Janet Leigh's shower scene in "Psycho" is the "best movie death" of all time, according to a critics' poll published Thursday in London.
The 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller beat other iconic movies such as "The Godfather" (22nd) and Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (23rd) in the non-scientific poll by Total Film magazine.
Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) came in second, with its surreal ending in which Slim Pickens rides an atomic bomb.
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Other highly rated movie deaths were the fatal plunge of the ape in 1933's "King Kong," which came in at third place, and the demise of Bambi's mother in the 1942 Disney movie "Bambi," which came in sixth.