forces To Eliminate Valacor

Hub's Mother Eventually Saves The Day

Towards the final moments of The Bondsman episode 2, Hub's mother decides to join forces with him to help him eliminate demons. Although Hub initially seems apprehensive about letting her join him, he eventually agrees. This decision proves to be beneficial because, when he struggles to take down Valacor, his mother comes to his rescue by shooting the demon from a distance. While this kill is nowhere close to being as memorable as the others, it highlights how Hub and his mother are a force to be reckoned with.

7 The First Demon Kills Hub's Enemies Before He Can

The Demon's Victims Are Found With Twisted Bodies

The first demon in the show's season 1, Valacor, shows up towards the end of The Bondsman's episode 1. After struggling to figure out what is happening to him, Hub becomes even more baffled when he watches the demon single-handedly kill Lucky's men without even touching them. The demon sends them flying off into the ceiling and bends their arms and feet in the most disturbingly twisted positions to kill them. Later, when Lucky arrives at the location of the murders, he is alarmed by the sight of his brutally murdered men.

6 Valacor Kills & Possesses The Priest

The Demon Burns The Priest's Face Off

In The Bondsman episode 2's opening moments, a local priest finds himself facing an evil force inside his church. The priest attempts to fight the demonic entity by throwing holy water and reciting verses from the Bible. However, to his dismay, nothing seems to work. With what follows, the demon kills him by literally burning him from the inside. Flames emerge from the priest's eyes as he falls to the ground and half his face melts. Moments later, he stands back up after the demon possesses him and sets out to use him as a vessel to claim more lives.

5 Hub Dies Before Returning From The Depths Of Hell

Lucky's Men Slash His Throat

The Bondsman begins with a brutal kill where Kevin Bacon's Hub sets out to kill some bad guys. However, things soon turn against him when he gets overpowered by one of Lucky's men and gets his throat slashed. To his surprise, however, he soon defies death without realizing that the devil has given him a second shot at life under a grim condition.

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With what follows, Hub watches his fatal neck wound gradually heal while he sets out to seek revenge on the men who killed him. During these moments, the show features one of its most gruesome scenes where smoke erupts from the open wound on Hub's neck as he stands there defying death. This gives the show a jumpstart by giving viewers a glimpse of the violence that lies ahead in Hub's story.

4 Hub & Maryanne Team Up To Take Down Erdos

Maryanne Has Brush With Doom Before Hub Saves Her

Hub's wife, Maryanne, makes the mistake of following him to a local store in The Bondsman's episode 4 and soon encounters Erdos in Deputy Sheriff Briggs' body. This leads to a gripping showdown between the demon and the former couple, where Erdos nearly manages to overpower Hub. However, instead of fleeing the scene out of fear, Maryanne tries to save her husband by hitting Briggs with an axe. To her shock, the axe gets lodged in the police officer's back, but he seems unbothered.

Things take a terrifying turn for the female character when the demon leaves Hub and attempts to get her. However, before he can harm her, Hub shoots Briggs in the head and destroys the demon's vessel. This leaves Maryanne with a bloodied face, but she feels grateful about making it out alive.

3 Slypharis Possesses Two Humans At Once

The Demon's Hosts Face A Disturbing Doom

The Bondsman's episode 5 begins with two men fighting over a petty disagreement while one of their wives tries to stop them. However, things soon take a dark turn when another demon, Slypharis, shows up and attacks the two men by turning an entire vehicle on their bodies. This leads to one of the most graphic scenes in the show where the two men appear to be alive because of the demonic possession despite being severely mangled by the weight of the vehicle.

2 The Bondsman Recreates An Iconic Ash Vs Evil Dead Trope

Hub Uses A Chainsaw To Kill A Demon

Hub defeats one of Slypharis' two victims by blowing his head with a shotgun. However, to his dismay, the gun runs out of bullets after he misses the other host's head. This is when his eyes fall on a chainsaw, which he drives through the demon host's head before he can harm him. Although The Bondsman comes nowhere close to being as iconic as Ash vs Evil Dead, it does a decent job of dropping a subtle reference to the horror comedy series with its brutal chainsaw kill scene.