10 Horror Movies That Switch Villains

10. The Platform (2019)

The rich elite are set up as the antagonists of Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's class-conscious Spanish horror The Platform, in which people are trapped inside a vertical prison through which a smorgasbord of food descends, serving each level until those at the bottom are left with nothing. And yet they wind up playing second fiddle to that most classic of all evils: human nature.

Political commentary aside, the people who make the food and run the building are never seen, and in fact many of the prisoners trapped inside this structure have chosen to be there in exchange for something they need - in protagonist Goreng's (Ivan Massague) case, a university diploma. As such, it is these very prisoners who end up being the worst part of the whole experience, terrorising and cannibalising and assaulting each other, making no effort to unify against their supposed oppressors but actively creating an unliveable situation for so many.

Big brother may be watching, but in terms of actual and expected villainy, it spends the film on the sidelines.