10 Greatest 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In Supernatural Horror Movies

3. Sophie Lloyd-Wells - Lights Out

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Adapted from his own short of the same name, David F. Sandberg's Lights Out is one of the more impressive supernatural horrors in recent memory - and in Diana, Sandberg served up a truly chilling presence.

Diana was a young girl with a rare skin condition that made her allergic to sunlight. When an experimental surgery went wrong and resulted in Diana's death, she then became a twisted spirit who was able to get into people's heads; initially using this ability to have her own father kill himself.

In the present-day setting of Lights Out, it's Sophie - who had befriended the young Diana before her death - who finds herself and her two children tormented by Diana.

With the movie revealing how Diana is tethered to Maria Bello's Sophie, Lights Out ends with Bello's character shooting herself in the head in order to vanquish Diana once and for all. This moment serves as a two-for-one on the "I'm dead and I know it" front.

Obviously, Sophie knows she's dead as Diana launches at her, but Sophie's daughter Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) also has her own moment of realisation - that if Diana somehow comes back to haunt her, she knows the only answer is seemingly to take her own life.

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