10 Horror Movie Characters Given Last Minute Deaths
1. Max Neurick - I Know What You Did Last Summer
You might recall that Johnny Galecki appears briefly in I Know What You Did Last Summer as protagonist Julie James' (Jennifer Love Hewitt) friend Max Neurick, who early in the movie is suspected of being the hook-wielding killer.
During principal photography, Max was nothing more than a red herring intended to throw the audience off and maintain suspense, and he simply dipped out of the narrative when he was longer needed.
Yet after the film was test screened, director Jim Gillespie noticed that there was a massive chasm of time between the instigating car accident and the first death at the hand (or hook?) of the killer.
As a result, Gillespie decided to shoot an additional death scene to better establish the killer as a force to be reckoned with, calling Galecki back to film a scene where Max is impaled through the throat with the killer's hook.
Given that the next death doesn't come for more than 30 minutes after Max's demise, it was definitely the right decision on Gillespie's part.