39 Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

Life-changing injuries and a comedown that would kill Keith Richards.

[ihavelemonade]

the guy killing his son because he thought it was a better death than being killed by the monsters only to be rescued moments later... it haunts me. truly awful

[orandor]

How did you manage to not include the movie "Tusk" at all? Being drugged, kidnapped and physically altered into a walrus and spending the rest of your life at the zoo as an animal, while your girlfriend and you best friend date each other and look at you pitifully?

[BETRvids]

Fun fact about the movie "The Mist." The director actually asked King if he could change the ending.
In the book, they just drive off into the mist, leaving their fate unknown and open ended. But the director of the Mist had a different idea, which he ran by King first. As you can see: it was approved.

[owenatkinson]

The girl in one of the Wrong Turn movies who was blinded and then abducted by the killers to "enjoy" at their leisure is one of the most horrifying fates I can imagine. Yes she would have died, but not soon enough.

[nvdirtfreakful]

The girl from Terrifier! Not only is she forced to live a life of deformity, but is somehow sickeningly enamored with Art and seemingly has his baby? Wtf?

[JackOfAllRAIDs]

The lady from Final Destination who put herself in a mental institution obviously thought that it was NOT a fate worse than death, otherwise she wouldn't have put herself in an asylum.
I'm surprised you didn't include the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Having to keep yourself awake so the dream boogieman doesn't kill you would absolutely suck.

[walnzell]

The thing about the original Blair Witch is that you never see any definitive proof that there is a witch. Everything supposedly done by the witch could easily have been done by the two men.
Which leads to a startling realization that perhaps there never was a Blair Witch. Only two psychotic guys luring a girl into the woods.

[bigblud]

‘Artificially inseminated with Michael’s baby’
NOW HOW IN TF DID THEY GET THAT OUTTA HIM?!?!

[hopefullyentertainment]

I am genuinely surprised this didnt at least mention the ending of Tusk. Yeah, the movie wasnt that good but holy hell the fate of Wallace in the movie is actually worse than death.

Spoilers!



At the end of the film, Wallace, the man turned into an actual walrus in the film, is not reverted back into a man like he once was. Instead, he looses his mind even more and “embraces” being an actual walrus, or is forced to due to the trauma of the circumstances. The worst part about his fate is the fact that apparently they locked his ass up in a small little outdoor enclosure away from humanity probably until he died.

[DrBagPhD]

Barbarian is honestly one of my favourite films, the twist that the film's antagonist is just as much a victim of a whole other sort of monster is fantastic.

[johnsapp]

This is a direct quote from the first Child's Play movie regarding why Chucky needed to transfer his soul into Andy.
"You have to transfer your soul out of the doll, into the first human being you revealed your true self to."
―John Bishop AKA Dr. Death to Chucky.

[hdofu]

Where is the House of Wax Remake, guy gets paralyzed, then coated in wax left alive to be on exhibit in the wax musem sitting at a piano... his friend seeing his eyes moving trying to help him by scraping the wax off only to scrape his face off.

[FatBlackGamerCat]

“The rape victim dies, but she probably wishes she had died sooner.” Such a classy line. Wtf?

[rinbaker]

I thought that the end to “It Follows” was meant to be ambiguous- especially since the person behind them is not wearing the weird burlap sack outfit that the demon wore during the movie

[personagrata]

I always thought the ending of It Follows was left intentionally ambiguous. We see the person walking behind them, but it isn't made clear whether it's the demon or not. Also, the demon's tactics has this kind of big loophole since it's established that the demon just moves directly towards wherever you are at a constant speed which can be measured, meaning that you could simply hop on a plane every once in a while and leave it constantly crossing oceans for months while you travel the world or have sex with one of the first astronauts traveling to Mars lol. Let's see, 40 million miles traveling at about 10 miles per hour equals...we'll never see the demon again.

[jeweledthrone]

The ending of The Mist felt like a slap in the face😂 I remember when the mom who left the grocery store earlier in the movie appeared at the end staring down at him from the army truck. Wild

[kikidevine]

I think being the final girl/ boy is the fate worse than death; you have to live with a heck of a lot of trauma and guilt.

[FairyLadyQuelaag]

"The average house cat" line hit me really hard, my cat just passed a few days ago from an aneurysm but I used to watch tons of scary movies with her in my arms or lying in my lap.

[AliceInsanity]

Every horror movie where someone is sexually violated disturbs me to no end, the first one for me was 'Don't Breathe' and
I will never not be completely disgusted and terrified by that plot twist...

[SpymasterJimmy]

The fact TUSK isnt in this list is wild