20 Movies That Had the Balls to Kill Off Major Stars in Spectacular Fashion

There are a few universal “don’ts” that everyone in Hollywood knows not to do. You don’t walk barefoot on the beach, you don’t go up against the NCIS time slot and you don’t pay a movie star salary just to kill off your biggest box office draw. After all, what are you going to do with the inevitable sequel?

Still, there have been times major celebrities were ruthlessly murdered on screen, either before they were famous or just because the director had colossal cojones. For Redditor EventualOutcome, the best one is Johnny Depp’s death in A Nightmare on Elm Street. “I always loved this death scene,” they told r/Film. “My favorite of Freddy’s. Only today did I realize who it was.”

They then asked, “What very famous celebrities have the coolest death in cinematic history?” and all kinds of death followed.