Summer-Movie Body Count

The grand total of big-screen deaths this season, through May 21:

4,044 *

Films included this week:

THE DA VINCI CODE
How'd they die? A casualty breakdown:
STABBED 3
SHOT 5
NECKS BROKEN 1
INCINERATED 1
KILLED IN CAR CRASHES 3
HEADS BASHED 1
POISONED 1
Total 15

SEE NO EVIL
A casualty breakdown:
EATEN BY DOGS 1
CHOKED ON CELL PHONES 1
CRUSHED BY ELEVATOR DOORS 1
IMPALED 1
HACKED BY AX 1
HOOKED 3
CRUSHED BY BED 1
FELL 1
Total 10

OVER THE HEDGE
Casualty breakdown:
ELECTROCUTED 1
Total 1

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.)