10 Horror Movie Deaths That Get Worse The More You Think About It

8. Beau Is Afraid - A Quiet Place (2018)

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One minute you're there, enjoying the ever-loving heck out of your new, battery-powered space rocket; next minute, you're monster meat. No, this isn't the story of Buzz Lightyear, but of Beau Abbott (Cade Woodward), the first victim of John Krasinski's A Quiet Place.

Besieged by blind aliens with super-sensitive aural systems, the Earth has become a place of terror for the surviving human beings. Amongst them are the Abbott family, who have managed to get by on a strict policy of silence and vigilance. Unfortunately, youngest son Beau didn't get the memo.

After his toy rocket attracts the monsters and leads to his death in the first act, we are stuck within the perspective of a quietly grieving family, and the loss of their youngest son and sibling. But what about the other side of it?

Death from a child's perspective is harrowing enough, but to be suddenly taken by a feral, panel-headed hell beast from space is something else entirely. Somehow, he had no idea it was coming, so there's the extreme fear factor to consider, but let's be honest, the sheer violence of the death itself will have been harrowing - a level of suffering usually only ascribed to innocents in bleak realist dramas from the continent.

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