10 Horror Movie Characters Who Were Their Own Worst Enemy

Nacho Vigalondo's directorial debut, Timecrimes (or, Los Cronocrímenes) may not yet have made it further than cult status, but the low-budget sci-fi horror nevertheless leads the genre with a mind-bending plot and disastrously inept protagonist.

Karra Elejalde plays Héctor, a simple countryside dweller whose curiosity gets the better of him. He becomes the unwitting victim of a causal loop and must go to extreme lengths to try and prevent himself -- or, his other selves, if you will -- from continuing to exist.

Héctor's day starts out simply enough, renovating his house, peeping at a topless girl across the way, and being guided into a time machine by a mysterious voice on a walkie talkie. Because of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff, Héctor is only sent back an hour yet encounters not one or two, but three continuously changing versions of himself, all of whom have seen the actions of his future and past selves and reacted accordingly in hopes of preventing him/them entering the time machine several times over.

By the film's conclusion, we discover Héctor is the architect of every disaster that has befallen him, from initially being drawn into the machine, all the way to the accidental death of the topless girl. Bruised and battered, he sits on his lawn reflecting on everything he's done, perhaps reckoning the difference a day makes.