If you’re thinking about living as a character in certain types of movies, you should think about taking out some term life insurance. Unless you’re going to be the lovable hero of the movie, chances are pretty good that you’re going to meet an untimely death. While you might think that folks in horror movies are more apt to need term life insurance, the fact of the matter is that the top few movies with the highest body counts aren’t horror films – they fall into the adventure and fantasy categories.

Lets take a look at some of the movies with the highest body counts:

  • Lord of the Rings. We’ll cover this as a single item, even though two of the movies in this series have earned top honors. The Return of the King has the highest movie body count, with 836 observable on-screen deaths. The Two Towers comes in at #6, with 468 deaths. Who knew that elves and hobbits were to be more feared than Leatherface or Jason?
  • Kingdom of Heaven. While it’s arguable that this movie’s big death came at the box office, this epic movie set during the middle ages racked up a healthy 610 on-screen deaths.
  • 300. This is SPARTA!!! Sorry, where were we? Oh, yes. While not all of the 300 who perished in the battle on the Spartan side make the scree, a total of 600 deaths do show up altogether.
  • Troy. Pitt’s Interview with the Vampire co-star probably racked up more kills in this movie than Pitt did in Troy, but the movie’s total comes in at 572. Is it any small coincidence that this movie makes mention of the valiant Spartans at Thermopylae?
  • The Last Samurai. Cruise didn’t spend much of this movie fighting, but the large beginning and ending battle scenes more than made up for it, bringing the total to 558 deaths.
  • Grindhouse: Double Feature. Should this be counted as two movies, or one? Our experts counted it as one, and the body count between the two was a paltry 310. This is the only movie in our list that could fall into the “horror” category, although that may be debatable.
  • Titanic. Perhaps it was all of the on-screen deaths that convinced boyfriends to continually accompany their dates to this movie over and over again.

Other honorable mentions should go to war movies such as We Were Soldiers and Saving Private Ryan, as well as Starship Troopers and Rambo. While they didn’t make the list, they show us that war, whether it’s in the future or just in a rural town, is hell.

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