10 Deaths That Ruined Horror Movies

With the look, feel and character motivations of a 1980s body horror flick, The Void has gradually crawled into the consciousness of the horror film community since its limited theatrical release some seven years ago.

The film's brilliance resides in its Lovecraftian elements, centring around a rag-tag group of police, hospital workers and civilians from a small town who have to defend the local hospital from strange, Klan-like figures and the hell beasts they seem to be unleashing. At the centre of it all is a mad doctor, hell-bent on opening a void in the basement and bringing forth whatever lies on the other side -- monstrosities he believes are the loved ones he and his fellow townsfolk have lost.

The emotional core of the film is provided by Deputy Sheriff Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole) and his estranged wife Allison Fraser (Kathleen Munroe), a nurse at the hospital. Their personal story gradually unfolds through the film, as we learn they lost a child and were never quite the same thereafter. When Allison is impregnated by demon spawn, it seems like the perfect setup for a spot of redemptive catharsis. Except it's not.

Daniel finds her dead and mutated not far from the film's conclusion, tentacles sticking out of every-which-where, thoroughly ruining the film's denouement and leaving us reaching for the sick bags.