10 Saddest Deaths In Horror Movie History

10. Charlie Graham - Hereditary

With Hereditary, director Ari Aster cemented himself as a master of horror, creating an intimate portrait of one family's grief that crawled under the skin of audiences and critics everywhere.

Following the death of the family's manipulative grandmother, mother Annie (Toni Collette) is thrown into a spiral of grief. However, things only get worse when their daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) meets her untimely end in an unexpected car accident.

Whilst at a party with her older brother Peter (Alex Wolff), who abandons her to spend time with a girl, Charlie, who has a severe nut allergy, helps herself to some cake which is loaded with an unseemly amount of peanuts. With Charlie going into anaphylactic shock, Peter rushes her to the hospital. But when she sticks her head out of the window for air the moment Peter swerves to avoid roadkill, she's decapitated by a telephone pole.

With the trailers implying Charlie would be a central character in Aster's debut film, nobody saw this shocking death coming. With minutes of extended silence, Aster let's the impact of the scene set in. It's not until Collette's gut-wrenching cries do we feel the full severity of the loss that's felt.