10 Recent Horror Movie Deaths Nobody Saw Coming

10. Longlegs - Longlegs

While it wasn't exactly a surprise that Nicolas Cage's deranged titular serial killer was no more by the end of Osgood Perkins' surreal horror film Longlegs, it was a genuine shock to see him taken off the chess board so long before the climax.

During the much-hyped scene where FBI agent protagonist Lee (Maika Monroe) confronts a recently captured Longlegs in an interrogation room, he signs off their conversation by repeatedly slamming his face into the room's table until dying.

Given that audiences quite understandably expected Longlegs to escape ahead of a tense final standoff with Lee, it was a genuine shock to see him nope out of the climax entirely, at which point the plot pivots to focus on Longlegs' accomplice, Lee's mother Ruth (Alicia Witt).

Considering that Cage didn't exactly have a ton of screen time up to this point, seeing him take his leave 20 minutes before the end left some of the actor's die-hard fans a tad disappointed.