20 Best Movie Deaths Of The Decade

18. The Elevator Guy - Drive (2011)

Drive was a provocative, transformative movie that gleefully messed with expectations and subverted what appeared to be a conventional indie crime romance in such a genius way that it didn't at all feel strange for it to turn into an outright hyper-violent exploitation flick.

There are a few punctuations of death in there - including the harrowing murder of Bryan Cranston's Shannon and the final assumed death off-screen of Ryan Gosling's titular hero - but the real stand-out is that of a nameless mook which flips the entire film on its head.

After we see the heist go wrong, the Driver finds out who is behind everything and sets about his plan to make things right, only to encounter a hitman sent to kill him in his apartment block elevator. The brutal switch from him kissing Irene (Carey Mulligan) to savagely beating the hitman with a hammer and then stomping him to death is about the most shocking twist in the history of instant escalations.