In the dramatic, action-filled world of Hollywood nobody dies peacefully in their sleep. In the movies exists a slightly more dangerous place, where every fuel tanker is apt to roll over and explode at a moment's notice and masked mainacs lurk down every dark alley. Cinemas-OnLine pays tribute to this world and the people that live and die within it on our Leaderboard of Death

This article contains spoilers and descriptions of quite unpleasant things, so don't say we didn't warn you.

Death by Laundry.

Directed by Tobe "Chainsaw Massacre" Hopper, starring Robert "Freddie Krueger" Englund and based upon a story by Stephen "The Shining" King, an old mechanical laundry press becomes posessed by a demon and gets a taste for people. Its rusty rollers pull each victim through the machine and rather than leaving them in a neat folded pile, deposits them in a heap, looking rather mangled.

Death by Sheet Glass.

While Patrick "Doctor Who" Troughton was vertically impaled by a falling lightning rod in this film, the death which made audiences wince the most was the gory decapitation of reporter, played by David Warner. Unwisely the reporter decides to collect the powerful artifacts which could destroy the baddie, a special set of knives. Sadly for him, he happens to be at the bottom of a hill when the handbrake is released from a small van, which picks up speed and hurtles towards him. Before the van can hit the reporter it crashes, but a sheet of glass secured to the van comes free, shooting out towards the reporter and taking his head off. Ouch.

Death by After-Dinner Mint

Monty Python on the big screen found themselves freed from the budgetary limitations and standards of taste imposed by the BBC, so in this film we get to see one of the most repulsive death scenes ever. Mr. Creosote (Terry "The Viking" Jones) is a wealthy and exceedingly corpulent customer being waited on at a classy restaurant by John "Basil!" Cleese. Creosote is obnoxious in the extreme, other diners look aghast as he swears loudly and vomits copiously. At the end of his meal Cleese persuades him to finish with a "waffer theen" mint. This is too much, Creosote swells and finally bursts, showering the restaurant in viscera and half digested food.

Death by Parasite

The message of this film is to avoid joining the merchant space service, then you won't get stalked by aliens or suffer the terrible fate of John "The Storyteller" Hurt. Hurt plays Kane, a crewmember of the spaceship Nostromo, he had just recovered from an incident where a newly hatched alien had become attached to his face. He was not to know that this had sown the seeds, or rather laid the egg, of his impending doom. All of a sudden Kane is writhing in agony. The rest of the crew get him up onto a table whilst his torso begins to distend. Kane shrieks and convulses until a young alien hatches from his chest and flies across the room in a fountain of blood. This is a pretty nasty way to die, but at least it's over with fairly quickly.

Death by Acute Indigestion

Pity Yaphet Kotto, in Alien he gets killed by the thing that had burst from John Hurt, but before that he suffered one of Hollywood's most memorable deaths at the hands of Roger "Eyebrow" Moore. Kotto plays bad guy Kananga, who likes to despatch his enemies with style, and is about to lower James Bond into a tank of hungry man-eating sharks. Bond frees himself of course, and begins a scuffle with Kanaga, pulling them both into the water. In their struggle they somehow avoid being eaten, but Kanaga is forced to swallow a large shark bullet. Bond makes it out of the pool just as the bullet goes off. Rather bizarely the effect is to make Kanaga swell like a balloon, floating up from the water before bursting like Mr. Creosote. This is enough to raise James Bond's eyebrow, 'He always did have an inflated opinion of himself' he tells us.

Death by Attrition

Arnold "The Guv'ner" Schwarzenegger plays a killer robot sent from the future to murder hapless waitress Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) - these things happen in the movies. Arnie proves to be a tough old cyborg. Being shot and run over doesn't seem to slow him down much. He's covered in human flesh which starts to die, but in his chest beats the heart of a machine and smelling like a dead cat won't cramp his style. In the final showdown he appears to die as the truck he is driving explodes in a ball of fire, then Westworld-style he rises to continue his pursuit. Stripped to bare metal he suffers a further attack when Connor's confederate Reese sacrifices himself in an attempt to blow up the baddie. Not yet dead but now legless, the robot crawls forward towards Connor, who is inexplicably making her escape through an industrial steel press. Just beyond the range of the Terminator's grasping hand, Sarah Connor shows an unexpected knowledge of heavy machinery and the villain is slowly crushed. By now the wretched piece of metal can fight no more and finally gives up the ghost - until Terminator 2 of course.