10 Horror Movies Where NO ONE Is Safe

Mike Flanagan did the unthinkable in 2019 by returning to Stanley Kubrick's cinematic world of The Shining, spinning off from a film that nobody thought could be sequelled (even given that Stephen King penned his sequel novel in 2013) and bringing Danny Torrance (now played by Ewan McGregor; now going by “Dan”) back to try and save other supernaturally gifted individuals from the True Knot, a cult that feeds on people with psychic powers. 

Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) leads the Knot as they travelling the country feeding on a psychic essence that is only released by torturing and killing people with the shining, and they are running out of victims to harvest. Unfortunately – for us, for them – this includes children of all ages. Even in horror films, children are generally protected characters, or are at least safe from the worst of it. Yet we have to watch them hurt and kill several kids, including a young baseball player, in graphic fashion.

But that’s not where it ends, as throughout the rest of the film, several presumed-safe characters die suddenly and gruesomely, including Danny’s pal Billy (Cliff Curtis), who is psychically forced to commit suicide by one of the Knot, and even Danny himself in the film’s finale.