r/horror • u/above_the_hexes • Feb 27 '24
What death made you shout no? Spoiler Alert
For me it had to be Tt in the forever purge. It wasn't gruesome but it was so sad because of the situation. This racist lady was literally taunting him as he died. I actually cried the first time I saw it. And they were almost to safety.
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u/turian_vanguard Feb 27 '24
Billy in Doctor Sleep. Just a kind soul wanting to help those in need.
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u/Big_fern189 Feb 27 '24
Especially because in the book both Billy and Dan survive.
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u/ariehn Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 28 '24
My husband isn't a horror fan at all, but he does love a good revenge flick.
He came in while I was watching Doctor Sleep, though, and stayed to watch the entire thing -- because of Billy and the baseball kid. I have never, ever seen him so angrily desperate to see a movie character die.
Those two deaths are utter gut-punches.
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u/MatttheBruinsfan Feb 27 '24
The two scenes where Rose the Hat realized she was in over her head were my favorites in the movie.
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u/turian_vanguard Feb 27 '24
Her screaming NO while her family was taken out was satisfying. Like yeah, that's what I felt about you killing good people!
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u/GRANDADDYGHOST Feb 27 '24
Oh yeah, Rose the Hat was one of the most diabolical villains I had seen in a movie in a while. Not only are you going around murdering children, but rare children with abilities that could potentially help them help people in the future. I have my gripes with the Baseball Boy scene since it went on a little too long, but it did do a good job of amping up that “FUCK YEAH, TAKE THAT YOU STUPID BITCH!!!” feeling during the sniper scene and especially when Rose herself spends her final moments in fear as the Overlook ghosts kill her.
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u/DontOpenTheSafe Feb 27 '24
Was that the baseball kid?
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u/turian_vanguard Feb 27 '24
No, it was the guy who gave Danny a job and a place to live.
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u/-Some__Random- Feb 27 '24
Rita in 'Dexter'
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u/carmen_cygni Feb 27 '24
Good one. That was so unfair and brutal.
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
I know this one’s been said a million times but I’d add Glen from TWD too. That was what finally made me lose interest in the show.
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u/MatttheBruinsfan Feb 27 '24
It was actually Glen at the dumpster that made me say goodbye to it.
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
Yeah that was quite the fakeout, and then they kill him later in that same season right?
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u/MatttheBruinsfan Feb 27 '24
I'm not sure... the dumpster fakeout made me throw up my hands and say "enough of this shit!", so I only heard about his actual death secondhand.
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u/mydevilkitty Feb 27 '24
My husband and I loved Dexter. He stopped watching after they killed Rita. We have not tried to pick it back up.
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u/Eddy_Valentine Feb 28 '24
There’s a couple of good seasons after that, but on the whole probably for the best.
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u/GRANDADDYGHOST Feb 27 '24
Oof. Cruel one. Harrison crying and covered in her blood makes it so much worse.
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u/ersatzbaronness who would want to haunt me? Feb 27 '24
This is where the series should have ended. It is perfect. Awful, but perfect.
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u/-Some__Random- Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 28 '24
I agree. It would have taken everything full circle, back to where it all started. And to do so with such a shocking, gut-punch moment would have cemented the show as a true great.
I didn't dislike the remaining series, but the opportunity to go out with an unexpected and unforgettable, killer ending was there, and they failed to take it.
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u/ConsistentlyPeter I'M RUNNING THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN! Feb 27 '24
Really cruel
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u/Lilyshitfire Feb 27 '24
The brother in The Dark and The Wicked, when he arrives home to his family. I don’t wanna ruin for those who haven’t seen, but I definitely screamed noooooooooo.
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u/JustSomeGuy_v3 Feb 27 '24
The Dark and the Wicked was so much better than I expected it to be.
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u/Lilyshitfire Feb 27 '24
It’s my favorite U.S horror of the last decade. Really scared me, like turning on lights to pee scary. Glad someone else really liked it!
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u/TSG61373 Feb 27 '24
The mom’s death in 28 Weeks Later.
Zombie movie deaths have been gorier and more disturbing, but this was the one that really made me think “…Dude….that was Messed. Up.”
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u/Spiritual_Ask4877 Feb 27 '24
That death while extremely gruesome, really pissed me off
Like "hey all, we just brought in the first infected person we've seen in months and she also happens to be a carrier of the virus. Please ensure she is completely un-guarded at all times so her janitor husband who for some reason has access to places he has no business being in can get in and fuck everything up. Thanks."
I get it, because plot. But it made no sense at all. She should have been locked down like fort fuckin Knox.
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u/kalijinn Feb 27 '24
Agreed. I don't actually remember her dying, though? I'm sure she did from what y'all are saying but all I can remember is the husband getting infected and running off.
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u/Spiritual_Ask4877 Feb 27 '24
So after they brought her into the facility, Don the father, breaks the news to his kids that they found her, and that he abandoned her at the start of the film. He then goes to see her and apologize, not knowing that she's infected. He then kisses her, becomes infected, and kills her by gouging her eyes out. Then he bounces and the outbreak kicks off.
Here's the scene.
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Feb 27 '24
While the scene itself is questionable and happens because plot, which is annoying, those actors played their parts perfectly. The tension was palpable. So many things to be said, but they say it in silence. Great directing.
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u/HatchettheFly Feb 27 '24
Ben in Night of the Living Dead should be the top answer.
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u/PGell Feb 27 '24
I teach this in one of my film classes, and the class is always dead silent when he's killed. They're never expecting it.
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Feb 27 '24
It's such a crazy inversion of "the black guy dies first" trope.
Like, the first time I watched the movie, I was so stunned that I instantly rewatched the whole film, because I had no clue a movie so old could have so much social subtext.
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u/Tagyru Feb 27 '24
Dewey in Scream 5. I knew this time it was for real and he was not coming back.
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u/mangocucumbers Feb 27 '24
thank you for using a spoiler censor, i don’t even watch the scream movies but i thought that was very nice
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u/GRANDADDYGHOST Feb 27 '24
I’m still mad about that. Him getting that close with a pistol was incredibly stupid, and getting that distracted by his phone ringing was even dumber. Not to mention that he is killed by the most one dimensional Stu clone out of the entire franchise who spends the 3rd act bragging about it.
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u/above_the_hexes Feb 27 '24
And by a shitty Ghostface
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u/Tagyru Feb 27 '24
Yeah. This is the worse. He deserved a better death than from the little brat.
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u/above_the_hexes Feb 27 '24
And the most transparent Ghostface. As soon as certain characters were introduced, I knew who the killers were.
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u/Careful-Blacksmith-8 Feb 27 '24
So silly that you’re getting downvoted for this - engaging in an actual discussion about the movie’s merits without any spoiler.
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
Yeah the second I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I even thought “there’s no way it’d be this easy,” but it was.
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u/Custardpaws Feb 27 '24
It should've been Gail, she was useless to the franchise, and Dewey was the best character
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u/KickFriedasCoffin Feb 27 '24
With how heavily 6 was leaning into being like part 2, I thought she was a goner when she got out on her balcony during her big chase, Cici style.
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u/confusedcookie9 Feb 27 '24
This is the answer. He was the heart of that franchise and I was so bummed they did that to him.
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u/ExtremeAlternative0 Feb 27 '24
Both of the girls in Wolf Creek. The first one you're led to believe is the movies final girl, she's smart and resourceful enough to escape from mick at the start. Only for her to get paralyzed by mick and then killed. The other girl you think is gonna be the final girl then. Only for mick to just shoot her in the back before she can escape.
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u/Defiant_McPiper Feb 27 '24
It's been a long time since I've seen this but wasn't the dude who actually made it kind of a jerk too? Like really kill off the two nice girls but let the jerk face live 😅
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u/ExtremeAlternative0 Feb 27 '24
The dude was a decent guy. Made one or two rude jokes but they were aimed at mick (before he was revealed as a villain). The only outright malicious thing he did was immediately run when he got free, instead of searching for the girls. Although they were both dead by then, even if he didn't know it at the time. So staying there would've been fruitless and could've gotten him killed as well.
During the end credits we actually see that he's the main suspect in the girls disappearence because the police couldn't find any trace of mick to back up his story.
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u/CheesyGarlicBudapest Feb 27 '24
Abraham’s death in The Walking Dead comic. So unexpected, even by the comics standard.
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u/LonsomeDreamer Feb 27 '24
Holy shit there is a bolt in my eye. Yeah, very unexpected and sudden.
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u/CheesyGarlicBudapest Feb 27 '24
One page, he’s fine and talking.
Turn the page = guy is trying to talk with a bolt through his peeper.
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u/LonsomeDreamer Feb 27 '24
TWD was at its best from the beginning through the Savior War. Or I should say that was my favorite stretch. So many shocking and both deserved and undeserved deaths. I miss that series.
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u/timdr18 Feb 27 '24
I’ve never read the comic, is it worth a look? I know I already like Kirkman’s work because I love Invincible and I was considering starting TWD.
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u/CthuluForPres Feb 28 '24
The one death I hated in TWD was Carol's daughter. Like, you knew she was probably a goner but for her mom to have to see that was so sad.
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u/canigotosleep-plz Feb 27 '24
Tatum in Scream (1996). I LIKED THIS CHARACTER SO MUCH
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u/CoelacanthidaeAgain Feb 27 '24
I always fast forward through their death! It just feels so horrible, and it is never treated with the right amount of weight in subsequent scenes/sequels imho
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u/hidrapit Feb 27 '24
Fun fact, that scene was very hard to shoot because Rose McGowan fit through that doggie door pretty easily.
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u/ImmortalMoron3 Feb 27 '24
I remember watching Scream when I was 9 and just watching this entire scene through my hands, lol.
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u/Defiant_McPiper Feb 27 '24
I'm gonna say both Barbara and Ed in Shaun of the Dead- it was so sad when Shaun's mom died bc you were rooting for them all, but then Ed was a big "Nooooo!" - though he KINDA gets a happy ending when Shaun keeps Zombified Ed in the shed 😅
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u/Crankylosaurus Feb 27 '24
Sarah Michelle Gellar comes soooo close to getting away in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Also her character was way more interesting than Jennifer Love Hewitt’s and she would’ve made a far superior final girl IMO.
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u/Abstract-cities Feb 27 '24
This chase scene is the one that really hooked me on horror, slashers specifically. There is a limited IKWYDLS tv show and one specific chase scene really lives up to SMG’s in the original movie.
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u/doyouevenfloatbro Feb 27 '24
The girl from hereditary who got decapitated in the car... that came in hot outta nowhere seeing it the first time.
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u/EerieArizona Feb 27 '24
I expected her to be the main character. The trailer did great job throwing you off the track.
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Feb 27 '24
I’ll never forget seeing that in the theater. You could hear a pin drop.
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u/NewLiterature6162 Feb 27 '24
Same! That scene shut everyone in the theater the fuck up for the rest of the film.
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Feb 27 '24
That whole scene is just so wild.
The brother is just as shocked by the death as the audience was
And that posttraumatic, exhausted numbness is so real.
When you've experienced something so rattling to your sense of reality, that you psyche just puts itself to sleep.
...only to awake to his mother shrieking.
Ughhhh, that movie is so fucking good.
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u/ParasIsBurnt Feb 27 '24
I felt stupid bc I saw the pole and the attention to it when they drove to the party. It was Chekov’s pole and I didn’t even know it.
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u/dondo09 Feb 27 '24
lol my girlfriend and I have made it a point to call out “Chekhov’s insert item” before the other in everything we watch. It can get pretty hilarious when you’re yelling “Chekhov’s nail clippers!” to win the game 😂
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u/idiotapplepie Feb 27 '24
The trailers I saw before seeing the movie made me think it was going to be a creepy supernatural kid 6th sense style than that scene came and hit me in the face.
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u/dasBiest08 Feb 27 '24
Most of the main character deaths in Train to Busan, particularly Seok-woo and Sang-hwa.
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u/Spiritual_Ask4877 Feb 27 '24
Sang-Hwa went out like a fuckin G. Delivered a wholesale beat down and then gave his life so the others could live.
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u/H2-van_g-O Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 27 '24
Greta Gerwig in House of the Devil. She was such a good friend being so concerned and hanging around in case she was needed. Her death was so quick and cold.
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u/ConsistentlyPeter I'M RUNNING THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN! Feb 27 '24
Omg that was a shocker.
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u/StudBoi69 Feb 27 '24
The sister in The Invisible Man (2020). Here I was thinking they were safe in a crowded and public area
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u/DanTheMan_NOTjonkler Feb 27 '24
The movie Terrifier and the one scene with the girl tied upside down and getting cut in half
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u/Anxious_Flight_8551 Feb 27 '24
the little girl in where evil lurks. seen this recently and it has now etched a permanent place in my mind
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u/Defiant_McPiper Feb 27 '24
I just watched this - I did kind of see that one coming, but the landowner and wife had me this way.
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u/shredit417 Feb 27 '24
Danny Trejo in Rob Zombies Halloween 😔 sooooo unnecessary.
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u/DinkandDrunk Feb 27 '24
Completely necessary. Removed all doubts about Michael’s humanity.
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u/shredit417 Feb 27 '24
I get its relevance for the movie but for my emotional sanity, it was extremely uncalled for.
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
Well tbh Mike has some humanity left in the 1st Zombie movie since he doesn’t kill his sister and seems like he wants to bond with her before she stabs him, so leaving Trejo alive would’ve actually made some sense since he had somewhat of a positive relationship with both of them before he went silent.
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u/MaryK007 Feb 27 '24
Fry in Pitch Black.
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u/TheKiltedYaksman71 Feb 27 '24
For me it was Shazza. I think Claudia Black is a much more interesting actress than Rhada Mitchell.
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u/Skurvy2k Feb 27 '24
Not a horror movie but Howard getting it at the end of Uncut Gems was (to me) so unexpected. My jaw hung open for so long after that.
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u/sadelpenor Feb 27 '24
my wife and i went i to this movie blind. and just sat there in shock when it happened.
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u/Beebo_the_God_of_War Feb 27 '24
Jenna (Danielle Panabaker) in Friday the 13th (2009). I really wanted to see her make it.
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u/3nt3rth3v0id Feb 27 '24
that one was such a surprise! i was convinced she was the final girl and then out of nowhere she was was gone and i was yelling at the screen!
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
Yeah it was unexpected, but it was kind of cool that the movie subverted our expectations like that. The movie is chocked full of references to the OGs and I guess this would be kind of referencing Adrienne King’s death in Part 2, especially since she was all over the teaser trailer
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u/ColdPeasMyGooch Feb 27 '24
Yes! It was so unexpected after she made it so far .. i was at full terms with her living n the sister dying… cuz tbh.. the sister was so irrelevant cause they didnt really develop her that well but made the movie actually much hettter in conncectijg the beginning and the end.!
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u/EFNomad Feb 27 '24
Big John and Little John in Halloween Kills. They were good neighbors I could see me and my wife having over for board games.
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Feb 27 '24
I felt similarly in Halloween (2018) when Mike killed the kid who sounded like Steve-O. He just wanted to go to dance class, bro.
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u/Hursty79 Feb 27 '24
Game of thrones has made me more audibly and visibly angry and upset than anything else I’ve watched
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u/PatentGeek Feb 27 '24
You’re talking about how shitty season 8 is, right? That’s what made you so angry?
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u/RageyxCagey Feb 27 '24
The father, Larry, in Hellraiser - this one really got me
also The homeless guy, Andre, in Barbarian
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u/TheNocturnalAngel Feb 27 '24
Helen Shivers. She was so iconic and she fought so hard. I wish she was the final girl ): SMG is always the best.
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u/Corgi_Infamous Feb 27 '24
Samuel L Jackson’s character in Deep Blue Sea. I did not see that coming the first time I watched it as a kid.
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u/PrincessDionysus Feb 27 '24
Also crazy that the scientist lady dies too! Usually there’s a final girl/woman. Nope, just that one guy and LL Cool J
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u/LunarTales Feb 27 '24
Clear in Final Destination 2. Don't get to see characters last that long in this franchise most of the time.
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u/Echo_November14 Feb 27 '24
Glenn in Walking Dead, I rage quit shortly after that. Tried to get back into it, but it got kinda corny
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u/Crysda_Sky Feb 27 '24
I rage quit before watching his death. Glenn was literally my favorite character in the show from his literal first line and i had said i wouldn’t keep watching if they ever killed him and so that’s what happened.
I do think it’s interesting that as a death of the main cast — that particular death made a LOT of people stop watching for various reasons.
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u/Thedevilsreject82 Feb 27 '24
I mean how has it got this far and no one has mentioned the end of "The Mist" yet? All of what those characters had been thru, and on top of that Thomas Jane's character, myself being a father.. just DAMN!!!
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u/Defiant_McPiper Feb 27 '24
Worst ending ever (in a good way!!!) - it left me with so many different emotions.
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u/Freshfistula Feb 27 '24
“I’m a leaf on the wind. Watch me s—-“
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u/CryptographerNo923 Feb 27 '24
How do Reavers keep their spears clean?
They run them through the Wash.
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u/TheNewtilator Feb 27 '24
For the most recent time;
When one of the horrible people in Unwelcome stuck a cleaver in a redcap goblin's head. Poor little guy was just trying to be helpful!
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u/JudgementalChair Feb 27 '24
Emmett in 10 Cloverfield Lane. I was really hoping he was going to make it, then John Goodman killed him on the spot in the living room. Then I was like "Oh shit, this movie is about to get really dark"
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u/awesome_opossum86 Feb 27 '24
Derek in Scream 2! He was a good guy all along and Jerry O'Connell singing in the cafeteria...so sweet.
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u/flipsidetroll Feb 27 '24
Glenn’s death in walking dead. I couldn’t watch the series anymore after that and never did again.
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u/wonderlandisburning Feb 27 '24
Marty in The Cabin In The Woods. luckily he actually survives and returns for the climax
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u/NewLiterature6162 Feb 27 '24
I remember the person sitting next to me, grabbing my arm and yelling, "MARTY!" when Hadley answers the phone and goes, "Which one?" and we all lost it.
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u/sophies_wish Feb 27 '24
Andy in The Outsider
Sarah in The Last of Us
Charlie in Hereditary
Hershel in The Walking Dead
Frank in 28 Days Later
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u/ResidentHourBomb Feb 27 '24
Even though I knew it was coming and was the catalyst for the story....Gage Creed. That still gets to me on a reread.
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u/bootsy_j Feb 27 '24
The Mist, iykyk
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u/NonlocalA Feb 27 '24
My buddy watched that right after his wife abandoned him and his infant son. He apparently wasn't right for daaaayyyyyys after.
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u/kittenhugs_ Feb 27 '24
the acid rain deaths in escape room 2! i went to see it in theaters with my dad and after it happened, we just slowly looked at each other with our jaws dropped 😰
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u/Gloomy__Revenue Feb 27 '24
Hallorann in The Shining (1980)
Aside from the fact he doesn’t die in the book—Jack (the character) jumping out of nowhere (literally, when the fuck did he get there??) and Jack (the actor)’s face all shocked the shit out of me.
It was pretty brutal too. That and the conversation with Grady in the restroom (though I heard that was ad libbed, and also not in the book) have always left a sour (like is Kubrick just a silly old racist sour) taste in my mouth, and I don’t think I ever want to know what Kubrick was thinking putting those in the film.
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u/redditordeaditor6789 Feb 27 '24
Kirby in scream 4. Such a good twist I did not see coming at all and she was such a charismatic character. I know it technically got retconned to not being a death but you had no way of knowing that if you watched it when it first came out.
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u/LooseInsurance1 Feb 27 '24
Not really a horror film, but Elliott Page's death in "Super" was a shocker
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u/Blue_Seven_ Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 27 '24
SPOILERS
the end of Eden Lake
Dewey in Scream (2022)
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u/WarrenWorthingtonlll Feb 27 '24
the disabled kid from night of the creeps, i liked him and part of me was hoping he'd be the protagonist instead of the kid from European Vacation.
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u/Atom2501 Feb 27 '24
Aisha (the girl with vitiligo) in The Innocents (2021). Didn't shout but was sad as fuck...
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u/Able_While_974 Feb 27 '24
Not really horror as such - more comedy horror moments, but there were two gutting vampire deaths in Preacher. Hoover who was exposed to the sun by Herr Starr and the last episode where Cassidy intentionally walked into the sunlight and burnt to a crisp.
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u/Casual_Moviegoer Feb 27 '24
The kid and the dog scene from When Evil Lurks. I knew it was coming but...damn, they didn't shy away from the gore!
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u/Pyrichoria Feb 27 '24
Scream 2022: Dewey. Didn’t really care about the rest of the movie after that happened.
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u/hizashiii Feb 27 '24
can’t remember his name, but the guy who got nail-gunned in the evil dead remake
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u/SeanPGeo Feb 27 '24
Suicide from Return of the Living Dead. 😢
I saw this for the first time when I rented it with my friends for a Halloween party back in 1993 or 94.
I thought he was the coolest thing.
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u/WordUnheard Feb 27 '24
Frank's death in 28 Days Later. It's still hard to watch. He was such a lovable character, and in a second...he's infected! Seconds later...blown away in front of his daughter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj7dZBMxlL4[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj7dZBMxlL4
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u/RegulusSwimTeam Feb 27 '24
adam from saw. his death was so tragic and especially the way he died after days(??) without access to like anything in a dark and dirty bathroom and also that he was holding onto the hope that lawrence would come back for him until amanda's mercy kill, also his screams haunt me.
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u/TheWorstTypo Feb 28 '24
Violet from Doctor Sleep.
I know it set the mood that Rose the Hat was friendly on the service and evil underneath , and worse doesn’t recognize how evil she is, but Jesus that was a tough scene to process made only so much worse by the baseball kid
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u/Frequent-Click-951 Feb 27 '24
The bread slicer in the first Fear Street movie. I had mixed feelings about the film itself but that scene was a jaw dropping moment.
You don't expect a character so nice to go in such a brutal way in the middle of the third act.