10 Horror Movie Final Girls Who Actually Weren't
10. Angela Vidal - Quarantine
Quarantine was a largely beat-for-beat English-language remake of hit Spanish found footage film [REC], with Jennifer Carpenter portraying Angela Vidal - a news reporter who ends up trapped inside an apartment building where a deadly strain of rabies is turning the inhabitants feral.
Angela is very clearly presented as the film's protagonist and our anticipated final girl, but much like [REC], the film ends with Angela being dragged off into the darkness by an infected individual.
Here's where it gets interesting, though. While [REC] had two sequels in which Angela returned, confirming her to be the series' badass heroine protagonist, remakes of these films were never actually produced, and so Quarantine was effectively a one-off that left Angela's fate hanging in the balance.
That is until 2011, when a direct-to-DVD sequel, Quarantine 2: Terminal, was released. Despite being largely standalone, the film offered up a few slivers of dialogue suggesting that nobody survived the apartment incident from the first film. And so, while the Spanish version of Angela was a card-carrying final girl all the way through her three movies, the American Angela was dragged away after a single one, never to be seen again.