10 Best Non-Final Girls In Horror Movies

10. Saw I, II & III - Allison Kerry

Kicking off the list is a character whose fate is so unfair it makes your writer wince.

Allison Kerry is an exemplary police officer, one of the very first assigned to work the Jigsaw case in the Saw franchise. Yes, she's also a workaholic, but that comes with the territory when tracking down serial killers with a penchant for nightmarishly twisted games.

Kerry demonstrates her ability as an investigator throughout her run on the franchise, spotting clues where others fail to; she is the first person to realize that Jigsaw watches his "games" when she finds his peephole. She is also seen to be extremely loyal; she is haunted by the disappearance of former flame and partner Eric Matthews, to the point where she hallucinates him.

In a horrifically twisted turn, Kerry is captured and locked into one of the iconic traps; her career is thrown in her face as the reason for her predicament, as she is informed that she prefers the company of dead bodies to live ones. Her task is to retrieve a key from a beaker full of acid, which she manages to do despite the searing pain. In utterly depressing fashion, Kerry discovers the useless key was a red herring. She has just enough time to look up and see Amanda, the architect of her situation, before her rib cage is torn apart by the trap.

An empowered detective who hung tough for a long time in a brutal cinematic universe, Kerry deserved better than a barbaric trap she had no hope of escaping.