10 Horror Movies Where The Final Girl Was The Villain

10. Kate - Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

While neither as artistic, original nor dedicated to the craft of horror moviemaking as Vincenzo Natali's Cube (1997), Cube 2: Hypercube is nevertheless precisely the kind of conceptually OTT nonsense that keep series like this fun for as long as they last.

Where the first film cut its teeth on a pre-Saw, Saw-like premise (a group of strangers go from room to room navigating various sensor-activated, machine-based traps), Cube 2 deals in traps spanning the gamut of time, space and reality, all contained within a nifty and overwhelmingly humungous tesseract.

Among the structure's apparent victims is Kate Filmore (Kari Matchett), a psychotherapist and empathetic character whose attempts to broker peace and caution against more rash and extreme moves leaves her the only one still breathing by the end of the film. Well, that and a whole lot of espionage. Kate is in fact an operative working for Izon, a faceless defense contractor who sent her in to get the information they needed from a fugitive inside the tesseract, her survival all but assured from the beginning. Thus, Kate is both final girl and villain.

But the real villain is capitalism. Right? Right?!