10 More Devastating Horror Movie Deaths You Couldn't Look Away From

10. Chrystal - Old

"DON'T LOOK AT ME!"

The premise of M. Night Shyamalan's Old sees a pharmaceutical company lure people with medical conditions to a resort, in order to test experimental treatment drugs on them. Guests are invited to visit a nearby beach, which happens to have the seemingly supernatural effect of ageing anyone on it. This transition happens at a terrifyingly rapid rate - roughly one year every 30 minutes.

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This phenomenon allows the insidious company to carry out medical trials in a matter of days that would take years otherwise. Regrettably for the guests, it also accelerates their own medical conditions. Chrystal has hypocalcemia, a condition caused by low blood calcium levels. Normally resulting in mild symptoms, this hellishly accelerated universe sees the unfortunate Chrystal's weakened bones break and set instantly, leaving a nightmarishly deformed visage of twisted, broken limbs. For the beauty-obsessed Chrystal, this is truly a fate worse than death.

Chrystal's death is made all the more devastating by the fact that it is immediately preceded finding out that her daughter Kara has died. As the beach descends into chaos, Maddox and Trent are sent to hide in a cave, finding Chrystal as her affliction takes hold and breaking the news to her. The visage of her wailing dementedly in the flickering match-light is too disturbing for words, yet one is unable to drag their eyes away even for a second.

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