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News / Columns / Total Recall
Total Recall: Killer Body Counts
by Tim Ryan and Jeff Giles
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Leprechaun

Haunting grounds: The Leprechaun series
Estimated Body Count: 45

The Leprechaun series is the embodiment of the finest that Irish culture and letters has to offer, easily surpassing the works of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. The titular antihero is murderously committed to acquiring a pot o' gold, an undertaking that prompts travel to such exotic locales as Compton and outer space. The fanpage Connie's Warwick Davis Fanpage and Leprechaun Center has a remarkably detailed chronicle of the little green guy's deadly exploits; despite his diminutive stature, the Leprechaun's super-sharp claws and teeth have helped him tally 45 onscreen fatalities.


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Michael Myers

Haunting grounds: The Halloween series
Estimated Body Count: 56

The best-known escapee of Smith's Grove Sanitarium, Michael Myers has never been a big fan of babysitters, nor is he particularly fleet of foot. He digs Blue Oyster Cult, and makes special use of Star Trek paraphernalia and kitchen cutlery. Since the release of John Carpenter's landmark Halloween, Myers' legend has been told in a number of sequels, and if his reasons for killing are obscure, he's still coldly efficient at the task; he's racked up 56 notches on his belt, according to Houseofhorrors.com.


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Jason Voorhees

Haunting grounds: The Friday the 13th series
Estimated Body Count: 146

Rocking facial protection that would do Jacques Plante proud, Jason Vorhees terrorized Camp Crystal Lake with cold precision and an ability to avoid death that rivals Rasputin's in Friday the 13th. Occasionally breaking out of the bucolic confines of the countryside to wreak havoc in the big city (Part VI: Jason Takes Manhattan, Hades (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday) and the future (Jason X). According to the absurdly detailed website Fridaythe13thfilms.com, Jason put 146 unfortunate souls on ice (with another 42 self-inflicted or accidental deaths within the series). Pretty impressive for a cat who died from drowning in 1958.

Still feeling spooky, and all together a little ooky? Read our Total Recall article on movie ghosts or explore the full column archive.

And finally, here are some words of wisdom from Ice-T and his band of merry pranksters, Body Count:

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collex
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SgtMaxFightmaster writes:
on Oct 22 2008 08:18 PM

I hate when people call Saw torture porn.

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tomwaitsjr
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
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
crystalwhiteeyes writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:14 PM

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

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ledawg1138
ledawg1138 writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:21 PM

cystalwhiteeyes, what do you mean?

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SgtMaxFightmaster
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
AntonChigurh writes:
on Oct 22 2008 10:30 PM

In reply to this comment (#2090271)
I hate it when people call SAW good.

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ARTaylor
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
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
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
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
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
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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