10 Horror Movie Heroes Everyone Forgets About
It's a shame when great horror heroes and heroines are overlooked in favour of the big hitters.
What makes a good horror hero? They need to be brave in the face of imminent danger. Quick thinking and cunning is vital to escape certain death. They need to be sympathetic to a certain degree too. After all, what's the point in having a hero if audiences don't care whether they make it to the end credits or not?
By now, any horror fan worth their salt knows who the top dogs of horror heroes are. Laurie Strode went toe-to-toe with Michael Myers, coming out on top. Nancy Thompson gives Freddy Krueger a run for his money. Sydney Prescott has probably lost track of how many different Ghostfaces she's bested. They are iconic, proving to be worthy adversaries for their respective villains.
What about those who don't get the same shine? There's plenty examples of great horror heroes and heroines who are simply overlooked, even overshadowed by the menacing monsters that they're squaring off with. It's a shame that these well-developed characters are forgotten about so often because they exhibit all the qualities that make a great horror hero.
10. Alex Browning - Final Destination
The Final Destination franchise falls victim to the classic horror curse of sequel after sequel, each with a decline in quality. While the original isn't peak horror, at least it offered something fresh at the time, and the elaborate kills are still fun to watch.
Each film revolves around a group who narrowly escape a gory death, thanks to one of them having a premonition moments before they meet their demise. Death isn't ready to just let that slide however, and begins picking them off one by one, in the order they were supposed to die.
The franchise's first protagonist and novice psychic is Alex Browning, who saves himself and a group of his classmates from an exploding plane they were supposed to board. Alex is immediately suspicious when the classmates he inadvertently saved begin dying under mysterious circumstances, and concludes that Death itself is out to set things right.
He does a decent job and even manages to save Clear, Alex's love interest. Where he goes wrong however, is when he and the other two supposed survivors assume that they've escaped Death. They head to Paris (where they were originally going in the beginning) to celebrate, where they realise too late that Death's plan is still in action. Despite meeting a grisly death as alluded to in the sequel, Alex still deserves some credit for kicking off one of horror's more unique franchises.