10 Horror Movie Characters You Trusted (But Shouldn't Have)

10. Lori Spengler - Happy Death Day

One of the few genuinely likeable characters in Happy Death Day is protagonist Tree's (Jessica Rothe) roommate Lori (Ruby Modine), who has only a small role in the bulk of the film but appears to be a genuinely kind person, even making Tree a cupcake for her birthday.

She couldn't be the killer, then, right? Killers don't make cupcakes.

And so, after Tree finally deduces that the killer trapping her in a time loop is serial killer John Tombs (Rob Mello), she kills him and seemingly breaks the cycle.

She celebrates by finally eating the cupcake Lori made for her - something she hadn't done in any previous loop - but to her surprise again wakes up at the start of the time loop.

This causes her to realise that Tombs was a red herring and the killer has been Lori all along, who gave her a poisoned cupcake. The reason for this? The doctor Lori was having an affair with was also having an affair with Tree, who he favoured, turning Lori jealously murderous.

In a fitting turnaround, though, Tree then "feeds" Lori the cupcake before kicking her out of a window to her death. Something something just desserts?