10 Best Movie Deaths Of 2019

10. Red (Us)

Thanks to Lupita Nyong'o's ridiculously twisted performance, a creepy score and some shocking bursts of bloody violence, Jordan Peele's Us was pure nightmare fuel from start to end, but it becomes even more nightmarish when you realise that the movie had us rooting for the wrong character the entire time.

For the duration of the film we follow Nyong'o's Adelaide Wilson, a loving wife and mother whose troubled childhood rears its head in the form of Red (also Nyong'o), a scissor-wielding psychopath who is Adelaide's exact physical doppelganger.

After an imaginative fight sequence set to that oh-so haunting rework of I Got 5 On It, Adelaide is finally able to kill Red by stabbing her through the chest. A happy ending looks to be in order, but then... Peele brings us crashing back down to Earth with the revelation that the victorious Adelaide was the sinister doppelganger the entire time, and that she swapped places with the real Adelaide back when they were children.

The way that this twist reframes Red's death is one of the biggest gut-punches of the year, and all of a sudden, Adelaide's guttural sounds as she killed her double became yells of victory, instead of the cries of relief we initially thought they were. Spooky stuff.