10 More Horror Movie Characters Who Didn't Know They Were The Victim

10. Marion Harrington - Dead End

Dead End takes place on Christmas Eve as Frank Harrington (Ray Wise) drives his family to his in-laws' home, and out of apparent boredom decides to take a shortcut through a remote forest area.

Later, Frank falls asleep at the wheel and very nearly crashes the car into an oncoming vehicle, after which the family finds themselves trapped on a seemingly never-ending road.

Throughout the rest of the movie, the family end up being brutally killed one-by-one while experiencing a bevy of bizarre sights, including a hearse driving down the road.

Only Frank's daughter Marion (Alexandra Holden) is left alive at film's end, and surprise surprise, she subsequently wakes up in a hospital, where it's revealed that she's been in a coma after her father crashed their car, in turn killing every other member of the family.

And so, the gruesome deaths suffered by the family members throughout the movie precisely mirror how they died in the actual car crash.

Granted, a credits stinger does cast some doubt on what's truly real, given that a note Frank wrote during Marion's comatose dream is recovered from the road in real life, suggesting it wasn't entirely cooked up by Marion's brain.

All the same, Marion had no earthly idea what was happening to her until she finally woke up in that hospital.