10 Unexpected Movie Deaths That Came Out Of NOWHERE

10. Dick Hallorann - The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining is infamous for being devoid of anything resembling hope or warmth, however his handling of Dick Hallorann still manages to stand out as particularly harsh. A kind-hearted and caring member of the Overlook Hotel's staff, it is Hallorann who tells little Danny Torrence about the ability to shine and telepathically communicate with certain people and the two characters instantly build a connection.

When things begin to go array for the Torrence family at the Overlook thanks to Jack's descent into insanity, Danny reaches out to Hallorann who proceeds to fly from Miami to Denver, rents a car at the airport so he can get a snowcat and drives the snowcat through a blizzard to get to the hotel and save the day. Built up throughout the film as the absolute good guy and hero in the making, he takes about ten steps into the Overlook Hotel before Jack appears out of nowhere and lodges a huge axe into his stomach.

Dick Hallorann actually makes it out of the Overlook Hotel absolutely fine in Stephen King's original novel, so the decision by Kubrick to shoehorn a sudden death scene into the mix out of nowhere would have been absolutely shocking to even the most hardcore of Shining fans going into the film.