10 Goriest Deaths In Movie History

Has anyone ever counted up how many characters have died on screen in the history of cinema? Probably not, but we can all assume that the death toll is pretty substantial - from the large scale battles of Birth of a Nation to the action-packed blockbusters of today, countless corpses have been piled high on cinema screens over the years, riddled with bullets, stabbed through the chest, drowned, eviscerated, shot, strung up, beaten to death. Death is an aspect of life that the movies revel in, glorifying in each and every imaginative manner in which a human being could possibly be expelled from the earthly realm. Some movies like to take things to the next level, depicting that moment of death in its most bloody and gory manifestation - here are 10 movies which take it to the next level and present us with death at its most brutal and visceral. Be warned - the following images and descriptions are not for the faint-hearted.