10 Horror Movie Deaths That Came Out Of Nowhere

9. I Am Legend - Sam

Oculus Death
Warner Bros.

Look guys, I'm sorry to bring this up again. Just when you thought you'd just about gotten over Sam's horrendous death in I Am Legend, it's here to rear it's ugly head once more over a decade later, and it's still no easier to process. She was SUCH A GOOD GIRL.

Was, unfortunately, is the key word here though, as Sam bites the dust in the most heartbreaking way. I Am Legend throws all rules to the wind and infects the goddamn DOG with the mutated virus that killed humanity and turned the rest into rudimentary vampires, only able to survive in darkness and intent on killing or turning any survivors.

Sam gets bitten whilst protecting Neville in a fight against other infected, only for the injury to be discovered and take effect later. The most sadistic twist of all, of course, is that the audience has hope they've both come away freely against the odds - and there's a blind hope Neville's cure could do SOMETHING.

It doesn't though, and Neville has to kill her himself as she turns. It's the traumatic cherry on the gut-wrenching cake.

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