10 More Horror Characters We All Foolishly Thought Had Got Away

Upgrade may be more of a sci-fi thriller but it does have a strong horror backbone throughout, and with Blumhouse on producing duties and Leigh Whannell behind the camera, that shouldn't come as a surprise.

The movie follows Grey Trace, a man seeking revenge for the death of his wife, who is killed by thugs after their self-driving car malfunctions and crashes. This revenge is made a lot easier to attain when he's implanted with a chip called STEM, which essentially turns him into the Terminator. Cue some incredible fight scenes and a bunch of brutal, bloody moments, as Grey's warpath leads him back to where it all began: Eron, the mad scientist who created STEM in the first place.

Here, we learn that STEM has gone full Skynet, and has been pulling the strings all along. Deciding to stop the evil AI, Grey shoots himself in the neck, and the movie instantly cuts to a hospital room where we discover that the whole thing has been a hallucination: Grey has simply been unconscious following the car crash, and his wife is still alive.

Because we've spent the entire movie living with Grey's trauma after losing his soulmate, we buy this twist right away, because it's what we (and the character) want. But this cheery conclusion doesn't last long. Moments later, we discover that Grey's mind has simply invented this reality as a way to cope with the psychological stress he's under, and what's actually happened is that STEM has taken over, relegating Grey's consciousness to a fantasy land where he can be with his wife.

In a way then, Grey sort of does get away, but considering that his new reality is fake, we wouldn't exactly call it a happy ending.