10 Horror Movies That Totally Screwed Characters

7. Steve Graham - Hereditary

Ari Aster's Hereditary is one of the most impressively effed-up horror movies of the last decade, revolving around a bereaved woman, Annie (Toni Collette), who comes to believe a paranormal presence is haunting herself and her family.

As it turns out, a coven has secretly spent years manipulating the family into bringing about the resurrection of the demon Paimon, who enters the body of Annie's son Peter (Alex Wolff) at the end of the film.

The only member of the family who manages to keep their cool throughout is Annie's husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and when Annie comes to believe that throwing their dead daughter Charlie's (Milly Shapiro) sketchbook into the fireplace will result in herself burning to death and the curse being lifted, Steve understandably believes that she's gone insane.

Steve refuses to throw the sketchbook into the fire, so in an act of intended suicide, Annie does it herself.

Except, this instead results in Steve suddenly bursting into flames and burning to death, assuring Annie that there's no clear logic to defeat Paimon, and he's basically been screwing with her the entire time.

Given that Steve was the only entirely rational, level-headed member of the family, it's perversely fitting that he suffers the most cruelly protracted and "undeserved" demise.