- 6/17/2025
From shocking alien encounters to sudden supernatural twists, these deaths left audiences gasping. Join us as we explore the most unexpected demises in horror cinema history. From classic slashers to modern psychological thrillers, these scenes changed how we view horror movie survival odds forever.
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00:00All right, Steve, tell them we're going to stay with it, and everything appears to be under control.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most shocking and unpredictable deaths in horror movies.
00:12You have reason to believe that she came along this way and may have stopped in the area. Did she stop here?
00:18Number 30, Terry Chaney, Final Destination.
00:21I mean, you can find death omens anywhere you want to.
00:24Coffee.
00:25Starts with a C and ends with an A.
00:27So does the word choke.
00:28So what, we're going to choke to death?
00:29The thing about the Final Destination series is that the deaths are always widely televised.
00:34They're often presaged by an enormous Rube Goldberg-esque buildup, complete with many clever fakeouts and telegraphs.
00:41But that's certainly not the case with Terry, which is why her death comes as such a huge surprise.
00:46Even if first-time viewers don't know the style of the Final Destination franchise, her death still works in the form of a hugely effective jump scare.
00:53While arguing with Alex and Carter, Terry backs into the street and is absolutely smoked by a speeding bus.
00:58She even tells Carter to drop dead right before doing so herself.
01:02That's just cinema right there.
01:03Number 29, Emmett DeWitt, 10 Cloverfield Lane.
01:13What is this?
01:14The barrel.
01:17What's in it?
01:19Move it into the bathroom.
01:21We knew that Howard Stambler wasn't the most trustworthy of men, but we didn't expect straight-up murder.
01:27Michelle and Emmett are kept inside Howard's bunker, supposedly because the air outside has become toxic following an alien invasion.
01:34What follows is a genius game of mental cat and mouse, as both Michelle and Emmett try to gauge Howard's mental state and the accuracy of his story.
01:41Howard discovers that some of his tools are missing, and scares the two with a vat of acid, hoping that they will confess.
01:47Emmett does so, and is immediately shot in the head by Howard.
01:51The directing here is beautiful.
01:53The out-of-focus gun coming into frame just as the camera is focusing on Michelle's relief.
01:58The irony is cruel.
02:00You're sorry?
02:01I'm sorry.
02:05I accept your apology.
02:07Number 28.
02:14Doyle, 28 Weeks Later.
02:16What'd you put in the clutch?
02:18All right.
02:20You pop the clutch when I tell you, okay?
02:22And you get them to the stadium.
02:23One of Jeremy Renner's first major roles was that of Doyle, a sniper working the resettlement of London.
02:29Doyle is portrayed as a capable and heroic man, gunning down zombies and soldiers alike, and serving as a protective father figure to both Andy and Tammy.
02:37There's just no way this dude was gonna die, but this is a horror movie.
02:41Doyle and the group find a car, but are unable to start it.
02:43And that's when soldiers with flamethrowers arrive with the orders to kill anything that moves.
02:48Doyle gets out to push-start the car, but he's hit by the flamethrowers in the process.
02:52Andy and Tammy can only watch in horror as their new dad burns to death in front of them.
02:58Go!
02:59Go!
03:01Go!
03:01Go!
03:02Go!
03:02Go!
03:02Go!
03:02Go!
03:03Go!
03:03Go!
03:04Go!
03:04Go!
03:04Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:05Go!
03:06Go!
03:07Novelty store owner Buddy Kupfer is invited to the Silver Shamrock factory after selling the most masks for the company.
03:33They are taken into a secret test room and manipulated by the factory's owner,
03:37Conal Cochran, who hopes to ritualistically sacrifice children on Halloween using masks
03:42that are embedded with a microchip containing fragments of Stonehenge.
03:46Yeah, this movie goes places.
03:47Anyway, Little Buddy is subjected to this deadly plan, and he dies when the pumpkin mask activates
03:52and basically melts his head.
03:54Not a great way to go.
03:55Number 26, John Baxter, Don't Look Now, John and Laura Baxter are grieving the drowning of their young daughter, Christine.
04:20They travel to Venice, where John experiences a number of eerie visions of a child in a red coat,
04:25the same coat that Christine was wearing when she died.
04:28In the famous climax of the film, John finally corners this figure and has it turn around.
04:33He discovers that it's not his daughter, but a female dwarf who immediately slashes his throat.
04:37It's a brilliant bit of misdirection, subverting the implied supernatural elements of the film
04:42and killing our hopes of a possible reunion.
04:45What a wicked, wicked way to end a film.
04:47Wait.
04:53Wait.
04:56Number 25, Christine Brown, Drag Me to Hell.
04:59Bank loan officer Christine Brown denies a loan to an elderly Roma woman.
05:11The woman then curses Christine with Lamia, a powerful demon who will torment her for three days
05:16before dragging her to hell.
05:17By the end of the film, Christine believes that she has won,
05:21having put the cursed button in the Roma woman's grave.
05:23But she is then given an envelope with the button and realizes with horror
05:26that she accidentally used the wrong envelope in her offering.
05:30Realizing that the curse is not broken, she is dragged to hell.
05:33Her death literally kills the false sense of resolution that had been building
05:37and cleverly subverts the curse genre's penchant for redemption arcs.
05:40Sorry, there is no redemption here.
05:42Only death.
05:43Help me!
05:45Help me!
05:49Help me!
05:51Help me!
05:53Help me!
05:54Help me!
05:56Number 24, Keith, Barbarian.
06:01Why did you come down here?
06:02Someone else is down here.
06:03Why?
06:04You don't cast Bill Skarsgård in your little indie horror movie
06:07only to kill him off in the first 40 minutes.
06:09Well, apparently you do, because that's exactly what Barbarian did.
06:12Tess finds a hidden room in the basement of the Airbnb and goes inside,
06:16only to encounter a horrified Keith who tells her that someone else is down there.
06:20Just then, a monstrous woman bursts out of the darkness
06:23and bashes his head against the wall.
06:25And that's it for the big name star.
06:27Not only that, but the tone shift is remarkable,
06:30going from slow burn tension to full out monster horror.
06:33There's also no setup whatsoever for the killer.
06:36She just appears out of nowhere and murders him,
06:39the complete randomness amplifying the horror.
06:41Number 23, Father Lancaster Marin, The Exorcist.
06:54I'd like you to go quickly across to the residence, Damien,
06:57and gather up a cassock for myself.
06:59Two supplices, a purple stole, and some holy water.
07:04And your copy of the Roman ritual, The Large One.
07:08I believe we should begin.
07:11Do you want to hear the background of the case first, Father?
07:13Why?
07:14While he's not in the film for long,
07:16Father Marin is depicted as a veteran exorcist
07:18and a man of great spiritual strength.
07:20When he's brought in to help with Regan's exorcism,
07:23he's regarded as the ultimate authority.
07:25If anyone can defeat Pazuzu and save Regan, it's this guy.
07:28But the story brilliantly subverts these storytelling tropes,
07:31and Marin dies of a heart attack off screen.
07:34There is no dramatic confrontation between him and the demon,
07:37no awesome battle of wits.
07:39The wise mentor just dies,
07:40and the demon is still inside the little girl.
07:43His abrupt death is enormously unsettling,
07:46displaying the great power of Pazuzu
07:47and the weakness of men against it.
07:50Luckily, his death inspires Karras to save the day.
07:53Take me!
07:55Come into me!
07:56God damn you!
07:58Take me!
07:59Number 22.
08:01Quint, Jaws.
08:03So, 1,100 men went into the war.
08:06316 men come out.
08:08The sharks took the rest.
08:09June the 29th, 1945.
08:12Quint is a modern Captain Ahab,
08:14a grizzled and capable, but ultimately naive man
08:17who tries defeating the forces of nature.
08:19And like Ahab,
08:20this obsession ultimately proves to be his downfall.
08:22Jaws jumps onto his boat and devours Quint,
08:25and he screams in total agony
08:27as he's eaten alive and dragged into the water.
08:29The sudden brutality of his death is shocking.
08:32It's over in the span of a minute,
08:33and it remains horrifically graphic and upsetting to this day.
08:37Viewers also expect characters like Quint to survive,
08:40or at least die in a more heroic,
08:42you're-going-down-with-me manner.
08:43Instead, Quint's death is chaotic and desperate.
08:46There's no triumphant moment of victory,
08:48just raw terror.
08:49And he dies screaming.
08:53Quint.
08:55No.
08:57Number 21.
08:58Tracy Mills, 7.
08:59Do you hear me, detective?
09:01I'm trying to tell you how much I admire you.
09:04And your pretty wife.
09:06What?
09:07We expected a number of people to die throughout 7,
09:10but Tracy Mills was certainly not one of them.
09:12Tracy is David's wife,
09:14and she only has a peripheral role,
09:16well away from David's life of danger.
09:18Her death was the last thing on anybody's mind.
09:21But now,
09:21she's in the annals of movie history,
09:24her sick demise heralding one of the greatest twist endings ever.
09:27John Doe murders her out of envy,
09:29and ships her severed head in a box,
09:31causing David to lose his mind.
09:33David in turn murders John,
09:35representing wrath,
09:36and causing John to win.
09:37The pregnancy twist adds a further depth of unimaginable horror,
09:41cementing the movie's reputation
09:42as a relentlessly depraved and unforgettable thriller.
09:46He didn't know.
09:50Number 20.
09:51Randy Meeks, Scream 2.
09:54We all expected Randy Meeks to bite the big one
09:56by the end of the first Scream film.
09:58Sorry, sorry.
09:59Oh my god, Randy, I thought you were dead.
10:00I probably should be.
10:02I never thought I'd be so happy to be a virgin.
10:03This character, played by Jamie Kennedy,
10:05was built up as being a horror movie aficionado.
10:08And so, because irony,
10:10we thought that he was doomed for sure.
10:12Wes Craven's creation was all about subverting expectations, however.
10:16So, when Randy survived the first film,
10:18we thought he might be a series fixture going forward.
10:20Why are you even here, Randy?
10:23You'll never be the leading man.
10:25Alas, this was not to be.
10:28Meeks was slaughtered by Ghostface in Gale's news van,
10:30with the entire ordeal being caught on tape.
10:33It's a shocking and brutal scene
10:35that genuinely caught us off guard.
10:37OJ?
10:38Son of a fool!
10:44Number 19.
10:45Rory Adams, Life.
10:47Derivative of alien or not,
10:49this underrated 2017 film
10:51did a great job of baiting and switching its audience,
10:53both with its downer ending
10:55and the high body count.
10:56Ryan Reynolds' Rory Adams
11:03was front and center
11:04throughout much of the film's marketing.
11:06Yet, his character is the first to die,
11:07and in spectacularly gory fashion, no less.
11:11What's happening?
11:14Get him?
11:14Adams!
11:18The newly discovered alien organism
11:20enters Rory's mouth
11:21and goes to town,
11:22feasting on his insides
11:24before breaking out,
11:25bigger and badder.
11:26We're not really used to seeing
11:27a star of Reynolds' caliber
11:28go out like this,
11:30but we gotta admit,
11:30it paints a memorable mental picture.
11:33That's so much bigger.
11:37Number 18.
11:39Sue Snell, The Rage, Carrie 2.
11:42This is another horror movie character
11:43who survived the first film
11:45only to die in the sequel.
11:46Although, in Snell's case,
11:48it took 20 plus years
11:49for her number to come up.
11:50Night of the prom.
11:5473 people died.
11:55The Rage was a 1999 follow-up
11:58to Brian De Palma's classic adaptation
12:00of the Stephen King story
12:01and featured a grown-up Sue Snell
12:03in her new role
12:04as a high school guidance counselor.
12:06She realizes the potential danger
12:07in Rachel Lang,
12:08a student who seems to possess
12:10the same telekinetic powers
12:11as Carrie White.
12:12Last night, I took a look
12:14at your file.
12:16Your mom is at Arkham
12:17for schizophrenia.
12:20How's she doing?
12:22She's gonna be fine.
12:24She might not be the protagonist,
12:25but Sue's journey
12:26is central to the film's plot.
12:28So, when she's killed
12:29as a result of Lang's
12:30burgeoning rage,
12:31the sense of shock
12:32and loss is very real.
12:33The world of horror cinema
12:44is populated by many
12:45different archetypes,
12:46including the final girl.
12:51This is usually an intelligent,
12:53capable female lead
12:54who serves as the heroine
12:56and usually our lone survivor.
12:58The Friday the 13th franchise
13:00is no exception to this rule.
13:01Having introduced various memorable
13:03final girls over the years,
13:05Jenna Montgomery is something
13:06of an anomaly, however,
13:07in that she's set up
13:08for a large part
13:09of the 2009 franchise
13:10reboot film as the lead.
13:12Do you want to come in
13:13for a second, grab a drink?
13:14Only to be killed
13:15by Jason Voorhees
13:16at the film's climax.
13:17It honestly comes out of nowhere
13:19for better or worse,
13:20leaving Clay Miller
13:21and his sister Whitney
13:22as the film's only survivors.
13:29Number 16, Derry Jenner.
13:31Jeepers Creepers.
13:32The final girl trope
13:34in horror films
13:34may be well established,
13:35but the idea of a final guy
13:37never really gained
13:38as much steam
13:39within the genre.
13:40Male characters
13:40in horror films
13:41never seem truly safe
13:42and rarely have we received
13:44a more stinging reminder
13:46than with the demise
13:47of Derry Jenner,
13:48one of the two leads
13:49in Victor Salva's
13:49controversial
13:50Jeepers Creepers franchise.
13:52We invest a lot of time
13:53following Derry
13:54and his sister Trish around.
13:55What the hell's his problem?
14:00Just get out of his way, Derry!
14:02And despite our horror movie
14:03conditioning,
14:03we even get attached.
14:05Because of this connection,
14:06we expect to see them both
14:07come out on top
14:08against the Creeper.
14:09But Justin Long's character ends up abducted, maimed, and killed in the monster's lair.
14:28Number 15. Nancy Thompson. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Dream Warriors.
14:33Remember how we mentioned earlier that Wes Craven loved to subvert the expectations of horror fans?
14:38Consider this another great example. Dream Warriors is a fan-favorite sequel to Craven's 1984 classic,
14:45a film that already shocked audiences with its killing of Tina Gray and Glenn Lance.
14:51Heather Langenkamp's heroic Nancy Thompson returns here as a hospital intern who helps Kristen Parker and the Elm Street kids face off against Freddy Krueger.
14:59They better stay up late, 9, 10, ever, ever.
15:08Never sleep again.
15:11Although Nancy and her new friends succeed in defeating Freddy, she suffers fatal wounds in the battle.
15:16And we see her somber funeral shortly before the film's conclusion.
15:19Him at all times, O people. Pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
15:27Hear my cry, O God. Listen to my prayer.
15:29Number 14. Robert Thorne. The Omen.
15:33Who says that good always has to triumph over evil?
15:35Well, what about this? In Revelations, it says, he shall rise from the eternal sea.
15:40Fans of the Omen franchise know that Damien Thorne usually gets the upper hand against those who seek to destroy the spawn of the devil.
15:47This idea is hammered home quite effectively in the first film from 1976,
15:52which follows Damien's adopted father, Robert, as he discovers the truth behind a satanic son.
15:56In the film's climax, Robert is poised to make the ultimate sacrifice as he prostrates Damien on a church altar.
16:03Ceremonial dagger raised high to murder the boy he now knows to be the Antichrist.
16:08The police intervene before Robert can finish the deed, however, fatally shooting him down.
16:14This leaves Damien free to return, older and wiser, for future Omen sequels.
16:19No. 13. Dick Halloran. The Shining.
16:31Dick Halloran is another famous example of a Stephen King character suffering a very different fate on screen than he did on the printed page.
16:38Hi, Lloyd.
16:43A little slow tonight, isn't it?
16:45It's no secret by now that King himself disliked Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of The Shining,
16:56with the fate of Halloran's character being just one of the changes the director undertook during filming.
17:01Much is made on screen of Dick's contact with Danny Torrance and his journey to rescue him from his father in the Overlook Hotel.
17:08In the novel, Dick succeeds and ends up being a character mentioned in other King stories, such as It and Insomnia.
17:18Kubrick, however, gives Scatman, Crothers, Halloran a ignoble end at the blade of Jack Torrance's axe.
17:24Number 12. Paul and Jessica Carter. The Descent.
17:35This British horror film is full of terrifying surprises and jump scares.
17:40And the movie wastes no time in sending the audience a curveball when Paul and Jessica Carter are killed in a car accident on their way home from a whitewater rafting trip.
17:48Having only just met the characters a couple of minutes ago, audiences weren't expecting such a sudden end for the father and daughter duo.
18:04Sarah survives the crash, but is left in a grief-stricken state before she's even embarked on the movie's main event.
18:10It's this use of psychological elements that makes the whole experience of watching The Descent so scary.
18:15Number 11. Kurt Vaughn. The Cabin in the Woods.
18:19What are we gonna do, jump?
18:22Dude.
18:23Wait, Thor can't die.
18:25The God of Thunder himself, Chris Hemsworth, bit the dust when he played Kurt Vaughn in the 2011 horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods.
18:32And no one saw it coming.
18:34Then again, given the film's playful homage to horror movie cliches and conventions,
18:38it's also perhaps not so surprising that writers Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard went this route.
18:42Those things are gonna pay.
18:45For jewels.
18:48The fact that Kurt's all-American good looks and confident swagger would have surely made him the hero of most movies
18:53isn't lost on the filmmakers, as they have him fall to his death after hitting a force field with his motorcycle,
18:58undercutting a moment of would-be heroism.
19:01Don't hold back.
19:04Never do.
19:05Seeing Hemsworth meet such an ignoble demise was definitely a curveball.
19:08Number 10.
19:16Carolyn Frye, Pitch Black
19:18Played by Radha Mitchell, Carolyn Frye is established as a character in need of redemption early in the film.
19:24Don't you touch that handle, Frye!
19:26A commercial pilot, she almost sacrifices the lives of her passengers in an effort to save herself during a crash landing.
19:33I'm not gonna die for them!
19:36Soon after, however, it becomes clear that this was out of character, as she seems generally guided by a moral compass.
19:41When Frye makes the decision to try and save Vin Diesel's Riddick from the clutches of light-sensitive alien creatures,
19:47we're led to believe that she's been redeemed, and now in the clear for the end credits.
19:52Come on, Riddick!
19:54Get up!
19:55Get up!
19:57Get up!
19:58However, she's killed by one of the beasts almost as soon as she's recovered Riddick,
20:02making her sacrifice something of a bittersweet one for the audience.
20:05Come on, Riddick!
20:06Number 9. The Tyler Family, Us
20:11Oh, my God, it's O.J.
20:14It's O.J. Simpson!
20:17What is wrong with you?
20:19When characters go to friends for help in a horror movie, it rarely ends well for the friends in question.
20:24But proving yet again that he's a modern master of horror filmmaking,
20:28writer-director Jordan Peele subverts our expectations.
20:31It's not the Wilson family doppelgangers who show up at the Tyler's house,
20:34but a sadistic group of doppelgangers of their very own.
20:38Josh, we need your help.
20:39This adds a whole new dimension to the film,
20:42taking the threat from an isolated incident to a widespread one.
20:45The scene is made all the more impactful by the excellent use of music,
20:49compounded with the brutality of the attacks.
20:51Ophelia, give me some Beach Boys.
20:53Playing, good vibrations by the Beach Boys.
20:55It's our last night here, let's have a little party.
20:57It's just one of the elements that made us so damn satisfying.
21:00Number 8. Russell Franklin, Deep Blue Sea.
21:03Now you've seen how bad things can get, and how quick they can get that way.
21:09Well, they can get a whole lot worse.
21:11Sure, this next scene on our list may be a meme today,
21:14but it's important to remember just how surprising this death was back in the late 90s.
21:18Deep Blue Sea was an otherwise unmemorable killer shark movie with one very memorable death sequence.
21:24It's pretty scary stuff, huh?
21:27Yes, it is.
21:30Here, Samuel L. Jackson's Russell Franklin delivers a long and passionate monologue to the cast
21:35about sticking together against the genetically mutated sharks that are threatening their lives.
21:39So we're not going to fight anymore!
21:42We're going to pull together, and we're going to find a way to get out of here.
21:48Then, just as he's beginning to outline his plan,
21:51Franklin is torn away by a CGI shark and dragged to his death in an unintentionally hilarious moment.
21:56It isn't often we get to see Nick Fury taken out with such impunity,
22:05so we'll take this one as a bit of unexpected comedy gold.
22:10Number 7. Casey Becker.
22:12Scream.
22:12She was the iconic face on the film's poster,
22:15and the celebrity who did a lot of the promotional interviews.
22:18But Drew Barrymore was one of the first characters to die in Wes Craven's 1996 horror classic Scream.
22:23This was a calculated move on the part of Craven and Company,
22:34as it not only capitalized on Barrymore's star power when initially marketing the film,
22:38Barrymore originally signed on to play the heroine,
22:41but also served as one of the genre's most shocking and unexpected deaths.
22:45More of a game, really.
22:49Can you handle that?
22:50Becker is initially set up to be the movie's heroine,
22:56so when she's gruesomely murdered by Ghostface in the opening sequence,
23:00it hit audiences and critics alike with surprise.
23:03And you know what?
23:04It still works brilliantly today.
23:07You should never say who's there.
23:09Don't you watch scary movies?
23:10It's a death wish.
23:12You might as well just come out here to investigate a strange noise or something.
23:15Writer-director Ari Aster has mastered the art of killing characters unexpectedly.
23:31We considered the death of Josh for Aster's 2019 film Midsommar,
23:35but we're going to go with the film that first put him on the horror movie map.
23:392018's Hereditary.
23:40Young Charlie Graham's death is unexpected not only because of her age and her central role in the film,
23:45but also due to the brutality and realism of the scene.
23:48Charlie's nut allergy causes a medical emergency,
23:51but this isn't what kills her.
23:53Are you okay?
23:56It's hard to breathe.
23:59What do you mean?
24:01I think my throat's getting bigger.
24:03Instead, it's the combination of her head being stuck out the window of a speeding car
24:08and a telephone pole that does the shockingly gruesome trick.
24:18The audience is left reeling as the Graham family attempts to deal with their grief.
24:23No. 5. Bo Abbott, A Quiet Place
24:41The death of a child, whether on-screen or off, is a delicate subject,
24:46even in the world of horror movies.
24:482018's A Quiet Place opens with such a scene,
24:50depicting the swift and shocking death of Bo,
24:52the youngest member of the Abbott family.
24:55The little boy is taken by one of the otherworldly creatures
24:57who have devastated the Earth in the year 2020.
25:02The mysterious race of aliens is drawn to sound,
25:05so we know that Bo's toy jet is going to make noise
25:08the second he steals the batteries from behind his father's back.
25:11But given his age and the conventions of storytelling,
25:24we keep expecting a last-minute rescue.
25:26Instead, we get the devastating death of a child mere minutes into the film.
25:30Number 4. Ben, Night of the Living Dead
25:39They're coming to get you, Barbara.
25:42The casting of African-American Dwayne Jones as the lead
25:44in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
25:46was reportedly not intentionally designed to be a commentary about race relations in America.
25:51But this hasn't stopped critics from intellectualizing
25:53the director's classic horror film in the decades since its 1968 release.
25:57We can try to get out here if we can get some gas. Is there a key?
26:00The image of Ben's lifeless body piled high upon the other corpses in the fire
26:04is a haunting and disturbing image to this day.
26:06Sure, Jones may have been mistaken for one of the undead
26:09and shot by the traveling mob outside,
26:11but the connection between the actor's talent and screen presence
26:14during a time of such heavy social unrest
26:16has made it a death that still manages to shock and surprise today.
26:20All right, Ben, hit him in the head, right between the eyes.
26:26Good shot.
26:27Okay, he's dead. Let's go get him.
26:29That's another one for the fire.
26:34The death of children in film is something that needs to be handled very carefully.
26:39There's no denying the shock value when such an instance occurs, however,
26:43as evidenced by the gut punch ending to Stephen King's The Mist.
26:46Don't go out there.
26:47There's something in The Mist that took John Lee.
26:50Screw that. I'm getting to my car.
26:51Billy Drayton actually survives King's original story,
26:54but this 2007 adaptation instead places the young boy,
26:58his father David, and others
26:59in a situation where David is forced to make an ultimately tragic decision.
27:04He chooses to mercy kill his son and everyone in the car
27:06before the mist creatures attack,
27:08intending to let the creatures finish him.
27:10After David commits the heartbreaking act, however,
27:20The Mist recedes to reveal that rescuers have arrived
27:23and that his son needn't have died.
27:25Wes Craven wasn't the first filmmaker to kill off his leading lady in a horror film.
27:44The master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock had done it years earlier
27:47with his unforgettable horror classic Psycho.
27:50We spend quite a bit of time learning about Marion Crane's backstory
27:52as a woman with a past and a secret.
27:59The sexual politics of 1960 were very different when compared to the modern day,
28:03making the depiction of Janet Leigh's lead as a sexually active woman
28:07with a morally flexible attitude towards larceny somewhat scandalous for the time.
28:11In quite a hurry.
28:13Yes, I didn't intend to sleep so long.
28:16I almost had an accident last night.
28:18Equally shocking was the decision to kill her off before the halfway mark.
28:21In a shower scene that has gone on to become the stuff of horror movie legend.
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28:42It's a scene that's been copied and parodied to death,
28:50yet it remains an all-time iconic moment for science fiction and horror cinema.
28:55Kane wasn't set up as the hero of Ridley Scott's Alien,
28:58but that doesn't mean that his death scene was any less shocking for audiences and cast members alike.
29:02Just watch Veronica Cartwright's reaction as Lambert
29:08when the xenomorph bursts through Kane's chest.
29:16It's clear that she's just as shocked and horrified as we are
29:19to see this incubating creature hit the silver screen in all of its toothy glory.
29:23The scene was similarly replicated throughout the franchise's history,
29:26but there's just something special about that first time.
29:31Did you see any of these deaths coming?
29:33Let us know in the comments below.
29:34You're going to need a bigger boat.
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