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Ever since 1933'sThe Invisible Manterrified viewers with Dr. Jack Griffin's invisible rampage that racked up over 120 kills that included a derailed train, horror movie fans have been counting killsin order to rank their favorite films and characters.

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What can be really surprising when examining a film based on kills alone is that popular horror movie slashers don't always rateas high as fans would think, with horror icon Jason Voorhees only managing to bring in around 25 confirmed inJason X(along with a space station of an undisclosed amount),which doesn't even crack the top 10 horror movies with the most kills.

Drew Goddard'sThe Cabin in the Woods took the oft-used horror trope and ran with it by framing the typical scary cabin scenario with a secretive government-runprogram that manipulated the events of the film.

The facility under the cabin housed a number of horrifying monsters that began to tear apart the workers, resulting in over 60 onscreen kills. This is even before the finale that potentially kicked off an apocalypse that could have added billions to the total body count. Since the apocalypse happens offscreen,The Cabin in the Woods'onscreen deaths are the only ones that count.

Stephen King's first adapted novel was1976'sCarrie from director Brian de Palma, and it starred Sissy Spacek as the titular telekinetic teenager, whose high school prom will go down in history as one of the bloodiest horror fans have ever seen.

While 2002's TV movie adaptation featured an overwhelming amount of unimpressive kills (234),the originalfeatured a more modest number of unforgettable kills that totaled around 70, including Carrie White herself and her overbearing mother.

For the longest time,zombie movies always have a bit of an advantage over other horrors when it comes to the kills because characters can be killed twice in most situations,and there is no shortage of additional enemies to add to the final totals.

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While 2009'sZombieland takes a more comedic approach to the zombie apocalypse,the four survivors manage to wrack upover 75 kills(potentially more given the amount of off-screen deaths and the fact that the film takes place during a zombie outbreak)along with the saddest kill of the film:Bill Murray.

American employees at an out-of-country, isolated office building soon discover that they are involved in a dark test of human behavior when the building is locked down and they are instructed to kill each other in order to survive inThe Belko Experiment.

Belko Industries employees were each outfitted with an explosive device in their headsthat could be detonated remotely,which drove the staff into violent confrontationsthat killed 84 people, though the finale revealed this same experiment running in a hundred different buildings, multiplying that total exponentially. Again, only the onscreen kills count.

Guardians of the GalaxymastermindJames Gunn'salien invasion horrorSlitherwon Fangoria's Chainsaw Award for Highest Body Count in 2006. While some of the bodies that are counted were off-screen deaths, the on-screen kills still stack up.

Slither may bring in as many laughs as it does scares, but thesmall group of survivors continually rack up over 50 on-screen kills as they fight off alien-infected townsfolk, with another 50+ falling in the final scene to really putSlither over the top.

Zombies andvampiresshare a similar dark resurrection element to their transformation, which gives Robert Rodriguez'From Dusk Till Dawnan advantage as fans got to see quite a few characters killed more than once here, with more to follow in the sequels.

While the original film featured a few early kills from the fugitive Gecko brothers, it's the massacre at the Mexican bar that they lay low in that kicks off a brutal vampire attack. This momentonwards adds a lot to the film's final tally, with only a couple survivors left to walk away into the sunlight.

Not to be confused with the original filmThe Purge,The First Purge is its franchise's fourth film and a prequel that explores a future U.S. society that has instituted a 12-hour law-free window that allows citizens to "purge" their darker impulses. In reality, the annual purge is a systematic genocide the government uses to control the population.

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The prequel explores the first trial run of the Purge that targeted the poor and disenfranchised, kicking off the politically charged films that all featured a heavy kill tally. But of the four Purgefilms so far,The First Purgereally upped the ante with a number of added security camera kills.

George Romero's iconicDawn of the Dead from 1978featuredover 100 human and zombie deaths and could easily hold a top spot all on its own. However,the 2004 remakepushed the boundaries on the genre and managed to overtake the original with over 140 kills.

Zack Snyder's remake featuredan outbreak of terrifyingly fast zombies that resulted in a number of quick-paced kills that included a lot of explosionswhich makes itdifficult to lock down a specific kill count forDawn of the Dead, which in itself is kind of impressive.

Quentin Tarantino andRobert Rodriguez'sdouble billGrindhousehomaged classicexploitation films, with Rodriguez'Planet Terror dropping an impressive amount of killswithout the help ofTarantino'sDeath Proof or the included fake trailers.

After a chemical weapon was unleashed at a military base, it began to mutate the nearby town into monstrous zombies, with the survivors using various extreme methods to take out zombies, corrupt military men, and other human dangers for over 25o onscreen kills.

Once a scrapped X-Files episode, the firstFinal Destination kicked off a franchise that explored the concept of death as a sentient force and what might happen if someone were able to avoid their impending demise and that of those around them.In the first film, survivors of the doomed Flight 180 learned what happens when they cheat death after they were saved by a strange premonition.

The plane crash alone killed 287 passengers, while the five survivors were then each gruesomely taken out byodd accidents/Death/acts of fate to correct this cosmic oversight, givingFinal Destinationone of horror movie's highest kill counts.

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