Summer-Movie Body Count

The grand total of big-screen deaths this season, through May 26:

4,250 *

Films included this week:

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
How'd they die? A casualty breakdown:
CAR PASSENGERS CRUSHED BY MAGNETO 26
NECKS BROKEN 1
BURNED BY PYRO 1
EVISCERATED BY DARK PHOENIX 101
STABBED BY WOLVERINE 2
FALLING 1
SHOT 30
KILLED BY X-MEN IN EPIC MUTANT BATTLE 40
IMPALED 1
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING 1
Total 206

See last week's tally here.

(* Summer Movie Body Count includes all movies opening on 1,000 or more screens from May 5 through Sept. 8, 2006. Only confirmed on-screen deaths are scored, and any bloodshed en masse is tallied through logical — though admittedly unscientific — estimation.)