10 Horror Movie Characters Who Went Through Hell (Then Died Anyway)

There’s no losing when it comes to the Spring Fever, the 2009 sequel to Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever, which director Ti West opted to disown due to studio interference.

After all, if a character survives, they get to live, and if they die, they no longer have to put up with being in this dire sequel. Sure, Roth’s original is a deeply imperfect film, but for all its inconsistent tone and tastelessness the film’s moments of surrealism and dark humour work.

Not so in this understandably maligned belated follow up. This gorier, less interesting sequel sees a high school prom besieged by infected teens when the first film’s flesh-eating virus is released into the punchbowl. Our unfortunate hero tries to survive this flat sequel after he contracts the virus by removing the point of infection. How so?

Well, by using a woodshop saw to sever his infected hand, then cauterising the wound with a blowtorch. The scene is a gruesome, drawn-out ordeal. But at least it saved his life, right?

Nope! A few seconds later he’s ambushed by a disease control unit and sacrifices himself to save the rest of the survivors.

So what was all that agony for?!