10 More Horror Movie Characters You Trusted (But Shouldn't Have)
You were wrong to trust these secretly villainous horror movie characters.
Genre-savvy horror fans are basically trained to view almost every character in a movie with a healthy degree of skepticism, but let's be honest, we all have our blind spots.
It's incredibly easy to let your guard down around the cute girl, hunky guy, or just generally affable, harmless-seeming characters, only for them to drop all pretenses at film's end and reveal that, in fact, they were the damn killer all along.
Following up our recent article on the subject, here's another ten horror movie characters who manipulated you and curried your favour, no matter that they ended up being a very, very bad person.
These villains were all concealed quite expertly in plain sight, their likeability, badassery, and general inoffensiveness ensuring that few - if any - pegged them as killers on a first viewing. But once again, each of these characters serves as proof perfect that the most seemingly trustworthy and "innocent" characters are always the ones you should observe with the most scrutiny.
In a genre where anything goes and filmmakers love to subvert expectations, the only sane choice to is to trust no-one...
10. Stephanie - V/H/S
The second short in horror anthology V/H/S, "Second Honeymoon," revolves around married couple Sam (Joe Swanberg) and Stephanie (Sophia Takal), who find themselves being terrified by an apparent stranger while on a road trip.
Things get especially eerie when the individual breaks into their hotel room and records themselves caressing Stephanie with a knife on her own camcorder.
This seems like a purely straight-forward scenario, of a couple being terrorised by a random psycho, until the short climaxes with Sam being stabbed to death by the assailant.
A quick flash of footage then shows the killer, a woman, making out with Stephanie, revealing them to be lovers - and murderers.
This was however slyly hinted at earlier in the short, when Sam and Stephanie used a fortune telling machine which claimed that she would be reunited with a loved one soon. We as viewers likely expected this to foreshadow her imminent demise at the stalker's hands, but of course, it was actually nodding towards her twisted secret relationship with a murderer.