ROTTEN TOMATOES: Total Recall: Killer Body Counts

Total Recall: Killer Body Counts

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more info...	Ghostface Haunting grounds: The Scream series Estimated Body Count: 25 One of the rare slasher antagonists who's a killer-by-committee, Ghostface terrorizes the self-referntial Scream series with a revolving door of mask-donning, knife-wielding psychopaths. Their motives are different (peer pressure, revenge, etc.), but the results are the same, no matter who wears the Edward Munch-inspired getup: teenagers will turn up dead, following the conventions of horror movies. And, as with other horror franchises, the body count goes up from the original to the sequel; in all, this council of killers is responsible for at least 25 slayings.

more info...	Fate Haunting grounds: The Final Destination series Estimated Body Count: 28 Remember the old margarine commercials that said you can't fool Mother Nature? Well, according to the Final Destination series, you can't cheat Fate, either. It's often said that revenge is a dish best served cold -- but for the unseen hand of Fate, it tastes even better when garnished with a series of incredibly brutal (and, it must be said, very morbidly entertaining) booby traps. According to the Final Destination Wikipedia entry, the series' unseen antagonist has dispatched 28 victims, using everything from the mundane (death by falling brick) to the cleverly rewind-worthy (shower cord strangulation, ladder through the eye, death by falling cherry picker). With a fourth installment scheduled for 2009 (in hi-def 3-D, even!), audiences can expect to see even more attractive young people cut down in their prime in fiendishly inventive ways.

more info...	Chucky Haunting grounds: The Child's Play series Estimated Body Count: 30 Chucky may have devolved into a pint-sized Tony Clifton at this point, but the original Child's Play was a superior genre piece -- creepy, suspenseful, and blessed with an insidious sense of humor. Child's Play riffed on the idea of innocence gone horribly wrong, with a quasi-Cabbage Patch Kid embodied by a vicious serial killer with the help of a voodoo ritual. Subsequent sequels have delivered more camp than scares, but Chucky's left a trail of more than 30 corpses in his wake -- and probably didn't enamor himself to Teddy Ruxpin.

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collex writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:33 PM

Hmm, RT, it's Horror Antagonists. Not Horor

Beyond that, nice list.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:50 PM

Yeah good list, but where is Michael Meyers, the first HALLOWEEN is classic or Damien from The Omen. Man, I hate the SAW movies, when are people going to stop watching the same thing over and over again! I stopped on after II, I thought the first one was mediocre.

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collex writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:50 PM

Some tought: If you make the count of serial killers and includes alien, why is The Predator or the Xenomorph not on this list? I tought it would be because it must have been only one individual, but then you had SCream, wich is not the same guy each time and Jaws (it isn't always the same shark, right?).

Second, does the Micheal Myers bodycount include the Remake or not? Just to know..

Third: Okay I know his body count is ridiculously low (7) but the way he does them (not to mention he is the only human one we don't know his name), I think Jon Doe from Seven really deserve a honorary mention on this list.

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blattman writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:51 PM

Leprechaun made the list and the djin from wishmaster didn't? Well, I guess you can't list every horror nutjob.

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:54 PM

You win Jason. Even though your movie's stink. Halloween may be a classic, but the sequels, HA! Same goes for Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, Jaws, and Leprauchan. Kidding about that last one, none of them are good. And Jaws beats them all though. And the sequels might be worse than Halloween sequels or Saw sequels. And Child's Play isn't good. Actually, I only like Jaws. Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask :P

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vashfanatic writes:
on Oct 22 2008 06:58 PM

Anybody know how many people have died from the videotape in the Japanese "Ringu" franchise? Just curious.

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Cerbyrus writes:
on Oct 22 2008 07:57 PM

I love how the body count is only in the double digits, then comes along Jason Voorhees with 146.

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SgtMaxFightmaster writes:
on Oct 22 2008 08:18 PM

I hate when people call Saw torture porn.

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Oct 22 2008 08:19 PM

Predator (especially the first one) needs to be in there. I remember when it came out, all the Vietnam vets were traumatized by it(again, #1).

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utkipp1 writes:
on Oct 22 2008 09:05 PM

The first Halloween is a classic. The 2nd was good. the 3rd was retarded. The 4th got back to the basics, but still sucked. Same for the 5th. The 6th one wasn't bad. H20 was 2nd only to the original. Ressurection was garbage. And the remake, i liked the idea but it could have been done better.

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crystalwhiteeyes writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:14 PM

In reply to this comment (#2090271)
you hate the truth??

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:21 PM

cystalwhiteeyes, what do you mean?

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SgtMaxFightmaster writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:30 PM

No, I hate when people call Saw torture porn when it's not. Sure there's torture in it but there's no sex or nudity. Sure, there was a nude woman in a trap in the third one but there was no pornography. There's also a story around it. People just call Saw torture porn because they think it's the same as Hostel (the real torture porn), which it's not.

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AntonChigurh writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:30 PM

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I hate it when people call SAW good.

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ARTaylor writes:
on Oct 22 2008 11:31 PM

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Porn is "catering to a voyeuristic or obsessive interest in a specified subject." Not necessarily meaning sex or nudity. In this case porn means torture, pain, etc.

Good to see ol' Michael as number two, even considering that in the original he only has a body count of five. Judith, the truck driver, Annie, Bob, and Linda.

Halloween is a classic. The second is a typical sequel, more of the same but still a decent flick. Three must be the worst sequel ever, it would have been just a lousy movie if they hadn't put Halloween in the title. Four is decent enough, but should have stopped there. Five is poor and really should have stopped. Six was crap. H20 was amazing, completely erases the last three, a brilliant end to a trilogy, and may even equal the original. Resurrection was about as good as Six. I haven't seen the remake, I refuse to pay money in any way to see that abomination.

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medikboi_84 writes:
on Oct 23 2008 12:07 AM

I agree with your assessment 100% ARTaylor. Halloween is def one of my favorite Slasher films, and the only sequals that were any good were H20 and Halloween 2. If you make it a trilogy with those three it is quite enjoyable. Just ignore the stupid Halloween 3-6 and Ressurection, which had the poorest idea ever on how to bring a villian back from the dead. I also am a huge fan of Nightmare on Elm Street. The first one the third one and New Nightmare being the only enjoyable entries. Lastly I really like all the Scream movies (yes even the third one).

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SgtMaxFightmaster writes:
on Oct 23 2008 08:24 AM

Yeah that's true but when most people think of porn, they think of sex. Torture porn wasn't coined until Hostel came out because the first half was tons of sex and nudity and the second half was torture. So since that was torture porn, people thought Saw was torture porn just because there's torture in it.

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Pandapeep writes:
on Oct 23 2008 09:15 AM

No, people called Hostel and this new crop of overly torture based movies torture porn because they instead of trying to build a decent plot, tight scares, a real villain or monster, or any other hallmark of the genre opt to instead just show pretty young people being tortured in realistic, disturbing, and violent ways. The movies are nothing but a vehicle for the detailed, torture scenes, and focus on it and glorify it in much the same way the traditional porn focuses and glorifies sex. It has nothing to do with sex and nudity. Sex and nudity have almost always been a part of the horror genre, mainly because alot of the actors, directors, producers, ect. worked on porn.

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HyperionChild writes:
on Oct 23 2008 09:40 AM

Remember, Jigsaw never actually killed anyone.
Technically, his body count is zero.
"Guns don't kill people, deviously designed traps kill people".....:)

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Zed'sDead writes:
on Oct 23 2008 09:56 AM

I guess I'm alone here cause I'm apparently the only one that liked Rob Zombie's Halloween remake. I didn't think that it was necessary, but I really liked how he gave some insight on how Michael Meyers came to be the mass murderer that he was...and I also liked the twist of the motive as to why he was hunting his little sister down. I also found myself being really, really impressed with his wife's acting in that film.

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