10 Exact Horror Movie Moments You Knew Characters Were Screwed

10. The Giant Monster Arrives - The Mist

Frank Darabont's The Mist is a masterfully bleak adaptation of Stephen King's novella, yet given the film's standing as a multiplex sci-fi horror, audiences were nevertheless expecting protagonist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his son Billy (Nathan Gamble) to make it out in one piece.

But alas, Darabont had other plans entirely.

Near the end of the movie, moments after discovering his wife dead and his house destroyed, David and a small group of fellow survivors drive their car through the mist, only to come across a gigantic, six-legged Lovecraftian monster.

It's a jaw-dropping moment that's equal parts beautiful and terrifying, but more than anything else, it's the turning point at which David and his friends lose all hope of survival - and we as audience members know it too.

It's not much longer before the group agrees to a suicide pact in order to be spared a worse fate. And so, David kills the three other survivors as well as his own son, only to discover moments later that the military is starting to win the fight against the monsters. Brutal.

David may have technically survived the events of the movie, but he was spiritually defeated in the most thorough way possible. And let's be honest, does anyone really think he lived much longer after the end credits rolled?