10 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

10. Possessor - Colin And Vos' Warped Sense Of Self

In a way it’s hard to choose which fate in this film is worse: assassin protagonist Vos or possessee Colin. Sure, one ends with death whereas the other doesn’t but, as this list has proved so far, sometimes death really isn’t the worst option.

Vos is an assassin who carries out her hits by having her consciousness implanted into another person’s body, only to return to her own once she forces her host body to commit suicide. Despite her struggles with separating her life from her work and maintaining attachments to people in her life, she presses on with work. She takes on a job to assassinate a major CEO and his daughter by possessing the daughter’s fiancé, Colin.

Thing is, when she’s completed this job she can’t actually force Colin to kill himself and begins losing control. Essentially her consciousness is trapped in his body, and all the while he is aware that someone is in his head and trying to kill him. Pretty rough on both of them, right?

It would be a terrible way to live, having someone living in your head constantly trying to kill you, and being haunted and disorientated by their memories infecting your brain. Furthermore to be aware that you killed your fiancé and her father but no idea why you did so, and no power to change it.

Eventually Colin dies, allowing Vos’ consciousness back into her own body- but this poses another fate. Before Colin dies he actually kills Vos' only family: her son and her husband. The thing is that she, in a way, is ok with this happening. She knows they were the only things linking her to a normal life and so to be rid of them is to be able to fully immerse herself in her work, and that's what she does.

It seems a particularly sad existence to get to the point where you almost voluntarily rid yourself of all humanity, allowing your child and spouse to be killed so you can continue going about your body-hopping business. For a career you're trapped inside other people's heads with only one way out, and once you're out you truly have nothing else waiting for you.