15 Best Movie Deaths Of 2017

15. Alien: Covenant – Ledward

A lot of people had quite a few not-so-nice things to say about the competence of the crew aboard the titular ship in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. While it’s true a good number of characters make some rather stupid decisions – especially for a bunch of scientists and astronauts – if people in movies made logical decisions they’d probably be pretty boring.

Case in point: security team member Ledward. While investigating Planet 4 he removes his helmet so he can smoke a cigarette and take a leak, which turns out to be a Darwin Award-worthy move when he’s infected with Neomorph spores. But if Ledward hadn’t acted so irresponsibly, we wouldn’t get what comes next: his inevitable and gruesome demise.

In a twist on the classic Xenomorph death move ‘the chest-burster’, we see the doomed Ledward start to convulse just before an infant Neomorph bursts out of his back taking his spinal cord with it in a gruesomely gratifying scene that is everything an Alien death should be.