How does Hollywood like to kill on screen? We spent our summer counting the ways. Whether it was a pirate being strangled by Davy Jones' tentacle in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End or Dr. Nick getting impaled by a shard of bio-dome in The Simpsons Movie, the bloodshed was nonstop. Now summer's over, so we've tallied the carnage — and highlighted a few notable endings.
Highest body count
28 Weeks Later
Eaten by Zombies........20
Shot...................200
Firebombed/gassed...14,791
Total...............15,011
Most creative deaths
Hostel: Part II
A victim is eaten by dogs
Halloween
Young Michael Myers forks someone to death
Stardust
A witch's crony is impaled by a unicorn horn
Most heartbreaking death
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sirius Black, killed by Bellatrix Lestrange's Avada Kedavra spell
Last movie you'd expect to have a death
Mr. Bean's Holiday
One poor sap jumps off a bridge
GRAND TOTAL 18712
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