10 Horror Movies That Tricked You By Killing The "Main Character" Early
4. It Follows
When Annie rushed from her house in a state of amplified terror in the introduction to 2014's It Follows, viewers were lured into a relative sense of security. Yes, there's a terrified girl fleeing from her house but there's nothing scary in sight, and this is a horror movie after all.
Annie appears to be a typical horror protagonist from first impressions, an innocent girl hunted by an otherworldly being unconcerned with reason or morality.
The film cuts to a petrified Annie sitting alone on a beach, illuminated solely by the headlights of her car as she tearfully tells her father how much she loves him over the phone. Viewers were absolutely dying to know the story behind Annie's predicament and how she would take the story of the film forward.
Sadly Annie's story ends here.
Her screen time is limited to the first few minutes of the film as the story immediately after cuts to a picture of her horrifically mutilated body following her first-hand encounter with the creature that haunts the characters in It Follows. The exceedingly brutal depiction of her death and the iota of unanswered questions left viewers in a state of confused shock following the macabre opening to one of the 2000s best horrors.