10 Toughest Dilemmas In Horror Movies
10. Would You Kill An Innocent Person To Save A Dying Family Member? - Would You Rather
2012's Would You Rather follows Iris (Brittany Snow), a young woman who takes part in a philanthropist's parlour game, because if she wins, the philanthropist will pay for her brother's (Logan Miller) life-saving leukaemia treatment and place him on the shortlist for a bone marrow donor.
But Iris soon comes to realise the "game" is actually a deadly version of "Would You Rather?", with Iris and the other contestants being forced to choose between two grim, potentially deadly options with each passing round. The goal? To be the last "contestant" left.
Iris makes it to the final round with Lucas (Enver Gjokaj), where she's given a choice: shoot Lucas dead to win the game, or spare his life and they both get to leave alive, albeit without any money.
Basically, Iris can avoid murdering Lucas, an innocent fellow player, or kill him and save her dying brother.
But as much as blood might be thicker than water, actively taking somebody else's life to save a terminally ill relative is a massively weighty decision and one that could haunt you forever more.
If you kill Lucas, you're trading one life for another, whereas if you refuse, it's simply a sad reality of the American healthcare system that your loved one will die. One actively condemns someone to death, while the other is a passive refusal to make a trade.
Ultimately in Iris' case, she decides to kill Lucas, but the ironic final twist reveals that her brother committed suicide while she was playing the game, feeling that he was a burden on his sister. And so, the whole game - namely, Iris killing Lucas - was all for nought.