10 Horror Movies Where NO ONE Is Safe

In most slashers, few cast members are safe, but David Gordon Green's Halloween Kills takes it to a whole new level.

Kills follows up 2018's Halloween by (surprise, surprise) bringing Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) back from a fiery grave. Unleashed on the town of Haddonfield with redoubled fury, Michael is determined to put an end to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her clan – daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) – and only a braying mob of the town’s good citizens stand in his way.

Now, horror movies in general tend to pace their kills, bleeding characters at a steady pace across their runtime, before slowing to a halt at the end as the villain is overcome and the good guys triumph – and this includes the Halloween films. Even if most of the cast are to die, they are pretty much done dying by the last ten minutes of the movie. 

Determined to flip the script, Green brings Michael to the edge of death in the film’s final minutes, with the entire mob of characters who have made it this far going to town on him. And yet, at the eleventh hour, the Shape gets a second wind, annihilates the entire mob – named characters and all – and then slays Karen for good measure.

Right when we thought we were home safe.