10 Best ‘Dead And I Know It’ Moments In Recent Horror Movies
2. Ryan - The Strangers: Chapter 1
To be fair, both Maya and Ryan know their dead in the accompanying image. However, while she was left for dead, Maya somehow managed to survive her run-in with the franchise's trio of masked killers in The Strangers: Chapter 1.
For Maya, she lives to fight another day, set to return in the upcoming Strangers: Chapter 2 and, who knows, possibly even Chapter 3, but Ryan is far less fortunate. With Chapter 1 being an underwhelming disappointment to many fans of the previous two films, one of the biggest complaints is that so much of it just feels like a beat-for-beat retread of the original movie.
On that front, these two lovebirds wind up in a remote property where they have knocks on the door asking for Tamara, and ultimately the couple are tied to some chairs and supposedly stabbed to death. Sure, Man in the Mask, Dollface, and Pin-Up Girl may have a certain M.O. when it comes to their murders, but this is just such a lazy way to kickstart this new Strangers trilogy.
Anyways, it's with this tied-to-a-chair-while-maniacs-pull-out-knives moment where Maya and Ryan know they're doomed. Though, with Maya - much like with Liv Tyler's Kristen in the first Strangers - our villains didn't quite finish the job.