Horror Movie Kill Counts

A community-driven, machine-readable database of horror movie body counts. This data powers killshot.rip.

The Data

The primary data is stored in killcounts.jsonl. Each entry includes:

• title: The film's title.
• year: Release year.
• count: Total confirmed kills.
• tmdb_id: The Movie Database ID for easy API linking.

A killcounts.csv file is also available and is automatically generated from the JSONL file. Please do not edit the CSV directly.

Credits & Sources

This project is a compilation of hard work by the horror community:

• Dead Meat: Many counts are sourced from James A. Janisse’s "Kill Count" series and the Dead Meat Wiki.
• MovieBodyCounts: Original data contributed by the legacy community at moviebodycounts.com.
• List of Deaths Wiki: Additional counts sourced from the List of Deaths Wiki.
• Randal Olson: For the initial 2013-2014 scraped dataset that formed the foundation of this list.

How to Contribute

1. Fork the repo.
2. Add a new line to killcounts.jsonl.
3. Open a Pull Request!