10 Horror Movies Where NO ONE Is Safe

The House That Jack Built is a Lars Von Trier movie, and Lars Von Trier does not believe in the sanctity of human life – at least not for his characters. Melancholia’s characters are wiped away by a cataclysmic celestial event. Antichrist’s three characters (including baby) are dead or dying by the film’s close. And, you guessed it, nobody is safe in The House That Jack Built; there isn't really a named character that doesn't die (and “die” is putting it mildly).

Jack (Matt Dillon) is a serial killer, and serial kill he does, indiscriminately and often. Jack has his methods (rifles, knives, random objects he finds lying around) and his preferences (women), but nobody is safe from his bullet, blade, car jack or chaotic personality – not men, children, police or friends, nor in the end himself.

Despite big-name stars usually being safe, Uma Thurman’s unnamed character who is introduced at the beginning of the film doesn’t make it past the twenty-minute mark. Despite children being the sacred cow of cinema, Jack headshots two boys on his makeshift shooting range and plays with their corpses. And despite the main character, even in horror, usually sporting some robust plot armour, Jack not only descends into hell, but in essence dies twice by slipping from a rock wall and plummeting into the deepest, hottest infinity of the netherworld. But we’d have a hard time saying he doesn’t deserve it.