8 Horror Characters We Were Happy To See Killed

8. Barry Cox - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Hopping on the back of Scream's success, I Know What You Did Last Summer was one of the '90s movies responsible for rejuvenating the slasher subgenre.

While I Know What You Did Last Summer was a breath of fresh air upon its release in October 1997, it did still rely on certain familiar horror tropes - one of which was that a good portion of its cast were unlikeable.

Disposable young pretty things had long been a staple of the horror genre, and everyone watching knew that not all of I Know What You Did Last Summer's core cast were going to make it out of the picture in one piece. Each of the four supposed protagonists of the film all have certain layers of unlikability, but it's Ryan Phillippe's Barry Cox who is the one audiences were most wishing bloody murder on.

That murder would indeed come to pass, with the hook of pissed off fisherman Ben Willis taking Barry down while a beauty pageant was taking place. To be fair, it's a visually well-crafted scene, with Sarah Michelle Gellar's Helen on-stage and shrieking in terror as she sees her boyfriend being attacked up on a balcony.

Barry was the brash, cocksure sort who thinks he can square up and go head-to-head with the killer of the piece. And as is so often the case, that didn't work out all that well for Barry upon being confronted by I Know What You Did Last Summer's murderous fisherman.