20 Best Movie Deaths Of The Decade

3. Charlie Loses Her Head - Hereditary (2018)

Want to make a big splash in any movie? Want everyone to talk about your movie with a mixture of shock, awe and disgust? Why, simply lop the head off an innocent child and you're guaranteed that sort of impact.

No horror movie death scene of the past decade - and possibly beyond that - had anything like the impact as the awful surprise death of Charlie (Milly Shapiro) in Hereditary. Already struggling to live after accidentally eating some nuts and having a massive allergic reaction, Charlie stuck her head out of the window for air just as her high brother Peter swerved to avoid an animal on the way to the hospital.

Naturally, Charlie loses her head and Peter drives home haunted by the trauma and by his sister's dead body in the backseat of his car. Charlie's removed head isn't found until the next day, in a genius decision which makes it even more shocking and more provocative. Try and shift that image out of your mind.