10 Horror Movies That Tricked You By Killing The "Main Character" Early

1997's gloriously macabre Cube has a cult following. The eery dystopian escape room horror used terrifyingly sinister technology to demonstrate its ability to cause the people trapped within the system to revert to their most primal human urges in a desperate attempt to survive.

Cube also has a thoroughly misleading introduction. A man awakes in a mysterious futuristic cube-shaped room, with doors leading to identical cubes on all sides. He tries several of the doors before settling on one and clambering through to the next room.

At this point, all audiences had were questions. Who was this man? What was he doing in this bizarre location? What was the significance of all the different doors?

It was almost fair enough to assume that said questions wouldn't be answered, were this unnamed man not the main character of the film. Unfortunately, all the next room brought was more questions and a shocking twist; seconds after stepping across the threshold, the man is dissected in grisly fashion by an enormous hanging grate.

The instantly hooked audience were left staring at what was left of the man they thought would be taking the film forward, now doing his best impression of a tray of spilled human ice cubes.