This James Gunn horror flick has SC near the top for movie deaths. Have you seen it?

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You’ve been warned.

For all its draws — the picture postcard Grand Strand beaches to the elegant antebellum Lowcountry architecture —South Carolina is one of America’s deadliest states.

For horror movie victims, that is.

A recent CableTV.com accounting ranked the Palmetto State as the seventh most lethal in horror canon with 36 deaths, driven entirely by the malevolent parasitic slugs that would infest the sleepy fictional town of Wheelsy in “Slither,” a 2006 dark comedy written and directed by James Gunn.

The data was culled from Rotten Tomatoes’ 200 best horror movies of all time, which left a trail of more than 1,300 bodies across 26 states.

CableTV.com spokeswoman Frannie Comstock said swampy locales such as South Carolina are ideal settings for creepy crawlers — although Pennsylvania has a firm grip on the top slot with 615 fatalities, courtesy of the “Living Dead” franchise that premiered in 1968.

“The expansive forests of South Carolina helped the alien parasite in Slither find dark corners to infect victims in,” Comstock said.

Coastal states overall accounted for 41 percent of on-screen kills.

Though shot in British Columbia, Canada, the fictional town of Wheelsy continued a long tradition of South Carolina’s film and TV presence — a 108-year-old legacy that began with 1914’s “Valley of Hate,” according to the state Film Commission.

Meanwhile, one of horror’s most prolific predators ended up as South Carolina’s most popular as Friday the 13th maniac Jason Voorhees led internet searches here and in 12 other states, according to entertainment analytics firm WindStream.

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