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All this week Decider is celebrating the most polarizing punctuation in pop culture: the exclamation point! More spirited than a period and more decisive than a question mark, the exclamation point is as divisive as it is volatile. Invigorating sentences with enthusiasm and gusto since the 15th century, this renegade maverick of grammatical anarchy has irrevocably disrupted the status quo of the punctuation game. Love it or hate it, Decider commemorates the imitable mischief-maker known as the exclamation point.

Actors die in movies all the time. It’s one of the reasons we go to the cinema, after all. In a weird way, watching other people die on screen seems to give viewers life; it’s like cheating the ole Grim Reaper without, you know, actually having to risk your life.

Movie stars, on the other hand, are supposed to be invincible. They’re the best of the best, the most good looking of the good looking, the chosen ones. But ever since Janet Leigh met the wrong end of Norman Bates’ kitchen knife in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, directors have been toying with the emotions of their captive audiences by offing the most famous and most gorgeous among us. It’s a real shock when a famous movie star bites the dust on-screen, which is why during this glorious Exclamation Point Week(!) here on Decider, we’re spotlighting 8 of the most gruesome on-screen celebrity movie deaths ever!

Andy Garcia, 'Black Rain'

CELEB: Andy Garcia
PROJECT: Black Rain (1989)
CAUSE OF DEATH: Decapitation (via a sword propelled by a motorcycle)
RATIONALE: Bless you, Andy Garcia, for you are the person that inspired this list! When we saw Black Rain added to the list of titles that arrived on Amazon Prime this month, it immediately flashed us back to one of the most intense scenes in Ridley Scott’s very intense directorial career. Damn if the decapitation of the world’s single most handsome Cuban American hasn’t stuck with us for nearly 30 years now.

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Brad Pitt, 'The Counselor'

CELEB: Brad Pitt
PROJECT: The Counselor
CAUSE OF DEATH: Decapitation (via mechanical piano wire device)
RATIONALE: Speaking of Ridley Scott, the British auteur managed to kill off one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Mr. Brad Pitt, in his bleak as fuck 2013 mini-masterpiece The Counselor. Pitt stars here alongside Michael Fassbender and Cameron Diaz (among others) as a shady lawyer, who gets his comeuppance for stealing money from the wrong gangsters.

Where to stream The Counselor

Leonardo DiCaprio, 'The Departed'

CELEB: Leonardo DiCaprio
PROJECT: The Departed
CAUSE OF DEATH: Point blank gunshot wound to the noggin’
RATIONALE: While we’re talking about world famous movie stars, one of the few actors who has more household appeal is Leonardo DiCaprio. That didn’t stop director Martin Scorsese from putting a bullet directly between his eyes in his Oscar-winning film The Departed‘s twist ending.

Where to stream The Departed

Michael Cera, 'This Is The End'

CELEB: Michael Cera
PROJECT: This Is The End
CAUSE OF DEATH: Impaled by a light pole, then sucked into Hell
RATIONALE: Not all gruesome celebrity movie deaths have to be SERIOUS, you know. Take the end of the coked out, failed Rihanna wooer Michael Cera in Seth Rogen’s horror comedy This Is The End. It’s plenty bloody, but for some reason, you’ll find yourself laughing hysterically the whole time.

Where to stream This Is The End

Jerry O'Connell, 'Piranha 3D'

CELEB: Jerry O’Connell
PROJECT: Piranha 3D
CAUSE OF DEATH: Eaten by piranhas
RATIONALE: This gruesome celebrity death will make your belly heave with laughter and ache with pukey bile. In Piranha 3D, O’Connell plays a Joe Francis-type pornographer who skeeves out all of the spring breakers in Lake Havisu, AZ. Sadly, he ends up being eaten by a swarm of prehistoric piranha who’ve been building their appetites since the Pliocene era. We don’t show this in the GIF, but if you end up streaming this gory horror comedy, you’ll also see piranha devour on his sizable wang.

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Samuel L. Jackson, 'Deep Blue Sea'

CELEB: Samuel L. Jackson
PROJECT: Deep Blue Sea
CAUSE OF DEATH: Chomped by a super-intelligent, roided out shark
RATIONALE: Continuing our mini-trend of aquatic-based gruesome celebrity movie deaths, no list of this ilk would be complete without including this Samuel L. Jackson moment from Deep Blue Sea, which has been permanently etched into our brains and fully meme-ified.

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Paris Hilton, 'House Of Wax'

CELEB: Paris Hilton
PROJECT: House Of Wax
CAUSE OF DEATH: Impaled by a rusty looking metal pipe
RATIONALE: Remember Paris Hilton? This fame magnet of the early to mid Aughts attempted to parlay her porn fame into actual movie stardom, but her most memorable role remains this one, where she plays a ditzy blonde that ends up on the receiving end of a vicious steam pipe javelin toss. The stars are blind and, now, so is she.

Where to stream House Of Wax (2005)

Drew Barrymore, 'Scream'

CELEB: Drew Barrymore
PROJECT: Scream
CAUSE OF DEATH: Stabbing, disemboweling, hanging … pick ’em!
RATIONALE: If we’re being honest here, we still haven’t gotten over this one, even though it’s been nearly 20 years. The opening scene to Scream still holds power, even if you’ve seen the film a million times, due in large part to the relationship filmgoers have had to Drew Barrymore going all the way back to E.T.. It just plain SUCKS to see America’s sweetheart with her intensines on the outside of her body, you know?!?

Where to stream Scream