Death would have been a better option than what these unlucky horror characters suffered.
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00:00Aside from Final Girls and sometimes the villains, there aren't many characters who make it out alive in horror movies.
00:06However, as much as these deceased characters would have ideally preferred to go on living their fictional lives in their respective films,
00:13they may be comforted slightly in the knowledge that there are other characters out there who suffered a far graver fate than they did.
00:20So, with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 Horror Characters Who Wished They Were Dead.
00:27When viewers meet Noah at the start of Fresh, she's having the worst luck with dating.
00:35She can't stand the frustrations that come with meeting new people, and after a horrendous dinner date ruins her evening,
00:41she's just about ready to give up on the whole dating thing completely. This is when she meets Steve.
00:47He's awkward but charming and the pair hit things off straight away, and not long after they meet for drinks and a romance starts to blossom.
00:54The pair's chemistry is so sweet in fact, that the opening act feels more like a rom-com than a horror movie.
01:00However, things take a sinister turn around the 20 minute mark when Steve suggests they go on a weekend trip together.
01:07When Steve takes Noah back to his place, he drugs her and imprisons her in a quote-unquote luxurious cell.
01:13Though she initially starts freaking out, believing that Steve is going to murder her, the truth is actually much worse.
01:20That's because it's then revealed that Steve is actually a plastic surgeon and a cannibal who abducts young women to use them as cattle to sell their flesh to high-paying clients.
01:30Trapped with his other victims, for a little while Noah is in a situation where she'd rather a quick death than be chopped up little by little.
01:38Fortunately, and spoilers, she does eventually manage to escape, but not all of Steve's other captives are as lucky, suffering instead this slow, slow demise.
01:49In phantasmagoric Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, Nathan Gardner relocates his entire family to a remote farm where he hopes to live a quieter life after his wife Teresa falls ill.
02:05However, this being a horror film, Nathan's dreams of becoming an alpaca farmer are short-lived when a glowing meteorite crashes in front of their home and begins to alter reality around it.
02:15Initially, the effects of this cosmic horror start off small. The youngest child, Jack, notices strange plants and insects around the home, and so far so weird, but nothing, you know, truly traumatizing.
02:27Then, though, when Teresa and Jack are caught in the otherworldly purple light which appears to be the cause of all of these transformations, they undergo a horrific metamorphosis.
02:36The light fuses the pair together as if the child were being put back into his mother's womb.
02:42As sickeningly grotesque as this concept is, it's the constant moans of anguish and agony emanating from the mother-son hybrid that underscores the true horror of their situation.
02:52With no way for the family to reach aid, Teresa and Jack are left to succumb to their grisly transformation until they're finally put out of their misery via a shotgun blast.
03:01And to be fair, in this case, it is probably better than spending eternity as this abomination.
03:08Number 8. Lindsay, The Human Centipede First Sequence
03:12In Tom Six's stomach-churning body horror, The Human Centipede First Sequence, American tourists Jenny and Lindsay have car troubles while making their way to a party during their trip to Germany.
03:22Stranded in the middle of nowhere and caught in a downpour, the pair decide to look for help, and when they arrive at the house of a surgeon, the pair think that they've been saved.
03:31But, well, you know where this is going. After the women are drugged, they wake up tied to hospital beds the next morning.
03:37And after the good doctor kidnaps a third victim, he explains his sickening master plan, to surgically conjoin the trio end-to-end, or ass-to-mouth as he famously puts it.
03:49When the procedure is complete, the captives are stripped of all their humanity.
03:53They're kept in a cage and trained as if they were a dog, and the less said about the feeding arrangement, the better.
03:59However, it's Lindsay, who's in the middle of the centipede, who comes out the worst here.
04:03After the man at the front takes his own life, and her friend succumbs to a bad, bad infection at the back, and with the doctor at this point being dead,
04:11Lindsay is just left on her own to die slowly between two corpses. Eh, I've had worse holidays.
04:19Number 7. Anna Martyrs
04:21French extremity shocker Martyrs starts as it means to go on, as a troubled woman named Lucy guns down a family in cold blood in the middle of a quiet breakfast.
04:30However, it turns out that they were actually responsible for the systematic abuse that Lucy received as a child.
04:36Despite getting her revenge though, she then realizes that revenge couldn't rid her of her torment, and Lucy takes her own life as her horrified friend Anna looks on.
04:46Somehow, events only get worse from there, as Anna is captured by the very same people from the same organization that tortured Lucy all those years ago.
04:55Their goal is to discover the secrets of the afterlife by torturing women until they reach a transcendental state, and Anna is the unfortunate winner of the prize of being their next subject.
05:06Consequently, Anna spends the next days or weeks being broken physically and mentally.
05:11She's brutally beaten and tortured in a process which ends with her being flayed alive.
05:17It's an absolutely ridiculous amount of punishment, and yeah by the end she definitely wishes that they had just killed her.
05:23Number 6. David The Mist
05:26Based on the novella of the same name by horror legend Stephen King, The Mist sees the unassuming small town of Bridgeton, Maine
05:32become enveloped in a mysterious mist that has brought with it a horde of monsters.
05:37As the mist rolls in, David and his son take shelter in the local supermarket.
05:41Of course, the townsfolk do what people do in a crisis and immediately turn on each other rather than band together to solve a common problem.
05:48Escalated by a religious fervor that grips the group, tensions continue to rise while the creatures start to pick them off.
05:54However, it's only when David and his small band of followers are allowed to leave the supermarket when he understands the real tragedy of the situation.
06:02With a sense of utter hopelessness after realizing that his wife and daughter are dead,
06:05David does what he believes to be the kindest thing in this situation and mercy kills his son alongside his remaining friends.
06:12But as he waits for the creatures to then end his own life, The Mist clears to reveal that the military has started to fight back.
06:20So yeah, in a soul-crushing bout of dramatic irony, David is now forced to live with his actions.
06:26Number 5. The Costume Designer All Hallows Eve
06:29When it comes to horror movie villains, none are as terrifyingly sadistic as killer clowns.
06:34And out of this unjolly bunch of murderers, they don't come any more horrific than Art the Clown from the Terrifier series.
06:41Before this psychotic clown got his feature spotlight though, he was actually featured in the spooky anthology flick All Hallows Eve.
06:48In the third and final segment, the short film called Terrifier, viewers follow an unnamed woman as she arrives at a petrol station on Halloween
06:56to witness the attendant kicking out Art for some deplorable actions.
07:00But when the woman then witnesses Art's brutal killing of the attendant, she becomes relentlessly pursued by the unstoppable killer.
07:07Confirming my theory that nothing good has ever, ever happened at a petrol station.
07:12Like, if you have ever had a good experience, like a really good experience at a petrol station, please tell me in the comments because nah, those places are write-offs.
07:20Anyway, rant aside, when Art eventually does catch his prey, the woman's fate is far worse than death.
07:27She awakes on an operating table with her arms and legs amputated and body mutilated.
07:32And sadly, this isn't a Monty Python sketch and there's no telling what Art has planned for her next.
07:38Number 4. Karen, Cabin Fever
07:41The 2016 remake of Cabin Fever is almost identical to Eli Roth's grungy original, but it failed to garner any interest from either audiences or critics.
07:50Both versions see a group of five friends' weekend trip to a backwoods cabin descend into a stomach-churning nightmare when they become exposed to a flesh-eating virus.
07:59Both films also follow the same plot almost beat for beat, and each is unapologetic when it comes to its extreme gore and gratuity.
08:06However, one of the few changes this time around concerns the fate of Karen.
08:10Whereas in the 2002 version, Karen has her suffering mercifully but nevertheless violently put to an end by being bludgeoned to death by a shovel,
08:18the character's fate here is far worse the second time around.
08:22After becoming infected by the virus, Karen is left to rot throughout the course of the film.
08:27As the virus continues to take hold, her body deteriorates into a gloopy, fleshy mess.
08:32With the torment of being eaten alive, understandably a little bit too much,
08:36she resorts to begging to be put out of her misery, which does happen by way of a shovel to the face.
08:42It might sound similar, but this time around it is so much more brutal.
08:463. Rex, The Vanishing
08:49Throughout the course of The Vanishing, protagonist Rex is obsessed with uncovering the truth
08:53about what happened to his girlfriend when she inexplicably disappeared without a trace during their trip to France.
08:59Three years later, Rex is as determined as ever to find out what happened to her on that fateful day,
09:04to the point that the mystery is all but consumed him.
09:07One day however, Rex is approached by a stranger who claims to be the one who kidnapped his girlfriend.
09:12But instead of simply telling Rex what happened to her,
09:15he informs him that the only way he'll ever know what happened to her,
09:18is if he experiences her fate for himself.
09:21And after some moments of deliberation, Rex decides hey, what's the worst that can happen,
09:25and accepts the kidnapper's proposal.
09:27Unsurprisingly, in a turn of events no one could foresee, this was a pretty bad move,
09:33as the film ends with Rex waking up buried alive in a coffin to wait for his death.
09:382. Kena, Hostel
09:41In the colourful landscape known as the horror genre,
09:44no characters have a worse time than those in torture movies.
09:48Their only purpose is to endure extreme pain and suffering for as long as possible,
09:52so if there are characters who'd pray for a speedy death, then well, it would be these unfortunate souls.
09:58One such victim is the innocent Kena,
10:00an unlucky soul who finds herself at the mercy of a sadistic society
10:04that tortures tourists in Eli Roth's hostel.
10:07Later on in the flick, protagonist Paxton runs into Kena while fleeing from the shadowy group,
10:11and to our horror, a torturer is mutilating her face with a blowtorch.
10:16But after severing her damaged eyeball with a pair of scissors, the pair do manage to escape.
10:21Both survivors then have freedom in their grasp when they reach a train station,
10:25but before they're able to board a train, Kena catches a glimpse of her reflection.
10:30And at this point the tourist decides that she'd rather take her own life
10:34by jumping in front of a train than live with the trauma of what she just experienced.
10:38Number 1. Wade, House of Wax
10:41Much like other Hollywood horror flicks from this time, the 2005 remake of House of Wax
10:46is a gloriously schlocky gorefest that catered specifically towards the cinema zeitgeist.
10:51Though this horror starring Paris Hilton failed to make much of an impression on critics,
10:55it did have a successful run at the box office.
10:57Unlike the previous iterations, this version followed a group of teenagers
11:01who find themselves trapped in a ghost town where the main attraction
11:04is a wax museum that's literally made of wax.
11:07However, as one of the friends discovers, there's a reason the waxworks look so lifelike.
11:13When invited into one of the locals' home,
11:15Wade is attacked and taken to the basement where he's paralysed.
11:18Viewers then watch on as the completely helpless Wade is prepared to be transformed
11:22into a waxwork by the film's hulking villain.
11:25It's a long and painful process in which Wade is showered and encased within molten wax.
11:31However, when one of his friends eventually discovers this living waxwork and tries to
11:35save him, his flesh literally starts peeling off in the process,
11:38and viewers learn the severity of Wade's fate.
11:41With no way to free him, Wade is already sealed in his own tomb.
12:01Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon!