10 Best Movie Deaths Of 2019

There aren't many movies in existence that don't feature somebody dying. Whether it's a random background extra, the big bad villain or even the main character themselves, most big screen stories usually involve some sort of death.

Because it's such a common occurrence it's easy to feel desensitised to it, especially when movies like Star Wars show entire planets being destroyed in an almost throwaway manner. Sure, it may provide decent spectacle, but a side effect of this flippancy is that it's extremely hard to capture a visceral and evocative death scene.

Hard... but not impossible. On the whole, 2019 has served up a number of standout fatalities that will stick with you long after the credits have rolled, from beloved superheroes paying the ultimate price, to a popular children's TV presenter caught on the bad side of a zombie invasion.

So, let's get all morbid and applaud the filmmakers who were able to turn death into art, sending their characters off in a variety of creative, disturbing and surprising - but above all else, memorable - ways across the last year of film.

Thanks to Lupita Nyong'o's ridiculously twisted performance, a creepy score and some shocking bursts of bloody violence, Jordan Peele's Us was pure nightmare fuel from start to end, but it becomes even more nightmarish when you realise that the movie had us rooting for the wrong character the entire time.

For the duration of the film we follow Nyong'o's Adelaide Wilson, a loving wife and mother whose troubled childhood rears its head in the form of Red (also Nyong'o), a scissor-wielding psychopath who is Adelaide's exact physical doppelganger.

After an imaginative fight sequence set to that oh-so haunting rework of I Got 5 On It, Adelaide is finally able to kill Red by stabbing her through the chest. A happy ending looks to be in order, but then... Peele brings us crashing back down to Earth with the revelation that the victorious Adelaide was the sinister doppelganger the entire time, and that she swapped places with the real Adelaide back when they were children.

The way that this twist reframes Red's death is one of the biggest gut-punches of the year, and all of a sudden, Adelaide's guttural sounds as she killed her double became yells of victory, instead of the cries of relief we initially thought they were. Spooky stuff.