10 Horror Movie Characters You Thought Were Dead For Sure

10. The Mother - The Mist

There are few horror movie characters who have more aggressively outed themselves as a goner than the unnamed mother played by Melissa McBride in The Mist.

The woman is shopping at the supermarket when the mist envelops the town and Lovecraftian creatures begin feasting on anyone in the vicinity.

Though most people in the store agree to remain inside for their own safety, the woman insists that she must return home to her two children.

While numerous other characters warn her against this, she ventures outside into the mist anyway, and the audience is left to assume that she perished with about 99.8% certainty.

And so it provides quite the added gut-punch at the end of the movie, when, after protagonist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) mercy-kills four fellow survivors - including his own son - moments before the Army arrives, this woman is briefly seen among the convoy, safe and sound with her two kids in tow.

Everyone assumed she probably got ripped apart a few feet outside the supermarket door, but alas, she somehow avoided getting devoured.